BobQuasit

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That should certainly be entertaining. Frankly, I'm surprised he didn't try it last time. But why the half measures? Why not just have all his political opponents shot?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I won't install Facebook Messenger because fuck Zuck and his privacy-raping software.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a supertaster and hypervigilant, so all my senses are dialed up to 11. My memory is also unusually good. Also my son claims I have "Poon vision", but I'm not crazy about that idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thirty-nine years ago I worked night shift during college. I'm still trying to straighten out my circadian rhythms.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Our rulers are hell-bent on killing off the majority of life on this planet, including our species. Can't help but wonder if people will ever wake up and do the obvious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn't need to be there.

Exactly! In that regard, it's like health care. The profit motive can only harm the public.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ActivityPub integration is another feature they can use to get attention.

See, that's what I don't understand. ActivityPub means nothing to the vast majority of potential Threads users. There's no way that Meta is going to use ActivityPub to gain users; all they have to do is what they HAVE done, leverage Instagram. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they may be hoping that federation will allow them to get around the EU's limitations.

But even that doesn't really make sense. Zuck doesn't really care that much about regulations. He breaks them all the time. Which leaves me with the question, why ActivityPub? What aren't we seeing?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's an interesting point. Can anyone take your original content and repost it to make money? As I understand it, anything you create is theoretically copyrighted at the moment you created. You're not required to file a copyright, at least not in the United States.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a pretty poor summary. It's not all that much shorter than the blog post itself. Could you tell the AI to be much more concise?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I boycott all the products of big corporations as much as possible. I'm not even slightly tempted to try Threads.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (12 children)

It's not superhero fatigue or franchise fatigue. It's bad writing fatigue. Seriously, I don't know why Hollywood keeps choosing terrible writers for huge projects, but as long as they are doing that they are going to keep getting what they deserve.

And speaking of huge projects, from what I've heard Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny cost $295 million to make rather than 250. And that's not counting publicity and marketing, which brings it to 400 million if not more. That means they need to make at least $800 million to break even. No matter how you slice their opening weekend, they are in huge trouble. And given that Elementals and The Little Mermaid both bombed hard along with most other Disney movies of the last few years, I'd say that Disney is in serious trouble too!

On the other hand, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was rather well written, and from what I've heard it did rather well at the box office. Which is just more evidence that if you have a decently-written film the public WILL go and see it. We're just avoiding crap, that's all.

I'll go out on a limb and say that hauling poor old Harrison Ford away from his bong and forcing him at the age of 80 to make shitty movies is tantamount to elder abuse. As for The Flash, coddling wannabe cult leader and mental defective Ezra Miller was just the icing on the cake. The movie was just badly written.

Frantic last minute reshoots and rewrites are a dead giveaway that something is seriously wrong with a production. But that that is happening so often in Hollywood in the last several years is clear evidence that Hollywood itself has completely lost their way. I don't know if they can right that ship, and to be honest I don't much care. If they won't provide people with the good entertainment that they want, eventually somewhere else will. Maybe Bollywood or China.

 

[Mostly Lost] The Weekly Radio Address of President George W. Bush (parody from The Onion)

The Weekly Radio Address of President George W. Bush - parody

I downloaded these every week from The Onion long ago. They've been unavailable online for many years; even the Internet Archive was missing a lot of them. Which is a pity, because they're incredibly funny. Recently I assembled them into a single collection, filling in some of the gaps with supplements from the IA, and posted the whole collection. There are 40 files. As far as I know, this is the most complete archive available anywhere.

 

The Weekly Radio Address of President George W. Bush (parody from The Onion)

The Weekly Radio Address of President George W. Bush - parody

I downloaded these every week from The Onion long ago. They've been unavailable online for many years; even the Internet Archive was missing a lot of them. Which is a pity, because they're incredibly funny. Recently I assembled them into a single collection, filling in some of the gaps with supplements from the IA, and posted the whole collection. There are 40 files. As far as I know, this is the most complete archive available anywhere.

 

How to post audio files?

I have a bunch of very rare comedy MP3s that I collected long ago from the web. They're not available online now, for the most part. They're REALLY funny, and I'd like to make them available on Lemmy. Any idea how I could post them? I have 40 files.

 

Okay, I wouldn't be here if Beehaw hadn't defederated from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. I'd set up an account a few days ago, but every time I logged on here the lag was intolerable. Luckily things seem much more stable now.

It's quite a change from Beehaw - being able to create magazines, for example. I'm tempted to give that a try for my favorite tabletop RPG, since there isn't one for it yet. I also quite like this microblogging option, although I'm confused about where it actually is in the Fediverse! Am I on kbin now, or sh.itjust.works?

Anyway, although I like the relative niceness and safety of Beehaw, I'm glad to have the option of an account here, too. Truth to tell, I'm not comfortable with ANYBODY telling me that there are things I can't see. Or things I can't say, for that matter. Both of which have become common as hell on Reddit.

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