Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all
Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all
Because you think the inevitable alternative will somehow be better? I hate Biden as much as the next reasonable human being, but I don’t want another 2016 situation. We don’t have good options, only least bad ones.
Keyword: “satire”. I assume that was pen name for comedic value.
I don’t think this is what you’re experiencing, but I had an alarm go off randomly for one beep once. Went and looked at it, and a few seconds later a spider crawled out and away from it.
If it’s photoelectric, anything that could scatter light could cause it to go off. Is your house dusty?
When I was in highschool, it was normal for everyone in my mostly male friend group to greet each other with hugs. I remember my dad saying he found it weird. Didn’t change anything.
Yeah, I think this “cartooning of evil” is at the core of American patriotism and entitlement. There are a lot of Americans who legitimately believe that we’re immune to certain phenomena “because we’re American”. It’s the same as when people say they’re not racist “because they’re not trying to be”. Or the rich man bankrolling the presidency isn’t evil because he doesn’t twirl a mustache.
In the same way, this can’t be genocide, because we would never do a genocide! We’re just doing what we believe needs to be done to maintain our standard of living…
Simplex is the first platform I’ve heard of that doesn’t use IDs (which doesn’t make much sense to me, practically, but sure). So would you say everything is less secure than simplex?
What makes session less secure? This is the first I’ve heard of it.
On the contrary, Apple’s track record for collecting data is deliberately obtuse and utilizes dark patterns to make it as difficult as possible to not upload your info to them.
From the article,
the user is given the option to enable Siri, but “enabling” only refers to whether you use Siri’s voice control. “Siri collects data in the background from other apps you use, regardless of your choice, unless you understand how to go into the settings and specifically change that,”…“In practice, protecting privacy on an Apple device requires persistent and expert clicking on each app individually"…the steps required are “scattered in different places.”
Apple devices might be arguably more secure than other vendors, but security and privacy are not the same thing.
I wonder if someone has already patented tailpipe whistles in general, or if designing for specific sounds would be a sufficient “improvement” to the concept. We could be rich!
I mean I don’t, that’s why I was suggesting one of those YouTubers should make one for the content. iirc StuffMadeHere has used metal deposition for some of his parts.
I think it would be an interesting fluid dynamics challenge to construct a whistle that creates the specific air pressure pattern to match the tie fighter sound.
Another relevant whistle is the Aztec death whistle. This YouTuber 3d prints plastic reproductions of it.
Can’t 3d print exhaust components
Oh? Why not? Is there a structural or chemical reason metal deposition wouldn’t hold up?
…recalling the inspiration behind the TIE Fighters. “In World War II the super dive-bombers had an artificially created siren wail created by air ducts…They didn’t serve any purpose except to create this noise, which would terrify people.”
He turned to The Roots of Heaven, a 1958 adventure film…Burtt sampled the movie’s elephant noises and slowed them down, but then he hit upon the idea of mixing them with the sound of cars on wet pavement.
So by making a car sound like a tie fighter which sounds like a car+elephant, we’ve gone full circle.
I’m almost certain someone could build one of these that recreates the tie fighter sound. We need one of those YouTube makers with access to a metal 3d printer to design and build one.
the media sure has some real reach, don’t they?
I mean, yeah pretty much. It’s been a few decades of sensationalism, anti-intellectualism, and capitalism-is-patriotism rhetoric, but we got here. It’s not entirely the media, but the media definitely has a huge impact.
I think I’ve heard of them, but never listened. I’ll check out Rooms of the House, thanks!
Eh, I think of it more in the vein of It Follows. It’s not supposed to make sense, it’s supposed to be a minigame for the audience to play along with the characters. It lays out a simple set of mechanics and then uses that to build tense dilemmas, giving the audience a chance to think about what they would do in that situation, and what they definitely want to prevent from happening.
I didn’t see the second one, though. Heard it wasn’t great (no pun intended).
Hah, seems like a random track. I’m curious what jumped out to you.
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Their style has changed a lot over the years, but I think they’re always technically post hardcore, with a blend of folk. It’s hard to know which era will resonate with people, but January 1979 was the first I heard from them and my interest was immediately piqued. The Fox, the Crow, and the Cookie is probably their easiest to enjoy. And I have a friend who spent a decade hearing me play their music, but it wasn’t until he heard this track they they clicked for him.
Louisiana, I believe.
No, this just the best strategy in a first pass the post voting system.