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Anything kids do for fun, parents will give them shit for it, not just musicians. Not all parents of course, but the mom in the video is a cunt. edit: I wish I could find something to be super passionate about.
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Just do something without the thought of "I could never do this for a living". Do it because you enjoy it, and some day you'll get to a point where you realise "You know, I could see myself doing this for a living" That's how it happened for me.
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409,001 |
But my 10 year old Roku still works! Actually I guess mine is 8 years old.
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So does the 1st gen Apple TV it’s just not officially supported anymore. [Roku dropped support for the classic models two years ago] and that was for a product that came out after the 1st gen Apple TV. Neither product was able to keep up with the way the streaming market took off.
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409,002 |
It's almost as if the psychology of abuse isn't simple and he tortured her and acted controlling and messed with her head damn.
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Yup. He's a pro if he got her to move in with him in 1 night. Or she's just willfully ignorant. I guess we'll never know.
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409,003 |
He did a good job of managing expectations for Blade Runner 2 by making Prometheus.
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I liked Prometheus, although you are right it is not as good as Blade Runner, but it isn't as bad as it has been vilified! Unfortunately the most egregious parts are too bombastic to be edited in a mere directors cut, but a little bit of fat shaved off Prometheus and there is a fantastic films bones in there.
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409,004 |
Agreed. I have fond memories of sitting on-line late at night rocking out to ChroniX Aggression - on which StaticX were a staple at the time - in my angst ridden teenage days. The first time I heard them it was amazing (Wisconsin Death Trip, and Machine era). Before today I hadn't listened to them in a number of years, but even listening again now the tracks are still solid. ...God damn it.
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Wisconsin Death Trip was an excellent album. Listening to it again is giving me a ton of flashbacks of listening to them, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, and Fear Factory outside a dumpy recording studio on the railroad tracks in Burbank.
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409,005 |
So just because you like a genre means you like EVERY band/artist in that genre? And what rock bands are even on this lineup aside from Radiohead? And they're not really what I'd classify as rock either.
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Do you expect them to go door to door asking who you want to see? No, they got acts from each genre so there is indeed something for everything, is it always the best from each genre? No. But that's not how booking a festival works.
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409,006 |
They are extremely integral to the story. For example Odysseus is tied with Ajax after several days of competition to claim Achilles' magical armour. While Ajax is the stronger, Odysseus manages to win the armour. This drives Ajax into a fury, he kills hundreds of captured livestock, thinking they are his enemy. And then because of the dishonour kills himself. Ajax is one of the major characters in the story and this is a very important part of the story. skipping things like this is not a good idea. It's also important to know who is the stronger, smarter etc because it reflects massively on their position in society.
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Not to take away from the larger point, but that specific episode isn't actually in *The Iliad*, by the way.
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409,007 |
American Gods. I know Gaiman is highly worshiped by a lot of people and I read his GN Sandman and loved it, but 200 pages into the 700 I just realized I didn’t care at all about the characters or story. Would you guys recommend any of his other novels?
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Neverwhere was good. I gave up on American Gods too ... probably sooner than you did.
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409,008 |
Have you read [Good Omens] For books full of silliness and fun, GO is right up there with HGTTG for me.
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I've read a lot of Pratchett, probably around 10 books total, and I've never loved him. His books are fun, but for whatever reason he's just not that funny to me. He's clever, not hilarious.
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409,009 |
Why is American Gods in the #10 spot? I feel like I'm the only person in the world who wasn't impressed by it and I can't understand why. The main character was boring, the plots were boring, the whole damn thing was boring and didn't go anywhere.
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I'm halfway through it and also bored. For the most part, this list was good, but some of the books were too high for my taste, and ones that deserved to be higher weren't.
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409,010 |
The title is a bit misleading. It appears that its currently "only" 9 times faster that google fiber at 91 Gb/s. However, they have work being done on a 400 Gb/s network which would make it 40x faster than google fiber. They also have a goal of eventually getting 1 Tb/s which would make it 100x faster.
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No, even at 91Gb/s it is 91x faster than google fiber (which is 1Gb/s)...
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409,011 |
The book's title is right there: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's a seminal cyberpunk sci-fi book from the late '80s.
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Yes, thank you, I've not hear of that, not sure what cyberpunk is but it sounds interesting.
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409,012 |
Pharrell *CAN* work with anyone right now, and he chooses to work with *EVERYONE* lol. He's made quite a lot of people famous and he loves working with fresh faces; sometimes the collaboration is a total miss, but other times it's a massive hit record. That's why he's rather prized when it comes to his producing skills, his solo career on the other hand was revitalized thanks in part to his work with Daft Punk and he highly credits them for that.
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Daft Punk absolutely fucking exploded Pharrell. He has personally credited them with saving his solo music career.
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409,013 |
ahhhnohld isnt president he is a govenor so this is so irrelavant
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Ed:See I told you he was the governor. Larry: No way you said pesident to me. Ed:Thanks Tyler, getting a good partner is so hard these days
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409,014 |
So, you're talking about effectiveness, and only talking about certain topics when you can be sure everyone around you wants to hear about it.
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I'm talking about knowing how to read the room and the mood/tone of a conversation. Like I said, there's a time and place for things and it can be easy to not notice when the words coming out of your mouth are clashing with the situation around you.
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409,015 |
I firmly believe that we're going through another rap golden age right now. That being said, for me, nothing beats G-Funk. It's just so tied to the LA, SoCal, California identity. Can't help but love it.
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The "Nothin but a G Thang" video made me want to move to LA when I was 17. I wanted to hose down stuck up bitches with a 40oz
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409,016 |
I'd ask which Fantastic Four reboot you were talking about but every single Fantastic Four movie ever made was terrible.
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Roger Corman's Fantastic Four is pretty good all things considered.
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409,017 |
Zooey used to eat raw vegetables and mustard. Good workday snack.
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Would you make an unofficial sequel to 500 Days of Summer set in the [Dungeons & Dragons] universe? Edit: More of this stuff can be seen in r/virtualcosplay.
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409,018 |
It's not that they suck, they are unsupported, more wishful thinking than a fact-based opinion.
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Okay well thats fine and dandy. Maybe my thoughtless opinions are better off being thoughtless- yet hopeful, hopeful for the franchise that raised me. I want to believe that these things will make a difference, so what if I'm grasping at straws
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409,019 |
Dark Side Of The Moon of course...some other huge ones for me were Tool's Lateralus, Beck-Odelay, Incubus-SCIENCE, Make Yourself, & Morning View
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Watching the Wizard of OZ/Dark Side should be a requirement for freshman in college
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409,020 |
Yes, I understand things can be made up on the internet. I am fully aware of this. There are other mentions of Kid Rock in that thread with similar stories to the one linked. Also, if you look at Kid Rock's previous violent and/or alcoholic arrests it makes the scope of these allegations very probable.
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It seems to me that is all one story. I think I would be shitty if it wasn't all that true and being spread by teenagers on reddit. :/
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409,021 |
I can't say I'm one to weep, at music or otherwise, but [Lights In The Sky by Nine Inch Nails] has gotten me pretty close on more than a few occasions. During an intense listen to the album it's on, it was like watching the one person you care about the most slowly die, and knowing there was nothing you could do. Among others, [Go Slowly by Radiohead] always gets a sigh or two out of me.
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Go Slowly, I can see that... but it seems like a happy weep rather than sad. Perhaps when I find my Maria 'The Patient' will be replaced.
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409,022 |
So you loved it, but all you can talk about is a scene you hated? Do you even know why you loved it?
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You can like a film as a whole but dislike a certain part of it. The film was over two hours long. A 3 minute scene isn't going to ruin it.
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409,023 |
I never really thought of Graphic novels being in libraries, but im not surprised but these commonly challenged books just disappointed that people still try to remove books from libraries
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Some graphic novels like Maus are actually becoming a bigger part of education and school libraries. I have not read Saga, but I'd imagine if it contains any sexual images that would get it a ban as that's just asking for an angry parent response.
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409,024 |
I love Holden Caulfield. I relate to him so much man, and I think the reason for the books popularity was always because many teenagers could. The story is barely there; it's just the experience of being inside of his mind, which was very familiar to me as it was much like my own. One of the greatest characters ever written.
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Absolutely. I thought the plot was so odd. He just spends like two or three days just hanging out in New York. Nothing really happens, you know? It doesn't seem like much, but I just love his narration and tangents. The narrative voice is just so great. You feel like you're a teenaged New Yorker when you read it with all the colloquial speak and stuff. You really understand his world view, and it's just so interesting.
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409,025 |
There are downsides to LTSB. Firstly you're stuck installing updates via their cumulative updates which are getting huge and take an eternity to install... secondly, the UI has a distinctly rough / unfinished feeling as it's gradually been polished with each successive release of Windows 10. Both of those taken into consideration though, if you hate Cortana and all the other pointless crap that's been getting rolled into Windows 10, LTSB is a breath of fresh air.
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Also it doesn't support some more modern hardware, specifically Intel chipsets. Make sure your hardware is compatible before migrating.
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409,026 |
>MitM attacks are virtually impossible to defend against. I take exception to this point specifically. Cryptography is *designed* to be resistant to MitM attacks. The whole theory behind public/private key cryptography is that you are transporting secured information through an unsecured medium. Certainly, there are times when weaknesses can be found, as in this case. But saying MitM is "virtually impossible to defend against" is pure balderdash.
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I don't know if what you're saying is true, but your fine vocabulary leads me to believe it must be.
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409,027 |
Wow, this is awesome. I need to 1-up a friend (his name is Ecksjay), can you please sing: R: The best part of waking up, is Ecksjay in your cup! In the the style of this classic jingle: If you could do it with 'MystX' too (me, pronounced 'mistics') you would be my new favorite person.
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[That's waaaaaaayyyyyy to high for me, so you're getting the lyrics that sound like this instead, hopefully this will suffice!] [This one too :O]
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409,028 |
Wtf? Great narrative works? You've got to be shitting me.
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The Gin and Tacos piece pointed out today that Sarah Palin's book was written by a woman who can't write, for an audience that doesn't read... with this Twilight text... we've entered bizarro world.
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409,029 |
When I see snap videos of live music, I just keep tapping until I'm at the end.
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Snaps of concerts are the equivalent of 10 years ago when a friend would be at a concert I wanted to be at, so they'd call so I could "listen" except it was all just a bunch of fucking noise. "Yeah, hope you're having as much fun as it sounds!"
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409,030 |
Just to be clear if anyone is still confused on this: Intel has billions of dollars in the bank. Billions with a capital B. AMD does not have this luxury. Intel is abusing their position of market leader to artificially lower their margins in an effort to force AMD out of the market entirely by trying to court any potential customers with steep discounts they normally wouldn't get. As it stands now, AMD can finally compete with Intel directly at a lower price point, so Intel doesn't want to give them the price point advantage in the short term, in order to gimp any market adoption AMD could potentially gain. It's absolutely bullshit, but it's also par for the course nowadays.
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If this is a predatory pricing scheme... I think it might just not work. AMD is perfectly profitable. They're not going to sell to intel or go out of business any time soon, are they?
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409,031 |
was looking for this - though I'd argue it's not a terrible movie, in the commentary John Waters says her performance pissed off a lot of Joan's Hollywood friends who made sure her career was over.
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It's one of my favorite movies. Now that time has passed, it seems like people look back on it more favorably, but at the time that was definitely not the case.
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409,032 |
Why bread? Was it just convenient or some kind of symbolism?
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If I remember correctly it was at a small festival or something and a vendor was giving out free loaves of bread to promote awareness of..something. I'm not really sure what the reason was, but people have free loaves of bread and some people thought it would be funny to throw on stage. The singer whined about the bread which just caused people to throw more at him.
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409,033 |
I know this isn't exactly high literature, but the payoff at the end of [The First Law Trilogy] took me by complete surprise. It turned me to a statue of silence for a good minute, the way Abercrombie tied everything together and totally pulled the rug out from under my feet. Three books and I didn't catch on until the last hundred pages what the actual playing field looked like, and what that meant. Then I was depressed for a day.
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I stopped after the first book. It felt like a 400+page introduction. Especially how the female character gets introduced at the end and the wizard guy is like, "You're important! And you'll find out why later!" I felt ripped-off.
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409,034 |
It's pretty weird reading the post realizing that the author probably doesn't understand how odd he sounds getting so worked up about his subscriber count being adjusted (along with everybody else's) to no longer include people who don't actively use their YouTube accounts anymore. He makes it quite clear that he values a higher number more than he values an accurate number.
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tell that to the advertising firm who isn't aware of this mass delete and won't offer your channel a deal because they think you are on the decline
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409,035 |
Aphex Twin invented much of the electronic circuits behind the unique sounds that are the basis of electronic music made mainly on computers today. Many of his albums might be nothing more than collections of noise, but each sound is ready to be sampled and developed into a hundred hits in the decades to come. I went to one of his gigs once, he made a weird big screen display using a linux bash shell (with a custom font incorporating his logo etc.), mplayer ascii plugin and a live video feed of the crowd, it was the second most nerdy thing I ever saw at a live music performance. fuckin awesome
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I am so incredibly jealous you got to see him, I fear his preforming days might be over :(
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409,036 |
Che was a racist homophobe. And a murderer, that movie is nothing but bullshit propaganda.
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And Thomas Jefferson raped his slaves. See? This game is easy :-)
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409,037 |
if you are going to go that hard, you should have taken the 10 seconds to verify, and you would have found that *you* are the one that has it wrong. hulu's cheaper plan is $7.99 and has commercials. the $11.99 plan that claims it has no commercials, does have some depending on the show, limited to before and after the show.
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Reread it. I said they got rid of the "free tier" that had a ton of commercials. Which they did. It's a Yahoo product now. Hulu is only paid service now with two tiers. Limited or no commercials.
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409,038 |
Carriers need to support it first, and carriers in the USA never will. Not to mention carriers that *dont* use SIM cards.
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There's an entire planet beyond the US with a much more progressive cellular industry.
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409,039 |
Cool tech, but how are they gonna get this shit off the ground and get through all of the red tape? Pilots already have to fly through hoops and air space is heavily regulated. Their team is tiny, not a single business/human-focused person is to be found among all of these engineers. Their investors are all just random angels without any relevant contacts. And the CEO is a fucking glider pilot (inactive). This doesn't mean the tech's not valuable. I'm sure someone larger will buy them out, but to think their dream of "flying car-dominated travel" will ever come to fruition with such a lack of insight is foolish.
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Exactly, the bigger accomplishment will be getting this approved for general use in America.
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409,040 |
100%. As I Lay Dying. Threw me for a loop for a good while.
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I'm like 100 pages into The Sound and The Fury, had never read Faulkner before but I've been wanting to and there's something about the title of the novel that's always struck me. It's a difficult read for me but impressively beautiful. It probably wouldn't be the same in a more conventional style so I figure it's worth it.
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409,041 |
I think some of *Gulag Orkestar* is even better for accordion. Like "Mount Wroclai". See also "Scenic World (Version)" from the *Lon Gisland EP*.
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Oh my gosh. Scenic World from the Lon Gisland EP is my favorite song ever. Seriously, best thing I've ever heard haha. Nantes was just the first song that came to mind.
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409,042 |
You've always been allowed to take kids to whatever movie.
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To an extent. The theater chain I work at does not allow children under I believe 4 or 6 into any R rated movie, regardless of what the parents want
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409,043 |
the guy is definitely good at the guitar, but guitar wankery =/= songwriting abilities tbh.
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I agree. They are actually in the process of writing a good bit of songs but are needing a lead singer. The drummer and bassist are just as good but sound quality of outdoor event isn't always the best either
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409,044 |
Agreed. For me, I love the emotion that Janis puts into this song.
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She sings like her heart is being ripped out of her chest.
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409,045 |
Yeah. I started dating my (now) wife that year. Took her to see this movie.
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What movie is this from? I know the song but not sure where I've heard it before.
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409,046 |
With the cost of panels and storage falling so rapidly, neither of those will be issues in the coming decade.
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Panels are falling dramatically, storage not so much. There's a slightly larger selection of different *types* and sizes of batteries than there used to be, but prices have barely budged in the last four years.
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409,047 |
Just to confirm: this is happening in a bunch of other threads on /r/tech as well. Not just this one.
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Everyone needs to be reporting these threads on mass.
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409,048 |
Microsoft went into panic mode a day after the nickname got popular and directly asked people to stop calling it Xbone, which hilariously made the Xbone nickname even more popular.
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Yeah, sure, they went into panic mode. I bet the entire company was sweating, the stock price went into negatives, and many people died. Or one social media guy tweeted something. You gamers sure do talk shit up.
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409,049 |
It's based on an excellent animated film also called Watership Down, which in turn is based on the screenplay's authors time in a German POW camp during WWII. Gripping Stuff.
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/u/zebulo Do you have any idea what the hell you're talking about, because you are so wrong on so many levels..?! Here, read this:
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409,050 |
Except that many professional musicians will say that composers can't conduct for shit. It's all in the interpretation of the artist.
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I wasn't making a value judgment. My point is only that while Regina surely decided how she wanted to sing it, she didn't make any choices regarding the instrumental arrangement. This is far from obvious, and the only reason why I know this is that I saw her give an interview in which she said that it was extremely unusual for her to make a purely vocal contribution to a song. (She might have even said it was the first time she'd done that.)
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409,051 |
The plane catch scene from Superman Returns. I HATED the movie but loved that scene which truly shows Superman at his best. PUMPED FOR MAN OF STEEL
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That scene and the bank robbery where the robbers had a goddamn minigun for some reason. Favourite scenes in that movie.
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409,052 |
Yeah, and after loving the film for so long, dare I say I was actually a bit disappointed when I got around to the book :-\
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Yes. The film was SO good. Rare instance on improving over the book.
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409,053 |
Actually the whole song is banging, "Now preemptive wars are a redemptive cause. I've never heard such nonsense under international laws. We think we have the right to enforce democracy. when we're weakening ours everyday. What hypocrisy."
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*Previous wars make billionaires out of millionaires,* *today's wars make trillionaires out of billionaires,* *tomorrow's wars will fuel generations of hate.* Literally every song is an epic speech.
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409,054 |
Not as many bookstores in small towns as there used to be. I have to drive 20 miles and my only option is Barnes and Noble.
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Sounds like you might be a good candidate for an ereader. I got the Kobo glo myself and I recommend it.
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409,055 |
well.. why did it cost so much? wasn't the research the biggest part of the cost? if not, than what was then so much expensive that now cannot be made cheaper? if you optimise the process, you go down with the price - everybody knows that. why would anyone dismiss the engineering achievements of that times and prefer to start over from the scratch, all to make a less efficient rocket that lifts a smaller cargo? are my questions really so weird?
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If they had continued to use the Saturn design the price per launch would likely have gone down somewhat, but SpaceX's big cost saver is the ability to land and reuse the 1st stage which I doubt a Saturn derived design would ever be able to do.
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409,056 |
Is there a lot of driver incompatibility for these different chromebooks? I'd like to install Debian on one.
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debian is actually the most supported linux distro on the chromebooks. Arch requires a little hacking around.
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409,057 |
He was so damn talented. His vocal range - truly incredible. I eagerly await Cohen's role in his biopic.
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Leonard Cohen is not so good at high notes AFAIK.
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409,058 |
i mean what you said tha pic of Harrison that your parents have been met,isn't it true?
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The pic is from summer of 1980, my parents met in spring of 1981
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409,059 |
I really want Rowling to write many of these that lead to the Encyclopedia.
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I think at this point this basically is the Encyclopaedia.
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409,060 |
AlphaGo is one project within a division that makes money. Deepmind is making them plenty of money by being incredibly useful in image searches as well as Google Photo. Boston Dynamics, though, is an entire company without a single way to bring in revenue. It's okay if a company or division has parts that are just R&D. But Google's saying you can't be only R&D. Which is fair. They're a company, not a university.
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> without a single way to bring in revenue. Sell robots maybe? Do they not want to sell the robots they are making?
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409,061 |
Science/Historical Fiction: The Doomsday Book/To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis. I read the first, and was wholly absorbed in the depiction of the 14th century, so I picked up the latter, and found it both gripping and funny, and a depiction of 19th century, using the same tool. I quite love her writing overall.
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Blackout/All Clear were my favourites in that series - but definitely +1 for Connie Willis
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409,062 |
>Any sources I can read about this? >Any other suggestions? Any of the browsers listed here:
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I've heard (and read) that the tor browser is NOT good for privacy, but that the TOR network was a good way to go.
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409,063 |
It just seems like an unnecessary step based on the almost optimally fast way Windows 7 already handles it. It just feels like a step backwards.
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Win+S does what you want with just one more key.
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409,064 |
Why were RATM even picked as the 'anti x-factor' group, do people still consider them anti-establishment? If this is gonna be a yearly thing, I hope someone picks an actual decent group not signed to the same label next time...
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anti x-factor doesnt mean anti-establishment. You are missing the point.
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409,065 |
Been driving around with the Suburbs playing my car for a coulpe weeks. Just decided to switch to Neon Bible a couple days ago.
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If you haven't listened to Funeral yet, dear god are you in for a treat
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409,066 |
what about bands outside of the mainstream? As long as they're good and can play.
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Volbeat is becoming more mainstream. Five Finger Deathpunch isn't too bad either.
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409,067 |
Can you ever really spoil a Coen Brothers film? Parts, yes. But I'd argue the pleasure of watching their movies is all the nuances and little things they put in that build up to an experience few other filmmakers can achieve.
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You could spoil True Grit easily, that one had a pretty straight forward plot.
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409,068 |
It's not official. He's "in talks", which basically means he's been cast, but hasn't signed any contract yet. It's as close to official as you can get without actually being official, so he's almost definitely in the movie. But anything can happen between now and the time he signs. Crazier things have happened.
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If I'm not mistaken, Joaquin Phoenix was in talks for Doctor Strange
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409,069 |
Parents should research what their kids are going to be watching, but sometimes it's easier to skip that sometimes. Parenting is extremely draining and difficult. I am not one yet, but my sister is. Really, if accidentally showing your kid sausage party is the biggest mistake you ever make with your kid, you're a pretty damn good parent. People are overstating the calibre of a mistake like that.
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Ratings are easy to find. Finding them basically consists of looking on the back of a DVD cover or seeing the rating next to the movie title at the multiplex. I agree that parenting is draining, but it only takes less than five minutes to look it up. It also depends on the kid. I was scared of going into Best Buys for about five or so years because LOTR was on a screen walking in. A cousin of mine watched it when he was five. Just because the kid sees only a small clip of something doesn't mean it won't screw them up for a while.
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409,070 |
The Ultimate Cut of Watchmen is nothing short of a masterpiece, IMO.
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It flows way better, though IMO, the "Ultimate Cut" with the Black Freighter stuff is really overkill.
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409,071 |
Uh how about from the comics all those things are based off of?
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Ah yes, those too. Never read the comics so not familiar but obviously yes those would be the original
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409,072 |
> These updates happen without your knowledge. Wait, *what the fuck*? A thermostat or smoke detector that can be remotely updated without the owner's knowledge? This complies with code? And after demonstrable widespread failures, the manufacturer wasn't sued into oblivion? I don't understand how such a product is even legal on the US market. Oh, I see - Google bought them.
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The only reason I even knew there was a firmware update was, upon waking up to find the house was near-freezing and the thermostat was dead, I found other people online complaining about an update borking their thermostat. There is no indication updates have been installed unless you count digging into the 'technical info' screen buried in the settings menu and noticing that the firmware version number is different.
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409,073 |
Yeah, and Korn is owned by Del Monte in an attempt to make farming seem more hardcore..
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They're even more hardcore off the cob. Or Kob?
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409,074 |
Quite ironic that you need to log in to read the article. On to the next thread, then.
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It didn't ask me to log in. I'm on mobile, maybe that's why. Or some amount of time after publication had passed.
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409,075 |
I don't get why people talk about Cabin in the Woods as if there was some surprise or twist. The very first scene is in the lab. There's literally no point in the movie where you don't know that the whole thing is being directed by the lab guys.
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I'm talking about the Great Old Ones coming up. It was a lose/lose situation from the start. Not many movies end on a high note, while still destroying the entire story.
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409,076 |
Except not really, it can build walls out of bricks, but it can't do windows, doors, floors, plumbing, electrical, roofs, etc. It's great that they're automating this stuff but it's not building a whole house, merely putting up walls.
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Right, but it does make the laying of bricks much much faster, meaning the construction people can work alongside the machine to complete the tasks you mentioned, like installing windows, much quicker.
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409,077 |
I grew accustomed to an upper middle class lifestyle as a kid until my dad got laid off, and then my mom left and decided to never ask for alimony I child suppory. So should I be suing my dad or the company?
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Your dad obviously, he had the nerve to give you any sort of decent life he should be forced to maintain that even while he lives in poverty
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409,078 |
> Again, it's pointless and overcomplicated. The action of connecting my laptop to all the gizmos on my desk is literally: Plug in one USB3 lead. I don't need Intel to fix this for me, it's not broken. It is not pointless. Plugging in one cable is still less convenient than plugging in none. The convenience may not be worth the cost, but it isn't pointless.
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It is pointless, there is no "convenience" here. Having a specific table that charges your laptop very slowly is much less convenient than a simple power brick that you can plug in anywhere. On the sofa, in bed, wherever.
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409,079 |
He does not enter limbo before Saito. - Granade explodes, Saito dies soon after. - Fischer gets killed by Mal, Mal dies due to Cobb shooting her. - They setup the defibrillator thing and go in limbo to both get back Fischer AND Saito, who has been there for quite some time by then. - Ariadne gets back soon after Fischer (right in time for the kick); Cobb gets back with Saito years later.
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Wait, seriously. Why does everybody misremember the plot? This makes me unnecessarily frustrated. Go watch the [real-time youtube video] At about 3:40 in the bottom left screen (snow level), you will see Mal shoot Fischer and Cobb shoot Mal. Then Cobb, Ariadne, and Eames will approach, discuss what has to be done, at which point Cobb and Ariadne will enter limbo together (bottom right screen opens). THEN Eames will approach Saito (back in the bottom left screen) and give him the grenade. Then Saito will die **while Cobb and Ariadne are already in limbo talking with Mal and Fischer.** Do you see now?
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I have no idea what John Deere is. I watched the movie with subtitle and thought that was a typo.
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I noticed the John Deere logo, the subtitles, realized it was a pun, and laughed. I think I was the only one in the cinema who laughed.
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Yep. He is not a musician at all. He is gridded and auto tuned crap, and a narcissist to boot.
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Kanye doesn't even use auto tune in like 80% of his songs. And the fact that you think it removes his talent shows how little you know about music. First off, it's not even auto, he manually tweaks the intensity and style of the tune to fit the song. Also, it chances the sound of his voice, how does that make him less talented? His talent comes from the lyrics and the production, who cares what his voice sounds like
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You could simply disarm is argument by not caring about Jimi Hendrix.
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And then his father knows he has failed and his son will never be a man.
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I mean, does that cover indicate anything about the book at all? Even if you don't find it creepy it's still not very good.
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It indicates plenty of things about the book. The book has a strange cartoonish but not quite style, which is reflected in the strange outfit and bright colors worn by the girl. You can say that the girl on the cover is Veruca Salt by the vanity of the girl's outfit. The symbolic but not literal absence of the parent figure who is cut off by the edge of the book reflects the absence of strong parenting that many of the character's suffer from. Also this is a famous book; it doesn't have to portray exactly what is in the book. It can subvert lollipop joy and do something a little more strange to pique people's interest.
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Vote fuzzing is done to confuse bots not to circulate content on the front page. People use bots to downvote things because it increases the upward mobility of their own post toward the front page. When a bot is detected it is shadowbanned. If the operator of the bot could definitively detect the deactivation of a bot they would simply retire it and create a new one. By shadowbanning it and fuzzing the votes the admins make it very difficult to determine that the bot is useless.
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You're right, I confused it with something else. Thanks for the proper explanation.
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409,085 |
Joy is a comedy because it's a joke that David O Russell is still making movies, that talentless hack.
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Actually had no idea you didn't like DOR's movies. Interesting...how do you feel about Three Kings?
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Everytime it fails for me. 'SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED' WINDOWS 10 INSTALLATION HAS FAILED, DERP. Yes im salty.
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Is your language set to something other than EN-US? I've heard this may be the cause, but can't guarantee.
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Being a good reader has nothing to do with how fast or slow you read. It has to do with your comprehension of what you read. As a teacher, I will tell you the same thing I tell my students: the more you read, the better your comprehension will become, and the better reader you will become!
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To add to that, sometimes a fast reader is deceptive. I know a few "fast" readers who skim. They get through books very fast but have low comprehension of the text. But... that might be what they want.
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Schroepfer’s the CTO. Can anyone tell me, other than for the sake of symbolically busting Facebook's balls, why he's not ideally suited to field these questions? He's certainly no lackey, and completely immersed in data policy, privacy, and high level implementation.
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He's perfectly positioned to answer questions. Really, if they're asking questions Schropfer can't answer, they're not likely to get an answer from Zuckerberg instead. The only reason he might be in a better position is because of all the prior questions they've taken on notice, he might be able to research those beforehand.
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I don't mean to seem like I'm attacking anyone, but is it really a big deal if people don't care for reading? I always see people being kind of aggressive to those that don't read books. Obviously it helps your vocab, but other than that it doesn't seem like a big deal. There's lot's of other things are good for you in similar ways.
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It's not a big deal on an individual level because, like you said, there are other ways to stimulate your mind. But I think it's still useful to measure on a societal level. It might correlate with a lack of reason and perspective in society in general.
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Martin McDonaugh rules. I wish he directed more because I feel like I'd always enjoy his work.
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Well, he's given us two films and some amazing plays (I have never personally seen them, but the ones I have read are terrific). You're right, though; it will be a good day when it's announced he's working on a new film.
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This! This is a major pain in my ass!, I have over 1000 songs on my playlist but everytime I shuffle I am guaranteed to hear the same ones I heard the day before... so irritating. At this point I would get a more random playlist if I just began from the beginning without shuffling.
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Their shuffle algorithm is based on a seed so if you start by selecting a random song in your library and then set it to shuffle you'll get a different set of songs. It's a really shitty way of doing it but that's the easiest workaround
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Twelvetoes is now my favorite simply because of how weird it is, both in terms of subject matter and that cool Moody Blues/Pink Floyd vibe.
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That's a great tune. It took me well into adulthood to understand what they were talking about beyond "If you had 12 fingers instead of 10, you could count by twelves easily....but you don't...so memorize this song." Then I became weirdly fascinated with the concept of base-12 math because of it.
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Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely check out the author you mentioned. Sounds like something I might get into. Oh and I'll definitely keep your advice about not seeing the movie in mind. Hollywood has a horrible habit of ruining good books. I was actually going to watch it tomorrow and now I'm not sure if I want my image of Rebecca to be ruined.
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Becky in the movie just doesn't have as much depth as Becky in the book. Movie Becky is more shallow and vapid, and not as likable. You might be able to enjoy it if you manage to convince yourself that the movie is a separate entity. That's what I did for the Hitchhiker's Guide movie, and I enjoyed it (and then it turned out that Douglas Adams intended people to view them as separate entities, so that was good). I was really excited by the movie before it came out. Isla Fischer is a hoot and I thought she'd be the perfect Becky. Shame that the movie wasn't so good.
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Honestly, what did Nolan even really do with him? He says goofy rich people stuff in inception and he's almost a prop in batman begins.
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You're right about Batman, but in inception he was quite good.
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>somewhere along the way, the glorification of sex, drugs, partying, and crime became much more mainstream and essentially acceptable as the norm for music, and music that was trying to do . . . well, anything else, became much less popular and much less mainstream. Do you think the music you are referring to has been a negative influence on society, vice versa, or is it just a snake eating it's tail?
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Birth control becoming widely available had the biggest effect. Music and culture has adapted. Your call whether you want to say it's positive or negative.
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Huh, for Germany I got 4 Neuschwansteins and several town streets with timber frame buildings. Thankfully, I didn't see any swastikas. I wonder why my results differed so much.
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I get a lot of guidebooks and [this.] I kinda don't know anymore on what continent Germany is located. It probably depends on how familiar the country is with germany. A book in France has probably a less stereotypical cover than a book in Japan.
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Awesome, thanks so much! I'm a librarian who has a patron who wants to highlight authors like these for a piece - and I personally am interested in these recs too. :-)
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Mr.Book on litsy has started creating massive lists of different types of books (sisters, dogs, new york, etc). I know he's made a few ones for POC authors.. He's also a librarian.
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409,098 |
I always knew Comcast is a horrible company. I live in Philadelphia and it has been holding back innovation and affordable connections for everyone. I recently started reading Captive Audience by Susan P. Crawford. I truly am gaining a greater grasp of the problem. It makes me furious. I'm lucky enough for Fios in my area but even that lags. I just wondering what other people feel or even if they understand America's Broadband Crises. I'm just wondering if it is too much to ask for gigabyte FTTH ( Fiber To The Home)?
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Comcast is the worst company in the history of the world. Run by incompetent, lying morons they rip you off for their "services" and then when they break (once a week on average here) they typically won't even admit that there is a problem and try to blame it on you. I hope all of their executives get rectal cancer and die a slow and painful death covered in their own shit. Go to hell Comcast.
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Electric heating is like 99% efficient at converting electricity into heat. I don't see how you could raise efficiency by 20-50%.
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The trick is getting the heat to go where you want it to go (the bread) and not elsewhere (into the structure of the toaster or rising out the slots etc.) The electrical efficiency is nearly perfect, but the cooking efficiency still leaves plenty of room for improvement. This is a common point of confusion since "efficiency" numbers are typically thrown around without properly defining the context.
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