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  • The thing about opossums is that they are notorious for not biting. Their defensive behaviours are hissing, running away, and playing dead.

    Anecdotally, I’ve only ever seen one piece of footage of a caught opossum biting - out of hundreds of videos - and it was because the guy was holding the opossum my the scruff and sticking his finger in its face. This is why i believe those reports that oppossums aren’t likely to hurt you, and why i said what I said earlier.



  • Hard disagree about horror films and ‘scary movies’ needing to be ‘scary’. That’s an extremely subjective measure that just starts useless arguments.

    Just like any other film, what it actually needs is good writing, good acting, and good cinematography, parts which are more concrete than whether something’s scary. The horror part is essentially just an aesthetic which a movie can sit within.

    Also, quite often the view that ‘scary movies should be scary’ just leads to directors creating films that are hard to watch, period - full of vapid jumpscares, scenes made to just gross out the audience, and often just torture fetish content. It’s a terrible metric to aspire to that generally degrades the entire genre imo.




  • JayDee@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonePoob has Cruleative Cloud for you
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    13 days ago

    This reads like someone who just isn’t willing to learn whatever new workflow the software requires. If that’s the issue, then that person will never leave their enshittified walled gardens. There is no workflow that matches or imitates the one you learned, it’s probably copyrighted, you’re best bet is to jump ship and learn a new paradigm.

    Also, have yet to run into an alternative that’s actively recommended which doesn’t at least have a windows build. LibreOffice, Krita, Blender, Darktable, GIMP, Audacity, Inkscape, and Openshot - the most common recs as alternatives to apps, all have windows as an option.


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    13 days ago

    The reply is stooping to the same level by personifying the octopi and applying human gender theory onto them, but it’s doing so specifically to show that this framing is misogynistic. It’s not as simple to clearly demonstrate this sexism if you stop personifying the octopi. Because there’s layers of misconstruance, it’s much simpler to address the layer you specifically have issue with rather than all layers at once.

    It’s not really a simple issue to handle cleanly without becoming clunky with explanations. The same communication dilemma happens with STEM trying to address misinformation.



  • To summarize:

    • capitalism always results in the accumulation of wealth in a minority of hands through monopolies and oligopolies.
    • once wealth accumulation occurs that minority will always utilize their wealth to manipulate the systems which control all our lives into their favor.
    • regulation can be used to redistribute wealth, but is always going to be dismantled eventually through propaganda, lobbying, and bribery. Once dismantled, we’re back at square one.
    • therefore, capitalism is an irrideemable system which will always reach a failure state.

    This is arguable, and honestly this exact bullet point can be made for virtually any political system, but it’s most likely what OP’s on about.