Jaycifer

I’ve found the recommendations in Tidal to be more hit or miss but overall better than Spotify since I switched almost a year ago. I felt that Spotify was pushing the same songs over and over, and I’d only find 1-3 new songs I liked a month. On Tidal it seems like the Daily Discovery playlist focuses on a genre I’ve been listening to, and while often none of the songs stick out, when it hits I’ll find 1-3 new songs that day, and it hits multiple times per month. It took a few months to get to that point though.

And if you like the idea of watching a classic tv series but know you won’t actually follow through on it, my favorite youtuber made a long but interesting video about it as well! https://youtu.be/s9AJlhE2-qw?is=lDIfgZ2ntNdxxUsv

Most of my friends who have VR headsets have gotten enough satisfaction from it. The Steam Frame fixes the things about those older headsets such I will be getting one eventually.

Frankly, to be asking your question about internet speeds makes it obvious that you’ve done barely a cursory reading on what the Steam Frame is. Until you’ve fixed that I cannot take what you say seriously.

It actually matters more and more until the deadline for a special election has passed. Then it matters for another day or two in case Kentucky decides to hold a special election anyway. THEN it stops mattering when they never do.

Huh, I guess my well of embarrassment for my country has officially ran dry. I didn’t feel anything from reading that, just acknowledged that I should be embarrassed!

That is too narrow a definition of racism. Merriam Webster defines it as a belief that race is determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of one race over another. Racism is also defined as actions that reflect or foster that belief. It can also be systemic oppression of people based on race.

Based on that, you could maybe argue that language is cultural and not racial, therefore this is cultural discrimination more than racial discrimination, but in a place with an incredibly low ethnic and language diversity for the size of its population that’s just a distinction without a difference.

What this sign indicates is that they only want Japanese reading people, and in Japan that’s going to be almost exclusively native Japanese people, so it’s not a stretch to say that they do not want non-Japanese reading and therefore non-Japanese people. A policy like that is reflective of a belief that non-Japanese people do not belong in that business, and that is racist.

Hmm? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_corporatism

I hear something I remember was 20 years ago and my first thought is that it’s so cool I got to witness that! Then I think about the people older than me and want to extract their experience of the things they lived through. Then I think about the people younger than me and wonder what they think of the things I remember and they don’t, hope they have some interest in learning of and from those things. Then I realize some day I’ll be older than most people and will have very few people in my life that have shared my experiences and get a little melancholy.

You wouldn’t happen to be talking about the new data center in Fargo, would you?

I think most of those are inappropriate to try doing on a plane, so probably for the best you haven’t tried them.

Intimacy and sex with strangers is generally frowned upon, material benefit (I’m guessing that’s what you meant) doesn’t really form a connection, religion is a tough sell if you’re not trained for it and not all religions are great, violence would likely create some animosity.

Talking to someone though can build connection and trust, which makes it easier to help someone find a better path. I do find taking LSD myself helps me become acquainted with new people, so if you’re like me maybe take a trip in search of sad, lonely people to talk to?

Most of what I’m going to say here is stuff I learned/thought about a decade ago. I went to the Porcupine Freedom Festival (Porcfest) in college, the largest libertarian get together in the US (it took over a mid-size campsite for a week). What I learned was hardcore libertarians tend to be anarchists. A lot of what I heard from others was centered around individuals being engaged in their own governance.

In one case that was a blockchain voting system where a person essentially owned their voting registration instead of getting registered with the state. The more interesting one was a presentation that put forth that the best organized groups are in sizes of eight. Therefore the best government system would be a council system in which individuals sort themselves into groups of eight, then choose one of them to be part of a group of eight groups, and so on until a country has built up a national council that directly traces each member to every individual they represent.

Based on those I think what most anarchists take issue with in our current world (of the US) is that the government comes out every four years to say “hey, here are some people to vote for, take your pick.” It’s a lot more top down than it might look on the surface, and anarchists demand a bottom up approach.

If you want an interesting portrayal of hard libertarian/anarchist ideals, I recommend The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, which is about a libertarian revolution on the moon.

Well in the case of this post you lean forward and strike up a conversation with the guy instead of posting about him online.

Ah, I see you went with the ridicule.

Go Bison! :P

Alright, so Japan played Brazil with Hatsune Miku on the line and lost. Then Brazilian Hatsune played Norway and lost. Then Norwegian Hatsune played England and lost. Then English Hatsune played Argentina and lost. Then Argentinian Hatsune played Spain and lost. Now Spanish Hatsune Miku is the ultimate winner.

Jean Claude the bard. My favorite litrpg series, The Completionist Chronicles, has a character named Jaxon who has his charisma stat so far below his others that the game system morphs the words he hears into different sentences, and he is the most off putting and creepy guy most people meet. Luke Daniels does a good job conveying that, so I thought what if he was actually charismatic but talked like he wasn’t?

So Jean Claude was a speech bard that literally could not roll lower than a 17 on his persuasion and deception checks, was lawful evil and wanted power but was basically useless in a head on fight, was jealous of his pro-athlete little brother wizard, was the only mage in the party with a magic license and a part of the mage institute everyone else was rebelling against, and to top it all off his best friend was a guy who had no friends that he would cast friends on whenever they saw each other so Jean Claude could get some magic practice and the other guy could feel like he had a friend.

Maybe not silly by design, but I chuckle at the juxtaposition of his character’s abilities and personality every time.

What do you think “historical thing” means?

Exactly what I was going to say. The comic is only a couple days old, and I don’t know where the artist lives but here in the Twin Cities there has been smoke from Canadian wildfires around this time for several years straight now. I had to postpone my tennis plans today because of it. My older coworker this morning told me it used to never be like this. The office custodians closed the outside air dampers because the smoke was leaking inside.

I see what they’re going for and I think it’s good to have diverse perspectives represented, but if you actually said this to a “white cis guy is the default” person they would just tell you “this is America, not China, and white cis guy is the default here. Just look at who is rich and successful.” It’s not the gotcha the original poster thinks it is because it’s appealing to a greater view of the world than the racist, sexist person wants to have.

If someone told me the protagonist should be a white guy I wouldn’t directly tell them they’re wrong, I’d express my own counter opinion that I don’t want to see the same thing over and over again, I want to see new stuff, and seeing another white dude is boring and therefore kinda lame. Maybe point to accessible movies like how Annihilation has cool action and visuals but also a distinctly feminine aspect that distinguishes it from something like Oblivion. Or how Everything Everywhere All at Once has a scene about someone giving up the life they had to emigrate to another country and the feelings that came from that which a standard white dude won’t feel.

Edit: Sorry, I missed which community this is. Feel free to remove my comment if it’s not appropriate.

The misinformation is the part where you’re pushing a false narrative that using the term organic in any way other than being organism-derived (or however you prefer to define it) is inherently misleading and wrong. Unless you want to argue that a word can’t have two meanings, in which case good luck arguing that point. Unlike the word “literally” it’s pretty easy for a layperson to tell which definition is being used based on context. “There is organic material in this sample” is clearly referring to the only definition you’ll accept. Saying “this tomato I bought is organic” is pretty easy to understand that the tomato in question is more similar to a naturally occurring tomato than one that has undergone alterations, even if the person saying that doesn’t know the specifics. Why not that word? If the term the USDA used was “natural” you’d be telling me right now that if it wasn’t natural it wouldn’t be food.

I do think the term “organic” should be split into at least four different terms to cover all the major qualifications (GMO-free, synthetic pesticide free, sustainable, free range for animals but actually defined) to be called organic, but that’s different than saying that it’s inherently misleading as a term or that it would be misleading on purpose. What purpose? To make more money? It’s more expensive to grow produce that meets the requirements to be called organic. If there was legitimately no difference between organic-labeled and non-organic-labeled food you might have a point, but there is.