Impo(rule)tant

PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 426 points –
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Holy fuck this is pretentious. This right here? This preachy bullshit? This is why conservatives constantly make fun of us.

Look while the tone of the original post clearly could use some softening and the maker's wording is a little naive, it does make some good points. You just have to look a little deeper than surface level

Man I never thought of it that way, my whole world just shifted 180 degrees

C or F? Either way that's really hot

this image goes hard. feel free to screenshot

But does screenshotting the image subtract from the impact of its intended message?

I disagree with the whole premise of the image. An image that only contains of text? Is this the future we want for our country?

Alright, you know what? This is ridiculous. This image—this image wants me to pretend it's interesting. Pretend? I don't have to pretend anything. You know what's interesting? The fact that someone took the time to make this! That someone, somewhere, thought, "Hey, you know what the world needs? A big block of text that tells people how to feel about it." That's not just interesting; that's hilarious! It's like telling a joke and then explaining why it's funny. The sheer audacity, the unmitigated gall of this image to demand our interest—it's almost admirable. But here we are, discussing it! So, joke's on us, I guess? -Lewis Black

I wonder what makes me more mad: this, or the fact that we're not going to do shit about it unless there's money to be made.

Omy, why use this, when you could be using NewPipe?

because newpipe sucks and is stuck a decade or more in the past ui wise so everything's ugly and really hard to navigate it constantly crashes just opening a video it completely disregards levels of privacy people might want like not allowing people to sign in for just a sub feed and then watching the videos unsigned in which would still be more private than the youtube app so you have to do it locally so their terrible web scraper system can take 5 minutes to refresh your sub feed during which time you can't use the app at all and it doesn't even catch every video newpipe is genuinely terrible use revanced

It works, it's FOSS and it has some pretty cool features. I have like 42 subs, so it takes like 1.4 seconds. Do you have better FOSS alternatives? I am open for recommendations! But I don't wanna have to sign in with Google.

Exist LibreTube, but I watch youtube on phone in kiwi browser + ublock origin, sponsorblock and return youtube dislike Because I want synchronization bitween pc on phone and open videos in tabs

They know, and a full rewrite, including optimization and UI overhaul is in progress. It's been taking almost a year at ths point.

Announcement / Latest blog post

So excited for material you NewPipe! I think they wanted to finish some features like comments on comments first though.

I know I heard back when it was announced it might fix some issues like the crashes slowness and ui being bad but there's other issues with newpipe that are just due to their philosophy and aren't ever going to change

I find it to be derivative and banal, because I am very important and sophisticated and everything should always be about me. Look at me being smart on the internet. I'm a very special boy.

Love the creativity here. This is the kind of stuff I hope to see more of on lemmy

Big if true. This image lack any sources. I'm not the one to question everything, but I refuse to engage in assumptions as such.

It's not that I read sources but I want them to be linked

Hmm you think so? Personally, I think that it makes more sense to share what is there, and not keep it for yourselves... Or was that what you were implying?

How dare you; I don't want to be"that guy" who yells at people on the Internet for expressing their opinions, but what the fuck.

hey, I realise it was poorly phrased, but OP does have a point. I think you're misinterpreting them.

Why do I need to pretend that this post is interesting? I mean, isn’t it? By its nature, it’s an intriguing idea. Give a group of commenters a task, and see the reactions. Will they disagree? Call you out? Ignore you? Or in this case, we’ve seen more interaction than your average post, with the comment to vote ratio being higher than most, and many of them expressing themselves in some wildly different ways. Ultimately, there is no need to pretend this post is interesting, because in my opinion, it actually is.

I thought I had a well-balanced world view until I read this post and the discussions in the comments section. Thank you for expanding my view.

See that's exactly why I don't dress up for Halloween

I am sorry you are left out this fun holiday because of your community’s prejudices

It is deeply inspiring what this oevre tells us about the dialectics of meaning developing between a post and it's audience. Even with no inherent meaning the picture unfurls the deepest human desire to connect and to form communities, especially in disconnecting times and virtual places of refuge from it.

No I'm not going back to reddit. I will stand with you, withstanding the most selfreferential, the most empty, in hope of a we to fill that void.

I use the Private DNS feature in Android to block ads system-wide. It works great and I can avoid this.

I choose to VPN to my home network, which has a piHole DNS running on it so I can keep my traffic obscured on any wifi I join while also having invasive ads blocked. It's convenient!

Low key kinda is as it's showing the human desire to engage in random, meaningless conversation with little to no prompting.

There's probably studies about photos like these.

OP brings up a good point, I am stoked to discuss.

when is this gonna end?? i get that we're in the middle of the greatest femboy shortage the world has ever seen but this is too much even for me.

I don't think that's true at all! Why would you even suggest such a thing??

Absolutely astonished by this new information!

This right here. This is everything that's wrong with Hollywood.

Catboi mutual aid programs will pave the way to a communist revolution. THE OWNERSHIP CLASS WILL TREMBLE BEFORE OUR GREAT FURRY MIGHT! WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS!

Also ice cream for all,

What if some of us don't want to lose our chains and quite like the idea of being owned uwu can we still have consensual ownership in the catboy utopia?

Ahh yes. Very important.

Quite worthy of discussion as well!

We don’t want you around here, you should’ve stayed on Reddit for this kind of content! Get defederated!

I've often had this thought but lacked the bravery to share. Take my Lemmy Lemon 🍋

I know on the surface this seems like a reasonable position, but it just doesn't correlate with reality. This is a great breakdown on the science of why OP's position is simply impossible. It wasn't even considered as an option until the 1980s when for-profit colleges started promoting it.

Dearest u/PRUSSIA_x86,

I pen this missive with the utmost urgency and a disposition most unsettled. It is with a heavy heart and a constitution somewhat compromised that I must address the recent pictorial correspondence you so kindly dispatched in my direction.

Upon the unveiling of your transmitted image, I must confess, my sensibilities were profoundly assaulted. The depiction, though I shan't delve into its particulars, elicited in me a sensation most disconcerting, akin to the physical maladies of nausea and profound distaste. It is a sensation most challenging to articulate in polite company, yet I find myself duty-bound to convey my honest reaction, albeit with the greatest respect and consideration for your artistic endeavors.

I do hope you interpret my words not as a slight upon your character or artistic merit but as an earnest reflection of the visceral response elicited within me. The image, whilst no doubt a product of considerable effort and creativity on your part, regrettably failed to resonate with my aesthetic preferences and indeed, agitated my otherwise steadfast composure.

I trust that you will receive this critique in the spirit of constructive candor with which it is intended. It is not my wish to disparage but to engage in an open and forthright dialogue, as befits our longstanding correspondence and mutual respect.

I eagerly anticipate your next pictorial submission, confident in your ability to delight and inspire with your artistic prowess. Until then, I remain,

Yours most sincerely and with the highest regards,

otacon239

P.S. I do hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits, notwithstanding my candid remarks herein.