LesserAbe

joined 2 years ago
[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Cool. Reminds me a little bit of literary interpretation. There's no such thing as "just reading what's there", everyone interprets.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Didn't Frank Lloyd Wright use the term "Usonian"?

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

"Most music is terrible" so I'm not particularly drawn to having this vast archive. I want to listen to the things I really like.

It's also not lossless, so from an archive standpoint that seems to diminish its value.

That said, I do think the insights they post on their blog about statistics and distribution are interesting. And just because that music is currently available via paid services doesn't mean it will always be as accessible in one place. There would be a lot of manual collection and labeling you'd have to do to get something like this otherwise. And you wouldn't have nearly as much confidence about how comprehensive such a database was if you did it yourself.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is interesting, thanks!

Don't know that I would be active enough for what.cd, but I am drawn to archiving, lossless files and comprehensive metadata.

I ripped my hundreds of CDs to FLAC and spent a good while organizing before Spotify came along with its temptations. Have started buying again on Bandcamp lately and been thinking about spinning up jellyfin.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Person freaking out as Columbo gradually unravels their perfect copycat Hand murder

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There would be a lot of ideas about why different people get squished. We wouldn't know it was random definitively. And because it looks like a human adjacent hand, probably a lot of speculation about God punishing people for being bad.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I think this is a misread of the article. They don't seem to be suggesting any actual solution, and only mention "populist rule" in passing with no specifics.

But they do seem to be blaming the left for not doing anything about the problem. And I thought it was funny how at the top they were like "even liberals like Roberts"

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The article says they suspect this was done by people who have an interest in hunting, since those people often complain that the eagles target birds like pheasants.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry for a casual, what do you mean cap at 60hz?

I just use Firefox on Ubuntu, which fifteen years ago seemed like enough.

Which also doesn't seem that casual, but this shit is too much to keep up with. Today my engineer dad was complaining about search engines having too many ads and I asked what he used, and he said besides Google on the one computer he uses Bing on the other.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 102 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

No, this is looking at it wrong. You get to fuck the sexy hybrid human-dog abomination

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Well which is it, that she tried to pepper spray a winter spider, or that the victim had it coming?

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Best detail I think is that they door dashed Arby's.

 

Particularly this part: "* I don't do shit that's my decision

  • Not doing shit is like my religion
  • Look to the east five times a day
  • And if I'm doing shit then I put it away"

Crudbump - I Don't Do Shit

 

In the little western media I've seen covering Sudan, the general impression I get is that the RSF is worse in terms of human rights abuses, but that initially the army and RSF initiated a coup together.

Is it just two power hungry factions falling out, or are there deeper ideological differences? For example I came across a reddit comment saying RSF are atheist ultra-nationalists, which may be true or false, but I haven't come across much info characterizing the two sides motivations at all. I'm interested to know more, I don't feel like the coverage I've seen has been in depth.

 

I'm interested in ways that people document, prioritize and execute items they need to do. What have you found useful?


For me: I don't particularly care about other Outlook functionality, but flagging emails and managing them in the sidebar has helped me a lot. I have it set to display only items due today, and then sorted into categories like "now," "soon," "pending." If I don't expect to get to an item today I change the due date to tomorrow or next week. Items don't have to be based on an email either, you can just type into the sidebar text field.

When I get emails I either immediately reply, flag it for later action, or ignore, and then I drop all emails into one giant folder. If I need to find something I do it all by search.

I've tried other systems like gmail's to do list, but it feels like way more friction to accomplish the same things, especially wanting to only view tasks due today, and categorizing tasks.

Likewise I've tried to-do-list apps, but not being able to instantly convert an email into a task, and not having documentation easily at hand when I go to perform the task makes them feel more burdensome.

 

Recently replaced the headlight bulbs for my car and saw the box indicated you shouldn't put them in the garbage because they contain mercury. I know that some retailers like home depot have a program to recycle florescent bulbs, but my understanding is that's specifically for residential bulbs (like the kind you might get at home depot). AutoZone will take back some parts but don't appear to have a program for bulbs. What's the easiest, responsible way to dispose of these?

 
 
 

In the US most students recite "the pledge of allegiance" every morning before school, which is kind of crazy. If you were in charge, what if anything would you replace it with?

 

I just saw a discussion among corporate event planners where one person was upset that event organizers don't give proper consideration to scheduling over top of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

I can appreciate the annoyance, when I was still a practicing Christian I would never think to schedule a work thing over Easter or Christmas. We should treat others with consideration, and should be mindful of what others view as important days. But I also don't know what each religion considers to be major, non negotiable holidays. Do you?

Another question, does it matter where the event is? (for example, in the US should less consideration be given to holidays of religions that have fewer adherents?)

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