Gregory's Server
sigh. okay, I'll bite: why does it matter who defederates with whom if you are not on one of the servers affected?
I *think* I know what other people think about this but I'd be curious to hear from individuals
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I was not anything even close to a junglist but I've been reminiscing about when I was a teenager and I'd stay up until midnight on Friday nights just to hear the 2 hour electronic music block they played once a week on the local alt rock radio station. Jungle was always my favorite, then maybe big beat. I would tape the whole show and listen to it on my Walkman the rest of the week. Aphrodite was probably my favorite, I used to flip out to this track (still do)
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 @darius other "Big Beat" i enjoyed at that time: Propellerheads - DECKSANDDRUMSANDROCKANDROLL Crystal Method, Bassment Jaxx, and Chemical Brothers  @darius In the late 90s while at university in Vancouver, I subscribed to cable TV not for the TV, but to get a Seattle radio station that played 3 hours of electronic music from 9 PM to midnight on Saturdays. The other show I listened to was CBC Radio 2’s Brave New Waves, which would play jungle/drum'n'bass. 90s-style DnB is still alive, I found out last year. Tranquil’s 20 Years Too Late (great album name!) and J Majik’s Full Circle (ditto) are recent releases. I don't understand why I feel bad about quitting a book I don't like when I am more than happy to walk out of a movie or stop watching a TV show I don't like.
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@darius For me it's because it feels like a failure. Reading takes effort, concentration and time, and so can be highly rewarding and edifying. So much so that I consider it something I *should* do, rather than (quite often) something I *want* to do. The trick is to rediscover the joy of reading. If the obstacles are internal then a little effort can go a long way, but if the book isn't rewarding there should be no shame in laying it aside. These goals are nobody's but our own. @darius there's so much incentive to get young ppl to read that we hear a lot about "not being able to put down a book" and "reading is good for you!", "people/kids don't read enough anymore" so I think there can be a feeling of guilt or remorse when quitting a book more than with movies and shows which are seen more as entertainment and, if we're being honest, "lower culture" than books
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@darius Well, that's another career idea down the drain. Whatever, as long as I can still fulfill my dream of baking breathtaking wedding cakes in the cockpits of flying airplanes, I'll be fine.   @darius CIA would've gotten their money's worth from that one imo. alternately, give me a contract to write "John Updike goes to Action Park" fanfic and I'll have it on your desk by tomorrow SimCity 2000 + SimCopter + Streets of SimCity was such a glorious trifecta from Maxis. Like... the fact that you could import your cities into the other two games and either fly around them doing rescue missions or drive around them blowing stuff up... incredible
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  I have gotten MF DOOM lyrics stuck in my head literally every single day since 2003, but now when it happens there is a tinge of sadness :((( Like whenever I hear a word that is also in a DOOM lyric, my brain free associates over there. I do not associate "All Star" with Smash Mouth, I associate it with "And while he's runnin down to All-Star Weekend to ball / I'm comin with the U-Haul"
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I'm rapping the words to "My Philosophy" by Boogie Down Productions to the tune of and in the voice of "Polyamorous" by Chris Fleming??? The PBS NewsHour live stream is pretty good, they have Yamiche Alcindor on right now speaking some good stuff  The combination of what this congressperson is saying combined with the big banging noises in the background and his nervous look up when they happen is... really something  Sites like this one don't deserve the privilege to run arbitrary Turing-complete code inside your browser. when this pandemic is over I am going to be so insufferable, I'm going to be in everyone's DMs who lives within a 1 hour drive of me like "hi hi hi hi let's get coffee I know we never met before but let's motherfucking do this"
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 I made a toy that generates "What vibes do I give off?" style memes from Wikipedia categories. Enjoy. I've spent my whole life trying to make reasonable anagrams from "DARIUS KAZEMI" and I only just now this second realized you can make "I AM DR. ZAIUS (EK)" or maybe "A DR. MIKE ZAIUS"
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@darius for technical aspects it doesn't afaik.
for friendship-alignment purposes it does, same as trying to maintain "neutral third party" ship among a broken set of friend groups.
we are on a SOCIAL media website and so social things are what we do on this website.
darius........ we live, in a society, online
@darius we defederated from gab, and I heard the server went down?
When many defederate from a server, it's an aggressive measure. The users on that server gets a smaller fediverse, less fun interactions, and drop off the server to various degrees.
This tactic only works if many other servers agree. Therefore, it's important to talk about how it happens. Because communication is good.
@darius I'm following the discussion because I have had positive and negative interactions with some folks from the shitposting side (that overall left me with a deep distrust of everyone in that whole scene), and I've had positive interactions from the sincere side, and I suspect my admins here DGAF and just want to have fun, so I am tentatively thinking that I should move to an instance that's more actively aligned with my values and more hometown-like. But I don't know where that is or what, exactly, values I'm trying to live by with that decision process.
@darius I'm following the discussion because I have had positive and negative interactions with some folks from the shitposting side (that overall left me with a deep distrust of everyone in that whole scene), and I've had positive interactions from the sincere side, and I suspect my admins here DGAF and just want to have fun, so I am tentatively thinking that I should move to an instance that's more actively aligned with my values and more hometown-like. But I don't know where that is or what, exactly,...