Board chairman Donald Parker said the move to end broadcasts was more to address the question of whether $8,000 spent on the taping was worth the low viewership than it was a transparency issue.
How the fuck are you spending that much? Just get a shitty camera pointed at the stage or whatever with one shitty mic and a shitty camera/mic pointed at wherever you have citizens comment, plug it into a shitty laptop, and send to YouTube.
No one needs 4K with professionally mastered audio.
I definitely scroll for web pages, but my ebook reader apps all give the option to do scrolling and I can’t stand anything but pages for a book, so I get it.
(I do do most of my reading on eInk, so obviously scrolling wouldn’t work there. But I don’t do it exclusively. I read some on my phone and iPad as well and scrolling books feels awful.)
Linux is used a lot, though, in a lot of high value situations (servers).
Definitely a legit way to make great coffee. I don’t usually have the 10 minutes it takes not to scorch it in the morning, but I do bring it camping and on vacation.
Starbucks isn’t great espresso, but there’s a reason espresso drinks cost what they do. There’s a lot more labor, a genuinely obscenely expensive machine, or both involved in making it in a shop like that.
I’m perfectly fine with a cheap machine at home, but it just doesn’t work in a coffee shop.
I definitely see some clear “this is not their first language” posts, but I don’t see a lot of overlap with the semi-literate stuff. They’ll usually be pretty close with a missed idiom here or there, an uncommon word that’s a slightly odd translation, or have some awkward habit on structure that’s pretty consistent but just not quite right in English.
The “can’t read” people are all over the place, without coherent structure, and just pull random interpretations out of thin air.
I think the idea is that as an admin, you might also wish to know bad actors your users are exposed to to allow you to consider whether there are instances you want to block.
I did my own script for it. Most were deleted, a few recent ones were left edited.
It does suck for someone who wanted anything useful I posted, but ultimately I think Reddit having it to draw any traffic is more harmful. I want them to lose their stranglehold now that they’re abusing it.
I have the Boox Max, and it’s expensive as shit compared to the smaller ereaders, but I use it more than enough to justify. You can’t fit a textbook or coding book on a Kindle (probably the scribe you can now), but you can fit two pages comfortably with the 13.3 inch max.
Android is a huge value add, too. I can’t take it for my phone, but for an ereader, it means I can use multiple library apps and scribd to borrow books to supplement my purchases from whatever platforms.
They’re also the only one with systematic mind/body training instead of just winging it.
Hopefully I wouldn’t swear if you were actually 5.
DRM is allegedly “copy protection”, but in reality is absolute control over how you access content. Want to stream a movie on the wrong computer/browser? Fuck you.
Want to browse a website without 100 trackers injected to make sure everyone who might want to knows your entire browsing history? Sucks to be you. Want to block ads because there isn’t an (web) ad platform out there that does the due diligence to avoid providing a substantial vector for malware? Nah. Need help from accessibility tools that Google hasn’t white listed? Maybe just don’t be disabled.
“Controlled demolitions take weeks of planning” because under normal circumstances, the risk of waiting is not that high. That doesn’t mean that subject matter experts aren’t capable of making an intelligent plan in a short period when a building is catastrophically damaged in heavily populated area where waiting can very easily result in more damage and more risk of casualties.
As for “melting iron”, if you’re talking eyewitnesses before the demolition, they have no idea what was melted. If you’re talking after, no shit they used demolition-grade explosives. It was a fucking skyscraper in the middle of a massively populated city that wasn’t stable. It had to come down.