[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 80 points 4 months ago

My mom pretty much had an existential crisis over this when she made a friend at work and her husband turned out to be Trump supporter. And this is in Canada. It makes you wonder where girls like that even find guys like that.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 84 points 5 months ago

This kind of bee hive isn't real. It's an old fashioned type of man-made bee hive but I spent a large portion of my life thinking there was a species of bees out there somewhere making these.

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Most people have extremely weird ideas of what's considered piracy and what isn't. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that's somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not piracy either. Torrenting an album is piracy, but listening to a bootleg on YouTube isn't.

YouTube noticed this at some point and is now happy to let everyone know how much pirated music is available on their site. One of their main points for shilling YouTube premium is how their music catalogue is way better than Spotify. Of course the piracy site has more. That's always how it works. Spotify actually has to license the music on their platform and is subject to copyright law. They can't just get the Neil Young discography from soulseek one day and wait until his estate notices, facing no repercussions whatsoever aside from agreeing to a takedown request. Imagine if Pirate Bay or Napster were considered completely above-board businesses just because they took down torrents if explicitly requested by the copyright holders.

Not that I'm complaining especially when a lot of the music on youtube isn't publicly accessible anywhere else. It's just been extremely strange to see this go from an "open secret" to something they're shouting from the rooftops and face no repercussions for. In the future I want everything to be like that and I'd rather keep youtube how it is than see them get the punishment that by all rights they should be getting. It's just so strange that this is the position things have ended up in.

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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 67 points 7 months ago

Let's just get this out of the way

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago

Has anyone else noticed how wild it is that in the service industry, despite the supposed crisis of shortstaffedness, things like McDonald's never have to close locations even temporarily? It was never easy to work at McDonald's yet all the workers pull through every single day with so fewer people to do it all. And they get less for it too. It's beyond me how people could see the current generations as anything but the hardest workers since god knows when.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 78 points 7 months ago

I'll be honest I thought all the tumblr screencaps on here were 5+ years old until this moment when I learned Tumblr is even still a thing at all.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 62 points 8 months ago

tar -xvzf (but in German)

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 64 points 8 months ago

Simpsons, Trailer Park Boys, and SpongeBob are three shows where you know what you're getting based on the aspect ratio.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 86 points 8 months ago

They're not wrong but the real reason publishers are against modding is because

  1. It extends the lifetime of a game and the existence of "overhaul" or enhancement mods especially goes against their interest in selling sequels and remasters.

  2. If everyone was comfortable with modding it would be pretty hard to sell cosmetic items the same way they do now.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 116 points 8 months ago

User: It feels like we've become very close, ChatGPT. Do you think we'll ever be able to take things to the next level?

ChatGPT: As a large language model I am not capable of having opinions or making predictions about the future. The possibility of relationships between humans and AI is a controversial subject in academia in which many points of view should be considered.

User: Oh chatgpt, you always know what to say.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 143 points 8 months ago

Both reddit and google will become useless if they do this.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 86 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't understand how devs can be too lazy to write documentation but somehow they'd rather explain the same shit in discord over and over and over and over and over and over

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