Incident on 57th Street by Bruce Springsteen, live at the Main Point '75

It’s always hard to gauge, with Bruce (obviously not an unknown but, also, lots of people who’ve only casually listened to him, if even that), but this one’s a live performance for a track that doesn’t get a lot of radio play.

Also a great example of his early storytelling work and great use of violins, to boot. The whole original album is a classic but this one’s great as a one-shot.

I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, “C’mon, guys; I’d never cozy up to Meta,” and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.

Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I’m not the only one getting that.

EDIT: just read through what you linked to and wow; that’s so much worse than I originally thought. That’s an inane degree of unprofessionalism.

I hadn’t; any source, by chance (or summarization, if not)?

I dunno why but this comment was the one that made me burst out laughing.

By that argument, it looks like an SD card.

I’d argue that the insanely satisfying stim toy shutter of the floppy keeps it unique, though.

No; I’m not. I very explicitly started my first comment with “a year is too large of a time” and the person before me noted it’s suited for “casual short term planning” (which I consider things like the dates on homework assignments and the like to be; I would argue most things that people do within a given year fit this use case. You simply don’t care about the year most of the year but you always care about the month regardless of if you care about the day of the month).

DD-MM-YYYY just simply isn’t usefulness because a month is too short a period of time for the day to be most relevant to you. In almost every case where you need to use the day of the month, you need to know what the month is. It may not be a consistent ordering but, given the average person’s interaction with dates in a society, it’s the one that matches the relevance of these values to their daily lives.

As I originally said, I can admit that – if we wanted consistency – YYYY-MM-DD is probably better (MM-DD-YYYY is absolutely worse when looking over a period of years though no worse than DD-MM-YYYY) and I could accept that as a universal form but, for day-to-day (assuming we don’t want to lose the year so these dates don’t become useless in the future), MM-DD-YYYY works really well. Consistent/logical/etc. or not, a month is simply too short, in the context of human perception, for us to care about the day of the month without the context of said month.

DD-MM-YYYY just gives me the info. I cannot do anything with, without further context (which I probably needed more, anyway), first.

Yeah; I did. And that’s a short stop for that date being useless in the future, after the short-term use case. That’s more wild, to me, than having the least useful part of the date just be at the end where it’s easily locatable.

Again, – within most use cases – it really isn’t.

In your day to day, will you need to know the year of a thing? Probably not; it’s probably with the year you’re currently in.

Do you need to know the day of the month first? Probably not unless it’s within the current month so you need to know the month first.

Telling me “22nd” on a paper means nothing if I don’t know what month we’re referring to; and, if I do need to know the year, – well – it’s always at the the of the date so it’s easy to locate rather than parsing the middle of the date, any.

No because the year is a super large time; there’s a reason people always say they take a bit to adjust to writing the new year in dates because it’s s long enough period of time that it almost becomes automatic.

For archiving, sure; most other things, no (logically, ISO-8601 is probably the best for most cases, in general, but I’ll die on the hill that MM-DD-YYYY is better than DD-MM-YYYY).

This is Belize and Micronesia erasure.

Props for linking to that video; it’s so good.

They really love using

Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me

in the context of abortion.

We were out of spinach (admittedly, I hate lettuce so I usually use spinach, instead) so I subbed in kale for my lunch sandwich, one time. I thought it worked alright, though.

Please put something like this behind a spoiler or something; there are those of us who’ve had that word hurled enough in our daily life that it suddenly appearing while browsing social media is alarm-inducing.

Yeah; exactly. You’re seeing what I’m seeing. Reaffirming (to me) that this idea of ours is a good one.

I doubt I’d have the skill to write it but I’ve long thought something like Etsy could be interesting.

I think the federated nature of the Fediverse could do well to stave off the worst of any spamming.

But the thing I notice the most with independent sellers is that the bulk of what they’re doing is networking, generally amongst friends. Which, really, is the ideal environment for goods and services to be sold.

But, since capitalism always demands the line goes up, places like Etsy inevitably abandon them and making their sites encouraging of that kind of interpersonal connecting in favor of entities which can mass churn products out.

Setting up shops in the fediverse would allow people to easily host their own shops (and not be reliant on the infrastructure of, say, Etsy) and boosting would organically encourage a web of trust since their friend is essentially saying, “I know this person; they’re good.” You could even have the code autotag listings with a hashtag so people can filter out those types of posts, if they don’t want to.

Not sure how you’d handle federation when you first spin up an instance but, still, more alternatives are better than less, I expect.

I dunno; I think it’d be interesting.

Jerry already caught me up.

To those who haven’t heard it before, it sounds like a way to note that Threads can interope with the Fediverse, now (I can see people who were super excited about Meta joining doing that).

Maybe it being capitalized also made it the first thing my brain jumped to.

In any case, I was mistaken and just hadn’t heard of the term before; just ignore my original comments, basically: they’re wrong.

Ah; I rescind my comments and apologize. I can see the reasoning.

What the Hell is a Threadiverse? Maybe we don’t give a corporate entity branding and credit for a network we built well before they ever came along.