considine

joined 11 months ago
[–] considine@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I grow old, I grow old

I wear my trousers rolled

Shall I eat a peach?

Nah, it's 3:00 pre-boiled egg time

Then some ~~Wheel of Fortune~~ QI and a nap

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Aglets. You can buy replacement aglets if it really bothers you.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

It really was. I've watched it several times.

I'm not really sure what's well known unless it's enormously popular.

I've looked up the director, writer and actors from Rubicon to find similarly great work but this seemed to be a special convergence.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Rubicon

If you like espionage but from the analytical side.

Counterpart

If you like espionage, JK Simmons, and parallel dimensions

Berlin Station S1

If you like espionage and postwar Germany

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Ooh, pool depth diss!

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Propaganda is usually truthful or exaggerated truth. It's the framing that is important. Some facts are focused on. Some facts are omitted.

I acknowledge that Russia, China and the DPRK have made mistakes and even done things that are deeply questionable. But I'm interested in comparing their mistakes or misguided actions to those of the most powerful military empire on earth. The one involved in hundreds of military actions and dozens of coups since its inception. The one with the largest per capita prison population on earth. The one which controls many of the world's financial levers.

There is a difference in the scale of their mistakes or bad actions. Propaganda distorts that difference of scale. It focuses on the crimes of the "enemies" / "axis of evil" / "rogue states" but doesn't examine context or culpability of the empire. They'll choose one conflict, downplay 9 others, and give a one-sided view of that one conflict.

That's how propaganda works. Every state produces propaganda. One state produces billions of dollars of propaganda each year.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use Keepass2Android. Is there some reason Keepassxc is better, or just an alternative?

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Very wise. He spent his nights with the fairy by the river.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Calculator?! Those thieving, energy-sucking piles of garbage! Abacus till I die!

But seriously, AI is insidious in how it data mines us to give us answers, and data mines our questions to build profiles of users. I distrust assurances of anonymity by big data corpos.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let's not have advertising slogans in posts about products here on Lemmy. Reddit really has that going on if you're into it.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Would be funny if Boeing started cutting corners with their hitmen, too.

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