Scientologists made the decision without permission from Isaac Hayes. Not surprising knowing how they operate but damn.

Getting to your dad’s departure from the show, what was his reaction to “Trapped in the Closet?”

So, initially, the episode came out in November, and there was no reaction. There wasn’t any upswell about that episode at all. It really wasn’t a big deal at the time. That January, in 2006, my dad had a stroke, and during the course of his recovery, I think that March, they re-aired the episode. When it re-aired, that’s when Scientology got upset.

At that time, my father was recovering from a stroke — literally learning how to talk, learning how to function. I visited my father. He was really struggling sometimes to even speak and say words. At the time, the people that were around him were largely Scientologists — his publicists and management. Those decisions about his involvement in the show, his leaving the show, were made by those people and not him. He would have never quit that show. He loved that show, and he was making a lot of money doing that show. So, I take issue with the way those decisions were made on his behalf because it put him in a position to actually have to go on the road and tour before he was ready to tour.

Carnivàle. I think it took a few years more for mainstream viewers to get into dark fantasy/supernatural sci-fi.

The show is out there but I really hoped to see a better conclusion than what we got before it was cancelled.

Even though LemmyNSFW is outside of the UK the admins of any instance will be responsible for verification of UK users because of this law. This is why .zip (Lemmy and PieFed) have geoblocked the UK. It’s a lot of work and responsibility to take on.

Here’s the post from Demigodrick explaining this situation better than I can.

Important News - Geoblocking of the UK

Department Q sounds interesting. I haven’t read the books but will give this one a try.

I’m bummed too. This was about to be one of my favorite animals. Pangolins are still cool though. :)

Decent! :)

If you enjoy the Jail series, season 2 will be out at some point this summer and they’re currently filming TPB season 13 now.

There’s also this article from TechCrunch.

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions

They tried it out themselves and have reports from other users as well.

The only way I know is the method described above and that requires access to your account, sorry to say. Unfortunately that’s no longer possible.

Yes it’s a handy feature. You should be up and running soon enough. :)

You can log in to your lemm.ee account, settings and look for “Import/Export Settings”, then save the .json file to your device. Then log into your db0 account, go to the same Import/Export Settings and upload your .json file.

All of your saved posts, blocked people/ communities/instances will be transferred. If it doesn’t all show up immediately don’t be concerned, sometimes it takes a little while.

Nice list! Thank you for sharing here.

The one entry in the Food list (Zalasur) has the description “Game playthroughs with no commentary” which matches Vitekc45c’s under the Gaming section.

After visiting Zalasur’s page their description is “Videos featuring my cooking and canning adventures.”

Looks to be working. Hello PieFed! 👋

I’ve been on an oldies kick lately. Currently watching M.A.S.H (into season 2) and Monty Python’s Flying Circus (just a couples of episodes in so far). I’ve watched both sporadically over the years but never straight through.

For more recent television I finished The Studio which I enjoyed quite a bit.

Just skimming through the article it states the brain accounts for 2% of the body’s weight and 20% of its resting metabolism. During problem solving or “effortful, goal directed tasks” it requires just 5% more over the base 20%.

I’ve found myself physically drained from overthinking at times and now I can start to see how real that can get.