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- Comment on The White Lotus Season 3 | Official Teaser 5 days ago:
Oh hell yeah this is gonna be carnage.
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 6 days ago:
Yeah, that'll get big fast so you'll need some service that can give you a publicly-accessible URL to your files. There are endless discussions on the internet about cheaper alternatives to S3... Consider Backblaze - https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 6 days ago:
PeerTube is the obvious one.
Shameless promo time:
An alternative is to make a community on PieFed and set it so only moderators can post. PieFed is Lemmy-compatible but with better support for video posts. Check out https://piefed.social/c/crazyfuckingvideos@lemmy.world as an example of how it can look. Now compare it with https://lemmy.world/c/crazyfuckingvideos. It's night and day.
PieFed doesn't host video files so you'd need to put them on S3 or wherever (imgur is fine if the video is small/short enough like in this video https://piefed.social/post/366849) and then create a post with the url to S3 as the post url.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Ideologies tend to sort people into a limited number of overly simplistic categories. This makes theorising easier but applying it to reality much harder.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Small nitpick: the Democrats impeached him twice. They don't get to choose who the DOJ prosecutes.
- Comment on Went Off SSDI to work, hit with large FTB tax bill, lost power and can't pay for meds. Now what? 2 weeks ago:
Ask your boss for an early christmas bonus. "Hey look I'm having a really hard time here. Money is very tight and I can't afford to keep electricity running at home. An early bonus would keep me more productive than if I was bouncing around public libraries and coffee shops".
Then use the bonus to buy what you need to live in a camp ground. Tent, warm sleeping bag, etc. There's a world of difference between intentionally-and-planned-for-homeless and forced-homeless.
- Comment on Went Off SSDI to work, hit with large FTB tax bill, lost power and can't pay for meds. Now what? 2 weeks ago:
Is there a public library nearby? Get down there, plug in and use their WiFi.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on How to get over my reddit ""addiction""? 2 weeks ago:
Don't think of it as stopping, quitting or denying yourself something. Get better hobbies. Take up a new interest. Fill your life with things that make trolling on the internet seems lame and stupid in comparison.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
Part of the issue is the system of voting is set up so that there can only ever be two parties. Dividing the country up into chunks and then having one winner in each chunk creates a situation where voting third party is a wasted vote. When there are only two options it's pretty hard to vote for your interests.
In the 90s when New Zealand changed to MMP to led to a proliferation of new parties getting into parliament and the people involved were much much less often old white males. It changed the dynamic completely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 4 weeks ago:
Media literacy crash course https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPwJ0obJya0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=1&pp=iAQB
- Comment on Is there any, any takeaways at all from the next 4 years that's about to happen? 1 month ago:
Don't forget that Trump is completely inept and this time doesn't have any help from people even trying to be "the adults in the room". He's made some huge huge promises and I just don't think he has the ability or the team to make much of it happen.
- Comment on Does hair in food carry any health risks? 1 month ago:
It's not so much the hair itself as it being a symptom of god knows what else.
- Comment on Simple way to get emails for new Lemmy or Mastodon posts? 2 months ago:
Lemmy communities and Mastodon profiles both produce a RSS feed of posts. I'm sure there is a RSS-to-email service that would do the trick.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 2 months ago:
There is no universally good investment - it all depends on your priorities, risk appetite and timeframe.
- Comment on Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game? 3 months ago:
And, in real life, the house has a much larger bankroll.
- Comment on George Santos Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Identity Theft | Santos, a former Republican congressman from New York, agreed to pay nearly $375,000 in restitution and will almost certainly face prison 3 months ago:
Love this for him
- Comment on Designing Friction (philosophical essay about technology) 4 months ago:
FYI 90.6% of all votes are upvotes.
- Comment on TikTok Stacking Algorithms in Chinese Government’s Favor with Pro-China Content Originating from State-Linked Entities, Study Claims 4 months ago:
following the first report’s publication, TikTok disabled its hashtag measurement functionality in a move that made it impossible for the researchers to replicate their findings.
- Comment on Thousands of counter-protesters take to UK streets as far-right unrest fails to materialise 4 months ago:
Hell yeah, inspiring!
- Comment on Disneyland workers say they live in cars, motels due to low pay 5 months ago:
Half of all homeless people have full time jobs https://invisiblepeople.tv/working-homeless-more-than-half-of-unhoused-people-have-jobs/
- Comment on Are there any wannabe mods or know how to be mods willing to do a community with me? 5 months ago:
That would be a full time job
- Comment on Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images 5 months ago:
When they look different people interpret them differently.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 5 months ago:
Yes your frustration is totally understandable. It is a very heated topic and a lot of bad faith arguments are thrown around.
Sometimes I remind myself not to hope that the person I'm replying to will understand my reply or acknowledge that I'm right - instead I post my reply for the lurkers to read, who are far more numerous. The lurker has not publicly said anything so their ego is not fixed on defending their position and they are more likely to receive what I contribute with an open mind.
With this wider context, the goal changes. When the target audience shifts to the readers then there is no longer a need to continue a long back and forth discussion (the person replying to me will never change their mind anyway!) once I have made I point clearly. It's ok if the other person has the last word if by having it they discredit themselves by demonstrating a closed mind - the lurkers will see it.
I hope this helps.
- Comment on Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia 5 months ago:
He's a Kremlin asset, no doubt about it.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 5 months ago:
I've been reading your posts. You make excellent points very often, clearly drawing from a deep knowledge of the region.
However continually calling people names and insulting their intelligence will tend to stop them from really hearing your message and just inflame the situation. You could just not type that stuff and then everything else you type would have more impact. It'd be a pity to waste all that effort.
- Submitted 5 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 19 comments
- Comment on Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail 5 months ago:
Maybe they like to exercise power over others. Sociopaths like to hurt people.
- Submitted 5 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 25 comments
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 15th June 2024 6 months ago:
No commits to that repo for 6 months. Oof 😔