Lemmynsfw.com is quite large and purely dedicated to NSFW content.

Yes, it does make a difference, but like with many other things you should not fall into the trap of decision making paralysis.

Your current instance lemmy.world is the largest and perfectly adequate for the majority. It also costs nothing to make accounts on other instances and is done in less time than it takes to decide between them.

That said some reasons to choose one instance over another:

Federation with other instances

Some instances choose not to federate with others. Common reasons being political ideology or NSFW/piracy/violent content. Others might be more liberal and leave it up to their users to block whatever within their own apps. As someone already mentioned world seems to have defederated dbzer0 the piracy focused instance. Some political instances that often also get defederated are the far left ones like hexbear and Lemmy grad (seems like those are defederated by lemmy.world as well).

Server location and performance

Especially country focused instances like lemmy.ca or feddit.uk will have their servers in their own countries. You can of course access them from anywhere, but a European user might have a better time choosing an instance with servers located in Europe, while someone in America might have lower latency with one located there.

Alternate frontends

If you are accessing Lemmy through a browser rather than an app, you might enjoy alternate frontends that change the design. Your current one lemmy.world for example offers 4 different designs that can also be found in the sidebar alexandrite, photon, voyager mobile and one looking like old.reddit.

General ideology of the instance

Your choice of instance might also tell others something about you. If you choose a country specific instance people seeing your profile name might assume you come from there, if you choose one with a particular political view people will probably assume you hold similar views. Same goes for other instances that are related to things like sexuality or hobbies.

Single Euro Payments Area it’s basically just your regular bank transfer in most of europe.

Fun fact: by beating Timothée Chalamet, Alan Brody defends his record as youngest actor to win this category, which he holds from his first win for “The Pianist” (2002). Had Timothée won tonight, he’d have been younger by a few months.

He and Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) are are the only tv actors on the list, the latter one suprises me even more.

I’d imagine the Friends cast barely missed this list? Because i was under the impression that they also pocket close to like $20m/year from residuals.

Additionally, the ranking only includes earnings related to entertainment—acting, producing, directing, or other forms of performance (such as stand-up comedy). Entrepreneurial endeavors not related to entertainment, such as joint ventures, licensing, commercials or social media partnerships, were not counted.

So presumably that isn’t included here, unless he pays himself for advertisements?

Sean Baker with Anora was definitely the biggest winner of the night. 4 Oscars in different disciplines (directing, writing, editing, producing) is just insane.

Emilia Pérez and Conclave seems like the losers of this year.

All i can think of

Lets see how China handles it down the road before we mark this one a problem of one specific system, rather than just humans seemingly sucking in sustainable long term planning on large scales in general.

Another thing that i am already missing, since it usually isn’t included in those Blu-ray rips, are the movie extras.

Watched The Gorge recently aswell.

Wouldn’t go as far as saying that i was pleasantly suprised, but it’s one of those movies where I use very different metrics compared to movies i go in with the expectation to watch something actually good. It definitively falls into the category of mindless entertainment, which despite the somewhat negative name has its purpose. In that regard it does fulfill it’s role adequately for me, which is really all i was looking to get out of it.

I’d agree that the creature/environment design was interesting. The biggest downfall of the movie is that it tries to be too many things at once instead of comitting to one single thing: suspenseful slow paced thriller, romance, horror, action, character study, historical mystery, and so on. Can’t be all at the same time and in the end everything suffers from it.

Tbh biggest suprise is that it’s an appleTV+ instead of Netflix movie.

Passend dazu hier ein Spiegel Artikel, der weitere Titanic-Witze auflistet für die sie verklagt wurden (inklusive dem von dir bereits erwähnten).

»Etwas Schöneres, als dass man verklagt wird, kann es unter Werbegesichtspunkten gar nicht geben«, hat Gabriele Rittig, die Rechtsanwältin des Magazins, deshalb auch mal gesagt. Ihr Job ist im Laden so wichtig, dass sie seit 1986 im Impressum steht.

Sagt wohl mehr als genug.

Ich fürchte, dass ich wohl zu dem Teil der Bevölkerung zähle der es letztlich als notwendig sieht, da mir schlicht keine Alternativen einfallen. Mit dem Risiko radikal zu klingen (was ich nicht bin, da zu apathisch):

Das derzeitige Handel vieler Unternehmen und die aktuelle Klimapolitik diverser Parteien ist Ökoterrorismus gegenüber der Allgemeinheit. Aber leider primär in einer stochastischen Form, die eine konkrete Täter-Opfer-Verbindung erschwert oder unmöglich macht.

Deswegen wäre es nicht so abwegig eine Reaktion eher als Selbstverteidigung zu betrachten, wo allerdings natürlich immernoch diverse Limitierungen gelten.

Wenn ich mir anschaue, wie wenig Effekt die wiederholten Demonstrationen gegen Rechts hatten, welche größer und von einem noch breiteten Spektrum der Gesellschaft getragen wurden, dann sind diese Mittel für einfache Bürger offensichtlich nutzlos.

And for sure not a very democratic one.

Can they really stop them from gaining traction? The Chinese domestic market over which they have no control and some third party allies like Brazil seem large enough to support them scaling up.

They could go scorched earth with tariffs and export restrictions, but that would only hinder them in the medium term and make them double their efforts.

I’d imagine that the drug cartels make some of the regions in Mexico significantly worse from a everyday perspective.

Die Union ist meiner Meinung nach schlicht und ergreifend nicht an konstruktiver Politik interessiert, was man auch in den letzten Jahren an der Art und Weise ihrer Oppositionspolitik gesehen hat.

Und wenn dein einziges Ziel ist Sachen ab- statt aufzubauen, dann lässt sich das einfacher rechtfertigen, wenn es Grenzen wie die Schuldenbremse gibt.

This seems like a terrible deal for Ukraine. No guarantees and only obligations, not that you could trust anything Trump promises anyways.

But if it comes to it, then it is also a huge blunder by the EU imo. At this point it seems pretty clear to me that if Ukraine wants to achieve security and prosperity in the longterm, then it’ll only happen through integration with the EU. In that process Europe will have to bear most of the load, which however could also be a great opportunity. Allowing the US to swoop in like that and secure profits will make everything to come much harder.

Imo the EU would have plenty to offer aswell or could even strongarm Ukraine into choosing their offer (although this would be way less preferable), if it were to actually act according to its size. Anything from finally ramping up military orders by an order of magnitude and building capacities that can actually make use of the economies of scale, finally releasing frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, or even extending air defenses over part of Ukraine to lessen their burden.

Wird auf jeden Fall spannend, wo er in der Wirtschaft seine einzigartigen Fähigkeiten einbringen darf. Porsche wäre auch meine erste Vermutung gewesen, aber so ein Macher kann sicher gleich in mehreren Unternehmen und Aufsichtsräten gleichzeitig “arbeiten”.

Importantly from what I’ve read outside sources such as Ian Cutress are also pretty positive about the node, so it’s not just this press release in a vacuum. I guess we will find out soon enough how it turns out.

I think regardless of how shitty Intel as a company is/was and the general issues with the USA right now, as a consumer we should hope for it to turn out well. Leading edge manufacturing is one of the hardest industries to enter and there are only 3 companies left in the race. Competition is vital for a healthy market, so any loss there will ultimately hurt consumers more than some of the other issues.