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Every goddamn time in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

Apolitical: far right/fascist Liberal: right Moderate: right “Democrat”(USA): right leaning moderate.

[Discussion] What do you think about the longer wait times between seasons and fewer episodes per season format of modern TV? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

I dislike what is behind it: increasingly greedy media companies squeezing writers and actors. Prior to the rise of prestige shows on cable, writers and principal cast would have a year contract and would get paid well enough to make the one show their only job. Now they need to look for multiple jobs a year, and there’s little to no guarantee for writers that they will get asked back for the next season if there is one.

The war against writers specifically is also part of why there are so many remakes and sequels and adaptations of existing work: writers get paid much less for those than they do for original work.

All that said, I think shows should have the number of episodes they need and should come out at a pace that ensures quality. Rick and Morty and Venture Brothers are both examples of shows with an unpredictable release schedule that did not harm how enjoyable they were.

Dozens of tigers, lions found dead in southern Vietnam in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

The comment is a reference to The Wizard of Oz, where three characters are walking through the woods talking about their fear of “lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”

Map of ecological thought [in french] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, “libertaire” probably means “libertarian” in the original sense of an anarchist.

A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

“Billionaire preacher” should not be a descriptor that applies to anyone.

Star Wars actor Giancarlo Esposito teases a "trilogy, or more" of Mandalorian movies in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I love Giancarlo Eaposito’s acting but it’s my recollection that he often says stuff like this in interviews as a “it would be cool” kind of thing which then gets spun as “inside information.”

How to Socialize? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It might help to have some examples. Are you a student talking to other students? An office worker talking to colleagues? An attempt to converse with (say) a busy clerk at a store is less likely to go well than a casual chat with someone who is also waiting in line.

And sometimes there’s genuinely nothing to talk about, and recognizing that is a useful skill.

They want abortion to be legal. And they back Trump. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

[70s movie trailer voice] They’re…the morons.

You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sadly, it might end just fine for the boss. The employee would be better off going to the press first.

McDonald's Went Years Without Noticing Employees Were Human Trafficking Victims, Report Finds: "Can't Undo the Damage to My Mental Health" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I don’t know if this is true in the UK but in the US McD’s locations are nearly all franchises owned by local business owners. So McDonald’s the corporation could reasonably be unaware that the 15 (say) locations in Dallas TX owned by Horatio Hornblower were all staffed by trafficked persons.

I’m not saying this would absolve McDonald’s of responsibility but it would address the “being unaware” part.

I bet God agrees. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 days ago

Spoken like a guy who can’t take criticism.

“A woman’s purpose is to procreate" -Putin in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And why is that “inevitable?” Is it because capitalism makes agrarian life basically impossible?

The problem with studies based on any current trends is that they are all framed with the assumption that capitalism will continue to be the dominant socioeconomic system.

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Londoners saying Fuckcars (road.cc)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13321244

Over half of Londoners think councils prefer improving roads for drivers over safety of cyclists and pedestrians, as majority call for more Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and 20mph limits, new study finds

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Poor owl (slrpnk.net)
 
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Matthew Sweet-Girlfriend (youtu.be)
 

Previous song is from an anime, music video is largely from an anime (Space Adventure Cobra).

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My view of totality (slrpnk.net)
 
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crushing (www.al.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11310783

This 7-year-old has a lemonade stand to pay for her mom's tombstone

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The OCM is shut down for a few hours (www.goodmorningamerica.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11260815

Over 7,000 students see their lunch debts wiped after $1 million donation

Over 7,000 students in Georgia with unpaid lunch balances are getting a helping hand following a $1 million initiative from the Arby's Foundation, the nonprofit announced Thursday.

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Problem with Jellyfin on Fedora and Ubuntu (slrpnk.net)
 

I installed Jellyfin on an iMac running Fedora 39/Gnome and it was running more or less without any issues. However, I wanted to have the iMac on a VPN which would prevent accessing content indexed by Jellyfin elsewhere. So I installed Ubuntu on an old Mac Mini that I had, planning to make it a NAS box as well as host Jellyfin. The install there did not go well at all, I got the error "The server is expected to host the web client, but the provided content directory is either invalid or empty."

I found a post on github where a user created the directory listed in the error and then copied from /usr/share/jellyfin/web/ and when I did that the startup went further but then it threw the error "Kestrel failed to start! This is most likely due to an invalid address or port bind - correct your bind configuration in network.xml and try again."

I could not find a clear answer as to where the "network.xml" file is located, and I couldn't find any files that seemed to have the contents that were expected in network.xml. I put that aside for another day, considering a different distro if there are any others that are better with jellyfin than Ubuntu.

Today I was going to watch something that had been working on the Fedora box, and it would not play. I checked systemctl and jellyfin was not running. I tried launching it from the terminal and I got the same "server is expected to host the web client" error I had before.

Has anyone else run into these issues? Is there any better documentation out there than what is on the jellyfin site? Any help is much appreciated.

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Help with fedora 39 (slrpnk.net)
 

I installed Fedora 39 on an old iMac I had with a fusion drive (128GB SSD +1TB spinning disk.)

Fedora is installed on the SSD, and I want to use the spinning disk as a media drive. Problem is, it does not mount by default, so I figure I need to edit /etc/fstab to have it mount at startup.

I’m at work so I SSH into the iMac and get the UUID for the disk and then open fstab in vi, enter the new line with the uuid, directory I want the drive mounted in (/media), the filesystem (ext4) and the options. Try to write and quit, get an error the file is readonly. Try to set the file to noreadonly, write fails again. Try :wq! and get the error the file cannot be opened to write.

Exit vi, ls -la and see the file is read-only.

sudo chmod 644 fstab, put in password. ls -la shows file is still read only. lsattr fstab, immutable flag is not set.

Is this happening because I’m on SSH, or is there some other issue?

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Anticolonirule (slrpnk.net)
 
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Problem with conda (slrpnk.net)
 

I recently picked up the python mastery bundle from humble bundle and one of the books (about larger-scale projects) has its exercises built around using anaconda virtual environments. I am able to create a project using:

% conda create -n project0 —channel=conda-forge python=3.12

But when I try to activate project0 I get an error that “activate” is an invalid choice. When I tried to initialize conda for Bash, my terminal behaved like the default echo for typed characters turned off.

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I swear I'm not filthy (slrpnk.net)
 
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Considering Gentoo (slrpnk.net)
 

I have an old iMac that I am planning to install some flavor of Linux on and while I was looking at various distros it occurred to me that it might be a good exercise to install Gentoo on it. Other than a separate machine for documentation and downloading the necessary packages, what else should I have set up to try this? Has anyone installed Gentoo on a Mac before? If so, what concerns are there related to things like Apple’s implementation of EFI?

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