Captain Aggravated

A simple solution is to stop consuming the work entirely. “Okay, you want to make it expensive and difficult to access your content, we’re going to stop liking your content. The market for your product has now completely ceased to exist.”

Look up the history of DIVX DVDs. Not to be confused with the DivX video codec.

I’ve heard it said that America and Great Britain are “divided by a common language.” I’ve had friendships with British people that consisted largely of “Hey, tell me about this snack food you have that I’ve just now heard of.”

That just doesn’t exist between America and Canada. We’re on the same page. We’re easily mistaken for each other…by each other. Talking to a Canadian about something we’re both interested in is an extremely similar experience to talking to another American.

If you went with that convention, you’d have to call us “United Statesians” and people seem to hate that. That’s how we wangled the adjective form from the rest of the Western hemisphere.

All hail the sacred dickweed.

I’m guessing so the Republicans can punish you for being reproductive in an unapproved way? Is why they require attaching to the internet?

And what if I don’t want to be followed from Meta?

Onithy looks like its side effects include constipation, diarrhea, heart attack, stroke, weak bladder, sepsis, cirrhosis and nausea. Women should not take or handle Onithy. In rare cases, amputation was required. Do not operate heavy, light or virtual machinery while taking Onithy.

Yeah the whole scene has a very 1990’s Sony vibe to it…then there’s a Twitch streamer’s mouse in the middle of it all.

The axe didn’t kill that family, it was the gashes and severed limbs.

Yeah it’s got a lot of details I like, I’m keeping him. Sad I can’t trademark it.

Did you do yours?

Same thing with Captain Aggrrffagfed here:

Bing AI generated four images at a time, all pretty similar. It also came up with this one:

Which…what is the parrot standing on? I like the parrot’s little hat but his worried expression isn’t as fun as the “Yeah you tell 'em Cap’n!” energy of the first bird. Also, this Captain has five fingers on one hand, three fingers on the other and he seems to be missing his thumb nail, which might be why he’s so aggravated.

I really like the bill on his tricorn.

I went to Bing’s image creator and typed in “captain aggravated” for the first, and “captain aggravated superhero” for the second.

Beat me to it.

Found my new avatar

Though I also like this take:

Tus it up!

It is my understanding that “level 1” charging is 110V 12A 60Hz AC? AKA just plug it into a normal residential wall socket like a toaster? I wonder which one presents more of a load on the power grid, charging an EV like that overnight, or owning a water bed.

Well Lemmy just needs more nuanced search and filter capabilities in general.

I would like to be able to say “don’t show me nsfw in my normal feed.” Sometimes I want to see nsfw content, but I want to specifically search for it, and I don’t think Lemmy’s user-level curation tools allow for that kind of richness yet.

Incidentally, I’ve found a structural problem in Lemmy’s UI that I noticed because of the unique nature of lemmynsfw. Y’all restrict browsing topics to logged in accounts, the reasons for which I understand. But from my account on sh.itjust.works, I can’t go to another instance and browse the communities they have there. I get redirected to that community’s homepage, where I don’t have an account, so I’m not logged in…see the issue here? I can search, but not browse, other instances while logged into my fediverse account.

A problem that existed on Reddit as well but is worse on Lemmy: There’s no topic/directory structure. Here’s an example I ran into here that I’ve cited before: Someone on some instance spun up a bunch of communities about some sports ball league. They created a nearly identical community for each team in the league complete with a nearly identical bot that posted scores in each community. I think this is a perfectly valid use case for Lemmy, this is legitimate and valid traffic that 100% deserves to be on the fediverse. I also think it’s really spammy for those of us who aren’t interested in sports and I’d like a convenient way to filter it out. If instances specialized in topics and there was a lemmysports.world I could personally block, that would pretty much do it…except that pretty much didn’t happen. There are general purpose instances, political extremist outcast instances, lemmynsfw, and kbin. A topic/directory structure might let non-sports fans easily say “don’t show me /sports/” but…nope that’s not a thing. So tailoring your feed to your preferences is a Sisyphean task, and I don’t immediately see a solution to this.