• some episodes of Ah! My Goddess, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Overlord, and Darling in the FranXX.
• Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2
• The Lion King
• Matrix

It might look completely random, and… well, it is! I’m rebuilding my “videos” directory, that I share in my LAN. By doing so I always hit something interesting, drop whatever I’m doing, and watch it.

Ah, got it - I didn’t realise you’re running a personal instance. Now it makes sense what you’re doing.

From that, I guess you’re browsing by “All”?

My approach was different: I browse by “Subscribed”, and I’m subbed to ~200 comms. It takes a bit more effort but it allows me to have finer control over what I see, for example I subbed to one or two political and memes comms - it’s just enough to get myself informed, but not enough to flood my feed.

Recognising recurring characters is part of the charm for me, too. And also:

While your typical lemming’s behaviour is not perfect, it’s still leagues above your typical redditor’s. For a start I used to dread the orange mail icon… as I saw it I immediately thought, “oh great here comes a dumb fuck distorting what I say”. The bell icon is still a positive for me.

My own behaviour has been positively affected. [cat analogy] I didn’t declaw myself, but I don’t feel as much of a need to extend my claws as before. [/cat analogy] In Reddit I used to pick fights all the time, I simply don’t see the need to do so here, even when exposed to the same annoyances as before.

Once your feed is curated, it’s mostly fun stuff? I do see some politics, but not as much to feel like it’s only political discussion here.

I actually trust the admin of my current instance to do what’s the best for the users, within his capabilities. I couldn’t trust the Reddit admins to die properly. And when the worst came to pass (disagreeing with how the admins of my older instance handle users), I know I don’t need to either ditch everything or suck it up.

Fuck neoliberalism. I might not like those kids giving thumbs up to authoritarianism but they’re less worse than neolib, it’s like comparing elephant shit with cat shit.

That said: a few Hexbear users are fairly reasonable, but plenty of them remind me 11yos. Specially in groups. db0 threw the bait, in a humour community for anarchists… and they all ate the bait, with malagueta sauce. No, wait, Scorpion Trinidad sauce. While screaming “I CAN STAND THE HEAT!” amidst their torrential tears.

Eventually the thing gets old, db0 gets bored and tells them to disengage.

It was funny that the nanny - who was supposed to take care of the kids - was there too. And he’s another 11yo! He forgot to edit his comment and say EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER! They might’ve left Reddit, but they still behave more like redditors than like decent people. Also, I saw a neoliberal Anglo supremacist there. Full of gullibleness. He still didn’t think on the purpose of this utterance. And yes, I’m still laughing my arse off that muppet.

I’m almost sure db0 knows why those kids are mostly defederated. And the reason his instance doesn’t do it is because, good or bad, they’re left-wing presence in the fediverse.

Hexbear users who might take offence with my comment are encouraged to address their complains about their precious feelings being violated to this form.

I’m going to reply to myself because there’s a huge discussion in the comment chain, and I’d rather speak freely than specifically address what they’re saying. And because this is 90% rant.

A country is not the people it rules over. A country is not a human being. A country is an abstract structure of power. A country is an “it”.

No country should be seen as having a “right of self defence” or crap like that; it’s the same as saying “I hate people so much I’d put them on the same level as an abstract structure.” It’s genuinely disgusting.

And someone might say “well ackshyually the Israelis have a right of self defence”. Sure; unlike the state of Israel, the Israelis are human beings, they do have the right. However (and this is important), the ones joining the war against Hamas and the Palestinians are not just “defending themselves”; they’re putting themselves at risk to defend that abstract structure.

And people keep oversimplifying this shit as if it was “Israel was attacked, so it’s self-defending”. More accurately, what’s happening is that the state of Israel was attacked by Hamas, and using the attack as excuse to kill the Palestinians.

It gets worse. The continued existence of that “it” is causing people to be killed, since it’s an ethnostate on the same level as Apartheid South Africa. By assigning “it” a human right of self-defence, you’re giving the “it” an implicit thumbs up to kill actual human beings. Now you aren’t even putting human beings on the same level as an “it”, you’re putting them below the “it”.

inb4 something that sounds pretty much like “B-but right of self defence! Apartheid South Africa is defending itself, from terrorists like Rolihlahla! Are you siding with the terrorists?”.

(I do plan to read replies but I’m not arsing myself to reply to them.)

Time to cancel my Crunchyroll subscription. Oh wait I don’t have one, I simply torrent my series.

Seriously now. The anime fansubbing scene is one that makes me genuinely happy. It shows me there are plenty amateurs out there that are as good or better than plenty professionals like me.

I don’t see what the problem is with using AI for translations. if the translations are good enough and cheap enough, they should be used.

Because machine translations for any large chunk of text are consistently awful: they don’t get references right, they often miss the point of the original utterance, they ignore cultural context, so goes on. It’s like wiping your arse with an old sock - sure, you could do it in a pinch, but you definitively don’t want to do it regularly!

If they’re not good enough, another business can offer better translations as a differentiator.

That “business” is called watching pirated anime with fan subs, made by people who genuinely enjoy anime and want others to enjoy it too.

if [[ instance == "lemmy.world" ]] && [[ topic == "Palestine" ]]; then echo "PTB"; fi

Serious now, PTB.

Since the existence of the state of Israel causes violence in the Levant, anyone defending the “survival” of that ethnostate is promoting violence. And yet you don’t see LW mods removing comments defending it - why?

You could warn the players that the game is best played blind, and the source code will have spoilers. Beyond that it’s up to them, I guess. (Or us. …I’m genuinely curious about your game.)

This may not be the most wholesome but I’m looking to make an indie rpg that tackles the non-choice of being born. T

This reminds me a bit Deltarune: it goes all the length to let you choose the head, torso, and legs you prefer… then its (referring to the body, aka “your creation”) favourite food, blood type, colour… a gift… then a name. Then it says: “your wonderful creation will now be discarded. No one can choose who they are in this world.”

It’s the same general “vibe” I get from your idea - we don’t choose certain things.

I don’t blame the orcas - have you seen a human? Those things are, like, 1/3 of the size of an orca; they’re clearly malnourished, some good ol’ seal meat will fix’em up real good!

Serious now. I think it’s interesting how they’re interacting cooperatively, with an animal of a different species. And it isn’t like either side domesticated the other (unlike, say, humans vs. dogs and cats); they don’t even live in the same environments, at most you have some humans doing short trips into the sea and that’s it.

“What I think in a sense is more impressive is that humans basically give no credit to any other creature for having a mind,” Safina said. Yet many other creatures, including orcas, understand implicitly that humans have minds. “So they understand us, and give us more credit there, they seem to comprehend the world better than we do, in our self-imposed estrangement.”

I feel like this is a step beyond theory of mind already.

I do recommend giving them a shot. Worst hypothesis (you hate it) they’re easy to pick out.

One hint I can give you, if making it at home, is to soft-boil them (8min). You want the yolk firm enough to slice, but not too cooked - to compensate for the baking.

enjoy yours tomorrow

Thanks!

The sliced eggs go alongside other toppings; none of the toppings requires a lot of cooking time, so the eggs won’t get overcooked.

This is a twist on a common local (Brazil) pizza flavour, pizza à portuguesa (lit. “pizza alla Portuguese”):

Except I’m subbing tomatoes for mushrooms.

Assuming some lemmy.world user is from lemmy.ml.

Assuming OsrsNeedsF2P is not in Korea, even after being shown clear evidence they are.

Assuming the user above is a “shill for fascists”, based on them saying North Korea doesn’t want to use nukes.

They (you?; IDK/DC) don’t know it. They’re assuming all this shite.

And something needs to be said about their (your?) attitude towards people based on instance: it’s both factually incorrect and morally disgusting. What they’re (you’re?) doing there is acting based on a stereotype.

Based on the modlog, I’m going to take an guess and say that the person in question posted an AI-generated image representing a fictitious but realistic child doing something sexual with an adult, and the removal entry doesn’t show in the modlog because it was purged.

“Technically” this is not CSAM, but the difference does not matter here. No sane instance allows images depicting sex with children; doubly so if it can be reasonably confused with CSAM, like AI generated images can. So, if my guess is correct, the user deserved it.

And, if my guess is wrong (it could be - I don’t know), the user still deserves a permaban, but under another reason: just look at the modlog. It boils down to the user assuming (i.e. making shit up, lying to know what they don’t) things about other users, so they can screech at them. Being an assumer on its own is already bad, but a combative assumer is even worse.

Wow, this looks delicious - and I have all ingredients in my kitchen+front yard! I’m probably trying it this week, barbecued, as soon as I get a non-rainy day. Thank you for sharing this!

I checked the recipe, and it looks really good! A bit on the laborious side, but it could worse. (Worse as in “cleaning sardines from their scales and guts at home, so you can grill them, for five people”.)

From the questions you often ask here, it seems you really enjoy movies - I hope you two have fun!

Thanks!