TIL, thanks!

There’s advantages to being passive aggressive, like making the other person feel like an asshole. Only works if the other person has the capability to feel shame, though.

I wonder if there’s any crossover between the privacy and tankie parts of Lemmy. To me, this is obviously taking advantage of people’s fear to force in authoritarian measures, à la Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse. I mostly wonder because I was just talking about China on Lemmy, saying that they’re not any better than any other country, even if you ignore propaganda/Sinophobia/whatever. Moves like this make that argument obviously true to me.

Revolution is always a huge gamble. You might think things can’t get worse, but they very much can.

Oh, I don’t think the web version allows for browsing videos at this point. It’s still in heavy development. I can log in on the web on Firefox, but that just lets me change account settings and whatnot.

Might be worth flagging that to @dansup@mastodon.social. The FAQ page states unambiguously that Loops won’t do that:

https://loops.video/help-center/frequently-asked-questions

Might just be ill-advised copy/paste of legalese. If he’s asked about it and defends the TOS with that in it, then I’d start to worry

Here’s my impression of Brazil as an American (I think it’s a country?)

You have to be a little careful with what seems “obvious”. Solar roadways had some enthusiasm behind them, but they turned out to have a lot of challenges:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20725910

That being said, I can’t think of any reason why this is a bad thing. It does seem really obvious with no major drawbacks

My bad on posting the AI mother bird video. In my defense, it was surprisingly lifelike. I’ve gotten better at identifying fakes and more cautious before reposting them from Loops. Hopefully the legit bird loops are appreciated, though, if not I’ll stop crossposting

Oh hey, are you also @gedaliyah on Loops? If so, I’ve been enjoying your loops! I’ve been reposting to !loops@midwest.social

Between “dad” and “young lady”, this just makes it seem like it was socially acceptable in the 70’s to air your daddy kink out in public

Talked about over here, but the tl;dr is no

I think “dad” is short for “daddio”, but I’ve never heard it used like that. Bonus panel:

Was originally looking for this panel, but decided it was too straightforwardly domestic abuse and/or fetishy. Thought the posted panel was better anyways, though. Transcript of this panel:

Chuck: I’m going to spank you, Mrs. Brant… just a reminder that I’m your husband!

Diane: Don’t you dare, you… Ohh, not so hard!

Edgar: Er… care for another dance, Mrs. Brant?

Diane: N-no… I think I’ll sit… I mean stand around a while!

I also came across an interesting article:

Let’s put a bit of context on this. Love stories aimed at a predominantly female readership have been around since at least the early twentieth century, and through much of that time some of them have included spanking scenes. In the comic books, romance really got started as a distinct genre after the Second World War, and there was a very noticeable spike in the number of spanking scenes in 1949-50: a staggering seventeen are known from those two years, ten of them concentrated in the second half of 1949 alone.

Bonus panel:

Somehow, I doubt they’d write “Sly little men from Washington”

I think you have to walk a fine line in his position of promoting yourself while not sounding full of yourself. It’s like when you have to update your resume and brag about yourself. I hate it and how pompous it sounds, but if you don’t then your resume will go in the trash.

Good points, still getting the hang of what communities are into the loops content format. And yeah, just trying to spread awareness of Loops to people that like the format, since it’ll help the Fediverse grow.

Not trying to treat anyone like a click farm, I get no benefit from any clicks. I thought the video was a good introduction to GOG for anyone that hadn’t heard of it, but as another comment pointed out, it’s pretty likely that everyone in this community has heard of GOG at this point, so it’s probably more preaching to the choir.

“the priest in the box” makes it sound more like a sadistic experiment of Schrödinger’s

That’s a good idea, actually. Maybe shorten it to [OL] and explain in the sidebar or something

EDIT: Added a new rule that reposted content has to be prefixed with [R]. That way, OC for Loops is privileged by not having to have the prefix.

Yeah, it would be great to see partnerships in the sense of like comments sections for magazines hosted on Lemmy or something. Not sure if that’s what you’re talking about, but that would be a neat Fediverse feature.