tomenzgg
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- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 2 weeks ago:
I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.
Like I said, it’s possible that I just missed how Apple Podcasts exposes the RSS feed transparently but I’ve never been able to find it via just browsing the site to then put into the latter two programs.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 2 weeks ago:
Just realized this was in response to a comment I’d made and not the post, proper…; sorry about that.
I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re reading this as me having trouble finding podcasts; I find it mildly infuriating that Spotify and Apple are becoming the face of finding podcasts in a way that obfuscates how things actually work. I don’t like that these two entities become the only listed means to find a podcast when others exist and will cause lay people to associate podcasts with just them, if that makes more sense.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I know; that’s why I mentioned
there’s a convenience to going to a centralized service to browse for a particular thing
And I don’t necessarily know the right solution; I was somewhat just venting about the issue I recognize, even if I don’t have the countering solution. But it’s definitely a part that needs to, also, be considered, for sure.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 2 weeks ago:
I couldn’t quite say but finding the RSS feed has always been a massive pain for me, whenever the only source someone gives is Apple Podcasts. That said, maybe it’s my fault and I’m just not looking carefully enough; always possible.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 2 weeks ago:
I think my wording might not be the best as I didn’t mean proprietary in the sense that they could or were able to paywall things right now, as things are.
I just think that putting more control into infrastructure that we don’t control always leads to monopolization, where feasible, by corporations. So relying more on this infrastructure owned by Apple and Spotify is inherently bad.
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- Comment on Recession indicator 5 weeks ago:
That’s awesome! Haha, yeah; I know what you mean. Still, super glad that worked out.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 weeks ago:
If we strip all context from the original circumstance, I imagine we could.
But that’s not what happened, is it? You elected to editorialize that the user is doing it to be fake-different and to gain attention, despite them never going out of their way to do so, never once that I’ve seen actually say it has anything to do with poisoning AI (not that it matters, either way), and never responding when people disparage them to their “face”; literally, just typing the way they want to type and not responding to the behavior of others, the literal opposite of seeking attention.
Which any autistic person could tell you is highly relatable: they’re just off doing their own thing and it just infuriates the allistic folk who now have to make fun of them and say shit about them because, “Can’t they tell how annoying they’re being? Can’t they read social circumstances? I mean, I’m all for tolerance but they should really understand the way their behavior inconveniences me and makes me uncomfortable and now I’ve got make it their problem.”
It annoys you; fine. Different strokes; but you didn’t just say it annoys you: you assigned motive and character to this person because you’re so annoyed and any neurodivergent person would recognize that behavior from when it happened to them.
That’s clearly what AstralPath was referring to and you, then, lined up the plate to participate further.
That’s what I was pointing out; it’s not a generalized argument: it’s a capturing of an explicitly neurodivergent experience and taking it out of that context is, of course, going to make it fall apart.
- Comment on Time to update your bingo cards 5 weeks ago:
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Explains the Joke
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
😄
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
You’d reminded me that I still wanted to try these, someday, and I went looking, again, for if there was an easier means (other than travelling to Hawaii); I found this place that delivers within the contiguous states: miamifruit.org/…/gros-michel-banana-box-order. If you had wanted to try one; more expensive, due to the fragility of the crop, but viable.
- Comment on Recession indicator 5 weeks ago:
How you doing, r4venw? Any luck, yet?
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 weeks ago:
Unc’s a term that’s been in use since at least the 90s (but maybe older; I’m not a historian or was alive then); it can sometimes be used disparagingly though, generally, it’s usually an sort of familiar way to refer to someone that’s older. Kind of similar in the way “cuz” doesn’t literally refer to someone who’s your cousin but someone you’re familiar with, who’s like family in the same way a cousin might be (you didn’t grow up with them, didn’t see them all the time, but you’re familiar with them).
So it’s not hard to see how this new definition came about but it is, still, sort of just plucking the word and modifying it to a very different context (the disparaging form was definitely not the predominant form). While this is a phenomenon that is far from new, it’s felt particularly manufactured in the last decade and a half or so (probably due to the ease with which things can become viral in our current Hellscape-form of Internet); a lot of the “slang” that’s hit mainstream awareness has felt almost more like buzzwords than actual slang or even natural language in the way it’s been used. That’s not directly relevant to your question but just something I’ve been thinking about.
Also, thanks for asking, rather than downvoting; it’s (obviously) not everything but there’s a non-negligible segment of Lemmy that just seems to have an emotional tantrum every time race comes up.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 month ago:
Notably, – yet again – it’s also cribbing/misusing black slang/terminology; disappointing…
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 1 month ago:
How’d grampa die?
BASEd.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
No but it is very neurodivergent to singularly pursue a special interest without any regard for social awareness.
And very neurotypical to label that person as annoying or just doing it for attention.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 month ago:
Cutting up pickles with boxed Mac. and Cheese was one of my favorite go-tos, in grad. school. If not pickles then I used to put canned tuna in; also quite good.
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
You can order them from Hawaii (or maybe you have to physically be there).
It’s just no longer worth mass producing and shipping any more due to the potential to lose your entire crop.
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
That last one is just something that could’ve realistically existed.
…and would continue to exist, unaltered, well up until the 70s when, finally, it was modified due to growing public awareness; and only because of that.
- Comment on grocery shopping 1 month ago:
This; as much as I have no moral qualms about the practice, there’s massive risk that’s not always obvious to see.
- Comment on Just an FYI 1 month ago:
- Comment on Cuddly gerbils 1 month ago:
Pair-bonded? This is just what we in the field of Gender Studies call homosocial.
Just in Case
/s
- Comment on Anon is a movie critic 1 month ago:
Ahhh; now that you point it out, I see it.
- Comment on Anon is a movie critic 1 month ago:
I assume you meant “himself” but I am amused by the idea that Tom Cruise’s character nearly kills a single member of the viewing audience, in real life, as part of the movie’s climax for unexplained reasons.
- Comment on wax on 1 month ago:
Almost definitely; I don’t know if there’s a degree that’s necessary to qualify as I can still look at it without breaking eye contact (though I hate it). But I have a deep desire to rip that shit up the entire time; deeply repulsive, whatever the reason. Honeycombs don’t bother me, though; I dunno.
- Comment on wax on 1 month ago:
Haha; I think the wool’s too fuzzy and not rigid enough to bother me. I’ve been trying to get more into the fiber arts in the last few years, too, so definitely not a problem that I’ve noticed.
- Comment on wax on 1 month ago:
Definitely the latter, for me; something about segmented holes just grosses the absolute Hell out of me.
- Comment on Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed 1 month ago:
There it is; I was looking for someone to point this out.
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
You’re also going to keep cutting the sides of your mouth with #2 (maybe not at first but if it’s the only one you can use, forever?).