Very niche, but if you ever need to decode a simple oldschool encrypted/encoded text (caesar cipher, reverse alphabet, substitution cipher, morse code etc) for an AR game or whatever, Canonn Decryptor is amazing, being able to decode most cryptograms virtually automatically.
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Not "extra steps" but "plausible deniability"😉
High-speed school-to-prison pipeline. Because inmates=free labour and prisons are for-profit. Gotta get 'em kidz institutionalized as early as possible!
IEM is easier to type than "in-ear headphones" and has become the defacto generic term for them, just like "monitor" has become to mean any stand mount/bookshelf speaker.
Anyway, over the past few years the market has flooded with cheap and very good "IEM-s" by manufacturers like Moondrop, Truthear and others. 30€ can get you a pair that follows Harman curve quite closely and has low enough distortion to allow EQ. Generally they use 10mm dynamic drivers instead of balanced armatures, but they also have more expensive multi-way BA and DD/BA options.
In short, high quality IEM style headphones have become a commodity and you don't need to be an audiophile or muso who's willing to pay hundreds for Shure SE535-s.
A pair of 40€ Denons is not really an "investment piece", even though they have lasted me for 10 years.
If they were wired I bet you’d have to untangle them
I never have to untangle my IEM cables. A civilized person keeps their IEM-s in the carry case when not in use.
Comes in handy at work all the time when I need to test a piece of equipment.
And the best-bang-for-buck IEM-s still are wired only. Have my sights set on Moondrop Lans for xmas.
It was clearly demonstrated in the beginning of The Force Awakens that Rey is proficient with a quarterstaff so I had no trouble accepting she could pick up a lightsaber and grok it immediately. Quarterstaff to lightsaber should translate more easily than quarterstaff to longsword—eg no worries about edge alignment. Especially considering force sensitivity and all that pizazz.
Zero. Because it's turned off when I'm away from home for more than a few hours or sleeping. It never gets more than 24 hours of uptime, ever.
Even if my home server is turned on 24/7 it still runs a chron job to do a weekly reboot on sunday nights to keep things tidy.
family is everything, child need them
My favourite part is when the conservatives start talking about all children absolutely needing mother and father. Not just parents, not a parent, not a family; mother and father specifically. Yeah, sure, now what about the millions of single parents? Shall we start forcefully assigning a new spouse of opposite sex to them the day after their current spouse dies, divorces (if we keep that as an option, that is), runs away or whatever? All pregnant people who are not in a relationship are immediately married off to a random person of opposite sex? No opt-out. Because think of the children!
An old joke comes to mind.
The sarge orders a private to go and set up an observation post for 24 hours camouflaging himself as a tree stump.
12 hours later the private comes back to report. The sarge asks why the private is back 12 hours earlier than ordered.
"Well, sir," explains the private, "I set up camouflage as a tree stump and start observing the enemy movements. Then a young couple arrives at my position and starts a picnic. Fine, that I can deal with. Then they sit on me and start making out. I can even endure that, no problem. What I did not endure was the boy cutting their names into my bum with a pocket knife."
Alien. It's the pinnacle of horror movies. And what makes it so good is the believability of it all. There is no supernatural, no ghosts, no masked mass murderers, no silly "monsters" that defy all the laws of biology and physics.