If I were still in school and running into this problem I’d be recording my text editor. Alternately, I do think you can use Google docs to look at edit history if you enable it when sharing a document. Fuck dumbing down your own writing. Put some em dashes in there and make them skim through a 4 hour video if they complain.
It wouldn’t be an effective strategy if it didn’t sucker some people into playing along. At this point, though, I think it’s more important to point out that this is happening than to make sure we tiptoe around the few people stupid enough to actually buy into it.
Absolutely. It’s just a way to demotivate the left and trick people with the best intentions into shooting themselves in the foot. These people are out en masse here literally because we’re such a leftist space.
If you see someone posing zero solutions but shooting down any possible way of moving any cause that might oppose authoritarianism forward? They’re a fucking MAGA cuckoo.
You believe words have power or you wouldn’t be out here trying to sabotage us with them.
These people who spend their days trying to prove how “leftist” they are by destroying every tool we have are literally right-wingers.
The Overton window is anchored by a series of landmarks. The most effective way to lose one of them, like the Constitution, is to start discussing whether it has merit.
Yeah. Why do you think that Lemmy, a markedly leftist platform, is so inundated with people talking about how useless all our imperfect tools for making the world slightly less authoritarian are? Why do you think they’re trying to get us to abandon them rather than bolstering their support?
I’ve been saying this for months. The people who are trying to get the left to abandon the effective means we have for shifting the overton window to the left are right-wingers or being manipulated by right-wingers.
The people who spend their days banging away about how we don’t have democracy, we’ve never had democracy, the constitution is useless, the democrats never accomplish anything, etc, are literally agents of the right whether they know it or not. But many of them probably literally do know it.
Why do we see this more on Lemmy than in real life or on other platforms? Because we’re being targeted.
Element really needs to get push to talk. It’s an incredibly basic feature to be missing, and for me personally and I’m sure others the lack of it is a deal breaker.
GIMP is honestly fantastic. My workflow goes draw in GIMP, import to Inkscape to convert pieces to vector, then bring them into Godot where shaders get applied. I would rather draw in GIMP than any other program. I find drawing in Inkscape super awkward in comparison. GIMP is pretty no-frills, but it does the job. I prefer it over Photoshop. With Darktsble I’ve found it useful for importing high res raw images for textures too.
I don’t know why people hate on it so much. It’s all about using the tools you’re comfortable with.
Apart from these issues, though, there’s just a huge degree of arrogance and cruelty involved in proposing mass killing as a solution for any ecological issue.
As much as I feel the distaste for killing any living beings, this seems like a naive position to take. Should this be applied to lionfish? Spotted lanternflies? Water chestnuts? Kudzu? Culling invasive species is part of minimizing the destructive impact of human ecological interference, and is generally a pretty soundly established protective practice. I can’t claim to know how appropriate it is for this particular owl population, but this is a pretty sweeping statement to make that seems to fly in the face of reality.
Lot of spam about a browser developed by someone who sees using anything other than masculine pronouns in documentation as excessively political.
Definitely won’t be using ladybird then. If someone hates trans folks and just women in general enough that they literally see using inclusive language to refer to theoretical users as politics I don’t see any reason to do anything to elevate their work.
Can you elaborate on that?
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I appreciate the sideways wordplay. Also it’s nice to see some good news.
I live on this wet little ball of rock that not only gets its heat directly from a sun, but like half of my food harvests the radiation for its energy!And the other half gets its energy from that stuff!
This does seem like more of a climate change related article. That said, access to cooling shelters could also be construed as an issue of social safety nets.
I do kind of feel like the moderation in this particular community or subcommunity or whatever we’re calling it is a little bit subject to unilateral judgement calls that reflect personal preference more than particularly justifiable positions. Oh well. Can’t win them all.
This doesn’t surprise me. The CVS we have downtown seems to always have only one person working and they’re constantly bogged down with inventory stuff. I think there’s actually someone at the counter ringing out customers like one out of six trips that I make over there, if even that much.
It seems like a lot of people who do that don’t understand that there’s an inverse relationship between devs soaking up all the emotional labor that comes with being the target of end users’ ire and having the energy to get the actual work done. Especially when it comes to open source stuff, they could literally be spending the time they’re spending shouting at a dev to do more dev things like… learning to fix it themselves and submitting a commit.
I feel like the idea that art is “remixing” is a bit of an imprecise explanation that often leads people to think that when artists create similar works they’re basing the one on the other.
Take music as an example. Let’s say you’ve got a standard 6-string guitar fretted for 12 tone even temperament. If you take one string and explore all the relationships between the notes, you’re going to independently discover things about intervals, scales, and modes without necessarily learning any of the terminology, theory, or history associated with any particular cultural context. Your ear will show you that a major scale sounds one way and a minor scale sounds another without going into it knowing which is which. You’ll notice that when you play 0, 2, 4, 5 it sounds uplifting, and when you play 0, 2, 3, 5 it can sound a little more sorrowful.
When you discover a double harmonic scale, it’s going to naturally have elements that sound similar to the Mayamalavagowla raga and the Bhairav raga even if you have never heard a single note of Indian music. You didn’t have to conjure up these elements to try to sound like music based on these ragas, because the elements are preexisting. You could play these scales on the other side of the galaxy with no knowledge of Earth and the mathematical relationships at play between the frequencies would remain.
The same is true of melodies within a scale. The intervals of notes push and pull in different directions and give a feeling of wanting to land somewhere while taking a route that feels right. If you play around with an E minor scale long enough, you’re probably going to eventually play the first five notes in a way that sounds a lot like the chorus from “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” just by playing around with runs. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never heard the song or aren’t aware of KISS, it’s right there on the fretboard. Assuming that those notes coming out of your strings is specifically tied to one song or one band ignores the fact that whoever wrote that song also had to discover that arrangement of preexisting intervals on a preexisting scale. In this particular case it’s just a run back and forth from 1-5, pretty simple. That also extends to other relationships between intervals, because the notes come with weight and an accompanying feeling that pushes them toward some sort of outcome.
I think for people who don’t play an instrument, this isn’t always intuitive. Part of the same hump that can make it difficult for someone to get into music in the first place can contribute to this outlook too. If they think they have to plan every note and aren’t aware of the process of playing by feeling, it seems calculated rather than organic. You certainly can calculate every step, but playing music doesn’t require it and neither do many other forms of art.
Obviously we also learn from the art around us, so it’s not as though we’re learning in a total vacuum. Part of why a note feels like it makes sense to go in a direction is because of learned context. Take Nirvana, for example. If you grew up on Nirvana, it may feel more obvious to include what might otherwise have been counterintuitive intervals that someone who’s never listened to anything but 18th century Western European music might find jarring. Or more generally, if you are used to a musical tradition that’s informed by blues somewhere in its history, you’re probably more likely to have a positive visceral reaction to the use of blue notes in the right context.
But that still doesn’t necessarily mean just xeroxing pieces of genres and slapping them together. It informs what you feel about your organic exploration of music. There may be elements that are explicitly and intentionally borrowed, but I don’t think that’s the primary reason we see these similarities.
Similarities exist because creating art is an organic process informed by physical law, our bodies, and the tools we use, and because the process is taking place on the same planet and often in the same or similar contexts as other pieces of art.