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lugal

@ lugal @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • France is next

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  • To quote Oscar Wilde:

    A map of the world that does not include New Zealand is not worth even glancing at

    Was it New Zealand or Utopia? I always confuse those two.

  • Bonobos can "play pretend"

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  • But how do you test it when you are blindfolded as well? Or is the donkey blindfolded? I don't understand

  • Bonobos can "play pretend"

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  • It's the same problem with double blind tests. Writing protocol when blindfolded is hard

  • France is next

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  • Not only that.c/mapswithoutnewzealand

  • xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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  • Who else is in the lower right corner? 🙋‍♂️

  • xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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  • They are actually closer related to mammals than to any modern reptile

  • Bonobos can "play pretend"

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  • Did the bonobo play pretend or did the scientists play pretend with an imaginary bonobo?

  • I survived college without becoming a liberal

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  • Piefed and mbin (I think kbin is dead and mbin the successor) are on the level of lemmy in the sense that they are the software and there are different instances of them. So you don't just join piefed but you join one instance of piefed.

    From my understanding, neither is even a lemmy branch but both are their own software using the more general fediverse protocol (that also includes mastodon and others) so they are compatible, look similar but have different developers.

    And protocol refers to the data exchange format in a way. Think of it as a chess computer that outputs moves in the standard notation. Two computers can play chess together no matter how differently they are built and programmed inside as long as they agree on the communication. Same here. You have posts, comments, up and downvotes, ... but that's just the protocol. The program can work very differently. It's even possible to post from mastodon on lemmy (not the other way around tho because mastodon doesn't allow it, not for technical reasons) that's how different software can be and still communicate.

    I hope that makes sense.

  • been both sides of that counter

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  • Thanks, that makes sense. I never worked in retail, that's why I asked

  • I survived college without becoming a liberal

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  • Oh, it's been a week on my side, sorry.

    Do you see u/Ofiuco@piefed.ca's comment? Because they made quite a good argument. Software isn't as neutral as I made it look. There are features like blocking entire instances that can benefit different instances differently and I don't think it's coincedence that they promise and don't deliver on it. Also they do claim donations for software and hosting but how much they need and how much they get is anyone's guess. This is all basically a TLDR of this comment.

  • been both sides of that counter

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  • Serious question: Is it about the tone or would you rather nobody comes? I mean it's the same working hours for you. Where I live, shops are closed on holidays and Thanksgiving isn't one so don't ask me if I might be that customer.

  • Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre

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  • I might be wrong but I feel that today's mainstream music is quite generic. Of cause there are bubbles for everything and more than before due to the internet.

    I don't know where to draw the line tho. The top level comment says it's the early 00's (or rather quotes Mark Fisher who said that), maybe it's later. Maybe kids these days don't listen to what I think is mainstream. Maybe I'm just old and "this is generic and no art" is the new "this is noise and no music", I donno.

  • Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre

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  • In my defense, I was like 12 or something. I knew the song from my older brother and liked it. My English wasn't good enough to understand it completely but it spoke to me on an emotional level.

    So the shock wasn't that I was a huge Limp Biskit fan. I can't name another song and had to look up the spelling writing the comment. The shock was how much older the song was than, well, than me. It spoke to how I felt towards my parent generation but it was basically written by my parent generation.

  • Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre

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  • I think the point isn't that categories hardened in the sense that they stay distinct but that there are no more experiments, nothing subversive. Stealing and mixing things you know work, is exactly that. Your kid's diss track will be totally generic with no original idea. That's the whole point of the comment above, not that it's exact covers.

  • Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre

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  • To play the devil's advocate here: "music used to be subversive but now it's all the same, nothing original" sounds just like a grumpy old man yelling at a cloud. Old people will find reasons to hate new stuff.

    This isn't to disagree. I read Capitalist Realism and think the argument works. And personally, I remember how shocked I was to find out that Behind Blue Eyes wasn't originally by Limp Bizkit but much older and that my mom listened to the punk rock band I liked as a teenager when she was young. My question might be if there ever was anything "new under the sun" but first and foremost, I like the idea as a devil's advocate.

  • sporgbang ventures #19

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  • Literally 1984

  • Birds are real

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  • Bird watching goes both ways

    If it flies, it spies

  • When you're smarter than the teacher that wrote the test

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  • Wrong again. If you knew the first thing about Roman numerals, you knew that X is 10. So it's 30 points in total (or in metric units: 3000%)

  • When you're smarter than the teacher that wrote the test

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  • I think it's intended as "X", not "0" but I'm not a mathematician