Remind me what Metro was again?

Sure feels like that sometimes, LOL

Take any action movie and really focus on those kills, especially when it’s with melee weapons instead on guns. Don’t even need to go full splatter movie, just actually show the violence that’s happening in great detail and with maybe some amount of realism (people rarely die in one blow, and bladed weapons can get stuck in bodies)(obviously that doesn’t work as well for sci-fi and superhero movies). There are going to be a lot of turned stomachs.

A lot of spy movies, just don’t fade to black when there’s torture.

I think Github is a relatively simple issue. There isn’t really a shortage of european (or just selfhostable) alternatives, and the way git works means that most contributors have complete local copies of the codebase. TBH I worry more about the ability of american contributors to continue working on a project if the code is hosted in europe - basically a lot of open source developer teams could end up being split or shut down entirely. And the bigger projects like Linux and a lot of the intermediate layers between the Linux kernel and applications are majorly backed and developed by american companies and their employees.

It’s usually a good thing to diversify. What happens when one of you falls ill or just dies unexpectedly, or have a fight? It’s easier to find more friends right now than when you have literally no friends and just lost a parent. On top of that, any kind of emotional labor can get pretty exhausting for both people when it’s just the two of you.

Ever heard of cheese analogue?

And now I’ve eaten all of it slowly over the coarse of 2 months. Just fistfulls of late night cheese.

See, that’s exactly why I don’t do that! Also I don’t think my local supermarkets actually sell 3 lbs of mozzarella for $7.

In that case, the ingredients must be so cheap that the food coloring actually makes a significant price difference for them.

Yellow cheese (assuming it doesn’t use food coloring) typically takes a lot more time to make than white cheese, so yeah. Though mozzarella is also just the standard pizza cheese, it seems like most people in the know prefer mozzarella’s properties (e.g. stretchiness) over other types of cheese.

There is SearXNG, it’s open source and decentralized but AFAIK the different instances don’t really share information between them. I’m personally interested in trying it, but I’m apprehensive about the fact that it’s really hard to know whether a particular instance is trustworthy, and while it’s possible I don’t think it makes much sense to host it myself.

https://searx.space/

Speak for yourself, I want a hug bot.

Medicine (i.e. research into cures for illnesses we can’t cure yet) seems like just about the only thing that’s worthwhile. Most of our modern issues aren’t really about not having the right technologies, but about billionaires being greedy.

Like speaking with hot potatoes in your mouth, which is ironic since it’s usually our natives who are called “potatoes” (by immigrants, not americans).

It’s pretty easy to understand if you consider that black americans were brought into the country as slaves, wealth is generally inherited (even if just through socialization, connections etc. and not actual inheritance), and americans and the american state continue to be both racist and classist. Even if black people were treated as equals nowadays (which they are not), they would stay disadvantaged due to the US’s lack of social mobility.

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Can’t deny that there’s a really big difference between late 60s rock and 40/50 rock, though - it’s not really wrong to consider it a new genre, even if it appropriates the name of the older genre.

I always thought that a lot of singers in bands who write their own music and often play an instrument at the same time should focus more. Even in bands that write their own music, it’s not necessarily the singer who writes their lyrics, melodies and chords.

“writing and composing” is a bit broad, anyway. Do you exclusively do covers of other people’s songs where you copy the original singer exactly? If so, cool, that’s pretty hard to do well! If not, you’re writing/composing/improvising vocal parts, and that’s a skill, too.

“cootie catcher programming” … ?

1. USA isn’t Europe.

2. Being conquered is nasty business, too. Ask the inhabitants of Bucha if you find any.

If Europeans don’t make weapons of war, someone will eventually conquer them.

And y’know, we have yet to see open, full-scale war between atomic powers. Nuclear deterrence seems to work (for now).