Gotta disable UPNP to commit to this specific strategy …

Just as likely that red sliver at the end was the traffic created by his intentional usage of the phone all-along. Telemetry and ads are just that gross, but what do I know?

I might, but I need it to use exactly this level of context. Tell me their names or where the building is, and I’m out.

It’s always surprising to me to see her depicted as flustered like this. If the snakes aren’t also poisonous then what’s the point? Oh wait, she’s consistently taller and thicker than her guests too?

… so where’s the part where she legit has no choice but to engage and demand they look at her face? Don’t come back with some “you have to accept being turned to stone to show respect for her as a person not an object” -take either; All I see is a brat in this version.

I don’t even care about the lack of hospitality. Uninvited guests? That’s where I understand wanting to petrify, hurt, kill, intimidate or run-away from them, but again, that’s not this. This is more like … flirting.

You could say the same about US states, and you’re the first person to bring up any real flaw in OP’s post, beyond “stop stirring shit” and “learn how to right”. “low-effort shitpost” would at least be ironic.

I mean, in assigning the different outlooks to specifically Europe/America, sure, but they are far from entirely wrong, even there.

It’s more like America and its banana-republic/media-obsessed/victimized/allied/vassal lackeys versus saner parts of the world, or Rich vs Poor(which outlooks would be flipped in different areas), but beyond that and placing their post in YSK instead of somewhere more centered on conversation or argument, I still saw far more “defensive” comments than OP could bear any real blame for.

That looks about as close as I believe we should get, but I’ve passed the link along to OOP

https://piefed.zip/comment/2564830

@[email protected] explained what they want better here.

It’s amusing how much blowback you’re getting without even having stated a preference. Are people assuming the mods here or useless or just haven’t seen this or what?

People here are way too worked up about motivations they’ve assumed and won’t bother with seeing proved or disproven.

Meannwhile, if I see a post I think doesn’t fit, I figure the mods should be approving posts rather than play whack-a-mole, realize its not my problem, and move-on. As an American, I’ll go on record; The “American” outlook on the “marketplace of ideas” is stupid, precisely because the substantiation part of the sale is essentially optional to most - you can get by on pandering to niche biases as the need arises.

I think the downvotes are mostly for that last sentence. Comes across a little-bit as you saying “YOU SHOULD respect him”.

EDIT: THIS comment makes a little more sense now, but I’ve still only seen these two new accounts with a single post plus maybe a comment each, so far. Hardly enough to skip to a “social experiment” conclusion.

Apologies if I’ve said something to confuse you, but I’m not even a “dev”, let alone a lemme dev. I’m just old, for a millenial.

That said, you could try something like:

I thought you were aiming for screen take-over, to be honest. That or DRM, where you prevent downloads and/or screen-shots. Now you’ve got me wondering if we could hack a solution together with the existing Lemmy markup, but I doubt it.

I hope you’re right, but I said what I said because I’m not getting my hopes-up for the future on that specific score.

That’s the nicest thing I’ve ever heard about his signature, and those logos deserve better.

The BEST weekend, some would say.

. . . are you trying to re-invent the GIF/PNG or video-file?

Basically, what I’m getting at, is that most social-media(particularly facebook, tumblr, twitter, tiktok) do “slideshows” as video. Web-pages can do whatever-you-want by comparison, but that’s not what you asked about(can we do frames on Lemmy, pretty-please? /s), so: Powerpoint can export directly to video, Google Slides will export to PNG, and LibreOffice … well … you’ll need OBS or some other screen-recorder for video, but also, it’ll export to GIF. Same goes for album software, like Windows Photo or digiKam. Even the Gallery app that came with my phone will do it, although surprisingly, Google Photos on Android either won’t do it or is just too obtuse for me to figure it out just now.

Also, you seem to be unaware that albums can be accomplished by embedding multiple photos in the post content. You can throw a slideshow video in as your header, then put the pics that made it in the post body

(^^this part^^).

Sorry, but I don’t want you or anyone putting an album where I have no choice but to see the whole thing clogging-up my feed - even on tumblr, long posts start collapsed to a small chunk with a “See More” fold. I quite like how its done here, with a tap on a thumbnail, then a tap on the [+] for the rest.

As for how we got here … blame ActiveX and flash-embedded malware. I’m still salty at the prevalence of JavaScript in their stead.

IMHO, presentation software should have become little more than a specialized HTML/CSS, Video, or -yes-even-Album-editor long-ago. Its continued existance as-is just leads to idiots who think their presentation skills make them the second-coming, and questions like yours.

To be clear, I appreciate you asking this. Your question isn’t in any way stupid or bothersome. I had not bothered to spell-out or organize my thoughts on the matter in … maybe ever. Can’t wait to find out I’ve basically plagarized some post or comment I read forever-ago.

The number of leaders among reservists, guardsmen and organizations like the VFW or American Legion who would fight for the opportunity to “relieve” active-duty units of the “burden” of helping with such events will probably be more bothersome to manage than whatever “lack of resources” shits-geth is expecting to inflict.

It wasn’t enough to try and fail to get the Marines and Army to destroy our most populous cities, to the point they “had-to” allow swastika tattoos in the Coastguard and literally bribe people(to an absurd degree) into ICE, now they’re going after the civilian institutions that helped swell the military’s ranks for decades.

It’s like they’re trying to train new leopards to bite thier own faces off, but like “when you behead me, a real man would do it with the backside of a Bowie-knife.” Real clown-car antics from people that won’t even have a friend to drive the car, let alone people to fill it, when their bullshit’s all played-out.

Doing something about it is probably how they made it onto the shit-list.

“Friend, I’ll be honest, I don’t want to bother you with this meta-awkwardness either, but its reached the point where I need you to either stab me, forgive me, or agree its just too awkward not to share, if I am ever to sleep again.”