Oh for sure, especially with the ghost and alien abduction stories, but I always got the sense a lot of the callers were either, bored, lonely, crazy, or some combination of those three.
Hmm, with the department of efficiency slashing all the (agriculture) regulations and Dr. Worm running the cdc, maybe we'll get lucky and all the humans die off. Maybe the cows and dolphins can be better stewards of the Earth.
Fuck that. You should or shouldn't do whatever you want. I laugh at my own jokes all the time, even when I am alone, or haven't said the joke out loud. People find it much more off-putting if you just randomly start laughing.
Anyone who has a problem with someone laughing at their own jokes either has trauma or is an asshole not worth anyone's time.
Animal populations have been dwindling for years while the human population soars. Perhaps all those humans who were animals have been ranking up lately?
Protonmail is great, it comes with cloud storage, a really good password manager, and a very fast VPN. The linux experience is mid for their apps, but great on MacOS or Windows.
About 23% of Americans and 33% of Republicans believe that “true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country” – a 5% increase among Republicans and 8% among the general public since 2021.
Meanwhile, 75% of Americans believe that American democracy is at risk in the 2024 election. That, too, may be something worth fighting for – especially when 39% of Trump supporters and 42% of Biden supporters report having no friends who support the opposing candidate. When people do not trust or socialize with people unlike them, violence between groups is more likely.
I fear little can be done to prevent such violence.
It is really hard not to look at Trump as a cynical, malignant narcissist. Like how do you stop the unstoppable will to power at any cost? The real truth is there is very little anyone can do to avoid Mr. Dictator-On-Day-One. Why are such awful people drawn to power?
I don't get it. How can anyone listen to what Trump's fans say about him and want that? It's like some kind of lazy, selfish, sadism. The way the people that love him talk about him and their beliefs makes it seem like they would rather see their enemies suffer than their loved ones thrive. But it's not just Trump Cultists and Americana Fetishists. It's not just the American Oligarchs or the ghouls in suits that work for them. Like a lot of the chronically online leftists are seeming kinda Wrath of Khan-y lately.
There are only so many fucks to give, why waste them on violent ends? Like you can have either revenge on the people who you believe are hurting you or you can try to stop hurting and live your life in spite of the malignant assholes of the world. You can't have both.
Eh, technical merit is only one of many factors that determine what language is the "best". Best is inherently a subjective assessment. Rust's safety and performance is the conceptual bible rustacians use to justify thier faith.
I also know religious people who have written books about their faith too (my uncle is a preacher and my ex-spouse was getting their doctorate in theology). Rust has the same reality-blind, proselytizing zealots.
The needs of the project being planning and the technical abilities of the developers building it are more important that what language is superior.
I like rust. I own a physical copy of the book and donated money to the rust foundation. I have written a few utilities and programs in rust. The runtime performance and safety is paid for in dev time. I would argue that for most software projects, especially small ones, Rust adds too much complexity for maintainability and ease of development.
Both. I have a desktop running Ubuntu (though I am strongly considering switching to debian) I use that for most computer related tasks and activities. I also have a gaming laptop running windows I dig out for some VR (it has a better gpu) and professional gigs like design or video editing.
I would install linux on the laptop, but I can't live without a few programs I have never successfully gotten running under linux (Resolve and the affinity suite). I could dual boot my desktop into rock linux (which is the only "official" resolve distro) and try to get affinity running under wine. I have been out of work for a few years though, so removing windows from the laptop isn't a high priority.
100% yeah. I guess I mean that OP is already frustrated by noise in their news sources, rss doesn't solve curation, which is what it sounds like people think rss does. But if every story you're shown needs to be relevant to your interests rss isn't going to fix that.
Even the perfect news outlet that OP describes is going to have tons of boring stuff. Social media tried solving it with algorithms and will probably move on to AI driven feeds in 18 months, but their profit motive spoils the effort.
Then again I've thought about curation vs. aggregation maybe a bit too much.
Megan is Missing (2011) is one of the most horrifying films I've ever seen. Fair warning though, the last ten minutes are excruciatingly painful to watch. It is not for the faint of heart.
In the gore porn genre Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and Hostel (2005) are vile, but so pointlessly gorey the actual horror (the brutality of men) is almost entirely lost.
Funny Games (1997), or the 2007 American remake for those who don't love subtitles, is another unnerving portrayal of ultra violence. It's not gore porn, but is graphic. The original version's pacing will make you squirm in your seat.
Hush (2016) and Creep (2014) are two of my movie-night-with-friends films. Still very much about the human monster, but not overly graphic and prefers to build by making the viewer a partial participant. You have to be a certain level of broken to enjoy some of the others on my list, but these two are disney movies compared to Cannibal Holocaust.
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Broadcast and cable news are today's newspapers. Tomorrow they will be gone and no one will miss them. I've tried watching news programs, but it seems so pointless. They cover half a dozen stories, if that, none of which answers any real questions. I get better information more quickly by spending 5 minutes flipping through my rss feed or 10 minutes scrolling through tiktok.