vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 weeks ago

Georgia courts have held that once a baby is ‘born alive and has had an independent and separate existence from its mother’ then what happens to the child (injury or death) will be subject to criminal prosecution,” Warren said.

...then why isn't that what the law says? Basically admits completely by accident that a fetus isn't a person. But you don't get to control people that way.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

You don't hear much about good tenants or landlords for two reasons.

One is of course the simple matter that people who are content tend to be quieter. Same reason that it's easier to find complaints about most products.

The other is reduced exposure. Good tenants will generally stay in one place longer and good landlords will retain tenants for longer periods as well. So you end up with just fewer people to even potentially say anything about them, good or ill.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

PDF to JPEG

Don't most pdf viewers have an export to image option?

AVC to MP4

Do you actually have files with an .avc extension? AVC is a codec that can be used in many different container formats, including MP4. Where did these files come from?

OPUS to MP3

I actually agree that most audio conversion tools are needlessly awkward. Audacity will convert these just fine, though doesn't really do bulk conversion. Foobar2000 will do it in bulk if you're on windows.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Canada can also meet most or all of its own dairy needs. There's no reason a Canadian should be buying dairy from other countries aside from a few niche/luxury products, so that tariff is fine.

Charging tariffs on things a country needs to import is crazy.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't really like Discord, but it supports message pinning, threaded conversation, as well as a full blown discussion forum option for community channels. Your complaints seem to be more about the moderation of that specific community than Discord itself.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You stated the reason yourself. Those are different values and matching in a case-insensitive manner is more work under the hood.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

This was my exact experience as well. I'll never know how Plex compares to Jellyfin because I immediately noped out when I ran into the account creation.

Frankly baffling to me that anyone with the wherewithal to self host thought that was okay.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd be interested to see the actual wording of the agreement for that extra $11 million that was allegedly "defrauded". Was it actually stipulated that the money had to be spent on the series, or did he just walk up to Netflix like "give me $11,000,000 and I'll complete the series."

The actual issue at hand seems to be that the series was never completed more so than what the money was used on.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My first read of this headline had me thinking "that's strange, gendered bathrooms are still pretty normal, they can't possibly have been banned, could they?"

...it hadn't even passed within miles of my mind that this was talking about racial segregation. I can't even comprehend this level of regression.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It cannot be overstated how much of a boon Discord's lack of friction is for connecting with people and forming communities. It is mind-flatteningly easy to get onto Discord and into a community, and while the content of those communities is woefully unindexed deep web, forever sequestered, the external discoverability of the communities themselves is exceptional.

You will not ever reach the same people with the same ease of use as Discord if you use a hosted alternative.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago

What could possibly be in the vaccines that would be worse than your child no longer existing?

The article says the man is a Mennonite, which means he probably believes in an afterlife. In his mind his child still exists and he'll get to see her again when he passes and spends eternity there.

I pretty firmly believe that afterlife beliefs account for a pretty significant distortion of values in people and helps explain a large number of frankly insane behaviours. Preventing deaths becomes much less important when there's an eternal paradise waiting for you and the "real" risk is doing something that bars you from going there.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Work, home, online (anonymous), online (WoW friends), online (Elite Dangerous friends), online (Street Fighter friends), IRL friends.

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