It is hard. When I was more active in local activist groups, the amount of people we would get at movie nights and other events varied heavily on whatever liberal fixation was currently happening.

It also doesn’t help that the US has zero concept of third spaces due to capitalism and industrialization. They don’t want people hanging out in spaces that don’t keep some constant cash flow going for parasites.

I bet with a little work you could then feed this through a tool for audio. Kinda curious to look into it myself.

Explaining things to AI zealots is exhausting. Like it’s your fault that you felt one way, learned more, and then felt a different way. “Oh, my bad for having a change of feeling based on learned information.” They think that the feeling of disappointment is somehow produced by propaganda or groupthink.

I’m suddenly reminded of the Kids for Cash scandal.

“I’m gonna rip the fuckin’ head off!”

I have a friend that dresses as Karl Havoc every Halloween. He’s a drummer in a band and played dressed as him for a Halloween show.

Lie about all of it.

My wife and I have a friend that’s an introvert like we are. Sometimes he’ll come over and we might play a bunch of Mario Party and Mario Kart, but other times we will all play separately on our handhelds or laptops and chill while something plays on YouTube. Sublime. Don’t need to constantly have a conversation going and there’s no drinking involved.

Wow, this has a ton of features.

Yard work alone is my most productive time. Time to start a solo lawn company I guess.

Dating back to the first Android phone, the G1. I was installing custom ROMs on that first, and then when I eventually got a Nexus 5, I started to de-Google.

I’m on an iPhone now because I had a string of bad luck with how shit most Android phones are, but I’m still privacy and security-minded:

• I have no social media accounts - no one can actually find me except through my personal website or LinkedIn (but they obviously have to know my name first for either). If/when people complain about it, I shrug at them. I’m not signing up for TikTok so you can send me some vapid video
• I use a VPN 24/7
• Proton as my mail provider
• My wife and I don’t use any streaming services - Stremio for everything (through Real Debrid so no torrents can be tracked)
• I use a virtual card service so that absolutely nothing has our actual credit and debit card numbers (some with limits set so a service can’t arbitrarily raise rates on us, or go rogue and accidentally charge too much)
• Windows is not allowed to touch a single computer I own. It’s either macOS for work stuff, or Linux for everything else

Seriously! I hate that the choices are bar or restaurant. Like, I wanna eat and all, but the US has failed miserably when it comes to congregation spaces. I’m not even a social person and I see the value in spaces like the ones you see in Spain and other countries. They value community and connection, while the US values consumption and consumerism.

I use Mullvad daily. Never turn it off.

Which is not even remotely true. One is a garbage word used to insult an entire race that was enslaved for decades. The other is for corporate AI that has no humanity and was created on the backs of the working class, in order to undermine and in some cases, replace the worker. It takes like 2 seconds to look beyond the surface to see that this is not the same. I’m just gonna assume this is satire because it’s such a stupid take.

I would never use the n-word because I’m not a racist piece of shit.

Explain to me how “clanker” and the n-word are on the same level here. I’m okay exchanging “clanker” for “corporate dogshit,” but then that would ruin your opportunity to manufacture outrage.

Edit: legit hope this is satire because it’s such a dumb take if real.

Orphan Crushing Hugging Machine

I use the ElfHosted extension as a fallback when Torrentio has a rough day. I don’t like the way it displays data like seeders, file size, etc, but it works well for getting results in a pinch.

Yep. When federating with so many instances, nothing is truly deleted unless every single instance honors its removal. That’s just the reality. The nice thing is that as an instance owner, I can see the mod log of everything from the places I federate with. So admins at least have a point of reference to work together. I also have the ability to restore comments and things that were deleted. I’ve never used it because I prefer to stay in sync with everyone else, but I’m 1 person. There are many instances and mine is microscopic.

I got it from this company iirc, but I think it was a limited release. If you wanted something similarly cool though, Creep-O-Rama has this one!

It’s funny logging into Lemmy, this being the first post I see, while wearing this shirt.