There are people here who aren't joiners of political movements that can be summed up in 3 emojis or less. That doesn't make them more, or less worthy.

If a political cause encourages its members to be contemptuous of anyone who doesn't blindly accept it, then that cause is the problem not the solution.

Politicians don't yank my chain. I always saw them as proprietors for the cult of personality. Desperate celebrities who hitched their ride on the shoulders of marginalized people. The Elvi of retail politics.

I don't maintain a list of enemies. Too much fucking work and even if I could make that happen, it would make me the most pointless not-OK butthead in the room.

The wisdom of the path was strong yea verily. Now it's just words in grandfolks' journals. Not the answer.

...Nor am I on the correct path.

...Nor are you...

...Nor are the latest greatest class of daemons extraordinaire.

aye aye aye again with the triggering?

6/10 on IMDB, that's respectable. Scores a relatively low 38% on RT, although that's countered by a high audience engagement score of 69%.

But should I watch this movie??

Says Jake Wilson of The Age: "This is standard horror movie stuff, but also a considered aesthetic, as Wilson underlines by all too briefly bringing on Hiam Abbass as an imperious professor who holds forth about Goya and the need to balance darkness and light." Rating 2.5/5

Says Victoria Luxford of the BBC: "It is a bit formulaic at this point but if you’re looking for something scarier amongst the big action movies this summer this is not a bad choice."

I'll be back later to share my impressions, though they matter little compared to the wider pantheon of professional practitioners.

Edit: My goodness gracious, what a lovely film. Not too scary, more along the lines of a morality play in some ways. Not religious in any way that I could discern. But definitely spiritual. Loved the themes of father son relationships being broken, and just how desperately sad that can be. And of course, the inevitable coming together to re-bond family. Yes, the ending is a bit anti-clamactic, but it was about time we have a happy ending in this series. The rest of the endings in the series have been quite scary and final. Overall gonna go with a 7/10. Normally I would say 8/10, but something in me cannot be so generous.

Fuck zoos anyways, amirite? This is much better. Paying a person a liveable wage? Giving them fresh air, sun, exercise? Making zoo-goers happy and educated? Now that's what I call progress!!

This is actually a pretty funny review if you happen to have nothing better to do. I was quite tempted to stop watching the film after the intro, but alas, I plodded along, miserable and aggrieved for some time before switching over to the always agreeable Young Frankenstein.

If you must watch a movie inspired by the respected Mary Shelly's repertoire of material then see Young Frankenstein (1974), or The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), or Blackenstein (1973), or Frankenweenie, (2012) or Edward Scissorhands (1990), or The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)... or choose your own or ignore me and see a Dracula movie instead!

Savvy internet users already know of the shadowban, where a service hides a user’s content from everyone except that person. However, services can also shadow remove individual comments. You might receive replies to some content while other commentary appears to fall flat. Such lonely, childless comments may truly have been uninteresting, or they may have been secretly suppressed. Moreover, many moderators suppress significantly more content than they admit.

If anyone best understood the harms of secret suppression, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did. He survived the Soviet Union’s forced labor camps where millions died. In his epic The Gulag Archipelago, he argued that the Soviet security apparatus based all of its arrests on Article 58, which forbid “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.” Police relied on this anti-free speech code to imprison whomever they wished on false charges. Article 58 thus removed truth and transparency from the justice system.

But we have a role to play too. Left unchallenged, a censorial Internet enslaves both users and moderators alike to become ideological warriors. Ironically, we have promoted communications systems that do not foster good communication. But good communication is essential to well-functioning communities, so we must do something. The question is what to do or say. Unfortunately, the easy route of framing the problem as “us versus them” would merely strengthen existing power players.

A snippet from the article. I removed some content for brevity.

For decades, climate change has proceeded at roughly the expected pace, says David Armstrong McKay, a climate scientist at the University of Exeter, in England. Its impacts, however, are accelerating—sometimes far faster than expected.

For a while, the consequences weren’t easily seen. They certainly are today. The Southwest is sweltering under a heat dome. Vermont saw a deluge of rain, its second 100-year storm in roughly a decade. Early July brought the hottest day globally since records began—a milestone surpassed again the following day. “For a long time, we were within the range of normal. And now we’re really not,” Allegra LeGrande, a physical-research scientist at Columbia University, told me. “And it has happened fast enough that people have a memory of it happening.”

...a growing number of climate scientists now believe we may be careening toward so-called tipping points, where incremental steps along the same trajectory could push Earth’s systems into abrupt or irreversible change—leading to transformations that cannot be stopped even if emissions were suddenly halted. “The Earth may have left a ‘safe’ climate state beyond 1°C global warming,” Armstrong McKay and his co-authors concluded in Science last fall. We don’t really know when or how fast things will fall apart.

Some tipping points will interact, worsening one another’s effects. When melt from Greenland’s glaciers enters the ocean, for example, it alters an important system of currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Right now it’s the feeblest it’s been in more than 1,000 years.

A shutdown of that ocean current could dramatically alter phenomena as varied as global weather patterns and crop yields. If the temperature of the sea surface changes, precipitation over the Amazon might too, contributing to its deforestation, which in turn has been linked to snowfall on the Tibetan plateau.

One grim paper that came out last year, titled “Climate End Game,” mapped out some of the potential catastrophes that could follow a “tipping cascade,” and considered the possibility that “a sudden shift in climate could trigger systems failures that unravel societies across the globe.”

Chris Field, the director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and a contributor to several IPCC reports, warned that “at some point, the impacts of the climate crisis may become so severe that we lose the ability to work together to deliver solutions.”

very pleasing. very very pleasing.

Hopefully I'm not repeating an already known issue.

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edit: just to clarify this particular sequence of events. It usually happens when I navigate into a post. And I stay there. And then later, sometimes even after leaving the window, and I come back and try to navigate back to the main page. The navigation is unresponsive. Then when I go to leave the hexbear website, it lets me but only after I "okay" a message that says, "Leave site? Your changes won't be saved".. so somehow the website thinks I am writing a comment even though that is not the case.

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edit2: appears that these are the errors I am getting from within the console:

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED 2client.js?v=1:2 Uncaught TypeError: e is not a function at client.js?v=1:2:904615 at Array.forEach () at Object.call (client.js?v=1:2:904584) at C (client.js?v=1:2:909616) at Object.t [as push] (client.js?v=1:2:909921) at Object.Q [as event] (client.js?v=1:2:914009) at ae (client.js?v=1:2:210176) at HTMLDocument. (client.js?v=1:2:209738) client.js?v=1:2 Websocket closed. (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 e.dispatchEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 e.handleEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 handleCloseEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 client.js?v=1:2 WebSocket connection to 'wss://hexbear.net/api/v3/ws' failed: e.tryConnect @ client.js?v=1:2 (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 client.js?v=1:2 Websocket closed. (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 e.dispatchEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 e.handleEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 handleCloseEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 client.js?v=1:2 WebSocket connection to 'wss://hexbear.net/api/v3/ws' failed: e.tryConnect @ client.js?v=1:2 (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 client.js?v=1:2 Websocket closed.

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I find that in certain situations, I cause my session with the website to freeze.

I am not certain what leads to this, but I think the cause has something to do with the fact that I've told Hex Bear I want to comment, or make some other edit on the current page. (From what I can ascertain though, I haven't intentionally gone into such an editing mode.)

The workaround is that I navigate away from the Hex Bear website, usually by doing a search for "hex bear". Then, I navigate back into a fresh Hex Bear session. When I do the first step above, I get this message, "Leave Site? Changes you made may not be saved." I click yes and that allows me to find Hex Bear and start my new session.

Just curious if anyone has encountered this? I am one of those end users who gets lost easily and thus causes mayhem to happen on occasion.

Thanks so much, if you want me to provide more detail, just holler...>

edit: it happened on the new megathread just now https://hexbear.net/post/276470 (The Einstein thread) my cursor wasn't focused on the comment field or anything I could tell. When I would go to click on the "hexbear" link at the top of the page there was no response. when I went to the url field and navigated away from the page, there was that message, "Leave Site? Changes you made may not be saved."

I am not familiar with the term, "federated" or its meaning... I'm hoping to get some serious answers and perhaps even some comedic answers....

Edit: thank you to all who answered my call for enlightenment. I'm even more confused (and hopeful) than I was before!

I was going to try and change the spark plugs in my motor, I think they're due. I know my engine specifications but I don't know where online to find the proper gap for my engine. Does anyone happen to know a good resource where I can look something like that up?