SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman, 13 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

You can only sort of ever keep up.

The main issue preventing you an Old, from finding more about people who are Young, is that the Young don’t exactly love the old filling up their spaces, trying to remain hip.

This is exemplified by the slow death of social networks as they grow in popularity. A new social network pops up, its quickly populated by the youth. Slowly, as it becomes more popular, Olds start creeping in, until there are so many Olds that the youth want to go somewhere else because they no longer have privacy.

When Mom and Uncle Jim are in the conversation, everything is suddenly less cool.

Happened to MySpace first, and it’s happening to Facebook right now. It’s basically ghost towns of people who will be dead soon.

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We are limited because the youth will always want their own private spaces where they can truly be themselves without their weird expectations of the older generations. If you’re older with zero expecations for the youth, congratulations: you’re unusual, so don’t hold it against the youth that they assume you’re just another boring old person who is going to judge them for something. Most adults are out here judging them, so give them a break on assumptions they might make about you.

I used to keep up with music through YouTube channels, but even the ones I used to follow are aging up and soon enough those people I was listening to are Old now too, and they’re doing the same thing as me, trying to keep up with what’s hip and good.

I understand the desire to do so. New music is often so good, and I really get sick of people who act like the music they grew up with is the best in history. It’s not, and it never will be. Music is always growing and making music is more accessible than ever, which means its really exploding and evolving. There’s never been a better time to love music.

However, as Olds, we’re just going to miss a lot of what’s cool with the kids simply because we’re Olds. So much is just going to naturally be hidden from us.

SnotFlickerman, 13 days ago

I forgot that Binkley started with dark hair.

SnotFlickerman, 13 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I’ve been trying to find this interview with Mark Hossler for over a decade. It was around 2006-2008, it was pre-youtube and hosted as an mp4 file on someone’s blog… I have been unable to find it, nor have others. If you can find it easily on YouTube… it’s not the interview I’m talking about.

Anyway, it spoke deeply on this point. I’ll try to make my best summation of what Hossler discussed in this interview.

Basically, his position on art and how you can have “control” over your art was this:

If you want to control your art: Keep it in your home, don’t take pictures of it, don’t post it online, keep quiet about it and maybe let people who enter your home view it.

The key is this: All human minds function on copying and memetics. We inherently “copy” ideas that we see in real life, without even thinking about it. Taking this a step further, anyone who wants to “copy” your art can simply do so by viewing it, internalizing the details in their mind, and then (if they’re a talented artist) recreate your art themselves.

In other words, there is no real way to have complete control over your art short of locking it inside of a box and never showing it to anybody. The act of sharing it with others means you’ve put the idea of that art into their mind, and if they wish to do so, they can absolutely copy it. There is no stopping this act, this is innate to how the human mind functions, learns, and adapts.

So if you want “control” over your creations, you better not be sharing them with anybody.

Once you’ve shared your creations (art or engineering) with the world, someone out there will be capable of copying what you did. Further, with billions of people on the planet, someone out there will be capable and willing to do it.

The point I personally think Hossler was making is that in sharing something at all, you’ve already destroyed any of your own attempts to control the use of the idea. Stop trying to control your creations and instead hope society will do it’s best with them.

SnotFlickerman, 13 days ago

I remember this dogshit Charlie Sheen flick!

SnotFlickerman, 15 days ago

https://i.imgur.com/eV8fzKQ.jpg

SnotFlickerman, 15 days ago

There is seemingly no threads on this on hackernews and this isn’t getting much traction here. Spreading the word will help, if you can!

SnotFlickerman, 15 days ago

Heart of Gold.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

https://64.media.tumblr.com/04486c8832c1cc2c777629885ac50b3c/b817e742a8d8990c-bd/s500x750/39dd4849c2c420e1974aeaf74b472937f38e67d4.gif

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago

Free Open Source Software

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

Podcast links? Please and thank you. Sounds interesting.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago

You figured out the Fediverse, you’re not that much of a luddite.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Needs to have his fuckin kids taken from him, if they’re not yet adults. Psychopath.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

This country just wants to bleed us dry and then let us die because we’re no longer economically viable.

Hell, I’ve heard from friends that MedicAid (Medicare?) is a debt, and that old people who die while being cared for by it can have their houses taken as collateral after they die. Leave it to your kids? Nope, go fuck yourself if you didn’t plan overly complicated ownership schemes at least five years before they kick the bucket or need to be in a home.

Source: me, with cancer. Fuck this shithole society.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

US Healthcare: From where you’re kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck. But, truth is… the game was rigged from the start.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

EDIT: Downloaded and shared on Soulseek, so now there’s at least two people sharing it on Soulseek.

I’m in a queue to download it on Soulseek. m4b format all right? I think that’s the iTunes audiobook format.

I fucking swear people. Soulseek is still ridiculously useful for finding more obscure shit.

I know it’s old and insecure as shit, but holy fuck it still works and you can find shit you just can’t find elsewhere other than maybe USENET.

EDIT II: It’s even good for scene releases if you know the exact title.

Soulseek Download: www.slsknet.org/news/node/1

Soulseek Alternative Frontend Nicotine+: nicotine-plus.org/doc/DOWNLOADS.html

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago

Sorry I read it and came to a different conclusion than you. I guess it’s not a shocker this place is also full of conservatives that just want people who disagree with them to “just shut up.”

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Tell me please how I am supposed to be able to improve the process when I can’t make a dent in national politics? Once again, why is it our fault when the fucking system was designed that you can only get shit done with supermajorities, and that almost never happens?

I’ve done phone banking, I’ve been involved, and what I’ve seen is an uphill battle every step of the way and I’m not sure how an endless uphill battle is supposed to be viewed as “democracy.”

Maybe, just maybe, our democracy was designed to be dogshit from the get-go.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago

senate.gov/…/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner…

I dunno, we’ve always had dogshit people in congress.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

If you took that as me saying I’m not going to vote, that says way more about your assumptions of people in my position than it does about me.

I never once said I wasn’t going to vote (I literally just mentioned I have voted straight Democratic ticket for 25 years). I’m just pointing out that voting and “being involved” doesn’t defeat a system that is designed anti-democratically to begin with. Things like the Senate, the EC, first-past-the-post-voting, and so on literally make it an uphill battle.

Once again, I never once said anything about not voting, those are words you chose to put in my mouth. Think about that for a bit, Mr. Projection.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Lemmy.world is literally where all the fucking enlightened centrists hang out. This is a lemmy.world thread. It is well known as the fucking ex-redditor instance. The rest of the Fediverse, by comparison, is deeply leftist, yeah.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Right, but fear isn’t based in rationality. Even after 9/11, we went balls to the wall against “terrorism” but like… the reality was that a US citizen getting killed by a terrorist on US land was less likely than being struck by lightning. So we had a War on Terrorism over something less likely than a lightning strike.

I’m literally pointing out that handguns cause way, way, way, way more deaths, in general than rifles.

I understand the fear of a mass shooter, but… it’s just not as likely, and we’ve had a precipitous drop in mass shootings in the last year.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

I mean, agreed, I understand where the fear comes from, and why. It makes public spaces unnerving… but so do handguns, in my opinion. Just because you can’t kill as many as quickly doesn’t mean you can’t still cause carnage and death and harming innocent bystanders.

I’m just way more statistically likely to be shot by a handgun, and so I personally view it with that information in mind. Like, I don’t flip people off for driving like assholes on the road anymore like I did in my youth. Not really worth the likelihood of road rage and some crazed asshole packing heat. Post-COVID it’s gotten way worse.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Even if they can be trusted with a gun, even if they pull it out to save the day in a crisis…

There’s still projectiles flying that could hit people and things other than the intended target. That’s the part that it always comes back to for me. Bullets aren’t target-seeking. Even the best and most well-meaning shooter can miss in a stressful situation (especially with a handgun), it doesn’t mean they’re a bad person. It just means adding a gun to any situation complicates the situation violently. Adding multiple guns multiplies the violence.

SnotFlickerman, 16 days ago

Thanks for backing up my position with the actual statistics. I’m aware of them too but I was too lazy to dig them up. Thanks.

People should be way more concerned about handguns but mass shootings with rifles get all the attention.