Jentu

“But you see, chopping the bottom 10% isn’t the same as chopping the bottom 5%.”

“But you see, chopping the bottom 1% every month of the year isn’t the same as chopping the bottom 5% in a single action”

“But you see, chainsawing the bottom 5% isn’t the same as chopping the bottom 5%”

So we’re to show no authority against billionaires and their enforcers (police) and validators (law workers/politicians) because it might go too far? Slippery slope claims tend to just reinforce the status quo since it stops people from doing anything functional. The status quo is definitively authoritarian.

Not saying that it has to, but is there an example of “without being generally authoritarian” out there in the wild somewhere? Because imo every country on earth uses authority to uphold some class structure and my country, even if we had all the things we wanted to make us happier (affordable housing, free medical care and education, public transit, etc) it would still show authority over the global south to maintain itself.

Using authority against billionaires is good actually

I was already on the lowest difficulty. You aren't helping, loading screen tip.

Huh, I think I see pcbway/jlcpcb and various 3D printer/laser cutter companies 90% of the time I'm watching a channel with sponsors.

~~Do you ever have the issue where FLAC files play at a slower speed than they're supposed to? Maybe I just need to update firmware or something (though I haven't been able to access the fiio forum to download it in a couple days which is super frustrating)~~

Whoops. It was an adblocker issue. I updated and it's all good now. 😅

Hello fellow film industry abandoner! I never went to film school, but I did briefly join the editors union in LA prior to the industry imploding shortly after lockdowns in LA. I switched to contract commercial work and, while it's been far more soul-sucking, at least it pays the bills. I no longer live in an industry city, so I've been trying to find my footing in a career that doesn't treat (and pay) a former union editor like a youtube editor (no hate on youtube editors, that work seems extremely tedious and they deserve to be paid more). But maybe I'll just break down and become an electrician if my client work ever slows down.

It’s an empty and hollow sort of attention though. I’ve had friends in the past where it felt like I was entirely invisible because they just couldn’t see me. And maybe that’s because I’m not good at being comfortable in a crowd enough to be myself (which itself stems from a lack of self confidence). It’s kind of a self-perpetuating issue. People (namely therapists) keep telling me to journal, but that hasn’t seemed to help at all, though it might help you if you haven’t been suggested that before. Idk it’s rough out there and it’s hard to hold on to hope without feeling like you’re just tossing coins into a fountain. Depression is a fucker and it will convince you that you’ve never been happy before and you’ll never be happy again, but if you start to treat yourself with the love and grace you deserve, things have to start clearing up, right?

My father in law is the very model of a modern major liberal and often inserts his opinions about human nature and how evil the enemies of Amerikkka are any chance he gets. I keep saving comments by cowbee to use as responses to him and the last few times I’ve done it, it has stopped him in his tracks, immediately changing the subject. I swear, there’s something about how cowbee responds that works really well on a certain kind of people.

This exactly. Fuck him and fuck Jonathan Ross.

People look at me funny when I tell them I used to have exploding head syndrome.

I have a modded iPod video as well as a Fiio Snowsky Echo Mini. Both work pretty well for me, though both have obnoxious flaws. The iPod can technically play FLAC files through the Rockbox OS, but it's wildly sluggish with high-bitrate songs, sometimes even crashing the device in the process. The Echo Mini has an issue with some(?) FLAC files, playing them about 20% slower and at a lower pitch than it's supposed to, but only for a couple japanese albums (I can't find anyone else online with this issue, so it might just be something affecting me). Playlist management is kind of a pain on both, but the scroll wheel of the ipod is vastly superior to the buttons on the Echo Mini.