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lobsterminator posted:Better to err the other way. "I'm actually drowning here!"
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Drowning fr fr no cap
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I don't think a drowning person would bother with either intensifiers or qualifiers when asking for help. In fact, they would probably say something like HELP AAAAAAAAAH I'M DROWNING HELP HELP HELP BLRGHBLRGH HELP.
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May 13, 2024 16:41
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In my experience drowning people don't say anything at all because they're too busy with the business of drowning (literally). Totally unrelated: is there a tool I can use to analyze my spending and sort things into categories and whatnot that isn't Mint.com and doesn't share all of my personal data with some faceless corporation that will use it for their own nefarious purposes? kedo fucked around with this message at 16:53 on May 13, 2024 |
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May 13, 2024 16:49
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Yeah, drowning typically involves no yelling or splashing and frequently the people nearby don't realize anything is wrong at all
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May 13, 2024 17:00
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kedo posted:In my experience drowning people don't say anything at all because they're too busy with the business of drowning (literally). Do you want one that automatically syncs your stuff? I use You Need a Budget (ynab), but it’s an envelope system budgeting app with a very specific philosophy in mind. It’s also fairly expensive if you go with the current subscription-based option. You can automatically sync accounts to ynab but it works best if you enter transactions as you make them or schedule them manually. This may be quite onerous depending on your financial setup, but pushing to make it more efficient and transparent is part of successfully budgeting too, imo. If that’s not your speed or you want to poke around with open source and/or self-hosted options, this Reddit thread has an impressive rundown of some of the ongoing projects like that. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/BrJxmmamFz
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May 13, 2024 17:04
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kedo posted:Totally unrelated: is there a tool I can use to analyze my spending and sort things into categories and whatnot that isn't Mint.com and doesn't share all of my personal data with some faceless corporation that will use it for their own nefarious purposes? My online banking does this. But also, is there any reason you are not using excel or similar? You'd have to do a bit of manual work, but it works pretty well. Also, spend less on candles.
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May 13, 2024 17:11
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tuyop posted:Do you want one that automatically syncs your stuff? Yeah I'd rather it sync automatically with the option to re-categorize transactions if they were incorrectly labelled. Thanks for the recommendations and the reddit link! BonHair posted:My online banking does this. But also, is there any reason you are not using excel or similar? You'd have to do a bit of manual work, but it works pretty well. Hmmm, I'll have to check if my bank/credit card does this, but when I looked through them most recently I don't recall seeing anything. kedo fucked around with this message at 17:14 on May 13, 2024 |
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May 13, 2024 17:12
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What is a reel on Facebook/insta? I wanted to post a video on Instagram but it uploaded it as a reel, same when I shared it to Facebook. Facebook says it has 880 views, but I don’t even have that many friends. Also it’s been shared twice and I can’t see by who. Can someone explain what a reel is like I’ve never used social media before? Googling didn’t help much.
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Koivunen posted:What is a reel on Facebook/insta? I wanted to post a video on Instagram but it uploaded it as a reel, same when I shared it to Facebook. Facebook says it has 880 views, but I don’t even have that many friends. Also it’s been shared twice and I can’t see by who. Can someone explain what a reel is like I’ve never used social media before? Googling didn’t help much. when tiktok started becoming popular, every other social media platform decided that they, too, needed a short vertical video format. "reels" are meta's version. these "reels" are more aggressively shared with people outside of your network by their algorithm (compared to posts and stories), which is why if you are logged into ig or facebook and start scrolling you might see a bunch of random reels made by people you don't know. that's what is happening to the ones you make as well. they are recommended based on the algorithms perception of the subject matter rather than based on personal connections. this is different from "posts" which only go in your own feed and are visible mainly to people who are following you, and from "stories" which are also intended for your followers, and which also have the distinction of being temporary (24 hours i think). reels also have similar features to tiktok and snapchat, like silly camera filters and effects and stickers etc. which are not found in normal posts. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 17:25 on May 13, 2024 |
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May 13, 2024 17:21
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ninjoatse.cx posted:I'm going to be selling a ton of old action figures I've had since I was a kid. What site is the go-to to find out which are even worth selling vs kit bashing fodder? Ebay is kind of the classic for stuff like this, but Facebook marketplace might have some entries that are selling other figures. I know my city has a few collectable shops, and a fairly regular toy fair and I think just about every one of those people are way overestimating what they can sell these things for (and seeing the same inventory every time seems to back this up).
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May 13, 2024 19:55
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Is there a thread for being a waiter/waitress?
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May 13, 2024 23:47
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DildenAnders posted:Is there a thread for being a waiter/waitress? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3827217&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 Includes culinary + food/bev reps
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Is there a way to filter tiktok videos for location and recency? A couple of times this week someone has I'm pretty sure tried the "door kick" challenge or something of the sort and I think it'd be very funny if I could find them through that but I'm also an elder millennial so these ticked tocks confuse and frighten me.
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May 14, 2024 04:29
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What's the current best free/open source thing for basic video editing? Just need to edit sound levels and stitch some videos together
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May 14, 2024 11:33
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Organza Quiz posted:What's the current best free/open source thing for basic video editing? Just need to edit sound levels and stitch some videos together DaVinci Resolve.
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Organza Quiz posted:What's the current best free/open source thing for basic video editing? Just need to edit sound levels and stitch some videos together Davinci Resolve was already mentioned and it's absolutely a good pick. Just wanted to add that Shotcut is also a decent alternative if you're constrained by system specs. Less powerful than Davinci Resolve, but also quite a bit more lightweight.
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Thanks for this!
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May 14, 2024 14:34
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I'm trying to remember the name of a short story I read once, about a terrorist who goes around spraying up patterns that drive people mad when they see him. The terrorist has a mask that protects him from the pattern, but he is arrested and put in jail, and eventually his brain puts the pattern together on its own and he's driven mad. I feel like it would be a Charles Stross story, but I can't find anything that looks correct.
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May 14, 2024 14:44
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a short story I read once, about a terrorist who goes around spraying up patterns that drive people mad when they see him. The terrorist has a mask that protects him from the pattern, but he is arrested and put in jail, and eventually his brain puts the pattern together on its own and he's driven mad.
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May 14, 2024 14:46
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mystes posted:Googling your description, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) came up That's it, thank you!
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Earwicker posted:when tiktok started becoming popular, every other social media platform decided that they, too, needed a short vertical video format. "reels" are meta's version. Thanks, this makes sense. I’ve got something like 1.5k views which I don’t like, I just wanted to share it with my friends, but couldn’t figure out how to make it a normal video and not a reel once it was linked from Instagram.
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Koivunen posted:Thanks, this makes sense. I’ve got something like 1.5k views which I don’t like, I just wanted to share it with my friends, but couldn’t figure out how to make it a normal video and not a reel once it was linked from Instagram. unfortunately, you can't change the format once it's posted. and its a bit tricky because if you want to make a post, and you upload a video, ig will automatically assume you want to make a reel instead so you have to go back and make sure to set it back to "post" before you post it also if you really want to make sure no one but your friends is seeing your stuff, set your profile to private
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Remember that Facebook notoriously lies about video views so someone having it pass by their feed without clicking or even pausing on it might count as a view.
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I moved to a new home two years ago and the IRS is still sending me letters (CP148B) once every month or two to let me know they've changed my address. And I'm like, "yeah I know, you have literally mailed this to me (AND to my old address, which the new tenants have forwarded to me) a dozen times or more for a total of 24+ letters." When will they stop? 
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May 14, 2024 19:08
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How is it possible for the Unabomber Manifesto to be available on Amazon? Wouldn't buying a manifesto like that get you put on a bunch of lists? And, who is publishing this anyway? I'm sure Ted Kaczynski is rolling in his grave over it being on Amazon, but that's beside the point.
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two fish posted:How is it possible for the Unabomber Manifesto to be available on Amazon? Wouldn't buying a manifesto like that get you put on a bunch of lists? And, who is publishing this anyway? It's available because people want to read it. You can also buy mein kampf if you want. The manifesto is public domain. Anybody can publish a copy. Kaczynski also wrote a second book that he retained the rights to. You can buy that on Amazon, too.
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two fish posted:How is it possible for the Unabomber Manifesto to be available on Amazon? Wouldn't buying a manifesto like that get you put on a bunch of lists? And, who is publishing this anyway? Manufacturing consent. To (probably poorly) paraphrase Chomsky. In an authoritarian dictatorship there is propaganda that everyone says but no-one believes, in a society that claims to be a democracy you're free to say anything but most people believe the propaganda. Not an endorsement of Kaczynski but an explanation of why dissenting views are made available. jeremiah johnson fucked around with this message at 01:41 on May 15, 2024 |
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May 15, 2024 01:39
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Earwicker posted:unfortunately, you can't change the format once it's posted. and its a bit tricky because if you want to make a post, and you upload a video, ig will automatically assume you want to make a reel instead so you have to go back and make sure to set it back to "post" before you post it Thanks for the info. I’m not that old (mid 30s) but I’m just not good at figuring out social media stuff.
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two fish posted:How is it possible for the Unabomber Manifesto to be available on Amazon? Wouldn't buying a manifesto like that get you put on a bunch of lists? And, who is publishing this anyway? https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-1/#:~:text=First%20Amendment%20Fundamental%20Freedoms,for%20a%20redress%20of%20grievances
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two fish posted:Wouldn't buying a manifesto like that get you put on a bunch of lists? The manifesto was printed in the Washington Post newspaper in 1995 and is still freely available from that same source. This is not exactly obscure underground samizdat material we're talking about here. Powered Descent fucked around with this message at 02:13 on May 15, 2024 |
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Powered Descent posted:The manifesto was printed in the Washington Post newspaper in 1995 and is still freely available from that same source. This is not exactly obscure underground samizdat material we're talking about here. I actually have a hard time imagining that sort of thing happening today. Not that it would be illegal just that news outlets would refuse to publish it for fear of glorifying a killer and encouraging copycats.
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They don't really need to, anybody with a manifesto can post it a million places online, do some terrible acts to get news attention, and somebody will find it and connect them. iirc the unabomber's isn't even specifically a call to violence, it's more "modern society is bad and we should undo it, that might be a slow process".
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two fish posted:How is it possible for the Unabomber Manifesto to be available on Amazon? Wouldn't buying a manifesto like that get you put on a bunch of lists? these are not mutually exclusive. the unabomber's manifesto is available on amazon because there's nothing illegal about it. its also entirely possible that buying the book, technically, results in you being on "some kind of list" in the sense that a list of people who bought the book likely exists and could be accessed by some government agency if they wanted to, but what would they do with that information? it is interesting that new zealand banned the manifesto of the christchurch murderer, however (not having actually read it) everything ive seen about it seems to indicate that its just a shoddily written version of the replacement theory idea, and a quick search reveals literally dozens of outright unapologetic nazi replacement theory books for sale on amazon. are the people who buy those books ending up on "some kind of list"? possibly but its pretty unlikely that anything is done with that information other than it just existing in a database somewhere.
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Earwicker posted:it is interesting that new zealand banned the manifesto of the christchurch murderer, however (not having actually read it) everything ive seen about it seems to indicate that its just a shoddily written version of the replacement theory idea, and a quick search reveals literally dozens of outright unapologetic nazi replacement theory books for sale on amazon. are the people who buy those books ending up on "some kind of list"? possibly but its pretty unlikely that anything is done with that information other than it just existing in a database somewhere.
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mystes posted:If there was a list of everyone who consumed media pushing the nazi replacement theory they would also have to put everyone who watched (at least some episodes of) Tucker Carlson on Fox News on it true, but the list of "people who buy book X from website Y" is a bit easier to access and track than getting a list of all people who watched some episodes of a network tv show but again its just information existing somewhere, no law enforcement or intelligence organization is likely to actually do anything with that information, which would involve thousands upon thousands of people many of whom are cops or some kind of law enforcement. like even regardless of first amendment issues there's another pretty huge reason that no major law enforcement agency in the us is particularly motivated to track down fascists right now the books that are attracting negative attention from government agencies in certain states is anything even remotely lgbtq related in a school library or even public library. thats who the state is actually going after, school librarians, not nazis or other would-be killers Earwicker fucked around with this message at 03:18 on May 15, 2024 |
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Ted Kaczynski's manifesto is pretty well written and lucid, as stupid as anarcho primitivism is it's still interesting to read the thing written by a dipshit terrorist as a historical document of that moment in time. Since his ideology is a dead end that nobody is interested in there's not really any reason to oppress it. If someone decides to bomb a couple schools or something the government would be pretty happy with that, it's just more justification for security and surveillance laws. Ideologies that actually get oppressed are ones that involve class consciousness ala the evolution of the civil rights movement into a class based movement that convinced the government to assassinate all their leaders in the late 60s/early 70s, because that's a movement that could actually threaten capitalism. All forms of anarchism are super useful for the capitalist state to keep around and thriving, including anarcho primitivism, specifically because they are not historically or even logically capable of accomplishing anything meaningful. Also reading manufacturing consent is pretty relevant to the question, the state has no reason to censor books in our current ideological apparatus because books can't accomplish anything without practicioners who you can just murder like the original BLM organizers.
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I'm having a bit of a technical issue with work stuff but while I'm waiting for IT support to get back to me I thought I'd try my luck here. I just bought a new phone and transferred all my old apps and data to the new phone successfully, or so I thought. The one sticking point was the accounts for MS Authenticator. I use it for personal accounts as well as my work account, per their policy. So whenever I change my work password, I have to re-authenticate using the app. Problem is that for my work account, the authentication request is going to my old phone, which isn't an option because it was factory reset. So now that I've changed my work password, all my Microsoft work applications are locked out, because I can't access that authenticator. When I try to sign in to my work account on the authenticator on the new phone, it also sends an authentication request to the old phone, which again, will never work. I don't know if there's something basic I'm missing, but any help would be appreciated.
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CzarChasm posted:I'm having a bit of a technical issue with work stuff but while I'm waiting for IT support to get back to me I thought I'd try my luck here. Did you get a set of backup codes when you set up the authenticator? That's something they'll usually only display once. I always take a photo of those, but have never had to use them
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CzarChasm posted:I'm having a bit of a technical issue with work stuff but while I'm waiting for IT support to get back to me I thought I'd try my luck here. Do you not have a "I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO MY MICROSOFT AUTHENTICATOR APP" link per this?
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