Hi there!
Grey.
Everything is fucking grey these days. It's the only colour they seem to know to build with. Need to paint a window, door, fence, any portion of the building that isn't brick? Grey!
Bloody miserable.
I don't get it?
R.I.P Mass Effect.
I don't think being against Nazis is political, especially given that everybody in politics is united against Nazis. You'd have to be actually evil to be on their side.
I think it's a moral thing. We may dislike a political opponent or party based on their policies, but Nazis were completely morally bankrupt, evil people.
For example, we make fun of Nazis in all sorts of media, TV, movies etc, when those same productions would never touch actual politics.
Being against Nazis unites us all, beyond politics 👫❤️
'Not one Linux distro named after me! After all I did for them!'
Damn, you guys get responses?
Terrorists just need to say they're sowee and everything's okay?
I wanted to move to Jellyfin, but there isn't an app for it on the LG WebOS library like there is for Plex, so I wouldn't be able to watch stuff on my TV, which sadly makes it useless for me :-(
I don't have the money to be going out and buying extra add-ons for my TV to watch stuff either, sadly. So, Plex it is for now!
What a cunt aye. At least you know who to block now, no need for that sort of childish treatment 👍
I don't understand recipes that are like "yo this will take 30 minutes to prepare".
I'm not the Steve mcqueen of chopping things, haha. It might take me 10 minutes just to get all of the stuff I'll need out and ready to begin - pull the onions and potatoes out of the shed, get the meat from the freezer, get the pressure cooker out and plug it in, make sure the workspace and knives are ready to go, grab a bowl for to collect the compost refuse, wash hands, etc.
Then there's all the actual prep. Peel the onions and potatoes, wash the dirt off them, chop them, etc etc, maybe the garlic needs crushing in that little garlic press, maybe the ginger needs grating, maybe the spices need measuring out, etc etc, and while I don't feel slow, my chopping and such isn't at restaurant chef lightning speeds.
I also just generally don't rush - rushing leads to mistakes which, when cooking, can lead to injury or wasted food. I go at a comfortable pace, not slow, but not rushing.
If a recipe says 30 minute prep I'll assume it'll take me more like a hour. If it's a recipe I've made many times and I don't have to check the recipe and try to follow it properly, then yeah, more like 45 minutes.
But I swear, all those recipe times are assuming you've got all your ingredients and tools and everything sat in front of you already washed, maybe even peeled, and ready to go, haha.
Countertop dishwashers exist, they're great! Just got to run a hose for water and either hook up the drainage to your U-Bend or dangle it into the sink. Ezpz! :-D
If I'm going to buy say, a rain jacket, I haven't a clue what brands exist at high quality within my budget range, that's what the research is for.
Granted I won't buy a product from a brand that is completely absent from all of my research - reviews, online discussions, etc (could be Chinese rubbish or rebranded crap etc).
I'll find a brand that seems to be consistently good quality based on all the metrics that pop up in my research that best fit my needs, and add them to my short list if they have a product that meets my criteria.
But they don't need to advertise to me to accomplish any of that, they just need to be good enough to pop up favourably in my research locations.
Of course, reviews, discussion, videos, etc can all be faked, one just needs to sniff these things out where possible and take a leap of faith. If we choose not to believe anything we see or hear because technically it might be fake, we'll never get anything done, haha.
Good solid critical thinking does 98% of the work and has never steered me wrong.
How do they account for users like me, though? Or are we so few that they don't care?
If I see enough adverts for something I mentally add it to a list of things I'll never use.
For example I use Windscribe, because when I needed a VPN I did some research on what would be best for me, and I automatically disqualified Nordvpn because of how prevalent their ads are. I've never seen a Windscribe advert, but when I looked for the product, there they were.
You do need some amount of marketing otherwise nobody will know your product exists at all, but forcing ads into people's faces in uncouth ways is scummy (e.g. animated adverts on pages when I'm trying to read the page content, I can't read it until I get rid of the ad, it hard locks my brain's focus), that's where I usually draw the line.
If you're against fascism, you're now an enemy of the state.
Better start doing Nazi things to hide your true anti-fascist terrorist feelings, so you don't get arrested!
Absolutely, but also remember that they will eventually track you down and kill you for it, once their regime reaches full power.
Do I retain my inertial momentum? If so, I immediately slam into the ground or shoot up into the sky, turning into a fine mist or burning up instantly, or both.
If the planet (and the universe) stop moving, but I don't, I'm dead, haha.
Similarly if we say that I don't retain that momentum, what happens to my ability to see? Light is no longer travelling, so I'll be mostly blind? Will I be able to move through the air, given that I'll be pushing on time-frozen air molecules? If I can move them by exerting force, are they sufficiently sparse that they have somewhere to move that doesn't require pushing even more frozen air, to the point that moving becomes very difficult?
Will air that I've moved continue to move after I breathe it out, or will it go back to being frozen in time, such that I can't sleep or stay in the same spot for long, because I will build up an unmoving cloud of CO2 around my face and die?
What other ways can you think of that would make pausing time this way suck or kill you? :-D
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Honestly, there's too many school shootings to keep track of over there, it's basically just routine now. Awful as it sounds, reporting on them seems as pointless as reporting on motorway crashes - they keep happening regardless and are horrible preventable tragedies, but are limited in scope of their effect on a national or international scale.
High profile political activist assassinations are far less frequent though, and far more impactful on that country and potentially on an international scale depending on how the country adjusts it's policies or social norms (it's not a good thing I know, but they have become jaded to shootings in their schools and barely bat an eye when it happens on a national scale any more, so it doesn't really affect anything worth reporting on over here).
So, I can understand why one would get more attention than another, even if it's not remotely just or fair.
But yes, I can't imagine why our government would offer condolences or anything positive towards that fascist's memory or family. We're not afraid of calling a spade a spade over here, but our government isn't exactly stellar, alas.
I have long hoped that they would sort out their school slaughter problem, it's ridiculous that they've built and maintain a society that not only allows it to happen in any but the rarest most extreme of circumstances, but that they aren't interested in fixing the issue enough to actually make meaningful change.
Heck, I see them installing special equipment to slow down gunmen, I see them trying to arm their teachers (insanity), and give kids bullet proof backpacks and such. It all sounds ridiculous looking in from the outside so I don't know how much of that is even true, but it seems they're trying to treat the symptoms not the cause :-(
Anyway yeah, our current government sucks, I certainly didn't vote for them. Their stances on a great many things don't represent my views.
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Now hold on, the United Kingdom's Labour government in all their infinite wisdom and omnipotent godlike knowledge just concluded that there is no genocide there, so who do I believe?!
Why would my Internet Service Provider have anything whatsoever to do with my dumb phone?
Yes, texts and calls aren't hidden from your mobile phone provider, they never were. I agree it's not great, and the government is likely spying on you as they have been for decades.
But alas, I don't see a solution without using a non dumb phone and encrypted apps, which will require the internet and at that point you've not got a dumb phone any more.
My Nokia 3310 still works great. Sure, the government could spy on me, but I don't discuss anything sensitive over the phone (traditionally one doesn't, for this very reason, wiretaps and the like). It's a tool for casually staying in touch and arranging to meet up _