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Loramir
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Emotionally compromised by sports (hockey, MotoGP, F1) and videogames (HZD, DAI, BG3).
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loramir.bsky.social
Fun to see Ovi (39) and Sid (37) still elite despite being Ancient by sports standards. 40+ goals for Ovi and 80+ points for Sid!
two men are standing next to each other and saying we 're all gettin ' so old .
ALT: two men are standing next to each other and saying we 're all gettin ' so old .
media.tenor.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
loramir.bsky.social
That's awesome! Congrats, Dre!
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
loramir.bsky.social
It seems trivial, but in an office job where I staple stuff a lot, the failure rate of cheap staples drives me NUTS & wastes a lot of time!

I forgot to specify the brand when my boss bought staples, but he's gonna have to exchange them bc life is too short to wrestle with crappy staples all day.
February 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
loramir.bsky.social
Trains here (outside of the northeast where there are actually useful commuter trains between cities) are slower than driving and about as expensive as flying 🙃
February 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
loramir.bsky.social
"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people."
February 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
loramir.bsky.social
The final speech by the Jewish barber mistaken for the dictator.

"Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men—machine men with machine minds & machine hearts! You are not machines!...You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate—the unloved & the unnatural!"
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
youtu.be
February 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
loramir.bsky.social
It is legit both funny and moving, and one has to admire the nerve of making a scathing satire of Hitler in 1940.

And spot on, even 80+ years later...

www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Quote from the linked BBC article: The message is that Hynkel is not a brilliant strategist or a mighty leader. He is an overgrown adolescent – as demonstrated in the sublime set piece in which he dances with an inflatable globe, dreaming of being "emperor of the world". He is an insecure buffoon who bluffs, cheats, obsesses over his public image, manhandles his secretaries, revels in the luxury of his extravagant quarters, and reverses his own key policies in order to buy himself more time in power. "To me, the funniest thing in the world is to ridicule impostors," wrote Chaplin in his autobiography, "and it would be hard to find a bigger impostor than Hitler." Quote from the linked BBC article: Think of today's dictators and would-be dictators, in any country, and you can spot all the juvenile qualities that Chaplin identified: the fetish for photo opportunities, the lavish lifestyles, the policy flip-flops and the crackpot schemes, the self-aggrandising parades and the chests full of medals: Billy Gilbert's Herring, ie. Göring, has so many medals pinned to his uniform that Hynkel has to turn him sideways to find room for the latest addition. Hitler was at the peak of his power when The Great Dictator was being made, but Chaplin had already recognised that, as with every subsequent dictator, his villainy was bound up with his immaturity.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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We don't "use" the computer, we negotiate with it to try and make it do the things we want, as the incentives of modern software development no longer align with users user. Our frustration isn't hate - it's outrage, as something was taken from us.
www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
Yet my — and I'd imagine your — frustration isn't borne of a hatred of technology, or a dislike of the internet, or a lack of appreciation of what it can do, but the sense that all of this was once better, and that these companies have turned impeding our use of the computer into an incredibly profitable business. So much of the pushback I get in my work — and the pushback l've seen toward others — is that I "hate" technology, when l'd like argue that my profound disgust is borne of a great love of technology, and a deep awareness of the positive effects it's had on my life. I do not turn on my computer every day wanting to be annoyed, and I don't imagine any of you do either. We re not logging onto Whatever social networks we're on because we are ready to be pissed off. If anything, we'd love to be delighted by the people we chose to connect with and the content we consume, and want to simply go about our business without a litany of microaggressions created by growth-desperation and a lack of responsibility toward the user.
February 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
loramir.bsky.social
The dastardly offense of "Minor under 18 playing pinball machine" is always a good one. We can't let people get away with that kind of thing!

(I have no idea why this would be a crime.)
Entry in the South Carolina CDR code listing for #2459, "Minor under 18 playing pinball machine," a misdemeanor.
February 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM