imapuppetlookaway

joined 1 year ago
[–] imapuppetlookaway 1 points 1 year ago

From a what?? haha!! I've been loving this song for decades and i never would have guessed that. I always thought it was some abstruse music-math thing.

[–] imapuppetlookaway 8 points 1 year ago

I thought i pasted the archived version but the link goes to the original. weird. anyway, here's the archived version

https://archive.fo/wk3fE

And archive: https://archive.fo/

[–] imapuppetlookaway 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a Mint user: What do those symbols even mean? (or: "Distro? What's a distro?")

[–] imapuppetlookaway 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it about helping out workers any more? Or is about companies - often big, profitable companies - not paying their employees a livable wage and pressuring customers to come to the rescue? At the very least, the situation is so confusing now that it's impossible to tell whether a tip is a legitimate thing to do, or whether it's giving in to corporate greed and cynicism.

Just to clarify, I worked in food service as a tipped employee from age 15 into my late 20s. I totally get it, and I always tip waiters, taxi drivers, and other traditionally-tipped employees. But I don't know what to do when everybody expects a tip. And when corporate money-lords add their voices to pressure me, it just sounds too cynical.

[–] imapuppetlookaway 3 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. It's backed by the Chinese government and pretty much mandatory for living in, working in China. For example, taxes are done with a WeChat mini-app, companies use only WeChat to communicate (email is rare now). During Covid, you could only get tested by using a WeChat mini-app to register, and no testing meant no life. You can't cross into or out of China without using a Wechat mini-app to generate a qr code that they scan at the border. etc etc.

It doesn't do ride-hailing. Didi does that. But WeChat does just about everything else. Oh, and all similar non-Chinese apps are blocked.

[–] imapuppetlookaway 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's called "responsive design" i think. I played around with it a bit when learning html years ago. You can get free website templates that have this cooked in - like, you don't need to code anything. Seems easy to do and pretty much an industry standard now. Pretty weird that reddit would choose a trashy option instead.

[–] imapuppetlookaway 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh sure, these people get a couple of lonely hearts to have lunch or dinner together a few times, maybe go out to a movie or a show, and then what? Arranged marriages? -- oh wait. That's "data" engineer ... never mind.

[–] imapuppetlookaway 13 points 1 year ago

And rational (not emotion/greed-driven), mature (not emotion-driven), responsible (not emotion/greed-driven), adult (not emotion-driven) attitude towards problems. Thanks for your hard work.

[–] imapuppetlookaway 6 points 1 year ago

That's the peat, Pete. If it's too heavy for you, you're drinking the wrong scotch. Try a light Balblair or a Speyside or something similar.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by imapuppetlookaway to c/obscuremedia
 

This is a text of one of 3 recordings done in 1955 of a native Gullah speaker telling old animal tales from the Gullah-Geechee culture. It's a beautiful language that too few people know about. The Library of Congress has the original recordings, but I can't find any free access to them, which is a shame. In the '90s I bought the recordings on cassette tape from the LOC. I still have them, but don't know how I can digitize them. But I'll keep trying. The texts at least give a sense of the beauty of the language.

 

EDIT: After reading some posts on the topic, i agree that "communities" is preferable to "sublemmies" so i changed it.

Why YSK: it's convenient but there's no "my communities" button that makes it totally obvious, so if you are like me and get confused by anything not totally obvious, you should know these two ways to see a list of your communities:

  1. Click "communities" on the home page. In the "Subscribed / Local / All" button, click "Subscribed". HA! That was almost totally obvious!

  2. Click your user name on the main page, then in the drop-menu click "profile". Your subscribed communities appear on the right.

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