MoonMelon

Watching videos has been broken for a few weeks. On the 24th of Sep they mentioned that they'd identified a potential cause, but since then there haven't been any updates. They typically aren't super communicative and tend to lock down posts because of the huge surge of duplicate bug reports and unhelpful comments they get whenever this happens. So the silence is not that unusual, but it has been slightly longer than usual for an update.

It's been broken for a few weeks. They're aware but I think it's an upstream fix they're waiting on. In the meantime I use yt-dlp.

Thanks, this helped. Although I keep yt-dlp installed with pip so for me instead of github it's just a pip3 install yt-dlp -U.

2004 would be a bit late but it kind of reminds me of MPlayer.com. Here's a video. The interface kind of looked like a radio, it also featured the first voice-chat I ever used, but everyone was on modem so it was unusably terrible.

There's actually enough channels like this that I think it qualifies as a genre. They kind of give me "tradwife" vibes so I don't really watch them, but it seems like quite a few are in France for some reason (maybe some government program where you can get these properties cheaply).

If you aren't aware already, you might like the work of Simon Stålenhag.

Sorry I meant "flourescent" apparently. It was this kind. My uncle's business was moving into an office that was some 1970s government office and somehow I got roped into the re-fit.

Boss once had me fill a dumpster with old ~~halogen~~ flourescent bulbs. Probably 90% of them shattered in the process. Then it turns out that was the wrong dumpster so we had to shovel all the broken bits into another. Didn't learn they had mercury in them for a decade. I was 15. So that's cool, wonder what that did.

If you're into visual arts, "The Art Spirit" by Robert Henri is pretty great.

So I quickly gave myself diabetes...

The A. americanum (lonestar) tick larvae are insane this year. I blame the wet summer. At least it's hot and dry now, and I can imagine them dying by the truckload!

Given the opacity, unaccountability and character of ICE it's almost certain that ICE agents are taking bribes, running drugs and guns, doing shakedowns, pimping, and engaging in all kinds of organized crime shit. If you're a cartel, who better to pay than the masked mercenary who's above the law and doesn't give a shit about anything but power and money? Easiest partnership ever. Hell, they're probably bribing from the top down and getting entire local chapters on the payroll.