Sergio
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- Comment on Trump’s Funding Freezes Bruise a Core Constituency: Farmers 5 days ago:
They’ll blame it on someone else.
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 days ago:
That’s too slow. Take us to defcon one.
- Comment on Bracing for a Shutdown Fight, Democrats Warn Their Votes Are Not a Given 6 days ago:
I dunno… if the Democrats do something anything that’d be a welcome change…
- Comment on Kung Fu Rookie (2025, dir Aman Ergaziev) 1 week ago:
Looks pretty good. The summary doesn’t say that it’s a martial arts movie, overtly Jackie Chan-inspired. Doubt it’s the best movie of the year, but I’m acheck it out.
- Comment on Why isn't free stuff (public domain/noncommercial) discussed as much as paid stuff? 1 week ago:
See: !internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee
- Comment on Head banging to the Saudi Arabian national anthem 1 week ago:
Nah, I’d just buy rights to the song “Tetsuo” from the Akira soundtrack, and make that the new national anthem.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
Truly, we have left the era of irony and entered the era of farce.
- Comment on ai comments on cbs videos, but why 1 week ago:
I think what they’re getting at is this is clearly a simple script doing template generation: (1) statement of praise (2) statement of encouragement/thanks (3) a couple emoji. The sentences that are used to populate the templates might be LLM-generated, but these aren’t state-of-the-art neural network "AI"s.
- Comment on know the chain of command 1 week ago:
First draft of the cover for Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast.
- Comment on "The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high." 1 week ago:
From the title “Junior Video Editor” and your description of the salary you proposed it sounds like this is an entry-level job that’ll probably go to someone fresh out of school.
It’s hard to read too much into it because this might just be a form letter, but it sounds like they genuinely thought you were a good candidate but they were looking for a more junior position. Sometimes this is dictated by their budget available.
Even if this is a form letter, they probably have a letter for the case where the salary was OK but they never want to hear from the candidate again. So you didn’t get that letter, at least!
It looks like this was a “near miss”. It’s discouraging, but keep at it, you can do it.
- Comment on My kids bored out of their minds with a house full of toys, don't know how good they got it 1 week ago:
Oh yeah good point! That ancient Mesopotamian nerd will also be like: “And they’ll make up stories about talking ponies… and they’ll dress up like furry animals and have meetings together!” Oh, Mesopotamian nerd, you were born way too soon…
- Comment on My kids bored out of their minds with a house full of toys, don't know how good they got it 1 week ago:
I was gonna say “the timeless need to keep the kids quiet”… but I bet there was some ancient Mesopotamian nerd who made dozens of these and built a little model city and was like: one day the the wagons will drive themselves and there’ll be roads everywhere and the people will live in tall buildings and fly in the sky…
Ancient Mesopotamian nerd, I salute you!
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 1 week ago:
I think enshittification is a universally-acknowledged truth. The only difference of opinion is whether it’s a good thing or not.
- Comment on Hey kid, wanna buy some eggs? 1 week ago:
slangin that cluck-rock…
- Comment on Masters of the Universe (1987) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening! 1 week ago:
I usually post this announcement on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world but this week’s Monsterdon is
so clearly a superior A-list movie that…well OK I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s not as bad as most B-movies.See what happened is: every week people on mastodon (the fediverse twitter replacement) get together for a B-movie watch party usually focused on monsters. But for the last two weeks, the movies have not just campy but a little more bad than expected. So this week they played it safe and picked a slightly better movie than usual.
Anyway, it’s a lot of fun, it’s got nostalgia value, it’s meme-worthy, it’s got Dolph “Rocky IV / Creed II” Lundgren, Courtney “Friends” Cox, and Oscar-nominee Frank Lagella, and here’s your chance to watch it along with a bunch of wits and miscreants from across the fediverse. So only one question remains: Do you have the power?
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- Comment on Smurfs (2025, dir Chris Miller) 2 weeks ago:
I was like: give it a chance, give it a chance, … until DJ Khaled showed up.
- Comment on Wow, ok. 2 weeks ago:
Then it accurately represents von Trier’s movie style.
- Comment on Wow, ok. 2 weeks ago:
Start with Dogville if you really don’t like her.
- Comment on When you forget that you hired THEM because you weren't skilled enough to do it yourself 2 weeks ago:
If you’re being serious, the intent is: “don’t bother me while I do my job”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah great idea, I just posted it to !politics@lemmy.world Let’s see if it stays up.
btw this post we’re on was on the front page of “all” - “active” earlier today but it seems to have slipped way off.
- Comment on Anyone want my 12 year old old Ubuntu install DVD before I toss it out? No? Your loss. 2 weeks ago:
Why would you throw out that perfectly functional christmas tree ornament…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Some more media mentions, mostly local and brief:
- Fox 9 St Paul (MN): www.fox9.com/…/50-states-50-protests-feb-5-2025
- KVRR North Dakota: kvrr.com/…/project-2025-protests-planned-wednesda…
- Shreveport (LA): www.shreveporttimes.com/story/…/78208443007/
- Savannah Morning News (GA): www.savannahnow.com/story/news/…/78207555007/
- Dallas Observer (TX): dallasobserver.com/…/where-to-go-in-texas-for-the…
- Clarion Ledger (MS): www.clarionledger.com/story/news/…/78207203007/
- Westword (Denver, CO): westword.com/…/denver-fifty-state-capitol-protest…
- Newsweek, a second article: newsweek.com/50501-protests-update-anti-trump-mar…
BONUS:
- Snopes article with some info on who started it snopes.com/…/anti-trump-state-capitol-protests-fe…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a lawyer, but I believe in most cases you’re free to demonstrate without a permit, see here: www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights I believe if, for example, you exceed the area’s capacity the police are supposed to give an order to disperse and then give you time to disperse.
However it’s better to get a permit, agreed. And the police may not do what they’re “supposed” to do.
- Comment on How can you explain a smell you've never smelled before? 2 weeks ago:
If you tend to worry to much, don’t read the wikipedia page on Indoor Air Quality. But maybe have it in mind for your non-temporary housing.
- Comment on How can you explain a smell you've never smelled before? 2 weeks ago:
Comment-OP has a great idea there; try ventilating the place with you out of the room, then go in there and try to find the source of the smell. i.e. put your nose up against the wall, the drain, the floor, the vent, etc to see where it’s strongest. I’m guessing either the drain/sink or the walls.
- Comment on The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025, dir Matt Shakman) 2 weeks ago:
Nothing will compare to the Roger Corman version.
- Comment on I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu. 2 weeks ago:
the maga one is also deep-fried
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
yeah it’s going to be tough. supposedly a bunch of people on Reddit are organizing it redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/ I saw mention of it on facebook too. I think part of the goal is to get Democrats to grow a spine, since they plan to do nothing.
- Comment on ‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump 2 weeks ago:
After reading this article, that Indivisible approach that OP linked to, it makes a lot more sense:
Indivisible is calling on Americans to organize in-person visits to their congressmembers local offices
