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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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whatacartouchebag

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge with wild abandon.

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riflebrass
riflebrass

I look at frying pans a little like how I look at religion.

Teflon pans remind me of leftist atheism. It's easier but if you fuck up the finish it's ruined. You gotta throw it in the trash because there's no coming back from it. It has to remain perfect because you can't fix it. It will always be broken. It will always be worthless.

Cast iron reminds me of Christianity. It takes more work to maintain. Bad choices can damage the finish. Years of neglect can really damage the condition of the pan. More judgmental users act like you have to treat it like teflon. They think if you ruin the finish you ruin the pan. Then you see videos on facebook where some skillet's been sitting out in the rain for years. It's rusted and maybe even pitted after such terrible neglect but the guy in the video lovingly goes to work. With a lot of work removing the rust, smoothing out the pitting, and building a new coating of seasoning it can still be saved. The judgmental ones would have given up on it a long time ago but with love and work we see that nobody is truly beyond redemption.

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nightbringer24
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Greg and Tim Hildebrandt (American, 20th Century), Skull Mountain (Sword of Shannara book interior), 1977
Acrylic on board, 21-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches (54.6 x 39.4 cm)

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As I am continuing my Sword of Shannara read (see my first reblog-post here) I reached the exploration of Paranor and... It is fascinating how you see here the vintage D&D-style of fantasy being created by this book.

I mean, you already had dungeon-crawl style fantasy by Conan the Barbarian and its followers, but Shannara managed to conflate traditional "dungeon exploration aesthetic" before D&D was a thing (Paranor feels so much like a vintage RPG dungeon) with the "simplificied, superficial Middle-Earth/LotR" setting that has been at the core of the Tolkien mania of the 60s and 70s - resulting in Shannara being much closer to what early D&D would end up looking like. If I didn't know better, I almost could have said this book was one of those fantasy books that clearly started out as an RPG scenario or a D&D game that was then put into novel format. But it is not, it just predicted and announced future dungeon crawling-fantasy quest RPGs.

Source: fineart.ha.com
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irishironclad
irishironclad

Anyone else find it really gross whenever there's a depiction of an all women or all men group in fiction. Be it religious or cultural - and especially if there's an explicit or implied celibacy element. People almost always come out of the woodwork to imply they're all fucking each other on the side.

No actually people can be normal.

salvrun

The internet has lost their Nuns privileges. They can get them back when they can control themselves.