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Fuck, 2020 would have been so much more bearable if our food had been delivered by The Deliverator. You know, a highly qualified professional.
...Instead, in this region at least, the app economy bros employed a bunch of befuddled immigrants and also screwed them over contract-wise. So it's the sad kind of cyberpunk, not the funny kind of cyberpunk
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Moderators will now have to submit a request if they want to switch their subreddit from public to private.
But do they have to submit a request if they tell the audience "fuck it, this is now a sub about X, we'll remove everything that's not about X"?
...In fact, fuck any particular topic - if the mods approve of it, every subreddit can actually be about whatever people think it should be about, now that we think about it. If the mods don't do it, will the admins do it? The answer is: Highly unlikely
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I was politically ambivalent as a young voter.
Now, I'm pretty much convinced the rich people (and the parties that represent them) are just out there to screw everyone else over. And every single year just adds more evidence to the pile.
I don't think there is any conceivable scenario in which anyone can convince me that free market will magically fix all problems. It's nonsense.
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Ah yes. Everyone knows what the Italian-Americans thought about this historic atrocity. But it seems that people rarely ask what did the pineapples think about this. Now this is a new perspective!
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Gets even weirder in Finnish, because it's "kilpikonna". Someone in ye olde times just straight up translated the Swedish name. Got none of the Indo-European roots in sight, but it still makes sense. Vaguely toady creature that has shields!
(Only problem are the homonyms. "kilpi" also means registration plate, and "konna" also means "villain, thief". So every time some random person goes around nicking plates off cars, the journalists think they are very clever again, even when the joke has been made before numerous times. Poor turtles! They don't deserve this!)
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The conservative stance on climate change is quite a mystery. On one hand, they believe anthropogenic climate change is not real and it's impossible for humans to change climate. On the other hand, they believe the US government has done nothing but fuck with climate through HAARP for their own nefarious ends for 30 years. So who knows what the actual policy is, really. Your average voter is probably not interested of this question - they just want the gas price to go down.
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Yeah, I was about to say.
Perl 5 is like Esperanto: borrowed neat features from many languages, somehow kinda vaguely making a bit of sense. Enjoyed some popularity back in the day but is kind of niche nowadays.
PHP is like Volapük: same deal, but without the linguistic competence and failing miserably at being consistent.
Raku (Perl 6) is like Esperanto reformation efforts: Noble and interesting scholarly pursuits, with dozens of fans around the multiverse.
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I always liked "not the sharpest bulb in the tree".
(Because it kinda makes sense. Some Christmas lights have pointy bulbs. But nobody picks them for sharpness.)
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Yep, as I tried to hint in the last paragraph. 😆
Digg's biggest sin was that the votes were all that mattered, and the admins just leaned into that by coddling the power users. That's why Digg got so toxic to random people who just wanted to share something cool they found. The last redesign just made it official that there are those whose votes matter and the unwashed plebs. Everyone already knew people were fucking with the votes, and the admins just said "go right ahead".
So what Reddit offered was at least some assurance that the algorithm would combat blatant vote manipulation by power blocs and that people could share cool stuff fairly. Digg users promptly voted with their feet.
Now, to Reddit's credit, the system worked for years. Admins absolutely condemned vote manipulation and actively fought it. People were actively against all sorts of vote brigading, and the admins listened.
Problem is, it all changed. Corporate media influencing came in, under radar. Political memefluencers came in, under radar. It's all allowed unless it's blatantly against policy and everyone pretends it's just organic random users.
Now, you don't see the Reddit admins talking about what made the site work so well back in the day. I'm not sure they're interested in maintaining the anti-brigading and anti-manipulation algorithms. They're this close to saying "fuck it, it's a free-for-all" and going full Digg publicly.
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I played Nethack. I was overwhelmed by my anxiety and depression. I realised I was not good at video games. So I quit playing Nethack and swore to get good at video games before returning. Been, what, at least 15 years? I've gotten better I guess. Should I return? Soon, maybe.
(Seriously, though, roguelikes are still a genre I struggle with, so I do need practice!)
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Hey, remember what happened to Digg? Why a bunch of people moved over to Reddit in the first place?
I guess not a lot of people remember, so let me tell you.
Bunch of dipshits ran upvote brigades. Stories they didn't like got buried really fast.
Now, Digg was a hive mind site to begin with - good luck posting anything the hive mind didn't care about. But add blatant political machinations on top of that, and the site got unusable real fast.
Take a few guesses which political views those groups were trying to futilely promote while quashing opponents. Go on. (I'll give a hint, some of them retreated to Conservapedia)
So that's what killed Digg. ...that, and the Digg admins were being dicks and the site redesign sucked ass. (...insert comparison to modern Reddit here)
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I completed TMNT as a kid... on Commodore 64. That version is admittedly a little bit easier than the NES version (some mechanics were missing, and an entire level is gone, as I recall). Still, I have no idea why people complain about the second level (river), it's actually pretty fun. Compared to what's to come later in the game.
To me, the definitive "hard" game is Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on GameCube. Dark Souls just makes me say "eeeeeehhhh this is probably doable, I'll play this after I'm done with MP2E."
(When I first played MP2E, I only got through the second to last boss. Then my MadCatz memory card died. Played through the game again, with the fury of million suns. 99% complete. Because I missed one optional scan. ...One of these days I replay this bastard.)
Quick scanlation from Finnish comic book Pahkasika, issue 9, published in 1981. Modern update: Flight AY286 + HSL's metropolitan P train will actually get you to Helsinki in 1h 55m. Ah ha! So the trains fix this shit! However, as a Northern witchy biaatch, I'm still flabbergasted by the fact that Jyväskylä is in the southern Finland and they don't even get a Pendolino link to Helsinki. We do, here in Oulu. Please do get better, scrubs. \* Edit: Fucked up the last line in the scanlation. Jyväskylä to Helsinki, obviously. \*\* Wait Lemmy let me also replace uploaded fuck-ups? This is the best platform ever
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Käännös: "Niin kyllähän me muuten, mutta eräät ihmisryhmät eivät ole ihan yhtä tärkeitä kuin toiset."
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Never mind the old flippediroo of the day and month. What I want to know is why is there a dash in front of the date. I thought the separators went between the things to be separated.
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I'm, like, yeah, some of the stuff Mozilla has done has been worrying, but I've seen far worse happen to some other open source projects and their corporate branches.
I'm not worried about Mozilla projects' future. If LibreOffice survived corporate calcification, I see no reason why Mozilla projects wouldn't, if the push comes to a shove. But the thing is, in my opinion, push hasn't come to a shove yet. There's red flags at best, which is a cause for concern, but that's it.
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Gotcha. Summary:
Group name: Some shit that 12-year-olds would be embarrassed to use as a gang name, but surprise, the guy who came up with this shit was 60+ or something
Ideology: The same ol' shit, you've heard it all before
Identifiers: Well, this kind of shit, they kind of stick out from the crowd
What to do: The usual
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As I've probably said: Without the transgender people (and other queer folk), the autistic people, and the furries, literally none of the modern Internet infrastructure would have gotten built.
[Bonus from the IBM songbook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxFMV6tAg64)
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Anarchists do believe in board game rules. Just that they think that using house rules everyone agrees on is a great idea.
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Free Software is Leftism because it has got us great software and maybe the only bad thing I can say is that release schedules aren't a thing
Open Source is Capitalist Friendly because, ummmmm, extremely shitty Community Editions and putting everything cool in proprietary side, uhhhhh, random license changes to shit that isn't actually OSD compliant, unghhhhhh, need of constant vigilance against license violations.
Like I am happy cheap hardware vendors have adopted OSS components but why are they frequently so shitty about everything
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Finland is basically "File a report if your income changes enough to affect your tax bracket. You'll be issued a new taxation statement. Send it to the employer. (If unemployed, don't bother, the agency who pays you already knows.) Your employer/the agency will send the taxes owed to us. You'll be sent an annual tax proposal - If you have no deductions, you don't need to do anything, if you do, then it gets mildly interesting. If you get tax returns, you don't need to do anything if we have your bank details. If you owe us, oh boy, we'll let you know, don't worry."
So, this will be a metal remix of a song from a game that not a lot of people even have heard about, but I swear it's worth watching. See the incredibly blatant trademark violation dude *(legally speaking it was OK because serial numbers were filed out)* running around in one of the C64est of the C64 games ever made while awesome music plays even more awesomely than it did in the original, while 100% keeping with the spirit! (Made by System 3, the same company which made The Last Ninja games, and you can tell. You can *really* tell.)
Yes. The 1990s demoscene song by Edge (Kalle Kaivola) of the demogroup EMF (Electromotive Force). The file was bundled with Future Crew's Scream Tracker 3 software, one of the most influential music software packages of the era. A lot of demoscene songs just lend themselves perfectly to cyberpunk vibes, you know?
From Bing. Nothing special about the prompt - I've been using variations of "kids petting giant tortoises" in image generators for a while now. Because I like turtles. Anyway. There are so many questions I have about this image. That's not a normal position for that turt! Why aren't the kids helpin the poor turt down from the tree stump? And what's up with the turts in the background? Or the hair of that person over there? It's all very confusing. I don't know.
This game made me a lifetime advocate of recycling and bottle deposits. I mean look at that cool dude. Going down the highway with his skateboard. Picking up Coke bottles. Fucking awesome. [Gameplay footage is even more glorious than you can imagine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6OS_doxRLo) [Inspired by yet another thread about plastic recycling](https://lemmy.world/post/18688373)
[Horse_eComics, 2012-09-13](https://horseecomics.tumblr.com/post/31440890614/look-at-both-commercial-homemade-dog-but-who) Well that's sad. Clearly, the homemade dog is the one that was made with love. But that's just my personal commentary.
I usually massively regret my drunken shitposts, but I hope people enjoy this one. Just for c/retrogaming.
I don't know if the Twitter account "Threatening Music Notation" posted this, because I'm no longer on Twitter. This is, however, music notation which is kind of threatening. Football chant originating from 2014: "Putin is a dickhead! La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la." (etc.) (Repeat until sleeping off your hangover. However, in the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Moscow, it was more like "repeat until disqualified" I suppose. Because Russia couldn't do "repeat until dead" at that point. It would have been too blatant. Little green men just quietly made Ukraine not qualify on the games. No one can explain that.)
Bonus material: [Classic snapping turtle copypasta](https://imgur.com/gallery/NEsxj) [The actual paper cited](https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/8d50483b-2c89-4271-87bd-60b3df454bcf) [We need to address this company that still doesn't do turtle pacification as per scientific consensus](https://www.nintendo.com/)
Aka the anti-nuclear-war movie that traumatised me as a child.
BONUS PERIOD ACCURATE MACHINIMADOTCOM MEME: [Yes, I Am A General](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZPdH5BWBfY)
Original title: [Super turbo mega hella fucking cursed] "We've Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero" - Trade Martin The final say on US patriotism.
My random tales: One night, playing bunch of Halo, I got an Xbox 360 voice message. "Message to all recent players. Fukushima nuclear power plant just exploded. You should stock up on iodine tablets." (I almost sent back a message saying "thanks for your concern, but I'm in the Chernobyl fallout zone and I turned out just fine thank you") Pluto photographs from New Horizons? Frigging NASA retweet. (Edit: Actually I think it was a retweet of someone making a Disney meme about Pluto the Dog) Most recently, I got a random Discord message from a British YouTuber I follow saying "the Queen just died, please be respectful and stuff".
I'm genuinely sorry about posting shit a week ago. I was drunk. ...I'm less drunk now. This is genuinely awesome, however.