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DABDA ,

S04E02, ~33min into episode. Conversation between Firecracker and Sister Sage.

Firecracker:

Purpose. I sell purpose. These people got nothing. Maybe they lost a job or a house or a kid to Oxy. Politicians don’t give a shit, mainstream media tells them to be ashamed of their skin color, so, well, I bring 'em together, tell them a story, give them a purpose. Which would you rather believe? That you belong to a community of warriors battling a secret evil, or that you’re a lonely, inconsequential nobody that no one will ever remember?

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bofa Deez^en^ guesses are good but not quite right.

Break of Reality - Spectrum of the Sky (www.youtube.com)

Break of Reality (BoR) is an American cello rock band consisting of three cellists and a percussionist. The group is associated with the terms “cinematic rock”, “cello rock”, and “indie classical”. Break of Reality’s current members are Patrick Laird, Ivan Trevino, Laura Metcalf, and Adrian Daurov. The band’s...

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I had that cover art (without text) as my desktop wallpaper from ~2011 until ~September of last year. As far as I know, the photographer is Dominic Kamp. I like when classical music is “reimagined” so I’ll have to check out more stuff by this group. I haven’t listened to anything beyond her album Artemis but I think Lindsey Stirling does similar stuff with a violin.

Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)

Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....

DABDA ,

In a Neal Brennan stand-up special (Piped link) he mentions he uses a Pavlok to shock him every 3 minutes on stage to remind him to smile.

DABDA ,

Can they just insist it’s pronounced like jimp and sidestep the issue? Imgur, .gif, GNOME, GIPHY get to set their own rules on pronunciation.

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https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/c0080b54-8098-42c8-8539-4ace9930bf9a.webp

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You’ll probably have to take baby steps and first explain how a Turbo Encabulator (Piped link) works.

DABDA ,

There is evidently a HyperEncabulator (Piped link) from 2022 that briefly mentions AI. Fortunately, they confirm at 4:30 the complete absence of side-fumbling owing to the maintenance of tolerances allowing for a tight conniption fit.

DABDA ,

I don’t know if it’s a concern, but just as a heads-up the initial picture shows a plate number on the last line and this picture has someone’s full name listed at the very top.

DABDA ,

In what form do they hope to collect their $5M? Do they want a receipt declaring it was deposited into their magic secret account or does like a silver coin cover the whole debt or whatever?

I trust that this packing slip with some upper-case song lyrics written at a 22° angle in green ink will settle our obligations of prima nocta.
–Sincerely, THE GOVERNMENT

DABDA ,

Is this a novelty account or something, what’s with the fixation on your belly? You’ve been milking this subject for 2 months.

DABDA ,

Just wait for their next phase when they start shilling for their Kevlar girdle startup…

Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive?

Completely random stoned hypothetical. Lets day im old as fuck and I decide I’m ready and done. Could I have the same postmortem autopsy done on me while I’m still alive? Like give me a ton of drugs and let me watch myself get dissected as my final moments. I understand there is a legal and possibly moral concern, but is it...

DABDA ,

biopsy
vivisection

DABDA ,

rappers often get prosecuted based on their lyrics

Rapp Snitch Knishes

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Featured in the movie Encino Man (1992) [This YouTube compilation clip is in Italian]

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The Chicken and the Pig

The fable of the Chicken and the Pig is used to illustrate the differing levels of commitment from project stakeholders involved in a project. The basic fable runs:

A Pig and a Chicken are walking down the road.
The Chicken says: “Hey Pig, I was thinking we should open a restaurant!”
Pig replies: “Hm, maybe, what would we call it?”
The Chicken responds: “How about ‘ham-n-eggs’?”
The Pig thinks for a moment and says: “No thanks. I’d be committed, but you’d only be involved.”

DABDA ,

I heard of it from a Reddit comment about an easter egg location in Diablo 3 called “The Fowl Lair.” It’s filled with chickens and a single Greasy Pig.

DABDA ,

It should display a “Send Secure Message” button when viewing a user’s profile.

DABDA ,

~18 min explanation on it - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

DABDA ,

There’s a video by a designer talking about some of the symbolism of Ellie’s journey (Full talk video here – SPOILERS for the film in both).

And also an insightful YouTube comment(!) someone made in response describing their interpretation:

spoiler“This is one of the most thoughtful and insightful reviews on deeper film meanings I think I’ve ever seen. In keeping with the rebirth symbolism, I would offer the following possibilities.

  1. The transport pod symbolizes more of a womb, rather than a gas chamber. 2) The chair may not be an electric chair but rather a means for Ellie to assume a modified fetal position while in the capsule. This would mimic the position of a baby of in a womb prior to its own birth. 3) The wires plugged into Ellie represent an umbilical cord to sustain her, rather than a means to kill her. 4) The periodic updates given by the mission control staff as to the status of the machine (10%, 20%, 30%, etc.) mirror the increasing dilation of women in labor (1 cm dilated, 2cm dilated, 3cm dilated, etc.). 5) The wormhole sequence mirrors the new life traveling through a birth canal. 6) The capsule takes on a liquid form to symbolizes the protective amniotic fluid to keep the new life safe. 7) After Ellie’s “birth”, the first person she sees is her father. 8) This rebirth scene is enhanced by considering Ellie’s mother died from complications of childbirth when Ellie was born. This backstory enhances Ellie’s natural reluctance to be reborn as her initial birth killed her mother, and permanently altered her life. There’s undeniably imagery of execution and rebirth simultaneously occurring within the same frames! The filmmakers did an outstanding of capturing some very compelling storytelling while inserting remarkable symbolism.”
DABDA ,

I was really hoping for an Orange Cube around the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx.

DABDA ,

It’s certainly not the most disturbing thing about the text but “a women” is also on the list.

DABDA ,

The possibility/certainty of intentional or accidental false convictions doesn’t affect your acceptance of the state meting out permanent punishment?

DABDA ,

Consider what your thresholds are for what constitutes witnesses and admissions of guilt. For example, confessing to crimes that weren’t actually performed by them, do you honor the claim anyway?

And does a group of police witnessing a suspect or conversely a group of the suspect’s friends witnessing a police officer do something heinous count?

Remember any mistakes cannot be remedied.

DABDA ,

I’m not going to try to convince you otherwise but I just want you to recognize that your position is that you’re ok with “bad” people being killed as a form of punishment and mine is that ensuring that label is always appropriately applied is an impossibility.

I don’t like the thought of terrible people getting to continue to live if they’ve done irreparable harm to others, but I’m also not ok with saying that we totally need to burn THAT WITCH because Goody Constance totally witnessed them communing with the devil.

Osama/Hitler getting killed in military action - fine. An abused child/person killing their attacker - look the other way. Giving Edward Snowden lethal injection because he totally deserves it for endangering Americans - not acceptable.

DABDA ,

https://assets-global.website-files.com/6009ec8cda7f305645c9d91b/622f4f8721608acb39cbb8cc_20.jpg

Hopefully I can hotlink that image. If it doesn’t load it is the Corporate Memphis version of “Saturn Devouring His Son” attributed to @clayohr on twitter

DABDA ,

I tried to link an image but comment got removed for the URL being on the blacklist - not sure if it was the image link or the link giving attribution which pointed to Twitter (I’m assuming the latter).

Tried to post the Corporate Memphis version of “Saturn Devouring His Son”

Consumer Reports urges USDA to remove Lunchables From National School Lunch Program (advocacy.consumerreports.org)

Consumer Reports called on the Department of Agriculture today to remove Lunchables food kits from the National School Lunch Program. CR recently compared the nutritional profiles of two Lunchable kits served in schools and found they have even higher levels of sodium than the kits consumers can buy in the store. CR also tested...

DABDA ,

Entitled kids, don’t they already get enough lead in school from their peers‽

DABDA ,

“In the 30s, the pessimists went to New York and the optimists went to Auschwitz.”

Railroad agrees to $600 million settlement for fiery Ohio derailment, residents fear it’s not enough (www.opb.org)

Per this source, a 25 mile radius includes 585,000 people. That means (before lawyer fees so imagine half in actuality), Norfolk-Southern wants to give $1,000 per person for permanently poisoning not only their property but their body which is now forever scarred. This was filed for approval by the Plaintiff (people hurt) but as...

DABDA ,

Sorry for doxxing but you’re Brick Top, aren’t you?

Can someone demystify computer Ports for me? Please? Blocking, unblocking, opening, allowing, VPNs and their effect, what ports are and what they do, step by step, when you have to interact with them?

It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter....

DABDA ,

Just to clarify, nothing about ports requires wifi to be involved at all. It doesn’t need to be a wifi router, a network doesn’t have to be connected via wifi.

DABDA ,

Just seemed like a needlessly confusing specific detail to include as it is not a necessity to have any wifi connectivity at all and might mislead OP/readers into assuming it has some relevance to ports. It should be sufficient to just say router unless the question involves SSIDs or related components specific to that connection method.

DABDA ,

I liked this YouTube video about Diffie-Hellman key exchange [start at 2:25] that explains the concept using color mixtures.

DABDA ,

The Piped bot pisses me off because it doesn’t seem to check if the triggering comment already includes the exact link it’s about to post. I used to preemptively include Piped links with any YouTube ones but since it would trigger the bot anyway I just stopped bothering.

Aside from the clutter it adds, until I added the bot itself to my blocklist (instead of just relying on “Show bots” being unchecked in settings) it would also cause reply notifications that couldn’t be cleared in the default Lemmy web UI.

DABDA ,

Are you going out of your way to test the “no stupid questions” premise? You aren’t even asking a question you’re trying to make some kind of point in a roundabout way.

10 days ago, -34 points, “What horrible errors are people like you guilty of?”
10 days ago, -15 points, “When asked a question, what is your first reaction, to answer the question or to defend yourself?”
14 hours ago, -18 points, “In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is?”

In all those posts there’s the common thread of you being vague and constantly alluding to some specific message you want to spread but won’t just directly state.

DABDA ,

Not a response, please stop trolling.

DABDA ,

I haven’t looked into it but that code has to be a creative reference to the Genesis album/song “Abacab.”

DABDA ,

Just clickbait posted by a user with same name as the author/site owner.

DABDA ,

I think I last heard the words “monkey torture” in the ‘Barry Lutz Show’ sketch by The State in 1994. Can’t find a copy of it on YouTube, ebaumsworld has a copy but it didn’t want to load for me and the site itself is ad heavy - direct link to the .flv should work but might not play natively in browser. To be clear, the video link is a comedy bit about psychologically torturing monkeys and doesn’t show or inflict any harm to any.

I don’t have anything meaningful to add to the discussion about the IRL monkey abuse so I’m hoping to inject a little bit of levity to an otherwise terrible subject.

DABDA ,

Pretty wild how most of that troupe had successful careers in entertainment even outside of stuff they did together. I’m glad at least a couple other people remember the show fondly :)

DABDA ,

Yeah, where’s the fun? There’s no posts about owls/bats/invertebrates/cats/dogs, no cooking or food posts, no pictures of people knitting socks, nobody asking general questions, no articles and pictures about space, no discussion around movies/tv/books, nobody ever posts about gaming of any kind, there’s no memes to be found anywhere, no poems or short stories, no digital/traditional/AI art.

For some reason browsing news/politics/technology always seems to revolve around depressing and infuriating topics which is different from every other platform.

DABDA ,

I’m not the one complaining about being bored and requesting that everyone else amuse me. All those things I listed are things that are regularly posted so what’s the issue?

DABDA ,

This wasn’t an innocent request for interesting topics to follow, it was taking the stance that only serious topics get discussed here and it’s boring:

I’d like to see the fedi let its hair down a bit. It’s okay to talk about stuff other than infosec, privacy guides, distros, and Gaza.

It wasn’t a demand, but certainly requesting that we “let our hair down a bit” and that they “often get bored of the Fediverse.”

This post could have been phrased as “What are some good non-political or news related communities?” And I’ll gladly accept the label of being elitist if it’s because I have minimal expectations that people explore for solutions before complaining and implying it’s everyone else that needs to change. You can’t browse all without easily bumping into the things I listed, and if you aren’t aware there’s different filtering options there’s always a sidebar link instructing you how the platform works.

DABDA ,

In this particular case it’s likely because it was a double-post so this duplicate is getting pushed down while lemm.ee/comment/10561771 currently shows 0 downvotes.

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So due to sunk cost the better choice is to continue supporting bad behavior?

DABDA ,

The primary use of ad blockers isn’t to ensure the websites don’t make money but to protect the end user from unwanted effects of intrusive advertising. If we’re expected to be concerned with their loss of revenue they should be as concerned about ads masquerading as OS prompts, scams feigning legitimacy, false medical or financial claims, malware and miners being injected etc. If they won’t accept responsibility or accountability for the material they are serving and effectively endorsing then it’s only prudent for the users to protect themselves.

And if they want to attract subscribers instead of relying on advertising income then they should also avoid racing to the bottom by (solely) relying on LLM generated “articles” and misleading clickbait tactics. If they have to rely on tricking their prospective customers then they aren’t peddling something actually worthwhile and aren’t owed a reward for doing so.

DABDA ,

the more you need click bait pages to drive ad views on those exchanges

“They” (the local newspapers) don’t have to make that Faustian bargain but choose to because it’s easier or more lucrative to. They could take meaningful steps to address and communicate to their readers that they care about the accuracy and informative aspects of their reporting as well as the safety and respect of their electronic systems used to access it.

Wikipedia doesn’t have flashing boner pill pop-ups and their pages aren’t filled with intentionally misleading information – I strongly suspect their donations would fall off a cliff if that started to change. It’s not a great comparison since the scale and business structures are different from local newspapers but other entities like PBS also show that people will donate for good/honest content.

Ad blockers just wrongly get painted with this brush as being horribly destructive to the poor companies that have no choice but to be evil when they were a logical consequence to the boundaries of acceptability being constantly pushed. We had <marquee> and <blink> text, static banners -> animated banners, auto-playing sound/video, iFrames -> pop-ups -> recursive pop-ups -> mouse click & window resize disable scripts -> overlays -> unskippable full-page video -> multiple unskippable videos -> LLM/AI generated bogus content. And tons of other variations I’m not remembering at the moment. Ad blockers also (mostly) don’t work properly when the ads are being served from the same source as the content; the newspapers could host the ads themselves and vouch for their safety and propriety.

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