“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

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.

They used the cummo spell, didn’t they?

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.

Me with a kick scooter

Do what I (another ADHD-haver) do. (I overuse parentheses). AI would blush at my writing style

I assume that’s not what you want because you’d hold any amount of water for someone perpetuating a genocide. That’s not even taking into account that the efficacy of voting and getting your choice of genocidaire is highly dependent on what state you live in. The discussions sucks out all the oxygen from actionable things that might actually solve problems.

That’s why I said “huge swath of people like you”. In groups, we have the power to solve these issues, but instead, you would rather make a choice between murderers and blame those who don’t want murderers in charge at all

Without US money and US bombs, the genocide couldn’t continue.

Contrary to what you believe, the US is in fact trying to be world police and are succeeding in that mission. 128 military bases in 55 countries. Russia has military bases in 12 other countries and China has 3. The UK has 13.

Do you think it’s more effective to try to convince anti-genocide people to become a bit more okay with genocide rather than joining their side and remove both ICE murder and genocide together?

Genocide is only inevitable because a huge swath of people like you agree that it is something that isn’t too important to fundamentally change.

Cowbee might say that great man theory isn’t real, but I think they’re a real great person

Woah, I didn’t know Benn Jordan made videos about audio ;)

Try whole grilled onion and you’ll leave animal style behind with the tourists.