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whaleross

@ whaleross @lemmy.world

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Hello. I've been silenced, removed and blocked enough on lemmy dot ml for being a filthy leftist but not a falling in line defending totalitarian states full blown authoritarian communist. Sooo I'm blocking everything from lemmy dot ml so I don't have to be bothered with any more of that nonsense. If you are on lemmy dot ml and commenting on me I will not see it. Ta ta.

  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • It goes against your concept of the Fediverse. You are just as much trying to force your personal preference on others with this argument of slippery slope of Microsoft nonsense.

    I think it is great if different instances have different profiles that cater to different audience instead of everything just being the same with different domain names. If it is all the same it may as well be a single instance and the entire point of federating is lost.

  • When do you think we'll be able to harness nuclear fusion as a viable source of energy?

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  • In 30 years, by tradition.

  • Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

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  • Register on a different instance and filter everything ml. It's a life changer with the Fediverse.

  • To you, what makes a movie a GREAT movie?

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  • Intent is really important, along with a good script, good characters and the pacing of the story. The intent can be a statement, or an artistic vision, or just having a damn good story to tell. Originality is really important too, something I haven't seen before or at least not told in this way.

    I'm not too bothered about production quality as I'm happily enjoying movies from 70s exploitation and 80s b-movies to low budget oddities, art house flicks, auteurs and the occasional cineast pieces. There are a lot of hidden gems in the lower layers of the movie industry, made by people with a vision that worked with what they had to pull through.

    I don't care much for template big budget flicks like romance, action-comedy or superheroes, unless it's something recommended to me as something that stands out from the genre. I don't mind that people watch them, they just aren't my thing. (Though I do sometimes watch series below my uptight movie snobbery as a sort of relaxing enjoyment and dirty pleasure.)

    Anyway, I want a movie to be a journey and a great movie is something I'm fully immersed in and takes turns I didn't expect and that is making me think about it after. I'm very subjective in what I like and don't care much for neither clout or critics or cineast cred.

    Recent great movies I've watched, not selected for any particular reason other than I found them great and watched them recently:

    • Walker (1987) by Alex Cox.
    • Tideland (2005) by Terry Gilliam.
    • Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) by Sion Sono.

  • New Dishwashers that aren't junk (America)?

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  • Everybody here are recommending Bosch and for good reason. I'm just going to drop in that both Bosch and Siemens are owned by the same parent company and are built in the same factories and are pretty much identical except some design and additional features.

    I recommend their models with Zeolite. They are very quiet and efficient. I got one of them last year and I'm very happy with it.

  • Digital Independence: Berlin wants to introduce European payment service Wero

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  • From what I've gathered, there is a rushed effort to make this the EU standard payment system as soon as possible. When it is in place it will most likely be integrated by any online vendor that wants to do pan European business.

  • Europe must stop ‘dreaming’ about defence without US, Rutte warns

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  • The fuck?

  • Europe must stop ‘dreaming’ about defence without US, Rutte warns

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  • I'm not sure what he is saying. Is he saying that Europe should give up the ambition or is he saying that EU needs to accept that it will cost more than they are currently shelling in?

  • ‘A lot of fear’: the families bearing brunt of Sweden’s immigration crackdown

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  • Pretty much, yeah. There is a legit problem with organized crime and gang affiliations with predominantly immigrant leadership that recruit children for hits and are difficult to bring down.

    So the right wing coalition (that has the nationalist party for support) goes after the legal honest immigrants with jobs that pay taxes and nobody has a problem with except the racists.

    They even go after 18 y/o that have grown up in Sweden, that are Swedish in every sense of the word, that have had their upbringing and education paid by Sweden, but now they are of legal age and are sent to some country they have no relation to except their parents fled from there. Even disregarding it being inhumane, it's plain stupid in all the economic reasons that the right wing are always claiming.

  • ‘A lot of fear’: the families bearing brunt of Sweden’s immigration crackdown

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  • Sverigedemokraterna (SD) are a nationalist party that the nazis vote for but they are officially not nazis though they have nazi roots and were quite openly nazi some thirty years ago when the leader Jimmy Åkesson joined despite him claiming otherwise.

  • If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say?

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  • Ask them why they drive on public roads.

    If they speak in simplistic gotchas you might as well respond with another.

  • Sourdough hotel

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  • This was during the sourdough fad ten years ago in Södermalm/Stockholm, the epicenter of Swedish hipsterdom.

  • if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself?

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  • If magic fantasy tech is real can I magic fantasy?

  • Drugs is the most popular thing on Earth. Religion is an attempt to organize that.

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  • Religion is proto science to try make sense of life, the universe and everything.

  • Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

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  • What are garbage smart menus that can't be avoided?

    I'm not being funny. I'm still on a Panasonic last gen thin plasma FHD but thinking of upgrading to a LG C5 OLED when they are on final sale when this year models are rolling out. I'm only watching movies through the box connected to it.

  • UK rock band ‘broke’ after touring arenas for two months

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  • Paywalled.

    And auto playing video of something entirely different.

  • Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

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  • Can't you just use any modem TV and not hook it up to the interwebs?

  • The Harry Hill Show

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  • TL;DW for the curious: "Orienteering with Napalm Death" seems to be a signature move by a popular wrestler using it as a slogan on merch and in a computer game. It originated from Stewart Lee having a number in his set back in the days after being in a hiking club alongside the original lineup of Napalm Death.

  • Without vowels there'd be no singing

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  • What's another term for alternative/independent media?

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