Moonlight Sonata (Nightmare)

I liked Valley of the Damned as well, but Through the Fire and Flames is hard to beat of course.

If communities were global instead of instance-based, instance mods/admins would likely still be able to moderate posts and comments hosted on THEIR instance (which may be important to confirm to local laws), but they wouldn’t be able to moderate the ENTIRE discussion.

There are likely some advantages to this (such as discussion not being able to be stifled by overeager or politically extremist mods), but it would also mean there is no way to globally enforce any particular rule (unless all instance admins agree on it).

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Two can play that game. And since ChatGPT has a rather liberal bias baked in, I’m not sure it would it work out too well for the tankies.

Like I said, fine with me as long as it’s on neutral ground and they can’t just have an admin delete some of my arguments because they don’t like them.

I’m fine with it as long as I don’t have to debate them on THEIR terms.

I’m honestly fine with that, because outside of their home server, they cannot rely on their mods to protect them from arguments they don’t want to hear.

On your Lemmy instance, go to Settings -> Blocks and just block the entire instance. That’s what I did.

I just ended up banning the whole instance from my account so I don’t end up posting there accidentally. If they want an echo chamber, they can have an echo chamber.

Like I said, the premise is solid, but don’t get your hopes up too high, because it just sort of ends up haphazardly petering out without even being able to decide on a clear message.

Decided to watch American Fiction today, because it was advertised on Amazon Prime and the trailer seemed interesting enough. Also, apparently it won an Oscar this year for best screenplay adaption. Basically, the protagonist is a black author (and professor of literature) who is frustrated because his ambitious and highbrow novels aren’t selling too well, because literary critics seem to prefer more “ghetto” style stories that lean heavily on black stereotypes and ebonics as being a more authentic representation of the black experience. After getting hit with some unexpected bills, he breaks down and decides to write his own ghetto novel, with plenty of violence, crime, and gratuitous expletives, and releases it under an alias. The critics end up loving it and pretty soon he is getting inundated with interview requests and movie deals while having to lead a double life as a gangster turned novelist so as to not break his cover.

Long story short, while I definitely enjoyed the premise, the movie turned out to be rather long-winded and boring, with lots of semi-relevant side stories that ultimately didn’t go anywhere, while teetering erratically between the same two extremes the author finds himself caught up in, and it doesn’t really have much of a satisfying ending either. Best I can say is there was an attempt to make a black American Beauty, but it ultimately lacked conviction and panache.

I like how it calls the captcha an “IQ test”.

If you think that he personally goes anywhere near this I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya…

All of his social media accounts are handled by his PR team. He probably doesn’t even know what’s on them.

I probably would, but unfortunately I lack the industrial sized 3D printer required to manufacture it.

Clone the repo and make it yourself.

So Trump doesn’t just use FOSS, he even spends time and money to improve it? What a dick.

Yes it is: https://help.truthsocial.com/legal/open-source/

I am now sitting on the left side of my bed instead of the right one.