Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)P

prongs

@ prongs @lemm.ee

Posts
0
Comments
33
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • David Attenborough On Bottom Trawling

    Jump

  • This brings tears to my eyes, what a horrific and willful destruction of life. Seeing those poor creatures trying and inevitably failing to escape the net is just awful.

  • "Normaize This Reaction" (Art by Cellspex)

    Jump

  • Tested. Verified*. Obviously it depends on the quality of the output but we're already past the point where the best models, with appropriate fine tuning, are noticeably AI on first glance.

    *I work in market research, this is a sample of 3 creative tests.

  • Working full time - how do you do it?

    Jump

  • Others have offered fantastic advice, I'm not going to add anything from personal experience. I will share this link: https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

    Reading this isn't going to change your life, but I find it very helpful to reframe how you think about life. It deals more with the long term impact of having a full time job, outside of work in a way that worked for my brain. Hopefully you find it helpful but it's not a single solution.

  • House cancels rest of votes for week after GOP floor rebellion

    Jump

  • Babies have to learn to be self sufficient as early as 12 weeks so that they can enter the workforce and learn to be oppressed sooner.

  • Pete Hegseth’s wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials

    Jump

  • I'm not doing this to try and call you out, but I am curious - what link are you making here if it isn't "sexual preference embarrassing"?

  • Deleted

    Jerkoff

    Jump

  • Seeing the public reaction to some of the military adjacent cases over the past few years has been incredibly disheartening (e.g. McBride)

  • Fractal Design - Swedish company making high quality PC cases and components

    Jump

  • When my Sliger SM550 proves too small for my next graphic card purchase (probably a while, on a 3080), I will probably look to Fractal Design unless there's better cottage maker.

    Something about the way the cases look is appealing, but there's always been something small about them that hasn't worked for my builds.

  • New version of the guide for change (I'm not the author)

    Jump

  • I do listen to music for several hours every day, and tend to buy an album about once every 3-4 weeks. But my pool of music now is very deep with albums, probably not as wide as most algorithm/streaming services could provide. Its a slow build though, I've been accumulating albums at about $10-20/month since COVID (and had a bunch of pirated stuff before then). On Bandcamp that amount can get you 1 or 30 albums depending on the artist.

    As a a critic though you definitely are under different circumstances and I understand why streaming is probably hard to escape from. I still prefer when artists have their own websites but that comes with its own set of challenges! Luckily my national radio (Triple J, Australia) has it's own artist platform for up and comers (Unearthed).

  • New version of the guide for change (I'm not the author)

    Jump

  • Yeah that's fair. I suppose I haven't really considered that because I treat Bandcamp as a storefront only, and download + maintain my library locally. So if the servers died tomorrow the only thing I'd lose is the ability to purchase. In some ways the great fracturing of online platforms is bound to be a net positive for most communities.

  • New version of the guide for change (I'm not the author)

    Jump

  • It is, but if you only purchase on Bandcamp Friday then the platform doesn't take a cut of the sales.

  • New version of the guide for change (I'm not the author)

    Jump

  • I know many people feel entrapped by streaming services, but I switched to Bandcamp like 10 years ago and have never been happier with my music habits. I buy music I like on Bandcamp Friday and store it locally on my PC/phone. Load up and take away as needed.

    Sure, it's a bit more effort to purposefully seek new music, but I love that process. Makes it a very deliberate listening experience.

  • Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

    Jump

  • I'm interested in the inevitable double whammy for those of us who grew up in both plastic and PFAS filled environments.

    I can really see a future in my lifetime where plastic and PFAS exposure is identified as causing severe damage to humans and animals. I just feel utterly immersed in them whether I like it or not.

  • 11-year-old Texas girl bullied over family’s immigration status takes her own life

    Jump

  • Removing her from their lives was probably their intent with the bullying. Whether or not they considered death over deportation, they got what they wanted.

    Maybe I'm too cynical as an outsider looking on to the US but I don't think these kids will even remember her name in 5 years. Only that they succeeded in preventing whatever DEI /woke word vomit their parents and the media warned them about.

  • Friends who have babies

    Jump

  • Yeah, same. Never been asked. I've known for a long time I've never wanted to have children.

    But that's purely for me. Not for me to pass judgement on anyone who does want kids, it's such a personal choice.

  • Second type of bird flu detected in US dairy cows

    Jump

  • Hell, as a human I'll take that deal. When can I move in?

  • Bulldozers kill man in tent in Atlanta clearing homeless camp near MLK’s church

    Jump

  • Good point, but is it chicken or egg?

    I think a lot of cities with truly good public transit developed as walking cities. The population was first, and the transit came after. Not always true - look at Barcelona - but my city (Melbourne Australia) is pretty cleanly defined into the part that developed before everyone had a car (radiating train lines serviced by trams), and areas that came after (radiating train lines serviced by buses, or not serviced at all).

  • [UPDATED] South Korea's impeached President Yoon detained in massive law-enforcement effort

    Jump

  • You're right, he's only a convicted felon.

    All systems have anomalies. A healthy system addresses the anomaly per the rules of the system. An unhealthy system breaks to accommodate the anomaly.

  • Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda

    Jump

  • I think at this point it's a lot of nostalgia. But the game does have a lot in it, so once the jank becomes endearing rather than off-putting, it is easy to lose yourself in my experience. There are still heaps of quests and parts of the game I haven't finished. And if I want to replay something, I can approach it very differently each time.

    I think it's an okay game. I think it was the best available game with mass appeal (see overlap of marketing with early Game of Thrones) during formative years for a lot of people, which extended and amplified the volume of discourse.

  • BB dragon

    Jump

  • I suppose Chinese mythology and draconic depictions have their own thing too. Thanks for indulging me.