Sergio
@Sergio@slrpnk.net
- Comment on call of the void 8 hours ago:
I personally agree. But if I pay for the cheapest option ahead of time, it hits different than a loved one deciding on the cheapest option for me, especially if they are grieving and a salesperson is offering them a range of options. Also, some people just want a big funeral for their own emotional reasons I dunno.
- Comment on call of the void 1 day ago:
great (and brief) article.
there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”
lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.
- Comment on call of the void 1 day ago:
The idea is that you figure all that stuff out for yourself beforehand, so your grieving family doesn’t have to make a lot of quick decisions.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 2 days ago:
I read an interesting article about that: thehistoryoftheweb.com/ads/
- Comment on Error: dumbass 4 days ago:
There was a sumo wrestler who would do something similar, except he’d bounce up and down and grasp with his hands…
www.youtube.com/shorts/8RuUVwAbmDg
The tournament organizers made him quit doing it tho…
- Comment on Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore | “Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine. 5 days ago:
no one has cared since record executives have been generating AI generated tier music by hand.
Reminds me of this NYT video about how a pop song is made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaAv5AiBRgY
At the beginning, a musician at a keyboard composes the basic tune. Then a whole series of MFers overproduce it to hell. At the end, the original musician happens to meet the singer who did the human part of the final rendering and is the “star” who everybody watches perform. In a better day, the original musician would be the star, but in this process they are insignificant.
- Comment on count! 5 days ago:
FIFA put the full game on youtube, btw (availability may vary by country): www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6sbfskaTDQ
The beatdown starts around here: youtu.be/L6sbfskaTDQ?t=1453
- Comment on Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore | “Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine. 6 days ago:
I’m pretty sure the article is at least mildly ironic. I don’t think he literally believes that “nobody cares if music is real any more.” Towards the end he talks about how AI music is not really art, and it lulls you into oblivion. The writer’s a legit scholar with an academic interest in video games, btw: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 1 week ago:
kinda like an… opium? …of the masses?
- Comment on I require nothing more 1 week ago:
Anime pillow gets the mattress.
- Comment on I require nothing more 1 week ago:
- Comment on Same Vibe 1 week ago:
To tie the bag shut, ofc.
- Comment on Alligator Auschwitz 1 week ago:
Hispanics of any race grew to just over 65 million, an increase of 1.16 million (1.8%) from the prior year.
- Comment on 50501? 1 week ago:
- July 4th events megathread (r$ddit interface): redlib.northboot.xyz/r/…/50501_july_4th_events/
- another list of events: www.fiftyfifty.one/events
- lemmy instance: 50501.chat
- more social media links: www.fiftyfifty.one
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Game on the couch til I pass out. Wake up halfway thru the night, throw self on the mattress, shedding clothes til I’m comfortable. (varies by time of year)
- Comment on Batman... Get In There And Do Something! 1 week ago:
If this happened at a licensed event, does that mean this is canon?
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 1 week ago:
- Comment on rinse 1 week ago:
I couldn’t find that quote anywhere, and it’s very unlikely that Cicero said it, or something like that.
To find the quote that you seek,
You must first wash you’re balls in the Baja Blast. - Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 1 week ago:
By the looks of it, the ground floor and the first floor are going to be the same place pretty soon.
- Comment on We are not the same 1 week ago:
“It was revealed to me in a dream.”
- Comment on No thoughts, head empty 1 week ago:
- Comment on Srsly 1 week ago:
Dissenting opinion: some people need less sleep as they get older. iirc I needed the most sleep in my late 20s, but it’s decreased since then.
- Comment on Ideally 2 weeks ago:
The Chanting of Laments by the Men of Q Division!
- Comment on Sign me up 2 weeks ago:
It really depends on the kind of music being played…
- Comment on Become Ungovernable 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can confirm 2 weeks ago:
Plus, you’ll sleep better from your body being truly tired.
- Comment on Can confirm 2 weeks ago:
It really varies by person. I sleep best on a foam matress on a futon on the floor. When I go to a hotel with the ultra-soft bedding it just seems weird.
- Comment on Oh to go back... 2 weeks ago:
TIL the term “wardialing” (referring to the technique of automatically dialing numbers) was named after the 80s film WarGames, which showed it at work.
- Comment on Good boy 2 weeks ago:
You can tell the review is fake bc they didn’t capitalize the words “The Lord”.
- Comment on MEN. 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t say anything about gender, and I agree with everything in your comment. In addition, I maintain that the original post’s divide-and-conquer victim-blaming is one of the worst possible takes on the fact that accessing mental health care (in the US) is harder than performing esoteric medieval alchemy.
