I Remember Everything (in My Ass)

Thank you, Mario!

But our princess is in another cavity!

That phrase “based on” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, here.

Not to mention circumvents the purpose of alt. text letting those unable to see to know what’s going on in the image.

It’s just like him to make the maximum degree of suffering the point of any inane policy decision he makes…

It’s funny because, while not a 1-for-1 cultural fit, Mastodon’s site structure has felt much closer to Tumblr’s. I feel like the reason Twitter people keep saying Mastodon’s insufficient (while, eventually, flocking to BlueSky) is that BlueSky offers a more similar UX, in terms of shunting you along algorithmically. I don’t think there’s any issue with Mastodon’s UI (other than maybe PixelFed, I think it’s the closest Fediverse project to other mainstream social media UI) but I suspect the UX isn’t quite right for people expecting Twitter.

However, I, as a Tumblr transplant, felt right at home.

I was reading an article where he claimed he wasn’t as hardline, as some, and his immigration policies were actually motivated by the guaranteed safety to everyone when we follow the rules (he gave the example of a migrant nearly dying from falling down a ravine during zir trek).

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Anyway, color me surprised~

Associating this man is an insult to the mentally disabled, actually.

First I’m hearing but that doesn’t surprise me; it’s probably better than most companies you could give your money to but, in any way they could, they don’t do anything truly groundbreaking such that I can justify to myself giving money rather than just keeping said money in my pocket (and, in turn, much more likely to go to mutual aid, charities, non-profits, or coöperatively-owned or union-backed businesses).

They could have done a more traditional coöp, open-sourced their infrastructure (even if it was just the app.!), or really emphasized a particular stance or message they as a company would stand by…but they haven’t done any of those. They basically are just offering up YouTube but as a streaming service. But that doesn’t solve the myriad of issues that make a streaming service a business that (like most businesses) prey on their customers.

If it helps, one of main arguments of the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that the Biden administration opened was that Amazon routinely, actually, costs you money because they use their platform to offer more expensive options in your searches first and other means: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power (I’m not sure if that link with detail or with a much clarity as wherever I first read it but I can’t recall where I originally read it 3 or so months ago, I’m afraid).

The only major advantage that I’ll fully admit Prime has is speed of delivery; I admit I do use it when our cats run out of food and I dropped the ball on making sure we had more or I need filters for our air purifiers that just noted they need new ones.

But, even if you can find cheaper versions on Amazon, it can become easy to fall for the setup of their site if you use it by default all the time.

To be fair, Lemmy’s UI does it no favors; I can’t entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.

Yeah; of course. Ze’s referencing supporting Palestine (as the watermelon became more widely recognized as a symbol for them due to recent events).

For a second, I read your fruit predilection literally and was like, “Is…watermelon controversial, now? Are they [the people who banned you] cartoonishly racist?”

I follow you, now; sucks but expected…

Hey, bud; maybe let’s not bring whorephobic and misogynistic euphemisms into this.

I’ve really enjoyed ncdu (for those looking for a non-GUI option).

Truly; it’s shocking how much people are still clinging to permissive licensing in the middle of everything going on.

Ran out of spinach, again, this week so tagged kale in (in case you wanted to see it in action):

See, the issue is you’re assuming it was a staircase that’s the cause and not, say, oesteoporosis.

Honestly, you said literally everything that immediately popped into my head when I saw this (though even more thoroughly and precisely).

Pair it with Ferngully for a 90s-environmentalism double-feature.