shameless spoof of this Bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/politikundliebe.bsky.social/post/3kld5dbb2ss2x

I just realized I commented in one of your crossposted posts, not here. I was just kidding around about the pizza, then I saw something else you posted…ok for real, man, have you not been eating?

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I did not know he wrote the Sanford & Son theme song! Just looked it up. Good pop culture trivia, thanks for dropping that.

Lol now I got that theme song stuck in my head

Oh I intended to post this in tenforward, it just didn’t land. There was a trend for a hot minute of trek-themed music being posted, so I thought I’d share an old industrial track from back in the day that featured a few TNG-era Borg samples (and other stuff that I think may have muddied the waters). No biggie lol

Holy carp. I stand totally corrected, I was looking at it on my phone and figured it had to be an mp4 you uploaded to Imgur. I’m looking at this sucker up close now on my laptop, and of course as you know, it’s an 8 bit Compuserve GIF. Video codecs don’t use LZW compression lol. Yeah, it’s a real nice-lookin GIF. Nice work!

When I find something I want to make into a gif I use ScreenToGif to capture the screen. It allows you to edit frames, add text, combine videos, etc. It’s not tough to do.

Thanks for posting this, ScreenToGif looks pretty awesome. It’s free and open source, which is a nice bonus. Now, if I could just find something like this for Linux…

It’s a gifv. It looks smooth like a video because it is one lol

On the topic of young people unable to buy a home, Whoopi said to her co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin:

“You got to go out and get a job…I know you’re young, but here’s what it is. You work, and you can afford a house. And you can go and get one.”

I also hated it…fuckin’ hated it! I watched the first three episodes when they aired and gave up. I binged it a couple of years later, and I’m glad I gave it another chance. What got me was the fallout from Hugh’s fate in season 1, omfg it was just heartbreaking watching Paul come to grips and try to move on. And Ash, even though he was responsible, got my empathy eventually because of his struggles with all that overwhelming crazy PTSD and repressed memories. Yeah, really glad I gave it another chance.

I get the criticism about production, plot, and dialogue decisions. I mean, I agree on quite a few of them. But a good chunk of the detractors are on the hate bandwagon because they just can’t stand women/minorities getting representation, and those dumbfucks need to GTFO. It’s Trek, for fuck’s sake. Yeah, Discovery is different, but I still dig the show.

Thank you, the Niemoller quote tends to get overused a lot, but it’s vital that people understand it. The world described in the quote isn’t theoretical, it actually happened. It’s based on his experiences, because he was silent.

No one ever knows how you feel until you speak up.

I agree wholeheartedly. I suppose I’m just getting more and more tired of fascism as I get older, but people need to speak out more when they see injustice. Don’t let fuckin Nazis off the hook, call them out on their bullshit. You don’t have to be polite, you’re dealing with people who want to and are actively trying to exterminate you. Tell them to fuck off! Others will join.

Aw, I am humbled beyond words

Yeah, it is really graphic. Not for the squeamish.

Yesterday one of our community members was being harassed by an antisemitic asshole (elsewhere on Lemmy, not here). The dickwad’s post was promptly nuked by the mods, but not before I got a brief chance to tell them to fuck off. That interaction inspired this meme.

If you see someone being harassed, speak up! Don’t let them talk to your friends like that, and don’t let your local community turn into a Nazi bar! Stand together

Edit: link to the penultimate panel with the Green Room screenshot: https://i.postimg.cc/prJVd1dB/6467475475425763790099.jpg

Ahahahahahaha Today I Learned Anton Yelchin (RIP) was in a punk band. The screenshot is from Green Room, where his fictional band covers Nazi Punks Fuck Off in front of a crowd of white power skinheads. Movie also stars Patrick Stewart as the head Nazi. I didn’t know Anton was in an actual punk band IRL LOL

I think you should spend more time using AI programming tools. That would let you see how primitive they really are in their current state and learn how to leverage them for yourself.

I agree, sosodev. I think it would be wise to at least be aware of modern A.I.'s current capabilities and inadequacies, because honestly, you gotta know what you’re dealing with.

If you ignore and avoid A.I. outright, every new iteration will come as a complete surprise, leaving you demoralized and feeling like shit. More importantly, there will be less time for you to adapt because you’ve been ignoring it when you could’ve been observing and planning. A.I. currently does not have that advantage, OP. You do.

What the fuck? There’s…what? I played this game for a short bit and thought it was great, but I figured I got the gist of the game and never felt the urge to resume. I was still outside, so I clearly stopped before it started getting good. Fuck. I’m going back in, thank you for posting this.

I know right? This is glorious, I’d buy a dozen of them.

I think it’s a diarrhea face. Yeah, that’s a fun thing to say out loud.