PrimeMinisterKeyes
@PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space
Astral Weeks
- Comment on bye meme man 6 days ago:
Maybe Picard did not die, but turn invisible, still casting shadows. Like Geordi did in 4x18 “Identity Crisis.”
- Comment on The myth of "consensual" choking 1 week ago:
Habdeb Daddy?
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
Here’s what N. M. Klein wrote about the internet all the way back in 1998, likening it to a labyrinth.
I don’t say this often, but this text has completely changed the course of my life.
Some choice quotes:1998 is still a dangerously nascent stage in the Internet, while a trillion dollar nest of dragons sets up shop.
Inside, you have seemingly infinite choice, but practically no way out. In fact, you prefer being trapped a bit. That gives the story some bite. Why enter Happy Imprisonment? Because you slowly catch your breath. You expect to outwit the program.
Pockets of confusion in the system let the player imagine that there are ways to subvert it. It’s a Faustian sim-bargain. The player submits to the labyrinth, then pretends to cheat.
Simulating revolt is more fun, and a better investment. […] But consider what sim-revolt implies as a broader model for public life? We pretend that the labyrinth of the Web makes us free of the global corporate program that builds and owns it. We feel above the swamp of idiotic web sites. We know how to surf. The demon apparatus can’t get us. We can dig out of anything. We’re never trapped.
Recently, there is talk of voting on the Web. Is a cross between ergonomic fascism and the shopping mall the best frame of mind for making political decisions? Let us not mystify information delivery too much. Despite the services, it is not fundamentally democratic, only the freedom to chat. The server and the search engine are a feudal plantation. They decide for us, when to plant, when to hunt.
The labyrinth is a mood of passivity. It’s like saying you’re never really trapped in bad traffic. Just because we can subvert the Web by saying nasty things or engaging in cyber-sex in the margins, or downloading information cheaply, does not mean that we are subverting any core reality. - Comment on Office Space (1999) 2 weeks ago:
I really hope your equipment is ATEX-certified, what with all the methane around.
- Comment on Office Space (1999) 2 weeks ago:
Still waiting for the smellphone to be invented.
- Comment on Office Space (1999) 2 weeks ago:
Gas is expensive
Apparently not expensive enough.
- Comment on They all look like this 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on We Have a Problem 5 weeks ago:
Someone’s been watching Along Came Polly (2004).
- Comment on Not How It's Supposed To Be 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Gravy incuming 5 weeks ago:
Whitest teeth I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Never clean 5 weeks ago:
It’s either that, or not rinsing the dirty dishes with tap water before starting the soap-cleaning procedure. Salt, in particular, totally wrecks the cleaning power of the soap. There’s an entire science around this, actually.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 1 month ago:
The Leonard Cohen song of the same name came out in 1992.
- Comment on He's right, you know 1 month ago:
There are Facebooks I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some 4channer, not for better
Some have E-baum and some remain
All these places had their moments
Geocities and friends, I still can recall
Zombo dead and some are living
In my life, I love Lemmy more - Comment on And forgot it when waking up 1 month ago:
Ĥψ = Eψ , therefore:
Ĥ = Efrom...
… quantum mechanics, I’m sure you all remember.
- Comment on In-between 2 months ago:
The Breeders
- Comment on Forty hours, one life... 2 months ago:
I’ve got a job so cool that if I mentioned my job title, nobody would believe me.
Is it “CAD monkey,” perchance?
- Comment on German joke 2 months ago:
Maybe you’ll recognize some of the titles on here.
Some puns inevitably get lost in translation, though. - Comment on The good old days 2 months ago:
These days, they also skip the light fandango.
- Comment on The good old days 2 months ago:
It’s a cultural thing. You wouldn’t understand.
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
Throughout my life, I’ve gotten to know several people like that. They all have mental or physical disabilities, but you would never know until they told you.
- Comment on Bring it back 2 months ago:
I guess that would make Brazil the country with the most land borders to other countries.
- Comment on Never Gonna Give You Up 2 months ago:
Nobody likes you when you’re 53.
- Comment on Don't Call Me. Ever. 2 months ago:
♪ Feeling unknown and you’re all alone
Flesh and bone by the telephone
Lift up the receiver, I’ll make you a believer ♪ - Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 2 months ago:
- Comment on I can still feel their presence... 2 months ago:
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Slacker (1990) - Comment on Now: Take it Easy by The Eagles 2 months ago:
Feeling like Sisyphus, upvoting all of them.
- Comment on The cashier said "hello" instead of "hi" 😳 2 months ago:
This lines up with what the ever-quotable Talleyrand once said:
“If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.”It didn’t prevent him to be called “shit in a silk stocking” by Napoléon on one occasion, though.
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 3 months ago:
Yum yum, such nice… bread you have there! Thank you, dear Sir!
Technically not NSFW
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s what they do. People don’t notice that? I’ve known several guys that worked this kind of jobs on and off when really strapped for money. Pretending to be women online. Unethical AF, of course, but this is a lot more widespread than you could possibly imagine. And it’s not hard at all to get hired.
