Can you yanks do that “well armed militia” thing some of you have been banging on about in defense of mowing down children with automatic weapons?

I’ve never seen something so pointless that I’ve wanted more

I wish I still had time for advent of code…

I think I saw a thing once where someone with ARFID would literally only eat undercooked looking french fries.

I can understand if the restriction is something unhealthy, and nothing stopping quantity, I can see this scenario happening

I wonder if there are any investors in oil companies on Lemmy at all tbh

Like I’ve got a decent portfolio of investments, but I will never directly invest in oil (or military). Given the demographics here, I wonder if I’m a pretty typical investor or not

Funny if we weren’t working with a capitalist work or die political and economic system, this would be good news

Technology is supposed to free us to pursue happiness

Some will, but most will see this as confirmation he will act illegally rather than just threaten to. i.e. an escalation of threat from before this happened.

The thing is those are all threats people involved in diplomacy can rationalise away as public image stuff and not take seriously. Like don’t get me wrong, it’s going to have them on alert, but it’s not a bridge burning yet.

This is a physical act with no other interpretation. The US invaded a country and kidnapped its leader. This is a burnt bridge.

How the hell can they just waltz into a country and just kidnap their leader without committing diplomatic suicide with the rest of the world?

The next US president should finally join the ICC and give retroactive authority to prosecute anyone associated with the current US regime. Neatly sidesteps any pardon shenanigans they’re going to attempt, given a US presidential pardon has no legal standing outside its borders.

John Cage - 4’33

Everyone just has to sit in silence and think about why having a nationalist song is kinda weird in the light of the modern day

Not a doctor and I don’t have an exact answer to your question, but this might be helpful:

This may not be a thing in Italy, but check if you’re actually able to get enough vitamin D naturally all times of the year where you are.

if you live in northern England near where I am, for example, you can only really guarantee you’ll get your RDA of vitamin D from the sun during the summer months. I believe in north Scotland it’s not ever possible to reliably get enough naturally.

I try to take a 3000/4000 (honestly which one depends what’s on offer) more or less daily outside of summer. During summer I still take them but maybe every few days.

I would probably try what your doctor recommends (assuming you’ve already flagged your specific concerns, otherwise I’d do that first), it’s entirely possible the 50,000 pill is formulated in such a way it manages to be (somewhat incredibly) slow release. If you experience any issues, schedule an appointment as soon as you can, so they can do some tests to help figure out what’s going on. Your doctor has a degree in this stuff, so it’s good to try what they suggest and discuss any changes with them

This also might not be much of an issue for you since I assume you’re getting your supplements from the same, trusted place. But if not, there’s a load of fake and low quality supplements out there, make sure you research the brand you’re getting has been tested and had its contents verified independently. Any issues could be down to unexpected adulterants rather than the vitamin dose itself

When there is a finite amount of something and someone with more money wants it, it makes the price of it for everyone go up to make it so that some people can no longer afford to compete for the resource, making it available for the higher spender. (Yes there’s also infrastructure being built, but they will out compete us for that too)

Same thing with land & property on it, the working class can’t afford to buy housing now, because rich people want to use housing as an investment vehicle.

Food is another (though also tied to land ownership)

Ultimately it’s the same problem across the board and the solution is generally a wealth tax to prevent densely concentrated capital from distorting the market.

Specifically for these companies, they’re simply too big. They need to be broken up and need to be prevented from getting this size again. If they truly cannot be broken up, they should be nationalised.

Failure to address these issues will result in these companies and people holding a total monopoly on all the resources available. More expensive electricity is only the beginning.

FWIW I think there’s still some merit in maglev vactrains that aren’t tied to someone who was only pushing it to get public infrastructure projects cancelled with the goal of selling more cars.

At least there are seemingly serious academics and engineers still researching and developing the concept anyway.

That’s £2.3k each if split evenly.

That seems pretty cheap given how much marketing (particularly when involving “talent”) usually costs, assuming these campaigns actually had some kind of measurable success.

Why does this read kinda like rage bait? I don’t really expect that from the guardian

Edit: just another helpful number I remembered, for context:

The Tories spent £100m on an advertising campaign to gaslight us with how great Brexit was going to be as it happened

That’s 200x for much less tangible benefit

welcome to your life

There’s no turning back

Oh yeah for PCM it’s CD quality on everything and capable of 24bit/96khz on most hardware made in the past decade (I think there’s some high end stuff that does 24bit/192khz, but funnily enough I imagine you need a somewhat higher grade than typical cable for that, since most are made of super cheap plastic fibre, which is usually fine)

You can also send bitstream over it for most pre Blu-ray multichannel formats if you have a compatible receiver

FWIW toslink supports up to 125mbps theoretically

Much lower in practice of course, but it’s a bit better than 128k

Imagine sniffing your own farts this much

Those are some heavy links

Yeah, for audiophiles this is actually a better situation now tbf

You can get inline USB-C DACs that are head and shoulders above the DACs that were used in 95% of smartphones out there. Or more frustratingly with Samsung, they used to (probably like 8-9 years ago now lol) include half decent DACs but configure them terribly which could only be fixed with custom ROMs, so I had to choose between shit audio or my banking apps.

Average Joe that doesn’t care about that just uses Bluetooth today anyway since you can get cheap Bluetooth headphones for about the same as cheap wired headphones (where the audio is going to be crap whatever you do). And of course there’s the cheap but passable inline DACs they used to include with phones that you can pick up for pretty cheap if you really want to use cheap wired headphones for whatever reason.

It was definitely annoying when they all just got rid of them, but at least now when I want to use my wired headphones on a device, I know it will actually sound good and isn’t down to what was the cheapest DAC they could get away with putting into the device itself.