ICastFist

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 38 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

Reminder that "self hosting" media is an extra step, you can do the same with "saving media locally and playing it"

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

The Onion presidency 2: Fascist Boogaloo

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of a Brazilian advert for a magazine in the 90s. It started with some large black and white dots, slowly zooming out, and the narration went something like:

"This man was an artist. When he took power, his country was in a deep economic recession, but he brought prosperity back and made it home to some of the most important industrial companies still functioning today. To this day, many people look up to him. This man... (zoom out finishes) was Adolf Hitler.

It's possible to tell a lie telling only truths."

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 22 points 1 day ago

We can also pray that people like Elon are met by someone like Luigi 🙏

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Aylo (Mindgeek, but they changed), the owning company of Pornhub and a bunch of other porn sites, deserves to be broken down and investigated.

And for some incredible irony, from wikipedia: (Aylo is) owned by Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

No wonder none of the pokemon "professors" talk about their degree or academic institutions, either

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Moshi moshi, AI techbros? Yes, I found the next big thing

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion: the massive African slave trade was only made possible because the coastal kingdoms of the continent (Mali, Benin, Dahomey, Mozambique, etc), saw a golden opportunity to gain goods and weapons they otherwise had no access to. The Europeans (and muslims, too, Oman was a big slave trading kingdom) obviously have their well deserved share of the responsibility, defending said kingdoms and for essentially turning the slave trade into an industry and a massacre, but don't erase or ignore the Africans' own responsibility in the process, because it was them who ventured into the continent to hunt and capture people to be sold at the ports.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That means the cat wants to shower with you, so you just do it ;)

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's that bottle in the top left?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Skip and ignore posts that are made by really fucking stupid people talking insane shit: doable and good for your mental health (don't feed the trolls, chess with a pigeon, yadda yadda)

Don't take a side: My consecrated fellow, if you don't pick a side, someone will do it for you

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not if Nestle can have it their way

 
 

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/147299/pocket-imperium

The game is a very simple and all about territory control. A common complaint is exactly that it's too simple. Does anyone know about custom rules or things that can give more variety to the game, without necessarily making it too complex?

 

The best way to understand is looking at it like a game

People that want to inform others need to explain stuff, sometimes more thoroughly than reasonably needed, which takes, say, 50 energy per answer. They also need people to understand what's being informed, this is their "win condition"

Bullshitters just need to spam shit, never need to check sources, never need to be truthful and will use all sorts of logical fallacies when confronted. It takes 1 energy to start, 1 energy to spread AND they can convince others to spread it further for them. They don't want to inform, they want to get an immediate reaction, which is often of anger towards a "culprit". Their win condition is reach + emotional reaction.

Even worse, bullshitters will hypocritically pile up on anyone that they judge to not be playing "by the rules", since they have complete disregard for rules that don't benefit them.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/23573084

The site also has pages for keeping track of what has been delisted from specific vendors, such as Steam, Epic or GOG for PC

 

The site also has pages for keeping track of what has been delisted from specific vendors, such as Steam, Epic or GOG for PC

 
 

I've got a number of these cups in a variety of sizes, but I can't figure what kind of scenery to do with them. I'd like some ideas, both fantasy and futuristic, whether as blogs, pictures or videos.

 

I mean, you take one look at Greek statues and Roman busts and you realize that people figured how to aim for realism, at least when it came to the human body and faces, over 2000 years ago.

Yet, unlike sculpture, paintings and drawings remained, uh, "immature" for centuries afterwards (to my limited knowledge, it was the Italian Renaissance that started making realistic paintings). Why?

 

Given how harder it's becoming to tell apart AI slop from something made by a human (videos, photos, text), and how much scammers and other criminals are piling up on the tech, I'm thinking this will be the silver lining, making some people pay more attention to real life and finally accept the maxim "Don't believe everything you see on the internet"

 
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