Source: Shico Rico Douga (NSFW site) by Deadnoodles

Not even, just an extra assignment for me. I did get poor grades in handwriting (an unofficial category on the report card) all the time, I think I was always destined to be a computer keyboard person.

I had the same experience. A teacher even tried to break me of the habit in elementary school by making me write 100 sentences “the correct way” while the rest of the class got to watch a movie. That just gave me 100 chances to realize how much I hated “the correct way”.

I’m constantly astounded that people seem to unironically enjoy that movie. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade so I stay away from discussions about it, but I saw it in theaters (because I also love Jason Statham) and immediately regretted it. It felt like it was written as a joke, but then tried to take itself seriously, and failed at both. I feel like I’m getting pranked by people saying they like that movie.

I think this is the source (which includes names for everyone): https://www.businessinsider.com/most-famous-celebrities-from-each-state-2013-8

I copied the names below for anyone that doesn’t want to click through:

Alabama: Channing Tatum
Alaska: Jewel
Arizona: Emma Stone
Arkansas: Billy Bob Thornton
California: Kim Kardashian
Colorado: Tim Allen
Connecticut: Seth MacFarlane
Delaware: Ryan Phillippe
Florida: Pitbull
Georgia: Julia Roberts
Hawaii: Bette Midler
Idaho: Aaron Paul
Illinois: Harrison Ford
Indiana: David Letterman
Iowa: Ashton Kutcher
Kansas: Kirstie Alley
Kentucky: George Clooney & Jennifer Lawrence
Louisiana: Britney Spears
Maine: Patrick Dempsey
Maryland: Julie Bowen
Massachusetts: Mark Wahlberg
Michigan: Madonna
Minnesota: Prince
Mississippi: Oprah Winfrey
Missouri: Jon Hamm
Montana: Michelle Williams
Nebraska: Hilary Swank
Nevada: Jimmy Kimmel
New Hampshire: Adam Sandler
New Jersey: Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen & Jon Bon Jovi
New Mexico: Neil Patrick Harris
New York: Jay Z
North Carolina: Zach Galifianakis
North Dakota: Josh Duhamel
Ohio: Halle Berry
Oklahoma: Carrie Underwood
Oregon: Lisa Rinna
Pennsylvania: Will Smith & Tina Fey
Rhode Island: Elisabeth Hasselbeck
South Carolina: Aziz Ansari
South Dakota: January Jones
Tennessee: Miley Cyrus & Justin Timberlake
Texas: Beyoncé
Utah: Julianne Hough
Vermont: Zosia Mamet
Virginia: Sandra Bullock
Washington: Rainn Wilson
West Virginia: Jennifer Garner
Wisconsin: Mark Ruffalo
Wyoming: Matthew Fox

An animation from Obarski / Kiszkiloszki: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1767596029979438

They cite their reference material as: Chroniques de Jehan Froissart (Froissart’s Chronicles), Bruges ca. 1470-1475, Bibliothèque nationale de France: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84386043/f167.item

They have a longer animation, with the one above included, here: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1663615227058317&id=1663615227058317

Non-Facebook links to both: https://files.catbox.moe/pjfava.mp4 https://files.catbox.moe/o7qul7.mp4

Edited to fix Facebook link and added non-Facebook links.

Apparently the woman from the greentext was known as “plastixfangs” online. She deleted a significant amount of her content, but random porn sites still have some of her posts. For example, https://pornpics.click/@plastixfangs (NSFW)

I’ve used a similar project in the past: https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook

It’s cool that more options are becoming available for ebook to audio conversions.

I still buy those eggs, the notes they put in are cute.

I use subgen to generate my subtitles locally. I have it linked to Bazarr but apparently there’s webhooks for Jellyfin.

I switched from Windows to EndeavourOS a few months ago and haven’t had any issues on my personal computer, it’s amazing.

I also have EndeavourOS as a VM on my work laptop and I somehow managed to break systemd-boot when trying to do a system update though. The system update died halfway through and I defaulted to the classic solution of rebooting, which definitely made things worse because my boot partition in the VM broke. The great thing about Linux, and especially Arch, is the tools and knowledge readily available to fix things and everything was working again (with no data loss) in under 15 minutes. I’ve dealt with similar problems on Windows and either had to accept data loss or deal with significant headaches trying to resolve what should be a simple issue because the operating system refuses to provide basic information.

The story is called “Sally” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_(short_story)). I couldn’t find a readily available copy of The Complete Robot online, but Z-Library has it.

Even if some of the information is outdated, although I believe it’s all still valid, the main points / TL;DR are absolutely relevant. It’s unlikely that the main bureaus will change, and although the exact steps for freezing may change over time, the emphasis on freezing is important.

There are actually more than 3 providers and you should put a freeze on everything you can. You only need unfrozen credit for applying for new lines of credit (loans, credit cards, etc), and unfreezing is a quick process (15 minutes or so).

Here’s a pretty comprehensive guide for protecting yourself: https://old.reddit.com/r/IdentityTheft/comments/uvv3ij/psa_freezing_your_three_main_credit_reports_is/

It’s better to take these steps before you get your identity stolen rather than after. These steps can prevent your leaked information from being used against you.

You can have multiple spaces in a community. Some for discussion, some not for discussion. You can also have different communities, some that allow discussion and some that don’t. To expand on the house analogy, if someone walked into a Star Wars themed bar with a shirt reading “Star Trek is the superior sci-fi show” and people got mad and tried to force the Star Trek to leave, they would be justified. That example is overly dramatic, but there are spaces online and offline where people want to enjoy or discuss a thing and should not have to be subjected to people who disagree with them. If some wants discussion, they can create a new space and advertise that space as friendly and open to discussion.

This post is a perfect example of being a space open to discussion. The OP wanted discussion and so people come in with that mindset. But if the OP said “What’s everyone favorite fruit?” and someone commented saying “I hate fruit”, that comment would not be appropriate for the post. It would be off topic and inflammatory and likely be cleaned up (removed) by a moderator. I know people believe that moderators can overreach, but those spaces belong to the moderators. If you don’t like how they police a community, find or make a new community.

I’ve seen this mentality quite a lot online, and amongst a few of my friends, and I strongly disagree. One of the best things about the Internet is that anyone is free to create their own space and treat it however they want. The Fediverse is a natural extension of that idea, allowing anyone to make their own website and federate it into the larger community. But the community should be allowed to reject people. I wouldn’t tolerate someone who walked into my house and started arguing with me.

The community will naturally form spaces that are open to discussion, but I don’t think that should be forced. If the larger community agrees that there should be no outside discussion and you disagree with that, find a different community or make your own. Not all spaces are meant for everyone and that should be fine.

I recognize that larger communities build traction, but that can be disrupted (see Reddit / Lemmy & Twitter / Mastodon). I don’t think people will radicalize just because they push out people who they don’t want in their online spaces, especially since the Internet is so widely connected through federation, screenshots, link sharing, and even telling stories.

I don’t want to say that you’re not allowed to have your opinions and feel displeasure with the way Lemmy is moving, but I do want you to know that you can create your own community, either through your own hosted server or through a server that shares your worldview. The Fediverse is larger than lemmy.world and it’s up to you to find a place that you feel comfortable and accepted.