::: spoiler Logline La’An travels back in time to twenty-first-century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity’s future history—and bring her face to face with her own contentious legacy. :::...
Actually thinking about it that might be why the line "I'm awful with faces" was there ..not just to explain away why 21stC Pelia didn't recognise why la'an knew her but she didn't know laan, but also why 23rdC pelia doesn't remember a meeting 200 years prior
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
In the current fptp system it has to be. Until ranked choice for president and proportional representation for the house then usually the left will shatter. The republic strongest point is they all vote under one big group even if they disagree internally. All splitting the vote will do is empower that "team"
Not even majority....just plurality trump lost the popular vote and the more you split it the less majority is needed (until ranked choice or runoffs is brought in). In the UK the current government holds absolute power on just 38% of the popular vote thanks to first past the post and constituency based representation.
I am still working full-time remote. There are definitely some social aspects of going to the office I miss, but I really don't miss the commute or the shitty office politics. Overall I feel I am still more productive from home and happier overall.
That right sizing has the financial markets running scarsd. Just like the 2008 home.mortgage securities crunch...the commercial property mortgage securities are about to tank and they were sold as much more secure than even how they faked the '08 mortgages.
Another way to think about the fediverse is you know all those annoying "local" newspapers that have maybe one or two local articles then a billion clickbait or advertisements disguises as articles that could be from anywhere. Well each trumptonnews.co.uk or pontypamdyadvertiser.co.uk or greendalegazzette.com is like an instance but all the articles are shared....except hopfully for threads it is interesting stuff not guff.
As others have said but also I use the kbin.social instance which has a slightly different looking interface but still federates (shares content) with the other instances
Porn viewers in Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi are now met with a video imploring them to contact their representatives about age-verification laws.
There can be more than one threat... The bigger hypocrisy is banning good sex education from schools. The way kids are learning about sex and realationships from sites like PornHub is harmful to their future realationships and respect for each other.....but these laws are not going to stop that
Good thing about fedaration is we can talkmtomall those Lemmy sync app users. I have my setup now so many Lemmy threads feel as front page as kbin ones. So is no differnt to talking.to people on Apollo, rif, synch,old.reddit and new Reddit back there
And make sure not to click on any links. If enough people use chatgpt or other LLM's to generate comments that are wordy but clearly just filler, it'll give advertisers pause and tank the value of the site as training data. Reddit's response will probably be to start banning users it thinks are doing this but normal users will...
Trafficking is a thing a massive horrible thing, but like prohibition led to mobsters with alcohol sales, prohibition of sex trade makes trafficking easier
(I am not going to say legalisation makes it go away as even sex positive countries it is still.a problem, but it can help to b regulated and allow whistle blowing
At this one we were just spectators, there was a mead stand to buy some artisan bottles but most drinking was in the ale/Chardonnay tent. It was a festival of two halves, there were renactors, living history, military vehicle maintainers and pod-castors giving animated in-charector talks out in the middle of a field . Then there was historian authors like tom Holland, journalists like jeramy bowan (giving a talk on last 40 years in middle east) and celebrities like Charlie higson, Ian hislop and al Murray doing pop history. But they are all in a carpeted marquee with fine dining, corporate sponsor supplied Champaign and a Waterstones bookshop in the corner for signing their books and looked more like Henley regatta.
Dowel running the length of it right down through the handle. Used string to compress the foam. Fed it into the tube and unwound so the foam expanded to wedge it in there so the tube can be replaced....
I just finished the Owl House last night and aghhhhhh I love this show! I loved watching the plot and lore unfold and seeing Lumity come to life and become canon! Seeing the final epilogue and all the characters grown up makes me want MORE, kind of like an epilogue series with the characters in college similar to Steven...
Apart from gravity falls and she-ra already mentioned, I have actually been enjoying the big hero six series on Disney but is not quite on the same level.
Personally I didn't get into amphibia but can totally see it is good just not for me.
I took a ton of pictures at an event. Unfortunately the autofocus of my cam is a bit wonky and this lead to blurry pictures. Does anyone have an app or way to restore details on the unfocused object? I also have the raw files of these pictures if that helps.
You will not be able to get the actual detail back unfortunately... However there are some of the ai tools that give best guesses as to what should have been there and like a sort of auto-generated picture can look extremely plausible. I have seen outputs from them and think the latest Google pixel phone will have it built in, but not sure were to access it online
My partner and I are doing a year of trying new activities, none of our friends are organised enough to come as a big group so I thought we could go as a 2. I’m just a bit worried it’ll be full of try hard people/won’t be suitable for first timers and we won’t have fun. Does anyone have any experience?
You get all sorts at paintball, we went as a group of 5 but there were 30-40 people on the field at once in two teams we split our group accross the teams so really just in two we lost each other pretty quick in first game but stuck together and worked better in second.
There were some very good people and some absolute rubbish other groups like us
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
::: spoiler Logline La’An travels back in time to twenty-first-century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity’s future history—and bring her face to face with her own contentious legacy. :::...
YSK: No Labels is a political party trying to run a spoiler candidate for President in 2024 that should not be taken seriously.
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
How many of you are still working full-time remote and how is it going? If not, why not? Was the decision made by you to go back to the office or did your employer decide for you?
I am still working full-time remote. There are definitely some social aspects of going to the office I miss, but I really don't miss the commute or the shitty office politics. Overall I feel I am still more productive from home and happier overall.
The Reddit Protests Continue, but the Company Has a Much Bigger Problem: There's a disconnect between how Reddit sees itself and its real value to the world. (www.inc.com)
OC Is there any way to be notified when others respond to your comments? I feel like it naturally extinguishes conversations to not have any notifications?
I've gone back and noticed that sometimes a handful of people had responded to a previous comment and I never realized it....
Saturday chat thread
I've woken up with pain though my shoulders, must have slept funny. Getting older and waking up uncomfortable is rubbish....
Pornhub Tells Users to Take Action Before Politicians Take Their Porn Away (www.vice.com)
Porn viewers in Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi are now met with a video imploring them to contact their representatives about age-verification laws.
Kbin user Rabbithole@kbin.social discusses why Kbin stands a much better chance of staying in the long term compared to other websites like VOAT and Ruqqus. (kbin.social)
Instead of deleting your Reddit account, consider using chatgpt to make comments instead
And make sure not to click on any links. If enough people use chatgpt or other LLM's to generate comments that are wordy but clearly just filler, it'll give advertisers pause and tank the value of the site as training data. Reddit's response will probably be to start banning users it thinks are doing this but normal users will...
Anti-sex activists are picking off sex workers on Instagram—and Instagram is letting them (jezebel.com)
Me to my American friends: "No, living in England is NOT like living in The Shire". Meanwhile my Saturday so far: (i.imgur.com)
Nobody in The Shire seemed to have hay fever, so that still sets us apart at least.
I made a cardboard tube sword (with dowel and foam core) to crush my nephew in our swordfights (lemmy.world)
Dowel running the length of it right down through the handle. Used string to compress the foam. Fed it into the tube and unwound so the foam expanded to wedge it in there so the tube can be replaced....
Just finished the Owl House, what to watch next?
I just finished the Owl House last night and aghhhhhh I love this show! I loved watching the plot and lore unfold and seeing Lumity come to life and become canon! Seeing the final epilogue and all the characters grown up makes me want MORE, kind of like an epilogue series with the characters in college similar to Steven...
Tools to sharpen out of focus objects in pictures.
I took a ton of pictures at an event. Unfortunately the autofocus of my cam is a bit wonky and this lead to blurry pictures. Does anyone have an app or way to restore details on the unfocused object? I also have the raw files of these pictures if that helps.
Has anyone been paintballing as a 2 at a open session?
My partner and I are doing a year of trying new activities, none of our friends are organised enough to come as a big group so I thought we could go as a 2. I’m just a bit worried it’ll be full of try hard people/won’t be suitable for first timers and we won’t have fun. Does anyone have any experience?