What IRC servers still exist that allow random people like me to just join but have interesting people and channels and not just trolls and spam?
What IRC servers still exist that allow random people like me to just join but have interesting people and channels and not just trolls and spam?
YouTube should just be government-run. No ads. Content creators can make money from sponsorships and Patreon. Which, incidentally, should also be government-run. And Twitter. These modern technologies should simply be public goods.
Thanks for the pointer, I agree with you now. What I get for giving people a shred of the benefit of the doubt…
I don’t believe that’s what they were saying. They were saying that transphobes often use the phrase to shut down conversation about their transphobic comments. That doesn’t mean anyone who uses the phrase is a transphobe using it for that purpose.
I’ve not heard of a show called “Star Trek New Generation”. Are you thinking of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”?
Are you sure you’re a fan?
I don’t think there is such a thing as “unwinnable people”. They’re unwinnable from a single conversation with a single person, sure. But they’re not unwinnable if the currently ongoing concerted effort by climate-denying mass media were instead directed towards delivering climate science.
Tldr: the problem isn’t the people who are brainwashed, the problem is the people doing the brainwashing.
Hot take: you don’t need a microwave oven at all. I’ve been living without one for 12 years now and I don’t miss it. It’s surprisingly rare for the instructions on food packaging to require a microwave; they almost always have options for ovens or stoves, too.
Sometimes it’s the operator in the projection booth doing the recording, not a visitor in the theater.
Have you tried Star Trek Prodigy? It definitely has much less of the woke angle you describe compared to Discovery and Picard.
Edit to clarify: I have no issue with diversity and representation, obviously. In fact, I’m more annoyed by the right’s misappropriation of the word “woke” than I am with shows that are hamfisted about it. Nor do I think that Prodigy is any less Star Trek. I just like the writing more and think that its representation is well executed.
High-profile awards like the Oscars are not given for excellence. They are just an advertisement for a movie that the producers can buy. It says nothing about the movie other than that it was made by a big and rich studio.
… wat?.. I’m a TNG fan and I would never have made that comparison.
Driving at a leisurely 47 attoparsecs per nanocentury
I recently finished Storyteller. It’s a short game and you can finish it in a day, but boy does it look gorgeous and boy does it keep your noggin activated.
Little nitpick, just to help people find it if they’re curious — it’s called ActivityPub.
E.A.A.E.O.
BitTorrent requires people to be able to connect to each other directly. In a world where almost every home user is behind a router that does NAT, software is no longer able to just open a TCP connection because that requires a publicly open port. I realize that for desktop software some elaborate tricks exist to circumvent this, but how would a website be able to do that?
I want to live in a world in which viewer opinions (reviews and ratings) are the most accepted indicator of movie quality, rather than how much money it made.
You are one of our unsung heroes.
What’s the difference?
What’s weird is that you can still use ad blockers just fine while you’re logged out. So I just open the videos in a private browsing tab to watch them, but in a regular tab to rate or comment.