Cheers for the response. :)

Opened the issue on Lemmy’s github.

Since this post, i found out Sync for Lemmy has a very similar feature. It looks like what i envisioned, but i don’t know how well it works, i’ve only had time for a quick look.

No llm, just trying to explain the idea by giving as full a description as i can because I don’t have the technical lingo to describe it in a more concise way.

Ah fuck! I forgot to consider how many instances there are! I love this shit!

Okay toss that simple solution out the window.

Its an organisation problem. We could organise the instances into smaller thematic groupings, ie

• place based
• science based
• vegan
• communist
• no theme? For a group including ones like Lemmy.world.

Then, maybe the sub-lists might become more manageable.

I suppose a search function, or a favourites button could be added to help with looking up particular instances quicker multiple times.

Oh right! Then yeah, i like that idea, i noticed its already an option for gifs.

Yeah, i’s leaning towards a feature in the settings as the better option.

I had a look for something like that in the settings, but i didn’t notice one. Did i miss it?

Judging by your username, the video was part of your update last week? Cool update, hadn’t considered videos in the feed as an option Jerboa could have. Cheers. :)

I’m going to give you an argument describing why i think you’re correct but also why you’re getting pushback. I’m basing this off the greek discursive appeal structures i’ve been reading about lately, because its fun to try to apply them here.

Firstly, if people say its a great ‘scientific study’ where you hear it, correct them. Its sad but thats often all we can reasonably do. If they refer to it as a great study in humanity, then maybe it is. After all Supersize Me was about the mostly unconsidered and wildly successful upselling technique that had passed into the culture of the time. So, what does that say about us?

Pathos

Supersize Me is an exercise mostly based on an appeal to Pathos. An argument based around an emotional appeal.

My stab at the key emotional switch employed would be turning the blasé attitude around the then common, comfortable upselling practice “would you like that supersized?”, to a feeling of angst when those words are spoken. I think Supersize Me was largely successful in that appeal.

Emotional switch: Blasé->Angst.

I found Michael Moore’s documentary styles also relied heavily on Pathos. So maybe the style was de rigeur at the time.

The big question is, did these documentary makers pass from persuasion into manipulation? This is the same as the question your asking when refering to his undisclosed alcoholism during filming. Which is why i think you’re argument that the documentary wasn’t fairly done is right. Theres a manipulation at its heart.

But that doesn’t defeat the very real effects that emotional switch from blasé->angst about the practice had.

So a successful but manipulative documentary?

Logos

The argument i read in your comments assumes the documentary should primarily appeal to logos. Or a persuasion tactic based in logic. No controlled experiments for example.

While there are probably plenty of examples of this throughout the documentary, I wouldn’t say this is the primary appeal he relies on.

The obvious conclusions of the poor diet is a good example of an appeal to logos. But not very persuasive on its own, because no one needed to watch it to draw the conclusion that poor diets equal poor health. At least most didn’t.

Another thought,

Its a documentary, its not necessarily an exercise in absolute honesty. Few documentaries can claim such an authoritative place.

I think its maybe why Louis Theroux has belatedly become so highly respected. Not because he was authoritative in the beginning, but so much of what he presented has since been borne out. Maybe his documentary series matched the changing realisations of the times, so have had a kind of Kairos?

Oh wow! I read Little Kiwi’s Matariki to my whanau all the time, but had no idea how to find it in the sky. When the clouds go, i’ll have another look!

But, is the beard long enough??

Yeah, but they need to be sneakier as they steal away through the grocery store doors. Those doors are a funnel for awkward moments.

What i hate is when someone gets offended i don’t initially recognise them when they’ve got half their face covered.

Take the fucken glasses off and say hi properly you awkward ass bastards! I got shit to do, and i don’t need to feel bad for the next half hour because you made me squint to recognise who the fuck you are!

Interesting, i’d have thought housing/cost of living would’ve been on a list like that. I thought it was a fairly big issue going into the Canadian election?

So no Jewish peoples lived there before the State of Israel you reckon?.. hmm

Leaving the above aside, because its a dead end for both of us. The removal of any peoples, just like Israel is trying to do to the Palestinians now, won’t lead to a peaceful future.

Take it from a person whose a product of colonisations, invasions, and genocides. The marks aren’t erased by moving the opposing people on. History is always remembered, something Israel is going to learn the hard way.

The only options for the future are a form of historical pragmatism, or a continuing series of violent crimes against each other, with the turns of history favouring one population with more strength over the other at different times.

Colour me shocked, public transport? A thing? Gadzooks! /j

There is a weird internet cult about him, true. But the things he said were important, adding greatly to the body of thought that makes the world we live in today.

Its pretty flippant to disregard his words on the control of resources, just because he never sat behind the wheel of the 20th Century cart.

Not really a fan of allowing corporations ‘control over the means of transportation’.

I bet Marx could come up with a great explanation of why its a bad idea.

But i’m not him so i’m just gona go with Dennis Denuto’s, “its the vibe”.

The Castle, The Vibe - Youtube

it should have never been made our problem

The cleaves between the faiths have exsisted there for thousands of years. Israel is a new power, but the participatory Abrahamic religions are not. Nor are most of the peoples there. Its best to remember European Jewish weren’t the only peoples to build up Israel.

I think you’ve gone too far with your comment.

Oh nice! Over here in Perth the State Gov just had all Summer with all the Museums free. It was cool, no matter who, you just kinda walked in. They’ve recently redone the main museum ‘Boola Bardip’ its a pretty incredible place now. Didn’t see much war stuff, but i’s flying through it with a kid, so there were whole floors we missed.

Wow! The Mary Rose… you just sent me down memory lane. I hadn’t thought about that ship in decades. So i saw that ship when it was still going through that water treatment business. Blew my mind then, i’s really young at the time.

And now i realise i’ve been to Portsmouth, we were staying over in Eastbourne at the time.

The trip was full of museums and castle visits all over the south of England at least between Battle and Tintagel. So we could easily have been to the Explosion museum as well. I’ll have to dig out the old scrap books and see if somethings written in them about it.

The years ticket to all of those sounds like a great way to spend some weekends, get to enjoy the harbour as well.

Lol Cheers :) I’d like the Community to be WA as a whole, but i’m guessing your meaning a little further than that even.

That was all one tree? Wtf!

I only saw a Perentie at the Zoo in the last week. Cool lookin bastards! The one at the zoo was enjoying the last sunny spot in its enclosure.

Damn, i like Magpies, they’re the bird i want to see/hear most. Cheeky little bastards with a beautiful song. Hopefully they can work this out soon.

End of a successful week at work, time to spend the weekend with family over from ye olde country… so drink the beers.