[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 53 minutes ago

Well, yeah, but I wouldn't trust NYT news as trustworty without confirmation from other sources. I'd say the integrity of the rag has been compromised, but I don't actually know if it ever was integral even in the Raymond and Jones days.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

As a general policy I reject FOX News spin.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

At least two beers each in front of each other.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

Air holes will extend the time to days instead of hours.

A giant hampster bottle of water will extend the time to weeks instead of days.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 hours ago

NYT editorials have leaned far right for a long while now. They're FOX News with a longer, more bluechip reputation.

Do not use NYT as a reliable source. Do not trust NYT readers who do.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 hours ago

Much like the twenty minutes of unskippable ads on commercial DVDs, the media companies and social media will enshittify until the general public turns to piracy.

Essentially, the sooner we all come to terms with piracy being ~~acceptable~~ necessary, the sooner they let off on their enshittification efforts.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Can the doxxing tech be used to ID law enforcement officers? A lot of them are assholes and bullies knowing their IDs will [be] protected by state and corporate interests.

And police in the US are more than eager to use facial recognition and ALPR services to bypass our fourth amendment protections.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

The short answer, I don't know.

But from my own observation there were a lot more general key changes in 1980s-era rock, which may have been the result of fewer other ways to escalate a song for the final chorus and outro, which is to say, yes, new tech (mostly sampling, looping and higher-fidelity recording) reduced the need for creativity much the way that movies had a lot more stage effects before they just filmed actors in green-screen and added everything with CGI.

Last year I went to a SGMC concert of mostly Queen, and was noticing how much their tunes bounced around, often having two or three key-changes per verse+chorus.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

The closest I have to religion is naturalist, which is to say based on the data I have, I can't find any evidence anywhere of supernatural effects, and while I haven't personally done the looking, the scientific consensus is that there's nothing, even when it comes to religious investigators actively looking for evidence of the stuff they expect to see.

To date, there are some pretty high bounties on evidence of various kinds of spooky shit that remain unclaimed.

Of course, I don't know this to be the case. The simulation hypothesis has not been ruled out, which would allow for effects we cannot detect. It doesn't stop me from worshiping my cat. (Cat-huffing. It's a thing.) And it raises questions whether we are the same person when we wake up after non-REM sleep, or a new iteration of the identity. (The transporter paradox). But so far, the most likely explanation is we're material girls living in a material world.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 day ago

Note that with rare exceptions, creators are not supported by your purchases. Rather the studios, labels and publishers wh cheat creators are.

If you want to support the creators, pay them directly, or go to one of their performances / signings / functions. But still pirate their work.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'd expect the Waymo video to have captured footage of these guys. It might not be that difficult to track them, and street harassment might well qualify as assault if the DA of San Francisco were interested in prosecuting.

That said, it's telling that they freely and openly harassed a strange woman on the street once the threat of being run over was not a factor.

ETA: One short-term workaround is to tint the windows so that passengers cannot be seen from the outside, but there might be causes to harass occupied Waymo vehicles regardless of the passenger (say, to mug them). I'm curious if this is going to lead to equipping autonomous vehicles with anti-riot ordnance.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 day ago

Public domain and abandonware and forgotten media are regarded by the media companies as a threat to their business model, since it is possible you can be entertained by them rather than their own for-cost offerings. It is no longer enough for them to control what you consume media, but insist on controlling whether you consume.

And the courts regard them as persons and members of the public as not. We don't count as invested parties.

According to the US and the EU we common folk don't figure.

It is now more ethical to pirate (or simply not consume it at all) than it is to obtain legitimate licenses.

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Only too late would we discover what would become of our children.

(More terror than horror, but I think qualifies.)

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We recently had this conversation and I realized I have new headcannon.

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{"data":{"msg":"Required command ffprobe not found, make sure it exists in pict-rs'
$PATH","files":null},"state":"success"}

This is what I get when I try to u/l a picture from the Lemmy instance website (Blåhaj)

< sadface >

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I was thinking Low Key Gigachad Enclave

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Courtesy of Ray Bradbury, of course.

(We assume Jim took the deal.)

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My beautiful child... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I knew it! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Moldy Monday continues.

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The Summoning (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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It ALL makes sense now. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Moldy Month of June goes on.

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Oh Hell No. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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