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I’m barefoot.

Ditto - it’s 18°C here. That weird gap that I’m still shirtless, barefoot, but my cat is already looking for her blanket.

The problem is that you need less words to vomit some inane bullshit than you would to say an accurate and grounded truth. As such we’re always in a losing ground when it comes to memes - because memes need to be short and to-the-point, otherwise as you said they won’t be funny.

4x or so in my case. Same thing, though.

Most of the time it boils down to “I can’t be arsed”. Stuff like:

• I’d need to rephrase it to still say what I think, without being impolite. I know that I’m an arsehole, but I’d rather not ruin someone else’s day if I don’t see a reason why.
• I’d be dealing with someone who’s clearly irrational and/or disingenuous.
• I realise that I’m taking into my own hands some matter that someone else is better prepared to. For example, explaining a subject that I’m not too certain about.

They know I worked at a computer shop so this wouldn’t work 😫

Are those people who would help you out with free professional help, if you needed? Because that’s what it is, in your case.

Entitled people might be vulturing you because you can help them with “tech stuff”, but if you didn’t, they’d either vulture you for something else or outright ignore you. Those people are best avoided.

EDIT: just to be clear.

I’m not opposed to help people out, as long as the other side would help me out if asked to. A great example of that are my front neighbours: sure, they keep asking me for computer help, but I’m happy to do it - because when I need their help I know that I can count on them. (Guess who took care of my cats while I was travelling?)

The problem that I see are the entitled ones; those are the ones who get all pissy when you don’t help them, because they behave like everyone else was born to serve them. Those people are best avoided as much as you can.

A bit of Onmyo-za, plus the same stuff I hear often (Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Kayah, random vaneras, EngHaw…)

If Costco was a thing where I live*, I’d probably never buy pre-pulled roti chicken. Pulling chicken is mostly something I do with the leftovers, to repurpose them; specially the breast**. So buying it already pulled feels pointless, you know?

*at least here in Paraná most people buy roasted chicken from small, street corner markets. They often have a large rotisserie oven, that can be seen from the street; not just by humans, the neighbourhood dogs often stare those ovens, giving them the “TV de cachorro” (dog TV) nickname.

**most of my family beelines for the red parts, so the breast is typically what’s left. The only one who would rather eat the breast is Kika, my cat - but she eats, like, a tablespoon or two worth of chicken. (My other cat Siegfrieda doesn’t even recognise it as food.)

Right now Kika be like: “meeeOOOWWW MEOOOOWWW MEOOOOOWWWW” (translation: “I hunts and you sees my prey!”). It’s a bit annoying but I’m glad that such an old kitty still has the energy to play.

Siegfrieda found her newest sleeping spot: inside the kitchen cabinet. I’m not a fan of the idea but… meh, I gave up telling her to get out.

Some of them are really smart indeed, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they developed a similar mental model through convergent evolution.

Mammals in general are so smart that I wonder if this mental model is shared by the whole class, or at least the Boreoeutheria (clade that includes both carnivores and primates, plus a lot more critters). And, like, the evolutionary benefits of that model are obvious - if whatever tore your arm apart is still lying around, you need to run away ASAP.

1. It’s morally good when people access information, culture, and entertainment.
2. It’s morally good when the author of a work gets rewarded by their work.

Piracy is morally justified when 1 is a more pressing matter than 2. As such, it’s justified in situations like this:

• If, in the absence of piracy, the pirate would still not pay for the goods - because #2 is set up to zero (the author of the work is not rewarded anyway).
• If it’s impossible to obtain the goods without piracy. For example, abandonware.
• If the author of the work would get breadcrumbs of the money used to access legally the goods, and the pirate compensates the author directly (e.g. donation).

I ended picking Miru (from another comment) up to watch anime, so I won’t automatise the system - I’ll use the RSS just to warn me when there are new episodes. That said, this extension (to allow transmission to download from rss) plus this site (to sift the RSS feed, so you don’t download e.g. individual episodes alongside batches) could help.

I liked it. I really liked it.

It got a .deb version, not just appimage. Installed without issues.

The interface is clean, and I could easily find series that I enjoy, both on- and off-season. (Tested with DanMachi V and Hikaru no Go). For neither it felt like I was watching it from torrents, there was no stuttering at all.

I use MAL instead of AL, but importing the list was easy enough. It’s less one thing to do, great - now I don’t need to update the anime list manually!

Going to test this later, thank you!

I just tested this now. This is brilliant, thank you for the idea! I wasn’t even aware that the torrent site could generate RSS for search queries!

For now I’m simply following those RSS feeds through liferea, but later on I might even automate it further.

Like others I’ve seen been torrenting my episodes instead, but man… I miss the convenience.

Don’t get me wrong - torrents are great, but for me they’re the best when I want to binge watch a complete series and/or keep it indefinitely. I’m typically following ~10 series/season = episodes/week; I need to find the series in a certain torrent site, then download it, watch it, seed it… it’s a bit of a bother, you know.

I remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs.

So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.

It’s all fun and games until venture capital kicks in, and exploits that central user data store to further centralise the rest of the network. Even then yes, I think that Mastodon has a lot to learn with Bluesky, on how to make user experience smoother.

Fuck, that sounds too amazing to not try. Thanks for the idea! I’ll try it the next Sunday, as I’m planning pork knuckles for lunch. (I’d try it today but I’m preparing Zebu hump so it doesn’t combo that well.)

Watermelon rinds and citrus peels are perfectly edible and tasty once candied, so don’t waste them. If you’re into booze, dump the citrus peels into vodka, wait a month, then mix the vodka half-and-half with syrup. (I know that this is technically not a food eating trick, but still - waste not, want not.)