I loved loved the Pumpkins in the 90s. Certain eras of my youth were defined by their albums. I actually learned guitar mostly to play Nirvana songs, but soon after that when learning what Corgan wrote, that's what got me to where I would consider myself a fairly decent guitarist and of course it heavily influenced my own style and the kind of stuff I liked to write. And actually Billy Corgan is still a fucking amazing guitarist, even if I think musically he had said all he was really gonna say by the time Machina came out and the song writing which had once been like you said, real masterpieces, fell off dramatically into the mediocre or worse range.

I didn't even think about Smashing Pumpkins for years, and was of course disappointed but not entirely shocked to learn how chud-adjacent he turned out to be, though I knew he had always been a dick at best. But just a few years back, I watched some videos of him just talking about gear and a few techniques to get certain sounds, fiddling around doing some demonstrations. The dude really is a virtuoso I think. Like in ways that I didn't realize back when I was a big fan in my teens and early 20s. I also used to listen to a lot of Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, etc., and while Corgan may not be at quite that level, he's closer to it than any other 90s popular rock or alternative guitarists I can think of. There are plenty of Pumpkins songs where that isn't even evident, but of course certain other songs and their solos it does get revealed.

I don't know, I wouldn't call 'inventing some new bullshit axis without defining it but arbitrarily making it veer off so it's close to the far right' "smart" or even a sidestep. The reason horshoe theory works so well is its simplicity and ability to make centrists look inevitably and always correct by default. This thing doesnt give any reason why it would be preferable to be positioned at one node over any other, just that "tankies bad because they're inexplicably close to this other group I don't like." It reeks of trying too hard but still providing zero explanatory power.

I'm analyzing it way more than it deserves, but it strikes me as quite the opposite of smart, whereas horshoe theory, as untrue as it is, really is a clever and unfortunately powerful device for discrediting the left.

I'm surprised no one has pointed out what an appropriate name this clown has. Goddamn dronies.

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As everyone else has already said, it's been shown that it actually helps to reduce traffic accidents. I was unaware until this thread that it was legally mandatory in so many other places, but around where I live, there have always been "daytime headlight corridors," sections of roads and highways with signs up informing drivers their headlights should be on for the next however many miles/kilometers. I was told that their purpose was to study whether daytime headlights did in fact help in a statistically significant way. But I'm pretty sure that had already been established a long while back, and the corridors are just particularly dangerous stretches of highway with no physical barrier separating on-coming traffic, making daytime headlights along that section of road a very good idea.

(mostly because I no longer have a working PC, so I had to switch to playing on my roommate's PS5) and am about 40 hours in now.

Would you say the experience is significantly better on PC vs PS5? I've been really wanting to play Elden Ring after finally playing Bloodborne a few months ago, but I only have a PS4. I've been holding off with the hope that at some point in the distant future I'll have a PC capable of running games like this, or less likely, a PS5 if I luck into one on absurd sale.

Oh yeah, it would piss me the hell off too. If it really does end up breaking uBlock and there is no other work around, I will be one of the ones to simply just not ever watch youtube videos, regrettably.

Since it does seem limited to just some people right now and you are one of the unlucky ones, I'd suggest just using youtube frontends (like Invidious or Piped). They also seem to still be blocking ads just fine and have a bunch of other benefits. If youtube ends up implementing this new ad-forcing bullshit for everyone, I'd expect the frontends won't be immune from it either, but for now, I can't recommend these enough. When I was testing uBlock earlier of course I was using youtube directly, but generally speaking, I don't use youtube directly at all anymore and will only watch youtube videos with an Invidious or Piped instance. If you're not already aware, it's as simple as replacing the youtube-dot-com part of the url in your browser with the url of a frontend instance (that's what hexreplybot does for us!) That's going to be easier and less time consuming than using a downloader for every video you want to watch and certainly easier (and less costly) than a VPN. Youtube hates this of course (one of the reasons I love it) and so instances will sometimes get blocked or rate-limited, but it's always just temporary and all you have to do is use a different instance. Today piped.yt was working well for me, so whatever video you're trying to watch, just replace youtube.com with piped.yt, leaving the rest of the url the same. If you have issues with that, try inv.tux.pizza (which is an Invidious instance).

And since you mentioned using an extension, another thing I'd recommend if you want it automated so everytime you click on any youtube link you see the video via one of the frontends, get the extension LibRedirect. It's an unfortunate name for an otherwise pretty great extension. It works for a bunch of other websites too if you want it to.

They must be doing a limited or selective rollout again to test the new methods on only some accounts. Because I'm not getting any ads breaking through uBlock Origin. I've tested with phone and laptop on multiple videos and it's still working as it always has for me.

I have no spare money (I'm also seriously struggling) but I do have spare buprenorphine I could donate. I realize you'd have to share location details (or better, a PO box) and mailing that to you would be a little sketch for the both of us, so hopefully other people will come through with the funds you need for it, I expect they will. But if not, I'm willing to send what I have, and depending on your daily dose, it should be more than a month's worth. So at least know that there is another option that doesn't include the horrors of bupe withdrawal, if it comes to that.

Sorry to hear about the situation with your mom. That's a tough position to be put in, but as I'm sure you know, you did absolutely nothing to betray her by refusing to fucking scab, even if she feels like you did. I hope after a while she's able to see that it's just her son being a good, principled, thoughtful person in such a way that she should be proud of.

I commented in another part of the thread, but here is a thorough collection of links (that another hexbear put together) about what really happened including direct refutations of the US narrative: https://tiananmensquare.carrd.co/

Yeah, afaik Tank Man has never been identified.

Yep. PBS Frontline did an entire episode on the great mystery of "what happened to Tank Man" replete with cringe liberalisms like "what happened to the hOpE fOr dEmOcRaCy in China?!?" and how he "stood for the ordinary people!"

Thank you! Just to add even more sources regarding the reality of the 6-4 incident, here is a carrd with a whole slew of good links with descriptions. Some are redundant with the links you posted, but there are a lot of others, including things like the full "Tank Man" video and a section with "Mentions in State-Owned Media In China [refuting the "censor" narrative]." I believe our comrade @robinnn@hexbear.net put it together (along with other ones on Xinjiang, DPRK, and the Holodomor).

Is this even a tiny bit about "reaching out," or is it simply that these democrats really are just fascists doing what fascists are wont to do?

However... still also very unsure about some things. I'm totally alone which feels like it makes it harder to figure certainthings out. So also

You can always check the modlog for recent bans and post/comment removals. They don't even have to be recent if you know the username. If you're viewing from hexbear, the link is always at the bottom of the page (the link in the sidebar is strangely unreliable). It works like this for a lot of instances but not all. You can probably do it there from your lemmy.ml account, but it might show different recent activity, since it's a different instance.

these days I just see whatever floats to the top of the dunk tank.

Same! Which sucks because they keep getting removed for rule 8. I fear even this very post hasn't much longer left.

..unless this draino fool is someone important I'm not aware of?

I love the fact that nobody bothers to figure out what that username means lol (except for the Russian speakers), because it’d be obvious.

Well in all fairness (and no offense) but I don't think most people actually care at all who used what username in the past. I'm just a nerd. But I didn't announce it here because I have no idea if you wanted your old and new names tied, I was just trying to be courteous.

How many days the account lasts is determined by a randomly generated number. My life depends on me following through that.

Now see this makes me curious.

oregoncom is talking about this thread: https://hexbear.net/comment/4752012

i wonder what happen to Kaplya did he left because we agreed with doing a little posadism

They're still here, just using a different username again. (mildly frustrating when a user that makes a lot of predictions and also informative comments I like to refer back to keeps wiping their accounts!)

I was just skimming ProleWiki before coming across this post, coincidentally. At the top of every page is:

ProleWiki is looking for new editors.

Please, don't hesitate to Request an account !

Join our Discord server and engage with our community!

I was thinking to myself "I wonder if I should get back on discord again" because of that. But after reading this and all the comments here, I'm reminded why I ditched discord to begin with and then some. Not to single you out, but @CriticalResist8@hexbear.net, @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml, do you think using another platform for the PW community hub might be a good idea?

If that's a joke, I don't get it. Because no, not every single person who has ever watched a Hakim video is a communist. The confused, nonsensical, and sometimes downright sad comments you can often find beneath his videos is proof enough of this.