Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:05 AM

Ewww DVI

DVI is obsolete. Everything should be on DP or HDMI

ADHD Cat

12:41 AM

@JourneymanGeek Or TB3 or USB-C

Though I do still have a VGA monitor that I usually run off a DVI-I port, I may eventually have to switch to using purely a USB VGA adapter

Journeyman Geek

Yup

I have HDMI to VGA somewhere

ADHD Cat

@JourneymanGeek Ewwww

At least DVI-I has native VGA, HDMI to VGA requires active conversion

(And AFAIK DisplayPort, being an open standard, has an alternate mode for just about everything, including HDMI, VGA, and Ethernet)

Or I might be thinking USB-C

bwDraco

Is there a technical reason you need DVI?

Journeyman Geek

1:38 AM

VGA is kinda dead too

bwDraco

1:54 AM

My biggest gripe with DVI is that the connector is huge.

These days, HDMI is the "universal" display connector, with DisplayPort for more advanced PC displays.

DisplayPort is the preferred interface for high-end graphics cards; my GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has one HDMI connector and one DVI-D connector, but three DisplayPort jacks. (Although that's five connectors, only four displays can be connected at a time.)

Funnily enough, my cheapie Acer 21.5" IPS monitor has VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI, and came with cables for all three. (IIRC my Dell S2417DG only came with a DisplayPort cable despite also having an HDMI port.)

Journeyman Geek

2:15 AM

@bwDraco in theory it's dp for PCs, HDMI for av

bwDraco

4:23 AM

!!/tumbleweed

ChatBot John Cavil

LWChris

5:27 AM

Hello, is someone here who can help me to figure out the right command line options for ffmpeg

I basically need to remove the first frame from an mp4 file. Doesn't matter if it re-encodes afterwards

I am suffering from this problem: github.com/googlesamples/android-Camera2Video/issues/24

Basically a bug in Android that causes the first frame to be 3.5 hours long in my case

Now I found a question that seems to have use filter to select frames: superuser.com/questions/881049/…

but I don't understand the given filter, and I can't find the syntax description even in the -h full output

LWChris

5:46 AM

I used -vf select='gt(n\,1)' now

Journeyman Geek

@LWChris I actually think that's fine as a question for the site

as long as you've shown what you've tried

There's a handful of people who are really good at FFMPEG on there and well, we super vaguely discourage people from asking questions here since the site gets more eyeballs and is useful for more people

LWChris

Well, the problem is, what I have tried is using the filter. It's been re-encoding (I think?) my 11s video for 10 minutes, doubling the file size so far ^^

Journeyman Geek

0_0

LWChris

I hope it's not producing a 3.5 hour video now x)

But yeah, I'll ask the question

LWChris

6:18 AM

Holy moly, I made it!

-vf select='gt(n\,1)',setpts=N/FRAME_RATE/TB -r 30

I don't know what exactly the frame rate has to do with it, but now the conversion runs about as long as the video is, the file size shrinks enormously and it works

idk why, but the source file also had 10211 kBit/s, with the frame rate limitation, it goes back to 1486 kBit/s

Journeyman Geek

6:43 AM

\o/

Guess we can thank the rubber duck?

(which ironically, is an awesome use for chat XD)

LWChris

Yeah, and the site

Funnily enough I noticed I don't even need to crop the first frame

Journeyman Geek

oh

Ya, typing out a question sometimes helps too ;p

But that's kinda rubber ducking too

LWChris

.\ffmpeg.exe -i "broken.mp4" -vf setpts=N/FRAME_RATE/TB "fixed.mp4" did the whole trick for me. Although I have no idea what setting the presentation timestamps does... but some related question had the setpts option, I tried it, it worked, then I tried removing the other option, and it still worked, so I'll go with that, now ^^

GDPR

8:01 AM

Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, and the Cult of Silicon Valley

►

ow. A dream isn't the same thing as actually being able to do it

Hakase

8:24 AM

@LWChris you might be able to just edit the number for the duration of that first frame without doing any re-encoding whatsoever

but idk if video formats have like a chunks checksum protection builtin so… maybe recalculate that hash and replace it also? :p

it sounds like you're re-encoding the rest of the video also

djsmiley2k

@LWChris make sure you post and self answer, it may help other people in the future

djsmiley2k

9:10 AM

> #ra:roota.cc is not accessible at this time.

:O

GDPR

@djsmiley2k eh?

Journeyman Geek

is the channel name correct?

I'm on it now

djsmiley2k

well the site disconnected when the laptop was asleep

normally refreshing works, but not now

GDPR

works for me

djsmiley2k

weird

/me kicks it

GDPR

9:19 AM

don't kick my server

djsmiley2k

I'M ON THE matrix server :P

Journeyman Geek

oh

djsmiley2k

maybe i should just connect to yours? :D

Journeyman Geek

kick that all you want ;)

djsmiley2k

cept I'm actually dumb and don't know how :D

GDPR

9:22 AM

@djsmiley2k github.com/RootAccessOrg/rootaccess-matrix/wiki/…

you'll need to log out and register a new account per that guide

djsmiley2k

ah, ty

yup

is it planned to let you use accounts from other servers, at some point ?

GDPR

well accounts across servers do already interoperate using the identity provider, but there is something to do with security that doesn't make sense to be able to login to another server than the one you registered on

djsmiley2k

hmmm, i need to log out.

Journeyman Geek

in theory we should/could have people either on roota.cc or personal servers as much as possible ;p

GDPR

but yeah, the matrix.org homeserver is (1) overloaded and (2) comprised of a round robin of a bunch of different hosts, all of which are pretty overloaded, poorly optimized, and you probably connected to a random far away country like The Moon or Neptune

Journeyman Geek

9:25 AM

@GDPR If I can get the irc bridge up, are you ok with that being connected to the alt-ra?

djsmiley2k

lol

GDPR

@JourneymanGeek absolutely

Journeyman Geek

@GDPR I think its a single, massively overloaded server

djsmiley2k

i can't log out xD

GDPR

@JourneymanGeek nah, I checked netstat when I was federating matrix.org, and it was dozens of hosts

djsmiley2k

9:26 AM

> #ra:roota.cc is not accessible at this time.

whoops

> Name: riot.im
Addresses: 2400:cb00:2048:1::6819:2469
2400:cb00:2048:1::6819:2369
104.25.36.105
104.25.35.105

at least 2 ;D

GDPR

@djsmiley2k you can; worst case destroy your cookies for riot.im, but you should be able to log out either way

@djsmiley2k that's not the homeserver

djsmiley2k

ah ok

huuu yeah, but i'd like to log out normally

Journeyman Geek

you can run your own riot instances too

I might do that soon

GDPR

riot is just the GUI, basically, it is neither the client nor the server in the matrix protocol

Journeyman Geek

erm

djsmiley2k

9:27 AM

ah ha found it.

cept i don't know where it is?

Journeyman Geek

Riot is a client

GDPR

I like using the Riot desktop and mobile apps - I've gotten away from using the web app

Journeyman Geek

@GDPR ditto

GDPR

@djsmiley2k it's under settings

djsmiley2k

yeah, riot.im seems to having some issues

i just have a white page

GDPR

9:29 AM

try the desktop app or mobile app for now

even though the desktop app is basically the web app in a custom chromium browser from what I can tell (maybe electron or something)

Journeyman Geek

The webapp is pure JS

GDPR

I love how the older generation is always like "why do I need 2 copies of X on my machine?" when they get distributions and realize that "eclipse for X" is duplicating files with "eclipse for Y", or Atom shares most of the same code with Chrome

Journeyman Geek

you can literally just shove it in a folder, point a subdomain on it, and it works

GDPR

"Why do I need 8 copies of Chrome?" -older person

"Why do you care?" -me

back then (tm), disk space was hard to come by :P

djsmiley2k

i leave the vector identity url default?

GDPR

9:31 AM

yes

djsmiley2k

most older people are running machines from 1999...

and so have 2Gb hdds ;)

Journeyman Geek

hah

My dad's is from 2007

djsmiley2k

1Tb?

maye 250Gb

Journeyman Geek

120gb SSD :)

Upgraded

djsmiley2k

maybe less

yah

Journeyman Geek

9:33 AM

30gb stock IIRC

djsmiley2k

that's why people care :)

it's all too easy to forget we aren't average users.

Journeyman Geek

also

Nvidia..

and as a power user I just fire up windirstat and see where the space went

and I accidentally deleted my desktop

oops

(I have backups)

Bob

@GDPR Because it eats my RAM -- me

Chrome/Electron is like "ooh, available RAM? om nom nom nom"

djsmiley2k

9:54 AM

it said it sent me a text, nothing has come :/

Journeyman Geek

what did?

djsmiley2k

riot.im

/me tries the link anyway

spinning thing atm lol

jokerdino

hi

djsmiley2k

o/

djsmiley2k

10:15 AM

IPS, why you so weird?

Journeyman Geek

10:41 AM

lol

what is it this time?

djsmiley2k

oh all of it

GDPR

-8

Q: Why do people persist in complaining about the code of conduct set for this network?

TL;DR: With so many platforms that provide chat rooms for people that can be made private, why do people persist in complaining about the code of conduct set for this network? This post is for anyone using or interested in using these sites. Whether they actively participate or passively sear...

I really like that question because it invited me (and Geek before me) to express ideas about our theories of how our room, here and in Matrix, works and should work.

it was nothing if not thought-provoking

thoughts?

or do we have to take our thoughts to Matrix? LOL

Journeyman Geek

what's MP and IO?

ahh ok

GDPR

see legend ;p

Journeyman Geek

@GDPR also, I think all our spaces arn't tech broish

I'd love to think we're inclusive by default if you have similar interests

the thing with PII is really some stuff shouldn't or can't be default public

GDPR

10:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek see my meta comment and Matrix comment - not going to say it a third time here :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

djsmiley2k

I think of it is like:

You can be inclusive, and accept some people will get offended at some things

or you can be exclusive, and only have what you know won't offend

You don't get both.

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k oh I believe as a community, we gotta be SE rule 0 compliant - don't be a dick.

djsmiley2k

Oh yah

Which is some where in between

Journeyman Geek

Even then, I'm a firm believer in chat moderation being long term

djsmiley2k

11:00 AM

but SE seems to want to be fully inclusive, and never offensive

Which is impossible

Journeyman Geek

I'm going to have an easier time talking to you guys cause you guys know me

and you'd be happier to listen to what I had to say than another mod, or CM you don't know cause you guys trust me.

(cause I've literally kicked people out of the room, and gone trust me so...) ;p

and we have a social contract with each other as much as a code of conduct for most part

djsmiley2k

yup

ToxicFrog

11:43 AM

@djsmiley2k I mean, functionally, those are both exclusive; the question is just who you want to exclude.

djsmiley2k

12:07 PM

sigh

it's fathers day, i should bve having fun right?

wife has fallen asleep on the sofa

daughter just split lego everywhere in my office

ToxicFrog

:(

djsmiley2k

12:24 PM

At Least One Dead And More Than 20 Injured In Shooting At US Festival

Thoughts and prayers yeah.

Ave

2:54 PM

...rms was right.

2

I tried emacs and I love it.

bwDraco

3:13 PM

So... anything of note happening in Turkey?

Ave

elections in 8 days, USD is back up to 4.75 from 4.5

bwDraco

Thanks.

It looks like all this censorship nonsense is due to the government fearing the people after an attempted coup.

Ave

censorship was happening since forever

bwDraco

Any idea why the Turkish government seems to have developed a profoud fear of its people since 2011?

Ave

If I recall correctly, we had YouTube blocked until 2007 or so.

bwDraco

3:20 PM

Censorship typically happens when a government sees its own people as enemies.

Ave

rsf.org/en/news/…

@bwDraco typically, yes

but some censorship is due to laws

Turkish internet law (5651) bans content that 1) drives people to suicide 2) includes/is child sexual abuse 3) makes it easier to use drugs 4) helps obtaining stuff that have health risks 5) is lewd 6) is prostitution 7) provides place and ability to gamble 8) insults Ataturk

@bwDraco not 2011, but read wikiwand.com/en/Gezi_Park_protests

djsmiley2k

4:51 PM

I think I'm going to have to summerise IPS as 'I make X to be a big thing, how do I deal with people reacting to me making something a big thing?' xD

91

Q: How can I handle my father challenging everything I say?

I live with my parents. My father likes to challenge nearly everything I say, up to the point of ridiculousness. I can prove many of the things he challenges but not immediately. In most cases his disagreements with my comments are off-topic. They seem to stem from a psychological need to be righ...

conflicts parents netherlands argument asperger

like this

the person seems to not realise they are doing almost exactly what the person they are interacting with, and getting annoyed at, is doing.

DavidPostill

5:06 PM

@djsmiley2k That doesn't make it a bad question. It's always harder to recognise behaviour within yourself that is easy to spot in others. Most people don't like looking in the mirror as it shows you warts and all ;)

What annoys me is the number of HNQs on IPS which starves other more deserving sites of attention ...

ToxicFrog

HNQs?

DavidPostill

@ToxicFrog stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot

Hot Network Questions

Ave

5:33 PM

@DavidPostill IPS is hell

djsmiley2k

6:57 PM

lul

bertieb

7:32 PM

!!s/IPS/War/

ChatBot John Cavil

@bertieb @DavidPostill War is hell (source)

bertieb

agh sorry for the ping DP

forgot it includes the repl[y][ies]

djsmiley2k

not doing it but s/ is hell/, it never changes

;)

twitch.tv/djsmiley2k -- send help xD

djsmiley2k

8:13 PM

whoops

ADHD Cat

8:30 PM

@djsmiley2k Tbh, they both have mental disorders that are most likely caused by the way the former treating the latter. This isn't an issue of IPS, it's an issue of both of them need psychotherapy. Serious, intensive psychotherapy. Or just get out of the situation (easier said than done for some people).

Source: Spent the last five years trying to seek treatment for exactly this mental disorder caused by my parents being abusive in exactly that manner.

Problem? She's 25. The older you get the harder it becomes to reverse the neurological hardwiring caused by ~~parental abuse~~ inappropriate parental feedback. You can get lasting and successful treatment up to maybe about the age of 19. After that 'yer fucked'

Problem is, these maladaptive behaviours are the result of conflict between our genetic evolution and the huge, sudden change in lifestyle caused by modern society, so ultimately, everyone is broken because we haven't, and are incapable of evolving to deal with that sort of societal change.

Hakase

otg adapter arrived

ADHD Cat

Anyway, doing the psychologist version of IANAL, I did study psychology at university for a few years and spent a lot of time since then also studying exactly these sorts of issues because they be fucking up every moment of my life. Unfortunately the conclusion I've come to is, since we're all fucked, the best treatment is suicide. And that's half of why I'm "depressed".

Hakase

turns out you can just plug in ds4 and it just works

imma test it by playing pubg as soon as it downloads

djsmiley2k

@ADHDCat yah

@ADHDCat well that's a rubbish solution. I went with 'If I quit, it wins. I don't like losing, so I ain't gonna quit.'

Hakase

what did I barge into

ADHD Cat

8:45 PM

@djsmiley2k There's no winning when human society, genetics, and brain structure are all irreparably unalterably dissonant and there's like maybe 3 people on the planet with the right mindset to actually successfully drive positive change.

djsmiley2k

minimalise your worldview.

I don't give a damn about 99.9999% of the world, and that's likely still not enough 9's

ADHD Cat

@djsmiley2k To be fair, if she's intelligent enough to have posted this on a SE QA site, she may have the mental capacity required to override the broken subconscious miswiring with conscious reasoning and adaptations. But that requires going down a long windy path that apparently she's not aware of the existence of yet.

@djsmiley2k This is why I ~~use~~ abuse drugs on a daily basis.

Pharmacologically shrink my worldview into "this room and nothing beyond what's in it"

djsmiley2k

That's one way

I realised I could override my brain when very young.

Kind of 'forgot' in my teens, had a bad time

eventually found the switch again with mindfulness and the right drugs.

ADHD Cat

There's an alternative school of thought in psychology that depression in intelligent people isn't depression, it's the realistic, accurate, intelectual recognition that, put bluntly, everything is fucked and you can't do anything about it

djsmiley2k

I'd be happy with that diagnosis for me.

Also it's 'you were treated like crap for 15 years, and no one actually helped.'

ADHD Cat

8:50 PM

Because in actual, traditional psychology, it's widely recognised that in order to function in modern society, one has to be actually delusional and, put bluntly, too stupid to realise how stupid they are.

Hakase

a bunch of people with happy avatars, not quite as happy behind them lol

djsmiley2k

Then it goes on to 'The fact you've not turned into a raving loony, or a mindless killing machine, is some kind of merit to the strength of your mind'

ADHD Cat

@djsmiley2k In my case it's mostly because I dinnae like da police

djsmiley2k

The police?

lol, to see a member of the police around here would be a shock

Hakase

so what problem are we having folks

ADHD Cat

8:52 PM

I'm physically small, anxiety prone, unable to rapidly analyze or make quick decisions, and therefore rather disadvantaged in terms of running away when the police turn up. That's pretty much literally the only reason I've not turned into a raving loony mindless killing machine.

djsmiley2k

.... wtf

1

Q: KillMeNowExcel in Title of Excel Workbook

Occasionally, one user's Excel spreadsheet will have '- KillMeNowExcel' instead of the standard '- Excel' in the title. This is on an HP Laptop running Windows 7 64-bit with Office 2013. Any idea why this is happening?

windows microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2013

ADHD Cat

@djsmiley2k Remind me where that is again?

djsmiley2k

I'm 6'2, anxiety prone, constantly overanaylising the situation and all the possible outcomes to the point that often, I'll talk to someone and have the whole convo planned out in various ways before they have even started talking.

Coventry

ADHD Cat

If only there was a way of PM'ing or discussing personal issues in a private manner or off-site. Oh wait.... :-D

djsmiley2k

at times there is 4 police officers for the whole city.

However, I don't see why you concider the police to be a problem either way lol

Oh, you fear being captured?

meh

I've explained how a good terrorist cell would operate many times

Hakase

8:54 PM

@djsmiley2k therapists must love you

you pay them so they'd listen to you for a long time

djsmiley2k

the fact being it's getting easier and easier for something like this to come to fruition is kinda worrying.

@Hakase the funniest part is I knowi teh causes of all this

Hakase

(never had a visit, don't know how it works, but I made this joke a couple times before)

ADHD Cat

djsmiley2k

I know one way I'd feel better about it

however, I wouldn't like the outcome of that xD

ADHD Cat

@djsmiley2k Yeah being a raving loony or a mindless killing machine generally results in you ending up in jail.

djsmiley2k

8:55 PM

@Hakase I talked to one for awhile, she was hot :/

@ADHDCat yeah, and that doesn't sound fun

I mean in school, I basically operated as a psychopath

ADHD Cat

@djsmiley2k How old are you BTW?

djsmiley2k

in the way that I could have fights with people

Hakase

@djsmiley2k well, maybe get a neutral-looking one to avoid distractions

djsmiley2k

yet the teachers thought I was the good kid (I was the good kid) - they never expected anything bad was ever anything to do with me

even when they found me standing there, with a door with a smashed window, it was 'how did that happen? you found it like this?'

@ADHDCat thirty errr

damn I've forgotten

thirty 4

34

I also had the fun of delusions of grandeur for awhile.

ADHD Cat

I'm literally what used to be referred to as a psychopath and a sociopath, problem is, nobody bothers researching effective treatments for psychopaths because most psychopaths either don't know they are one, or don't want to be treated. I think only about 2% actually actively seek treatment, only to find, it basically doesn't exist.

Therefore, back to the everything is fucked and you can't do anything about it

Did you know psychopathic and sociopathic traits are actually more common among high ranking CEOs and politicians than the prison population?

djsmiley2k

8:59 PM

So what traits do you effectively have?

Find where they are best used to your advantage, and abuse the fact 99% of people are idiots

ADHD Cat

@djsmiley2k I'll explain on Matrix later

djsmiley2k

Enjoy things.

Sure, I'll catch up tomorrow as about to go to bed, to sleep, per chance to dream.

ADHD Cat

1 min ago, by ADHD Cat

Did you know psychopathic and sociopathic traits are actually more common among high ranking CEOs and politicians than the prison population?

Donald Trump.

djsmiley2k

Indeed

So... go become PoTUS, and don't forget me :)

DavidPostill

@ADHDCat 0_0 Citation needed.

ADHD Cat

9:03 PM

The fact that society actively reinforces and elevates the psychopathic and sociopathic traits and pushes those people into power again brings us back to everything is fucked and you can't do anything about it

Hakase

perception, everyone

these things are only bad if that's how you choose to see them

or if you brain chooses for you

then drugs :p

ADHD Cat

@Hakase what's your IQ?

Hakase

I have it written on the back of my router and it's too far away to reach

bertieb

@DavidPostill I don't have a citation for CEO > prison, but business elader > general population psycho/sociopathy is quite broadly understood

@ADHDCat I think that might be backwards- people get into positions of power because they have traits which are beneficial to getting to positions of power

(despite societal constructs which say, broadly, it's not okay to screw someone over)

Though it's easy to see the converse too, I'll admit

ADHD Cat

this isn't the actual source I read about it on but the closest I could find using my phone while on the toilet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/psychopaths-ceos-study-statistics-one-in-five-psychopathic-traits-a7251251.html

Hakase

9:15 PM

@ADHDCat I think I'm IQ67 up to 1 meter of water resistant under 2 minutes

anyway guys if your therapist isn't working for you, remember they're not all equal and you might have much better (or much worse) luck with another one, so keep trying until you figure out yourself and your problems

something something if you keep working on it it'll work out, but if you don't, it won't

ADHD Cat

@Hakase there's a major systematic problem with the mental health system in the NHS which basically means I've given up trying to seek treatment there. Instead, I'm trying to wrangle enough money to look at more appropriate private therapists.

Hakase

I'm in russia so I've been on my own my entire life in that regard

our way of treatment here is vegetalizing sedatives with high chance of permanent brain damage, so haha yea no way jose

ADHD Cat

It literally took a year of referrals and assessments for them to say "yeah you probably have <insert class of disorders I said I had> but you'll need to see a specialist psychologist for a firm diagnosis.". Then after another year on a waiting list for a psychologist I got "Yeah probably, but we can't treat you right now."

Hakase

I wouldn't know how to look for good therapists, but I imagine relevant subreddits can't be worse than nothing

ADHD Cat

I don't reddit

Hakase

9:21 PM

well, it's never too late to learn how to google "<query> site:reddit.com" :p

that's basically the extent to which I reddit

DavidPostill

> According to Dutton, the ten careers that have the highest proportion of psychopaths are:

CEO
Lawyer
Media (TV/radio)
Salesperson
Surgeon
Journalist
Police officer
Clergy
Chef
Civil servant

Clergy!?

Hakase

I wonder what the baseline for non-psychopath people was

yea the church takes in weirdos under their wing and cares for them

ADHD Cat

I don't reddit for the same reason I don't twitter or Instagram, and the same reason it took me 6 years before I made my first Facebook post.

Some sort of subconscious aversion or ludditism aka I don't want to.

DavidPostill

Psychopathy in the workplace

The presence of psychopathy in the workplace, although psychopaths typically represent a relatively small percentage of the staff, can do enormous damage when in senior management roles. Psychopaths are usually most common at higher levels of corporate organizations and their actions often cause a ripple effect throughout an organization, setting the tone for an entire corporate culture. Examples of detrimental effects are increased bullying, conflict, stress, staff turnover and absenteeism; reduction in productivity and in social responsibility. Ethical standards of entire organisations can be...

Hakase

well, reddit is an aggregator of everything else, so it's the best source of content and opinions out there, at least in my experience so far

I'd be amused if you mentioned imgur

facebook, instagram, twitter and imgur don't provide enough space to voice your opinion

there's a stupid low character limit and discussion view is horrible

also, reddit's new design made a leap towards that awfulness so use old.reddit.com whenever you can to restore the old design's goodness

I'm interested in seeing how this progresses and how people who don't know about custom site styles and RES will react over time

what new site will attract people who want to have lengthy discussions and not see 1.8 posts on a fullhd display

bertieb

9:27 PM

Old-style Slashdot, you say

Hakase

maybe, but I need dat treeview comment section layout, not just linear like chat here

bertieb

/. has had threads for decades

Hakase

oh maybe I was thinking of some other site like ycombinator or something

bertieb

He said, I think-fully

Hakase

have you guys heard about imzy?

well, it's dead :p

bertieb

9:28 PM

Ah yes that's the new urban grimecore DJ, right?

Hakase

uhh it was supposed to be some "nicer" alternative to reddit

but it looked more like imgur with its layout

its thing was supposed to be the ability to pay the users for their posts by effectively "patreoning" them periodically for a set sum

something happened, it didn't fly

and the domain is now used by some company which owns different sites themed for different topics and products which have different domain names, but all share that imzy design template

imzy.com mighty networks it says

mightynetworks.com

> where creators can build a community and get paid

:/

idk where the paying aspect comes in but from what I've just seen on some of their sites, there's not much content and all topics are boring and have too few interesting comments

with how bad it looks it might be manually filled out by some fake user account handlers to create an illusion of some active users base on these sites

eh

if reddit dies, idk where I'll go

tempted to say "nowhere probably" but I know myself :p

and just something to think about

lately I catch myself thinking: "why am I obsessing over something that has no impact on my life?" and I close some tabs and feel better for a while :p

ADHD Cat

9:54 PM

@DavidPostill Priests and sex scandals anyone?

Hakase

well yea but that's not psychopathy, that's pedophilia and molestation

idk how well they hush things up in the church but I imagine it must take some amount of intelligence to keep it under the wraps for so long

but who knows

Michael Frank

> Psychopathy, sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy, is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.

I'd say child abusers fall under at least one of those traits.

Hakase

anyway, I find that reading a bunch of askreddit threads where people list the ways they're unsuccessful or depressed or sad or unhappy about things in life helps me realize that first of all I'm not alone with my own experiences and feelings, and also I could gather info on how other people deal with it and figure out my own ways, or just realize I don't have it as bad as I thought, and it calms me down

ADHD Cat

@Hakase No, those are crimes committed by people with... guess what sorts of mental traits...

Hakase

well, I'm not a real doctor, it's just a username, so please forgive my ignorance :p

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