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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

If you don't like gross horror, I'd recommend skipping 4.02 "Home". While it's a favorite of fans of certain types of horror, it made some people completely stop watching the show.

If you decide to stop watching before season 4, I'd recommend still watching Darin Morgan's episodes, which are very funny. Especially:

  • X-Files 2.20 "Humbug"
  • X-Files 3.04 "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"
  • X-Files 3.12 "War of the Coprophages" (by far my favorite, tho Darin's least)
  • X-Files 3.20 "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"
  • Millennium 2.21 "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me" (the spin-offs Millennium and The Lone Gunmen aren't very good, but this episode is amazing).

There are 3 more (M2.09, X10.3, and X11.4), but I wouldn't recommend watching them.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't most public libraries have DVDs/BRs/CDs/LPs you can borrow? Or is it just in poor countries where we still use old computers?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also, in D&D 5e (2014), you just roll a single d4, then add 1 and multiply it all by 3 (or multiply by higher than 3 if upcast), instead of rolling 3 dice: https://www.sageadvice.eu/magic-missile-do-you-roll-the-same-d4-for-all-darts/

I don't know of anyone who actually does that at home tables, because 3d4+3 is statistically less likely to give the minimum (or maximum) damage than (1d4+1)*3.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pointless change… why?

I think it's to make you spend more time in the stores, see more products, and spend more money.

It probably works on most people, but there's such a small number of ethical products I buy, that it just reminds me how sociopathic these omnicidal capitalists are and that I should try to buy less things.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The two most effective legal things you can do to help with climate are eating vegan and not having children.

According to Wynes et al. 2017 PDF (graph), while it's true that not having children is by far the best thing to try to prevent the anthropogenic climate cascade, veganism is only the 6th most important thing.

Being:

  • car-free,
  • flight-free, and
  • fossil-fuel free for energy,

are all more important than being vegan.

When not just looking at anthropogenic climate, but ethical living overall; then yes, veganism is the 2nd most important thing after being child-free, because animal husbandry and fishing result in the torturing to death of 2-6 trillion fish per year, and on factory farms the enslavement in torturous conditions of 1-3 trillion fish and billions of non-aquatic animals every year.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Isn't listing only the number of projects-donated-to pretty much useless; when the amount donated to 1, could be more than everything-else by everyone-else combined?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

I knew about

  • John Adams and
  • Thomas Jefferson (both 1826), but didn't know about
  • James Monroe (1831); or
  • Hannibal Hamlin the 15th vice president of the United States (1891).
[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

The "Great Seal of the United States" with the eagle is from 1782, it's been in use as the "Seal of the president of the United States" since at least 1877, tho I'm not sure about this version of the eagle with wide open wings.

The nazis started using their version of the Bundeswappen in 1935.

 

Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Murica is a very weird place where folk don’t seem to get punished electorally for being an asshole.

“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities - and they are elected by American citizens.

This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

See how few vote for ethical people like Nader, the Greens, ...

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

~200

"551 titles" - 43 TV show seasons = 508 movies?

"Sony already pulled 314 StudioCanal titles from libraries in Germany and Austria in 2022. More recently, Sony deleted people’s Funimation digital libraries"

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

everyone would prefer the fancy ceiling

Some people think reliefs, Greek revival, Rococo, Baroque, etc. are ugly, polluting to make, more toxic and dangerous to clean, wasteful, and gaudy.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

It’s biggest problem was the arguably not so good first season I think.

I thought the 1st season of The Expanse was good, but the 2nd season was so bad that I stopped watching in middle of episode 2. The difference was pretty stark, almost as bad as the difference between the great season 1 of Spooks/MI-5 vs its god-awful season 2.

I'd recommend the first 2 seasons of Okkupert, and Firefly.

While I think Chernobyl is a great fiction series, there's a huge amount of completely unnecessary lies in it, including the intro and outro about lies.

 

[Thanks morgunkorn for replying to show where it is: on our Profile pages, 4 lines beneath our usernames.]

How can I find a list of the Lemmy posts I've saved in my browser?

Saving posts are done by clicking on the star icon. Once saved the icon becomes orange.

Can't find them on my Profile page, or via the Search page, and searches seem to only answer it for apps.

 

Edit: copying the font to /usr/local/share/fonts/ fixed it. (I downloaded Debian Xfce a while ago because of how much I dislike Snap, so I'll soon replace Xubuntu with it.)

I recently installed the font “Atkinson Hyperlegible” on Xubuntu 22.04.3 (via right click, Fonts 41.0), and I use it as the Xfce UI font and the default in Mousepad and LibreOffice without any problems.

However in Firefox 120.0.1 (64-bit), Snap for Ubuntu, canonical-002 - 1.0; it’s not listed at Edit, Settings, Fonts; or Fonts, Advanced…

When I view an HTML page where the CSS’ body has font-family:"Atkinson Hyperlegible",sans-serif; it also doesn’t use the Atkinson font. That page also doesn’t use Atkinson in the (Epiphany GNOME) Web 45.1 browser.

Any ideas on how to get Firefox and Epiphany to see it?

 

Jeffrey Kaplan's lecture helped me better understand international relations, war, authoritarians, capitalists, etc. (reading guide (PDF)).

 

Did the Staten-Generaal supervise the Heeren XVII, was it the other way round, were they usually the same people, or did it not work like that?

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