FlightyPenguin @ FlightyPenguin @lemmy.world

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Ibram X. Kendi said something about this that made me stop using the term "white trash". Basically, the idea of the term is that "white trash" don't uphold the virtue of whiteness, that whiteness is goodness, and white trash are white in skin color only. Thus, using the term supports white supremacy, whether or not you realize it.

So thank you for saying something, even if it's unpopular.

It can save data by excluding data streams that you don't need. For instance, I don't need French, Italian, Japanese, German 5.1 audio streams that each have 700Mbps bitrates or higher, nor do I need an English 1.5Gbps master audio stream, a 700 Mbps English stream, a 500 Mbps descriptive audio for the blind, and 5 different special edition commentary tracks for a film I'll watch once or twice. All those tracks can really add up, and torrent sites are often country or language specific, so remuxes might have original language and/or native language audio only.

I'm impressed that the bokeh balls at the edge of the frame are more cat's-eye than round.

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That part is actually what's misleading. I don't know anybody who gets 20 or 30 oz cups of dark roast drip coffee. 10 oz is a more reasonable size. A more useful comparison would be that one lemonade is like having two or three dark roast coffees.

Under capitalism, nobody is given a jar; jars are "earned". One man owns the jar factory and most of the jars.

I watched my roommate play that game, and we just sat there in stunned silence.

There's probably a point in Toronto that is a closer drive to Ottawa than to the other end of Toronto.

She's a 6' tall kickboxer. I think she's perfectly intimidating.

100% agree. Excellent, tasteful adaptation. It keeps the feel, the most important characters, stories, science, etc. It's my favorite show of all time, and the books are just perfect.

I'm a Chrisjen Avasarala fan myself. Amos's conversations with "Chrissy" are some of the best dialogue ever written.

I appreciate you. I'm a teetotaling vegetarian. I usually manage to figure something out (and I try not to impose or be a killjoy), but it's easier when colleagues are looking out for you.

What's your ELO?

Speeding tickets are a regressive tax. And they won't get people to hate cars, they'll get people to hate government.

I'm about to start Leviathan Falls (final novel in The Expanse). Every bit of it has been phenomenal, and I can't imagine the last book will be any different.

I absolutely loved The Martian, but I had a hard time getting through Hail Mary. It was a great concept, and engaging science fiction, except most of the characters, including the main one, are completely insufferable. No conversation is believable or even interesting. Just juvenile stuff. Almost put it down 3/4 of the way through because I felt like I couldn't take it any longer. I'm glad that I made it through, but it was really tough, and I'm not gonna read it ever again.

Not trying to discourage you from reading it, just hoping to lower your expectations a bit so that you're pleasantly surprised when it's not the trash fire I'm making it out to be. I hope you enjoy it more than I did!

I don't know what a hundredweight is, but I'm just guessing based on American experience that it's a unit of volume equal to 132 quarts.

Lots of people are mentioning the Caesar thing, but nobody has mentioned that tithe is also a tax, and there is plenty said about that. Malachi 3:8, for example.

Can it run Crysis?

Anti Rabid Bear Alliance. I'd like to petition to change NATO to ARBA.

All is corn. Corn is all.