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[–] [email protected] 2 points 33 minutes ago

2026? Pretty optimistic of you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

Do people associate the car with Nikola? I've never really conflated the two. Though the bitter irony of the modern day Edison abusing the name is not lost on me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

It can vary. I haven't been to many movies lately, but 25 minutes of ads was pretty standard at the chain cinemas with the popular movies. Smaller theaters and/or smaller movies could be as low as 10 minutes sometimes. Just gotta keep in mind the context and plan accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

What'd Uncle Fester do to be associated with such trash?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I do this at un-reserved theaters too. Just gotta be more flexible with your seating. Unless the theater's absolutely packed and you get stuck at the very front, most of the seats are going to give you a good experience. It's what the theater's designed for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

This is not a new complaint. It's been around for decades.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 hours ago (9 children)

Just go in 20 minutes later? Been doing it for years at this point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Including the people that make comics like the above.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

It's so annoying to see this shit. Every person who complains about how stale movie releases are only ever goes to see what the ads on tv/youtube tell them to, then whine about their own choice while excellent indie movies eke by or fail outright. They reinforce the problem they complain about with zero sense of hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Fetterman, of course 🙄

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Good thing I didn't say you must vote for a certain person or party. Keep making excuses.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What an entitled, selfish demand to claim others are responsible to convince you to do the most basic of civic duties. Do you also blame your dentist when you don't brush? Your doctor when you're malnourished?

You're an adult, whether you accept that or not. That means you're responsible for your choices, including the choice to let an election fall to the greater evil because you couldn't assed to fill in a ballot for anybody. Nobody else is responsible for you, that's on you.

 
 

There appears to be an issue with the current version of Lemmy that removes the ability for NSFW communities to add a NSFW flag. As I understand it, Connect's client side NSFW settings use this flag to block or blur posts, so currently some posts are getting through.

Not sure if this is addressable on Connect's side, but wanted to bring it up.

 

Stuff like "god damn", "fucking hell", etc. Anything that stems from religious sources. That includes fudged varieties like "jeez/geez" and "heck".

And to clarify, this isn't some attempt to avoid blasphemy or anything. I'm not particularly religious and would rather rewrite the neural pathways for those "defaults", but haven't been able to come up with satisfactory alternatives so far.

*To clarify further, I'm all good with most other curses (shit, fuck, ass, etc). I'm not trying to be inoffensive, just non-religious.

 

Updated the app trying to fix the front page loading bug and now I'm getting flash banged by my screen when I open an image, or even my own profile with a bright blue banner I didn't ask for. Exceedingly unpleasant. Is there any way to roll back to an older version without all this?

 
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Heh heh, Ass. (files.catbox.moe)
 

Slightly more (tastefully) NSFW version: https://files.catbox.moe/glfb19.png

 

SWH is one of my favorite games/albums, but I don't know of much else like it, or even how to describe it very well - chill but pop-y, and with a dash of edm? I think it's the undercurrent of melancholy in combination with the pep that really makes it particularly appealing.

Vocals/Lyrics not strictly necessary, but appreciated!

 

Do you just not care, writing the note any which way and sticking it on however it ends up? Or do you specifically always stick it that way?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55206964

I just finished up a rewatch of Dimension 20's Neverafter (highly recommended if you haven't watched it) and as the various iconic story tellers were introduced, the question above came up in my mind.

To clarify, by fables/fairy tales I would mean widely known tales told primarily to children to pass on positive ideals and morals. Not just entertainment, but at least partially education as well. I also think it should be quite well known to count - it should at least be considered common knowledge in the region it's from. As for "modern", let's say the last 100 years or so? Though anything post-Grimm may be interesting.

Personally, I've struggled trying to think of anything particularly satisfying. Dr. Seuss feels like it's just about that iconic, though that's pretty old itself at this point. Is there anything Internet based that my out-of-touch brain is overlooking?


*Further thoughts:

Thinking on it more, other comments have helped me realize that, at least for me, the crux of the issue is that for the last 100 years or so, pretty much all stories have been commercial endeavors. Perfected drafts copywritten by companies and "protected" from the grubby hands of society. Basically the antithesis of a folk-tale, which is passed on and told and retold, shifting and morphing each time.

Thankfully, in the last few decades the internet has made less centralized media a thing again. And, though not strictly kid-friendly, I unironically am thinking that internet memes are the contemporary form of folk-tales, or at least the closest thing we've got. And I don't mean just "funny pictures", but the actual definition of meme - "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads through imitation within a culture." Perhaps that's the progenitor of the next generation of "fairy tales"?

 

I just finished up a rewatch of Neverafter and as the various iconic story tellers were introduced, the question above came up in my mind.

To clarify, by fables/fairy tales I would mean widely known tales told primarily to children to pass on positive ideals and morals. Not just entertainment, but at least partially education as well. I also think it should be quite well known to count - it should at least be considered common knowledge in the region it's from. As for "modern", let's say the last 100 years or so? Though anything post-Grimm may be interesting.

Personally, I've struggled trying to think of anything particularly satisfying. Dr. Seuss feels like it's just about that iconic, though that's pretty old itself at this point. Is there anything Internet based that my out-of-touch brain is overlooking?

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I'm Yours(ukulele) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Taking this opportunity to post one of my favorite videos in the internet.

Connection: 'I'm Yours' cover

 

I'm hoping to have access to a laser cutter in the near future, but due to scheduling conflicts most likely won't be able to attend any hands-on instruction on how to use it. In lieu of that, I'm in search of any online resources on the general use of laser cutters. Is there anything out there that would be useful to a complete newb like myself?

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