circuitfarmer @ circuitfarmer @lemmy.sdf.org

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Almost everything you ingest from day to day on your PC, in terms of multimedia content, is compressed.

File compression is a necessity, as it makes transmission of such media over the internet much more teneble. But uncompressed video carries a lot more information -- not necessarily all useful information, but it is there.

Great wealth goes hand in hand with great corruption. People don't earn a billion dollars. It has to be stolen, from many, at scale.

I'm not sure why any of this is surprising. The US was perfectly fine letting China manufacture all the things. That manufacturing know-how leads to design know-how. The desire by US corporations to keep wages low or eliminate US labor entirely to use outsourced manufacturing leads to this.

It isn't just military hardware: it is products across entire industries. China is producing good ones, and even when they aren't, they're producing them at volumes the US could not dream of touching.

A visit to the Titanic wreck, perhaps?

...silly me. Musk has been on the Titanic for months.

I don't disagree, though I will add: there is a lot more to right-wing politics than being anti-trans. Shit is bad for all groups except the rich, and divide and conquer is a thing.

None of that is meant to belittle the trans experience at the moment. I am aware of the fact that they are, minimally, a kind of sacrificial lamb, and I can only hope that the situation improves.

It is fucking wild. One might say it sounds like entitlement. But surely a "self-made man" like Donald Trump knows nothing of entitlement... /s

Oh it most certainly is. Huxley and Orwell can be just as prophetic.

Ensuring there are more people has the potential to keep wages low across all industries by virtue of a larger pool of potential labor.

That's it. That's the whole thing.

They need babies, because more babies now becomes cheaper labor later -- especially when the government is no longer on the hook for any assistance post-birth (or pre-birth, for that matter). It means profits for the rich across entire lives.

What a great way to improve enrollment! Make it so half the population can't hit the standard.

comprised of a lot of people that are apathetic until they are personally affected

Decades of "individual freedom" being pushed as a top priority probably help to get the US to this spot. Caring about one's fellow citizens being derided as "socialism" probably helps, too.

I didn't even realize it had a native version. As stuff "just works", I find myself checking under the hood less and less.

But, good. I'll have to fire this up again and see if I notice any difference. I thought it ran fine before.

But of course. Democratic countries doing very well with policies far more socialist than would be politically expedient for the US? Can't have that.

Aw look at that little hamster wheel turning... He's started to understand, but very, very slowly

Do you think Musk will use the right glue this time?

massively upset people in the synagogue

Nazi collaborator wearing swastika armband: "what? It's my synagogue too."

Hegseth's is jimbeam123. Don't even have to check.

Hm, I may need to rewatch it myself. That also doesn't match what the link above suggests about interpreting the ending: "Algren finds redemption through his newfound purpose and ultimately sacrifices his life for the cause he once opposed."

Edit: I just checked the last scene. You're right, he doesn't actually die. Which means the link is also wrong.

Still, I think it's a stretch to say he's the last samurai, since he never really becomes a samurai. One important note is that samurai is "samurai" in the plural, too.

What did he save? Literally everyone but Meiji-backed forces dies at the end.

It is implied that Tom Cruise dies at the end. I think the confusion comes from a voice over, but you never see the character on screen again.

He also does not "become a samurai". He fights alongside them, but at no point do they call him a samurai.

Edit: looks like that link is wrong. He doesn't die at the end. I guess memory is a fickle beast.