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The Bible doesn't say that you shouldn't edit or correct the Bible because the authors of the Bible didn't have the rest of the Bible.

Moses gives some explicit commands to the Israelites to not modify the commands he gives in Deuteronomy, but that doesn't really apply to the other books.

Likewise, some guy named "John" warns against anyone adding or removing from the account of his acid trip in Revelations, but that doesn't really apply to other books.

The "Bible" was constructed over a long process and while what many think of as the "Bible" was finalized by 400AD there are still disagreements today (See Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormonism, and many other smaller sects).

The original authors wrote disparate works for distinct purposes at distinct points in time. They were not writing with the goal of manufacturing a multi-thousand year story bound as a single volume.

How do we know the full story?

We don't. We use archeology, biology, anthropology, and other scientific disciplines to determine a likely path of the story of humanity as a whole. Some disciplines use the books of the Bible and other contemporary accounts to guide areas of future study, but if you want a single source for the history of the earth, humanity, or even the Israelites the Bible isn't going to offer an honest perspective.

That just sounds like you want children to vote.

If he's dead she'll already be president, the incumbent, and Trump will have to reprint anything that says 47.

Maybe Orange man needs orange drink?

I saw one of these parked at my mall. As I was audibly saying "Oh, a Cybertruck" I noticed a second one parked a couple of spots down and continued "huh, there's two of them." It wasn't until I'd finished "what a terrible mistake." that I noticed the owner had paused climbing in to hear my conclusion prior to hanging his poor defeated head and leaving.

Not exactly an explicit ad, but more a product I heard about from an infomercialesque "review" for the PCPanel.

It was a cheap gadget that addressed a shortcoming I was experiencing. It works well and I use it every time I use my computer.

It means we can write our own future while moving past peer pressure from dead people. It ain't that hard, guys.

Its the "Haley Voters for Biden" PAC.

Trump wants power. He will say anything to anyone to get that power. When he has power he will exercise it in means that benefit him by directly using it to support those who most impactfuly support him. Who most benefits him? White Christian Nationalists who want an ethnostate of pure cis people and who benefit from a permanent uneducated underclass.

Unless you already know Trump's phone number, hold your tongue when he cheats at the golf game you are playing together, and routinely give him millions of dollars your opinion or support of him doesn't matter to him and your requests or demands will not be addressed or even thought of once your usefulness as a voter has subsided. He will not think of you, he will not support you, and he will not help your community--no matter what he says. Case and point; he increased how much you pay in taxes while smiling and telling you he was lowering them.

The guy who spent the last 4 years campaigning for most hated Democrat on the hill thinks he has what it takes to win the Dems over?

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A microphone is a membrane attached to a means to generate electricity (like shaking wires around a magnet). When you make sound by a mic you shake the membrane and it in turn generates a small amount of electricity.

This electricity is an analog signal (it's continuous, and the exact amount changes over time). We can take that signal and digitize it (literally chop it up into distinct digits) by using an ADC or analog to digital converter. Essentially an ADC takes a snapshot of the analog signal at a specific point in time, and repeats that snapshot process very quickly. If you take enough snapshots fast enough you can have a reasonable approximation of the original signal (like following a dotted line).

Now we have a digital signal and we can store those series of snapshots in a file.

But how do we turn that back into sound? We literally just follow the process in reverse.

We open the file and get the list of snapshots. We pass those to a DAC or digital to analog converter that generates a continuous analog signal that passes through every original point. We pass that signal to thin wire wrapped around a magnet and attached to a membrane. This mechanism takes the small generated electric field from the DAC and causes the membrane to shake in the same pattern that the mic originally shook in.

In practice there are often other steps in line such as amps to increase the strength of a signal or compression to minimize how much space the snapshots take up.

I'm in the US, so not really that shocking.

Shit happens in the US too, Mate.

What about "Lemons?"

Probably a court case and a reversal.

Aren't there a shit ton of people that search for them? They're in the news constantly and if you're still (somehow) undecided what better way to keep up with them than by searching. Not to mention anyone that wants to make a meme about them.

It could also apply to degrading quality or features in replacements. Something like newer cars offering subscriptions for heated seats or extended battery range. Or leather goods switching to a lower grade.

Quite a lot of steam games are also DRM free, btw.

I wouldn't necessarily say Firefox. They've been static at best, but have definitely had their L takes, like the recent auto opt in to provide info to advertisers thing.