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my parents angrily forbid me to do drugs or have sex and begged me not to drink to excess. Guess which activities I regularly engaged in.
I was threatened, beaten up, choked out and tortured in school for being "gay" (actually bi), and yet my (romantic) attraction to any and all genders even preceeded my understanding of any sexuality.
not my parents, not my fellow students, not exes, not internet strangers, not religion and not any form of media has managed to change my sexuality.
one of the biggest issues, in my humble and also arrogant opinion, is that no political party in any English-speaking country, represents any interests of anyone earning under 7 figures. Maybe even 8 figures, and they have 0 interest or motivation in changing that — despite the lip-service both main parties make for it.
6! hours? An entire month?
people found information for hundreds of years before reddit and will for hundreds of years after.
the other half of the United States
hashtag-not-an-engineer-but The vast majority of products you can just pull the LED. Don't resolder, just pull it out. If it goes badly, you can either just put it back, or replace with a "non-LE-"diode of the same spec.
Part of it is they are mixed in professional environments (studios) for professional environments (cinema).
Part of it is they can't mix for someone with a 10 year old tv using its built in speakers in a shared living room with street noise, 15 feet from the sofa and a brand new TV through a sound bar in a rural mansion 8 feet from the sofa, and someone using airpods over Bluetooth.
Plus people tend to listen to things at a volume similar to conversational level, but in a cinema you listen to things at a volume that would be considered impolite to your neighbors if you did it in an apartment block.
Finally, sound engineers are artists and dynamics (louder and quieter parts) are part of their craft. Actors are artists and their vocal performances also have dynamics.
A question to ask yourself is have you considered more actively participating in the sound delivery methods of your media? I'm not here to say "all people are watching TV wrong!" but I would ask if most people have even thought carefully about their sound delivery choices, their own EQ settings in their TV, how well tuned their environment is for active listening, and if they just need to turn their volume up?
I appreciate not everyone can blaze the sound on max — but if you do have to sacrifice some volume, maybe part of that tradeoff is clarity of dialogue?
I have no idea what I'm looking at here
they were banned for transphobic attacks / brigading on specific individuals
Banshees of Inisherin? The Whale? Everything Everywhere All At Once? Succession? The Bear?
There's loads of great acting out there. Maybe the issue is you're buying tickets to Chris Pratt instead of other things?
most executions are surprisingly brutal and painful. it probably was worse than being stabbed in the neck
i signed up at mba.com and it wouldn't let me use a password because it contained a semicolon which wasn't on the approved list of special characters, and then - get this - because I tried too many times to create a password - locked me out because I had "too many failed attempts"
From writing a single song that 90% of people love and then immediately retiring
depends how recent your recent history is. within several living generations we had McCarthyism
not to be too sophist about it - but while I agree party members care — the salient word in my above post is represent.
it doesn't matter if the captain doesn't want you to get shot if the general is telling the private to shoot you.
source? even before WFH, even before the internet it's just common sense that if I need something from the Phillippines office or the London office or the California office while I'm in New York it's much more efficient to call them than it is for me to get on a plane and go there.
I'm fairly techy myself, not the most techy but I can admin a Salesforce instance, write a wordpress plugin from scratch, I can get by in React...
I've found migrating from reddit to lemmy frustrating. I still don't know if I'm doing it "right". Ive not subscribed to anything, nor tried to track down my old communities on here because it all just seems tedious and needlessly complicated.
Threads is winning over Mastodon because you click a button and it's Twitter but a different color.
Hitler wasn't Aryan. There's no instances of extreme right-wing ideology that make sense. Never was nor will there ever be
I was looking for this. every single time I type something on my phone I wish I had a blackberry still
the "pain sponge" storyline from Succession
they... do? it's like the "what is art" debate. the answer is "whatever you want it to mean in that moment and it can be different in the next moment"
I guess disaster movies are right, we do go straight to hell real quick.
the car replaced the horse, the plane replaced the ship, we still drive, we still travel.
My prediction is that AI will replace the PC like it replaced the typewriter, like it replaced the quill.
People will still write and act, but it will be a faster process.
well my hope is it pushes investment back.into leisure and third space usage, to encourage people back into cities for fun reasons rather than just to operate a keyboard which I can do from anywhere
on the other hand, people probably felt the same about news, leaked correspondence, "yellow journalism" (fake news), crowd baiting speeches, pamphlets, flyers, and marches throughout pre-digital media.
be me
live in suburban area of American major city
want to fight the government(?)
with a gun(?)
open front door
see woman walking her dog
take pot shots in the air
she runs away
freedom secured
mission successful go home everyone
oh no, people talking about a thing that's happening. God forbid someone should talk about the superbowl when it's on.
if it annoys you to worship him they'll do it twice as hard.
due to the nature of infinity — a la monkeys and typewriters — you could have not only a single CD that due to a catastrophic series of errors is actually something completely different from a CD — but an infinite number of them.
Is it entirely beyond the realms of possibility that an infinitesimally small stroke of luck could create a sentient race of CD people? Except "small" doesn't make sense in infinity — "small" just means "a less common certainty"
I know I'm nit picking here but that's the point of examining infinity, but wouldn't it be foolish to say "there are no examples of hydrogen gas becoming sentient under any circumstances!" because, well, we're both sentient decendants of a reaction between two or more hydrogen atoms.
Yes the conditions that led from hydrogen > helium > deuterium > ... > ... > ... single celled organisms > ... > ... primates > ... > ... humans are incredibly complicated and specific. But what if we applied the same complicated and specific process (or an infinite variation thereof) to the CD factory. Are you sure it's impossible? and worse yet - can you prove it?
My advice is to watch it up until they conclude the Ouroborous / OurRobOrRoss thing, and consider that the end (S7E3 I think).
anything including and beyond hitting a nut with a rock to open it
gonna be that guy but as you said you might be moving into education soon - and I used to make the same mistake myself but "remedial" has the same root as "remedy," so a "remedial class" fixes something wrong. "Remedial exposure" doesn't really make sense here as that would be "exposure that fixes something wrong with me" which is not quite what I think you meant
technically signing up for any service gets you put on a list, and there are very few lists anyone has - including handwritten ones in your kitchen drawer - that the government/police couldn't access if they really wanted to.
Privacy, safety, security are conventions and habits of politeness mostly.
Really the main protection is that there are much bigger fish to fry than people reading internet posts about politics, and even within anarcho-social circles, there are bigger players with more concerning activities than you.
yeah, it's for buying secret Christmas presents for your wife
this is the sturm and drang of every collaborative work I guess. Those led by a single person / company will produce a more streamlined but restrictive product. Those led by committee produce a more chaotic but free experience.
windows
because it was already installed
So news of an online store doing shady shit constitutes as “tech news” because they run a web site?
So writing "R MUTT 1917" on a urinal and putting it in an art gallery constitutes as "art" just because they said it is?
etc etc
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours
Usually about once in incident every 90 seconds. That's why we have to only talk about "mass" shootings, as if you count incidents with fewer than 3 victims it becomes unmanageable.
I have this card.
I'm an immigrant to the US by way of marriage. When I moved here we opened an account at chase where my now wife banks - a joint for us both and one for me.
When faced with having three near identical blue cards I asked if there was any option other than blue
Imagine my face when I heard possibly the most American phrase I've ever heard: "You can have the brand colors, or Disney"