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Most food has a Julien Code to tell you when it was manufactured/packaged.

British English - lieutenant is pronounced “Lef-tennant”

In a word. Lobbyists.

The first four letters.

No no. I get that. My rant was more about the existence of A.I logo creators in general. A soulless program can’t create anything except soulless icons, which is not what a professional logo is about.

In the professional graphic design world, a logo isn’t just an “icon”.

Any graphic designer worth his/her salt first asks some questions, gets to know the type of business, what the owner wants to convey, etc… and then creates something that reflects that. It’s why illustrator software will usually have a sort of “scratch board” functionality, where you can quickly develop various iterations until you get to the one that says what you want it to say.

Generating a shitty AI logo not only denigrates actual iconography, but cheapens the professionals who struggle in that field every day as their own work get’s less and less appreciated.

Rant over…

At least some natural/traditional remidies are legit

Yes. But that’s not Homeopathy. Holistic/Herbal medicine is valid (for the most part). Heck, most medicine started out as our ancestors realising that this or that plant eased pain, or lowered inflammation or a hundred other things.

Modern medicine is mostly just a distillation of those age old cures into more convenient pill form.

But let’s be really really clear here, Homeopathy is NOT “traditional medicine”. It’s a scam. This notion that because an infection makes your eye red, and an onion also makes your eye red, therefore a drop of diluted onion water will cure your eye infection is just a straight up insane at best, criminal at worst.

Content, monetization, and ubiquity.

1. Content: PT skews heavily into Linux and Linux adjacent topics. And that’s fine, but when I say I watch more YT than regular TV, I’m not kidding. And its because of the diversity and variety of channels. Things like History Hit or Every Frame a Painting, and silly shit like Red Letter Media. YouTube isn’t just “let’s plays” and game streaming. So Peertube can’t be “Just Linux”

2. Monetization: Creators have to get paid. That’s just reality. It would be a fine world if everyone could spend hours doing their passion for free and not have to worry about deeding themselves. If you want #1, you need a certain amount if full time creators, and for that they need to get paid.

3. Ubiquity: Watching more YouTube than regular TV, I don’t want to sit in front of my computer to do it. We need to be able to access it from smart TVs, ROKU sticks, etc… And not just a port of the website that requires a mouse and keyboard, but something optimized to work with smart TV remote controls.

The issue with the Fediverse (not that I don’t love the fediverse, I do) is that all of those three things require large scale framework and organisational planning; which is the antithesis to what the Fediverse is all about.

Tl;Dr – Large scale success of PeerTube as a thing is largely impossible without abandoning the concept of federation itself.

I’m not even an American and I would be so psyched by a Mark Kelly run for president.

Then all we would need would be to get Chris Hatfield as or PM up here and it would be an intelligent astronaut super hemisphere.

Oh believe me, I know. I agree.

but the argument nowadays is that common usage dictates that both are now “acceptable”, similar to how apparently “literally” now effectively means “figuratively” because everyone uses it.

Ha! How much time have you got?

Shallow and pedantic is my speciality.

But for the sake of brevity I’ll simply say that hearing (or reading) less in cases where fewer would be more appropriate is like driving an ice pick into my brain.

Yes…both are technically correct, but I have to fight the urge to be that guy whenever I hear it.

No one at any point said not to be attracted to that person. But that doesn’t mean people (men or women) should be drooling rutting animals about it.

In the adult world that (most of us) should have left behind after our bar-hopping twenties, finding someone attractive can be done without eye-fucking them like a creep.

It’s not a choice they are making

It is if they’re friggin’ adults. Despite the media, we’re not supposed to be just led around by our penis’; unable to avoid being distracted by bewbs.

That’s a cop out that guys use as an excuse to not evolve.

Came into the thread specifically for it and am appalled at how far down I had to scroll to find mention of it.

Such a great film that got sadly overshadowed by being released the same year as The Matrix.

I don’t know if they’re considered “universally beloved”. But the Total War series of games theoretically should be directly up my alley based on every other game I play, but for some reason they’ve never clicked for me.

Just like any sport game, I only enjoy FIFA in small doses.

Sports games are literally the definition of “playing the same game over and over again”. I can only ever do maybe a handful of games in a “season” before I start just simming and focusing solely on the management side of things. And even that doesn’t last more than a season. I don’t think there’s any sports game where I’ve run more than one or two seasons.

The new Russian ones are supposed to dodge interceptors at their final stage and fly crazy fast.

The war in Ukraine has proven that what they say they can do and what they can actually do, militarily speaking, is vastly different. I’d be surprised at this point if a russian ICBM isn’t just a homing pidgeon with a grenade strapped to it.

Wherever they go, Tim Horton’s Beiber-bites eventually follow. So yeah…in this case I’d agree with that assessment.

For the most part, the same ethos that powers the Fediverse is the same ethos that powers all open-source. So naturally the people that would be more keen to adopt it are the people who believe in the Open Source model in general.

I can’t think of anything less right-wing than open source; it’s essentially software communism (“from each according to their ability to each according to their need”) Sharing isn’t a right-wing value.

This is implying that they have regional power? They can barely hold onto Crimea now The Ukraine is off the leash and allowed to be more proactive in its defensive strategies.

What ships are they going to send? The one’s that haven’t already been sunk by cheap off the shelf drones?