My point was that what’s necessary, and what is popular to do are not the same, so it’s not likely to occur. You would need to get apathetic internet users to wake up to how Reddit is using them, but at the same time it’s those same people arriving on Reddit that made it the shithole it is today. They were too attractive to corporate data mining. Sure, they fill out Subs, but they also come with a load of emotional baggage, trigger warnings, and pearls to clutch.

If you go to most instances and sort by “top month” You’ll get a list of the demographic that frequents most of the fediverse: Late Gen X/Xennial IT professionals in “project lead” or “supervisor” roles. The problem is that for most mundane niche interests Reddit fills the role adequately enough, despite it being a centralized space. The fediverse is like the local Coffee shop of internet news/information aggregators: Tailored product, exquisite curation, but most people still go to Dunkin’ cause they make a reliable cup, it’s fast, and you’ll trip over them in some areas.

you want the fediverse to grow? Get Google to promote the fediverse as a Reddit Alternative. You may not like it, but that is the mountain that must be surmounted.

great music choice. But you might as well listen to ALL of DSotM while you’re at it.

I will accept any console made before the year 2000 as “retro.” once games achieved a level of poly count where you could render indevidual fingers during actual gameplay, I hardly count them as retro consoles. The only thing consoles have been improving is output resolution, as vector rendering has been standard for 2 decades now.

enough that I can huck most of it in a trust and still be able to live off the interest. Yes, this makes it hard to tax, (I see taxes as rent, not theft, so this would be an UNfortunate side effect) but it also keeps me from “discovering” people to whom I’m apparently distantly related, suddenly appearing at my doorstep looking for handouts.

I’d also probably move somewhere remote, where the locals are few, don’t really care what you do as long as you keep to you and yours, and aren’t murdering people.

If dems flip the house, Trump won’t get the chance: Impeach his ass.

On a google docs account that only members of my (and I use the term in the associative sense, I don’t own it.) discord can access.

😂 🤣

Fair, I mean: if you want to do collage work MAN, GIMP pops off. but yeah… to do what you described, you kind of have to get inventive with the plot select tool, and hope to hell you can cleanly enclose that loop.

see, but from where i sit Bernie had Iowa, and New Hampshire (of all places), and Nevada (I think? it’s been a decade, sorry) I think there was another one, But suddenly Biden tags SC and all of a sudden OH BOY HOWDY HERE’s JOE! (hurr durr) CHOO CHOO ALL ABOARD THE BIDEN EXPRESS, NEXT STOP FUCK YOU PROGRESSIVES! Pthhrrrp! JUST because SC happens to have a fairly high delegate count? Like Maybe not be counting ya chicken’s eh? But yeah, I know the tail wags the dog, and all they had to do was hint at it and corpo media would spin the Fuck out of it SMDH…

It’s ok. I knew where the mistake was. Besides, given the metaphoric underpinnings of the lyrics, It actually was more on the nose, given that the song is about the Vapid afterglow of 1960s post party scene where everyone is getting on the tube to go home and half are hungover, most everyone is exhausted and some are just coming down after experimenting on psychedelia. That kind of human wreckage cloud certainly be described that way. 😄

Bernie had the legs knocked out from under him in 16’ and the DNC straight up stabbed him in the back in 20’. “Joementum” was manufactured propaganda AFAIC because Biden was in a distant fourth and one minor win in South Carolina does not a lead make. The DNC is just as afraid of socialists as the GOP, but not because they are diametrically opposed to the platform, but because they are afraid they might have to actually work at governance.

GASP!!

funny how that’s coming back to bite them in the ass, eh? 😂

Civvie11 on the YouTubes often lists some of the fine Studios the EA has voraciously consumed only to spit out when their bones are dry. Raven Software (via Activision merger) comes to mind. Also Neversoft… and MAXIS…

I’ve been using GIMP to make every one of my thumbnails for the video uploads I make. The issue with GIMP is that it does some things a bit obtusely, and kind of requires you to build a database of art files. Photoshop is better for (surprise!) editing photos, where as GIMP is better at pure “Art” stuff.

GIMP also is not really geared for Tablets, which is also why most people are down on it.

Ive been using GIMP for years and once you adjust to how it operates, it’s quite powerful. In fact it has some rather useful features once you unlearn Photoshop. It reminds one a bit more of Corel Paint from back in the day.

“tis a poor carpenter that blames their tools.”

“Having a conversation” is a stall tactic.

I said “center-right.” The GOP was already well on its way to Loony McFruitcakesville after Nixon. Recall that Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt were both Republicans, and they are often ranked among Americas’ best presidents; TR even makes #1 on many lists.

(The Line breaks mean you pause as you recite the lyrics. This creates the proper cadence for the song)

In a white room

with Black curtains

At the Station

Black roof country

No gold pavements

Tired Starlings

Sliver Horses

ran down moonbeams

On your dark eyes

Dawn light smiles

On your leaving

My contentment

I’ll wait

in this place

Where the sun

never shines

I wait

in this place

Where

The shadows

Run

From themselves

You said no strings

could secure you

at the station

Platform ticket,

restless diesels,

goodbye windows

I walked into,

such a sad time,

at the station

As I walked out,

felt my own need,

just beginning

I’ll wait

in the queue

When the trains

Come back,

Lie with you

Where

The shadows

Run

From themselves

At the party,

She was kindness

In the hard crowd

Consolation

for the old wound

now forgotten

Yellow tigers

crouched in jungles

in her dark eyes

Now gets morning,

goodbye windows,

tired starlings

I’ll sleep

in this place

with the

lonely crowd

Lie in the dark,

Where

The shadows

Run

From themselves