TootSweet

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I was always one of the youngest in my class. My birthday is very late in the year. I also graduated high school a year early and entered college while I was still technically 16. I got the occasional joke/comment about not being able to drink until I was a senior in college.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not too late. He can still turn from his sin and accept Satan into his heart. Or more importantly, his lungs.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that's fucked. With some serious reverse engineering and reimplementing, it sounds like it could be a pretty great product, but even if something like a FOSS implementation of the protocol StarVision uses or something like Valetudo but for the Vega existed, I wouldn't feel right about patronizing a company that does that kind of shit.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Zombie Jesus: confirmed.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Well how do you suggest we unclog the toilet when it clogs then?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Seriously, if people have that much investment in my enjoyment of anything, that will ruin any chance I might have otherwise had of enjoying it.

I had an experience like that with the anime Berserk. Had my coworker not been so desperate for me to like it, I probably would have.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

No, robot, the xenomorph is not the "perfect organism." That's a bad robot. Now let me inject more milk into your tubes here. I think I'll call you "Ash".

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

the recommendations are very limited compared to actual YouTube app.

For me, that's a feature, not a bug.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First off, be careful. Make sure you aren't putting yourself in danger. Don't talk to them. Talk to someone who can do something to protect you. HR if it's a work thing or the police if it rises to that level. If in doubt, err on the side of caution. If something like HR or police aren't an option, ghost them.

I hesitate to even go on. So let me reiterate. Aggressiveness is the kind of red flag you don't want to take lightly.

All that said, if none of the above helps; if you're talking about something other than fear for your personal safety (and again, please don't let denial blind you here), then: don't talk about their behavior. Talk about how you feel. Say that you feel nervous/on edge/scared when they behave in whatever way you're alluding to.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some day science will make designer pets who have features like this, or like the cat with the headset, or with purrrrfectly-shaped heart markings and memes like this will lose their magic. I'm glad not to live in those times.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This video is a good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw

Last I heard, Pewdiepie has been trying to pass it off as jokes, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. (And whether or not he's "a nazi" deep in his heart doesn't matter. He's doing and spreading naziism.)

 

Do you suffer from a personality disorder, suspect you might, know someone who does, or simply wish to engage on the topic with others?

That's what !personalitydisorders@lemmy.world is for.

 

I'm writing a Lemmy bot. (No spoilers. I'll publish it one day.) To test it, I'm running a local Lemmy instance (via Docker) on a computer on my LAN and pointing my bot at it. That method works great, mostly. I can use Lemmy-UI just fine on my computer. I can also connect to that computer from a browser on my Android phone via http://192.168.1.199:1234/. I can also connect to Lemmy directly from my browser on my Android phone via http://192.168.1.199:8536/ and get a JSON payload (rather than an HTML page) with some information about the instance. So I'm certain I can connect to both Lemmy and Lemmy-UI from elsewhere on my LAN.

I also want to see exactly what posts made by my bot look like in Jerboa, but I haven't been able to figure out how to connect to it from Jerboa. On the "add account instance" interface, you can select an instance from the dropdown, but you can also type whatever you want into the dropdown field.

I've tried typing in:

  • 192.168.1.199
  • 192.168.1.199:1234 (Lemmy-UI is HTTP port 1234.)
  • 192.168.1.199:8536 (Lemmy is HTTP port 8536.)
  • http://192.168.1.199:1234/
  • http://192.168.1.199:8536/

(And, yeah, I figure port 1234 is probably not correct because probably Jerboa doesn't go through Lemmy-UI, but rather directly to Lemmy itself. But I figured I'd include those experiments here for completeness's sake.)

But I get the error message "Couldn't connect to the instance."

I'm running Jerboa 0.0.77 and Lemmy 0.19.8.

Thanks in advance!

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Xenomorph (avp.fandom.com)
 

This is for testing purposes, I promise.

 

I learned just recently that dbzer0 has a great piracy community that is blocked by lemmy.world . I'm not saying I'm looking to switch instances or anything, but it did get me wondering what else might be blocked by my instance that I wasn't previously aware of.

While we're at it, I'm curious what communities might notably be blocked on other instances as well. So we might as well just make this a question about what might be blocked by any particular instance, not just my instance.

So, what's blocked on some instances that folks might not have realized is blocked?

 

Coworker. I told him to fuck off with his conspiracy bullshit. But back when I patronized him, one thing he said was that he didn't consider belief a binary as in that you either believe something or don't. He viewed all beliefs as a continuum. You can believe one thing 10% and another thing 90%, but he wouldn't let me pin him down as to whether he "believed" any particular thing or not.

All while trying to convince me "tall white aliens" run the U.S. government and Sandy Hook was faked by a bunch of actors and the U.S. military had invisibility technology and planes that aren't dumping weather-controlling chemicals don't leave trails in the sky. Pretty standard QAnon-level bullshit. But if I asked him if he believed any of those things, he wouldn't answer. Honestly, it makes sense as a dishonest rhetorical tactic.

Dude also literally drinks borax in his juice cleanse drink.

 

Just as examples:

  • I've never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
  • I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn't realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
  • Oh, and I've never seen the "hawk tuah" video.
 

I think I like the flakes better, actually. I microwave-bake bread with onion in it daily and the flakes are nicer.

Minced? Pure madness. Let alone powder.

 

Another source: https://isdown.app/status/hulu

I was logged out of Hulu on my streaming box and can't log back in on any device. I don't know if this is all of Hulu or just in certain regions or what.

 

And it bugs me a little, but apparently not enough that I've actually done something about it.

 

I.

Hate.

Country.

Music.

Or at least that's something I'd've said, say, maybe 5 or 6 years ago. And it was true! I hadn't heard a single song I could identify as "country" that I could stand, let alone "like".

But it all started with Lil' Nas X and "Old Town Road". I think the first time I heard it, I dismissed it without really "getting" it. But when I started hearing and liking other things by Lil' Nas X, and when one of my favorite YouTube content creators said good things about "Old Town Road" on a stream, I listened again. More out of curiosity than anything. But with more context, I understood "Old Town Road" better. And, dare I say, liked it.

"It's ironic country music", I told myself. "It's ok for me to like that. It's got the affectations of country music, but it's not country music in its bones. It's actually pop if you really think about it."

I.

Hate.

Country.

Music.

(Except "Old Town Road" because it's only "ironically" country.)

See? It's so simple. The world still made sense. And I could listen to it and like it, and admit to myself that I liked it.

And then came Jelly Roll.

It was New Year's Eve (I don't remember what year it was), and I was watching New Year's Rockin' Eve as I do every year (and plan to this year). And on comes a country artist. I groaned and reached for the mute button. But my friend wanted to hear it. So...

He sang "Need A Favor." And, it was... good. I liked it.

Try as I might, I couldn't think of an excuse why I was allowed to like it. And I didn't listen to anything else by him for a good while, gut when I did, I liked it too.

I.

Hate.

Country.

Music.

(Except that one song by Nas X. And I guess I like that one song by Jelly Roll. But that's it.)

And I did listen to a little more Jelly Roll and it was surprisingly enjoyable as well. And I still hadn't resolved the cognitive dissonance when...

Bam! The most recent episode of SNL came on. And the musical guest was Shaboozey.

And since then I have not been able to stop listening to "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" practically on repeat.

And it was a few days before I let the ~~intrusive thoughts~~YouTube algorithm win and play me another Shaboozey song. It was "Highway." And holy shit, it was... if anything better than "Tipsy".

And I've listened to a bunch of Shaboozey since, and his stuff ranges from "actually really good" to "I can't stop playing it."

I...

guess I...

kinda... maybe...

like...

country music...

actually?

It's really surreal. But it's clearly impossible to continue to believe that "I don't like country music".

The jury's still out on Post Malone's "I Had Some Help" featuring Morgan Wallen. But honestly, I'm listening to it as I write this to try to form a more solid opinion on it and I can feel it growing on me a bit.

I'm not sure whether I'm changing or country music is. This is all still very new to me.

Maybe I've just been racist against country music until I started seeing some less "traditional" country musicians. A part of me is worried the country music I've been enjoying lately is going to end up being a gateway drug to the harder stuff like Kenny Chesney's "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" and Toby Keith's "As Good As I Once Was". But doing research for this Lemmy post, I just listened to a (small) part of each of those two, and I can report I'm at no risk of developing a habit of either of those.

...for now.

 

He's a convicted felon, right? And that means he isn't eligible to vote, right? So he didn't/couldn't vote, right?

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