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Yeah, I don’t get it either, everybody seems to think that this change makes it impossible to hide posts from blocked users. But this just gets rid of the weird quirk where if you called JK Rowling a terfy ghoul and she blocked you, you had to log out to hate-watch her shitty tweets.

Joke’s on them, I never had an account in the first place.

Even those tend to end up more like giant volcanoes of fire, than actual percussive explosions as seen in some of the videos. Making those deliberately catch fire is also harder than you’d think. These pagers went off pretty much all simultaneously. I think the overall consensus is that they were very likely rigged with actual explosives.

Ah, thanks, I didn’t realize it wasn’t a text post.

Turns out the version I have only has Japanese and Russian audio. Both are silent during this scene.

What scene exactly?

Isn’t part of that just due to the fact that it’s a war economy?

A conductor performs a number of essential functions for an orchestra:

• Offering a pulse. You may think this is trivial if your experience with music is through rock bands and smaller ensembles, where the musicians can just listen to eachother. But keep in mind that a large orchestra takes up a lot of space, to the point where the speed of sound becomes a major barrier. A symphony orchestra easily spans an area of more than 30 meters, meaning people on the left hear what people on the right play 0.1s late. The ‘beat’ shown by the conductor arrives with the speed of light, keeping the musicians more together.
• Setting the tempo. Orchestral music tends to have more deliberate tempo changes and fermatas (points where a note is held longer than the implied beat would require).
• Controlling the dynamics and timbre that people play with. A lot of that tends to get ironed down during rehearsals, and sometimes it will be explicitly mentioned in the score, but it can be really helpful for players to reminded that, hey, perform this bit light and playful, and over here, be loud and solid. Especially in longer pieces.
• Cueing players when they have to start playing. In orchestral music, some instrument groups may have large swaths of time where they don’t have to play anything (especially percussionists).

Generally the conductor is also responsible for the interpretation of the music. Orchestral scores don’t tend to be black&white, and there are a lot of decisions to be made in how to approach a piece. The conductor is the one who makes those decisions.

As a Dutch guy, I just can’t relate. Not that I needed extra reasons not to emigrate to TERF island, but this would definitely be one of them if I did.

Tibetan funerals actually involve feeding you to the birds. Which is not to say ‘turning your dead skull into a relic’ isn’t intended to be disrespectful.

Our goal involves creating a compelling progression path for all of our players. There’s a lot of content at launch with even more coming via live service, and we’ll continuously adjust our progression mechanics to give players a sense of accomplishment as they explore all of Battlefront 2

And then you remember the bunch of clowns currently elected to parliament.

Moonfall was funny bad. Atlas is just bad bad.

My torrent client just pinged me that it finished downloading it an hour ago. I watched about 30 minutes, then I figured my time was better spent organising my pocket lint.

Support for victims of genocide, if they are recipients of pell grants and operate a business in a minority neighbourhood for at least two years.

Being able to swim when stationed on a ship sounds way more useful than it actually is. In a ‘man overboard’ situation, it doesn’t help you much, you get fucked by the inertia of a massive ship that can’t just turn around and pick you up. By the time they manage to turn around the ship, the real problem is actually finding you. Even if you’re an excellent swimmer, your chances of survival are very low.

mfw Windows still doesn’t come with a package manager

I’m not a Windows-head (never owned a Windows PC), but MSI’s seem to quack and waggle like a package. If you mean “they don’t have a central repository”, yeah, unless if you count their appstore or whatever they call it.

Wanting to ask a girl out but having to talk to her parents first to get her on the line.

This is valid late 90’s critique on Windows. In the modern day, it’s valid critique on the entire state of computer software. There used to be a time where I could run “ps axuw” on a then modern Unix system and understand exactly what the fuck was going on and what each process was for. These days the nerd-favoured systems are also a big mess of complexity.

I think a lot of older nerds also under-appreciate the position tech has taken in the world in the meantime. Look at it like electricity. When that first popped up, people involved with it knew all the ins-and-outs, they -had- to know all the ins-and-outs. But by the time I grew up, electricity was a done deal. You flip the button, lights go on. Same has happened for the rest of the world with IT. You click the icon, facebook pops up.

LinkedIn pivoting as a VPN provider confirmed. Bet they figured they could never compete with X, the everything app.

Is that before the big monologue on how he’s going to build a gamer town where normies are not welcome, and it will be awesome because he watched a lot of Rust base building videos and there’s this one bunker base in the shape of a swastika and he’ll totally live there and the normies will rue the day they shoved him into a locker?

Is this actually Linux gaining any significant new mindshare, or is it just that the use of desktops is in relative decline, and the holdouts are going to be the more linux-inclined?