I've enjoyed the books, but they really seem that they need an aggressive editor. Being long for the sake of being long just doesn't work.

I really enjoyed Name of the Wind until about 3/4 of the way through and I sat back and though: Orphan kid, goes to magic school, has male and female friend classmates, one professor seems to not like him....holy shit, I'm reading a reimagining of fucking Harry Potter.

The sun is the same in a relative way
    but you're older      <- Time, Pink Floyd

> It’s such an uncomfortable truth!

Some might even call it an Inconvenient Truth!

Two I have to mention

The first book of Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow trilogy, Blood Song, is one of my favorite fantasy books. I just really liked it. The second book was OK, the third was an absolute train wreck. I would have preferred it to be unfinished. Huge disappointment for me.

The Lightbringer series by Brent weeks started off strong. The Black Prism was great in the magic system seemed unique. Second book was OK, good enough I was looking forward just enough to finish the trilogy. Then the third book didn't finish, so I figured he just stretched out the series to milk a few more dollars from the idea. Then the fourth was similar. I couldn't bring myself to care about the next book. Big disappointment.

HONORABLE MENTION: WoT. Made it to book 6 or 7 both times I've tried to read through them. Then the characters, the writing, everything, just starts to piss me off.

It's a weird rule, but of course this is the internet. Nobody said you had to tell the truth. Take it from me, living in Chagos.

People decry most "both sides" arguments for legitimate reasons. But this geriatric pandering takes place on both sides. It is absolutely disgusting to witness.

A friend of mine is a musician. About a decade or two ago I went over to his house and he said that he had to get a new fan to fix his computer. I asked him what was going on, so he turned it on and I heard that tick-tick-tick of the read head. I had to let him know it was his hard drive. He had a lot backed up, but not everything, and not the stuff he'd been working on the past couple weeks. Just a bummer. But he did set up a backup program after that.

Then came Ronald Reagan and the dark times.

That about sums up the situation.

I configured the newsboat rss reader for my youtube subscriptions, but you may want to configure another reader that allows you to download/watch videos. An alternative to @cow@lemmy.world's javascript code, you can go onto the homepage of a youtube channel, open up the page source and search for "rssurl". That will give you the rss feed for the channel.

A lot of readers can do this automatically. It really is nice to watch videos without any of the suggestions or ads. Also, if you use mpv to watch the videos, you can install a sponsorblock script that does away with the paid promotions in the video.

If only all the moron maga types realized when they were being fed bullshit.

The Republican party has led the initial charge, with a series of claims about extraterrestrial life that, until recently, would have been seen as career-ending.

LOL, more distraction from one party's inability to do their freaking job. It's funny that 1) alien visitors cross unfathomable distances using what must be technology far, far, in advance of anything we have, yet "crash" and 2) These "crashes" only happen in the US, or the US quickly swoops in to take all evidence of this from foreign countries.

tl;dr Americans are so self-centered and narcissistic it's painful at times.

Bisping is such a homer. Put any UK fighter in the discussion and he just starts gushing.

The Constitution says that a person can't be under 30 to serve in the Senate. Is that saying that there aren't any sub-30 year olds who would be great Senators? Why is one arbitrary limit OK, but one on the other end of the range suddenly undemocratic? That just makes no sense to me.

pdfimages is what you want, I believe. It's in the poppler-utils package in Debian.

That just brings me back to starting the compile, getting something to eat, doing chores, and whatever else. Then when it was finally done, booting it up only for it to not boot because I forgot some checkbox. Repeat a couple of times. Nights getting the thing working. And then on the next kernel release, trying to make sure I remembered all the checks because it didn't let you export the current config back then.

I've got over a decade on you, and if anything I'm further left and more pro age-limits than I've ever been in my life.

"World" news?

It would be better if he introduced some legislation that said if you partake in child abuse, through interstate underage sex trafficking, or don't report or do anything about sexual abuse taking place in sports that you oversee, that you can't be a Congressman. Wish in one hand, and shit in the other.

It would be crazy if they actually get the votes to change The Constitution for this. I can't see it happening. But I've said that too many times and been wrong over the past almost decade or so.

If a website doesn't want me to see their shit, then I guess i won't see their shit. I already have some sites that don't work because of my aggressive use of lists on my pihole, in addition to the usual browser plugins. If a site doesn't work now, I just move on. I don't give a shit about any site enough to put up with this type of bullshit.

Yeah, I didn't think any of that would make a difference. It's just not showing under active scripts when I'm on lemmy.one

I love the idea. It's not working for me. Violenmonkey, firefox, Linux, for what it's worth. I've been wanting something like this since I started using Lemmy.

Apparently not.

And you don't know much about history.

That’s abusers using religion to control people.

I always thought that was the entire point of religion.

Going back to the most famous code comment in Unix history You are not expected to understand this.

In the past, when there was a much higher tax on high income earners, instead of paying more in taxes, they would spread the wealth a little more equitably. This was true in Hollywood, in corporations, hell, in working service industry jobs. There were still rich, but so were others. In the past 40 years, we have been experiencing the greatest wealth transfer (over $50 fucking trillion ) from the working class to the 1% ever. And it's poised to get worse. Anyone who doesn't support unions and a strongly progressive tax is either ignorant of the history of the US, or an asshole. There is no in between.

If anyone cares, this is an Apple thing.

I really hope they don't make it a brainless action movie. They need to capture the fun slap-stick of the original, along with the life lessons.

It will never happen, for so many reasons.

I don't know, I remember hearing that everything would soon be IPV6 a couple decades ago.

Jesus christ. People go out of their way to be offended by the most non-offensive shit these days.

I wish you wouldn't use the word "harm". I find that term hateful and hurtful.

The algorithm seems pretty hit or miss for me, other than new

I've been saying that, with varying levels of disbelief, for decades.

The parties don't care what people want/need. Occasionally putting the lipstick on the pig fools too many people for them to care.

I've had a bad hip since getting hit with a degenerative disease when I was a child. My insurance won't give me a hip replacement until I'm older (I'm in my 50s). This bad hip has fucked with my back to the point that most of the past 20 years has been a hell of chronic pain. On bad days I could see doing what the van people did. But on a decent day, I'd force myself to walk that.

How the hell is that torture? Fighting extradition to answer for crimes is now...torture? You set the bar so freaking low it's weird.

Thanks, added it to my player.