• Apr 7: “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks”-

Oh, nice! I had no idea that she was in it. I’ll check it out eventually. Thanks!

Yeah, for whatever reason, that Burton movie hasn’t enticed me even though I’m almost finished watching all 1,200+ episodes of the soap. Something about it just doesn’t seem appealing.

I’m currently watching through an old soap opera from the late 60s / early 70s because of its amazingly unusual premise (as far as soap operas go). It’s called Dark Shadows and it started off as a gothic mystery but then became a full-on horror soap opera, with ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches, devil-worshippers, etc. This was a daytime soap opera (lol) and it apparently became a cultural phenomenon that supposedly inspired a lot of stuff in the genre in later years.

Anyway, this is the first and only American soap opera that I’ve watched, and I have found that the actors are quite a mixed bag. Some of the actors in it are quite bad, and some are legitimately quite good. So much so that I would love to see them in other series or even movies because they have that quality that makes you want to watch them more and because I would like for them to receive proper recognition for their work and talents.

@jdr@lemmy.ml @Furbag@lemmy.world Wait, that wiktionary explanation seems weird too. I always thought of homie as being a derivative of “homeboy” or “homegirl”. I could be wrong, but I definitely started hearing homie after those two and have always thought that they were connected. In fact, the wiktionary page for homeboy lists homie as a related term, so to me it seems like the two pages are contradicting each other.

Thanks for providing at least approximate citations. I have a hard time imagining that homelessness in the USSR was ever anywhere near the current situation in the US. Even with arresting and pushing people to other cities, if you’ve seen what the streets around downtown LA look these days, it’s hard to imagine anything like it.

This may come as a surprise, but Warsaw Pact countries and the Soviet Union had widespread homelessness too.

Citation? Even if that’s true, was it anywhere near as bad as in the US currently?

The impression I have is that Germans are bigger users of the Fediverse in general than other countries, as in statistically overrepresented. Mastodon is originally a German project. Germans also created a Fediverse application for buying and selling second-hand items, Flohmarkt (Flea Market). Some other posts here have mentioned that Germans are culturally/historically more interested in privacy than many others, which may help explain the interest in the Fediverse. Finally, Lemmy is also an European project, so it makes sense that there would be more Europeans here, and Germany is the largest European economy and the most populous Western-European nation. Those are all probably factors contributing to this.

Far from the only one: https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

Millions of users, no. That only happens with either massive marketing and/or sheer luck to become the popular thing.

Niche communities, yes, if the software is tweaked a little. We already have niche communities. Now it’s just a question of making sure that the people who are interested in those topics and subscribed become more aware of posts in those communities. In other words, just a different algorithm for the main feed. Lemmy and Piefed have already tried adding new algorithms, but they didn’t seem to do the job (at least Lemmy’s new algorithm - I haven’t tried Piefed’s yet). Oh, and those new algorithms that would promote posts in niche communities to have more even standing with posts in large, general communities would need to become the default or at least widely adopted by users in order to have the intended effect.

Yes, this is the kind of counter-example I was thinking of as well, as opposed to rent-seeking.

Got it, thanks. I agree that those two things are pretty different from each other.

There’s a pretty wide range of things that are considered passive income. The examples you listed are some of them, and I agree that they are or can be exploitative, but there are many (particularly the ones where someone benefits from monetizing their own creations) that I wouldn’t.

Edit: I’m not trying to give you a hard time. I was trying to better understand what you were saying.

I think that for us to evaluate this one you would have to give an example of a similar act (singer/songwriter/performer) who is not overrated or even underrated in your opinion.

I think this needs a bit more explanation. I have a feeling that you are thinking of some specific examples of passive income that would qualify as labor appropriation (or some other type of exploitation), while there are examples of passive income that aren’t.

For sure!

I think it’s pretty common, and it’s super annoying. If I’m looking for something and see that it’s the exact same item with a price higher than on Amazon, I suspect that it’s a drop-ship and they’re pocketing the difference. I’ve gone through the effort to return that stuff if I happen to order it inadvertently. I’ve considered straight out asking them if they’re drop shipping before ordering, to be sure.

I don’t know about spambots, but here is one explanation of the Piefed karma mechanisms I’ve read here:

https://lemmy.zip/post/57943283/24279809

Oh, yes, I only noticed after replying to you that the OP mentioned gaming. I generally wouldn’t recommend most SFF PCs for gaming either.

Though spend a bit more for a solid i7 and avoid SFF.

The SFF’s can be great for just browsing, office use, light photo editing, etc. Obviously nothing too demanding, but they save a lot of power for their intended purpose. I picked up a USFF Lenovo ThinkCentre about the size of a Mac Mini for $100 a couple years back.