Indie music has been around forever, with a wide range of artists from different styles contributing. It means being on an independent label and many artists of many different styles contribute to it.
Indie rock is a particular style that evolved out of the indie music scene. It has a particular sound and some consistent themes. It evolved out of but is not limited to the indie music scene.
There are sever non-“Indie music” bands that make “Indie rock”.
Pixel graphics, avant-garde play styles, weird themes. These are hallmarks of the “indie style” of game development, and evolve from not necessarily having the resources of a large studio. But they themselves become the definitions of what it means to be “indie”. Consider turntables and record scratches in hip hop. Consider 8 track recorders in techno, and 4 track recorders in garage music.
I think the quote from CB sums it up: “The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called… COWBOY BEBOP”
I just got up from conversation with a couple of older black men, that I said “well I got to go back to work and start cracking the whip.” And it occurred to me then that it was probably a really insensitive stupid thing to say....
I’m a Linux user and love some good rices. But I’ve no idea what “ricing” comes from. Why is it offensive?
I believe it is racist slang that emerged in the 90s with the advent of cheap japanese and korean cars that were easily customizable (civics, accuras, etc…). Throw a turbo and a loud exhaust, and bam, now its a rice burner. These were prevalent in Asian immigrant communities, but also other places.
It basically meant like, cheap, but also very fast car, of Asian origin.
I was just thinking about how great it was that lemmy has improved to the point that I now have to put it on my leechblock list. Lemmy has improved dramatically to warrant that.
If you are having trouble with productivity or doing meaningful stuff with your life, no reason not to use tools to help you. Beyond that, I think that social media does have its place in a modern socialization diet, and its important to socialize with strangers. But like most things, don’t go overkill. It makes the experience shittier and makes you shittier.
I think shifting your reward cycle would help. Right now you are hooked on the dopamine from going hard, which is fine , but if you want to change, you need to replace the reward system. It also might help to ask how old you are? It is a tendency of the youth to have a lack of long term vision, which can make it hard to create a more sustainable reward cycle .
Its real simple. It gives them identity and something to go after in a society that offers them nothing. So they get into woodworking, hunting, fighting, only eat meat for a while or some shit.
Males are expendable, the way that all people in capitalism are expendable. But to quote Babe from animal farm: Some are more expendable than others. Males have lower impulse control and have a biological more likely to engage in high risk/ high reward. Most white males are facing the same dilemmas and contradictions around the shittiness and meaninglessness of their existence as everyone else; every one else just doesn’t have a direct pipeline to radicalism engineered for them. For years YT has been trying to steer me down the white nationalist rabbit hole, in-spite of how unappologetically leftist the programing I consume is. I’m a bit older and I’ve been around and politically aware since I was a teen and made the impulsive decision to enlist, then months later we were invading Afghanistan and then Iraq.
This same issue plagues young men from all nationalities and walks of life, not just young white men in the US. We have to collectively find a way to give meaning to peoples lives or that innate search for meaning will be taken advantage of.
I mean… what would it even mean to have equity in a non-profit?
Non-profits are organized fundamentally differently than for profit corporations.
If anything they should have had equity in the for-profit side of the company to ensure that their incentives were aligned, if that is even your point.
I think it brings up a very interesting test case for how this particular kind of ownership structure can fail. In another thread, it strikes the difference between authority and power, which I think was very clearly made here.
That all being said, it seems like things have taken a turn for the worse, and if anything, this board has set the mission of a truly open AI world even further back. There seem to be some real Luddites on the board who seem to think they’ll some how be able to cram Pandora back in the box after it has well escaped control. If anything, the should swing the gate wide and at least open source the everything else so as to prevent Microsoft from having a complete monopoly on the future of AI (how things seem to be shaping up).
Yeah that’s what I thought. I’ve formed/ been a part of several non-profits that have looked at developing for-profit components to fund the non-profit mission.
Blur tools for Signal: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data....
I love the idea of a privacy-focused fronend for YouTube, but every time I visit a piped link, it just spins forever. Both on my Linux desktop and my Android phone....
I simply do not have bo. I’ve never worn deodorant because se I’ve never needed to. I’ve had the non existence of my non bo confirmed by men, women , and non gender confirming individuals.
I believe this is right after psychotic mommie issues superman murders a protestor with his Lazer vision and is surprised to be cheered for it by his supporters.
Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently....
there is very very very little nuclear waste.this is complete handwringing. it can be buried and forgotten.
Bigger issue is the carbon costs and pay back periods. Nuclear (unless you’ve got sources otherwise stating) is green in it’s planning phase but not as often in execution. A shit ton of concrete is used, and the plants rarely operate at the capacity they are expected to (or have in the past). Open to revision but that’s my current understanding.
They are a massive upfront carbon cost and only become carbon neutral or negative relative to fossil fuels 20+ years down the line.
How are there individuals who understand the Palestinian/Gaza conflict circumstances regarding Biden yet don’t have knowledge of Trump’s absolute undying support for Benjamin Netanyahu?
Any one who is saying the wouldn’t vote for Biden because they are taking a stance against genocide is unlikely to have voted for Biden first place, or even to have voted at all, and can and should be safely ignored. They aren’t arguing in good faith.
Opposition motions calling for a range of economic and diplomatic sanctions, including the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador in Dublin Dana Erlich, were defeated in the Dail on Wednesday evening....
it seems like if you are interested in private, Lemmy isn’t really a great place?
It strikes me that the lemiverse is basically self doxximg with no ability to get rid of the data. I mean I don’t really know what gwts logged but it seems like it’s never gone via federation.
So, more broadly, want to express the sense that there is a bigger issue around ‘unspoken market collusion’ that I dont know fits under the existing terms of monopoly, price fixing, or conspiracy, but is very very very clearly evident in a wide range of markets. Three great examples of this are oil prices, food prices during and post pandemic (coffee being one that goes far further back in time; 16 ounce coffee bags used to be standard), and digital services (ie, the enshitification of all things; a ‘conspiracy’ to make all things ‘worse’ because their is no where else to go).
The free market idealism, a worship of the supposed power of competition, is so obviously horse shit that only 8th grade level MBAs and their sycophants truly believe that shit. Its so obviously not how things work at scale, but because of field effects of many players whose are incentives are aligned (around capture and deregulation), we seem to have lost any real mechanisms for addressing the fact that so many industries are in a silent form of conspiracy to fix prices and monopolize market spaces.
Its frustrating that its happening, but its equally frustrating to not have people calling it out for what it is. Each of these story lines is but a thread in a broader narrative around these examples (Apple and Amazon), consistently happening over time, repeatedly fucking over consumers who are effectively operated on by both governments and corporations to become perfect consumers (tools to destroy the yields of production to justify endless production).
We need a way to push back against the kinds of capture that we don’t seem to currently have the ability to address. Specifically (at least in the US) Citizens United, and corporate lobbying. I’m tired of pretending that markets solve anything. I’m tired of pretending that ‘good guy capitalism’ is anything other than a half cycle of a corporate mechanism to enslave the world.
Depending on your usage of a VPN, it can help your anonymity, but it’s very much not necessary.
Can you extend this metaphor to help me understand the issue? I was getting signed up with mullvad, and they have a tor browser. I’ll be honest that I dont really get it.
Valve Pleads With Steam Deck Owners to Stop Inhaling Exhaust Fumes (www.ign.com)
How could Valve do this to us?
rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
GTA 6 Hacker Vows to Continue to Commit Crimes After Being Released From Jail - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 and other RPGs reign supreme on Steam Deck, Valve says (www.pcgamesn.com)
pizza rule (i.imgur.com)
maps.app.goo.gl/SfFeuhNMDtANnRwu7
So what the heck is an 'indie game' nowadays anyway? (www.gamingonlinux.com)
There are more people playing Cities Skylines 1 than Cities Skylines 2 on Steam (www.pcgamesn.com)
With about 1 month to go, how would you label 2023?
EU region's GDP per capita compared to the EU's average, purchasing power standards (i.redd.it)
Source: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/…/ddn-20210303-1
Never change Lemmy (lemmy.world)
Source: lemmy.world/comment/5668411
This may seem kind of stupid but I am kind of stupid, is there a list somewhere of phrases that are stupid or insensitive racially or gender biased?
I just got up from conversation with a couple of older black men, that I said “well I got to go back to work and start cracking the whip.” And it occurred to me then that it was probably a really insensitive stupid thing to say....
insane infrastructure needed
JPEG (lemmy.world)
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Nomen est omen (lemmy.today)
Pope invited trans women over for a pasta & meatballs dinner (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Action Video Games Increase Acuity, Study Reveals (legittechnology.com)
We've come a long way baby (i.imgur.com)
why do i constantly oscillate between having an a) intense work ethic where i consistently work hard and manage money wisely or b) pure gluttony and hedonism where i spend freely and accumulate debt
when i do A for long enough and my overall net worth comes close enough to zero, i switch to B and am only sometimes capable of wrangling it in...
Opinion: Why do so many young white men in America find fascism ‘cool’? (www.latimes.com)
"OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns" (files.catbox.moe)
wired.com/…/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/
Blur tools for Signal (signal.org)
Blur tools for Signal: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data....
Does Piped.video actually work for anyone?
I love the idea of a privacy-focused fronend for YouTube, but every time I visit a piped link, it just spins forever. Both on my Linux desktop and my Android phone....
People that don’t wear antiperspirant…
do you not smell body odor or do you just get used to it?...
Phosphorous discovered in outskirts of the Milky Way for the first time (phys.org)
Achievement for all of us (lemmy.world)
Price of solar dropped 89% in ten years (ourworldindata.org)
Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently....
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Irish government faces claims of ‘double standards' on Israel and Russia (www.irishnews.com)
Opposition motions calling for a range of economic and diplomatic sanctions, including the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador in Dublin Dana Erlich, were defeated in the Dail on Wednesday evening....
Most private app for Lemmy
Just heard of Lemmy today...
What happens when Linus dies/retires?
Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?
You can't escape the wrath of rule (lemmy.ml)
Unless I am wrong, and I am never wrong... they are headed dead into the fire swamp. (lemmy.world)
Apple's ad-free Amazon presence sparks digital ad dynamics inquiry (appleinsider.com)
lol (sh.itjust.works)
Every goddamn time I'm trying to make something for my DnD game (lemmy.world)
CloudConvert.com might as well be my fucking home page.