I am well aware but any artist that is signed to a large-ish label is unlikely to publish on bandcamp, much less soundcloud. There aren’t 50 ways to pirate mainstream music, it’s either the old-school way or ripping off youtube. Or so a friend told me.
And any artists that do have a bandcamp I would feel bad about downloading their music without paying for it, these guys usually aren’t T-Swift rich…
Which music library can it rip from? Last I checked it couldn’t do spotify’s due to the heavy DRM they use. All the tools you find online either do an audio out rip-and-reencode (lossy though minimally so) or more likely “look up on YouTube Music and download” which is objectively going to yield worse audio quality (though whether that matters for one’s usecase is very dependent on hardware and wetware specifics). The bigger problem with blind YouTube music rips is you’re occasionally going to end up with intros/outros and random diegetic noises from music videos.
Fictional characters also have a bunch of naming rules that real people don’t. Quite importantly, unless you’re GRRM they should not have the same or similar name to another character in your story (i.e. what you’re saying, one name per person and one person per name). Else shit’s just confusing, as knows anyone who tried to learn anything about Elden Ring’s lore.
Names also should match the character’s personality. John’s John because he’s meant to be pathetically average and John is the most average white american name there is. Naming him Bartholomew or Rico would not have worked for that particular character.
I would therefore posit that if John as a fictional character did transition, Jane might be a better fit due to being more common while still being familiar enough not to be confusing. Or perhaps Jess which retains an alliteration but sounds even more “basic” then Jane IMO.
Sweden has some of the cheapest electricity in all of Europe thanks to all that hydro.
This year my final electric bill was ~ 25 c/kWh. Gas was ~ 8c/kWh (both after distribution costs, and funnily enough for electricity I pay amongst other things a fee to subsidize other people’s solar panels’ negative impact on the grid).
Not “comically expensive” but to be cost-effective a heat pump must average a COP of at least 3.1 (which is possible in most climates with a decent enough HP), so it’s not yet a “jump on it first chance you get” kinda deal because it will take many years to recoup the initial investment. And people remember last year’s winter where the electric costs were more than doubled; gas prices tend to fluctuate much less. This makes heat pumps even more of a very long term investment for people who can afford very large surprises in their power bill… Or who have excess PV generation capacity in the winter (that requires a very large house).
Gas is on the way out but all the political sabotage of electricity prices in Europe (nuclear phaseout, asinine financial regulations and fake competition with useless middlemen, misfiring PV legislation meaning PV owners are being subsidized by everyone else, etc.) means it will take a very long time before HP costs drop enough for people flock to replace their existing gas heater with a heat pump.
Ma’am, that is a 33 cl mixture of gas station sludge. It has no syrup, leaves, or apple juice. It is an amalgamation of the industrial output of several laboratories, distilled, mixed, powdered, re-liquefied, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy water chalice. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this terrible liquid exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of water is more than gas station sludge. It is a physical declaration of mankind’s contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest.
We also have a higher glucose variety if you would prefer that.
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Carburetors are still the norm on small ICEs (e.g. garden tools), and very common on vehicles that don’t need a license plate. Motorcycles also commonly had them until about 20 years ago, or less depending on the make/region.
Granted car mechanics do not generally care for carburetors unless they specialize in antiques.
The Algorithm has been A Thing long enough to have impacted young adults during their formative years.
At 25 I’m barely old enough that I entered adolescence just as “youtuber” became a career for many people (around 2012ish). The Algorithm has been part of it all my teens though I witnessed it becoming increasingly eldritch throughout and teaching its final untethered form in the second half of the 2010s. Today’s 20 year olds never knew anything else as they were 13 when elsagate was in full swing.
TL;DR how are your knees grandpa?
IMO the proper thing to do is to answer the question and make damn sure the poster isn’t falling for the XY Problem.
Sometimes the weird solution is justified by a weird context, and we gotta treat people like adults. But also, you’re probably asking the wrong question.
Like, I can tell you how to disconnect your bike’s brake lines, but if you’re asking how to do that with no context I would most definitely like to know what problem you think you’re solving.
Just live in a country which refuses to acknowledge cell broadcast exists, then you’ll die in peaceful silence in the next national emergency while operators take several hours to to send 11 million unicast SMS.
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The Catholic Church: Co-opts a pagan holiday and re-brands it
Two millennia of tradition: Mix pagan imagery with Christian imagery
Nonbelievers: Co-opt it back without the explicitly Christian imagery
You: Nooooooo it’s religious!
The Church has had an iron fist over much of my continent for near two millenia, so of course you can find a religious tie for every holiday (except the First of May probably). However my family is almost completely non believing and we’ve always celebrated Christmas and Easter, with Coca-Cola Santa and no Mass. Why this laic co-optation is so controversial I will never understand.
Easter is not inherently a christian holiday goddammit. At least not in its popular celebration. Last I checked Jesus didn’t pop eggs from his butt when he resurrected (that we know of) and the preachings of the Easter Bunny are unfortunately not canon in Catholicism.
To complain about “religious persecution” of profoundly pagan (if not outright heretical depending on who you ask) traditions is… certainly an interesting exercise in religious cognitive dissonance.
I don’t think there is one beyond “hey look we all know this thing”.
Americans: “We are a diverse patchwork of cultures and saying the US is one gigantic boring monoculture just because we share a common language is offensive”
Also Americans: hundreds of millions of people literally all relate to the same quirky element of childhood imposed through immense conformist institutions, can’t even process the idea that other cultures exist that do not relate to this specific element.
I need to hear what this connector would sound like when connected to an actual Dolby Atmos system. Do the crackles and pops get spatialized and make an impromptu symphony going around your room? The people must know!
I don’t think twitter users in authoritarian hellholes are acting like NPCs going “Glory to Artsotzka” every five minutes.
It’s tourism, coupled with low twitter use from the local population. Belgium has a bigger population than Belarus and unlike it isn’t an authoritarian hellhole. But it’s way more touristy. So Belgium has its own flag as the most used emoji but Belarus doesn’t.
You can see this pattern pretty clearly in the ME as well. Jordan, Yemen, or Syria don’t have their own flag as their most used emoji (despite being both small and undemocratic), because there ain’t any tourists there. Qatar does. (A bit surprised about Cyprus though, do they use twitter a lot?)
The data is probably sound, but the methodology is insane.
A bunch of countries just have their own flag as an emoji… The author barely managed to identify which emoji tourists use when posting about their trip on twitter.
You expect us to not notice how you skipped over the entire 0-50 range there? “It’s just better for everyday temps” my ass.
Also 100F is not deadly if you got water and aren’t working hard, and neither is 0F if you got appropriate clothing.
And don’t get me started on how y’all pretend that measuring temperature has to be on this stupid ass scale “because it goes to a hundred where I live” but then y’all count your school grades (which are entieely made up and would cost literally nothing to change) to 3.8 or whatever the fuck.
If 100 % of Indians start using English as their lingua franca (they’re on a track to just that), does that make Hindi a dialect of English?
The sociopolitical reality of a lingua franca does not define the scientific linguistic reality of other languages.
I will say that personally the notion of catalan being a subset of castellan sounds ridiculous on account of the fact that in its written form catalan is roughly mutually intelligible with french, where castellan is not. If it’s going to be lumped in as a dialect of something, it’d be more intellectually honest to make it a dialect of French.
IMO a queer person is by definition GSRM. I wouldn’t call anyone Queer that isn’t part of the community, it’s weird.
But queer as an adjective can mean many things. It’s basically taken on the mantle of “gay” in that sense. 10 years ago we’d say “anything LGBT-adjacent is gay”, now for the sake of inclusion/intersectionality the meaning has been transferred to “queer” and I’m all for it.
The fact that people not fitting strict gender norms are being called queer… well 15 years ago they’d have been called metrosexual or butch or straight-up slurs lol. The behaviors haven’t changed, and that’s the problem.
no but seriously tho
I’m a cis dude, overall quite masc, but it drives me up the wall how peak acceptable fun in male gender expression is wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
Anything beyond that (e.g. painting nails) is automatically queer. Which is fine, I am queer, but why would my cis gender expression be classified as queer?? Or put another way, why don’t cishet men paint their nails, wear earrings, or skirts or crop tops? Do they hate fun?
Wearing a crop-top in public sounds super fun if it wasn’t for the fact that a bland black crop top would earn me even more attention than if I was Margot Robbie herself. My introverted ass can’t handle that. But also I really wanna. God fucking damnit we truly do love in a society.
Sorry about the rant I guess I had more on my mind than I thought.
There are two main points to getting a diagnosis:
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