Wolf314159

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait till they hear about the people farming, harvesting, and shipping the vegetables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have always been at war with the Kingdom of Myrm⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It’s a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you’re considered an anteater?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Panic!⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be confused with disco snails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How fast could a human accellerate (while staying alive)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in awe of a stomach so delicate it can be turned by an animated stick figure physics diagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4011⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebodies lying (or at least being deceptive). I checked the link. There’s no mention of 20 countries anywhere. Nobody said 20 countries here either. Setting that pedantry aside. In fact, even if it were used by significantly fewer than twenty countries, the ones that without a doubt do use them are spread around the globe. Thus, they are used globally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Einsteinium⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this AI slop or someone cosplaying David Byrne during Stop Making Sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A fucking Members Only pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll destroy all your painstakingly crafted and curated ID3 tags much faster than Picard. I’m not salty or anything. Anyway, the lesson for me was that music is simply too complicated from a library perspective to trust to highly-automated tools like beets. Picard kind of encourages you to go directory by directory and release by release, and that is a good thing. These days so are does most of the library stuff for newly added things, but I usually end up fixing it all basic to my standard with Picard later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  0? Hardly. For a simple pop-culture counterpoint, V for Vendetta was written as an indictment of the UK’s slide into fascism. It was published in 1982. Fascism doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a slow boil erosion of rights and democracy that works in the shadows of government over decades to dissolve checks and balances from the inside and within the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Plexamp has gotten better lately. It can save your progress on audiobooks now. It’s a per library feature, so I have one library of music (that does not save progress) and one for audiobooks (that does save progress). I used to have trouble with some audiobook formats (M4Bs needed to be converted (really just renamed) to mp4s, but that wasn’t necessary for the last few I loaded. Plex still has a little trouble with standards around multiple authors and different productions (and different readers) of a single book, but that’s more of an ID3 tag problem and is resolved if you’re consistent in normalizing the tags on your library. I’ve also used the syncing features a bunch for offline time (like on a plane or on long trips). For a large library, I see syncing offline files as a necessary feature.

  And before the Jellyfin fanboys chime in, if Jellyfin could match these audio and syncing features (and be easier to setup for access outside my LAN and sharing with family), I jump ship in a heartbeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that was my first thought after getting over the weirdness of it, “How manageable is this hair going to be after getting home and later as it grows out?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex server patching required⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “pretty easy” is a bit of a stretch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is true wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, I was just venting. Every place has their quirks. I wish I had your lowkey Fridays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is true wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, not everywhere is like this. Fridays are always the day an emergency project gets dropped in my lap that absolutely must be done before the next Monday because somebody else has a deadline they need to meet (that they’ve known about for months) and they need our work for a critical part of it, but they never seem to remember until Thursday night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is true wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also worked at places where the boss demanded a doctor’s note to return to work. I just said “No, I’m not doing that.” That’s always been the end of it. I returned to work once I was well and continued we all continued on as if it never really was about health and safety in the first place. Lots of places have policies on the books that are either outright illegal or unenforceable, but they get people to tow the line out of fear. If a few of us call their bluff, it’s better for them to quietly move on so that we don’t escalate the situation and shine a light on that policy. If word got around that the policy was unenforceable, they wouldn’t be able to bully the rest into compliance.

  Moreover, not every “sick leave” is something that is contagious, migraines for example. I’ve even taken a sick day preemptively because I got to work and discovered that I’d have to work in close proximity to someone that was actually sick and contagious, but refused to stay home.

  Also, if the company is requiring a professional evaluation in order to work, surely that is something that will be fully expensed to the company. I suppose that dynamic would be different under universal healthcare. But sending people that are recovering from a contagious disease that will resolve itself on its own would still be an incredible strain (and an unnecessary one) on the entire system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of people in this thread proudly sharing how they stereotype and have preconceptions about people that they don’t actually know. And them their justification is that everyone should be a two dimensional single issue character archetype with literally no conflict or contradictions. Have you people even met any adults, especially professionals and academics, that aren’t your parents or your teachers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Forgotten Realm of 1990s PC Barcode Scanning Kits | LGR⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once upon a time I got a CueCat to catalogue my book collection on a (probably now defunct) Web2.0 service. This was before smartphones and apps, and before I had even a laptop. At the time it felt retro-cool and really did help me speed things up in that task. At the time, I had to box up most of my books and CDs for storage, but I wanted an easy way to know in which box each thing was. I think I even had plans to use it with my CD collection next, but building the backend for turning barcodes back into a reference to a playable directory of ripped files turned out to be too much trouble. Could still be doable if you could query a Jellyfin or Plex database based on UPC codes. Now we all just yell into the void and hope the nearest “AI” hears us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The et cetera: Shouldn’t be allowed to work overtime either. And they should get taxed more if they work a second job, so only 40 hours per week. Attach ridiculous fees to any attempt at saving money in a bank, can’t have their money earning interest for them. They should also be in a high cost of living part of hell with no public transportation. And they should be forced to buy their own safety equipment. They should have to pay for healthcare out of pocket, no good health insurance. And they should be penalized for aging the same way too, with new billionaires coming in cheaper and forcing them out of their position and making their experience a liability in finding new work. Let’s throw in some inflation to keeps things spicy. An HOA that is constantly fighting them and won’t let them grow food. How about random detentions and beatings for being the wrong shade in the wrong part of hell town, the part they work in. And they should never be allowed to forget for one moment what they had in life and how they squandered it on petty selfish things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also an argument for not having your own domain for emails, because you may one day loose that domain too, and someone could poach the domain to impersonate you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good evening I choose getting the job done.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perfect is the enemy of good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Google Nest Mini is a smart speaker, not the smart thermostat with a similar name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's a keeper⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, come on. Being not too proud to ask for help, allowing someone else to feel useful and genuinely being appreciative of their help? That’s pretty fucking hot to be honest. Maybe I’m a slut for being made to feel useful and appreciated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's a keeper⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OG sandals involved socks always. Granted fashion has changed a bit over the various millennia since the invention of sandals and socks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange New Worlds catches the feels of TOS without feeling dated. It honors the best of TOS, Next Generation, DS9, and Voyager, but leaves behind the parts that don’t really work anymore. There are women on the bridge and Rick Berman’s shadow is long gone. Although there is still some interpersonal drama, it doesn’t feel nearly as center stage as it did in Discovery, focusing more on the adventure and focusing less on ACTING-centric monologues that made Discovery unbearable sometimes. I wouldn’t call the politics luke warm, though they are maybe a more subtle and less center stage than they were in Discovery. In general, my feeling is that Strange New Worlds has distanced itself from all the parts of Discovery that didn’t work for me.

  My chief gripe is that Spock is often way more emotional than makes sense.

  -A millennial that watched every episode of Next Generation at least twice, once when they aired and again from VHS tapes when my dad got home from work. I guess I’ve watched them all way more than twice now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just typical. It should be celebrated. I for one throughly enjoy seeing cross cultural exchanges of any creative type. Exotic doesn’t need to be derogatory or dehumanizing. (it’s really unfortunate that it most often is.) Everybody is exotic somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the ThinkPad 701 became a cult legend in computer history⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did the Thinkpad 701 become a cult legend in computer history?

  It was the expanding butterfly keyboard that gave you an 11.5" wide keyboard from a 10" wide laptop. Super cool for it’s day, but not really a problem that needs solving anymore. Nobody seems to be clamoring for the nipple mouse anymore either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since we're doing magic eyes now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Focusing at a point behind the image is exactly what we’ve always done for every other magic eye poster because it only requires relaxing your eyes (staring off into the distance) for the image to pop into focus. Cross eyed viewing is damn near impossible on any screen at less than an arm’s length away without significant eye strain or external devices (like the stereoscopic viewers that photogrammetrists would use to view these kinds of images without inducing a migraine) and since the dot is on top holding a finger up as a guide ends up obstructing the entire view unless your arms are growing out of your forehead. The wall eyed view has none of these issues.

  I appreciate the post and your effort. But, the images themselves are frustrating and have killed my initial reaction, which was to share them further. Because I’m nearly the only person I know that wouldn’t loose interest in the explanation for “correct viewing” half way through. If they were wall eyed stereoscopic images, I could just say “Magic Eye”, they’d remember Mallrats, see the schooner, and go “Ooh neat.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Do you have documents to prove you are a US citizen? If not, here's how⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With no more due process, an ID and proof of citizenship do not matter at all. They’re not checking ID’s before hauling people away. And given ICE is going around masked and without uniforms there is no way to verify their authority either. I absolutely loath violence to a point, and that tipping point is the safety of the people in my family and community, regardless of their citizenship. If a group of unidentified masked gunman are attempting to kidnap someone, the only truly patriotic American response is to defend their liberty with all necessary force. Given the murder happy training of our law enforcement, that will obviously result in tragic deaths. But that, protecting the people (all the people, not just citizens) from a corrupt government, is the fundamental justification for the 2nd amendment, always has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just assumed that this was near where they joined a photo from the top of a set of stairs with a photo from the bottom of a set of stairs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In heat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you checked your blood pressure lately? Salt intake? Hydrating okay? Hormones? Allergies?

  Could be an early warning sign of something more serious.

  A little swelling and water retention especially on hot days is normal. But, if your shoes stop fitting due to a little water retention, they probably didn’t fit very well to begin with. It’s easier than you’d think to get used to shoes that are too small. Your feet adapt, but suffer.