Webm is a great format! I've converted (almost) all my media to webm for the space benefit, and it means jellyfin and other media streaming apps don't have to transcode to make just about any connection work natively.

1d ago

Which one of you did this!?!?

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 1d ago

Could be referencing Margaret Lovatt, but still not really funny. The BtB episode about it was pretty funny though.

2d ago

the two party system is just one big party

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yeah, that's what I thought

Let me ask it again, would Kamala have done the awful crimes that trump is doing, yes or no? If yes, justify it, anything short of that is tacit acknowledgement that she wouldn't (and is exactly the kind of continued deflection I expect from this conversation) because you'd be able to do so if they were as close as you say. I keep hearing that they're the same, yet aside from supporting Israel (to a bad, but objectively lesser extent), there's no real argument to be made aside from purity politics. And playing purity politics is a good portion of why we are where we are.

It's a simple question, yes or no?

It's fucking unbelievable to me the way you write about this, like supporting a genocide is like some little understandable human foible or something. Supporting a genocide makes you completely nonviable. Full stop.

See, this is why people likely find your views shallow or childish. Supporting the candidate who wanted THE LEAST AMOUNT OF SUFFERING is not the same as supporting everything they support, or even in the same fucking plane as supporting genocide. And if one supports a small amount vs a massive amount, it doesn't take much brain power to realize that the option to reduce harm is the smaller of the two.

Also, it helps to understand electoral politics. If you have two options and you don't choose, you're choosing to let the majority choose for you and is a tacit vote for the opposition in an election where they were doing everything they can to suppress turnout. I can just as easily make the argument that you indirectly supported even more genocide because you couldn't vote for the lesser option as you can for me supporting genocide because I voted for Kamala.

Nothing more needs to be said. You would vote for Hitler himself if he ran on a Dem ticket against Mussolini.

Yeah, this is also why your views are seen as childish, and makes it blindingly clear you have no understanding of what I'm saying and are just responding emotionally. You're just trying to get under my skin because you know you can't respond to my actual point.

You can just read the rest of my comments for the answer to your questions, I've already explained it at least half a dozen times and I'm getting a bit tired of doing so.

Nah, I want you to defend yourself instead of hiding behind your purity politics.

But we both know you can't.

2d ago

the two party system is just one big party

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

Kamala literally supported the genocide in Gaza, and Obama and Biden killed a shitload of kids.

Oh geez since they're not perfect, let's let the Nazis take over. I'm not even trying to sarcastically mock you, that's literally what's happening. The fact that you're hand waving how much worse trump actually is than either Obama or Biden is kinda telling, especially if you really think "The differences are primarily aesthetic and procedural."

They really aren't that different.

Let me ask it again, would Kamala have done the awful crimes that trump is doing, yes or no? If yes, justify it, anything short of that is tacit acknowledgement that she wouldn't (and is exactly the kind of continued deflection I expect from this conversation) because you'd be able to do so if they were as close as you say. I keep hearing that they're the same, yet aside from supporting Israel (to a bad, but objectively lesser extent), there's no real argument to be made aside from purity politics. And playing purity politics is a good portion of why we are where we are.

So many people love to push accelerationist methodologies that only hurt the most vulnerable while letting the worst among us take power, and that's basically what this is. And it's hiding behind the intellectually lazy "well, they're all bad so it doesn't matter" mentality that falls apart if you actually look past a surface level. I don't like a lot of the shit that Kamala supported, but you're fucking high if you think that Kamala at her worst would have been anywhere near this bad. And don't take this as me supporting Kamala, she was not someone I liked, but she could at least be worked with more than what we have now and objectively would not be doing the shit that's going on now.

But hey, you and those like you stuck to your morals and made a difference in the world! Instead of getting someone who isn't great but can be worked with, we chose to elect Nazis that are actively taking people off of the street, murdering civilians in the streets, and starting more wars that will lead to countless more deaths than if we had chosen to play electoral politics.

2d ago

the two party system is just one big party

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

Braindead take, just ask the kids trump murdered this week in Iran. Or are you braindead enough to think Kamala would have bombed Iran to distract from the Epstein files?

This sort of Facebook their meme intentionally ignores that difference and helps encourage people to check out of politics. But yeah, let's not vote and let the Republicans run rampant, it's working out so far this cycle! /s

2d ago

ok then

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

Saying someone is synonymous with drama is a direct implication that person is the cause of the drama, otherwise why would they be synonymous with something that other people do to them?

2d ago

ok then

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

Keep that reddit drama on reddit, just enjoy the conics

2d ago

ok then

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yeah, I didn't get to that point in your comment before I replied....

2d ago

ok then

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

epic

Lol at including the pre-enshittified store

2d ago

ok then

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

"purchasing" media you mean.

Unless they let you download the file without DRM, you're just renting the video with extra steps. We have seen many times that "purchased" videos from digital vendors gets revoked and the "purchase" is gone.

2d ago

Behold.

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

Anything that cares about people and doesn't raise you to be a selfish and uncaring asshole is "woke" to them and has to be fixed

2d ago

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 2d ago

Completely agreed, but our opinions don't change reality, and we see the same sort of requests from countries across the world. If something like this is going to happen, it's better to fight for the version you want instead of holding your ground in absolute terms and getting whatever is given to you.

I'd much rather this didn't exist at all, but if they're going to do it anyway, this way is much less invasive and could be a lot better for our privacy.

Even taking this past the parental control aspect, there are plenty of sites that are mandated to age gated, and having that built in and able to dismiss those with a binary of 'of age'/'underage' (confirm to send, obviously) would be great, and would remove the need for some of the existing privacy nightmare ID validation sites. Which would be a overall benefit.

3d ago

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 3d ago

I understand why people are upset, but isn't the operating system asking the user for age and then that age being used to get through service age gated the better path forward?

I would much rather be able to tell my computer I'm an adult and be able to go to an adult site and have it use that instead of the adult site having to handle the load of age verification. If the age is set per-user, kid profiles and parent profiles can both work to limit content for kids without impacting what the parents see. Hell, even just not having to click through those stupid steam prompts every time I look at a game with an m rating or whatever would be awesome. Especially since my account is over 18yo on its own...

3d ago

Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 3d ago

Oh man, I fucking miss the IR blaster. I loved having the ability to make custom remotes in my phone, made it so easy to control the crappy projector l was using at the time

3d ago

How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked

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Passerby6497 @lemmy.world 3d ago

Amazon can't see shit that me and mine read, but that's cuz I liberated my Kindle books and now read/listen to all of my Kindle/audible books through audiobookshelf.