semisimian

joined 11 months ago
[–] semisimian@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

I hope they licensed this footage appropriately and paid the voice actors scale, but I'd bet good money they didn't.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 28 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Hey man, let's take some poorly written beat poetry and put it over mediocre guitar compositions. Then we can take a talented keyboardist but make him play the shittiest sounding electric organ. And we can make sure the recording makes it all sound like a cat and some tin cans in a dryer.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 24 points 6 months ago

Okay, now defend us from the foreign censorship that Israeli lobbyists baked into our state constitutions. https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I'll hang on to 10 as long as they'll let me, but I am never going to 11. Then it'll be a distro for dis bro.

Sorry.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

They do, and as a Canadian, they should know that fellow Canadian John Hopps invented the 1st pacemaker. He's even considered the father of biomedical engineering. I dug through trying to find out if he coined the term "heartpacer," no such luck. It sounds like a Dutch translation to me.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 24 points 8 months ago

I am outside of the loop and I appreciate your break-down. I am all for paying for useful services, but I have such a backlog of media that I need to watch, I don't benefit from Trakt. I like a paid business model, though

We should all question a "free" app that lets us spend 1 or 2 or 8 hours a day on their platform. We've gotten greedy, thinking that everything should be personal data or advertiser supported. It stinks that Trakt is cutting features while raising prices, all for a pretty simple service, but I think subscription services that protect your privacy are worth funding.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I know what you mean, but I immediately heard it different. It's something we should be asking daily, just to make sure they have what they need. Are trans women okay? Are trans men okay? What do you need? I have a sympathetic ear and bourbon; how can I help?