thedirtyknapkin

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[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (16 children)

ignores Ukraine

welcome to Lemmy.ml

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

anyone have more detail on why China said they blocked them.

i know they're blocked in China for not agreeing to Chinese censorship, but Is that the reason China gave? something like "refusing to correct libelous slander against our great and wise party" or have they spun up some other bullshit his time?

obviously the wikimedia foundation isn't going to call them out like that in a post like this. they ultimately still want to do what little they can to appease China.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

yeah, they are the lower level atronach. you basically blew past them.

if you go to the atronach forge at frostcrag spire you can still spawn one with some fire salts.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

makes me think,

for thousands of years all of our cooked meats would have been roasted over open wood fires. they'd be smoky delicious barbeque. I'm sure some ancient people were even covering it in making it intentionally smoky.

do you think the first stoves got pushback from people that liked the smoke? i mean it must have been weird the first time they tasted things that weren't smoky.. then again, I'm sure there was plenty of stuff that just didn't get that smoky on the open fire. and the convenience of not needing to go outside was absolutely worth it. and we eventually figured out that some things are quite a lot better without smoke...

i suppose all of this is why we still have grills and smokers today, even though most people also have a stove. people really like that taste. so yeah, i guess everything was bbq before a more convenient option became avaliable. we all know how much people love convenience. I'm sure that was just as true 1000 years ago as it is today.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

only one of these could be called a hero.

leon is at BEST a very dark shade of morally gray as a former child soldier who was raised to be a hitman by the mob.

and the dude is just the dude. he just wanted his damn rug back.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

some additional relevant statistics

united states barely saw 1% growth year over year and are projecting that growth to continue to slow.

India has nearly 3x the users of the United States. the u.s. is still second because it's the country it started in, but it's not far ahead of the 3rd and 4th place countries. India is an extreme outlier.

unfortunately they don't break down the age demographic by region, but I'd bet that if we specifically look at daily active users in the United States the age demo would skew much older.

so, it seems like it's similar to what many fast food restaurants have been experiencing lately. the growth opportunities in the United States dried up so the decided to push like hell everywhere else. i bet the growth they saw in India over the last decade was explosive. probably bigger than anything they had ever seen before. bigger than when it was still growing in the u.s.. meanwhile they project that over the next decade in the u.s. they'll see maybe 8% user growth and that's pretty optimistic.

so we probably won't actually see much Facebook marketing in the u.s.. the only way they can capture more u.s users is by buying more apps, like when they bought Instagram.

this does seem to imply that the part of the world where Facebook has become a fact of life is very specifically India. I'm sorry to hear that for them.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

i primarily use lemmy these days, but still have to use a few other things.

I still browse reddit for this like episode discussion threads for amine and other tv. lemmy will have maybe 5 responses in the threads for the 3 biggest shows of a season. it's just not there yet.

I'm also a videographer, in our modern age that means i NEED to be on Instagram, YouTube, and tiktok because those are the platforms everyone wants me to make things for. can't know how to make things for a platform I don't use, sadly. especially since "just make something good" doesn't work on any of them. in fact making something that looks good is often more of a hinderence these days and it kills me.

i hate short form video. i hate every mainstream social media platform. i just want to make pretty videos and not have to deal with tiktok trends. I learned 10 ways to attach a lav mic secure and tidy in school. I must now hold the lav mic in my fingers because that's what's trendy and following the trends is the ONE thing that DEFINITELY works.

I hate what has come of my profession. at this point I'm just ready for the ai to take my job so i can blow my head off in peace.

 

one of the three cats I was watching at my friend's house while he and his partner were away last week.

rocky was hard to get a good shot of the whole time I was there. the largest of the three, he likes to keep the house in order.... from a distance. he wouldn't let me get close with the camera. always watching me, but from just around a corner like he is here. I think maybe the curtain helped him feel better about my camera trying to steal his soul.

a real sweetheart when he felt like it, but that camera really seemed to put him off. funny thing, despite being the largest, he had the softest/highest meow.

 

my parent's old dog ruka. she lost her eye as a very young puppy before we ever met her, but she gets on fine without it.

she can catch balls out of the air no problem, but cant find them 3 inches from her face once they hit the ground. never quite understood that. she's old and tired now, with achy joints and bad hearing. she didn't want to spend much time outside today with all this heat. i make sure to give her all the belly rubs she can handle every time I see her.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world
 

was house sitting for a friend and his 3 cats. he left a pair of his pants out for his old boy to nap on while he was away.

tragically I forgot to set my camera to silent shutter mode before taking this picture. in capturing this coziness I ruined it by startling him awake 😢.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it's it's gotta be something very difficult that no one has ever fund before.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

that's basically the approach that all of popular culture had been taking since like 2008. like that was the attitude of the last 20 years. show these bigots that if they at least pretend to play nice we can all get along and be more prosperous for it.

they hated it. it's the "woke mind virus" to them now. I genuinely don't believe people like this will ever be ok in a kind and accepting world. I also don't think that trying to get rid of them will solve this problem... i don't know if there is a solution to some people being mentally incapable of empathy, but it certainly doesn't help that it's so baked into our culture now.

capitalism is highly compatible with a lack of empathy. it's a system that inherently promotes those with no scruples. the less you feel bad about being a piece of shit for money, the more money you'll be able to make. it's a predatory system where those most willing and able to cannibalize everyone and everything around them for personal gain will gain the most. those that gain the most are then also in a position to manipulate both political votes and public opinion. they blatantly bribe our politicians and they own our media platforms. this is especially problematic on social media. if you were a young American on tiktok in the last u.s. election you probably saw numerous vague tiktoks about kamala starting WWIII. no quotes, no context, just "me and the boys after kamala starts wwiii" type shit. as I understand it nearly every major election around the world since then has seen tiktok flooded with "memes" like that supporting the right wing candidate. we're certainly not going to make any progress on this issue while that's the world we live in.

maybe a stable enough government with keen enough regulations can at least try to keep these people from completely raiding the hen house. we'll have to see how things play out with Germany and the afd ban, but I'm not too hopeful on that playing out well in our current situation.

IDK, I'm half convinced that humanity is eternally doomed to repeat the same mistakes. with long periods of everything sucking because too few have or want too great a percentage of what humanity has claimed their own and the occasional period where things are accidentally not that bad.

we are currently leaving one of those brief periods of "not that bad"

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

it's tough to know what you're seeing without seeing it. can you post a side by side showing one image at 160 and another at a bigger iso where you aren't noticing this effect?

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

the only reason to write that book would be for when i would inevitably get to post the "don't create the torment nexus" meme for tons of social media impressions.

though knowing what impressions are pegs me as a creative who won't get to post on social media from the mines.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

the robots won't be equipped to fix it. there will be no one left to tell they got it wrong.

 

Luka likes to bury her face into my hand sometimes. it's the best.

this feels like a meme format, but I don't know what it would say.

 
 

her name is alluka and you can see the royal quality of her countenance at first gaze. be grateful to witness her.

 

stopped by my favorite birding spot after work and had these fellas fly in over my head. guest appearance by a great blue heron.

shot on sony a7siii with a tamron 150-500. all handheld and after the sun was behind the mountains, so you'll have to excuse some shakiness and focus issues.

music: creep - original song by Radiohead - performed by scott bradlee's post modern jukebox.

 
 

shot on a7siii with a nikon Ai-s 28mm f/2.0

 
 

I'm sick as hell right now and this pulled up right outside my front door last night. stepped out to take a picture because nothing felt real for a moment. then i started coughing and kind of regretted it. worth it?

 

took this riding into Milwaukee the other day when it was foggy as hell over like a third of the county...

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