the difference between me and a liberal is im more then happy to take direct action. I’ll do whatever it takes to fight fascism […] with the ballet box
in left wing circles most leftists only pretended not to vote
Not sure if you can have it both ways. How do you take “direct action at the ballot box” while also only pretending to withold your vote?
Ahh, gotcha. Thanks for looking into it
It seems like uploading animated .gif files may be currently broken. The server returns a 400 error with the message “Too wide”.
Dunno if this was an issue before the upgrade, as I’m not sure I ever tried to upload a .gif file before; I usually upload .png files. Just wanted to give you a heads up either way.
Edit: And thanks for hosting this instance and putting in the effort to maintain it. I’m also happy to assist in any troubleshooting or other diagnostics that would help with its upkeep, should you want an extra set of eyes.
You don’t have to thank me.
Edited in GIMP.
Pickles. They were too strong and sour for me. Now I love 'em.
Hells yeah. Looks like the update fixed the issue with existing session cookies not always getting handled correctly in Firefox. A very nice quality of life improvement IMO
I’ve started baking bread this year and it’s been fun.
The “hardest” part is deciding to make the dough at night before I go to bed so it can ferment overnight. But the next day, all I need to do is throw it in the oven for 45 minutes and bam, fresh bread.
I’m struggling to get the crust right, though. It tends to come out very chewy rather than crispy
That’s so neat; I’d never noticed that before. And the walls closing in on the stage adaptation is really clever
“12 Angry Men” (1957) is a personal favorite that I recommend to pretty much everyone. Great messages about questioning assumptions, challenging biases, understanding the limitations of evidence, acknowledging imperfections in the justice system, and the consequences thereof.
The movie is also cinematically interesting to me because it feels “small”. The entire movie just about takes place in one room, and the events of the film transpire over the course of one afternoon.
You may be entitled to compensation! (although the deadline to submit claims passed in 2018)
If you hadn’t specified “and other footware”, I would’ve found myself in “Eric and The Dread Gazebo” territory.
I loved the storms in BOTW. The rainy atmosphere and the mechanical effects were really well done.
In a similar vein, Majora’s Mask has a fantastic thunderstorm on day 2 of the cycle.
I found almond milk to be a great substitute a couple of years ago when I was dieting. Particularly the ‘unsweetened, vanilla’ variety from Almond Breeze.
As an added bonus, it also has a much longer shelf life than regular milk.
In terms of design, I find Lemmy to be basically a 1:1 replacement for Reddit. It’s a link aggregator with communities, comments, and voting.
I like it a lot, even though the communities are smaller and there’s less content. It’s just a nicer communal experience for me compared to Reddit. I feel more pressure to actually comment since the communities are smaller and every little bit helps, lol.
As others have pointed out, there’s a lot to hate about ads since the industry is routinely dishonest, insulting, obnoxious, deceptive, intrusive, and all manner of unpleasant. I’ve been adblocking religiously for most of my life for these reasons.
So I think a more interesting question might be the other way around: “What do you like about commercials?”
The only commercials I’ve ever liked are the ones for local small businesses. The ones with a nonexistent production budget that aren’t beating the viewer over the head with blatant lies or dishonest sales tactics.
Adult Swim used to have faux-ad bumpers for the fictional business “Strickland Propane” from King of the Hill, featuring the honest-to-a-fault character Hank Hill as the spokesman, which I felt captured that vibe well.
Rhett and Link also made a funny homage to these kinds of commercials in this classic skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnOyMSEWNTs
Overall I think this is well written. I agree with @poVoq@slrpnk.net that the section on picking an instance could be improved, since which instance one picks can be rather important, since federation/defederation is dictated by individual instances.
And a minor typo I noticed:
leaving Mastodon out to try
I assume that should be “out to dry”.
It’s interesting to see some of the back-and-forth on this topic between different proponents of free software.
I listened to this talk by Linus Torvalds a while back and it relates to the GPL license used by the Linux kernel and why the kernel hasn’t changed to GPLv3. Apparently Linus doesn’t find this practice by Tivo and other hardware manufacturers to be an issue.