That should certainly be entertaining. Frankly, I'm surprised he didn't try it last time. But why the half measures? Why not just have all his political opponents shot?

I won't install Facebook Messenger because fuck Zuck and his privacy-raping software.

I'm a supertaster and hypervigilant, so all my senses are dialed up to 11. My memory is also unusually good. Also my son claims I have "Poon vision", but I'm not crazy about that idea.

Thirty-nine years ago I worked night shift during college. I'm still trying to straighten out my circadian rhythms.

Our rulers are hell-bent on killing off the majority of life on this planet, including our species. Can't help but wonder if people will ever wake up and do the obvious.

I boycott all the products of big corporations as much as possible. I'm not even slightly tempted to try Threads.

It's not superhero fatigue or franchise fatigue. It's bad writing fatigue. Seriously, I don't know why Hollywood keeps choosing terrible writers for huge projects, but as long as they are doing that they are going to keep getting what they deserve.

And speaking of huge projects, from what I've heard Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny cost $295 million to make rather than 250. And that's not counting publicity and marketing, which brings it to 400 million if not more. That means they need to make at least $800 million to break even. No matter how you slice their opening weekend, they are in huge trouble. And given that Elementals and The Little Mermaid both bombed hard along with most other Disney movies of the last few years, I'd say that Disney is in serious trouble too!

On the other hand, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was rather well written, and from what I've heard it did rather well at the box office. Which is just more evidence that if you have a decently-written film the public WILL go and see it. We're just avoiding crap, that's all.

I'll go out on a limb and say that hauling poor old Harrison Ford away from his bong and forcing him at the age of 80 to make shitty movies is tantamount to elder abuse. As for The Flash, coddling wannabe cult leader and mental defective Ezra Miller was just the icing on the cake. The movie was just badly written.

Frantic last minute reshoots and rewrites are a dead giveaway that something is seriously wrong with a production. But that that is happening so often in Hollywood in the last several years is clear evidence that Hollywood itself has completely lost their way. I don't know if they can right that ship, and to be honest I don't much care. If they won't provide people with the good entertainment that they want, eventually somewhere else will. Maybe Bollywood or China.

Reddit will REALLY be good when those apathetic users are all that's left to produce content and moderate subs! /s

The internet and even the web didn't need profit for many long years before the web went commercial. I've been publishing my own website since 1996 without advertising or asking for donations. I just publish it because I love the topic. Profit is NOT the be-all and end-all of existence.

Don't believe me? How much would you sell your children for?

You can't become a billionaire without being incredibly evil. They are literally working to kill off all life on the planet.

As for giving them the benefit of the doubt? Seriously? Anyone who suggests that has got to be getting a nice paycheck from the plutocrats.

They're missing the Alien Queen from Aliens, Lo Pan from Big Trouble In Little China, Bennett from Commando, ED-209, Dick Jones, and Clarence Boddicker from RoboCop, The Thing from John Carpenter's The Thing, Roy Batty from Bladerunner...I'm sure there are more.

I reread great books frequently, good books occasionally, and mediocre to poor books not at all. But I'm lucky: although I have a great memory, I can reread a book and get as much enjoyment or more from it as the first time.

Wouldn't that be stealing?

Reddit's enshittification was delayed by COVID, but it happened nonetheless.

Aaaannnddd...autodeleted by bot. Links to other sites are forbidden.

Good idea! I just posted a link to r/politicalhumor.

Except communities on Discord aren't search-engine-facing, so they're a complete dead end. Nobody can discover useful information there unless they are already members of that particular community. It's the "walled garden" effect.

But aren't Squabbles and Tilde both not federated, and therefore potentially subject to changes or even an IPO by the owners?

I don't really track my reading. Maybe I should have, but I never really saw the point. Besides, most of my reading predates the web. I've been reading since 1966. That said, I did a TON of book recommendations on Reddit at r/booksuggestions and r/SuggestMeABook. I ended up creating a Google doc to store the recommendations I wrote for re-use. That turned out to be a good idea; I separated the recs into genres, and polished them as I noticed mistakes or areas for improvement.

Eventually someone asked me to make that Google doc public, so I did.

Meanwhile I'm on BookWyrm. I was part of a group that left GoodReads when Amazon took over; we set up a community on Google Plus (RIP) to search for alternatives to GoodReads and Amazon (see what I mean about greedy corporations destroying one community after another?). We set up a research project to find and test replacement services. If BookWyrm had existed back then, it would have been far and away the best choice. It needs more development, but I'm willing to wait for that to happen. Meanwhile I'm having fun with it.

One thing for sure: I will NEVER trust a service owned by a plutocrat or corporation ever again.

I'm on StoryGraph too (and BookWyrm), but I've been burned WAY too often by profiteers. GoodReads in particular is seared into my memory; their owners lied to users to get tens of thousands of free hours of labor out of us (to "save GoodReads from Amazon"), all while they were negotiating to sell out to Amazon! And then Amazon immediately started censoring and shadowbanning reviews to suit their corporate bottom line.

I've seen far too many great digital communities destroyed by greedy vulture capitalists. I'm done. If a service has a single owner - plutocrat or corporation - it automatically goes to the bottom of the list. I'll stick with BookWyrm, thanks! It may be a little light on features so far, but I'd rather put my work in there and wait for improvements.

There is a mobile app for kbin, though. It's not great, but it exists. I'm using it right now!

Inertia is the most powerful force in the universe...of human psychology.

...so it's nothing to do with Lemmiwinks, then?

I am disappointed.

God, I hope so. I don't see any way to stop the billionaires from killing off our species, at this point. But I want to at least see those psychotic monsters suffer before we all go!

Same here. I'm kind of suspecting that Reddit isn't going to be giving me my data anytime soon, if ever!

That's probably a problem with the specific instance you were trying to sign up on, rather than on Lemmy as a whole. You might want to try picking a different instance.

This might sound childish, but there's an old EP of lullabies that my parents used to play and sing for me long ago. Decades later, I got a copy to play and sing for my own son.

It's called Golden Slumbers: Lullabies From Near and Far (1956). It's not available digitally and was never released on CD, so I ripped the EP and posted it to YouTube at the link above. It's really relaxing.

Yeah, I'm another old school early adopter who was on the internet since the '80s. No way the enshittification and souring of Reddit was caused by boomers and Gen xers. Most of them wouldn't know how to get on, and those who would... Honestly, I'm the only boomer I know who is on there. Well, unless you go to some of the subreddits that are specifically for people over 50. And those people are incredibly nice! One of the few things I will really miss about Reddit.

@eosph I was thinking that if they're only available on Lemmy, it would give the search engines more reason to link to here!

I'm off my primary account, and have no desire to go back. I did check on my alt today, but only to catch up on correspondence.

Because the system gives them no other real choice. When all major parties serve the interests of the oligarchs, the people know that they're being screwed. Which makes them angry. And since the powers that be absolutely will not allow the emergence of a truly populist movement or leader, the people have no other option but to support a charismatic authoritarian leader who promises them whatever they want. I suspect that most of the people know that those leaders are lying, but at least they acknowledge that the people are being screwed!

Note that while the establishment never allows a leftist populist movement, they're fine with an authoritarian one. Translation: our owners won't allow their cattle to run free, but they're happy to have us all choose a leader to send us to the slaughterhouse for their profit.

I have two Lemmyoid accounts and five Fediverse accounts in total.

• Mastodon
• kbin
• Beehaw
• Bookwyrm.social
• Paper.wf

Chi1d p0rn posters, among others. According to them, and I have no reason to doubt them.

The Prisoner. No doubt about it. I taped that whole series on audio cassettes with a Radio Shack portable recorder in the 1970s. It's the ultimate cult show.

Sadly, it is mostly unknown to modern audiences. I cosplayed as The Prisoner for several years at a regional SF convention, and only one person recognized me - but from the Simpsons parody rather than the original show!

I never really cottoned to Mastodon, possibly for the same reasons I never took to Twitter. Perhaps I'm just too much of a chatterbox to accept their post length limitations. 😆

Bookwyrm is outstanding for book reviews, and it allowed me to import the CSV of my reviews from GoodReads. If Mastodon can do that, I wasn't aware of it.

Paper.wf was recommended to me as a Fediverse boxing site. Mastodon is too short-form for me. Beehaw doesn't seem to have a personal blog as an option. BookWyrm, oddly enough, does - and I just discovered that I can see my BookWyrm blog (called "Direct Messages" there, which really doesn't make sense) from kbin. I have no idea how that works, since my accounts are separate.

Paper.wf is elegant, but seemingly skimpy on features, though. Currently I can't figure out how to find other blogs there or follow them, and as far as I can tell there's no way for anybody to comment on blog entries there. If anyone wants to check out my blog there, here it is. Maybe you can tell me how to comment on entries!

I can't speak for other instances, but Beehaw requires a convincing explanation of why you feel that you are right for Beehaw and Beehaw is right for you.

I'm a Beehaw member; also a kbin member, but I wasn't able to get on here until tonight because it had been so laggy a few days ago that I'd given kbin up as unusable. To answer your question, I don't like it but I do understand it. It sounds from what they've said that they basically had no choice; they were overwhelmed.

That said, I'm now VERY glad that I have a kbin account. I just re-created my subscription list (including magazines from both of the banned instances) here. I just hope kbin isn't going to ban them too?

And just in case anyone is wondering: I expect to keep using both Beehaw and kbin (and my other Fediverse accounts, for that matter; I'm on Mastodon, BookWyrm, and Paper.wf). It's nice to have a low-stress refuge like Beehaw sometimes But I want to be able to access the whole wide world when I choose, too!

Ironically enough I had just added several communities from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works to my feed on Beehaw. Luckily I can still see them on my "Subscribed" list - not the content, the community names - so I'm adding them to my kbin subscriptions instead.

I'm glad to see that kbin has gotten stable. I'd been trying to use it for days, but it kept freezing and crashing!

Midna - I always wanted the resolution to that love story. Also, the Windmill Hut guy, because I can never hear that song enough.