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I played no part in the Vietnam war, and was not in the USA whilst it was happening.
I did not agree with it.
I left the USA when I was 8 years old.
My parents were not Americans.
I fully understand the pain you experience because of what was done.
@photoncollector I wasn't targeting you, personally. I'm targeting USA military in general & any volunteers to join in mass murders all over Global South.
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@mattblaze how curious that they arranged for it to be live-streamed but did it at night. I suppose they didn't expect it to take that long to sink?
@brunoph Yeah, they started pretty late in the day, which surprised me. I can imagine they'd want to take their time with such a large vessel, but I'd think they'd also want to do it in daylight.
Tonight on Star Trek: Discovery Doctor Culber finds out how to get really high on mycelium spores yet also convinces Admiral Fraiser to take Space LSD.
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
The livestream of the scuttling of the SS United States was surprisingly relaxing to have on in the background tonight. It took over 9 hours to sink, with most of the dive occuring in the last 45 minutes or so. (Sinking an ocean liner is definitely not something you'd want to do hastily).
I regret that I was never able to arrange to go onboard when it was docked in Philly.
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@mattblaze how curious that they arranged for it to be live-streamed but did it at night. I suppose they didn't expect it to take that long to sink?
@gsuberland oh you'll love this
@mcc of course lol
To my enormous surprise this physical storefront which is allegedly a place that will teach you how to be a DJ has survived for over a year now. I have no idea how this can be commercially viable unless he charges an enormous amount per lesson because there's hardly ever anyone in there.
@seldo buying a mixed use property is actually surprisingly cheap way of buying property sometimes. You might have to keep the space officially commercial to avoid paying fines, but nobody says you have to actually make profit!
now thats more like it
Right on cue ❤️
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yes, of course, but it’s not a business model. Which means decisions aren’t driven by profit. The issue isn’t about money, it’s how/why it flows
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😆 I made the same mistake. Somehow a recruiter got my phone number and called semi-regularly for at least a year. I finally chewed his ass one Saturday morning saying, "I'm way too hung over for your bullshit. Stop calling me."
Not entirely accurate: less hung over, more still drunk. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, but the military wasn't it!
Last year, I created a 'wrapped' version for Mastodon, summarising your activity over the past year. As it used the Mastodon API, not all Fediverse software could use it. This year, I have built a proper Fediverse bot with @botkit.
The logic is the same. If you mention the bot, @fediwrapped_en, it will search your public outbox. This outbox usually contains all the content you posted. This data is then used to create a summary of the previous year.
One tile shows the length of your longest post. It may exceed the character limit on your Mastodon server. This is because Mastodon counts every URL as 23 characters and every emoji as one, including emojis made up of several characters, such as flags. The wrapped version counts the full text.
The bot does not work with all Fediverse software because some do not put your posts in a public outbox, such as Lemmy and PieFed. @pixelfed has a public outbox for each account, but this only contains the total number of posts, not the posts themselves.
The repo is here: https://github.com/54GradSoftware/fediverse-wrapped
If we’re firing tech CEOs for alleged sexual misconduct now, I have some news for you about Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
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Imho, “submitting content” is the language of commercial sites. Like we are working for free for a business. But people post their ideas, hang out with friends, and share their art and code freely because they want to connect with other people. Some people have the means and knowledge to maintain a server allowing that to a limited number of people. It costs money, sure, and time, but this is also a thing people do for fun, sometimes with the help of voluntary donations.
Okay so in the 1960s was it common for neighbors to just barge into homes or is that just a sitcom thing?
I mean I did have an elderly neighbor a few years ago who would do that and everyone chalked it up to him being "old-fashioned" but I don't think that was, like, normal, was it?
EDIT: specifically I'm wondering about folks who lived in the suburbs near American cities in the 1960s, in mainstream white American culture. Not, like, remote areas or extenuating circumstances.
like basically, this is a recurring trope in shows like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie and other shows of the era, where the plots are often driven by snoopy/nosy neighbors just Showing Up and being a nuisance or seeing something they shouldn't.
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We know…
Just amused by the juxtaposition, obviously they weren’t contradicting you (or replying to you). lol.
I’m easily amused. :)
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We know… we were there.
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