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  • If democeats cares to protect women

    okay so let’s say for a sec they don’t… the choices are don’t care and actively works against

    the choice is still easy

  • this is very very wrong. the sound quality was a dumpster fire

  • 2 pass will encode a file once, and store a log of information about what it did… then on the 2nd pass it’ll use that information to better know when it should use more or less bitrate/keyframes - honestly i’m not too sure of the specifics here

    now, it’s most often used to keep a file to a particular file size rather than increasing quality per se, but id say keeping a file to a particular size means you’re using the space that you have effectively

    looks like with ffmpeg you do need to run it twice - there’s a log option

    i mostly export from davinci resolve so i’m not too well versed in ffmpeg flags etc

    doing a little more reading it seems the consensus is that spending more time on encoding (ie a higher preset) will likely give a better outcome than 2 pass unless you REALLY care about file size (like the file MUST be less than, but as close to 100mb)

  • if you’re planning on editing it, you can record in a very high bitrate and re-encode after the fact… yes, re-encoding looses some quality, however you’re likely to end up with a far better video if you record and 2x the h264 bitrate and then re-encode to your final h265 (or av1) bitrate than if you just record straight to h264 at your final bitrate

    another note on this: lots of streaming stuff will say to use CBR (constant bitrate), which is true for streaming, however i think probably for re-encode VBR (variable bitrate) with multi-pass encode will give a good trade-off - CBR for live because the encoding software can’t predict what’s coming up, but when you have a known video it can change bitrate up and down because it knows when it’ll need higher bitrate

  • that’s… not a great argument though… plenty of people didn’t think their phones were missing anything and then the iphone came along

  • i don’t own a cloak but i have a damn comfy blanket that works great when worn with a clasp around the neck and it might be the best reinvention i’ve ever found

  • Right now, you have 2 real choices. Every other choice is an effort to change your future choices. You want to push the democrats more left, and so do most of their voters… However your choices right now to effect the genocide are to either vote for someone that’s supporting the genocide or someone who cheers on and suggests more genocide faster. By abstaining, you’re putting yourself in the middle of the choice, which is potentially a worse outcome for Palestinians than making an upsetting choice.

    That is the reality of the situation. By refusing to make an unpalatable choice, you’re helping to make a far worse outcome reality.

  • You live in a fantasy and sabotage real effort to limit damage in the real world. You are responsible because you can’t swallow your pride. How incredibly selfish of you.

  • they’re all on planes that fly around the world, constantly experiencing 8pm

  • irrelevant - everyone knows and agrees. that doesn’t change that this election you have exactly 1 choice

    politics is shit. until you have other options, you have to live in the world you live in and not a fantasy

  • this has the same logic as saying npm install takes a while so just don’t use libraries

  • nuclear is neither about having, nor using the weapons … it’s about the fear of future use of weapons

    silence isn’t helpful in that endeavour

  • that’s called politics mate, and since it’s varied and complex - obviously so - i refuse to engage because i no longer believe you’re acting in good faith

  • the way you do for literally anything else that becomes policy… discussion is an absolute requirement to forming policy. it is, without exception, the only way to start making any change

    what comes after that is varied and complex

  • are you literally questioning whether concrete policy comes from discussion? do you think 1 guy just snaps his fingers and makes it so?

    politics doesn’t require 1 action… politics and swaying large groups of people requires those people to discuss and support to build over time

  • these are separate issues; i never said signalling is the end game, but it has to start there and build

    if you want IRV etc to be in the same category as abortion rights and cannabis (as in majority of people think “why the fuck isn’t this done yet?” rather than “huh? what?”) then it starts with simply convincing politicians to acknowledge their support for it - heck even acknowledging it as an issue

    there is literally no way to get to policy through a grassroots without it first having a few people “signalling”

  • this is absolutely the information that needs to be at the top… old news, we know about it, calling it a back door is kinda disingenuous clickbait (or in this case, diplomacy bait?)

  • the overton window aka “the window of discourse” is literally about talking, and making things more acceptable by their existence in the public consciousness

    the more people TALK about alternative voting mechanisms, the more likely it is for some change to occur… 1 person can’t just up and change the system overnight, but by “signalling” as you’ve dismissively called it, it makes it more likely that other people talk about it and that makes it more likely that it becomes policy

  • that’s… just basic statistics given the difference in campaign sizes

    i’m not trying to wave it off or anything, but i’d suggest that it’s entirely expected