We’ve started asking folks to post archive links if they want to help folks get around a paywall, as there’s some question about Beehaw’s legal liability if we’re posting the full article on the site.
I’m not asking people not to circumvent paywalls. In fact, if you reread my comment, I recommended the user leave an archive link, which is a method of bypassing paywalls that doesn’t involve posting the full contents of the article to this site.
There have been some questions about the quality of the source posted in this topic - Mediabiasfactcheck.com has them at a “Poor” factual reporting level. There are, however, a few more reliable sources reporting on this, such as this article in the New Republic
Recently had a conversation with a good friend about dating, and it had me curious about how everyone on Beehaw approaches dating. Tell me a bit about how you date! Here’s a few prompts/thoughts I’m curious about:...
I wasn’t going to comment on this because I’ve been in a monogamous relationship for 15 years at this point, but one thing I noticed in the comments is really interesting to me.
Pretty much everybody is saying they know they’re attracted to someone physically/sexually right away, and that was not my experience when I was dating regularly. Maybe I’m odd, but I always found that most of the time I would get to know a person first and then I would start to notice things about them that I found attractive and kind of mold my way of thinking and looking at them around those things that I was attracted to in them. Sure, there were exceptions, there are people out there where I was just like - damn everything about that person is hot (my wife being one of those) - but I dated women with a wide variety of physical features and really the only commonality was that I liked being around them. The physical stuff was secondary (although still important) for me.
Maybe? But it doesn’t quite feel right. Not sure how to explain it, though. It’s more that my ability to be attracted to someone is pretty malleable if I like them?
It isn’t, but I think this probably fits. Enshittification is when a company provides useful, good services to gain users, then once those users are locked in they start degrading those service or removing features to cut costs, right? That seems like a pretty close analogy to what’s going on here, I’d think.
I didn’t need to read the article to know this was going to be about Alabama Power. They are massively influential in this state and essentially own the state regulator, the Public Service Commission. We have high rates and our support for residential solar is worse than nonexistent. It’s just pure corruption.
Better than last week, so far. I made a decision earlier in the week to try something that I’ve been wanted to do and pitched a cowriting project to my sister, who was really enthusiastic about the idea. We’ve both struggled to write in the past, I think we both have a hard time getting stuck on details. I feel like there’s a real chance that having a writing partner will help us both push through those times when we get stuck on a word or phrase or detail, because we tend to obsess about different things.
Also, she’s better at punctuation than me, which is good because my approach to commas is usually just to sort of sprinkle them liberally wherever I would naturally pause. I know that isn’t right but so far it’s a habit I haven’t been able to break.
Hey @Scary_le_Poo, I know we don’t have this in the rules anywhere on the site - there’s some ongoing discussion among the mods about how to handle things like this, but I’d like to encourage you to use something like an archive link if you’re going to post an alternative way to access an article, rather than copying the full text of an article into a comment.
This is a decent song, although I’m not a huge fan of the mix or the vocal style - I know it’s part of the vibe it’s just not my favorite. But I’ve got to say, if I was this band I would not have named myself after an album by a band that is IMO way better, lol. All this made me do is some confused googling and then I went and listened to Electric Wizard for a while.
Yeah, honestly giving it a second listen, I probably would have had a better initial reaction to the song if I hadn’t been expecting something different because of the name. Also the video is pretty damn off-putting, lol. The song is pretty solid, even if it’s not what I’m usually looking for in the stoner/sludge genre.
Having kind of a rough week with wrestling with identity stuff. Things are generally good for me, but I just keep having these questions about myself coming up and I can’t seem to just drop it. Not sure where any of it is going, or if it’s going anywhere, but I’m getting kind of tired of it tbh…
Hey. While I sympathize with the sentiment here, this kind of drive by, low effort content isn’t really the vibe we’re trying to cultivate on Beehaw, and I’ve noticed that this kind of comment seems to be the primary way you’re engaging with our instance. We’re not asking folks to write an essay every time you want to comments, but we would like for commenters to try and add to the discussion rather than just creating noise that doesn’t really contribute to the conversation. In the future, please try to put a little more effort into your comments, even if it’s just to explain your feelings with more detail in a way that will contribute to the conversation around the topic at hand. Also, please remember our primary guideline: Be(e) nice.
Hi skeptomatic, Beehaw Technology mod here. To be clear, this community is not only for the uncritical admiration technological development or the tech sector. It is a community for discussion of Technology in general, which will likely include discussion of the effects of technology on society. Those topics very well may include discussions of how and when those technologies, the environment they are developed in, or the systems they enable are harmful to human flourishing.
You are absolutely welcome to defend generative AI as a useful or positive development - I personally think it’s a really interesting technology with some major potential (although I think we’re probably in a hype cycle and it’s being applied in all kinds of ways that don’t really make sense), but I also recognize that there are potential social pitfalls in it’s development and deployment. Those ideas are worth discussing in a kind, civil manner.
Lastly, when you comment here on Beehaw, please remember our rule: Be(e) Nice.
The 21-year-old New Zealand MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, her country’s youngest MP since 1853, honoured the Indigenous people of New Zealand by performing a traditional haka, or war cry, as part of her maiden speech in December. In the resurfaced video, the chant reverberates around the parliamentary chamber as other Māori...
Officials said the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) may be cyberstalking, physically intimidating and harassing Chinese citizens, naturalized U.S. citizens and families of dissidents who speak out against the party.
I’ve found that usually is the case especially with “articles” like this on TV News channel sites, but I can’t find where any papers have picked up the story. They may still be following up on it, but I would expect if the Houston Chronicle winds up picking the story up they will have more details.
Looks like the show had a 52 metacritic score and lost about half its viewers over the course of the first season. I don’t think you need to look much further than that to wonder why the second season was canceled.
Honestly it’s kind of hard to know how to respond to this.
We recognize that “I was just joking” isn’t a universal defense, otherwise people wouldn’t have had an issue with minstrel shows. But as a society we’ve come to recognize that humor can be persuasive and can inform people’s beliefs about what others are like. It’s similar to how sites like 4chan that started out with cultures that were drenched in ironic racism eventually were just actually racist.
Hi, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately something about the federation between Mastodon and Lemmy has caused the title of this post on Beehaw to violate the submission guidelines for our politics community (it looks like it’s just taking the first 200 characters of your post and making it the title, which in this case is just links to a number of lemmy communities). If you’d like to take another stab at submitting with corrected title (our guidelines request that the original article title be preserved when possible) please feel free.
What country music would you recommend to someone who wants to listen to some country that isn’t bro/truck country? I know not all country music is Like That but unfortunately at the moment that’s most of my experience with the genre and I want to broaden my horizons. Maybe some good gothic country or bluegrass suggestions?...
Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up (www.wired.com)
Trump Posts Newsweek Article, but Alters Screenshots to Remove All Negative Content About Him (newrepublic.com)
The Warning - Narcisista (Live in Monterrey) (youtu.be)
Pau killing it on drums while doing the vocals. Always a treat to watch....
How do you date?
Recently had a conversation with a good friend about dating, and it had me curious about how everyone on Beehaw approaches dating. Tell me a bit about how you date! Here’s a few prompts/thoughts I’m curious about:...
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead (arstechnica.com)
Wizards of the Coast confirms it is not selling the d&d IP to tencent (www.pcgamer.com)
‘Control the Narrative’: How an Alabama Utility Wields Influence by Financing News (capitalbnews.org)
how's your week going, Beehaw
Hoping to chip away at Biden’s Black vote, conservative group to test menthol cigarette message in South Carolina primary (www.cnn.com)
DOPETHRONE - Life Kills You (Official Video) (www.youtube.com)
New single. Hope the whole album is this good.
Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs (www.eurogamer.net)
Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)
Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI....
Meet New Zealand's youngest MP whose parliamentary war cry went viral (www.sbs.com.au)
The 21-year-old New Zealand MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, her country’s youngest MP since 1853, honoured the Indigenous people of New Zealand by performing a traditional haka, or war cry, as part of her maiden speech in December. In the resurfaced video, the chant reverberates around the parliamentary chamber as other Māori...
FBI issues warning of China’s government possibly targeting US citizens who question Chinese Communist Party in Texas (www.click2houston.com)
Officials said the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) may be cyberstalking, physically intimidating and harassing Chinese citizens, naturalized U.S. citizens and families of dissidents who speak out against the party.
Dave Chappelle’s Obsession With Mocking Trans People Continues in New Netflix Special ‘The Dreamer’: ‘I Love Punching Down’ (variety.com)
Country music recommendations
What country music would you recommend to someone who wants to listen to some country that isn’t bro/truck country? I know not all country music is Like That but unfortunately at the moment that’s most of my experience with the genre and I want to broaden my horizons. Maybe some good gothic country or bluegrass suggestions?...