I that Matt fucking Parker?
I worked with him last year for Pi Day and I can confirm he’s legit as nice in person as he is on camera. Also he never swears, unlike James Grime who’s a hilarious potty mouth :D
I actually love that James swears like a soldier. Don’t know why exactly.
Thinking about it, I would be equally happy to learn Matt swears and James doesn’t. Must be something about the ‘insider’ information!
I haven’t watched a Numberphile video in a while, probably not since the lockdowns. I have to say, James Grime doesn’t give that impression at all. Something about James “singing banana” Grime being a hilarious potty mouth is in itself very funny to me.
The Matt Parker? Of Parker Square fame?
Yeah but probably better known for Asteroid 314159 right?
I love Matt but it was very confusing seeing him peeking out of my memes
Zoom on his jacked XD Video to this meme YT Video
Well I guess it’s a bit of a Parker meme tbh
Direct links since OP doesn’t actually want to drive traffic to those sites and I do
Using ephebophile Drake’s Hotline Bling meme format. 🚫
Replacing him with Matt Parker who just wants to see the world learn. 🙌
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Nice, I haven’t seen this template with Matt Parker before!
Thanks!
I’ve also uploaded it to imgflip.com
who’s that guy and why not use the original?
Matt Parker is a YouTuber who teaches about cool math shit. He is here instead of Drake because Drake is a hunk of human shit.
Is that actually Matt Parker though? Strikingly similar, but the first picture looks off and I’ve never seen him with facial hair.
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Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I’ll definitely make a switch.
Now do IMDB
Movies: Letterboxd
TV Shows: Serializd
For books, I too use Storygraph. But I might switch to Hardcover later. I have been using Storygraph for like 3 years and in that time nothing really changed, improved there in my opinion. Socialization is almost non-existent. They still don’t have “profile” pages for authors. If you click on an author, all of their books are just thrown in there together in one place. No filters, no picture of the author, nothing.
Hardcover looks interesting, it’s a bit like letterboxd, that’s why I like it. App is a little bit slow and I wish more people used it because there is not a lot of reviews and ratings for books. So if you want an alternative to goodreads, which has a lot of users, then storygraph is probably the only option.
I used to use Hardcover but stopped after realizing they use AI-generated art on their platform.
I love letterbox, but not really a replacement for IMDB.
I’ve been using tv time to track tv shows, but haven’t really been a fan. Definitely going to check out serializd.
I’ve used trakd for a number of years with no major complaints. Its cools being able to look up an actor and see the “seen in” section, as I have it set up to automatically track my watches in jellyfin/IINA and then I manually enter the ones I watch on streaming services
Last month I had an unusual charge on my credit card, saying “audible”. I don’t have an audible account, neither does my wife (she used to have one but even then it was charged through Google play, not directly to the card). I checked all of our emails and even checked both our Amazon accounts (don’t remember why exactly I got clued to checking Amazon), but nothing there matched with anything we had purchased. So I notified my bank, replaced my card an all that.
One week goes by and suddenly my wife’s Amazon account is nuked. Most of the books she bought for her kindle, lost. Her outstanding purchases, no info on them anymore. She can’t copy the books that are still on the kindle anymore either. Her author profile was also gone, along with any small profit she made from the couple people who bought her stories.
We tried to contact Amazon to figure out what happened, but got no response. Then we used a local website that is used to complain about services and wrote there everything that happened. Amazon replied saying that her old account had been disabled and then she tried to log in with the same email again and that created a new account which caused the old one to be deleted forever so now they had no info on why her account had been disabled (which is complete bullshit). Amazon also notified the website that the issue had been resolved by that response, preventing us from sending any additional message.
Aaaaaaand this is why I pirate
Same!
Always go to the company before going to your bank. They often have policies where they’ll suspend your account if you do chargebacks before going through them.
I would, if I had any way to know what company it came from.
Audible is an Amazon company. Even if it’s sus and doesn’t look like it’s actually from Amazon, you should still contact them so they can investigate on their end. Because if you do chargebacks and it WAS them, they lose money and might suspend your account as a result.
audible is owned by amazon…
He was saying it’s a suspicious charge and he doesn’t have any accounts with them
So assuming it is Amazon doesn’t seem right
But you should still contact Amazon support so they can investigate on their end. They then might give you the green light to contact your bank for resolution if they don’t see anything on their end.
I saw no reason to go through the trouble of doing that since those big companies make it so hard to reach out to them and there was no link between the charge and us.
I understand that, but I just explained to you why you should in the future.
Didn’t know Goodreads was owneb by Amazon!
I didn’t know Amazon owned GoodReads. I’ll definitely have to try these out!
Hardcover.app
The weirdest thing to me about goodreads is Bill Gates actively posting there but only like 10 people interact with his posts
Does Goodreads have like…a community? I thought you just posted reviews and then called other people racist or woke depending on your personal politics.
It’s social media for books. You can follow people and there is a feed
Bill gates posts there and nobody pays any attention to him which I find extremely strange
Maybe because it’s “Bill Gates” posting, and probably not Bill Gates ?
No I think it’s really him. Bill is obsessed with reading books
Yeah because he’s a boring billionaire. People don’t really have a boner to pick with him.
I say this with love, my friend: Bone to pick.
People tend to crowd around those with insane money though
https://hardcover.app/ is another good one.
I use it and storygraph both
Someone should name some town’s open space after him. Pave it with the numbers, too.
I really like storygraph. Every year or so I check on their progress for an api. It’s on their long term roadmap and I’ll be a happy person when it comes to fruition.
Only problem with Storygraph is that it’s privately owned, just like Goodreads was. So as soon as Storygraph gets popular enough, it’ll just get sold (probably to Amazon) and then you’ll have to find another haven and start over once again. At least Bookwyrm is federated, like Lemmy.
Well shit. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Omg I had no idea it was from Amazon too
God dammit
