Really glad that you like it!

More the combination of the album and the song titles, but At the Soundless Dawn by The Red Sparowes is an instrumental album whose song titles tell the story of how humanity is destroying our planet.

1. “Alone and Unaware, the Landscape was Transformed in Front of Our Eyes”
2. “Buildings Began to Stretch Wide Across the Sky, And the Air Filled with a Reddish Glow”
3. “The Soundless Dawn Came Alive as Cities Began to Mark the Horizon”
4. “Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through the City Walls and Everyone Reveled in Their Ignorance”
5. “A Brief Moment of Clarity Broke Through the Deafening Hum, but It Was Too Late”
6. “Our Happiest Days Slowly Began to Turn into Dust”
7. “The Sixth Extinction Crept Up Slowly, Like Sunlight Through the Shutters, as We Looked Back in Regret”

The same band also has Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun, which tells the story of The Great Leap Forward, again through its song titles:

1. “The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like a Mighty Storm, Suddenly and Furiously Blinding Our Senses.”
2. “We Stood Transfixed in Blank Devotion as Our Leader Spoke to Us, Looking Down on Our Mute Faces with a Great, Raging, and Unseeing Eye.”
3. “Like the Howling Glory of the Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous and the Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts and Clutching Our Innocent Awe.”
4. “A Message of Avarice Rained Down and Carried Us Away into False Dreams of Endless Riches.”
5. “‘Annihilate the Sparrow, That Stealer of Seed, and Our Harvests Will Abound; We Will Watch Our Wealth Flood In.’”
6. “And by Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent in Their Puddles, the Air Barren of Song as the Clouds Drifted Away. For Killing Their Greatest Enemy, the Locusts Noisily Thanked Us and Turned Their Jaws Toward Our Crops, Swallowing Our Greed Whole.”
7. “Millions Starved and We Became Skinnier and Skinnier, While Our Leaders Became Fatter and Fatter.”
8. “Finally, as That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us, Did We Know That True Enemy Was the Voice of Blind Idolatry; and Only Then Did We Begin to Think for Ourselves.”

It helps that the music is also great, if you like instrumental stuff.

Fate will also coach users through their interactions, if they desire, a functionality Jasmine described as helpful and another user said was “scary” and “a bit like Black Mirror’.

My first thought, too. There were a few Black Mirror episodes that pretty closely mimic this.

If you’re moving, then set some firm boundaries: You will have 1 moving truck (or whatever you’re using) - if it won’t fit in the truck, you can’t keep it, full stop. If there’s something that won’t fit that you absolutely must keep, you’ve got to remove something else to make room for it.

Take it one room at a time, or even one quarter of a room at a time. Don’t cherry pick things to remove - just start at one end and remove everything. It either goes in the dumpster, or it goes in the truck, but it can’t stay in the house, and you’ve got to choose one. There’s no “We’ll decide on this later”.

The Protomen are my favorite band and it’s not even close.

It’s really a great example of the problem: Your ability to conduct commerce has been heavily limited at the whims of a few corporations. That really shouldn’t be able to happen.

Hey, none of that. Around here, all content is valuable, low-effort and shitty or not. As long as it was posted by a human; fuck AI.

Well, hopefully all of those teen workers that are taking a pay cut as a result of this correctly understand that this also represents a decrease in the amount of effort they should give.

Assuming we’re talking about servers we’d recommend to new Fediverse users, I’d recommend against lemmy.world. Not because there’s anything wrong with the server, but simply because it’s the largest, by a fairly large margin. A central principal of the fediverse is decentralization, and to that end, it’s healthier to spread the users across many instances than to have folks concentrated too heavily on any one.

a ballot initiative too limit campaign donations

from the Fascist Billionaires and there deep pockets

I plan too donate my time

It hurts to read.

If DMCA is going to continue to be ‘guilty until proven innocent’, it really needs to come with some really fucking severe penalties for false claims. Using automated claims services should not be an excuse.

Even if they did, the chance of one of them landing on someone’s eye is so astronomically low as to be functionally 0% - but that’s not the point! The point is to jokingly play into someone’s unreasonable fear of orbital copper needles! Work with me here.

This was fun in Smash Ultimate for the switch; if you had amiibos, you could load them in as characters and they’d (supposedly) learn from what you did when playing against them. We used to pit our amiibo characters against each other and treat it like Pokemon battles. It was a good time.

It’s an easy sell to the people supplying those jobs or their benefactors: If you educate people and give them jobs, the employers have to pay fair market rate for that labor. If you put them in prison, they can force them to work for pennies.

There’s a concept called ‘solo journaling RPGs’ - the idea is that it’s essentially a very lite set of rules that you use to generate writing prompts for yourself. The game gives you some loose guidelines for what to write about, and then you write journal entries as if you had experienced that thing, with the details being very largely open to your own imagination and interpretation.

Edit: In fact, if this concept is interesting to you, itch.io is currently offering a bundle to raise money for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, which includes a lot of solo journaling RPGs, in addition to some other things.

Although the dispersed needles in the second experiment removed themselves from orbit within a few years, some of the dipoles that had not deployed correctly remained in clumps, contributing a small amount of the orbital debris tracked by NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office. Their numbers have been diminishing over time as they occasionally re-enter. As of April 2023, 44 clumps of needles larger than 10 cm were still known to be in orbit.

They’re still up there. If they somehow survived re-entry, they could hit you. You could be innocently looking up and all of a sudden - copper needle from space, right in the eye.

I’ve played online games before where the entire point was to write a bot to play the game for you; I don’t know what the genre is called, but there’ve been a few of them over the years. The game is essentially just an API and the efficiency and complexity of your self-written bot determines your success or failure. It’s fun.

This is functionally that, except… you… don’t write the bot yourself. So… what the fuck is the point? Like, seriously. I’m not judging you - if this interests you, I would be legitimately interested to hear what the appeal is.

I rarely feel as stupid as when reading anything about quantum computing. The whole field could just be a giant in-joke where none of it exists and they’re all just spouting nonsense technical jargon to confound the plebs, and I’d be oblivious.

“Only she can provide the complete account. Some may not like what they hear, but the truth matters. For example, both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing. Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to that explanation.”

There it is. Fishing for a pardon and giving Trump an easy path to grant it “in the interest of public disclosure”, when she’s already flagged to him that she won’t disclose anything about him.

[To preempt the obvious objection, I’m talking about e.g. a private residence, not a business.]

No, clearly not, as I already addressed. Fuck off.