bazpoint

joined 1 year ago
[–] bazpoint@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Actually quite like Fedditors. Acknowledges where most of us came from, while being something different. Can also be interpreted as 'feck-reddit-ors'. Is good.

[–] bazpoint@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I'm so glad they've filmed it... I read the graphic novel last year completely at random (someone bought it for my daughter & I thought it looked interesting)... still, it seemed quite obscure & I couldn't believe it when I was listening to a movie podcast and a review of it came on. It's a great story and I can't wait to see it on the big screen.

[–] bazpoint@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I can't believe no-one has mentioned Chuck Feeney.

He's prettymuch the answer to the OP's question: Can you be super rich and a good person? Yes, but you prettymuch have to make it your life's work to not be super rich any more.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke/

[–] bazpoint@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so stupid it's barely believable. Like, he's made some (many) bad moves, but this is literal platform suicide if it isn't reversed immidiately.

[–] bazpoint@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The Rockford Files! That phone rings then it's just 2 minutes of unmitigated joy

[–] bazpoint@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

It would be extremely funny if Meta spent a shit load of money buying a bunch of large fediverse instances then everyone just immidiately migrated to other instances and defederated them.

[–] bazpoint@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Such a great effort for Albon... easy DotD, and huge for Williams in the lower WCC battle. Hope it's a sign that the Williams upgrades are decent & we may see more of it.

Russell cracked under the pressure of trying to stay on the back of Alonso... absolutely insane that the car almost finished the race after that hit... I was surprised it finished the lap! F1 cars are made of strong stuff these days.

Max mega as ever... ominous that Newey appears to be fully invested in F1 again after a few years where he seemed to drift away.

[–] bazpoint@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Just another to confirm, I'm very much not rooted, and very much using Revanced every day

[–] bazpoint@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Long time reddit user... haven't been back since the protest started and don't feel the need to for now at least.

I'm already reasonably confident that in the near future kbin/lemmy may well be able to fulfil the 'idle browsing & keeping up with various interests' portion of my Reddit use. And that was probably 95% of my Reddit time, so that's good news.

I'm more concerned about the other 5% - the 'Reddit as a vast repository of knowledge on how to do/fix/buy/make/etc so many things'... it could take years for the federated alternatives to achieve anything like Reddit's position there, and there's a question over how easily searchable it will be. Still, hopefully it'll come with time.