Smoking. Quit for seven years and picked it back up. Worst decision of my life. Was cutting back on vaping to quit when the pan happened. Allowed myself the vice for stress. Don’t plan on trying a third time. Too much effort.

The best part is how in the end-stages of capitalism, everything keeps getting worse for consumers. While prices go up, even. It’s awesome. /s

404 Media is journalist owned (there are four of them) and they’re doing some of the best journalism in the USA lately. I signed up about a year ago and don’t regret it. If you’ve got the extra cash and you actually give a damn about our broken media landscape, you could find a lot worse places to spend it.

If they just made up a bunch of accusations with paltry evidence to prove it, the scandal would make headlines. “iPhone maker found to be full of shit in court!” is clickworthy gold. I don’t think your stance is very strong. Every entity tries to spin things in their favor, but you make it sound like they’d bring an empty case and they very much would not. No one starts a lawsuit they don’t think they can win unless they’re someone with no credibility and endless money like Elon Musk (see lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI) or oil companies going after environmental lawyers.

Lemme help you spice things up: Wait until you’re passing by a guy who’s super clean cut and wearing business attire. As you go by, yell: “Get a haircut, hippy!” It’s funny every time.

I hate to tell you this, but the mullets were very real. It was a dark time and we’re all glad it’s in the past.

I ripped 298 Blu-Rays and a smaller number of DVDs with MakeMKV. Twice because I lost the whole collection due to my own bs the first time (make sure you have excellent backups, folks). I would not go through the process a third time, but that has nothing to do with the software.

I’m sure it’s in the terms and conditions, hence uploaders have no recourse. If not, it’s surely a violation of copyright, at least in the USA where copyright is automatically granted when a work is created.

One solution would be for people to stop uploading to Google platforms until this practice is halted and made opt-in, but that won’t happen. Too many people depend on YT to survive. And lots more desperately want to make it big there.

I feel pretty comfortable asking questions IRL because over many years I’ve had two friends who are openly Trans. But I want to show some support for the community, so here we go:

A train leaves the station at 9pm… 😆

Love and Respect.

Why are so many people doing any drugs? I know why I did 'em. No question at all. They feel good.

I guess the mayor is trying to increase tourism, cause now I wanna go to Brussels.

Someone needs a furry tummy rub.

This is the cutest pic so far today. So good that I had to send it to my partner. What a cutie.

My ex was a vegetarian. We ate out at a restaurant that hadn’t updated their menu to reflect that a dish had meat added. She was “poisoned” by the high protein or something (I’m not a doctor and was only 19 at the time, so I couldn’t tell you what the doctors told us), but we had to take her to an ER because her stomach was destroying itself shortly after we ate.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/conservative@lemmy.world

No, really. Click through.

Made in china, you dipshit flag-waving cucks.

An image purportedly shows a tank driving over one of the fighters.

That’s pretty normal and not psychotic behavior. /s

I want some drugs!

Also, old records (from early in the CD era) had nowhere near the fidelity of modern records. I played a modern record for my father once and he was astounded how far they’ve come.

Digital fidelity (sample rate) grows more granular in higher frequencies because that’s easier for us to distinguish. (See the Fletcher-Munson Curve from Bell Labs: on a bell curve, we hear best at the frequency of a baby crying.) Think of stair steps that get closer and more numerous over time. That’s a representation of the resolution of the sound across frequencies from low to high. I may be explaining it poorly because I moved away from audio engineering toward a different career a long time ago.

Analog has all the information that’s missing in between the larger, wider steps. It’s not a placebo (didn’t say you called it that). It’s how digital audio works.

My instance isn’t allowing me to upload images for some reason. It had extended downtime the other day, so maybe that’s related. Anyway, here’s a link to a page with a chart that illustrates what I’m attempting to describe.