I’m skeptical that there exists any leftist mainstream place that isn’t actually a right-wing place disguised as leftist.

I’m also skeptical that all of those loud but irrational voices are genuine. Especially given Russia’s MO for online trolling where they push both sides of any issue to extremes to sow division. Not to say that I believe everyone on the left is rational and reasonable. But why would the tone be so different between “mainstream” and “non-mainstream” left places if the position you’re talking about is as ubiquitous to the left as you claim it is?

Looking at the two curves, it looks like they are pretty close but French edges out English because of the speed it’s spoken at.

Even when it was fresh in my mind, I was never able to follow French tv because they just go so fast.

Except the graph ends with 2020, so I’m not sure it even includes whatever mystery events might have biased things towards online that year.

Could be early IT people meeting secretaries and the like when visiting to fix the internet.

Lol I tried this for two breaths and already got a head rush. I’m not even trying to play an actual flute, just sustain pressure from my mouth while I inhale and then switch back to blowing from my lungs.

I wonder if master flutists get a kind of natural high any time they play at a high level that uses this technique and that’s why they stuck with the flute long enough to master it.

Or hell, if dopamine for non-ADHD people gives good feelings from normal stuff, is that why anyone sticks with things long enough to master them? Just flute masters might get that extra head rush on top of it.

I was there, there was a young horny couple that couldn’t take their hands or lips off each other prior to OP’s screams. After they saw that, they started fighting instead. Like a bare knuckle brawl, not an argument.

I see it as an anti feature, like a website’s ability to create a pop up without any user interaction or navigate without the user clicking such that the back button doesn’t go to the previous url but instead to some point you scrolled to in the site.

Just like when a news website pops up a request to send notifications. Um fuck no? I’m not sitting around waiting for new propaganda to drop such that I want to know immediately when something comes out.

Uh which war was that?

I put off watching that for a long time because I didn’t really like the Harley Quinn character and her obsession with Joker and that whole abusive relationship they had, compounded by all the people who treated Harley and Joker like it was a relationship goal.

But I was very pleasantly surprised when I did eventually give it a shot. Yeah, it does include some Harley and J stuff, but they kinda had to because of how ingrained that relationship was into Harley’s pop culture identity. But it is done well. The series is one of my favorite in the Batman mythos.

It’s also kinda interesting how Ivy seems to be holding up better morally than Batman himself does. She’s an environmental warrior while he’s a status quo warrior, and that billionaire side of him holds up less and less well as it becomes more and more apparent that even billionaire philanthropists are really just taking credit for giving away wealth they shouldn’t have had in the first place.

His reaction might have made it into the top 5 reactions to the shots as far as severity of results. The only other reactions that weren’t just words that I’m aware of are the SS eventually noticing and shooting the guy (plus increasing security), the one cop that shot the guy’s gun, and maybe Trump himself getting PTSD. So Jack Black might have had the 4th most severe reaction by cancelling that tour and rethinking any future collaborations.

Hindsight is 20/20 but he probably should have just cancelled a show or two and then would have seen that the whole thing was dropped because it wasn’t generating any sympathy for Trump (quite the opposite, the main sentiments I saw were “sucks he missed” and “we really shouldn’t say that it sucks he missed, even though a lot of us are thinking that”).

I wonder if Jack Black wishes he had just kept quiet for a week for everyone to forget about it.

If that’s diameter, that dick has similar proportions to the reply chat bubble.

If it’s circumference, the diameter is 1.56".

Just imagine the chafing from fucking dry pasta.

Not just any time it’s copied or generally over time, but each playback can degrade the quality. Record pins erode the channels, magnetic heads affect the strength of the magnetic field they read.

Reads, copies, and time don’t (necessarily) degrade digital media, even with lossy compression (time can, but any time it’s copied, it resets the clock to as good as the media can give; analog doesn’t get that reset). Lossy compression only degrades it on conversion and there’s a bunch of control over the shape of that degradation (with the intent of it not being detectable to our ears, though it obviously also depends on the bandwidth available).

It doesn’t have to be a pleasant aesthetic or visual. It could be anything from a full image to a font used on a resume to the choice of words used in general to the way the email address sounds if you pronounce it out loud. It can be the sequence of smells, sounds, sights, taste, and feel of a single course or five course meal.

It can be puppets designed to last generations or an explosion that exists for a brief moment.

It can even be the cleverness of how a message is woven into an otherwise meaningless looking scene.

Art is aesthetic. It can express something but it doesn’t have to.

Yeah, a nuclear exchange would be a faster way of achieving what antinatalists would achieve if they got their way.

I’d like to see some of his games.

That’s not a table. It’s a thick chess board with a pedestal.