don't forget the "install our app to make the next login faster" interstitial after you press "login". can you really claim they don't care about how painful their login process is when they've gone out of their way like that to provide you with a less painful option??
imagine playing Super Smash Bros, but not knowing who Pikachu, Fox, or any other character is. then dial that up 100x because these gacha games are drawing from a universe of media that much larger than Nintendo's.
Jonathan Choe, the far-right broadcaster (“I’m going live for Newsmax and I have to deal with this shit too?” I heard him complain), posted a video of himself clubbing a protester who touched him. The protester was arrested; Choe was not.
wish there was a video link for that. i found this, which i think is a dubbed version of what Erica's referencing.
ngl i feel safer digging through CDs while driving than digging through a music library on some phone touchscreen. probably if i learned to use voice controls i'd feel better about the phone but i'm at that age where i'm comfortable enough with my ways that i'd rather not have to change them.
needs a fifth bar for "comfort". i had the middle one in my living room for week but had to get rid of it because it was the most cramp-inducing TV chair i've ever had. bottom one is probably better.
i keep my music organized on-disk so that each song is placed at <artist>/<album>/<track-number>-<title>.flac. then i just use any file browser (e.g. rofi, or portfolio) to navigate it, and when i select a song it opens in mpv. i installed the playlistmanager mpv script so that when i open any song, mpv queues everything else in that folder (so if i open track 01, the default behavior is gapless playback of the whole album). i also installed the uosc script, which provides a UI that's much friendlier than the default IMO.
i find i prefer configuring just one media player and then using that for everything (music, audiobooks, videos, podcasts, etc). then for example when i decide i want to cast music to my TV, i only have to solve that once, and not separately for casting youtube, local videos, etc.
196 moderation is just so dramatic. some creature likes to fuck dragons, a different user hates dragon fuckers, the whole sub goes on defense about why fucking dragons is or isn't acceptable, and now that's the content for a solid week.
but yeah, i get it: it's a special place and special places require care to keep them special. still, any time there's the slightest drama i have to mute that whole sub for a week if i don't want to be dragged into it. i wish i didn't have to: i wish we could magically have the special place without the drama.
anyway no: i'm not going to lemmy.world. migrating instances is largely orthogonal to my (minor) qualms with that community, and 50% of my interactions with lemmy.world have resulted in me blocking one of their users: there's just way too much toxicity over there. i'll hang around the new onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone for a bit and just spend more time in whichever of the two has better vibes.
if it read "what's the problem", i'd agree. otherwise, i'll toss it to whoever's well-versed in Chicago speech styles. perhaps the passive-aggressiveness of Seattle is coloring my view 🙃
half of the clergy said "what's your problem", which would usually mean "the answer to whatever you just asked is so obviously 'no' that you're a bad person just for asking it: what's your problem". i have to respect that some topics are simply off-limits for some people: if you're going to someone asking for advice about a moral quandary and their convictions are strong enough they don't wanna discuss the topic beyond "hell no", i don't fault them for that.
the court presents me with the accusation and the evidence.
i declare if the evidence supports the accusation.
the judge declares a punishment in response to that verdict.
law enforcement delivers the punishment.
if i believe (3) and (4) will function as stated, then it's equally accurate to say that in step 2 i am deciding whether or not to confiscate $250,000 from this mother and cancel her home internet connection.
but a huge number of people i present this to refuse to admit that equivalence. there is some question about whether weakening the norm might cause more damage than mistreating the mother, but does that even weaken the point? the common answer from those who bring it up is "there's too much uncertainty to say": build a complex enough machine, and people are eager to deny the downstream effects of their actions.
(you can overcome most of the degradation-of-norms issue by making this a secret hearing, and still a lot of people will hesitate to admit the equivalence between their verdict in step 2 and the effects of step 3/4)
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don't forget the "install our app to make the next login faster" interstitial after you press "login". can you really claim they don't care about how painful their login process is when they've gone out of their way like that to provide you with a less painful option??