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  • The worst band names are the ones so generic that when you look up the band, you can't find them.

    It's, in my experience, especially bad in black metal where there are several bands named something akin to Death, Kill, Suicide and so on. It's like having a rapper calling themselves Rap or Money or Hip-Hop. I'm sure that is an actual possibility, come to think of it, because a lot of rappers also have painfully generic stage names for their genre.

    It is a nightmare to search for. I think the only band I can think of, that's gotten away with naming themselves something generic is Kiss, but it kinda works for them because their name somewhat clashes with their genre. Also they are super mainstream and everybody knows them, so eh. I guess if you hit the lottery as an artist and go mainstream, your shitty, generic band name is not an issue.

    However, in black metal it's a nightmare because many artists are underground (by choice) and doing themselves no favors having super generic names. I literally came across a black metal band once named Black Metal. Like wtf am I supposed to do with that?

    Then again, if I have understood the BM culture correctly, it is probably a deliberate troll because it's avangarde to be inaccessible in this genre. The fewer people who know your music and the fewer fans you have, the cooler you are. That's my understanding at least. They take the snobbery of "they were better when they weren't mainstream" to the extreme.

  • I'm not American either, but have heard of the near bison extinction. They made literal mountains of nothing but bison skulls.

    They skinned them and left their meat and bones to rot all over the prairie.

    It's hard to imagine it if you haven't seen the pictures. Even then, it's impossible.

    It's crazy to think about. Especially because it's such a cool and unique animal. I'm just happy that bison still exist. I hope their population keeps growing even though they will never be as many as they were.

  • Pretty sure Brandon Fraser can answer this question.

  • I can hear this image.

  • Oh yeah? Well technically some really expensive coffee brands that people pay a lot for have coffee beans that went through the digestive systems of lemur-lookalike creatures, so you're paying tons to drink poo water.

    Also bananas and tomatoes are berries.

  • I dunno if I would call it an endorsement. It was more so to show how impossible it is to have privacy online, lol. You'd have to go to extremes to avoid having any information about you end up online. And honestly, even if you went off grid in a cabin somewhere, there still is no guarantee that you will succeed in keeping yourself offline entirely. Kaczynski is probably also a bad example as you can find pretty much everything there is to know about him online. A selfinflicted fate.

    Anyways, the point is that privacy doesn't really exist if you own a phone, tablet or computer.

  • Ffs

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  • It is pretty bad. I know this because I saw it and forgot what happened in it.

  • Yeah, exactly. I just always found it to be silly and arrogant to assume that I could ever outsmart agencies, organisations and companies that not only specializes in getting my data, but also built the tech and the systems I am navigating.

    And I mean, I have enjoyed true crime since the Forensic Files were still explaining to normal citizens what DNA is and how that technology is applied in crime cases. I have casually followed the development of forensic sciences for at least two decades and let me tell you, there ain't no way you can hide online. The ones who can either have the right connections, are unbelievably skilled and cautious with tech or they don't use technology at all and live in an off grid cabin somewhere, where nobody uses smartphones.

  • Thank you for the link. I finally had time to watch it and it was very informative. I knew the basic bitch version of his points, but it's always nice to have someone knowledgeable explain how things work.

    For me it just seems like a no-brainer to get going with green energy and I'm very happy that my country is already most of the way there. I'm very optimistic about the future.

    Must suck to be American, though.

  • I mean, I think the best rule of thumb is that unless you're a tech wizard, you don't have online privacy. At all.

    I don't believe anything is super safe and secure online. Not even Signal.

    I always treat my online activity as if I am being surveilled because I probably am. Luckily I'm a boring bitch, so I don't really have anything to hide, but I do appreciate that I can stay in touch with friends and family without having to linger on Facebook anymore. So there's that.

    The only time I feel annoyed about people talking about Signal is when they talk about it as if it's this super sketchy app that shares your data when literally every single friggin platform online does that and the same skeptical people use them all the time without question.

    That part annoys me because people keep acting like we aren't already completely naked and our information owned by companies who do god knows what with it. If people are aware that everything they do is being surveilled and used for whatever purpose, then I don't really mind, but it doesn't seem like that is the case for many people. I genuinely still cannot believe how many people jumped on the DNA test trend, for example. Like holy shit, just give them your firstborn too, while you're at it. XD but hey, we all make stupid mistakes now and again. I remember my first smartphone having a thumbprint lock and I just did that throughout my early to mid 20s without thinking about it. At least they only have one of my thumbprints but yeah. It's so insidious, the way the tech world has lured us into giving up our information willingly.

    The worst thing anyone can do when they are online is to believe they have any privacy. That is hubris.

  • This is what people don't get when it comes to that story about the journalist. You literally have to go out of your way to invite someone into a group chat. That does not happen on accident on Signal.

    I had to explain that to a few people who heard that story and were super skeptical about Signal being dangerous. Which is ironic because the same people would be using messenger and think nothing of it.

  • Mars was also the god of agriculture, which was the main reason the first month was named after him, as that was when the sowing of fields started as well as war campaigns usually starting around that time of year as well.

    I forget, but was Intercalaris not a month in the Roman calendar too? If I remember correctly, they had a leap month that they would implement some years to realign the calendar, but I forget if that was Intercalaris or the one that starts with an M. I always forget what it's called.

  • Aye, wait till you hear that February was the original last month of thr year and that February comes from the Latin word februum which means purification. In ancient times, it was tradition for two young men to slaughter a verile goat and make whips out of their skin, go to the temple and have milk and blood smeared on their face. Then they were supposed to laugh really loud and then run through the city, whipping everything they came across to cleanse it and make it fertile. Animals, seeds getting ready for sowing and people. Especially pregnant women, to make sure their pregnancies would go well and keep them and their children healthy and strong.

    This tradition later took different forms, died out and came back again in New forms. There are still traditions in Europe today, where people are supposed to whip each other with small bundles of sticks for luck and prosperity.

    I am, btw, a massive fan of the idea that March should be the first month of the year. It makes so much more sense, but honestly, the more you look into the history of the calendar and how it came to be what it is today the more chaotic and fucky it gets.

    Believe it or not, the calendar we have today is the least fucky version even if there's leap year and months have names that doesn't always make any sense and some months have 30 days and other 31 etc. Trust me. It used to be a hell of a lot more confusing and messy.

  • I'm fine with having them on fields. If they can be placed in car parks too, then cool.

    They are a hell of a lot more environmentally friendly to have on fields than crops anyways.

    And no, I'm not arguing that there should be no crop fields. Just that no one will get hurt if we have less of them. Besides, it's not gonna take that much collected space to generate enough solar/wind power to sustain a country. In my country we could technically already be completely self-sustaining with solar and windmill energy if it wasn't for the fact that Germany pays us to turn off our windmills from time to time because we produce too much energy and therefore drive down energy prices.

    The el-net is also not yet built to store the amount of energy we can generate so it's a nice problem to have and something that will be solved over time when we find ways to store this type of energy better.

  • Thank you for the explanation! I thought that when people referred to cannabis, they always referred to its euphoric properties so I got a bit confused, haha.

    I remember having one of these plants growing in my backyard because we had cockatiels when I was a kid and we would throw the leftover seeds in the backyard when they were up for new feed. Sometimes the leftover seeds would turn into plants and rather quickly, we had a 2 meters tall cannabis plant in the backyard which made my dad freak the fuck out and chop it down as soon as ne found out what that plant was. It was a very impressive plant, but probably not an infamous female.

  • Op: what is the worst you have seen? Now I'm curious :D

  • Ignoramus here: what's the difference?

  • Batman is not a man bat hybrid :(

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