As a member of the German diaspora (who has faced the autistic allegations his whole life) who grew up with, and was heavily influenced by, his Oma, this is immensely reassuring.
Not sure if I'm missing a significant portion of the article as a non-subscriber, but there seems to be no backlash nor explanation of why he deleted it.
While I agree with this, it confuses me that the same isn't happening to Instagram as well, since it has essentially 0 censorship of anti-Israeli content. However, within the last year it seems that there was a deliberate lift in that censorship, with the whole area of the platform blowing up since the early summer.
What I imagine the incentive is is not the ability to censor the media, but to have the media on record of who posts it and who engages with it and maintain that ledger. When people get banned and slandered for denouncing a genocide, it becomes harder and harder to call this stuff "low-IQ conspiracy slop".
I wouldn't conflate "best" with "most important". Personally I find the sappy emotions like love, happiness, and contentedness to be the best ones, generated by the best parts of life. However, I would absolutely say it is the most important feeling from a self-preservation standpoint.
There is also something to be said about today's unchecked, underutilized anxiety that one feels when sitting doing absolutely nothing. There has been an unending discussion about the causes of this, but I tend to align with the belief that since our current world doesn't provide many dangers for us to genuinely cause anxiety, our brain freaks out and finds less dire avenues to trigger it.
Completely agree!
The moment after leaving an event/party/service I always feel a greater sense of purpose, contentness, or at the very least, less pessimistic about the state of the world
Absolutely agree. Many, many abhorrent ideas and perspectives are accepted very often due to them being deliberately well thought-out and appearing more "academic" sounding to the layperson. There are entire organizations (colloquially, "think-tanks") dedicated to writing pamphlets, books, and memos filled with eloquent in-depth talking points that get distributed to their respective talking heads.
I can't blame many people today for seeing this problem as the foundation of all mainstream media, instead of taking the time to individually investigate each source of information. However it does lead to this "everything is the opposite of what we're told" hysteria the author talks about
If, as the article says, the overturn of the constitutional protection of abortions wasn't the greatest causing factor towards a desire to leave the country, what does this demographic seek to gain in other countries such as Canada?
Popular problems such as the housing and employment crises are only worse in our northern neighbors.
I think i figured it out.
1000 pages of images with 40 rows and 200 columns of the repeating pattern of three dark squares with one light square vertically oriented. 1000x40x200 is 8,000,000.
I think those slivers are the cover of the Moby Dick it parodies, with each cover overlaid on the last, and the resolution absolutely destroyed to save storage space.
The author made a point to mention the 300+ at-grade crossings as a contributor to the deaths, but didn't compare it to the previously mentioned Long Island Railroad that also has nearly 300 at-grade crossings and only single-digit deaths per year.
As much sympathy as the author has for Floridians, I don't see this problem being more than a "florida man" issue.
I have lived on Long Island my whole life near an intersection of 3 separate railways and have never had a problem walking farther in order to cross traintracks at a designated intersection. Neither have I been inclined to drive around the gates when there is a train approaching.
I'm so happy at least one other person caught onto this. I figure if it had been a China/Russia/North Korea type actor they would've put it in the headline.
Notice how the top stocks suddenly began making insane profit growth after march of 2023? GPT-4, arguably the biggest leap in AI actualization, released on March 14th, 2023. I assume that is when these largest companies (Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Google) started gaining crazy investment for data/AI/processing hardware.
I see it as an inflation of speculative worth of these companies. The value they are providing can in no way be proportional to the rate of growth of their stock. It is just a circulation of their own money being passed through each of those companies' services, and not anything of worth to the consumer.
I'm not usually the snarky type, but it seems that America is on the same path, if not already there through more covert channels.
The slope has only gotten slipperier since the patriot act
I think this ties in more with the decrease in quality of movie/music sound mixing. There are current movies coming to theaters with mixing so bad that they have to rerelease it with the proper audio (such as Across the Spiderverse). Many, MANY albums that release today have noticeable digital clipping because engineers have now assumed that high gain is always better etc. etc.
There used to be a reason to have a 5.1 surround system, because that's how the movies were supposed to be enjoyed. There used to be a reason to engineer your home "soundstage" because that's how the music was mixed and optimally appreciated.
I don't think the bar of entry being money is truly the reason, rather that people have become much more passive consumers of media, and the producers have recognized that and absolutely enshittified their products.
As for the cheap speakers = cinematic experience, watch Interstellar with 5.1, then with the soundbar and tell me how equal the experience is.