Andrzej3K [none/use name]

The thing about a movie or TV series is that every worker involved in it has already been paid, which makes stealing them morally fine. This is not the same thing.

The one where the guy keeps saying “on Broadway”

I would like to see the Hot Club de Paris with a shot of absinthe and a big fat joint

It kind of depends on where you want to go tbh. Maybe there are forums or subreddits you can ask wrt the specifics? I did a CELTA in the UK, and then moved to Spain, but different places demand different qualifications. If you just want to get some money together and don’t mind living in hell for a while, look at places like Saudi Arabia.

Pros:

• it’s the opposite of alienating
• living abroad is an adventure
• the money is good if you’re used to minimum wage

Cons:

• the money isn’t that good
• there isn’t really any sort of career progression
• like everything else, it’s getting ruined by corporate consolidation and stupid tech products

I second this. I can only assume that our esteemed comrade doesn’t know what a BA is but saw the word ‘Arts’ and decided to have a snipe. As if having a BSc is somehow a guarantee of employment lol.

If you’re looking to make ends meet while you look for something better, have you tried employment agencies. I know you mentioned recruitment agencies, but I graduated just after the 2008 crash, and bottom level admin work though agencies was all that was really open to me. Then I fled the country and became a TEFL teacher 🤷

The first time I saw the Spanish one was at like four in the morning, and I thought I’d had a stroke lol

I have very fond memories of the Neil Buchanan era — of how quaint, low-fi and distinctly British it was — so my mind was kind of blown when I realized it has since become an international franchise

“One point three two”, because otherwise the question is ‘thirty two what’. Consider what happens if we put a zero on the end — does it become “one point three hundred and twenty” despite being exactly the same number?

It is definitely worth it

I still use Mastodon — as a place to dump intrusive thoughts more than anything — but there is this huge tension between people who want to chat with randoms, people who only want to chat with friends, and people who want to use it purely as a broadcast medium. The protocol/convention doesn’t really allow for managing this issue, which is a shame, but I have come to the conclusion that microblogging is just kind of cursed as a medium. It’s fundamentally all about building a personal brand, and if you have no social capital you are shit out of luck. And if you have too much, well, enter the reply guys.

Lemmy/the Reddit model on the other hand strikes a good balance between anonymity and being able to vet odd characters. Different people want different things ofc, and that’s fine, but I find I have more fruitful conversations here than on Mastodon.

It’s a great format. 45 minutes of procedural intrigue, then a load of guys in balaclavas bust in and fuck everything up for the last quarter hour

Me too! The sad thing is that the whole system is set up to prevent people from being able to really choose what to watch. Even within a liberal framework, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the optimum system would be something like ‘person decides they want to watch a show with x characteristics, they discover options based on user reviews or a Wikipedia deep dive or w/e, then they click play and the appropriate rights holder is compensated’. It’s never just been about compensation though. They can’t have users going straight for the good stuff, otherwise what will they do with all the slop?

It makes me very sad tbh. My Dad watches movies all the time, but it’s always some average-to-poor Netflix original, because that’s what the app surfaces for him.

I still use Gboard but I feel like it’s got a lot worse in recent years

So glad I ignored the hype and stuck with usenet

In anglo-Christian culture ghosts were explained away as souls in purgatory, and this led to a Catholic/Protestant split wrt whether they existed or not, because Prots denied the existence of purgatory. They are still religiously problematic really — think about how often the ‘ghosts’ in American media turn out to be demons in order to keep things in line with scripture.

I personally believe there’s something much more terrifying implied in the English folk-tradition though: a spirit bound to the last physical vestiges of their time on earth, going through the motions as what little is left of their mind after the trauma of death unravels completely. They’re dead — it’s over. They can still do the things they did in life, but it doesn’t mean anything anymore.

Obviously there are very powerful resonances here for anyone who has witnessed a person sicken and die.

Bluesky is more like Twitter, and Twitter users prefer Twitter to Mastodon

What a strange question

Hit yourself in the testicles with a cartoon mallet, then rethink your priorities

I got into Linux by building HTPCs and then media servers, so it’s been a while since I watched anything hunched over a computer monitor tbh