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Alexei Navalny dies in jail, Russian prison service says – DW – 02/16/2024

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  • Always has been.

    Astronaut meme intensifies.

    • Alexei Navalny dies in jail, Russian prison service says – DW – 02/16/2024

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  • Are we both talking about the same country?

    • Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead, prison service says

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    • Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead, prison service says

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  • Yes.

    • Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead, prison service says

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  • Brave, but not stupid. It was self-martyrdom—self-immolation. The only thing Навальный did not expect was just how long it would take Путин to crucify him. Now, at last, Путин's fate is sealed, and by his own hand. Just like Israel, if the IDF pushes half of Gaza into Egypt.

    • Six held over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange

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  • Well, it's all fuckery, but not all of it is of the GameStop variety. You should really read more about what happened with GameStop. Specifically, look for the words "short squeeze".

    • Alexei Navalny dies in jail, Russian prison service says – DW – 02/16/2024

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    • On the road to success, there are no shortcuts.

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  • God I hope this is real.

    • Six held over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange

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  • And I'm sure plenty of companies have regretted going public, and now, they're stuck with it.

    • Six held over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange

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  • It doesn't mean you're wrong, but it does change the way you fight it, Tson Feir. Innocent companies are trapped in the system you are trying to free them from, and you are opting for the financial equivalent of an Israeli air strike. For somebody who doesn't want a dire impact on global economies, you sure seem to condone actions that will have a dire impact on global economies.

    The stock market is not totally random. The value of stock is tied to the value of companies decently well, Gamestop-style fucketry notwithstanding.

    My main problem with the stock market isn't that it doesn't work, or it's too random. It is working as intended. The problem with it is that it allows control over a company to be bought and sold without the consent of the company's employees. It is not slavery, because the employees can look for a job at another company if they don't like the new owners. But, like, it's also not not slavery. Disreputable people with, in their opinion, not enough money (cough cough Twitter), can sell their workers to other disreputable people with too much money (cough cough Musk). This is capitalism—its very definition. And it's becoming a real problem.

    Sensible countries have already begun putting the brakes on this madness. I believe Germany requires all companies above a certain size to be 40% owned by its employees, and other European countries have similar rules. I think that is a very good compromise. And nobody has to cyanoacrylate themselves to a stock market in order for this to happen.

    • Six held over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange

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  • Interesting. In that case, well, two things:

    1. Why should the stock market be abolished? and
    2. Are there any good companies using the stock market? Some of these companies might actually agree with you that the stock market should be abolished, but are stuck with the system that is available to them. How should these companies cope with a sudden unannounced unplanned total stock market shutdown?

    • Six held over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange

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  • Do you think it's fine for these people to try to punish every major company in the entire UK for something only a handful of companies are doing? This is an example of collective punishment.

    • Six held over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange

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  • What do you think about collective punishment?

    • and where did that bring you?

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  • Do you think it is possible for our current level of scientific knowledge to exist in a hunter gather society?

    • Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s

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I download opus .webm s,
    then use ffmpeg to convert to .opus,
    which I'm pretty sure is just ogg.
IDK, works great in quodlibet.
.webm can't be tagged, though.
Tagging is critical, especially replay_gain tags.

Here is my script:
#!/usr/bin/env python

# Youtube actually hosts audio-only opus tracks, but you can only get them
# in the webm container, which many music players, including quodlibet, don't
# know what to do with. This script downloads the track, then converts it with
# zero loss to the opus container using ffmpeg's `-acodec copy` feature.

import sys
from subprocess import call
from os.path import splitext
from os import remove, walk, listdir
from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
from shutil import move

urls = sys.argv[1:]

with TemporaryDirectory(prefix='yta-') as tempdir:
    # Do not raise exceptions, because yt-dlp counts failure of a single
    # download in the list as an overall failure, exit code wise.
    call(['env', '-C', tempdir, 'yt-dlp', '-if', 'bestaudio',
        '-o', '%(artist)s - %(title)s - %(id)s.%(ext)s', '--'] + urls)

    for tempdir, dirs, files in walk(tempdir):
        for fn in files:
            path = tempdir+'/'+fn
            name, ext = splitext(path)
            if ext == '.webm':
                if call([
                    'ffmpeg', '-hide_banner',
                    '-i', path,
                    '-acodec', 'copy',
                    name+'.opus'
                ]) == 0:
                    remove(path)

    for node in listdir(tempdir):
        move(tempdir+'/'+node, '.')

    • Israel Committing 'Textbook Case of Genocide,' Holocaust Historian Says

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  • What do you think should happen to the state of Israel?

    • Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s

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  • My brother once shared an rdio playlist with me. I used the firefox dev tools to download all of the songs to my library. A few months later, rdio shut down. To this day, a piece of rdio lives on on my hard drive.

    • Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s

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  • That and you can just download opus from youtube using yt-dlp lol. It's 100% great. Anybody transcoding youtube audio to mp3 is definitely doing it wrong lol

    • those ppl...

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Aw, gross.
kbin is written in php.
Thanks, but no thanks, lol.

    • those ppl...

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That's a problem with kbin, then.
There are no tags in lemmy.