Used to speak the King’s En-ga-lish

But caught a rash on my lips, so now my chat just like dis

There’s a bay?!?!

Yes but also when people are telling someone they’re from New York they tend to assume the city, so the follow-up answer is for clarification. The state is big and wildly different from NYC

The best way I can describe the emotional difference is that Reznor’s version depicts ruinous destruction of a young person’s life, and Cash’s version depicts a lifetime of regret. Their literal ages obviously help convey it, but the arrangement and style really sell it

Bones in the Water by Battle of Mice. I’ve never heard that level of unhinged screaming in my life. Plus it’s creepy as fuck

That was me. My mistake.

Dang I wish I knew that at the time. I had to run it many times before I was satisfied that my history was properly edited before deleting everything

I can’t speak to the article that you’ve posted several times due to the paywall, but I can speak to the language and the antagonistic attitude they actually used during the entire debacle. Placing explicit blame on third party apps like Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc.- that was the argument used. It doesn’t matter what the real reason was. They were publicly placing blame on small fish instead of the AI monster that was stealing all of their content and bandwidth

IIRC that was not the case. They very publicly blamed 3rd party apps, which was both disingenuous and not transparent.

Let me just say, dude, that you are not alone. There are a lot of people who feel this struggle and there is no simple answer to this problem. Because it is societal. You probably already know this but I want to start off with that.

I can see every little thing you think is threatening to others and it’s all there. You’re black. You’re a man. You’re a black man. You have strong features. You wear clothes. And you exist.

That shouldn’t be your problem, but more than a century of propaganda has made it so. Me and everyone else has been conditioned to fear you.

With all that said, I can echo some other comments. Take the advice on fashionable clothing. Aside from the other positives, it feels good to look good. You’ve saved up for surgery, spend it on that instead. Find a fashionable friend and get advice. There are multiple ways to achieve it without feeling untrue to yourself.

Learn to smile as your opener. To others and to yourself.

Most importantly, spend that money you saved on therapy. It isn’t there to fix you. It’s there to help give you the tools to cope with the reality of things. It isn’t bullshit. No amount of aesthetic adjustments will fix what’s going on in your head and your heart.

Candidly, you seem like you’re not in a good fucking way. Get help. Peace.

Ha! I switched to perfectly round glasses for completely unrelated reasons and certain demographics who tended to be threatened by my complexion almost stopped entirely. That was a funny quirk of a minor style change.

But also I’m not a big dude. I just happen to fit a description.

Chiming in that editing with proxies, while potentially cumbersome, is pretty standard. Feature films and TV shows are often edited in 720p for that exact reason. ProRes or h.264, depending on your needs and capabilities. Final renders are just a matter of turning the proxies off.

I dabbled in kdenlive for half a day while looking for something my nephew could use for a school project. Didn’t realize the lack of hardware acceleration until this thread. Still, it’s a great piece of software and I’m looking forward to watching it develop further

I went to their about page and realized I was in over my head.

Yep my buddy at VMware was waiting to get laid off all year. Finally happened two weeks ago

I believe the first time I saw it, it didn’t have the dog, and the setup was racist.

Yes I meant unbiased, but I was unsure if even using that word would be taken the wrong way. I don’t want to be taken as a centrist or anything like that, because I’m not even close.

I just want a flat clinical review of what it says versus what it actually means without clickbait sensationalism. It is plainly bad, that much is obvious. But what are the real-life, bureaucratic implications of its potential execution?

Thanks for the link, I’ll definitely check it out.

Is there a neutral review of project 2025 that you can point to? That site is ass and either points to a book you can buy or a thousand links to PDFs.

TBH if people aren’t more well adjusted than they were at any point in their past I’d be mildly to greatly disappointed.

Yep the world is all kinds of fucked up haha. But you do what you can with what you’ve got I guess

Having grown up where David Duke also lives, ambiguously failing the paper bag test, and coming of age during 9/11, I encountered a wide variety of racial insults. Many of them involved the n-word.

The most memorable one for me happened after the orator learned that I was neither black, Arabic, Hispanic, Italian, nor Asian.

“Oh you’re Hawaiian? I heard you Island N-words don’t even sing the National Anthem.”

The other aggressors as well as my friends burst into laughter at how ridiculously stupid his statement sounded. Even his buddy was like, “Hawaii is a state you fucking idiot.”

The encounter ended and we all moved on but I still laugh when it pops into my head