Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993 when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet...
Yeah I meant it not as bragging but as acknowledgement of the reality that for many of us it is so far into the only internet we’ve ever known that as a cultural touchstone it’s lost on us, even those of us in the fediverse/linux sphere.
Young or old, in our society age isn’t an achievement or something one should brag about. But it’s important to keep in mind the wide array of ages present here. Some here lament the death of forum culture, others caught the tail end of it, and still others will need the explanation of why it’s worth missing (and yeah I’m not that young, but I know professionals who are)
The eternal September is to some of us full adults, people complaining about our parents being on the internet for as long as we’ve been alive, which is actually something we can agree to complain about, but people that age are also here
And also it feels like while there’s just the one eternal September there’s also several. I’ve been part of some and I’ve been frustrated with others, and for some I showed up in December and didn’t realize what I’d missed
Ok but as someone who used to mod large trans subreddits that’s less what their mo was compared to brigading with posts and comments and sending threatening messages.
Hearing aids that don’t auto connect to whatever my neighbors are playing on Bluetooth. Also hearing aids with a Bluetooth block list
Seriously I’m fucking losing my mind over this. 3 times in under 10 minutes last night my hearing aids stopped playing the tv I was listening to to play the Bluetooth that my neighbors or their kids were listening to. Suddenly mid conversation with my wife about it, bam, music.
No, my audiologist gave it to me. And it’s not like my neighbors are using one. It switches to Bluetooth streaming for their stuff according to my hearing aid app
Yeah that’s terrible. I mentioned elsewhere that my tv uses a different system and it’s actually what they should be hoping you have available. My audiologist said it’s an evolution of the old inductive loops (ah back in the day I almost got one of those designed for personal headphone use). I can’t confirm it is because I’m not taking it apart while trying to remember how the fuck electromagnetic communication works.
Also depending on the performance I’m amazed that people can hook it up. I still turn mine off for concerts, though that may be more the music I like is the sort to make me go deafer than my genes.
They’re unitron, and expensive enough they better not be otc, Especially since I got them with a hearing test and everything. And maybe my neighbor accidentally turned their device on as I turned my hearing aids on. I do give them and myself a little break when I get home from work many days
He’s trying to stave off a schism or a disastrous collapse of the Catholic Church. Is he good? I think he’s much better than predecessors. But it’s important to keep some things in mind. He ascended after Benedict abdicated as what is generally regarded as a bad pope. Benedict was the far right pope that some Catholics had wanted after Vatican II liberalized the church. Under his papacy the pedo problem blew up, and attendance plummeted. There were serious questions of how long the Catholic Church would remain relevant. Not only that, but that’s the environment that the Vatican ecumenical counsels had sought to resolve (and they seriously did help)
In comes Pope Francis I. After the Vatican II eras of John, Paul, and both John Pauls had been effective and Benedict hadn’t been Francis was seen as a further reformer. Not only was he a liberal bishop, but he was also the first non European pope, an acknowledgement of the fact that the Catholic Church’s real base of power had become Latin America. From the start of his papacy rather than decrying sins of lust, he was decrying sins of greed. He was speaking on topics like global warming and wealth gaps and basically acknowledging that Jesus talked a bell of a lot more about caring for the vulnerable than about gay marriage and abortion.
That said not all was great from the start. Francis decried Ireland legalizing gay marriage and abortion and he compared trans people to nuclear weapons about a decade ago. But he’s clearly trying to adapt to the times. The Catholic Church can’t about face on a lot of this (though trans people I actually think they absolutely can theologically justify trans inclusion). But he can justify increasing lay involvement and increasing the power of women in the church. And it’s clearly necessary to do this. Including lgbt people is needed as well in order to protect the church from schism.
Now for the schism bit. The right wing American Catholic Church has a large movement of what can be considered heretics. Rejection of an ecumenical council is far and away more heretical than rejection of a papal decree. Papal infallibility only applies to interpretation of tradition and scripture. Ecumenical councils can override it. Things they’ve done include deciding what all is contained in the Bible, deciding the basic statements of what Christians believe, and other big deal things. It’s a whole ass ordeal. Shedding Latin mass for local language, increasing lay involvement, having the priest face the congregation, and all the other Vatican II changes weren’t made lightly. If Vatican II decided that the letters from Paul weren’t actually divinely inspired every Catholic would need a new Bible. American Catholic conservatives have been spitting in the face of Vatican II for about a generation and they’ve been increasingly challenging papal authority. Francis has to stop them because if he doesn’t they will eventually schism.
Yeah that’s not surprising. Catholicism has gotten quite a few converts by being the conservative religion with aesthetic in America in the 21st century.
It’s definitely not the religion of the Jesuits who taught me as a teenager that however god made you is good and that learning more about the world is a holy act
I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you’re tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
Epistemic status: Speculation. An unholy union of evo psych, introspection, random stuff I happen to observe & hear about, and thinking. Done on a highly charged topic. Caveat emptor!...
Dude had to specify everyone was straight to get this because yeah in the real world anyone could be attracted to anyone and yeah. Make everyone gay and the situation reverses.
Yeah what we need is flying trains! Or not because it turns out flying uses a ton of fuel. What we need is public transit! Which fuck it turns out we started dismantling back in the 20s. Oops
As a younger one, we grew up with social media becoming available to us right at the worst age. Like seriously imagine if you and your parents were allowed on Facebook right as you hit puberty and nobody understood what it could do to you.
That and also growing up not remembering 9/11 but remembering adults mocking al gore for caring if we all die of ecocide.
We’re basically the prototype for gen z. You merely adopted hopelessness. We were born into it, molded by it, we didn’t see a chance until we were adults.
Small town crazy is different. Small town crazy everyone knows who the lunatic is and avoids them or they don’t know and one day several people disappear or someone is kidnapped or something. Small town crazy scares the shit out of me.
A supercomputer capable of mimicking the human brain is set to be activated in 2024. The DeepSouth system, developed by researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, uses spiking neural networks to efficiently emulate large networks of neurons, rivaling the rate of operations in the human brain. This...
Yeah but it’s really funny to say “I’m so ocd” to the sorts of shit that got me diagnosed with it. “I’m so ocd my panic takes a spiral pattern” or “I’m so ocd I have to check if I locked my car door 3 times, not 2, not 4, maybe 6, but sometimes 9”
I wouldn’t call TempleOS bad, it’s just designed for a different use case. Most OSes are designed to function for productivity. TempleOS is designed to display schizophrenic delusions
Yeah, people love to talk and speculate on where madness and genius intersect, but his is a stark reminder of what that can so often look like. When the mental illness is something like adhd or autism or depression you can get folks like Einstein Newton and DaVinci (or yet another person who drank or drugged themselves to death because they couldn’t cope with everything and their inability to act on their genius), but there are mental illnesses like his where it isn’t some quirks or something easy to brush aside because they’re doing something great. What he did was impressive and brilliant and never capable of being anything more than a novelty and he didn’t seem to understand that fact.
Because the mass is shared. You could get it to move the truck by moving a giant magnet forward but so long as it’s attached to the truck you’re only ever getting out the movement you put in to the magnet.
To me, honestly, no much. I can see the SEO efforts: if you have to talk about a game called “suckass” probably… very few people will click on the title. But when they put [GTA] and [BALDUR’s GATE] for a generic fantasy game where you steal stuff, you can see the magazine publisher is that hungry for click....
The thing that gets me is she could’ve just lived her life. My girlfriend runs a parenting group and a leftist homeschooling community all while being married to a man and dating a woman. The trick is when you don’t hang out with bigots people don’t care
Recently I have been struggling a little trying to accept and prepare for the consequences of coming out and exposing this very sensitive part of myself to the world. With the increase in hate crimes and anti-trans sentiment it is a very scary idea....
Nobody can hurt me more than I can. Choosing to suffer so they don’t hurt me isn’t living. I accepted violence may Befall me and that it may cost me my life to transition before I started. It was part of the wisdom of the time back then
So yeah they can spit on me. Maybe they’ll even try to kill me. But I’m not the one hurting me so long as I’m transitioning, they carry the weight of their actions. I will force them to hurt me themselves. And I will be a person who forces your soul to ache when you hurt her. And throughout all this I still meet bigots. But I have spit to spare too.
“Look to your left. Look to your right. One of you will graduate with a business degree. One will drop out. And the third will have traded their health and sanity to get bossed around by the first.”
Yeah I think playing into the idea that it’s being taken unjustly though is bad. It’s better to portray it like the rich roommate never paying their portion of any of the bills and leaving you to cover it all.
Solid Snake, the recurring protagonist of the Metal Gear franchise, is making his Fortnite debut as a bonus skin offered in the Chapter 5, Season 1 Battle Pass. But the hunky assassin is no longer sporting his once-thick booty.
Today is the 11,067th day of Eternal September (en.wikipedia.org)
Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993 when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet...
Imagine only being allowed to upvote something? (sh.itjust.works)
This post was made by Fediverse gang.
What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet?
LBTQIA rights 2024 only (campfyre.nickwebster.dev)
Can someone knowledgeable explain what's going on at the Vatican? Trump-loyal Catholic leaders are being defanged. Diversity and acceptance are being promoted. (www.msn.com)
I don’t know what’s going on with the pedophiles, but I hope the same reform....
What are your"too lazy to cook" recipe ?
I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you’re tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
this week's LW chud who is the sort of anti-wokeist who says he isn't right wing writes about human interaction from first principles. 100 upvotes. (www.lesswrong.com)
Epistemic status: Speculation. An unholy union of evo psych, introspection, random stuff I happen to observe & hear about, and thinking. Done on a highly charged topic. Caveat emptor!...
The future is now (lemmy.today)
Someone redesigned the Steam UI, and I need it. (youtu.be)
I need it now....
Cause friendships never end! (lemmy.ml)
"Millennial lingo" by Shen Comic (file.coffee)
Source: Webtoon - RSS
Your mix tape isn't fire, it's smouldering at best (lemmy.world)
DeepSouth (www.westernsydney.edu.au)
A supercomputer capable of mimicking the human brain is set to be activated in 2024. The DeepSouth system, developed by researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, uses spiking neural networks to efficiently emulate large networks of neurons, rivaling the rate of operations in the human brain. This...
A striking and extremely rare half female, half male bird has been spotted by a University of Otago zoologist (www.otago.ac.nz)
For real though. Tough to get through. (lemmy.world)
Apparently this reminder is needed....
What is something you'd gladly go into debt for?
An example: for me, I’d happily go into debt to travel, or make sure my son has a good education.
The Names of Thousands of Neo-Nazi Music Fans Just Got Leaked (www.vice.com)
Thousands of purveyors of neo-Nazi tunes just had their day ruined by a crew of enterprising Scandinavian anti-fascists.
Is it just me? (lemmy.zip)
linux rule (sopuli.xyz)
Magnet rule (lemmy.world)
Titles like "This game mix [game] and [another game] to give a [appreciation words] challenge" are really getting that annoying?
To me, honestly, no much. I can see the SEO efforts: if you have to talk about a game called “suckass” probably… very few people will click on the title. But when they put [GTA] and [BALDUR’s GATE] for a generic fantasy game where you steal stuff, you can see the magazine publisher is that hungry for click....
Moms for Liberty founder leaves rightwing leadership role amid queer sex scandal & rape allegations (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Gandalf The Grey (lemmy.ml)
[TW: Hate] How have you dealt with real life experiences of hate and transphobia?
Recently I have been struggling a little trying to accept and prepare for the consequences of coming out and exposing this very sensitive part of myself to the world. With the increase in hate crimes and anti-trans sentiment it is a very scary idea....
Business Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Sun Tzu's wisdom (lemmy.world)
by Centurii-chan
Know your enemy (lemmy.ml)
What a silly thought, am I right? (lemmy.world)
Not sure if it’s NSFW tho…
Fortnite Players Are Peeved About Solid Snake's Flat Ass (www.ign.com)
Solid Snake, the recurring protagonist of the Metal Gear franchise, is making his Fortnite debut as a bonus skin offered in the Chapter 5, Season 1 Battle Pass. But the hunky assassin is no longer sporting his once-thick booty.
It's Rulesday (lemmy.blahaj.zone)