@TiffyBelle@bookstodon I thought it was fine - nothing super special, but I enjoyed it enough to move onto the second one.
Couple of twists - saw one of them coming and not the other. Book 2 looks as though it will go into the magic more than Book 1 did - which is the bit I'm interested in with most series. :)
It goes without saying that what Hamas did was morally abhorrent, but every time you see a tower block in Gaza being destroyed by an Israeli missile on the news you are watching children being killed, injured, or made orphans. 😡
@Melinda@john1954moi I read a book in the late 70s.I have never been able to find it again. I believe it was written in the 40s. called something like "Night Music" and I think it was written by Lily Palmer?
Anyhow the story took place in Serbia? A young reporter comes on the job. He can't understand why they keep fighting this endless war. He ends up staying with a woman and her child. He becomes emotionally entangled and eventually realizes that they are also involved in fighting. 1/2
@neilhimself
People here have resorted to taking screenshots of your twitter account and posting the images here. I humbly suggest moving your social media off of twitter. We love you here. And we have better moss and bird photos.
Brotato is a roguelite where you play a potato wielding WEAPONS to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Remember that once non-WGA writers cross the picket line, they won't be able to join the union later, should they want or need to. It's worth reminding them of this.
#WGA seem to have reached a tentative agreement for a new collective contract.
Here's the message, shared on twitter by Adam Conover (of "Adam Ruins Everything"):
"We did it. We have a tentative deal.
Over the coming days, we'll discuss and vote on it, together, as a democratic union. But today, I want to thank every single WGA member, and every fellow worker who stood with us in solidarity. You made this possible. Thank you. #WGAStrong #SupportUnions#SupportWorkers
Lemmy Admins Are Full Of Shit. They Are Obsessed With Having Power, Silencing Users, Banning Users, And Want To Use A Karma System Like Reddit To Restrict Your Ability To Use Lemmy.
I know I'm being dramatic here, but something just hasn't been sitting well with me ever since I started using Lemmy.
There's just this feeling I get here that the admins have a fucking agenda. And I could be wrong. But I hate bullshiters who won't tell it like it is.
More people need to call admins out on their bullshit. It's getting fucking ridiculous.
And I'm tired of the fucking arrogant attitude that some how running a server and being an admin makes you important in some way as if you're going to be the next elon musk or something. Get over yourselves.
It really feels that there is an ulterior motive based on what I see in the matrix chats.
Admins are not being transparent about there motives.
I'm on pretty much all of the lemmy matrix chats, and all they talk about is restricting the users experience, banning, defederating, purging accounts when they ban them so the user doesn't see why they were banned, and any everything that will put them in a position of power.
I also feel like they have accounts on all the other instances and post other bullshit trying to push their agenda and make these changes seem like a good idea.
Admins, quit fucking bullshitting like you're trying not to be like reddit. Yall seem to wet your panties at the idea of basically being in complete and total control of everything and Ban who ever you want based on your political ideologies.
I'm sure their are some who are not like this.
Im sick of this morally superior attiitude and sense that your beliefs and actions are of greater virtue then everyone else. Yall are smugly moralistic and intolerant of different opinions and its fucking obvious.
Stop being fucking deceitful and tell the goddamn truth.
Please explain to everyone your intentions.
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Tbh, I can’t think of any animal that should be completely loose during transport in any situation. Even a dog that loves riding in a car needs at least a safety harness.
Livestock? They’ll get hurt bad without restrictions on movement. They could be pets instead of food, and you’d still need them restrained during travel if you want them and the vehicle safe. But livestock that have never been (or can’t be) trained the way pets are, it’s exactly like you said, you want them to stay as still as possible without causing blood flow restrictions. It’s safer for them, for the vehicle, and for everyone else on the road.
@sam@levampyre@disability@ACBNational@cameron Well, my first question would be are you talking about captions for death or heart of hearing people or are you talking about visual descriptions for blind people? Sorry if this seems like a dense question, but unfortunately your verbiage is slightly ambiguous.
@NoahCarver@levampyre@disability@ACBNational@cameron oh yah, sorry, I said "captions" I meant "alt-text on images", specifically for people who are blind. Although I was paraphrasing and neither was the original prompt, actually, it just became the specific example I started thinking about and that I had someone I could specifically ask about it (but also decided to ask online to get a wider set of perspectives).
Yup, this is what they do. Even if it does work, it doesn’t matter, because they’ll just create a new subscription category and opt you back in. It’s illegal, but laws without enforcement are just ink and paper.
@bryanalexandee@kate@Downes@actualham@harmonygritz@cogdog I should add — I am very aware of the fact that the origins of higher education are all about preparing students for careers, from schools for prospective bureaucrats in ancient China, Hindus Valley, and Mesopotamia, to the origins of European universities as training grounds for lawyers and theologians. But ever since the origin of Humboldt University, higher education has been about more and has taken a broader view of being for the good of society. Neoliberalism in HE has been regressive.
Thank you, Fredrik. I've been concerned for decades that academics not lose the nerve of our vision. Here in Japan we have been through similar pressures for vocationalization, but fortunately in this case, education is a conservative sector of Japanese society that changes only incrementally. Incidentally, Japan had a university mainly for Confucian civil service preparation in the 8th Century Nara Period.
Your case for higher education being not primarily for vocational training but for a broader view to the good of society would be strengthened by adding the examples of Plato's Academy and Nālandā, which I discuss in "What is the Academic Life? 2. The Idea of the University." See https://www.academia.edu/35916771 if you like, or download the whole series from Knowledge Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:26460/CONTENT/academic_life_series.pdf
average mastodon.social user reaction, having a meltdown because a poor person decided to open their mouth for 5 seconds about their situation asking for help:
I think it's interesting seeing people in the restroom. Like if it's just some number 1, conversation time. But if it's number 2, no eye contact, no words to be had. Like you're ashamed of your own poo baby. Be proud of that loaf bro... You made that with your own body.