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Mark Ryckman 🇨🇦
@JMarkRyckman
Science, beer, hunting, fishing, and camping. Lover of hot takes. I swear a lot - deal with it.
Peterborough, ON Katılım Ağustos 2010
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I'd rather drink the water from a tin of tuna than be asked to share a fun fact about myself as an icebreaker during a team building activity at work.
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They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.
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In my mind every work week is a best of 5 and I’m just trying to win the series
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Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them.
You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from.
One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream.
Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers.
Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid.
The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.
bailey@baileylikemovie
Getting a 4K player and an OLED really opens your eyes to how streaming services just completely butcher movies with compression lol
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Heard someone say that the new pitch review system is the baseball equivalent of cops wearing body cams
Shelfy@RealShelfy
Absolutely electric lmao CB Buckner noticeably annoyed when he tapped the 2nd time only to be wrong again and listen to 40,000 people cheer for his incompetence 😂
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Fascinating watching Joe become more and more terrified of this new world he is largely responsible for creating
Home of the Brave@OfTheBraveUSA
Joe Rogan: " One of these high-level commanders says, 'don't be worried [about war with Iran] because Trump is anointed by Jesus Christ to bring back [his] return on Earth' … Those [guys] are just as scary as suicide bombers."
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the difference between a great player and a mediocre player that made a great play 🤷🏼♀️
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Our 9-9-9 challenge is nine poutines and nine Labatt 50s in nine innings.
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About a month ago I was reliably informed — by the most insufferable people on earth — that winning a single tournament means you automatically become the best in history at that sport.
Congrats to Venezuela, the greatest baseball country in the history of the game. 🇻🇪 🥳
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To every kid with a learning disability: don’t let anyone — not even the President of the United States — bully you.
Dyslexia isn’t a weakness.
It’s your strength.
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As organizations saving lives with evidence-based violence interruption programs struggle to secure sustainable funding, the government will spend $24k per rifle buying back firearms from highly vetted Canadians. Make this make sense.
nationalpost.com/opinion/gun-bu…
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Half expecting Trump to commit a sexual assault to take attention away from his Iran disaster now.
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🚨 I have the FBI document. Case 31E-NY-3027571. August 7, 2019.
A woman describes being introduced to Trump by Epstein at age 13-15.
Trump cleared the room. Said “let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.”
She fought back. He struck her.
She told the FBI she heard Trump and Epstein discuss the blackmail operation together.
She asked agents to keep her safe: “Throughout my life his people have found me. Have kept tabs on me.”
This document was illegally withheld from Congress.
A war started the week these files dropped.
Read it yourself. DOJ. FBI Case 31E-NY-3027571.
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Just rewatched Wag the Dog, a darkly satirical movie from 1997 about the White House creating a carefully scripted war right before an important election to distract voters from a sex scandal involving an underaged girl. Really.
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