their last one was a weird Plant and Jones project

In Through the Out Door is killer! Sure, “All My Love” and “Fool in the Rain” are not as hard as some earlier stuff, but they’re excellent songs. “I’m Gonna Crawl” and “In the Evening” are “pretty good” by Zeppelin standards, which translates to “outstanding” by normal band standards. Then you got “Carouselambra”, a tour-de-force to show you that they’ve still got surprises – there are people out there whose lives were changed by that song. Admittedly, “South Bound Saurez” and “Hot Dog” are mid, but those add up to like 7 minutes on a 42-minute album.

Anyway, that was why Led Zeppelin was so amazing. They had so much talent that even when half the band was out of commission on drugs, they still put out a first-rate album.

Kashmir was on Physical Graffiti.

I assume bc The Fair Lady told him to. She bewitched him which is why his eyes are all crazed.

Go to scholar.google.com and look up the following, to see if it’s what you’re looking for:

• training simulations
• serious games
• interactive exhibits

They grow the mustaches to hide the fact that their teeth were kicked out during initiation.

Also give us a chance to make a comment that will be seen, and maybe encourage discussion.

It looks like your “edit” is right (version of lemmy and instance configuration are an issue), with the additional complication that sometimes where it is hosted makes a difference (sometimes the youtube summary is in a different language and/or won’t grab it because of regional restrictions) and sometimes the reader app/web interface grabs their own thumbnails and/or may not display thumbnails and/or may even try to just embed the video. There was a post on techsupport a while back about this: https://lemmy.world/post/20180043

I post to !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee from slrpnk.net and to get a thumbnail, I do the following:

• get a thumbnail image file. either grab it from wikipedia, imdb, or by a screencap that I trim. put that file somewhere on my computer.
• use the web interface with default client. It has a “thumbnail URL” field (which I didn’t see back when I had a lemmy.world account - probably version differences) but I can’t just upload the image to that field, so I have to…
• go to the post “body” input field and click on the “upload image” button to upload the thumbnail image file from my computer. This uploads the image to the server and adds a line of code to the body input field that looks something like this: ![](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/a-long-UUID.png)
• copy the part from “https” to “png” and put it in the “thumbnail URL” field
• usually I then delete that code from the post “body” input field
• edit: of course, I still have to add the youtube URL in the “URL” field…

I think this adds thumbnails, but of course I can never be sure because someone can always use a client or configuration I’m unaware of. That’s the price of freedom from a single corporate server and a limited choice of viewer clients.
Ideally this whole process would be easier or automatic. I imagine the situation/process will change as time gones on.

IIRC the March peak was another case in which Reddit did something stupid… So yeah, I agree that we can’t just rely on that, at some point they’re going to make it impossible to advertise the fediverse there.

OMG that sounds like a Bell Curve meme. Here you go:

Create more active communities NOT centered around politics or Linux. I swear there’s more things to talk about

Hey! We also have memes!

But yeah, I what I do is subscribe to every non-politics and non-tech community I can find and read through those first, then when I run out I just read “all”.

This time last year there was around 38k active users.

I think this kind of slow growth is fine. We just need enough influx to replace people who naturally leave, and maybe a bit more. We don’t have any CEOs or stockholders demanding exponential growth.

Those are all good ideas. One comment:

I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people.

What I like about Lemmy is that it has a lower percentage of those “normal people”…

I’m torn because I want to tell him to leave me alone, that I don’t care about his life, but considering the ‘offense’ this seems too much and knowing me I’d immediately regret it and feel bad about it.

Imagine someone has a huge booger hanging out of their nose. It might be embarassing that you point it out to them, but it’s a lot more embarassing if they walk around with the booger hanging there. It’s the same with this. If you’re polite but direct, there’s nothing to feel bad about, you’re helping the guy learn where the line is.

1. “Speak to Me”
2. “Breathe (In the Air)”
3. “On the Run”
4. “Time”
5. “The Great Gig in the Sky”
6. “Money”
7. “Us and Them”
8. “Any Colour You Like”
9. “Brain Damage”
10. “Eclipse”

Let those who are without sin deny that track 5 is the life-changer.

I’m not a huge fan of jazz, but Leon Thomas’ vocals are one-of-a-kind. And this song would fit well on a Christmas party playlist.

That joke’s been around since 1750 BC

Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:

When Jesus came, Jesus said to you as follows : “I will return when the time is right.” Jesus left then but has not yet returned to you as promised. Now you look to my messenger (Sit-Sin) and ask: “Why, then, has Jesus not returned?”

What do you take me for, that Jesus would not return to me after visiting? Would you treat somebody like Jesus with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to invite Jesus to return several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun to whom Jesus has not returned?

You alone ask why this is so! Take cognizance that (from now on) Jesus shall exercise against you the right of rejection if you have treated him with contempt. How did you treat Jesus when he visited?

Translated from the original Akkadian: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/complaint-tablet-to-ea-nasir (er… this is a joke btw)

Other people have talked about how this is a middle-management job and what that would entail. I’m here to make a couple points:

• reading up on the company is important. See if hey have made LinkedIn posts about the importance of “Digital Development”. Look through their web pages and previous job posts to see if there are people with the job title “Digital Developer” and if so what they did.
• the best situation is: you have a friend at that company who tells you “yeah, they’re looking for someone to …” Next best is someone in that field who tells you “yeah I’ve heard that company is trying to …” or “that company really needs to …” If you go to job fairs, get cards from everyone you can; if you had a card from someone at that company (even HR) you could try emailing or calling and saying “hi it was great meeting you at (place), by the way I’ve heard your looking for a Digital Developer, do you think my experience as A would fit the bill, or perhaps my experience as B?” If you don’t have a card you could try looking at their web page for contact info and emailing them that question.
• a lot of times job postings are vague bc they don’t know wtf they want, they just know they need something that sounds like that. Send a cover letter that emphasizes your managerial experience, and be ready with as many anecdotes as you can about how you successfully crafted visions or identified problems or led teams to implement solutions while getting along with your peers. If you have experience in that field, great, but sometimes companies will be happy with an outsider’s perspective. Good luck, fam!

True story: a temp worker once moved into the desk next to mine, but they couldn’t get their computer monintor just the right height. I told them to go to the library and ask for a book about this size, about so thick. And to pick a color they liked. (they didn’t do it.)

“The books are all broken, none of them connect to social media.”

First color, then size, THEN alphabetical.