What songs do you think are too good for their subject matter, like a song for an ad that's actually good, or a children's show theme song that slaps, ect?
@MartyCormack It's pretty far from obscure, but I have a policy of always recommending the Cash version of In My Life whenever the song is brought up. It makes it hard to believe the song was written by two guys in their mid-20s.
@the_Cornflower If you like more old school music, Billy Bragg + Wilco in Mermaid Avenue is worth giving a spin. It's a bunch of old previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie songs put to music. There's also an amazing album with Billy Bragg and Joe Henry full of old American train songs called Shine A Light, which is a personal favorite of mine.
Personally speaking as someone who is a bit out of touch with the times, I find Folklore to be the by far most enjoyable Taylor Swift album. I know she has a lot of good stuff, but Folklore is the only album I can truly enjoy musically.
“0.5% of Dutch cyclists wear helmets, and that’s really just sport cyclists.
They’ve ultimately decided that it’s far more important to build this culture of everyday cycling, and to build safe streets, instead of requiring people to protect themselves.”
@modacitylife It only took me watching one person have a technical failure with his front wheel at a reasonable speed, fly over to the handle bar, go head first into the asphalt, and be rendered motionless in the middle of the street to convince me to start using a helmet as frequently as I can manage.
Sure, I still frequently forget and it would never stop me from cycling to a party or home tipsy or, but for cycling to work every day it's just an incredibly small inconvenience for adding an extra level of security should something go wrong somewhere.
Granted, I currently live in Italy, which is the opposite of the Netherlands in terms of bike infrastructure. Still, I'm considered a weirdo foreigner for cycling around in my dorky helmet. I'll take it.
They're the bad "guys" (?) from Doctor Who, sentient kind of clumsy but profoundly evil robot-like aliens whose catchphrase is "exterminate". They hail from a time where special effects were not easy to make, and have grown somewhat iconic.
@rorystarr In his head it's not a social media platform any more - it's an everything app. Or WeChat, if you will.
I guess the transformations he has in mind (like being paypal) is easier to conceive of when thinking about a perfect network structure; once you break the network up by having users block each other it gets more funky. So when it "makes no sense" I guess it's in relation to his stupid visions for a hypothetical future, not so much in relation to the existing product that people used to enjoy using.
@tripplehelix It's really a shame how hard it is to use WhatsApp with Linux devices.
One tiny thing to do is to send a complaint about it at https://www.whatsapp.com/contact/ - I don't expect it to help at all, but if they get enough complaints about it maybe they'll consider it eventually. One spin is that it's anti-competitive behaviour, which Meta is already under fire from by the EU.
Sad to hear you had to go back to Lineage, but completely understandable unfortunately.
@luna@XOrgFoundation@mitsunee I hate to explain the joke, but: This entire thread is about X.com, not X.org. That's the joke. The anti-trans website is X. Which people need to stop using. So when @mitsunee started talking about X.org, they went off-topic: Why would you need to use X (dot com) in order to play video games?
I guess it highlights challenges of one of the worlds most recognized brands suddenly jumping over to a name you have been using for decades.
Folks, the reason #Facebook/ #Instagram/ #Meta/ Zuckerberg hasn’t launched #Threads in the #EU isn’t because the EU is determined to protect your privacy, it’s because the EU is determined to protect The Single Market (peace be upon it) from anticompetitive behaviour. It’s because they’re using Instagram to launch Threads and sharing data between them (and not with EU startups that might want to use that data too). It’s #antitrust, not #privacy. It’s markets, not people.
@alternative_be@aral The timing is also interesting - the ruling was made known earlier the same day as Meta announced that Threads wouldn't be making it to Europe. So if GDPR is not the reason, I think Meta at least wants us to believe it is.
The US might be more likely to follow suit in antitrust than in privacy, which could be one potential motivation I guess.
As Big Tech smells blood in the water and starts circling around #Twitter’s floating corpse, I’m perplexed and angry that #Mastodon still gets dismissed as something that is ‘too complicated’ or ‘doesn’t work’ - seen this recently from tech savvy friends and in a Guardian article. Why?? It obviously DOES work, and doesn’t feel very complicated to me. But people are going to be pushed towards #Threads & #BlueSky, perpetuating the problem.
It doesn't need to be exclusively USB C, if that is the question. This is not a ban on headphone jacks. As for the technical capabilities of the USB C port, the Directive focuses only on charging.