It’s been difficult to get the entire gang together. Yesterday we were all there, the guys having fun brewing beer, having a meal together. It was nice.

They’re minerals, Marie!

Any site that generates content can choose to create an RSS feed. Essentially it’s a link to which the site can push new stories.

You need an RSS client. Good news! There are a lot of free ones (and open source, too!).

The pro’s of RSS:

• all your different go-to news outlets in one place
• no ad-ridden webpages
• no dealing with interfaces of said news outlets
• your pick ff categories, for instance if you’re not interested in celebrity gossip, you just turn that off

The cons:

• you’ll need to go collect RSS links from your favorite sites
• one of your sites might no longer use RSS because they don’t get ad revenue for it
• RSS readers are often not pretty
• you might get weirdly formatted text pages sometimes

Superfast Jellyfish by Gorillaz

It’s wholly possible these people are not bothered by loud noises. I have neighbors and especially their kids seem to have no clue what an inside voice is, how far bass travels or how to walk down stairs.

They shout, they blast music, they fall down stairs.

If I did that as a kid, my dad would tell me to cut it out. And I think that’s the key difference. You’re either raised to be considerate of others, or you’re not. And if you’re the considerate type, most likely you’ll go out of your way because you don’t want them to be bothered by you while they might not even register if you happen to fall down the stairs or fire a cannon indoors.

I used to be really careful with watching tv at certain hours, or announcing to my neighbors of I was going to have people over. It took me a while but I now don’t even really care if they hear me anymore. Because even if they do, it’s unlikely they’ll be bothered as much as I am when their preteen kids shout that they don’t want to go to bed at 10:30 PM when I’m trying to sleep.

In advertising as well. I noticed quite an uptick in the ‘annoyance’ factor of tv and radio ads somewhere between 2005 and 2010. People were more likely to discuss bad ads, or ads with a quirk of some kind. Hate is an easier strong emotion to coerce with an ad so they fully went with it and somehow the negative attention equalled more sales.

It’s hard to imagine some business exec coming up with this research, it’s more likely a team of psychology majors who would rather earn more money than actually help people.

It’s so weird that these days you have to almost bring a note from your doctor if you don’t want a constant barrage of sensory overload

My mixtape

Sheinrich Themmler

This works a lot better with Heinrich Himmlers name because that actually starts with traditional pronouns

You could also use the infant’s blood to revitalize a shareholder

It’s probably due to some cultural differences but the meat on a spin unit is called döner kebab here. Shoarma is little strips of pork with a certain herb on it. It’s more like gyros in a way.

Shoarma is popular in my country on pizzas. I was never a fan but it grew on me.

To me, shared experience is always an easy ice breaker. Stuff like mainstream media is a quick win. And yeah, sometimes if people are a bit more underground or indie as far as their media is concerned grants them an image of having a distinct personality, but that usually only works if they’re socially strong and have other stuff they can connect with other people over.

I’m not saying you should consume anything that gets promoted massively, but keeping an eye on what’s popular and seeing if anything floats your boat might give you an easier time striking up a conversation with someone.

I used to be really dismissive of anything with a huge advertising budget. If something gets promoted everywhere all the time, it’s unlikely I’d give it a chance. Somehow I felt more interesting than others because of this. Turns out you’re not, people lose interest really quickly when they can’t talk to you about anything.

It’s also one of those sentences that changes meaning depending on which word you accentuate.

What did dude think was coming out of the VGA port? Tiny photographs? It’s all electricity through wires, of course it’ll send some electricity into a phone

One that is popular in my country is Michiel de Router which is a play on the VOC man Michiel de Ruyter.

But yeah sometimes there’s an FBI Surveillance Van or a “It’s this one Mom!”

Don’t really get why you got downvoted. Probably someone still using an old 32" HD Ready screen warning 480p content saying it’s fine and they don’t see the difference anyway.

Modern TVs do upscaling, so anything lower res you watch on a 4K or 8K screen will get upscaled a bit. Watching crappy quality stuff on a 4K tv will get blown up enough for you to really see a difference compared to a lower def tv.

That said, it’s really no use looking at just the resolution. Most likely, an 8K TV will have a panel that is just better overall quality (depending on the brand, of course). You’ll have better HDR, most likely it’s gonna be 12 bit colour, the contrast ratio will be excellent, it might even have decent sound. It’s just gonna be an overall high end TV. Apps will run more smoothly because it’s likely they fitted it with a decent processor. The image processing engine is just better because it’ll have to be. Again, unless it’s a cheapo brand that only focused on the 8K of it and left the rest on the table.

It probably won’t really justify paying triple what you’d pay for a decent 4K TV but there’s gotta be early adopters, otherwise we’ll stay on the current gen forever.

If they mount stuff as askew as they did with that plaque I might look a bit further for a contractor

Hey I’m not advocating the usage of it, I’m just answering a question.

I think some of the communities are just good fun, I’m not judging any of the characters who visit the instance. But I agree that some of the communities and some of its patrons have a not so open minded view of the world and prefer to speak in a language of hate rather than a language of love. I stand against that. But I do stand against broad censorship in the grand scheme of things. I prefer a world when people can say anything they like as long as they take the time to look at issues from several angles that do not correspond with their own. Right wing, left wing, it doesn’t really matter as long as we all take the time to really appreciate where someone else is coming from.

As long as their opinion is sufficiently substantiated.

And I do concur with you that hate speech towards any groups of people in general is not a part of that discord.