I am a person online.
Well, since it's so nicely asked, here's one.
If you're wondering why I didn't lead by offering that, it's a manner of stance. Shitjustworks made the choice use AI "art". It was a political choice. This is a pro AI community. As I said, lines are drawn. Shitjustworks picked their side long ago, I was slower to pick mine. I now think that someone who'd chose an AI banner, even over the absence of a banner is not on my side. Anyway, waiting for you to see to this comment is the last thing I have to do before deleting my account, so please reply to notify me when you did, whethrt or not you have anything to say; and I'll be on my way. As for this 'banner', I don't believe it'll be used and I don't care if it is. The point of making it was just a point: Drawing isn't a hard skill. Those who want to learn can. Those who ask receive.It matters little since I'll be deleting my shitjustworks account soon. Beside, I'm had an Hexbear account for about three years, the only reason I made an account on another Lemmy instance is that they weren't federated then.
I feel that lines are drawn, and I'm no longer on your side.
It was nice being a part of this community, but each day I hate AI slop more than the last. I can no longer remain on a community that made the choice of having an AI-generated header. It always bugged me a bit, but to me it's recently gone from a "let's agree to disagree" situation to a "if you're not with me then you're against me" situation. so I'll be going back to my Hexbear account.
L'ironie d'utiliser des Gaulois qui se battent contre des Romain pour défendre l'Église et le vin*. Ça résume bien une incohérence fréquente dans la pensée des réactionnaires: Ils idéalisent une culture figée d'un passé imaginaire. Il n'y a eu aucune époque dans l'histoire où la France avait tout ce qu'ils revendiquent et rien de ce qu'ils raillent. Des imports et inovations qui ont changé la France sont légitimés à postériori, mais tout import ou inovation récente est condamnée par principe.
Bon, j'ai vérifié pour le vin comme je ne voulais pas dire de conneries, et oui il y avait un peu de vin dans la Gaule pré-romaine, mais c'était plus rare que l'hydromel ou la bière et surtout importé, ou alors produits dans des endroits qui étaient plus de culture Grèque comme Massalia/Marseille. Ça reste les romains qui l'ont plus massivement importé. source
Makes me wonder what would've become of them had they accepted the lasagna. Was it poisoned? Would they have been stabbed as they reached for it?
Idk, I'm just a 21st century neurotypical man.
There was a part of my teenage years when I was really into these types of conspiracy theories,trying to find Baphomet the pentagram in all types of seals and insignas, like the NSA's seal for example. This almost makes me nostalgic...
Well I'll personally be shunning Eurovision once more.
Atomic models through time
I despise you.
Wait, you're fossilesque, the same fossilesque who posts many memes, often good ones? Why post this slop now, this is way beneath you!
Hummingbird wings tho, the ones that'd require the most constant effort... Unless reprogramming your brain to do it instinctively, it'd also demand constant concentration. And if you can do that forhummingbird wings, why not witg telekinesis?
The girl from the song "Moonchild" by King Crimson and the boy from the song "Hijo de la Luna" by Mecano are half-siblings.
I get that a gorilla is more likely to stand his ground, especially if it's a silverback and he sees the bear as a threat to his pack. But I see the scenario where the bears deems it not worth it and leaves more as a "fight not happening" rather than "gorilla wins the fight". Since the question implies a fight is taking place, I'd exclude this scenario and assume they must fight tooth and nail. And if that happens, I bet on the bear.
It always comes back to Gilgamesh.
Bear. Gorillas can get killed by leopards. Yeah, they're musculars and got decently sharp incisives and pointy canines, but bears hunt large animals as part of their diet, so they're better equiped to kill. Teeth, bite force, claws, thick fur to dampen attacks...
Does it count if it's not done playing? If so "Vodou adjae in my ass". Or " Vodou dances in my ass" or "Vodou adjae nan boudam" for language coherence. Otherwise "Stup virus in my ass".
I knew a woman who was absolutely certain she could have any guy easily. it's true she was most attractive, but also super toxic, like she really had a history of driving her partners insane. Then she took interest in a rich boy who'd recently made some successful investment in timber trade. The dude in question was no stranger to toxicity either, he'd been quite the fuckboy. One guy almost beat him up over this once and everyone cheered, but they ended up becoming friends, and his new bestie really had a good influence on him, he'd become a pretty decent guy. Anyway, the toxic lady made advances on the ex-fuckboy and he said "No, don't take it personally, I'd rather not be turned into a donkey or whatever it is you do to your boyfriends, thanks you."
But she did take it personally. Her old father owned quite the estate, including a very big, strong and aggressive bull. She unleashed it on the town to destroy the homes and devour the crops. The bull was also toxic, so no food would grow in its wake for seven years or something. But ex-fuckboi and his niceboi bff were very strong, so they killed the bull, and brought its carcass to toxic lady, as a sassy offering, which she didn't appreciate.
Depends on how it's handled from there, but there are quite a few fantasy lores wherein deities gain their power from the worship, fear, of even just awareness of mortals; so depending on this specific game's lore it could make sense. But of course, that's just the "why", there might be cause for elaboration on the " how" and the "who". Good stories could certainly be drawn from there, I'd imagine an entire order created for the purpose of enforcing the taboo around these deities, everyone with knowledge of them being forced to take vows of silence or be killed, massive burnings of scrolls, shattering of tablets, spying and inquisitions to find those who break the taboo... And certainly, there'd be some stuff in there that can somehow be tied to the main story. Maybe a group faced by the party could be the heirs, the ghosts, of the magical creations of that order. Or perhaps those of the repressed.
Should've said "prove it then".
Accidental good lore
So close, no matter how far.
Trying to do the same thing they did in Haïti with the assassination of president Jouvenel Moïse, I presume.
How to tell Thunderbird to stop trying to connect to a server (without removing the address)
I have several mailing accounts configured on Thunderbird, two of which no longer exist (from institutions of which I'm no longer a member). I don't wish to delete these, as they can still come handy when finding old messages or adresses of old contacts. I just edited the settings to stop fetching messages, but I still get notifications saying Thunderbird failed to connect to the server. It's a very minor inconvenience, but I'd rather Thunderbird not waste ressources trying to connect to them every time.
So, how's the standard way to deal with accounts that no longer exist but of which you'd rather keep the already existing mails and data?
Thoughts on Newgrounds's recent orientation?
I'm assuming this is in the scope of this community since Newgrounds was founded almost 30 years ago, tho I did notice posts here focus more on the small we than on bigger websites, so sorry if this post is perceived as inappropriate.
Newgrounds is a site for posting art, animations and games where I've had an account for a few years and I quite enjoy it. Since last year it's been becoming more pressing about asking for donations and morphing into a kind of "premium" model, where only donators get access to some stuff. I'm feeling a bit conflicted because I tend to shun sites with this model, but I also kinda understand that it might be necessary since hosting all that content probably costs a lot. But then again, it must have been costing a lot for a long time, and this comes up surrisingly close in time to the enshittification of Twitter and Reddit. Does anyone have any thoughts? Or maybe some more background knowledge about why Newgrounds has been making these decisions now in part
Despite what Shakira says, if hips could lie hers would be my prime suspects.
Few hips would be articulate enough to convey any precise message, which would be necessary to lie. Hers have the speed and precision required to formulate lies, in morse code for example.
Pieces of tree can be beautiful individually, pieces of humans only when they're assembled.
Like, you can see a leaf on and think "wow, that's a beautiful leaf". You may even pick it up to admire it (especially if you're a child or a biologist). You wouldn't do that with a strand of human hair, a human nail clipping, or even less with the parts that aren't supposed to come off like hands or eyes.
Init wars part 7
Hey, it's been a while.
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I don't think Asuka is actually a tsundere
She's sometimes seen as the archetypal tsundere, her (perceived) opposition to Rei paving the road to a thousand standoffs between tsundere and kuudere, such as Nagato vs Haruhi; but it doesn't seem right to me. Firstly because Nadia, from Anno's previous anime was much more of a tsundere, but also Asuka never felt like a tsundere to me in the first place; and I think I just found the words to explain why. She definitely has the "tsun"; she is hostile to the point of aggression towards Shinji, and it would also seems that she might be interested in him romantically (the "dere"). However, she lacks a causal relation between the two. See, the idea of a tsundere is that her hostility serves to hide the romantic feeling towards its object, which she doesn't want to admit. Asuna, however, isn't bashful about love. She has no qualms hitting on Kaji or kissing Shinji. The cause of her hostility is another feeling she represses and that's seeing herself in Shinji. The need she feels to be s
Why no "elsetime" or "elseone" ?
The word "elsewhere" conveniently exist to spare us the chore of saying "somewhere else". Why then do we waste or time saying "someone else" or "some other time"?
"Hips don't lie" by Shakira feat Wyclef Jean tells a different story depending on how you interpret the "you" in "I never really knew you could dance like this"
"You" can either mean the second person (Shakira in this case) or people in general.
Therefore, "I never really knew you could danc like this" can mean either "I didn't know you (Shakira) were able to dance like this." or "I didn't know it was humanly possible to dance like this". It is usually context that tells these interpretations apart, for example, the first one would only make sense if Wyclef already knows Shakira. But is Wyclef's character supposed to know Shakira's in the story of the song?
Two lines later, he asks her "Como te llamas?", which seems to imply that he doesn't. #However he later also says "Shakira, Shakira", even tho she hasn't answered yet, implying he did know her name. What gives?
I'm not sure either why he keeps saying "No fighting".
How do I disable some interferring xterm keybinds?
TL:DR : I just want xterm to not do anything special when I start typing ctrl+shift+u so I can write special character, so I must remove the ctrl+u default keybind.
I'm using xterm on a laptop (no discrete gpu and pretty bad integrated graphics, so gpu-accelerated ones like kitty are counterproductive, and I use i3 so an xorg based one sounds better). I also like using vim.
I'm also using a qwerty keyboard, but sometimes write in French and need accents. I've memorized the codes for those I often need, like ctrl+maj+u+e+9 for é, but it doesn't work in xterm because it executes the ctrl+u keybind (delete previous characters and then types "(" (because it's maj+9).
So, following online guides, I've created a .Xresource file with the following code:
undefined
XTerm.VT100.translations: #override \n\ Ctrl <Key>U: none
And I also added the line
undefined
exec xrdb ~/.Xresources
But to no avail, even when restarting the x session or manualy running xrdb ~/.Xresources.
What am I doing wro
I should've successfully configured internet sharing... Yet it still doesn't work.
Hello!
I recently moved, bringing both my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad X131e running Debian) and my desctop (msi A320m pro motherboard, amd ryzen 5 cpu, running Arch).
My desktop didn't have a wifi card (I'd removed it to add a graphic card, my mobo didn't fit them both), it uses ethernet, but it turns out my new place has wifi included, but no ethernet. I'll grab my wifi card where I left it in two weeks, but in the meantime I wanted to connect my computer to my laptop so I could still use it with internet sometimes.
I followed this guide to accomplish it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Internet_sharing Regarding the parts where there are several options:
-For step 2.3.1 (Enable Nat) I used nftables, since that's what I had installed
-For step 2.4 I chose to manually add an IP
After that, the ethernet indicator at the bottom of my screen (I use i3) shows the address I added in green, so it should work... Alas, when I try updating or pinging any site, I get the "Temporary failure i
Cruelle Destinée
Des erreurs ont été commises
Un nombre insuffisant de chaussures a été emmené lors du déménagement.
Des chaussures ont été mises sans chaussettes, qui n'auraient dût être portées qu'avec.
Du bicarbonate de sodium a été mis pour absorbé l'humidité, jusque-là sans beaucoup d'effet.
Les souliers retrouveront-ils une odeur tolérable ?
Seul le temps nous le dira, l'histoire reste encore à écrire.
How come neither burps nor hiccups are usually painful, but a combination of both is?
Init wars part 5
Only one page this time, but the color is back... Sorta, I'm experimenting different methods.
I might as well post the comment here now
For context, the post I'm referring to is a map of Africa with subsaharia Africa in deep green, Sudan in light green and north Africa was white or some other color. The poster was claiming nothing had ever been invented in the green zone. My comment was gonna be this:
Antiseptics before Europeans.
Iron Smelting Not the first to discover it, but recent evidence show it was invented independently.
Some modern Archtecture taking inspiration from Sudano-Sahelian features such as a roof shape favoring natural ventilation. And since I just transitioned to recent inventions, there's the [Car