MoonMelon @ MoonMelon @lemmy.ml

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I was listening to a best-selling author's recent audiobook, and the professional voice actress messed this one up. So you're in good company. Really, who can we blame but the Greeks?

"Holy cow that borg has an absolutely huyuuuuge-"

"No wait, that's it! Hugh!"

Mastodon.art has a small but nice community. AI art isn't allowed. Someone could always lie, I guess, but the community is small enough that engagement bait isn't really a thing, there's much larger mastodon instances those people would probably use. They also aggressively defederate fascists.

YouTube offers random A/B testing of titles and thumbnails now, and unfortunately the clickbait/red circle/soy face stuff absolutely does work. Everyone seems to agree that the "metric has ceased to be a good measure" when it comes to the algorithm, but it's so opaque and omnipotent that people who can't afford for their videos to be buried have no choice.

YouTube doesn't just reward you for doing it, you are actively punished for not doing it. The same way one "underperforming" video can have cascading negative effects on your entire channel.

I can't imagine relying on it for my family's income. Google basically has hundreds of thousands of people doing spec work for them.

Since nobody polices the relationship between candidates, parties, and super PACs I feel like this law is already just pure symbolism. The fact that Trump and Steve Chabot are involved makes me think there's something sinister hidden in this, probably just makes the grafting more straightforward.

Years ago I watched this video that demos old iron smelting technology in Burkina Faso, and these people get farther. They have better natural iron deposits (also lots of people working together helps).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ

He did end up making a small blade at some point, but it seems like the process of getting iron ore from bacteria is excruciatingly slow. If he was in my area he'd be walking around in full plate armor by now.

I knew a C-level who had a social media presence but the company just paid some media manager person to handle it. He had a linkedin, facebook, and a blog. It was all ghost written. He didn't even read it.

Same as Rhipsalis_baccifera.

I always liked the Salem's Lot vampires for this reason.

• Repelled by the faith in the power of good behind the symbols, not the symbols themselves. Catholic priest who is a broken man tries it with a cross but his faith fails and he gets rekt.
• Must be invited in, but really good at hypnotizing people especially if they are asleep. Also, once they become vampires they go after their own family first, who are more suggestible ("I had a dream our boy was still alive...").

I live in the middle of nowhere in Eastern North America. Saw some growing all by itself in the middle of the lane. It never came back in that spot and I've never seen any other plants. The seed pods are really spiky and light, they must hitch a ride on stuff.

I decided not to try it after reading a few "trip reports".

Something I've noticed is when untraveled people in the USA try to contextualize themselves with other countries they pick the worst examples they can think of. Favelas in Brazil or slums in South Africa for example. We do this to the point where our entire conception of countries (or in the case of Africa, continents) is the worst imagery we can think of. I think they genuinely don't believe that, for all their troubles India, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, etc also have smartphones and big buildings and libraries and universities and laboratories, and educated people living decent lives.

They also can't see how the overcrowded jails full of pretrial prisoners, the barefoot children carrying buckets for water in Appalachia, the rundown schools full of illiterate kids, the impunity of rich private interests, the corrupt sheriffs and judges, and on and on, puts us in the company of the "third world countries". Yes we have nice places too, but SO DO THEY. A broken society in the 21st century isn't people living in mud huts, it's children shitting in the street next to a glass skyscraper with LEED Platinum certification.

We never got the "Taco Trucks on Every Corner", another failed Biden promise.

Yeah, Zip disks suuuucked. I always had to carry two for redundancy because they failed to read so often. Even having every second or third CD burn fail, because you looked at it wrong, was more reliable than Zip disks.

Pre-COVID. I wonder what it's like now. Anecdotes from people who work in education seem to say it was pretty devastating for child development, but it's hard to tell if it's above and beyond the perennial "this new generation is totally fucked" sentiment.

Firewatch. I liked the visual style but everyone raved about the writing specifically and I thought it wasn't great. I don't want to shit on them too hard because they did try, and you can't control how other people hype your work, but I found the characters really flat.

Just change the sign and get back in there: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2025/10/21/spirit-christmas-opening-stores/86817296007/

If a real excavator is too pricey you can always get a mini: https://www.amazon.com/HY12C-Excavator-Hydraulic-Certified-Landscaping/dp/B0F4JLSVKN

The Great Male Renunciation is the historical phenomenon at the end of the 18th century in which wealthy men of the Western world stopped using bright colours, elaborate shapes and variety in their dress, which were left to women's clothing.