Fair, late-stage capitalism points. Of the two excellent channels I mentioned, I believe one monetizes by YT, and one by Patreon, but I think the latter method is indeed more popular now, perhaps for the reasons you mentioned.

Everyone should have left, yes, but considering how enormous YT’s storage and bandwidth is, I’m not sure how realistic that would have been in terms of single platform. Something like Daily Motion is a nice YT alt, but it probably would have been brought to its knees trying to serve all YT’s content. And/or simply bought out once again by Google or an even worse company, like Yahoo.

In what sense? To me it’s been a pretty awesome source of free music, archived TV, full movies, clips, and lots of impressive channels, like Kurzgesagt and Metatron.

Fascinating. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain! ^^

So when you say “tamaltios,” I presume it’s like “tomatillos?” I also know them as Mexican ground cherries:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mexican+ground+cherries&tbm=isch

SongFacts.com is great. It’s got wiki-like entries on bands and songs, then users add their comments and interpretations below.

Still very active, it seems to me.

I visited Paris some years back, tried to speak in my terrible tourist French whenever possible, and never found a hint of snobbery. I kinda get the impression that visitors with an attitude or who treat the city like an amusement park get the worst of the ‘snobbery.’

@teft@startrek.website

I use glycerin myself, but I’ll have to try vegetable oil next time.

The other thing that greatly helps speed things along is letting the oil / glycerin sit for 5-10min, then following up with an ear syringe full of warm water. Instead of spraying directly ahead, they’re designed to safely spray to the sides, and the agitating motion of the water works well to clear the clog very quickly.

Thanks for sharing that, and to add on, so far I’ve found:

• !art@lemmy.ml
• !drawing@lemmy.world

Both of which specialise in members sharing their own work.

avocado based cream sauce

Oh wow, so that’s a thing, eh?
Gonna try it with Greek yogurt, thanks!

D’oh. I’m subscribed here, see three comments tallied, but can’t actually see the comments.

Anyway, I wanted to ask what the two green sauces / paste are. One seems too dark for guac, and one too light.

Because the title leaves out the fact that Kirk’s native character was actually inspired by Horatio Hornblower, not Cook. Also, Hornblower was such a complex character that his attributes got split up in to both Kirk and Spock, evidently.

It’s a pretty interesting read!

I’m a huge iced tea drinker, and recently tried Earl Grey out of little more than pure boredom. It’s good! Whereas hot, the flavor is a little too much for me, when iced and diluted further, it has a really enjoyable floral bouquet, not unlike Constant Comment.

Difficult to tell when he’s playing an android

I thought that was a big part of how Spiner made Data just about the most interesting character in the series-- the understated little flourishes, tics, and burblings of emotion showing through.

To me a very clever variation on Nimoy’s amazing work on Spock in the series before, but of course Brent made the character wholly his own to the point that it barely registered that he was cut from the ‘Spock template.’

Cannot join lemmy.world.

consider yourself lucky

I really like the trending communities; great way to find new communities…

Hmm, I don’t really get that. Most of the time “trending communities” seem to be newly-created communities with little if any content. Considering how common it is for people to grab a community name and sit on it indefinitely, I feel like the ‘trending detection’ formula could be tweaked to display newer communities with solid growth, instead.

…or remind you to look for something you hadn’t thought about.

I salute the spirit of that, but the number of healthy communities across the FV seems pretty limited so far. Sure, it’s not that hard to find ghost communities with search tools (I tend to use this one), but that’s kind of a bittersweet feeling.

This particular image has not been hosted on lemm.ee before, as I’m the one who uploaded it to pixelfed.social

I’m guessing that means you’re also the image creator, otherwise you wouldn’t be sure nobody had uploaded it here before, right?

In any case, my first thought would be to try to do a test, replicating the event to see if the same thing happens again. Unfortunately, it looks like pixelfed.social is closed to new accts, so I suppose it would need to be someone already with an acct there. Feel like giving that a whack?

If so, there’s a junk community here that would make for a good testing ground. I just whipped up a test image with the same dimensions as yours, and right about the same size here.

if it’s not convenient for you to do a test at this time, maybe you could clue me in as to how to make a pixelfed.social acct?

Thanks, interesting. I’m not sure what’s happening, but it also seems to be hosted right here, scaled down 50k: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/5fdd577a-609b-409c-8811-ff59a0443f1b.webp

Unless that’s a disguised redirect link, I’m wondering if the server somehow mistakenly hosted it here. Or possibly the image was already hosted on Lemm.ee, and the server software decided to list the match link rather than the new one you provided.

If it sounds like I’m trying to make something out of nothing, I’m just concerned that there might be an image loophole attackers might use, as with what happened to Lemmy.World some weeks back.

Funny stuff, and whoa… the image is hosted at Lemm.ee??

That got disabled over a month ago AFAIK, and is still listed as such on the sidebar.

Everyone’s favorite show from the 90s

I dunno, man… I remember the Newsradio cast a bit differently.

In my case I found that creating a community that was missing here, then regularly populating it with content, has worked wonders. That it was not just a good way to get myself engaged here, as well as to grow the Fediverse, but to attract users from Reddit and other places given a bit of cross-posting.

Seriously, I’m not sure how many people understand that right now, given that new content is generated relatively slowly across the FV, that any new community putting quality stuff out there is going to get a *hugely* larger proportion of eyes on it. That’s compared to similar communities on Reddit, FB, etc, in which smaller / newer communities tend to get completely drowned out in the ALL streams.

My own niche community (Euro graphic novels) already has 350+ subscribers in less than 90 days. Even for Reddit that’s a nice jump-start and growth. Which is why I urge people to jump on this opportunity now, because eventually it’s probably going to dry up.

Indeed, maybe it would be good to get this message out to people on Reddit, FB, etc who always wanted to start a sub/community, but the opportunities were ‘all filled up’ already.

There’s also the ‘Ask Historians’ analysis, which posits that there were at least three major ideas about how to handle a nuclear bombing entertained between the principles deciding.

While it’s tempting to look at the situation in retrospect and agree with the report that ‘yes obviously there wasn’t a need to bomb to elicit a surrender’ that nevertheless doesn’t mean that the majority of the deciders were fully on board with that understanding & approach, unlike Ike.

Without doing a deep dive, the AH approach makes about the most sense to me and seems consistent with history, in which there was a level of uncertainty and multiple players & arguments going in to the final decision.

Btw, that first link barely mentions the matter, and the second link is far too subjective to be of much use, far as I can tell.