They seem to give a shit now, so.... Progress?
I'm disappointed in the reaction-based interest. They finally have a personal reason to dislike the guy, and now, in retaliation, they actually notice all of the sketchy/terrible shit that he's been involved in, or party to....
Despite my disappointment, I'm just glad things are being seen finally. It's probably way too little, and way too late, since he's currently a sitting president in his second, and hopefully last term, but it's something.
Thank you both for the spoiler free reviews.
Yep. We'll put up statues about it when it's over.
But the joke is on us, it will never be over.
Everyone was too concerned about their own freedoms instead of the safety of themselves, their neighbors and their friends/family, and just wanted to go back to normal as soon as we even tried to isolate COVID to prevent the spread.
Thanks. I hate it.
To be fair, if a record is made correctly, it actually has significantly more sound information than any digital recording.
It's hard to compete with analog since analog doesn't really have a bitrate or anything. The precision is functionally infinite.
Meanwhile, they gave us the Redbook standard and unless you go looking for it, pretty much everything is a similar quality or worse, digitally. Digital is convenient, but not higher quality.
Records (true, genuinely analog records) are the Holy Grail of sound quality as far as I am concerned. The problem is that a lot of companies are taking CDs and just playing them back on to vinyl, making them sound like complete shit.
To demonstrate the point. Have you been on hold recently? Hold music sounds like shit huh?
What if I told you that hold music used to be kind of decent. That's right, most companies are using VoIP, which is lower quality than the old analog phone lines of old, so anything that's played is compressed to all hell and back. You don't really notice it with voice, but as soon as that hold music kicks in, you can hear that something is wrong with it.
Depending on how sensitive you are to the musical distortion of digitisation, that can be similar for CD quality content.
I'm not crazy over vinyl, I can't be bothered with the inconvenience of maintaining a player, and I don't have the money they're asking for a new player; so I'm firmly in digital media. I just understand the appeal of vinyl.
Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad's side when I was very young.
My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer's not long after.... So we got their TV.
Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I'm pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn't keep it around after that started happening regularly.
It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.
That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.
We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.
Breathalyzer interlocks should be more common.
This is exactly it.
Does anyone want to talk about the "share with Facebook" and other similar social media links that track you?
No?
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My boss disagrees with this.
I think their entry requirements are doing exactly what they're supposed to.
The problem is that intelligence, even if we could measure it correctly, doesn't and shouldn't imply what a person knows, nor their experiences and the wisdom that they carry.
Someone can be learned with a low IQ. Someone can be wise and similarly low IQ. In the same way, someone with a high IQ can be unwise.
The problem with having only one individual metric for a group which believes themselves to compose the smartest people, is that they're arrogant. I know plenty of people who are so extremely intelligent that I am certain that they could be a part of Mensa; yet, they are not. When they looked into it, they decided it would be unwise to become a member, given the requirements and the attitudes of, and about, the group.
Hell, there's a decent chance I could get in. I've never tried and I don't care to, for all the same reasons, so I would never know if I could "make it" or not.
Their arrogance and hubris is their undoing.
I came here to say this exact thing.
I can't tell you how many times I've missed my exit. It's just not worth getting bothered about.
I might be another 5-10 minutes, but I'll get there alive, and nobody else will be at risk by my error. I consider that an absolute win.