[-] SnotFlickerman 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I personally found it on soulseek, most trackers are avoiding it because pre-release brings extra heat.

[-] SnotFlickerman 9 points 2 hours ago

Seriously, I watched the leaked workprint. It's really, really bad. Bad script, bad acting, bad styling, just bad bad bad. First time I've legitimately seen Jack Black phone it in.

[-] SnotFlickerman 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Probably more like right-wing astroturfing hitting every article with bots voting "unfair left leaning" the second an article publishes.

[-] SnotFlickerman 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

As an American, I'm glad others have noticed this, too. We could be building community and supporting one another, but it's not even on anyone's roadmap. Our hyper-individualistic society has turned into pure toxicity and inability to organize in any meaningful or helpful way. It's pretty maddening that I know a bunch of people that want to buy guns, but almost nobody that wants to start a community garden.

Also see my comment here for more context.

[-] SnotFlickerman 69 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't have much to add except this highly relevant post made by Dee Xtrovert in 2009 on MetaFilter about their experience in the siege of Sarajevo:

Well, unlike the majority of you (I assume), I actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.

Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:

Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.

Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity. Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who "prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces. The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams. Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.

We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren't attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I'd take a bite of a friend's salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I'd never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.

Within the domain of those trapped in the city, civility greatly increased.

You often hear how Holocaust survivors felt guilt at surviving. Well, during war, that was a feeling everyone was aware of - people started dying right away (my parents were killed near the start of the siege, for instance) - and there was a palpable enough common sense of karma to make everyone into good Samaritans. None of us understood why we survived while others didn't. I shared food when I had it, even though I often knew I wouldn't have a crumb the next day. Which was no big achievement, because nearly everyone did the same.

Those who'd prepared, well, the majority of them shared their food and whatever else they had as soon as someone else was clearly in need. I can't swear it, but I think they felt a little foolish to have been so self-obsessed, and giving away that stuff might have lessened that feeling. There were a few people who hoarded things until they ran out of stuff - eventually everybody ran out of anything worth hoarding - and they soon became wishful beggars like the rest of us. Again, I can't swear it, but I hear stories, and it seems that these people suffer from post-war trauma, guilt and nightmares more than the rest of us.

Those survivalists, I feel sorry for them. It's no way to live.


Added emphasis is mine. I've had this bookmarked for about a decade or more now.

In short, stop stocking up, start building community. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] SnotFlickerman 6 points 6 hours ago

Don't eat where you shit.

[-] SnotFlickerman 15 points 7 hours ago

Not actually all that surprising.

[-] SnotFlickerman 11 points 8 hours ago

people w personality disorders

People will be my friend??

[-] SnotFlickerman 3 points 10 hours ago

Surgery recovery slowly continues. A lot of time in bed reading and watching televsion. Kinda going out of my mind with boredom.

[-] SnotFlickerman 30 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I remember the pre-Youtube internet where we created content because it was fun or educational, not because we needed money for the task of doing so.

Paying for server costs and maintaining them, sure. MetaFilter has a good system for that, they're effectively a non-profit and have a donation structure and paid admins and moderators. The rest of the people on the site, they just make good content for the sake of making good content, not because they feel the need to be paid for their time doing it.

God I miss the pre-Youtube era. "Content creators" looking for a payday via advertising are a fucking cancer.

[-] SnotFlickerman 78 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Americans continue to prove how abjectly stupid they are.

I really hope the rest of the world is genuinely done putting up with our horseshit.

[-] SnotFlickerman 177 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Stop using youtube.

EDIT: A lot of people real fuckin triggered by this and looking for any excuse to keep using. Fucking addicts.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

Until March 10th, the Tesla stock dropped dramatically to a low of $222.15, and the articles posted that day were reasonable. Honestly, it was lower last spring at $142.05 in April 2024. Everything after March 10th were not reasonable or reflective of reality.

As of today the stock sits at $287.99, nowhere near its peak but still overvalued as living fuck.

Yet somehow, we've had two fucking solid weeks of "Tesla stock dropping" news articles while the stock has been slowly creeping back up.

All those articles just serve as wishcasting for people who don't like Musk.

I fucking hate Musk, but what I hate more is ignoring reality around you. That's what MAGA idiots do.

I had the stupidest arguments with people who kept saying that it was rising didn't matter. Why not? He's still way up in terms of valuation from just a year ago, and it's still rising, no matter what bullshit fantasy we want to tell ourselves because we reasonably fucking hate Elon Musk.

Anyway, the stock is probably being juiced by Russia and Saudia Arabia. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What follows are some examples:

March 10th: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/tesla-shares-plunge-14percent-head-for-worst-day-in-five-years.html

March 17th: https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-stock-price-musk-ai-model-y-10b333a4

March 19th: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/business/elon-musk-tesla-stock-nightcap/index.html

March 21st: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick

March 23rd: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-stock-tanked-hard-no-161417378.html

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/politics@lemmy.world

Aishvarya Kavi

Lin said that the U.S. Institute for Peace called the D.C. police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the D.C. police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

Before the D.C. police arrived, the Musk team had tried for hours to enter the building. They attempted to enter on Friday, but that effort was unsuccessful.


Dear /c/Politics moderators: I am only posting this in the body because the direct link doesn't actually work as a direct link and just takes you to the top of the updates thread and you have to dig to find this two paragraph snippet. Please understand why I did this. I know the rule is not to do this but I hope you can make an exception in this case.


Anyone else remember the evidence that a lot of the DC police were just letting January 6th rioters onto the capitol grounds and that it was roundly dismissed by our useless fucking media as a conspiracy theory?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/defense-dozens-capitol-rioters-law-enforcement-us-building/story?id=75976466

https://web.archive.org/web/20210107091319/https://preview.redd.it/5su8wm36ts961.gif?format=mp4&s=e21b9715da046e7734bac9e3c2cac33e53b43a25

Pepperidge Farm Remembers. Even if Reddit deleted the fucking video.

Law enforcement was never on our side.

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Wives Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/onehundredninetysix
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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I just want to know if reports are failing for anyone else and if we need to be making some kind of plea to the admins/moderation teams/developers to try to fix it.

Because not being able to report this obvious spam is a problem.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

We live in hell-world.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by SnotFlickerman to c/haiku@lemm.ee

this one is called "too short haiku"

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submitted 4 weeks ago by SnotFlickerman to c/music@lemmy.world
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Islands - Creeper (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago by SnotFlickerman to c/music@beehaw.org

Right from the start
I was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know I wasn't breathing
Didn't know I had been bleeding

Opened my door
Thought I was alone but
Someone was hiding
In a dark room in my home

Hum it, you will remember some of it
But if you solve it you will remember all of it

Creeper in my home, crawled in through the window
I grabbed a kitchen knife, couldn't stick it in though
Creeper had his own, shining in the moonlight
My home was very cold, and something didn't feel right

Right from the start
I was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know I wasn't breathing
Didn't know I had been bleeding

Opened my door
Thought I was not alone, but
Someone was hiding in the dark room in my home

Right from the start
I was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know I wasn't breathing
Didn't know I had been bleeding

Opened my door
Thought I was alone, but
Someone was hiding in the dark room in my home

Right from the start
I was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know I wasn't breathing
Didn't know I had been bleeding

Opened my door
Thought I was alone, but
Someone was hiding
In a dark room in my home

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Islands - Creeper (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago by SnotFlickerman to c/music@lemmy.world

Right from the start
I was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know I wasn't breathing
Didn't know I had been bleeding

Opened my door
Thought I was alone but
Someone was hiding
In a dark room in my home

Hum it, you will remember some of it
But if you solve it you will remember all of it

Creeper in my home, crawled in through the window
I grabbed a kitchen knife, couldn't stick it in though
Creeper had his own, shining in the moonlight
My home was very cold, and something didn't feel right

Right from the start
I was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know I wasn't breathing
Didn't know I had been bleeding

Opened my door
Thought I was not alone, but
Someone was hiding in the dark room in my home

Right from the start
I was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know I wasn't breathing
Didn't know I had been bleeding

Opened my door
Thought I was alone, but
Someone was hiding in the dark room in my home

Right from the start
I was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know I wasn't breathing
Didn't know I had been bleeding

Opened my door
Thought I was alone, but
Someone was hiding
In a dark room in my home

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submitted 1 month ago by SnotFlickerman to c/music@lemmy.world

I woke up thirsty on an island in the sea
I woke up hungry with hungry cougars surrounding me
I hit the soft spot on the soft spot on my head
It made me tired so I sung from my bed
"I'm ready to die, I'm ready to die, I'm ready to die"

A sword, a switchblade, any way you cut it
I'm not afraid, I know I'm going to get it
Oh, maker of such fine products
As palm trees, and the dead sea

Don't pardon me, there's nothing rude
Things conclude, things conclude!

As I slurred that chorus
The ghosts got Biggie Small sounds like a drill
The death sweat suits me
A death threat provides a thrill
I've seen the world, kissed all the pretty girls
I've said my goodbyes and now I'm ready to die

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submitted 1 month ago by SnotFlickerman to c/music@beehaw.org

I woke up thirsty on an island in the sea
I woke up hungry with hungry cougars surrounding me
I hit the soft spot on the soft spot on my head
It made me tired so I sung from my bed
"I'm ready to die, I'm ready to die, I'm ready to die"

A sword, a switchblade, any way you cut it
I'm not afraid, I know I'm going to get it
Oh, maker of such fine products
As palm trees, and the dead sea

Don't pardon me, there's nothing rude
Things conclude, things conclude!

As I slurred that chorus
The ghosts got Biggie Small sounds like a drill
The death sweat suits me
A death threat provides a thrill
I've seen the world, kissed all the pretty girls
I've said my goodbyes and now I'm ready to die

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