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I feel like nightmares in media often involve a monster of some sort, but IME nightmares tend to be more grounded and involve someone I know personally doing something bad.

Spring Festival sucks because everything closes, all your friends go out of the country and there's nothing to do. I can't leave the country or I'll invalidate my immigration paperwork. Where would you go if you were in China and had a couple of weeks? Not the usual Great Wall Terracotta warriors stuff, but the cool things people want to do but can't. Maybe Red tourism? That's a whole tourism category in China but it's made for domestic audiences and is usually boring. Few artifacts, just lots of dioramas and photostats of old newspaper articles. More educational for CPC cadres. I've got the nationwide highspeed rail network at my command and enough money to keep me for the holiday. It'll be crowded because everyone else is traveling too but it's better than being stuck in my apartment. No beaches or sun, it's winter and Sanya is overrun with Russians anyway.

Alright, so the scenario is, I've got a bunch of MKV files with SRT subs that I want to edit together as follows:

1. Do a bit of trimming on each clip
2. Slap them onto a timeline
3. Render out to a single video with a single SRT, still with the correct timing relative to each clip (exporting the subtitles separately and muxing them myself would also fine)

I fumbled around with DaVinci Resolve for a while, but it doesn't seem to recognize the subs when they're embedded, and I couldn't figure out how to lock them together after the fact to allow the editing flow I described. I guess in most cases, the workflow is going to involve subtitling after editing, but idk, it doesn't seem like it'd be that difficult to support.

Most likely I'm just going to do the editing first and then sync the subs in AegiSub by noting the absolute offsets for each clip (along with how much has been trimmed from the beginning/end), pasting in each sub file separately, and then shifting them to the appropriate offsets (come to think of it, I can probably write a script to do it for me, although that could be a classic blunder). Kind of annoying, especially since you kinda have to do the math manually with AegiSub—wish you could just paste onto an existing sub line and have the subs start relative to that timecode. That being said, I only need to do like 8 videos at a time, so I'll live, and it's still waaaaaay faster than making the subs myself.

But...if there is a way to do what I wanna do smoothly and intuitively, I'd love to hear about it!

This is being spammed all over LinkedIn by one of the paper's authors. I can't say I've read many papers before but is this just rambling nonsense or am I too dumb to understand the point of this?

I was just reading the Guardian reporting on the ongoing anti-ICE protests across the US, and the word 'hundreds' kept coming up. Isn't that very very few people? In Spain you get a few hundred people protesting over niche local issues and it doesn't make the news.

What's it looking like where people are?

Again, no fedposting. What the hell are we doing here USAmericans? are any folks getting more involved with their communities at least?

Obviously not all of us are in epicenters of obvious or extreme violence, but what are ways principled communists are stepping up?

No fedposting!

Genuinely I think that would be great to keep track of the destruction of this country

I’m granting the Seattle Polyweb charge of the PNW's mass-line infrastructure

Something like

“The yellow Parenti video is like the ring but it turns libs into tankies.”

How realistic is it that Europe could do what Vietnam, Syria, the Taliban and the Houthis did?

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/us-army-poorly-prepared-for-arctic-operations-finnish-troops-forced-them-to-surrender-during-exercises-in-norway/

I want them. Give me yours. Why does Hollywood continue to give him roles? What dirt does he have?
He keeps starring in bombs, he's an actual cult leader, he's a dogshit actor, he's apparently a terrible hang and he's a terrible colleague, so why does he still show up in shit?

I'm learning that trying to turn a bully into a friend is such grade school shit. It arrests your development, and I want to know about the ways it does. I'm embarrassed I wasted my time thinking of how to talk to liberals who seem set on being right wingers.

I realize that not only should I drop all intentional right wingers out of my social life, I have to in order to develop as a person.

Someone told me that communist reducation camps could reform Nazis, but it took controlling every aspect of their lives and everyone they spoke to in order to reform them. That it cannot happen one-on-one on an interpersonal level.

I do not have the tools to reprogram dedicated right wingers. Even with people who are trying to be leftists, I need them to already be surrounded by other leftists so that I only have to fill one tiny gap at a time in their preexisting knowledge.

The more I learn the more I feel like a new person to politics. I don't think I'll ever have to choose right wingers as potential social circle members ever again. Right now I don't have to drink poisoned water anymore.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7435430

I figure this is a long shot but it looks like youtube copyrighted parts of Empresses in the Palace / Legend of Zhen Huan when certain music plays, and with the videos audio being silenced, it seems the subtitles for those sections have been removed.

This issue can be seen at 36:11 in episode 3. I'm worried more episodes may be affected, especially during important scenes

The subtitles don't appear even though I initially downloaded the srt files. Really sucks cause I found the Magpie Bridge Brigade's translation to be the best I could find for this series.

If anyone has advice or knows of a place to download the unaltered version of these subtitles or even has them I would be so grateful for your help!!!

SHOULD I TRY FOR A FORTH TERM?

So I think it's becoming clear that wrt solar, batteries,EVs etc, we're witnessing the dawning of full-scale industrial revolution in China, and I'm interested what people think the impact of this will be? Seems undeniable to me at this point that the disruption is going to be at least comparable in scale to the internet, but what form will it take? Who will be the winners and losers? Effort posts encouraged!

I'm not enough of a rube to believe what I hear about election results in Venezuela. I've seen the pants-pissing charade that the opposition party always puts on, and I've seen the signal boosting done by the US State Dept. I'm also aware that the PSUV has always invited and relied upon outside observers to validate their election results in advance of accusations of election fraud. In past years, finding the reports from these independent observers has been relatively easy to locate and cite - but I cannot find anything for the 2024 election. Can anybody link me to some info about what happened in the 2024 election? I'm also hearing left wing sources claim that Maduro lost the election, which, again I'm reticent to accept as true without evidence that isn't straight from the US State Dept.