dandelion (she/her)

I was clowning with you 😉

“you can’t be serious” being a literal (joking) instruction on how to become a clown, while also making it look like I was questioning your dedication 😄

you can’t be serious

beyond beef 😝

You got it! It’s really an excellent video essay.

I’m just now starting to work through his other works, but everything he does is magic. Honestly the topic of “I Don’t Know James Rolfe” was basically as dull as the dictionary to me, but I enjoyed it anyway.

Currently working my way through his “Mantracks” video, which is so far about fossils and creationism.

Stanley Meyer’s invention was later termed fraudulent after two investors to whom he had sold dealerships offering the right to do business in Water Fuel Cell technology sued him in 1996. His car was due to be examined by the expert witness Michael Laughton, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. However, Meyer made what Professor Laughton considered a “lame excuse” on the days of examination and did not allow the test to proceed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fuel_cell

Probably the dune buggy never ran on the system he claimed. He was a fraudster, so probably it was just running on gas like normal while he was claiming it was all water.

a video to help people understand the problem with crypto: https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g

I know the video says it’s about NFTs, but it touches on Bitcoin and blockchain first as background.

hardly surprising, but still 🤢

EDIT: seems like the site is pretty dead, looks like 4 years ago a bunch of people moved there, but more recently I don’t see much activity (probably for the best, considering the content seems to be pretty far-right).

seems like a right-wing echo chamber, similar to Voat.

the advertisers, they’re going to come for you at night?

we have ads because services paid for with attention are more accessible and get more traffic than services paid for with a monthly subscription … we could probably subsidize a lot of websites or make them community efforts (like Wikipedia), but because there is a desire to profit from websites, we have this aggressive push for ads and monetization in every corner of the web.

Commercialization, though, is the problem more than advertising itself is. Monetization through “native ads” or affiliate link marketing is just as insidious and toxic, and pervasive. Just like people hate loot boxes and games that have mechanics where skill is less important than paying cash for in-game content to gain an advantage, the root problem is commercialization.

This is just capitalism, and cyberpunk as a genre is meant to be critical of capitalism and its rotten fruits.

I think it misses the mark to interpret the war as a war between humanity and advertisers when it’s a war between the powerful and wealthy and the 99%.

hm, if it’s not too much to ask, maybe a visual would help? Like, an example where Excel or some other program shows correct layout, and LibreOffice has incorrect?

I haven’t had much discomfort with LibreOffice and I tend to be pretty OCD and I do UI work, so … maybe I’ve just ignored it - would like to learn, though!

mistakes were made

this is the way

I prefer Google Sheets to Excel, but I still use LibreOffice Calc for everything anyway

it doesn’t feel that different than Word and Excel, tbh - I don’t know what you’re talking about

are you a computer?

yes!! I’m a fan of 24-hour time, though we should honestly switch to metric time, I think we’re at least a second French revolution away from that happening 😅

or put them at the end of the year, that would fix it for me 😅 July can be the 11th month and August the 12th month!

The English word comes from Latin, septem = 7, membris or mens = month (like menstruation).

In the Roman calendar the months are:

1. March
2. February
3. May
4. June
5. July
6. August
7. September
8. October
9. November
10. December

So the order of the months was more logical, and a Roman would naturally understand that September, October, November, and December read as literally the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth month respectively.

I basically constantly have to manually correct myself over and over that for example September is the 9th month, to look for the number 9 even though when I read “September” I am reading “seventh month” and my brain automatically wants to look for 7.

I think most people would not relate to my experience of the months let alone how upsetting this is to me, hence I consider it a “small hill” to die on, lol. But it’s a very big hill in my world!

oof