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We called them streaming services. Calling them stream-ers sounds like the media is trying to make them sound cuddly and non hostile.

It is a gif, at least on desktop for me. Yours only shows as a link.

Yes, it’s the same with some comments for me, I think when I click ‘parent’ or ‘more replies’.

I’ll be on lemm.ee more often since dot world goes down kinda frequently - and it’s healthier to spread the load anyway.

Yeah I noticed that.

I just checked, there are 40 downvotes (78 upvotes). That’s wierd - I checked other posts and they don’t seem to have anything like that - I saw none in the double digits.

I might just have to keep a separate account for posting politics which is sad but necessary so that my posts/comments are ranked according to utility and not just downvoted by angry nerds. I’ll probably make a post about this somewhere too.

I think some idiots/bots from another instance to do with a political topic did it lol. They’ve done it to a few comments. We haven’t left reddit apparently.

Do you think lemmy admins could see the downvoters and check if they’re using bots?

And UK.

I’m definitely going to borrow it from a seafarer on the high seas in the future.

In his own words lol:

To re-iterate PDF is a really, really bad format to use as input. If you absolutely must use PDF, then be prepared for an output ranging anywhere from decent to unusable, depending on the input PDF.

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html

Others are recommending Calibre which I’ll try, even though I share your pessimism. Have you ever tried it?

Good post. Butlerian Jihad when?

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We see your handle, bear.

I thought the first pizza did look a bit German shaped but I haven’t seen any other people say it yet.

Are you a child?

You appear to be somewhat progressive from your other comments, but you have a wierd blindspot when it comes to religion. You apparently defend black people but don’t realise that minority religious groups can and often have been racialised and attacked in similar ways to how a minority group would be. This is strange behaviour.

It’s like you’re proud of being ignorant of history.

Japanese women are not particularly free compared to similar wealthy nations.

But you are forgetting history - those countries had their own brands of capitalist expansionism within living memory. They both had periods of time pre-World Wars where they homogenised themselves: Germany formed a nation state out of smaller states and kingdoms, while Japan did similarly, as well as forcefully assimilating it’s Ainu ethnic minority groups. As a result of this, a powerful centralised state was able to direct the development of the economy as well as their respective society. Initially fascists exploited this. Then as the US, Soviets and other Western powers repudiated them, they were made to adopt the liberal capitalist model that they’d been on the path towards pre-World Wars.

The Middle East on the other hand has been under the boot of european puppet masters. Iran’s democratic PM was couped (1953), in Afghanistan the Taliban was funded by the US against a secular progressive leader, and in Saudi Arabia, their royal family were puppets for Europeans (UK) and for decades now, the US.

Pathetic of you to hide behind concern for women’s rights when you don’t acknowledge that we, the wealthiest countries have routinely worked against democratic, secular and relatively feminist and progressive elements in the Muslim world, as I say above and to which I referred to as anti-intellectualism.

Did we bring feminism and human rights to Libya when we democratized it with bombs and left it with slave markets for Africans? Maybe people like you and I should speak with some humility?

I’m not sure what pleasure you get from telling e.g. women that magic isn’t real, that astrology is bs, and that crystals are only pretty and don’t have special powers. If I were such an unfulfilled person, I’d resolve to get another hobby. Possibly environmentalism or something.

And I’m talking about people that are specifically chauvistic for a hobby and anti-intellectual. I’m not talking about the average normal person that dislikes Catholics or some other misogynistic elements of religion.

People like us in the wealthiest nations have no right to criticise Muslims as a group (if that’s even legitimate criticism, it isn’t) when we prop up the worst Muslims (Saudis and other Arabs) and have always worked against democratic, secular and relatively feminist and progressive elements in the Muslim world.

Your snide anti-intellectual new atheism is a cover for general snobbery and possibly a barely concealed racialised Islamophobia.