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[–] ech@lemm.ee 33 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"Expedite", as if the company doesn't have direct control of it's own systems. What a load of bull.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 123 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Instagram has it's fair share of blame for the trend, but I don't think they were the progenitor, as it were. Snapchat was far more heavy-handed with face altering filters from the get-go, as I remember it. Instagram was mostly just the "old-school" sepia tone, black-and-white type filters for the most part until that picked up.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Evolution being slow is a good thing. Trying to shortcut it would just be a more direct way to destroy the species. Also a great example of the kind of thing I'm referring to.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've wondered if it's something like that. Seems like a fairly easy trap to fall into, but hard to say for sure with only our singular reference point.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago

If you're not going to make a point related to the comment you responded to, why comment?

[–] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Not remotely related to what they said.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

Using the second definition, I'd still clarify as "false rhetoric" or something. Maybe that's just me shrug

[–] ech@lemm.ee 5 points 23 hours ago

Had to look it up myself. I saw both, but went with the hyphen for clarity.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Is everybody else using 'rhetoric' wrong or am I the one off base? Afaik, it just means 'speech', or maybe 'eloquence' in certain contexts, but I've never seen it used to mean 'lie' until jd opened his mouth and everybody else followed along.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Just to clarify, 50,000 years is 50 millennia. If you meant millions if years, the term for that is mega-anna. And eons for billions.

Other than that, I more or less agree. Humans have developed technologically much faster than we've been able to evolve/adapt to the changes we're creating, and the stress from that is growing. Occasionally I wonder if it'll prove too much for us in the end.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

They've already declared the highest level of security in the city for that day, fwiw.

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[–] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like their keeping to the original aesthetic, but with modern graphics. That's cool. They even kept the same Frank style vs DR4 (or the weird ass DR2 model). Curious what the gameplay will look like.

 

One of mine is Commit This to Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I basically took the title verbatim and know the album word for word. And while I would love if it did, the rest of MCS's stuff just doesn't hit the same way.

And if you're not an album person, maybe a period of time in the artist's work? Whatever works for you.

*Lots of mentions of hit debut albums that subsequently petered out, which follows with the dreaded sophomore slump that hits many artists. Anyone with mid or even later career albums that stand alone? Those always intrigue me.

 

For one, even if I wanted to use it, piped never works for me.

Second, on mobile, my alternative of choice doesn't recognize everyone's non-yt links, so it removes my choice in the matter.

Third, I have no reason to trust the weird-ass domains I see, and to un-fuck the url takes much more time then just handing out the original YT links and letting people choose for themselves how they view the video.

 

The instance I'm on just did the update and this comment highlighting is really throwing me off. It's super glaring and unpleasant imo and I'd really appreciate the ability to turn it off. I've looked around a bit but haven't found anything myself. Am I missing something?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ech@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee
 

Considering the latest rash of spam images plaguing the platform, I decided to figure out how to block embeds entirely since I never really liked them in the first place and am sharing what I got working since I figured it might be something others would like to enable themselves. (Fyi, this method requires uBlock Origin)

  • Open your uBlock settings and navigate to the 'My Filters' section
  • At the bottom of the document, add two breaks and then paste this:
lemm.ee##p > span
  • If your instance is different than lemm.ee, then replace that with the instance you use to have it work.

With that enabled, images and videos shouldn't load in comments anymore. I'm sure there's a better way to do this, so feel free to share if you know! This is just what I knew how to get work asap. Hope it helps some people!


*0.19 seems to have borked the method I previously posted, but I was able to find another string that works that seems to be more efficient anyhow. Hopefully this one works for a while! I'm going to leave the old strings at the bottom here just to cover all bases. To reiterate, these are the old strings that, afik, do NOT work anymore.

lemm.ee##.comment-content > .md-div > p > [src]
lemm.ee##.comment-content > .md-div > p > video
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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ech@lemm.ee to c/doctorwho@lemmy.world
 

No shade intended. I was just seeing some art from the new MtG Doctor Who cards and for whatever reason decided to look up what the Menoptra looked like originally and the disparity really cracked me up.

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