Deconceptualist

Bah, I’m not going to either of those dumps. But thanks for the info!

What’s the name of this webcomic?

Mine right now (sorted by recent):

• Ad for local flooring installer
• Sponsored ad for power company
• “Hey, everyone. 👋 I’m Shawn. Hello!”
• Ad for local home remodeling
• User giving away a cat
• Sponsored ad for garage doors
• Another user welcome message
• Found pet alert from local animal shelter
• Sponsored ad for bathroom showers
• Ad for local bathroom remodeling
• Ad for local handyman service

So when it’s not ranty freakouts it’s 85% ads.

Fun fact: the Fallout series has 73% more toilet skeletons than any other game franchise, according to the Environmental Storytelling Toilet Skeletons’ Workers Union, which is an organization I just made up.

This is my experience with every fourth post on the Nextdoor app.

Yeah I feel like 80% of Norwegian is just mutated German.

e.g. Tier --> dyr (animal)

women aren’t on the way to the house but I don’t know what to do with it but I think they are definitely going to be a good person and I will be able to get a new one in the morning

Huh.

No. Testicles, though lacking the raw strength of Muscles or the courage of elder Uncles, would not be separated from steadfast Principles. Though many tried to insult him with nicknames like “Tubercles” or “Microparticles”, those could never stick like they did to poor Treacles or restrain his vigor like heavy Manacles.

Tired of senseless Debacles, he studied scholarly Articles and read ancient Chronicles and prayed nightly for the most magnificent Miracles. Finally one day while meditating, a vision of complex Epicycles formed in the most profound Tabernacles of his mind. He awoke to realize it mattered not what hateful words prodded him like chilly Icicles; he was already atop the Pinnacles of manliness, and he wasn’t alone. From that day forth he hung proudly with his wiry protector, the hideous and patchy Follicles no one dared approach.

I used to think it was just a social in-group/out-group thing, so English speakers could more easily spot foreigners for not knowing the odd pronunciations. But the more I learn about language the more I think of the adage “don’t ascribe malice to what could be adequately explained by incompetence”.

With how many speakers use English, I now think it just gets jumbled and mangled over time and there’s no real central authority to correct for that. Ultimately that makes our words sound weirder and more colorful so it’s not the worst thing, especially once you understand that even native speakers don’t know how to pronounce most large words until heard.

But then there’s no implied murder after the fact.

I TRIED CLICKING AND NOTHING IS HAPPENING!!1!

I had a friend who had a high end FLAC player and kept trying to convince me it was the best thing ever. Honestly though it didn’t sound any different than a really good MP3 to me though.

The actual intent behind MP3 was to sound the same. Just like all later lossy codecs, it uses a psychoacoustic model to remove high frequency harmonics and other “buried” sounds that are supposedly imperceptible to most human ears, in order to save on data. At its max (CBR 320 kbps) almost nobody should be able to tell the difference from full CD quality.

I had a friend who had a high end FLAC player and kept trying to convince me it was the best thing ever. Honestly though it didn’t sound any different than a really good MP3 to me though.

FLAC has a different design philosophy. It’s lossless which means it literally keeps every byte of data from a CD or similar source but just compresses it. You can still get down to like 1/4 the size (vs like 1/8 for a high end MP3 or 1/12 for an average MP3). Storage was a big deal a couple decades ago but in this age of 4+ TB hard disks there’s not much reason not to go all FLAC all the time (except maybe if you really wanna cram as much music as possible into your phone).

I like both. I was just making the point that “better” can depend on circumstances.

I quite like the sound of vinyl in general.It’s highly variable depending on the exact material used and how much play play it has gotten and even the read head, but that’s also part of the charm.

A FLAC file will always sound the same on the same equipment. Which can also be a benefit.

I’m having trouble connecting my record player to my car stereo over Bluetooth. Also it keeps skipping. Help!

Excuse me, that’s the weed patio. The hookah goes on the porch.

TIL northern Ohio was once the Nation of Cat and destroyed by the Iroquois.

Sure, especially if you’re the egg.

So this community has devolved into kink-shaming then? Is that what this is? Obviously there have to be some ethical boundaries but between consenting adults this seems pretty harmless.

A friend’s mom was there in 1970. Wasn’t a good time.

By this logic, the math problem the teacher called me up to the board to solve in 10th grade when I had a random boner was also a woman.