@welshpixie Which "they" does it mean by "they"... 🤨
(My hopeful/optimistic side suggests, after looking at a summary of the show, that maybe that teaser-text is trying to turn the tables on "manifest destiny"...?)
(Kinda hard to do when it's basically a dogwhistle for "might makes right", but... points for trying, maybe.)
@sargoth I've recently inherited a bunch of such boxes from my parents (downsizing, not deceased). SOMEDAY I WILL GO THROUGH THEM when I have places to put everything as I'm sorting it. :there_is_no_good_fist_emoji_so_just_imagine_one:
This made me laugh so hard (and I'm not even sure why). (Maybe I'm just a sucker for a good parody?)
We set up a new Mastodon instance focused on supporting nonprofit/charitable organizations. If you know of such an organization looking for a place in the Fediverse, please point them our way.
@nev Yeah, I'm thinking mainly of books with socio-political implications. (The Bell Curve anybody? Bueller? Bueller?)
I have one almost-working DAT machine that I was able to kajigger for a bit using bits from a parts machine I got online maybe a decade ago, but the kajiggering isn't working anymore.
Fortunately, there still seem to be a lot of DAT players available on ebay -- at almost affordable prices!!!
(I'm mainly holding off because my audio-production space is in Total Chaos at the moment, and I try not to buy things until I know I'll be able to use them. Ask me about my replacement Ensoniq Mirage... >.>)
@MikeElgan Is this like the thing where AI companies donate services and equipment to each other, which they then each claim as revenue and sales?
[adds "fact-checking of nonfic books, especially by academics" to mental list of things Issuepedia needs to do]
Alien (1979 film) is so relatable, because you'll be trying to escape parasites in a capitalist hellscape, and right in the middle of it, you're reminded that your cat is somewhere it's NOT supposed to be 😭
@evan Is it implied that markets will always exist, and the question is (therefore) whether they need to be open or not?
Or is it acceptable to answer "no" because the open web doesn't require markets at all?
@brooke I saw a player for $50 in a thrift store 15-20 years ago, and was very tempted...
Fortunately, I was impoverished then, too.
@brooke Is it fortunate that I was impoverished when a lot of these transitional technologies came along, and therefore could not afford to get trapped in them? :blobcatthink:
(...she says, staring mournfully at the boxes of un-transcribed DAT tapes...)
@idlestate Exactly. The whole "does it make a sound" question is entirely semantic -- i.e. hangs on whether you define "a sound" as "something that is heard" or "air vibrations".
The BBC, quite consciously, sets out to demean and belittle trans people. This is both morally contemptible and in breach of its Charter obligations. We've made it super easy for you to write to the BBC and tell it to stop.
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Friends, I feel like maybe #TootCat :tootcat: should (nay, is meowally compelled to) toss a chunk into this:
.meow — Next Round gTLD Application
It sounds excellent. Any reason not to? (...aside from them using #Kickstarter... though at the moment, I can't even remember why Kickstarter has a red flag in my brain.)
(h/t to @FrozenTrout for drawing this to my attention, and to @Harena for drawing to my attention the fact that @FrozenTrout had drawn it to my attention ^.^)
