JohnnyEnzyme

As someone who grew up in Philly, I'm slightly bemused as to why as a group we don't seem to have ever tried adding scrambled egg in our cheesesteaks. Or scrapple, for that matter.

My point is that context is everything. For example, if you already know that most of your audience is already highly skeptical of right-wing views and talking points, then: 1) it might just behoove the program to feature the more extremist interviewees, and 2) it might actually be a waste of time, energy and resources to rebut what the audience likely already considers obvious rubbish. That's over-generalising of course, but still...

Also, NPR doesn't necessarily represent the totality of pure, journalistic purpose, and they're not there to live up to any specific outside standards. It's fine for you to critique them, but to my mind, if they're accomplishing their mission then that's the most important thing.

Now the best you get after having a Republican spout off the benefits of killing the poor for 10 min straight is a mild tone of disagreement as they say "that's all the time we have, thanks for joining us".

Just a hypothesis, but considering NPR's general audience, maybe they don't necessarily need to offer much rebuttal. Maybe, via the interview Q's, it's more a case of attempting to give the right-wingers as much rope as they need to... you know?

(then again, I haven't listened to NPR for ages; so shame on me)

1847 was a year of economic turmoil in France, which preceded a second revolution in 1848. Wouldn't be surprised if this was related to any of that.

Also, the tall officer in the middle looks very familiar, but then again, I guess it was a pretty common look, i.e. middle-aged man with a drooping, caterpillar moustache.

Late-ish reply, but I'm enjoying how Grandpa doesn't even need arms anymore to serve his purpose. Perhaps not-too-far in the future he can be reduced to a sort of bobble-headed matryoshka, like the old "Shmoo" character, or once upon a time, children's toys "Weebles," which would famously wobble, but never fall down.

From the couple of books by Jane Goodall I read, there absolutely was a 'top dawg' male in the Gombe chimp troop for as long as she was around to study it.

Sometimes it would be based on force of personality; sometimes on strength & size, sometimes on wiliness and psychological tricks, and another time due to two brothers teaming up together. Regardless, after the fall of one, another would inevitably take its place.

IIRC Sapolski also observed that most baboon troops indeed had a heirarchy, with the top dawg there typically taking out its frustrations on the next-ranking member down, and so forth down the line. That said, he also observed that when the most aggressive males sometimes died off due to disease / etc, the resultant troops could function remarkably differently, in which there was more of an egalitarian matriarchy.

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] > https://discuss.tchncs.de/ is managed by the admin behind https://tchncs.de/ , as you can see, they offer quite a few services: https://status.tchncs.de/status/tchncs

Thanks; cool stuff. I just hope there's enough resiliency and backup in terms of personnel, such that such projects can go on indefinitely.

] > In your situation, have you ever considered hosting a blog rather than content directly on Lemmy/Piefed? That might be an easier way to manage the content over time.

Well, there's the rub-- by no means did I set out to create a blog-like project, rather that's what it happened to drift towards over time. My main intent was to create as close an alternative to r/bandedessinee as possible due to Reddit's self-immolation at the time. I didn't want it to be about me, but about community participation, eventually with other people overseeing the project, with myself being more of an occasional contributor. This is doubly the case due to significant health issues and living in a place currently drifting towards... some pretty disastrous general outcomes.

But yes, I've tried doing a couple blogs for awhile. I frankly prefer the Reddit/FV approach because I don't have to be as perfectionistic, 'complete,' and me-centred, plus it let's me work more in a style intended to get general discussion rolling.

As I said above, if PieFed / etc eventually offered the ability to assign transferred content with matching usernames to the new account, that would pretty much solve things for me. Or if the community owner had the ability to modify old content (showing that in a public log of course), then it would also solve things. I don't feel like I'm hoping for too much here, but maybe I'm wrong...

Good point, but one which also maybe shows how this kind of thing can be completely arbitrary. I.e., there's nothing else in English that sounds like "tor-til-a," so in most ways it doesn't really matter, same as with the Texan city of Amarillo.

"Guerilla," however...

IIRC as the article already mentioned, these were the kind of his moves that were quite unique, experimental and even trail-blazing. I thought the first SW was a pretty interesting yarn, even if this kind of thing later got turned in to a product. But that was going to be the case, regardless. Anything successful was always going to be imitated until turned in to product.

His tenure was marked by stories of creative blowups and controversies, including his insistence that the X-Men character Phoenix had to die to atone for crimes she committed in the story, over the objections of the creative team.

I thought this was a great, ballsy move, actually. IP owners naturally want to milk their product for as long as possible, but this was a real indication that Shooter wanted to go in more realistic directions. The real problem wasn't in killing her off IMO, it was in later teams endlessly bringing her back from the dead.

In 1987, after Marvel had been acquired by New World Pictures, Shooter, whose welcome was already wearing thin, was, by some accounts, fired for demanding editorial autonomy and the payment of royalties.

“He really polarized people, but it was because he had a passion for what he was doing,” said Bill Sienkiewicz, who drew Moon Knight and New Mutants during the 1980s. “He went to bat for freelancers in a way you don’t see many people in editorial roles do today.”

Some might call him draconian, or an AH, but I think these two moves say a lot about him wanting to look after the creators and not just to go in the 'comics as economic product' direction.

] > About the most robust and resilient instance, I'm not sure, monthly reports on !home@lemmy.zip are pretty transparent and detailed. Other instances like sh.itjust.works have very high uptime as well.

Yeah, the reason I say that is because Sunaurus had setup something like 10 sub-servers (most of them non-redundant) running the instance, at a cost of ~US$200/mo. I can't pretend to be any expert in such stuff, but my perception is that (rather famously unlike certain other instances) it was overall beautifully able to handle massive influxes of users, DDOS attacks, spam issues, outage issues, and whatever else. It also had a health-status link (now defunct) and I think maybe other user/server tools, as well.

So while I grasp the intrinsic, resilient nature of the FV, Lemm.ee to me was one of the strongest instances there was, and it can never be too good when such as those go down.

To me, it also kind of touches on certain problems of dead communities only getting conserved in 'ghost states' by the FV. I mean yes, you can still see them if you know how to look, but they can't be interacted with, and they'll never pop up in any feeds. They won't disappear, but I'm pretty sure that very few people are going to bother visiting them unless the content is absolutely stellar.

Another issue apart from that is that even when the content can be migrated to another instance, nobody can say with any certainty that such instance won't crash, either. There's also the fact that now that EGN's stuff is mostly migrated (with ~160 postings lost), I can't actually edit any of it even as the community owner. So personally, it's another big chonk of work trying to patch up any content that has aging issues... such as Imgur content needing to be re-uploaded, info updating, and/or links needing to be fixed. I.e., I'll need to delete, rework and re-launch so many of those aging posts when I'd much rather be focused on creating new content.

So from my POV, the situation is still a bit fraught, with the most obvious thing seemingly being migration tools needing to be improved, and community-owner tools needing a little more power. Now over on Reddit, people could say something like 'yeah yeah, I sold my soul to Spez, but at least we don't have any of those issues.'

So maybe if and when Reddit sets itself on fire again, the FV can be better-prepared to persuade users over. (knock on wood)

/rant?

I guess the unstated joke is that "guerilla" is in fact pronounced like "geh-r-riya."

When I was younger, for some reason I thought it was pronounced like a large ape species.