InverseParallax

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Gotta say, the US Army has made major progress.

50 years ago our weakness was really any STDs whatsoever.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Because my country is populated by worthless inbred trash that fall for something so simple as "Hey! Look over there!"

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Jim Crow.

The south still has similar voting restrictions, it's just the supreme court stopped caring and said 'sure, whatevs'.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Dude, fucking spoiler alert man, wtf?

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey, easy there.

They also don't give a shit about the genocide of Mexicans in America either.

I wouldn't normally consider antisemitism, but maybe that's why they only care about Palestinians and literally nobody else. Or maybe it's just their own special version of racism.

As a brown person in America they clearly don't care about genocide here.

Maybe it's like champagne, it's only genocide when in the genocide region of Israel, when Russia does it it's just sparkling ethnic cleansing.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Putin says "Deeper"

Trump says "Hlaotheep-larg-larg?"

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Rural island off the coast of a european country:

10g fiber for $65/mo (I don't even think they cared, I asked for more and I think they made up a number).

House literally down the street from google in silicon valley:

Comcrap $100 for shit cable, I'm paying $250 for actual upload speed.

This country is ruled by the corrupt.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 105 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

This isn't blackmail, this is just expressing clear dominance.

The blackmail happens behind closed doors, and blackmail is such an ugly word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG6vgzAswgE

 

The script is nothing to write home about, largely adapted from the meeting transcripts.

The setting is fixed and fairly limited, painting a backdrop but only just, powerful men desiring comfort besieged by winter.

The acting is art beyond anything I've seen elsewhere, each character responds to the next, you see and are absorbed by the mundanity of the interactions, the basic dynamics of a corporate meeting, while the underlying impact screams in your brain.

They took the dry meeting notes (https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/news/uploads/WanseeProtocols.pdf) and made a drama that shocks you with the ultimate banality of evil, exactly as imagined by Hannah Arendt.

This just came to me today, we all write our own narratives for what we do, and watching Heydrich, the ambitious patriot trying to clear the way for his country's deserved greatness, the bureaucrats trying to slither amongst the politics, the soldiers merely looking for leadership, and the diplomats and lawyers merely trying to keep the blood off their cuffs.

Meanwhile, Eichmann takes his orders and follows them with the obedience and competence of a well-disciplined soldier...

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's just adorable.

edit: Putin to Trump: https://youtu.be/a7-eoiY4bOo?t=290

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Btw, I lived in the south, I wasn't a citizen there either.

If I'd hung around another year I would have been a muslim terrist from the Iraqi Taliban or something.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Google is pushing av1 because of patents, but 266 is just plain better tech, even if it's harder to encode.

This same shit happened with 265 and vp9, and before that, and before that with vorbis/opus/aac.

They'll come back because it's a standard, and has higher quality.

Maybe this is the one time somehow av1 wins out on patents, but I'm encoding av1 and I'm really not impressed, it's literally just dressed up hevc, maybe a 10% improvement max.

I've seen vvc and it's really flexible, it shifts gears on a dime between high motion and deep detail, which is basically what your brain sees most, while av1 is actually kind of worse than hevc at that to me, it's sluggish at the shifts, even if it is better overall.

 

I'm sure this won't end up just like the GOP immigrant caravans of ms-13 and disappear right after the election.

 

I mean, sure, at this point why not?

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