What software are you using? Have you tried vlc?

I wasn’t the mod that locked your previous thread but I’m locking this one.

You are being abrasive and this post itself is off topic.

Locking because of Rule 4.

Republicans want to be in control. If Democrats had set up a dictatorship, they would be completely against it.

I just listened to the Behind the Bastards episode of Rush Limbaugh and you draw a direct line from Watergate and Nixon to Trump.

Republicans saw the fairness doctrine to be the main reason so much of their base trusted the news. Reagan got rid of it and the post-fact reality was forged.

“The difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction must be believable.”

- Mark Twain

“Well, have you tried not being sad?”

- my parents

You know what would be a terrible leopard ate my face moment?

• US nukes remain unguarded/unmaintained due to people leaving their job.
• Russia “liberates” America and seizes nukes because shit for brains Musk posted them on doge.gov
• Russia points their nukes at DC and gives Trump an ultimatum: join Russia or die
• Trump has a Pikachu face

I know we have entire arsenals on submarines but still with this kangaroo of a government, it is very possible that Trump will recall every one of those subs to a Russian navel port and just hand Putin the keys.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Many of his early recipes were actually direct copies of recipes from America Test Kitchen. Many word for word.

So it’s even extra shitty that he put his recipes behind a paywall because most of ATK’s recipes are available for free. (But buy their books! They are very good)

IMO, cookbooks are in a different category. While yes their recipes are copyright free, the organization by theme is worth their cost. When I was in college, I bought a Betty Crocker “5 ingredients 30 minutes” cookbook which is awesome for someone who is learning to cook. As I’ve developed skills I’ve gravitated toward cookbooks that teach the fundamentals and science of cooking that help explain what’s happening.

You must have had well lubricated partners then. I’ve tried shower, tub, and pool sex and it’s not as fun as I thought it was going to be.

Yeah this picture reads as someone who has only read about sex and never done it. Sex in a tub is terrible.

Thank you for this post and encouragement. I am open to volunteering my time and talents to help people find Lemmy.

However, after the work is done, it would be fantastic if you all could invest in advertising. I know that Google and Bing aren’t great but if I had to guess, search trend for “reddit alternatives” is probably rising and Lemmy is in a great spot to provide reddit refuges a life raft.

I would call them “starter” instances. And I’m in agreement there should be a set of principles that these instances should follow but at the same time telling new users that it’s okay to switch instances. I started in .world but moved due to their increasingly conservative changes.

While I personally would steer new users away from .world, I think it’s more important to tell them it’s okay to switch instances.

It looks like it’s been patched. I couldn’t find solid instructions anyway. But if I do, I’m sure someone will post an easy to use shell script.

Except this isn’t 100% true.

• Google continues to add more ads per page, despite people complaining
• Netflix now has ads even in paid tiers. Their subscribers count grew
• YouTube continues to push ads even to the point of aggressive blocking ad blockers

There isn’t a single platform that has reduced the number of ads it serves.

Businesses have learned that the majority of users will take it.

Because many of these people signed on to be civil servants, not political pawns.

And the alt-right has shown that they are willing to kill to get their way. These people didn’t sign up for that either.

There are brave souls who are standing up to fascism by digging their heels in. But there are people who never wanted the lime light, who only wanted to do their job. Their bravery is different because they are resigning, forcing the spotlight on them but in a different way.

She probably did the best right thing she could live with.

Reddit gives Google access to everything so that Google can train their AI

Reddit sold access. For short term gains. Because the quarter needed more money to beat the previous quarter.

If this isn’t a leopard eating their face moment, I don’t know what is.

Early co-pilot (before chatgpt) was pretty decent. You typed in a comment what you wanted to do and you could cycle through code examples easily. While it wasn’t 100% accurate, it was close enough to get you what you needed and took care of the annoying work.

As soon as ChatGPT got integrated, shit went downhill fast and I uninstalled it. It was a night and day difference.

Fun fact about recipes: they are not copyrightable.

So you can’t “pirate” them unless they put them behind a paywall, and even then you can download and reshare them.

I absolutely hate that Basics with Babish put his recipes behind a paywall.

I’m in the same boat. The ads have become terrible for me so I’m in the market for a new app anyway. I was hesitant to purchase a subscription because of the low number of releases.

Glad I didn’t