Just make your IP addresses pronouncable words like feed:deaf:babe:beef:cafe:: problem solved ez (working 2023!)

oh dont worry event security and LEA are neutral unbiased entities who can be trusted unlike the public

That would be far more provocative.

Yes, but depending on the country that could be (public + illegal) if it lists [what is legally considered] personal sensitive information or accidentally reveals someone’s secret like the Coldplay incident.

It would be fascinating, but IMO unnecessary and unethical.

extreme ironer

I did come across that hobby when I was trying to list examples of productive sports. Yeah, it’s a thing.

I haven’t watched much BBT, so grain of salt, open to being called out for mistakes.

I’d say The IT Crowd was more centered about a workplace, even if many of the jokes are about their romances, hobbies and personal life, and even if BBT had workplace episodes. The central set of IT Crowd is their basement office, the central set of BBT is an apartment. And I don’t think that’s a trivial difference, it changes the kind of humor and how relatable much of it is.

Also, a big gripe about BBT was the laugh track. It’s normal for sitcoms to have canned laughter, IT Crowd had it too, but BBTs is uncomfortable. Like trk said in another reply, “If there was no laugh track you wouldn’t even know jokes are happening.” There are plenty of BBT No Laugh Track edits on YouTube and it highlights how much better it could be without the forced laughter.

Finally, BBT is a lot more US humor than British humor, not to say that as point in itself, but I feel like it makes the BBT feel to me a lot more like “laughing at nerds” despite that being a major factor in BBT. I also feel that Moss is played more wacky and exaggerated than (say) Sheldon, who certainly has strange peculiarities but is played more subtly or realistically, which I feel makes their character more mocking than absurd parody.

(also I just like the theme music much more)

Creating low-effort images for ideas that don’t warrant effort, like silly jokes.

You have to understand, it just wouldn’t be fair to put inclusion over exclusion ! You care about equality, don’t you?

Other replies have listed a lot of them, and there are plenty more. Lots of webrings for personal sites are still running. Plenty of BBS-style forums too.

The bottom line is, there are plenty of other people who enjoy those aspects of older websites, whether for nostalgic aesthetic reasons or for the benefits of minimalist design. So there are many new sites being made in the same vein of twenty and thirty year old sites. Just like Lemmy is a breath of fresh air for those who are only used to having ads shoved down their throats, old-style sites can be surprisingly relaxing and refreshing.

I don’t think many anti-capitalists suggest abolishing currency entirely.

Why don’t you think that? You’re right that abolishing currency isn’t implied by abolishing capitalism, but plenty of anti-capitalists advocate for eventually abolishing money in any form (I assume that’s what you mean by abolishing currency, although there are other interpretations), and some others advocate to abolish it as soon as possible (I believe, although I can’t prove right now, that many intentional communities/communes have done this).

Communism’s long-term aim is ultimately to create a communist society. That is, a public, stateless, classless, moneyless society - goods are distributed by need rather than for wealth.

We don’t want people filling swimming pools with cheese and diving into it.

I actually had to check to make sure some e-celeb hadn’t done this stunt for content. I don’t think currency is what stops people from doing that, just like how for-profit healthcare systems aren’t what’s keeping people from injuring themselves.

The term of the day is: Artificial scarcity

“If we allow your flag, then we have to admit also other similar political flags, both supporting and opposing diversity.”

Consider the following: no, they don’t.

but this rant happens early in the film, and the rest of the story shows how the network it aired on figured out how to capitalize on the ratings it generated

Absolutely, even when I gave the scene a quick watch before posting this, I thought about comments various writers have made about capital’s ability to subsume critique of capitalism. The contract reading scene in the Ecumenical Liberation Army house really pulls it into the forefront.

Good work reporting bigots. There’s too many of them tolerated in mainstream forums, no need to give them ground here.

I’m not sure exactly what to do as I feel helpless and incompetent to really do as much of a impact.

That’s the paradox with collectives - With these large-scale issues, each of us can’t accomplish much by ourselves. And when support becomes large enough, it may seem like our contribution is tiny and trivial. But we know that they’re nothing without any of us! When one takes a step back, the important impact of small contributions becomes clearer; many of the biggest mass movements of all time started with a reading group or a small band of people.

(as majority protest info are on Instagram/Twitter for some reason which I don’t use any of the two anymore)

I know that feeling, add in Fascebook for my area too. I found that two of the local progressive political organizations near me share the same events they’re supporting (one lists upcoming events on their webpage so I can use an RSS feed to be notified, the other passes around a list at the end of each meeting so that only works IRL), hopefully your area has something like that.

Some examples from the past week:

• Being active and involved in my worker union (we’ve had a few recent wins).
• Attending and promoting rallies and counter-rallies for various causes.
• Cantributing to tactical discussions in political party meetings.
• Small financial donations to various causes (both social and political).
• Reducing my food and plastic waste.

Keep in mind that decentralized and distributed should not be confused for individualist. A group of three people can do a whole lot more than an individual.

I linked Specific Suggestions in another reply, which includes plenty of modern examples.

See also: https://specificsuggestions.com/

From a political science perspective (and for most people outside the USA), most of the US has liberalist ideology, including Republican voters. The electoral system is called a liberal democracy. The country rallying cry is for “freedom”; liberty.

US mass media simply started calling progressive liberalism “liberalism”, conservative liberalism “conservativism”, and classical liberalism “libertarianism”. It’s silly and confusing, but it’s the world we’re in right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

Worrying about any kind of surveillance is pointless if you dont leave your ph9ne at home every day.

It’s not quite as simple as that. The overall point has truth, but one can still use a phone and reduce surveillance, especially if you’re just trying to avoid surveillance capitalism or police surveillance at certain times (e.g. protests). Privacy isn’t binary. Security isn’t binary.

(I wrote it in a few second before looking at the OP post, but the form turned out remarkably similar)