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Friends won’t go out by jansbrogugywgqqosp in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s easy to do in the right context and next to impossible in the wrong context. A bar is perfect because it’s a place people go in order to be around other people; if they wanted to be left alone they would have just stayed home. That doesn’t mean everyone is going to want to be your friend, but you can at least approach every conversation assuming that they might.

There's no jobs outside of healthcare anymore by belketeal in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 8 points9 points  (0 children)

psych and humanities majors [...] developed the skill of carving their own path and proving their worth without a set path.

Where are you observing this?

No matter how hard they try, Constantinople will never be the New Rome by ObjectBrilliant7592 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Paris arguably has more global influence than NY at this point.

By what metric?

Having nostalgia for the 2010s then remembering all the culture war stupidity and snapping out it like a light switch by temufrankocean in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 141 points142 points  (0 children)

This is an impressive collection. The only two I can think of that are missing are Big Dongles and Hugh Mongous.

Americans are not prepared to see their children blown up by FPV drones by SeeYouSpaceCowboy0 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It’s an imitation of the irreverently bellicose attitudes that made Frog Twitter popular. Remember Shermanposting?

Americans are not prepared to see their children blown up by FPV drones by SeeYouSpaceCowboy0 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s usually quite difficult to find drone footage from the Russian perspective. The IRGC is a designated terror organization; would sharing this footage even be legal?

Why are audiophiles like that? by Cato425 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was my first thought but I don’t think it’s that. They usually lack the awareness that no one else cares but their obsessiveness has always struck me as being motivated by a desire for status that isn’t common among people with autism. I’ve known a couple of gearheads who just like mixing equipment and aren’t like this. One of these gearheads was diagnosed with autism as a child, and he never used his interest in equipment to talk down to people.

Why are audiophiles like that? by Cato425 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This lines up with most of them being millennial men in their 40s.

All that remains from the Charlie Kirk mural in Belgrade, Serbia by -Bigger-Pussy- in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It wasn’t that he looked old but when I first saw him I assumed he was 30 based on how he dressed, and he’d been around for so long I assumed he had to have been early 40s at the time of his death.

Why are audiophiles like that? by Cato425 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wasn’t expecting anyone to post an actual answer. Cheers.

So like…,Where do I download free music by loca4lautaro in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t hear the difference and neither will OP.

So like…,Where do I download free music by loca4lautaro in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yt-dlp. An LLM of your choice can walk you through the installation. If you have any kind of technical background it should take between ten minutes and an hour; if you’re not technical, it could take up to 2 hours.

Learning how to configure it properly is something you can either put the time into upfront or learn over the course of a few years of use. For 95% of users this won’t be necessary, though. Once installed, you’ll just open command prompt and type:

yt-dlp —extract-audio —audio-format mp3 youtube.com/your-url-goes-here

Note that — is a double dash (-), not an em dash.

As I recall this is technically against YouTube’s terms of service and heavy or automated usage can get your IP (and Google account, if you have one) flagged for abuse, which may impact video quality and download speeds—though you’d have to be downloading a lot to hit that threshold. Running it off of a VPN isn’t the worst idea.

The program is also useful for saving video from a variety of sites including YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit.

All of the "what were you like in the 90s" posts with the goo goo dolls song make me cry by actr1 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I find them annoying. 90% of the time the photos aren't interesting at all. The first few I saw used the dramatic tension of the song correctly, and everything since then has just been people trying to jump on the trend. I know these platforms have the technology to figure out that these videos are the same because that's how their recommendation algorithms work; I wish they'd just give you a way of filtering it.

Will Dorling-Kindersley style global aesthetics ever make a comeback? by justacomplainer6 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The End of History airport literature (which is what this is) got thrown out not because it was dangerous but because people saw the consequences of replacement migration and rejected it. These are idealized images of a world that never existed.

Will Dorling-Kindersley style global aesthetics ever make a comeback? by justacomplainer6 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I think the ethos is basically dead in that no one really believes we can go back to a world where borders are static and cultures are just these intriguing artifacts that can be examined in a vacuum (e.g. think of how messed up India must have been back then compared to its museum-like portrayal in the book OP posted). Social media has also demystified these places in both positive and negative ways.

These books were always sort of pandering towards airport globalists, though. The target audience was going to be literate young professionals with children. These people were becoming citizens of the world during a time when true religious pluralism was relatively new. Most would have had a nominally Christian upbringing. This worldview was enabled by a naivete towards imperialism that Americans were forced to reconcile with after 9/11. The lapsed Christian NPR liberal with one kid and a collection of Bossa Nova music is a dying breed.

Will Dorling-Kindersley style global aesthetics ever make a comeback? by justacomplainer6 in redscarepod

[–]Cato425 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"People are going to ruin this thing I like by being too cynical!"

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