The Kleptones - Lost Time (Count-In EP Version)
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Is this a novelty account or something, what's with the fixation on your belly? You've been milking this subject for 2 months.
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Just clickbait posted by a user with same name as the author/site owner.
I don't care about the particular person being targeted, the police aren't supposed to murder someone just because they feel like it. If they're a first time offender or a "career criminal" they shouldn't be killed unless there's no feasible alternatives.
Do you honestly think there would have been meaningful lasting change if people propped up Breonna as a martyr instead? Why hasn't that happened for any of the other well-publicized deaths of upstanding citizens? Why haven't things like consent decrees and civilian oversight boards been enough to curb police violence and rights abuse, especially against minority groups?
The police didn't even bother pretending they were sorry and would pinkie-swear to reform, they flat out demanded that they be allowed to act with impunity and then just decided they didn't want to enforce the law at all anymore if the public was going to be angry with them. Are there instances of the police stating they want to improve their perception and relationship with the public and "the reactionaries" just deciding to riot instead? It should never have come to the point that a large amount of people (across the country) felt rioting was the most appropriate move, but since it did I think the failing was just that it didn't go far enough. There's plenty of evidence to conclude that the police and their enablers will not voluntarily reform and will need be forced against their will.
And as far as providing conservatives with talking points, there's literally no situation where they won't just use whatever narrative they want; even if it involves space lasers or child trafficking in a pizzeria basement.
In no way did I suggest Floyd should have been killed.
But you insist on going out of your way to bloviate about how he was such a terrible person. That's the entire crux of your argument and it just doesn't matter. The whole point of having human rights and rule of law is not to pick and choose when they apply. Everyone should care when anyone is needlessly killed or abused, regardless of their past or personality. It's possible to want a person to die but still insist that others don't kill them.
And please chill with your moaning about everyone's reading comprehension and intelligence. It's not conducive to polite discussion and might give people the impression you're just trolling.
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.
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.
IMO, combos shouldn’t be more than 20% cheaper than ordering items a la carte. Like, it shouldn’t be legal to price things that way. It’s just ridiculous that you get ripped off unless you order like, 500 more calories worth of food than you should really be eating in a single meal.
Around July last year my local Taco Bell was selling the Chalupa Cravings Box for $5, purchasing the items separately was $12.47 before tax.
- Chalupa Supreme - $4.79
- Beefy 5-Layer Burrito - $3.99
- Crunchy Taco - $1.69
- Cinnamon Twists - $1.00
- Medium drink - $1.00
And right now I can order a Cheesy Bean & Rice burrito:
- Beans
- Seasoned Rice
- Creamy jalapeno sauce
- Nacho cheese sauce
=420 calories, $1.49
But a Bean burrito:
- Beans
- Cheese
- Onions
- Red sauce
=360 calories, $2.19
But you can add the onions and red sauce to any menu item for free...why the $.70 difference? Adding seasoned rice is $.30, nacho cheese sauce is $.69, creamy jalapeno sauce is $.19 -- I really don't understand how they arrive at the prices for their menu items at all.
Instance Blocks for Users
Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.
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.
So due to sunk cost the better choice is to continue supporting bad behavior?
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.
Entitled kids, don't they already get enough lead in school from their peers‽
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.
As part of an analysis of how [...]
'How' what? Either their editors suck and missed the opening sentence or I'm just incapable of parsing English anymore.
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?
Not a response, please stop trolling.
It should display a "Send Secure Message" button when viewing a user's profile.
What does the second bullet-point specify in the guidelines for submissions in this community?
Featured in the movie Encino Man (1992) [This YouTube compilation clip is in Italian]
That YouTube tracking parameter is probably the one I encounter the most and it's frustrating that the Firefox "Copy Link Without Site Tracking" doesn't strip it out. I'm assuming it's intentionally allowed by Mozilla because of some agreement with Google.
Sounds like "hazing."
biopsy
vivisection
I'm just not interested in having another source of non-stop (undisclosed) advertising trying to appear as organic engagement and am announcing it publicly in the hopes that they either limit their use of it or to at least make others aware what the user is doing.
It would be one thing if they were announcing they own the site but it's the only place they link to and it gets shoehorned into multiple communities with calls to go visit it.
What exactly is pure misinformation within the comment? It's ambiguously phrased I'll grant, but clearly they mean a "single bathroom" as in not designated for any specific gender.
making people click hundreds of links to get to the real EULA
This could be turned into a game with some kind of narrative like a Choose-Your-Own-E.U.L.Adventure. Players might try to exploit it though, so there should probably be some terms they have to agree to first.
rappers often get prosecuted based on their lyrics
Rapp Snitch Knishes
"In the 30s, the pessimists went to New York and the optimists went to Auschwitz."
"Look, me and the McDonald's people, got this little misunderstanding. They have a clown named Ronald McDonald..."
If they used the native instance blocking feature to "completely block" the instance that actually only hides posts from that instance.
Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.
Do animals count as actors? Turner & Hooch could be interesting with Tom Hanks drooling and running on all fours and Beasley The Dog playing a detective.
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 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.
- The transport pod symbolizes more of a womb, rather than a gas chamber.
- 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.
- The wires plugged into Ellie represent an umbilical cord to sustain her, rather than a means to kill her.
- 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.).
- The wormhole sequence mirrors the new life traveling through a birth canal.
- The capsule takes on a liquid form to symbolizes the protective amniotic fluid to keep the new life safe.
- After Ellie’s “birth”, the first person she sees is her father.
- 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." :::
Just wait for their next phase when they start shilling for their Kevlar girdle startup...
I liked this YouTube video about Diffie-Hellman key exchange [start at 2:25] that explains the concept using color mixtures.
Please consider not constantly trying to self-promote your website.
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 and 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.
I haven't looked into it but that code has to be a creative reference to the Genesis album/song "Abacab."
1-800-IFEELOK
I remember people arguing about the flavor and the rumor was that it was made from varying mixes of leftover (or line switching) soda so each batch was always a little different.
EDIT: I have no idea what that phone number connects to now, probably don't call it!
That's colloquially referred to as retail therapy. I don't think occasionally indulging in it is bad as long as you're cognizant of its purpose as a coping mechanism and understand the relief/pleasure it provides probably isn't going to be long-lasting.
In my family, all impulse purchases had to be "justified" with whatever flimsy reasoning was necessary. I don't think that's any better and if it's not coming at the expense of things you actually need, it's good to be able to decide you want something just because you do. Otherwise you can start going down the path of, "Do I really need cheese on this burger? Do I really need variety in my food? Do I really need to be eating three times a day?"
Life should be lived, just don't lose sight of the big picture of course. Also, I'm sure other people around you approve of your buying deodorant :)
The Chicken and the Pig