Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 47 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The original point of BLM was...one group of people shouting stop killing their own to a nation that was oblivious and/or not caring. Arguing that other people are also dying kind of misses the point and helps to hide what BLM was trying to show.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Same idea with Firefly. How the show was treated and the result was terrible, and it would have been great to have a better start and longer run to get more content. But we got what we got, and you're not going to capture it again. The bright side is it avoided going on too long.

Battlestar Galactica could be a rare example of doing a redo well, although for nostalgic sake I'm still more a fan of the original, even though there's less there content-wise.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's always been plenty of human-made content that is slop. AI is just another tool to make easy content. Trying to categorize everything done with AI as slop is lazy and shifting blame, ignoring the difficulty in both moderating large volume as well as the lack of a definition of what is and isn't "good". Which really ends up coming back to the individual, who has means to shut out places that are regularly a problem to them.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 5 days ago

The wiki for the rings Rings of Uranus is an incredible read, even if you don't understand a lot of the science. Each ring is different and unique, and very small compared to the other planets' ring.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

Republicans trusted the government of LBJ

Yeah, but that's like comparing apples to fish. Those same type of Republicans convinced Nixon to leave because what he had done was dishonorable. Compare that to today's GOP of anything goes as long as they win.

I don't buy the argument that Republicans are good in a certain point of view, solely because when they complain about someone doing something, it's often projection for them already doing it. There's no values there, it's cutthroat to win and prosper on top of other people's suffering.

I do agree with your general point, things are very broken.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Of all the holidays some people have to work on, Labor Day is the slap in the face. The largest blow to its intentions was probably it becoming a day for commercial sales, following other holidays that succumbed to commercialization and deviation from their original beginnings.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, otherwise it would have been very hard before they came into being.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Missed the first sentence I guess. It's why I included the video for a much better, although also simplified and incomplete answer, and he says why.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 6 days ago

Nixon must be proud of his party.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 50 points 6 days ago

Reminder that some people think all this weather science and the programs that use it are a waste of money, as well as any money used to help those who lose everything in such events. Yeah, that's crazy to even contemplate in the second quarter of the 21st century, but here we are.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

It was fun to learn how things work, and when things worked as planned (finally). It's when they didn't work that got annoying and frustrating, and with assembly language with basically no error codes or any help, it was just...nope, that wasn't right. Maybe followed by cycling the computer off and on because it locked up. Still have my old Mapping the Commodore 64 book on the shelf. Huge resource.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 6 days ago

The man got shot during a speech, finished the speech before seeking medical help. Actually had a wound, didn't have to make it up to feed the ego.

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