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Yeah but it lets people feel like they’ve boycotted. Which isn’t coddling/faux activism so much as it is starter-activism. We don’t want activism to seem hard… even though we know that effective activism pretty much requires meaningful changes to behaviour which often brings discomfort. People are really out of practice and our goal is getting people into the habit

I am that person.

I’m here out of sheer bloody mindedness, it felt like both Lemmy and Mastodon actively resisted me using them at. every. step. from discovery of service to accessing service to finding content

I’m trying but damn

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Corner bite - a balance of crust and content, a display of delayed gratification

Good bite - because you did so well delaying your gratification

Corner bite - because you hope the richness of The Good Bite will transfer somewhat

Navigating the last corner:

• Rotate for a heavily crust>content corner bite - the build up

• Deliberately smaller, last of the crust bite - the set up

Last Good Bite - smaller than The Good Bite but, equally, aren’t you clever

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The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller

Might be controversial, I apologise, but in it’s soul and bones it is the straightest “gay” book I’ve ever read. Straight people keep heralding it as a Queer Classic™®© in a way that queer people don’t.

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

At first you give it your good will and chapter by chapter the creeping horror sets in that the emperor has no clothes.

Trash in lit’s clothing

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My “why has the world gone to shit” was the 2007/8 banking crisis when everyone realised that you could pull off any swindle you wanted and no one would stop you. So everyone did/everyone stopped trying to hide it.

So presumably people older than me would point to the start of Trickle Down Economics, and so on

Everyone has their own “None of this works and it’s intentional!” moment

“separate creator from the art” only works when the creator has passed and no longer benefits from celebrating the art. Arguably not even then.

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Team Aphantasia!

I wish you other kinds of human interaction today

Platitude

ish

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For real, are you ok?

Their primary issue was with the source and whether this is the right sub for it

[stares at wheelchair]

“Hey DM, soooo about rerolling stats…”

No I’m saying that when we get a new game changing technology things don’t tend to become better produced, they become cheaper to produce cheaply and quality be damned

“Having an audio book that shifts voices and tone easy but can also include background noises”

That’s not what you’re going to get. Even with A.I they all requires sound editing and reviewing and fixing errors which all costs money. We already have the tech to do A.I voice acting and I’ve tried a few. What we’ll get is what we have now, a single A.I voice with eerie intonation that modifies some words to their context but not others so it functions for a sentence but cannot emote a paragraph.

Yup Lemme tell you, adding an extra hour onto what was already a 13hr night shift on hospital wards, for no extra pay, was roooouuugh