Just like the middle ages but televised. It would show just how evolved and civilized we are now.

I tell myself a similar thing about soldiers that blow up civilian fishing boats.

No, but since you’re mentioning it I might try. I’ve been so disappointed by the franchise that I didn’t bother looking into SNW, but just having someone that seems to be on the same page suggest it makes me want to at least give it a try.

Thanks for the suggestion, and the detailed rant!

Hehe, that reminds me how it feels when you don’t like something the rest of society really really likes. I’m Canadian, don’t like hockey, but when I stop to pay attention to things around me, there’s hockey promotions on bags of chips, on soda bottles and cans, on cereal boxes… there’s even hockey promotion on toilet paper packaging. So I’m sitting on the toilet, looking at the pack of toilet paper, and can read about some contest I could win in relation to hockey.

I live alone and sometimes stuff like this isn’t worth it. Go out and get a salad that’s already made. It will be less wasteful this way.

I only bother with stuff I can freeze. Like, I buy carrots and celery, blanch them, freeze them, and use them when needed in soups or rice.

It’s mostly a construction thing where I live. Lots of construction workers here seem to have taken the habit of parking their pickup truck anywhere they want, like in pedestrian crossings and bike lanes, and jam a high visibility vest in their window to show they work in construction.

I don’t know if it’s working and they avoid getting a ticket this way, but if they keep doing it I’m guessing it’s because there’s not much consequences.

“Yes Kyle. Now get to your pickup truck parked in a pedestrian crossing with a high-vis vest jammed in the window, and come pick me up.”

They look so happy to destroy the future. Fuck the environment later, money is now.

I’m on the same boat. Apart from Lower Decks, I can’t watch the new shows. I keep hoping a new show might fix it, and be for me, but the longer it goes, the less I’m interested in Star Trek.

Lately I’ve been thinking about unsubscribing from all the Star Trek communities, as all the discussions and hype about the new shows is making me think I’m no longer a trekkie. I loved TNG, DS9, VOY and tolerated ENT, but the new shows are clearly not made for me.

Hehe. Car keys in general, yes. But just to break motonormativity, not mine because I never had a car and I hope it can stay this way as long as possible.

🎵 You’re older than you’ve ever been and now you’re even older, and now you’re even older…🎵

I’m dumb. I wanted to try with French and was like nouuuus?! But then I realized that we have oui. And it can even be used cromulently in this exact situation. Ouiiii!

Best is suggestive. It’s a weird movie but I wish there was more of David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ. Maybe a sequel since the movie ended on that possibility. But it’s probably going to end up repetitive, if not recursive.

And its an idea that has been explored in different other movies and series anyway. So as much as I liked the style of that movie, upon reflection, maybe it should just stay where it was left.

And all this because we refuse to slow capitalism down. The most important question on everyone’s mind when there’s elections is the economy and money. We need economic growth. Can’t tax billionaires. Can’t stop the consumption machine. Economic growth!

The sad thing is that most people are willing to relocate to avoid the effects it will have on them financially. It’s not because it could help to mitigate the change; they won’t move into a 15 minutes city. We’ll just perpetuate the sprawl elsewhere and continue what we have always done before.

It’s even more sad when I look at images of natural disasters, and beyond the immediate lost of lives, seeing people lose their things and run (drive) to buy even more things produced by the very system that is causing more frequent and intense natural disasters.

Beyond legislation and enforcement, it’s been disappointing to try to explain those things to people around me for decades, hoping they will make the connection, only for them to end up being mad at high gas prices. Also, that survey asks about inside the US only. What if people from one state don’t want immigrants from another state? It’s gonna be interesting to see when the next inevitable question in a decade or so will be if people are willing to become climate refugees in other countries, and if citizens of other countries are willing to accept them.

I still use IRC. There are now modern web clients like The Lounge or Convos that can display/share images in the channels, keep history and push notifications. Apparently Convos can do video chat but I never tried it. Unfortunately I’m not aware of screen sharing features for any of these.

So on a very simple setup, you need an IRC server, then install and connect one of those clients to your server, and use them through a web browser, either on a computer or on a phone.

It’s obviously not entirely Discord-like, but it is a simple way to chat and share images.

Of course they did that, they are Microsoft. You will do what they want, for easiness and convenience.

They started doing that in 2019 for all the the Office products. Here is the official annoucement. Now every Office installation that is up to date will force users to use OneDrive as the default save location. Even Office 2016. They are retroenshittifying.

At first I was like “isn’t that the keyboard dude?”

And yes, it’s the keyboard dude ranting about AI at the CES, and I enjoyed it.

Yes, but it’s also the nature of how those platforms work. It would be hard to get new subscribers without popular and active posts. If mods of small communities are removing posts and comments from people that diverge from the main opinion there, growth will be difficult.

It is something I try to keep in mind before commenting on a random thing I see when browsing all communities instead of just what I’m subscribed to. Check the community before making a comment, to make sure I’m not insulting fans of something I don’t like.

I was too anti car for /r/fuckcars. When on that sub I was told multiple times that some people had no choice but to use a car and all their excuses were valid, always. So there were lots of comments in an anti car sub just saying “I would lOoOOvVe to ditch my car but its just impossible because…”

As a car free person, it felt like I didn’t belong in that sub. Plus, there was the API scandal at that time and that meant RedditIsFun would stop working eventually. So I abandoned reddit for smaller communities here.

Unfortunately lemmy has kind of the same issue reddit had. When the post of a small sub/community gains traction, it gets popular beyond its small community and gets “invaded” by people browsing “all”, resulting in a majority of comments from users not subscribed to that community.

You must be aware that they made OneDrive the default location to save files. The ‘Save as’ dialog box now proposes OneDrive as the default location. So it’s more steps than before to achieve the same thing, just because we have to ‘go around’ OneDrive.

It’s not a question of not knowing how to do it, it’s a question of now being forced to go around their crap, shoved in our faces.