KISS: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.neamar.kiss/

What the fuck.

This should serve as motivation to move away from any and all corporations. Do not lose your community. Find a proper free-libre-open-source alternative and move the community there. Communities are important. Corporations are not.

Slightly Off-Topic:

I never liked Discord. First and foremost, nowadays, I cannot log into it when I am using a VPN. And back when I could, it always felt so laggy and clunky.

I think todays society is not used to performant software. Everyone just buys a new computer/smartphone every year or every 2 years or so, so they probably have compute power to run whatsoever. I run old shit. 13 year old desktops or so, with no dedicated graphics card, old smartphones, etc. I need software to be performant.

Using the QR code is probably still using Mastercard/Visa, no? As long as the money is being transfered directly from your bank account, it should be going throw Visa/Mastercard. Or am I mistaken?

Agreed. I will never understand how these people got famous. I do understand that they are manipulative and all that, but still… For manipulative people to be successful, one needs to be manipulated. I think this says more about the manipulated (and society overall) than it does about these manipulative, stupid, pieces of shit.

We will always have unscrupulous pieces of shit. The fact that society is choosing to make these people famous, and “powerful”, is dystopian. Absolutely pathetic.

Giving up those socials is a great start, and often times the start is the hardest part. I don’t see Instagram though. Hopefully you have quit them and just forgot to mention, if not, consider this the universe sending you a message motivating you to delete it!

Of all the “content provider websites”, youtube is certainly the hardest part to “cut”. However, the signal to noise ratio of youtube is so low (small signal, large noise) that I pretty much don’t use it anymore. Even good channels are, more and more, going for clickbait and shitty tactics, and AI content. I didn’t really actively cut youtube, but I did so passively. It just became worse and worse that I don’t feel drawn to it as often. And, of course, when I do use youtube, ads are blocked with ublock and SponsorBlock.

Oh, this is something I don’t do, but probably should. Though I do small grocery shopping, several times, as opposed to one big one, and I do self checkout. It is so much faster to just pay with the card. It never really crossed my mind to do otherwise. I think paying with cash deserves a try though!

Myself, I am becoming as much “anti-consumption” as possible. I am removing myself from capitalism, as much as possible.

I still have to eat, of course, so I buy food. But I don’t buy food from corporations. As an example, I don’t buy anything from Nestle, nor from any big corporations. Gadgets and tech, I will be avoiding as much as possible, and if I do find myself needing to buy, I will do so but not from the usual corporations.

Social networks: only lemmy and mastodon sometimes. Fuck reddit and instagram and facebook. Don’t have an account there and never will. I don’t go there anymore.

I try to keep a “solarpunk” attitude. I do things for the good of the environment. I do/will-be-doing things such as composting, reducing the use of plastic, avoiding cars.

I am also trying to get people on board with my view of things, but I haven’t been much successful. I think principled people are very rare. People just don’t care.

This is a good way way to put it, and I hadn’t though of that. Switching “apolitical” with “fine with the status quo” is elucidating. I will be doing that from now on.

Thank you for being on lemmy!

This guy needs to seriously go. Fucking hell.

We have built such a fucking pathetic society.

You have a typo in the OP, when you link to the !inperson@slrpnk.net. You wrote “slprnk” and not “slrpnk”.

Ya, I plan to do it that way. But spotify quality is enough for me, and if one could get songs easily by just searching/downloading from that hack, it would make my life much easier. I suppose the spotify hack also has more songs than soulseek.

Sorry for asking a question?

If they WERE in Anna’s Archive, the answer would be “yes”. That is, one can get the songs, and one can do it by going to Anna’s Archive. However, the fact that the songs are NOT in Anna’s Archive, does not prove that the songs from that hack cannot be obtained, which was my question. They could be elsewhere. In some specific site made for that hack. Or some torrent, or something like that. Someplace I don’t know about.

Thank you for replying, regardless.

I know slrpnk is considering PieFed. I am not sure if you have seen this, but it is an interesting comment on some PieFed “features”: https://slrpnk.net/post/33421250/20416621. I am referring to the comment by RedWizard.

I found these links in a mobileread thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=358795

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (26 MB) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b2Z8qs8BU5k9U6le8VnvsyA4wdSfZ9TG/view?usp=sharing

Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed (203 MB) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YQ6eqWD5mCkQ3wYsSUhyayA_rpKF-dHB/view?usp=sharing

Edit: Here’s a link to the color version of the SOED if anyone is interested in that one https://archive.org/details/soedrich-star-dict-2022-11-11

I haven’t tested them yet. Maybe it would be nice if some other people saved them, to safeguard them.

EDIT: I tested them on KOReader. They work. Yay.

I am still looking for a good dictionary PT-PT. If anyone knows of anything, let me know, please.

Do not buy YETI. Over expensive and too bulky for what they are. Also, their top screws on the inner part of the bottle, which just creates thousands of microplastics in your beverage.

Look for a water bottle that screws on the outside of bottle. So, whenever you screw/unscrew, the microplastics are not falling in your beverage.

I have a YETI and it is one of my worst purchases ever. Fuck YETI. Overexpensive BS.

I am right there with you. And I see some people referring to him as “charismatic”. A point that is often made is “JD Vance won’t be able to do anything since he is not charismatic”. And I think to myself “What the fuck? Anyone is more charismatic than that fat ugly pedophile piece of shit Trump”.

I think people are confusing terms. In my opinion, Trump is not in his position because he is charismatic. He is in his position because he is stupid as fuck. Almost to the point of being retarded (sorry for the term, but fuck that). People of power see Trump as POTUS and think “wait, he is so stupid, I can use him for my own gains”. And they do so. Trump is a marioinette.

Trump is an ugly evil person. But worse than that, he is showing how ugly and evil other people are. And those other people seem to be a significant portion of the population!! Everyone who is taking advantage of him is equally ugly and evil. This is the most scary thing to me. Not that Trump is evil, but that the number of people that are equally evil is larger than 30%.

I have no words. I am literally speechless at what is currently happening in the US. I have to force myself to have words and they are all a mixture of vengeance and justice. Like… holly fuck.

There is still a long way to go. A long way to go. But after all this is said and done, if there is an after, I hope you never forget these pieces of shit. I hope you force whomever comes next to hand you these people. They do not deserve jail, they deserve justice as given from the community. They are evil behind comprehension. Seems like you cannot give an inch to the right, as they will let their evilness take over and go after everyone, mercilessly.

I hope there is good work being done on identifying and preserving whoever these evil pieces of shit, motherfuckers, morons, idiots, pedophiles, are. And when this is all done, you fucking drive all of them out of society. You bully them as long and as hard as possible.

Pieces of shit motherfuckers.

To my American brothers, I am truly sorry for what is happening. I don’t know the right thing to say. I want to motivate you to do what needs to be done, but at the same time, I am fully aware that it is hard.

I found the link to be very poor in details. The study itself is available here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735630. It seems to be behind a paywall though. If someone has the pdf/link to a non paywall, please provide it.

The most important paragraphs from the link OP provided are these:

The results showed the most successful persuaders bridged identity divides, were able to view another person’s perspective and utilized personal narratives and the highlighting of common ground.

“What matters is meeting people where they are. Persuasion is most likely when the would-be persuader can see the issue through the other person’s eyes,” Naunov said. “The most effective arguments bridge identity divides through personal narratives and a respectful acknowledgment of the recipient’s perspective, which lowers defensiveness and increases openness to the persuader’s viewpoint.”

The least successful approach, the researchers found, was when would-be persuaders emphasized their political knowledge and engagement, traits that can be seen as off-putting and lead to negative results. Similarly, bombarding people with facts to prove them wrong was not effective.

“We tend to feel less hostility toward out-party citizens than out-party elites. Unlike political elites, ordinary citizens aren’t running for office, they’re not paid to advance a partisan narrative, and their careers don’t depend on toeing the party line. This makes them come across as more authentic, less strategic and ultimately more persuasive,” Naunov said.

Importantly, the study also raises big questions about the kind of divisiveness that is so common in the public space and social media platforms.

“However aspiring authoritarians and techno-feudalists might benefit from this kind of divisiveness, ordinary people do not,” said Naunov. “On a practical level, we should be asking what specific platform features shape whether people can even attempt persuasion in the first place. And how can we create alternative spaces that encourage more respectful and constructive political engagement?”

Perhaps a good framework for this sort of rhetoric is Marshall’s Non-Violent Communication (NVC).