I would take any and everything you see in YPTB with the largest grains of salt. Most of the posts there are from frequent flyers apparently unaware and unable to see that they are the problem. The comments to those are from similar frequent flyers. Basically every post there is framed to make OP entirely the victim and often are turned into some kind of conspiracy-laden narrative about the mod(s) involved. Frankly, YPTB and similar communities are beyond redemption, IMO.

I will admit I do not know (nor particularly care to know) the specifics of this case, but some of the communities Jordan mods are targets for some of the worst people in this place, and he’s only human. So don’t crucify me if there’s some egregious offense I’m ignorant of and don’t take this statement as a direct defense of that. I’m merely pointing out that the guy takes a LOT of abuse from some real, uh, how do I put this charitably…“characters”.

Lemmy, of late, has lost many of its more rational voices, so please keep that in mind and exercise caution when asking the inmates what they think about the rules of the asylum.

Nice, and yeah, definitely. Until my senior year English class, the only books were were allowed to use for any reading assignment were Shakespeare or Newberry award books.

Definitely different experiences, but yeah, agree. Generally, I only like to listen to the audiobook after I’ve read it (unless there’s no other option). It’s difficult for me to not miss important plot points when I’m listening to it, but that’s probably just my ADHD.

The genre doesn’t exist, but it should: “Bedtime Stories: Narrated by Morgan Freeman and Stepehn Fry”.

Seriously, this. I can’t stand to read “the classics” but I love reading things that interest me. Would be nice if schools recognized that and encouraged reading just for the sake of it rather than forcing kids to trudge through endless stanzas of “ye art incorrect and thou must protest this injustice. Oh Horatio! Oh, lamentation this! Lamentation that!” Like, fuck, I lost the plot 3 pages of lamentations ago.

Just let kids do book reports on Harry Potter (or whatever’s cool these days). At least they’re reading and their brain cells are firing.

Provided it’s got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories, and a lot of players have “sleep mode” that will either set a timer or stop it after the current chapter. Seems like an easy way to get people into them, IMO.

I have two of Stephen Fry’s autobiographies on audiobook and would basically let his smooth voice lull me to sleep. 😆

Ugh, I had the Sega Master System version (same game) and it was pretty awful.

Probably just smells like old upholstery. Taxidermied animals don’t really have a smell

I think I’m just gonna get some Pi Zeros + cameras and just roll my own. Probably use the NoIR versions and some cheap IR illuminators. Feed those into Zoneminder.

Bonus points if I can find some old CCTV cameras, gut them, and fit the pi camera to those optics.

That’s a real hero move, and I appreciate it.

Commenting so I can remember to check back for any suggestions. I’ve basically run into this problem:

I was thinking that or they just have a lot of them.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2022/05/18/iconic-photos-give-rare-glimpse-of-smithsonians-storage-rooms/

Neat. I find it interesting that you’re encouraged to touch the exhibit at all. Usually that’s very discouraged.

I know exactly what you mean, have seen it more than I ever wanted to, and just “ugh” every time. This isn’t the proper community to dive any deeper into that topic, so I’ll leave it at that.

The choice of words reminds me of one of the Comedy Central roasts. Can’t remember which one, but Marlee Matlin was one of the roasters. She’s deaf, but she can speak just fine.

Part of her set was, halfway through, she got Gilbert Gottfried (also on the dais) to “be her voice” for the rest of it. So he read her lines from the teleprompter in his way plus or minus a few tangents. Then this…

I lost it 😆

Why is nothing ever good enough?!

Can we not just appreciate that high-profile people are standing up for what’s right? Are you seriously blaming Tatiana Maslany for not pushing harder for She-Hulk Season 2 just so that she can rally harder against the parent company two years after the show ended?

:SMH:

Uh, have you ever seen a heated argument in ASL? It’s intense.

To a blind person, a deaf argument would sound exactly like a slap fight from the fury of signs flying back and forth.

And in some unfortunate cases, not tidy.

Not sure what country, but in the US, wouldn’t that technically be illegal (at least between co-workers)? I know some places, such as call centers, won’t let you speak another language to customers without approval (for liability reasons, I assume).

She would get very angry really fast if she heard anything in a language she didn’t understand.

Karen es una cabrón.

4. Not everyone is a goddamned literal Nazi.

Is Disney in the wrong here? You betcha. Are they a shit media conglomerate? Oh, boy, yeah. Are they anywhere close to what’s depicted here? Not even remotely.

Goddamn, it’s like people around here call everything and everyone they don’t like a Nazi. Starting to not even sound like a word anymore.

Edit: To clarify: There are enough actual Nazis in the world as it is. Stop inventing new ones.

Jesus Christ, Godwin’s Law would like to have a word.