Sometimes I wonder if it's a complete waste of time to think through a post that I'm writing, if only a couple people are going to read it. But then I figure: a) doing so is its own reward: practice putting sentences together, keeping the mind sharp; b) some texts/ideas can be seminal, just as a music band may have very few fans but each of those fans goes on to create their own band; c) contemporary scholars study texts and articles (including ephemera such as handbills) from past decades, so it's likely that future scholars will trawl and study social media posts from our era, using techniques we can barely imagine. Plus, it's fun!
Also give us a chance to make a comment that will be seen, and maybe encourage discussion.
watching on the phone means I give it my all.
That's why I have Second Phone, an obsolete model but it has one of my favorite games on it.
Put metal triangle in water. Sinks.
Add more weight. Floats.
Problem?
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:
 - 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.
I do martial arts. A couple months ago during a fight I got hit in the forehead and it made a little cut -- not too big or painful, but it bled like crazy. I applied direct pressure until the bleeding stopped then went to the changing room to clean up.
When I looked in the mirror I had blood all over my chest and I looked metal/punk as fuck. That was the best thing to happen to me all year.
"In some dark corners, this killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this: He is no hero."
- Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania and likely future Democratic presidential candidate
On the other hand, it reminds everybody how much they hate the US health insurance system. And I mean everybody.
Not to mention scraping all the gunk off the rollers.
Unpopular opinion: Kamala was a solid candidate.
Biden was headed to a humiliating defeat. Another couple debates, and maybe he loses NY and CA and we have a Dukakis- or Mondale-level annhilation. Kamala stepped in and ran a solid campaign on very short notice. Trump didn't even have time to come up with a good nickname for her! She kicked his ass in their only debate, and he was literally too scared to do it again.
In the end, she lost by a couple hundred thousand votes in 3 states. She was wrong about Gaza and the economy, but PA, MI, and WI are credibly winnable in future elections. Kamala was not a garbage candidate.
Sergio
joined 2 months ago
Go to scholar.google.com and look up the following, to see if it's what you're looking for: