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JTode

@ JTode @lemmy.world

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  • What do you guys think of Wab Kinew's plan to introduce age verification for social media?

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  • We can only hope they all refuse to provide their "services" to our province as a reaction.

  • REVIEW / Seven Psychopaths (2012)

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  • The B-52s are looking pretty rough.

  • What's the best film you've seen in the last few years? Doesn't matter when it came out

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  • I did, loved it mostly, but... they literally erased a brother. There was another one, and he was even more tragic than the one they kept - he was small, and had extremely brittle bones, and the only thing he wanted was to wrestle, of course... and they let him, and he got put out by injury very quickly, and then followed his dead brothers.

    I think they cut him out because first off, it would probably have come off to audiences as "overdone" or something because it is difficult to countenance that much tragedy on one family. But also, the ones who were alive to allow that last one to happen bear some culpability in his death. He should've been sent to distant relatives and kept completely away from the family wrestling cult.

  • What's the best film you've seen in the last few years? Doesn't matter when it came out

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  • If you liked The Wrestler and have not seen Beyond The Mat (1998), do that. Randy "The Ram"'s entire story is basically a straight copypasta of the section on Jake "The Snake" Roberts, one of the best wrestlers of his era. "Best" is used here in a very loosely-defined way, because well, we're talking about Pro Wrestling.

    But I was like 12-15 during the high years of the WWF, I was watching some of the most legendary names, and Jake was my absolute... ok well it's a tossup between Jake and George "The Animal" Steele, who was older, looked like my grandpa a little bit, managed by Captain Lou Albano (both vintage heels turned face) from the Cyndi Lauper videos and had an excellent "crazy ape man" kinda schtick. He also would destroy a turnbuckle every match and I loved the vandalism.

    For a kid of the right age, mid-80s WWF was the best entertainment going, in a time when you had 13 channels if you were lucky. VCRs weren't even completely ubiquitous yet. What else going on? Family Ties, Growing Pains, Lawrence Welk...

    But Jake was an absolute dark horse with incredible intensity, and totally unique - most were using steroids then, he had a very basic physique and didn't give a shit. Most wrestlers would be high fiving and gesticulating and getting the crowd whipped up as they walked out. Jake would just walk out staring at the ring or his opponent, neither hurrying nor dallying, just a purposeful walk, with his grey sack containing a python slung over his shoulder. Great finishing move, great schtick, one of the absolute legends.

    Finding out over a decade later that his life was this Shakespearean (think Titus, not Romeo) tragedy the whole time was just wild, but also not at all surprising, because anyone who watched his matches could see that this was a different type of dude from your typical wrestler.

    Don't sleep on Beyond The Mat. It's also got some amazing stuff with Mick Foley and Terry Funk, two dudes who have done more damage to each other than the Romans did to Jesus, and who love each other intensely for it. Lots "holy shit what the fuck did he just do" clips.

  • Removed

    The Big Cloud Exit FAQ (2023)

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  • It would be accurate to say that the Internet reached a critical mass of user in 1995. I was here in 1992, and 95 is when media started talking about the internet as a necessary thing for businesses etc to get onboard with, and by extension, when loads on servers started to get wild. A communal pool of servers for the web community to lean on during times of extreme demand is still an excellent idea that can solve a lot of problems, but not if we let capitalists run it for profit. Never work.

  • What are some drugs you think will make a comeback like qualewds or thai sticks or window pane? Does history always repeats itself apply to drugs?

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  • What are some drugs you think will make a comeback like qualewds or thai sticks or window pane? Does history always repeats itself apply to drugs?

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  • Thai Sticks are probably still available in Thailand and still probably amazing. And in the 70s when Mexican ditchweed was all you'd find in North America, it was worth the peril to import the amazing stuff.

    Nowadays, anyone with a light can grow equally amazing stuff. I would love to taste some real Thai herb, but it won't get me more stoned than my homegrown. Thai smugglers are welcome to come to Manitoba and call my bluff, DM me baby.

    Windowpane was more or less a marketing label on the same Shakedown Street sheets that made their way around the country in the wake of the Dead. They arrived up here via letters sent home. You can still get sheets but I have no idea who's making em, probably dodgy Russian chemists whose families are held hostage...

    I know almost nothing about ludes.

  • what's a good protest song for anti-war, anti-ice, and anti-oligarchy?

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  • If it's punk yer wantin, you'll want Dead Kennedys and MDC - both old bands (MDC is still kicking as I understand it, tho) but lots and lots of highly relevant stuff.

    Notable: on their first LP, Millions Of Dead Cops, which came out in 1984 if I recall correctly, there is a trans-positive tune called America's So Straight. You wanna talk ahead of the curve...

  • what's a good protest song for anti-war, anti-ice, and anti-oligarchy?

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  • This is the guy who wrote "867-5309" and "Perfect World" by Huey Lewis. He's also a friend of sorts, I got my dog from him and his wife. It's not famous but it's a decent tune, and anti-ICE as shit.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evwhdPn8ONk

  • Canada’s electric school bus transition earns poor grades in most provinces

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  • Manitoba (rural) driver here. No electric buses whatsoever out here in the redneck sticks. A few very fucking annoying propane ones cause hey why not.

  • The sacrifice of staying on Linux after 20 years

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  • It's rather deliberate at this point. They are at war with general purpose computers, because we depend on those in order to have GNU/Linux, just as we depend on a free and open Internet to have this platform. If they can get the herd to fully embrace these locked-down infernal machines, that will be it, on a certain level. We will have RISC-V and the ability to deploy to FPGAs, but the voice of Little Brother will be heard only on their whim.

  • "we are exploring the possibility of bringing you full episodes" [to YouTube]

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  • I was reminded the other day that JMS was involved in Sense8, and a full five-year arc was planned, and I am angry all over again.

  • Carney leans on private money, alternative approaches in nature strategy. Will it work?

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  • No.

  • Learning Linux via AI

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  • Why not rsync directly? Why insert a network share to muddy the process?

    Anyways, this is pretty much the "good" use of AI, as I see it. Indeed, if models are more tightly trained to focus on one specific bit of data, such as the manual for an application, a locally-run LLM could transform the help menu into a chatbot that teaches you the app.

    This could be the future reality, if the "throw a firehose of money and a bunch of horrible code at it and hope we can charge people who have no money a lot of money to rent our bullshit" brigade are guillotined.

  • Lemmy experience is very weird to a person who used to enjoy Reddit before

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  • Whichever side of this you land on... confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Ebook host that tracks your reading in its own Web UI? Does it exist?

  • Americanisms in Canadian comedy

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  • We are a nation of people who have no choice but to spend our workdays side by side with our high school bullies. Eventually, under them.

  • Have you encountered anyone who uses ai, but claims not to?

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  • Someday, everyone will have always been against this.

  • "FOSS" and "GNU Linux" do not automatically mean "for the community" or "for human rights"

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  • It's a question of people caring. Many do not.

  • "FOSS" and "GNU Linux" do not automatically mean "for the community" or "for human rights"

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  • My response was clearly addressed to people who give a shit, which by your own words, you do not. Why are you bothering me?

  • Ask Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Mixer makes loud pop when powered on

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    Double Doodle!

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    The Enshittifications Will Continue Until Profits Improve.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.

  • Jokes @lemmy.world
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    A guy walks into a Venture Capitalist's office...

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Why have we not done a federated Facebook replacement yet?