Cracks_InTheWalls

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[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's also used for anonymous communication where there's significant privacy concerns. There's several news organizations that have a dark web presence for sources to share sensitive information/stuff they could be persecuted for.

But yeah, there's a lot of that other stuff going on as well.

Yep, the term they were looking for is clear web.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just a general reminder to people that college stations still exist, blow most other stations out of the water if you want a better variety of music, and the one closest to you would love your support. And lots of them would also love volunteers from the community!

Flirty answer followed by real answer if actually pressed. It's not like it's something you reasonably have control over anyway (I don't consider lengthening surgery reasonable, though more power to anyone that does, it ain't my body), outside of maybe some small gains if losing weight in your pelvis area or improving your general cardiovascular health.

Not gonna come out here and say size is totally irrelevant, but there's lots of ways to have great sex without going around bruising women's cervixes.

LOL. LMAO, even.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hell, I BARELY dress for myself, let alone others.

The two deciding factors are "Does this protect me from public indecency laws" and "Am I warm/cool enough in this". Anything goes so long as it meets this criteria.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was sailing the North Atlantic and being black out drunk while ashore.

🎵A sailor's still a sailor, just like he was before.🎵

Eating mushrooms with the homies in the woods instead of going to prom. Zero regrets, would do it again.

I think my article got about 200 views before someone bought it? Took a couple weeks before someone bit, and it was competitively priced at the time. This was years ago though.

Site was https://www.constant-content.com/ if you want to look into it further.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gonna echo the other folks here - heroism does not require perfection. Everyone you can think of as a hero has a flaw (or several), big or small.

The upside to this is that heroism is accessible to almost everyone. Any opportunity you have to do the right, but difficult (and tbh sometimes not all that difficult, perhaps just uncomfortable or risky), thing is the chance to be a hero to someone in some respect. The downside is that people you may admire as heroes, when you meet them as just people, can sometimes be disappointing.

The only flawless heroes are superheros (and even then, few are written about like that these days). Think about that prefix- how are the terms superhero and supernatural alike?

Radio Garden is cool as fuck. Also gonna plug Campus FM.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I made $25 once on a content mill website, and there's some folks who've made a decent income churning out such stuff. But given the current climate with AI I don't know that this is a great option anymore.

Honestly, the best thing to do is look at your current skillset and see what opportunities fit. Most of the stuff where you make real money, unfortunately, will involve some calls and meetings.

As an aside, it's also not a huge pot of money, but UI testing on Testbirds can have higher-than-average payouts than your usual micro-gig website stuff. It all varies though, and you can't necessarily bank on what jobs come down the pipe for your consideration.

 

I've been sitting on this question for a while, but got inspired to post by the Wikipedia question.

I. Love. Web 1.0 shit. I think a decent chunk of us using Lemmy do. Do you have any Wayback links you want to share? Bonus points if you have a story with them (mine, due to length and meandering, are in spoiler tags as an act of mercy).

A couple of mine:

This article from 1997..

StorySeveral years ago, my wife and I were looking at places to move. One house we looked at was peculiar. There were bars on the basement windows (very rare here), big bookcases along every wall of the basement, and some weird fixtures that looked like they once housed electrical equipment. We passed on the place, but I got intensely curious about the former owner and started digging.

It turns out it was the home of Fred Ennis, a journalist and former Parliament Hill Bureau Chief. He created nepean.com as, in his words, "the first Internet community newspaper, with all the news but none of the paper". He covered local events and goings on, and worked with columnists including one Don Nox, who wrote the linked article. Don's quote here has stuck with me for a while:

Society is a very perverse device. If you stand in front of it and call it a stupid excuse for a machine, and a designer's bad dream, it will suck you into it's beater and turn you into dust and moldy straw. All anyone will ever remember is that you were weird. On the other hand, if you position yourself carefully and strategically off to one side and call it these very same names, it will shower you with candy, and sometimes loose change and small denomination bills. People in this position are called eccentrics. Now you know the difference.

Next, the homepage for The Church of the Universe, circa 2002

Story (spoiler tag removed due to formatting weirdness, mercy suspended)

To this day, there is nothing I find more interesting from a distance than new religious movements, and the early web was lousy with pages for them.

I came across this one while looking for backissues of Cannabis Culture, a once renowned underground publication out of Vancouver, BC, lead by activist-cum-political prisoner and libertarian weirdo Marc Emery. He's an interesting character himself, but not the focus today.

While it seems you can only get physical backissues of CC from Ebay these days, they still host articles from way back, and these two from 1994 caught my attention. Checked out the organization's website, and oh boy - if you like web 1.0 design and content quirks, you're in for a treat. It's a fascinating look at a group from a time when cannabis activism was filled with freaks and weirdos (said lovingly) - kind of miss those times v. the more corporatized cannabis 'culture' post-legalization.

Have a few more in mind if I can dig them up, but I'm curious what people end up sharing here!

Edit: Apparently I suck at spoiler tags.

 

So I'm going to a Canadian festival roughly modeled after Burning Man alone this week. I've never gone to something like this before, but expect to have a weird time (hopefully in a good sense).

Have you ever gone to something kinda like this (BM itself, a regional burn, outdoor multi-day music festival with that kind of vibe)? I'd love to hear people's stories/hard-earned wisdom.

Edit: It was the coolest thing I have ever experienced, and I now understand why people had a hard time picking out one specific story in this thread :)

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