I'll mark them as spam even if I technically signed up for whatever bullshit they're sending because I didn't notice the box to uncheck when making an account. It's a shitty tactic and they've all ruined email with it.
Pointless? Yeah, it's a luxury.
Inconvenient? I'm not sure I understand that part. You just queue something up as you're getting ready to shower.
Showering long enough to benefit from it? I mean, yeah? For the 10 or so minutes I'm in the shower, I hear some music and that's nice.
I think you might be getting some really bad bluetooth speakers if they sound so bad and are so hard to operate that you find the process frustrating.
They're both good instances. People have been heavily propagandized to hate communists. You could make the kindest most welcoming space on the internet and if you put the label "communist" on it, it will be hated.
As a programmer, I'd just tell them "I configure contraptions to perform tasks for people"
No, not at all. They are very far left communists and some anarchists. I love them.
The proper term is social democratic. Socialism has a simple and specific definition. Those Nordic countries have changed nothing about who owns the means of production and therefore have no relation to socialism.
Sorry, I hadn't heard of your instance or seen any of your posts so I don't think I can answer.
I liked playing DOS2 a lot more than Baldur's Gate 3 so I hope we get a DOS3 at some point. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I cannot stand spell slots. They're not a fun or interesting game mechanic to me.
Why would I move somewhere that America is planning a military coup?
I think it's because Apple has a "fandom", whereas when's the last time you heard someone being a weird fan of Microsoft outside of Xbox? It just doesn't really exist. The people with Apple devices are often "fans" of Apple, not simply people who bought a product. I think it's that simple.
Create and contribute to open source projects.
Write music.
Make little video games.
Write short stories.
Learn a new language.
Basically, a lot of stuff I already do as a hobby, but I would have more time/energy to devote
A ridiculous question. "Tankie" isn't a term anyone self-identifies with, it's mostly a term used by liberals to hurl at anyone to the left of them or anyone who agrees with western foreign policy. The survey results will be as meaningless as the term "tankie" itself.
Kind of a moot point these days, but I always wished OGG pushed MP3s out of the way. It generally has better audio quality, lower file size, and is an open source format. MP3s had their patent die (I think) and file storage has become less of an issue, but damnit OGG was perfect for the 00s. My plex server is still full of OGGs (I can't hear the difference with uncompressed, but my hearing is bad).
We're in the best time to listen to music. There's amazing stuff out there. It just doesn't come to you automatically, you've got to seek it out.
Now, it's a pretty bad time to be an artist trying to make a living. But it's also the easiest time to DIY music.
I'll be interested to see how JetBrains's Fleet works out. I like Rider a lot more than full Visual Studio (also Rider is actually available on Linux).
What country has the biggest prison population both by raw numbers and on a per capital basis?
I think e-ink readers are incredible. My eyes feel like they're reading a normal book, but it's got a backlight, doesn't take up a bunch of physical space I don't have, and it's a lot easier to read using only one hand at a time (even turning pages).
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Andre 3000 making a flute album was unexpected and I wasn't even in a coma for 20 years. It's good
A few years off from your criteria, but Ursula K. Le Guin released A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968. However, she had been pretty prominent in science fiction for the decade.
Important enough to inspire Pratchett and Miyazaki (of Studio Ghibli).
She's a hugely influential writer.
Probably Contact. I cried at the line: ::: spoiler spoiler "They should have sent a poet." :::
Now include Guam and Puerto Rico, which are US territories.
Put whatever you want on a pizza, its a good delivery mechanism
I'm not a big hot sauce ON pizza kinda guy, but I dip the crust in something like secret aardvark. Buffalo chicken pizza is pretty popular and that's basically a hot sauce pizza.
How often my patience is tested by corporate platitudes and meaningless work.
Huh I wonder if covid also causes any sort of mental health disorders. Wonder if it causes any health disorders. Wonder if it causes any death disorders.
My use case is incredibly simple, but I really like Jerboa.
The Talos Principle 2. It's a game about communism. Play it.
I also really enjoyed Blasphemous 2. Great metroidvania with some gnarly Spanish Catholic art.
I don't know what to tell you, but there are absolutely anarchists over there. It's mostly marxist leninists, but there's definitely anarchists.
Your method of wrapping deadly "opinions" in a bubbly facade should get you rejected from every public forum.
I flubbed one stat that doesn't really move the needle on the point I was trying to make. I was thinking of world powers and didn't double check to make sure nations scorned by empire didn't barely hedge the US out of the top 5 on per capita (though another of its territories made it).
America is a remarkably "authoritarian" country by all standards whether they be prisons, police spending, or military spending.
I agree with you. People are gleeful and smug about the firing. I'm proud of the people who stood up against a contract that will only bring death and destruction to the world and I am ashamed of those that smugly revel in their firing.
"its afraid... Its afraid!!" cheering
Anyone who misses the satire is a dolt, but I do agree satire is ineffective in changing minds. It's a preaching to the choir sort of genre.
A collection of autoimmune diseases
I'm going to take this in an incredible dark direction and say That's Just the Way That I Feel by Purple Mountains. This record is essentially a suicide note for artist David Berman, who killed himself shortly after it released.
It's more sad rather than angry at the world, but the poetic lyrics just tear me apart:
Course I've been humbled by the void
Much of my faith has been destroyed
I've been forced to watch my foes enjoy
Ceaseless feasts of schadenfreude
And as the pace of life keeps quickening
Beneath the *removed* and the bickering
When I try to drown my thoughts in gin
I find my worst ideas know how to swim
Well hey, that's why it's an unpopular opinion!
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I loved Talos Principle 2.
I don't know about favorite of all time, but I recently watched "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and it was incredible. An instant classic in my mind and I'd somehow never heard of it. It's about Ireland in the 1920s and stars Cillian Murphy and Liam Cunningham (most people will know him as Davos from Game of Thrones). Beautifully shot and acted.
for the purposes of this survey, Dippy is 100% a tankie. Read it in their own words:
Unfortunately one of the problems with tankies is they don’t call themselves that most of the time.
No I’m not [a tankie].
Dippy's a tankie, you heard it here first. This person loves crushing people with tanks. This person is an authoritarian monster that crushes people with tanks. Dippy's actually the tank driver in the tank man photo. Don't look up the video, Dippy 100% crushed that dude. Any video showing tankman walk away is an AI fabrication.
you can say "you're welcome", its no problem
you can also say "no problem"
hope this helps, you're welcome