lime!

is that not what taxes are? not being facetious, just genuinely trying to understand the difference

maybe not lesser known but Nick Cage’s real surname is Coppola. he’s Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew.

huh. wonder where i got that from then.

i wonder where i got the low number from then :/ can’t find it now

is that for all languages and with history?

I think the full dump of wikipedia complete with multimedia is like 5 GB. the text-only version is something like 100MB.

personally i am a fan of “keep your religion to yourself”, “don’t use the veil of the church as a means to make money”, “help those that others cast out, like sex workers”, “don’t engage in stereotype”, and “rich people go to hell”.

i mean it’s mostly all metaphor and allegory, meant to teach you lessons rather than to act as a historical document.

it’s like a book of fables for people who think animals are silly

it works okay as a fuzzy search over documentation.
…as long as you’re willing to wait.
…and the documentation is freely available.
…and doesn’t contain any sensitive information.
…and you very specifically ask it for page references and ignore everything else it says.

so basically, it’s worse than just searching for one word and pressing “next” over and over, unless you don’t know what the word is.

yeah watching the video the police are so uncomfortable with having to handle them. the guy basically goes limp in their arms and starts screaming, so another policeman has to grab his feet and they carry him out like ewoks while he screams “THIS IS KILLING”.

very strange.

this.

tl;dr: showed up to hotel a day before their room was ready, wanted to sleep in the lobby, got abusive and violent with the staff when they refused, then accused the police of assault when they were forcibly escorted out after refusing for hours to leave.

this got attention in swedish media first, and only got a response from the ccp after it had gone viral.

the point of democracy is that the elected are normal people. they may have expert advisors but they are not selected for their expertise, like it or not. bypassing this by adding a layer of obfuscation helps nobody.

This song is just
six
words
long
This song is just
six
words
long

I love that it’s seven.

so you want like an adapter that can deliver audio separate from hdmi? like it has a hdmi port and a 3.5mm jack? i think i’ve seen stuff like that but i doubt you’d get a good dac in one of them.

bear in mind i was 10 during 9/11 so a lot of it was just upending things i had taken for granted. but like, how the US was pretty much allied with the taliban throughout the 80s, giving them training and weapons to fight against the soviet-friendly progressive, secular government of afghanistan.

doesn’t hdmi send digital audio?

i got the soviet-afghan war and wow did that recontextualize a lot of things about the modern world

i wouldn’t say “i don’t do albums” is a negative response. i even asked about it to see if it’s just me. then you start talking about formats and fidelity rather than music, which other people engaged me about.

i “get” why people like vinyl. it’s a ritual thing. i can’t do rituals due to how my brain works. i also “get” why artists make albums. it’s a way for music to tell a story, for narratives to interleave, to experiment with emotional changes. i “get” all that. i understand it. i know it. i would love to listen that way. it just doesn’t work on me. i don’t know why. i’ve tried, god knows i’ve tried.

jumping to the conclusion that i do not understand, and then reiterating that i do not instead of trying to explain it, and using unattributed quotes, is being cryptic. it is not clear.

and regarding cobain; artists know that the way people interact with their work is not up to them. throwing tantrums, accusing people of being “fake” for being… people, that’s a teenager’s way of looking at the world. it’s not enough to create something people love, they must love all of you, or it’s “fake”. this happens all the time. look att blink-182, toto, chumbawumba. fucking rick astley. the difference is what they make of it. and to be clear, i’m not being down on curt. the man was obviously going through it. i’m just saying that you’re not making the point you think you are with that.

that would be interesting! the few “albums” i have gone through recently have all been by mashup artists, so the genres have been all over the place but the “touch” of the artist has been there throughout.

i realize you get off on being cryptic, but i can’t accept this gatekeepy bullshit. I’m too old and neurodivergent to care about whatever profound wisdom you want me to discover. be straight with me, or shut up.