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art is art because it's the sum of a human being's individual, highly specific choices, and studying art is interesting because you're studying a human being's individual, highly specific choices. output from a plagiarism machine isn't art & isn't worthy of analysis

One of the most brilliantly written pieces of writing in any English publication.

... Isn't this how they said we would be eating under socialism though?

From this date six years ago. This many still die from covid per year in the US but I guess it isn't an incalculable loss now.

Searching “why are AI summaries always wrong?” and this is what pops up

We deserve better.

@lauriewired @CryptoCyberia how do you handle the software setup to down mix to 3.1? at the player or at the OS? or you just lose the rears and don't care?

I’ll chime in. I use a soundcard for my HTPC. I’m in a small apartment, and use a 3.1 audio setup. Modern dialogue is often mixed quite poorly, and having a center channel MASSIVELY helps with intelligibility. I use a projector screen, so the left and right channels are far enough separated that a plain 2.0 channel system “phantom center” is quite poor outside of the sweet spot. Home theater receivers can support many channels, but are quite expensive and usually have poor quality amplifiers. With a soundcard, I can use several, independent, higher quality amps for each channel. Plus, if you want to go REALLY crazy with it, you can then apply per-channel EQ / room correction via software, which is much easier to do with a full PC + soundcard. afaik, there’s almost no such thing as a multi-channel USB dac, they are all stereo. (the limiting factor with my setup compared to a traditional receiver is I basically *have* to use my htpc for everything (hard to plug in arbitrary inputs) but that’s a small price to pay).

New sound card released. I don't really see the point these days, especially when most people into music already have a USB DAC. Am I missing something here?

@Emilk010 Well once you put your DEATH STRANDING™ 2: ON THE BEACH PlayStation® Game Disc in your Disc Drive For PS5®, you never need to take it out

>Explosion in Garden Grove causing cancerous air >Oil Spill into the LA River. >Residents in both counties need to sue basically everybody.

As an Iranian woman who lived in Iran for 19 years, I grew up wanting to become a surgeon. I never once heard in Iran that surgery was “for men.” Ironically, the first time I heard certain STEM fields or specialties being treated as more suitable for men was after moving to the United States. Being this uninformed is surprising, Alice. It is irresponsible, unprofessional, and dehumanizing toward Iranian women. We are far more capable than what you see on your Twitter feed. Iran has serious issues involving women’s rights and legal restrictions, but presenting Iranian women as secluded figures who are barely allowed outside is a caricature closer to Taliban Afghanistan than reality. Iranian women are educated, visible, and active across society. The World Bank reports female youth literacy in Iran at about 99% for ages 15 to 24, which directly contradicts the image of women isolated from education or public life. According to the World Bank Gender Data Portal, women’s formal labor-force participation in Iran is low, around 13 to 14%, while men’s is around 67%. That gender gap is real. But labor-force participation only measures paid work or active job-seeking. Research also suggests women’s informal, family-based, agricultural, and unpaid work may be undercounted. Using that number to portray Iranian women as secluded or invisible locked up in their homes is misleading. If you want to discuss life for Iranian women, talk about how sanctions affect access to cancer diagnosis and treatment, including breast cancer care, since breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting Iranian women. Talk about how sanctions restrict livelihoods, increase economic pressure, and make it harder for men and women to find adequate jobs and build stable lives. Iranian women are strong and have spent decades fighting for themselves while building careers, movements, and communities. Reducing them to helpless, voiceless figures is ridiculous and unforgivable. #Woman_Life_Freedom #زن_زندگی_آزادی #از_دموکراسی_بگو

ideas for what to do with jewelry that makes decisions for you:

Hope you are proud @Eurovision.

Per @gbsumudflotilla, 40 received broken ribs from being beaten by Israeli soldiers. 12 reports of sexual violence to date, including anal rape and forced penetration with a handgun. “Not one single person walking with [no injuries],” said flotilla participant Veronica Otero.

tonight my husband said he doesn’t think human bodies were made to harm each other because the bones in our hand are so fragile that it hurts to hurt

Twitter is censoring a video of a map.

One of my members who is studying to be a doctor attended a medical conference abroad last week and when she tried to come back with an active visa she was denied entry and shipped back to Brazil. She messaged me through our workout software to say goodbye.

Israel has used the flotillas as an experiment in how far into international waters they can collect, take back to Israel, and abuse nonviolent people. They've basically achieved universal jurisdiction for their genocidal regime.

WOW A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves. One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did. An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY. Link: genocide.live Direct Link: #zoom_to_selection=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">experience.arcgis.com/experience/3fb…

who at the grief diner processing grief rn

“Our bar outside a concentration camp was destroyed but we’ve rebuilt it as a bar outside a death camp. Finally we can dance again”