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Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?
What about burning a disk?
I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:
https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/
And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!
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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
– Oscar Wilde
Content warning: News story about death by suicide
I've lived in Pittsburgh 3 years. During that time, I've actively sought out folks doing good work in growing food, protecting the environment, & building community resilience. I am *constantly* discovering new people, new groups, new work that's amazing.
Whatever you think should be happening in your world, there's probably someone already working on it in your back yard.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel to change the world: just find the wheel makers & give them a hand.
bro all these youtube videos about "debloating" windows and you gotta run a ton of batch and powershell scripts and run sketchy software and type shit into the command line and disable a bunch of security stuff
and then these same people say "linux is too hard" cmon 😭
It took a while but the penny's dropped and I now think I understand Starmer's methodology. He's playing this election like a barrister plays a brief. It's not about belief in his client, pursuit of truth, a vision of the future, it's solely about pitching an argument to the audience he sees before him to get the result the client requires.
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I'm not seeing a credible solution to Britain's housing crisis from any of the parties. It's all "Here, have more unsustainable debt", or "It's the immigrants' fault", as they pander to elderly NIMBYs.
When I see a party that will tax second homes and buy to lets into oblivion, control rents, come down hard on dodgy landlords, rebuild the social housing stock, and build build build like it's 1948, then I will sit up and take notice.
Until then, my country has nothing to offer me.
@bwh very much so.
I think all the parties suffer a bit from being the kind of people who have rental properties and second homes, in their top echelons. They simply don't understand the scale of the problem.
This is bonkers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs Some pharmaceutical crystals can no longer be synthesised because they now spontaneously change to a more stable (but less medically efficacious) form. The more stable form acts as a seed crystal for the less stable form, and once this happens it creates a cascading effect, in which people who have ever worked with the stable form can contaminate an entire factory/lab and make it unable to reproduce the earlier form.
Edit: Yes, like Ice-Bloody-9. Enough!
Content warning: The Cass Report/transphobia in science (cis people in particular please read this, includes a link to a study showing all the ways the report is biased and pretty overtly shaped by bigotry)
Scrolling through a lot of old messages and feeling nostalgic.
Tell your friends you love them before you can't anymore.
Sketchy CM for rosexknight ( #Patreon ) 🐰🌼
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And now the fanatics are coming for no-fault divorce.
Because nothing makes white Republican men happier than another federal law allowing them to control women.
Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorce | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/25/republicans-no-fault-divorce
Republicans in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas have discussed eliminating or restricting such casesEric Berger (The Guardian)
⚡️Incredible footage of a lightning bolt hitting and decimating a large tree in Augé, western France earlier today. Credit：Benjamin Estrade
#Lightening #LighteningStrike #Thunderbolt
"You better… or else!"
Ten reasons why rewards & punishments go a bit wrong with autistics
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticLearning #Education
A thread 🧵
Ugh. I posted a small thread using Tusky, earlier, and for some reason it decided to post it private. Not friends-only or even mutuals-only, I mean *completely* private. Me only. (I can only guess I set it like that for a post in the past, and it's remembered it forever.) No wonder no one responded. I wonder how many times it's done that before now. Oh well, here it is again:
Watching Ron's Gone Wrong again. Again again. I realised, with this film being about friends, it's about how… depth is more important than surface area. I guess I just like stories about making friends. Something I want to have done but find so difficult to actually do. At least, when it comes to depth rather than just surface area.
[Ron]: A bird has commented on your face.
I watch and read these stories about friendships and they make me feel I've never had an actual real close friend in my life, never really had more than moderate acquaintances, but I don't know whether that's true or if what's being shown in the stories is actually unrealistically good friendships or not. I always assumed many people did have friends as close as that.
I *thought* there was a reason I like watching this stuff…!
(The hermits I subscribe to are Impulse, Skizzleman and Etho.)
Hermitcraft is a YouTube show with people like Mumbo Jumbo, Grian, XisumaVoid, GoodtimeswithScar, and 23 others. Right now they are on Hermitcraft Season 10....YouTube
Right-wing politicians often talk about "generating wealth" and market efficiencies, but what they REALLY want to do is EXTRACT wealth and CONCENTRATE capital.
Take, for instance, their treatment of homelessness. Study after study PROVES that it's just more efficient to provide housing for people, but they instead want to force them into for-profit prisons. This costs the government tons of money to fund, but keeps housing expensive and lets their friends get paid to run slave labor camps.
Their goal isn't to grow the economy, but rather to make their friends richer at the people's expense.
All those oil wars? NOT PROFITABLE to the country as a whole. However, government contractors & connected oligarchs (eg: Haliburton executives in the white house AKA Dick Cheney) get to syphon off funds and use those ill-gotten gains to further corrupt the system and cement their positions.
It's a scam, enabled by oligarch-controlled media and just enough trickle down to stop the pitchforks
As regards burning, haven’t done that for a while. I tend to back up all my discs to external HDs, though.
I only stream if the movie or show I want to see isn’t available physically.