[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Nah, I'm good.

I think an athiest would have a better chance trying to deconvert a Catholic Bishop than I'd have getting you up to speed.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

The HarleyWing ship is canon, I think, meeeting incidentally or even adversrially and then boning like the entire rabbit population of the warren's future depends on it before Grayson gets embarassed again and they part ways while Nightwing gets disappointment vibes from Batman.

So it's entirely appropriate for Harley to make thirsty jabs at Nightwing at any time.

At least Nightwing hasn't yet been a jerk to Harley.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Replace the bluejeans with a codpiece, and you're going somewhere.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Your cast iron pan isn't driving you to use a shitload of extra fuel (electricity or natural gas) in this case, while it hangs on your wall waiting to be used.

But having a giant truck instead of a low-pollution economy car does exactly that. Imagine if you had to lug your cast iron pan on your back everywhere you went. (Say if we were still migratory, as a society.) Then you'd be rethinking your cast-iron pan choices, if lighter options were available.

Emotional support trucks are much like emotional support guns. The only thing they're supporting (other than facilitating rampage killers and suicides) are emotions.

TBF, because I think about this sort of thing, yes, here in the states, our boys are trained that they have to keep up manly appearances, we worship sports figures and deride intellectual prowess as super-villainy material, and these are issues for which ES Trucks and Guns (and rampage killings) are a symptom.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

I kind of inferred the /s by the end of the post, but respect that such inference isn't universal. Also there are many /s comments that I wouldn't infer if it wasn't explicit.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

It doesn't, which informs the rise technical mitigations of YouTube's terrible ad schemes. YouTube isn't interested in a more egalitarian society but serving its shareholder masters, and it sucks even at that.

YouTube subscriptions are not a good deal for the consumers, so they're not going to be popular, which might serve to explain to you why everyone is not a paying subscriber, nor will they ever be.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

The ratio of income to bills is way lower on our side than YouTube's.

We need that money more than they do.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I remember FD2 in my...thirties, I think, and noting that the pile-up started with the flying logs (which seemed to fly like balsa but hit like tamarack) and was the combination of a lot of things going wrong (which was consistent with theme of death as a petty shit that toys with you before finishing you off.) Really, most of the movies felt more like a vindictive gamemaster, unless the players signed up for being teens in a slasher flick.

On the other hand in the eighties, I remember a 24+ vehicle pile-up on the San Bernadino freeway, my mom investigated as a paralegal. It started as a car stalled in thick fog, and bunches of drivers driving way faster than was safe considering the short visibility. It really showed that the weakest link was, indeed between steering wheel and seat.

That said, industrial accidents are quite normal thanks to the drive of profits leading companies to try to sue OSHA or lobby the department (or lobby congress to defund OSHA), and yes, a lot of them emerge from companies choosing to not adhere to all the precautional requirements, and then having their infrastructure implode like a Seagate submersible.

We have a lot more mad engineering than mad science, though there's a moral hazard when you hire common workers to take the physical risks.

ETA: Full disclosure, I might be biased in my view of death. In 2011, one of the contestants in an air race in Reno had a malfunction that veered the plane into the grandstands. Bunches of injured. ~~Nine~~ Eleven died, including my cousin, and I had to contend for a long time with the reality that an airplane dropped out of the sky to smack my cousin and kill him. (His son, a boy at the time, and the son's friend survived because my cousin shielded them with his body.) I write about the incident here, recalling the incident shortly after Alan Rickman and David Bowie had recently died.

Death is not an antagonist, or an anthropomorphic being one can negotiate with or trick or flee. It's just a thing that happens when your parts can no longer sustain your vitals. Nothing requires sacrifices of life, even when situations might limit survival (such as the Titanic's lifeboat accommodation of 1,178 survivors, fully loaded, in contrast to a passenger load of 2,209). Life is a thing, and when it can no longer continue, death happens.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago

For-profit tooling tends to get usability right

Until enshittification happens and the photo-editer that's turned into the shorthand slang for editing a picture is suddenly an unaffordable subscription.

If we crowdsource such tools, or otherwise make them FOSS then they dont fall into that trap. Even one that sells out can be split off back into a FOSS project.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 days ago

Sony will pirate from anyone who isn't Sony. Same with Time-Warner. Same with Columbia. Same with every studio, every label, every publishing house.

Absolutely no-one in the industry takes piracy seriously until it's their own stuff being pirated by someone else.

Moreover, they all are used to Hollywood accounting, in which lawyers try to justify not paying someone for work whenever they can.

Hollywood. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 6 days ago

Israel and the U.S. are both looking for ways to decouple Hezbollah from Hamas.

Decoupling Bibi from Israel would actually speed the peace process even more.

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Oglaf: Wrath (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Oglaf from a couple Sundays ago. ( source ). Less about the issue of theism so much as theocratic rule, but applicable to past and present.

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Classic Rule-X erasure (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

I think a couple years later, they posted one that included us. As a fellow GenX noted, this kind of erasure is totally on brand for us.

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All you have to do is follow the worms

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Double the box power! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Headline rules (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

I think this was from before the generative AI boom, so they've a high bar to surmount.

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Rule Art (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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A rule boy (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

But deep down isn't human flesh something we all want?

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Rule The Police (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Rule 63. Yes. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Okay, fine. Here and here.

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Gaia's fine rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

I like big rules, I cannot lie.

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Rule of 400 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Jack-O-Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Also not OC.

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