School isn’t just learning the stuff in the classes. It’s the shared experience too. It’s the teachers holding you accountable for learning.

“Going to school” is a very different thing than just trying to learn on your own. Self motivation and time are a huge barrier for a lot of people. I think the OP was imagining being able to go to school every day and just take classes for free with other people also interested.

Over COVID, we started a bad/cult movie night that I streamed over Discord. Streaming via Twitch/Youtube would get copyright struck immediately. Streaming over Discord worked, but you have no real control over stream quality, and often the stream quality is based on the person with the worst connection. You also are locked to 30/60 FPS, which sometimes causes small frame weirdness when most movies are at 24.

An easy, self hosted solution is exactly what I wanted at the time. I played with setting up a streaming server but it ended up being too much of a headache at the time.

There’s a ton of valid reasons to self host. Just because you can’t think of any doesn’t mean it’s pointless.

It’s definitely hard to know when being overly enthusiastic ends and when love bombing begins. I agree that it isn’t always necessarily malicious but, as with most everything, clear open communication is the solution.

The US version was severely bungled, especially in the cutting of the runtime to a 30 minute timeslot from 60. They made that decision AFTER filming it, so they edited down full episodes to half their length.

I think everyone agrees that Reggie Watts was not a great choice for the Taskmaster, but I do think a US version could work with the right group. It has to find it’s own voice though, and be given room to grow, which is hard for US TV.

It works a bit better if you put a little bit of wood glue on the tip of each toothpick before driving it into the hole. Definitely a great trick!

Yeah, we really don’t notice all the bullshit our parents deal with when we’re kids.

For context, I generally dislike a lot of anime tropes and I tend to not like most anime…

But judging all of anime from a bunch of specific anime communities on Lemmy is really silly. These communities tend to have the most intense (and often a bit weird) fans.

If you ACTUALLY want to understand anime, you have to actually watch some. It doesn’t seem like you’re interested in that though based on your replies. Personally, I really enjoyed Cowboy Bebop, though it isn’t 100% perfect.

They just couldn’t decide what her doctor personality was. They initially were like “she’s a tinkerer” and she was making gadgets, but they dropped that really quickly. Jodie did a good job, but they really didn’t give her anything interesting to work with

Do you have an example of cynicism in the show? I guess the Ceritos being a lower class ship gives some of the characters a bit of a chip on their shoulder and they talk a lot of crap about command, but the characters themselves still have a pretty positive outlook overall.

(pssst hey that’s the joke)

I think it was a joke, just saying that there’s all sorts of ways you can put Linux up and down with this kind of data

I’m convinced that big corporations contract it out to the cheapest “production” company that they can find, and they only offer the training so that they can say that they did to shield themselves from potential liability.

The guy in the picture is Jerma, a fairly popular streamer.

So while I generally agree with your sentiment, there are some obvious ways that sometime could be an ethical landlord.

What if you have a house that’s too big, so you convert a floor into an apartment? You’re adding to the number of housing units available. Should you be forced to sell a portion of your house/building to whoever wants to live there? Or should you be able to rent it out to someone at a reasonable rate? Do we want rules that discourage people from potentially adding units to the market?

I feel like the “all landlords are evil” narrative is way too simplistic, and that simplistic view turns off people who would otherwise support reasonable limits on landlords and housing ownership. Like, it’s obvious that we need limits and taxes on people who own multiple properties, and it’s obvious that there are companies that exploit renters and drive up prices, but it’s all more complicated than just “landlords evil lol”.

It’s very, very good. A little bit geared towards young adults, but it deals with some heavy topics and has a lot of great stories. If you like similar animated shows, like Gravity Falls, Avatar/Korra, etc you will likely love She Ra.

Right, but then I have a separate set of saved posts and comments on every account. I’d have to try and remember which account I saved something under. It’s a minor pain, but a pain nonetheless.

I’ve seen it like 10 times, and it’s still great. You can see the killer guy earlier every time, and there are so many good little details.

While there are horror elements, it’s largely just surreal. It’s an incredible video and worth watching, don’t be scared!

Black Mirror is just so unrelentingly cynical about human nature. I watched the one with the lady whose memory is removed and “normal” people delight in following her and recording her, and it’s all a big production to punish this women for doing a pretty fucked up thing.

Every episode seems to just say “aren’t human beings the worst?” The sci fi is interesting sometimes, but I can’t really go through life believing that humans would behave like they do in that show.