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Pretty neat research, actually!

Link to article

Davis states that the original source of the tale was Olayuk Narqitarvik. It was allegedly Olayuk’s grandfather in the 1950s who refused to go to the settlements and thus fashioned a knife from his own feces to facilitate his escape by skinning and disarticulating a dog. Davis has admitted that the story could be “apocryphal”, and that initially he thought the Inuit who told him this story was “pulling his leg”.

That’s a long payoff for a practical joke, but totally worth it.

Also, unsurprisingly, they won the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize in Materials Science (lol) for this one (video of the ceremony, Ig Nobel “lecture” from the lead author (also the primary pooper))

Written a bit more explicitly (although I kinda handwaved away the final term–the point is that you end up with one unpaired term which goes to zero)

edit: I was honestly confused about how exactly this related to the question, but seeing the comment from @[email protected] (not visible from Hexbear) which showed that the first sum in the image is equivalent to

the sum from n = 1 to ∞ of 2/(n * (n + 1))

made things clear (just take the above, put 2 in the numerator, and you get a result of 2)

Facebook (when that was still a platform young people used). I would obsessively scroll through it for hours each day, basically trying to look at and comment on EVERYTHING. On a whim, I decided to take a break from it for a month. By the time the month was up, I realized I didn’t miss it at all, and that was that. One of the big takeaways was that I thought that I was forming relationships with the people I’d comment back and forth with, but in reality these were people who I would never hang out with outside of school and barely even talk with in school (if at all); it was all just superficial, and I was better off spending time talking to my actual friends.

It wasn’t that bad, but in high school I mindlessly got into the habit of drinking a few cups of Coke each day (I think it started because I would get a 2 liter whenever I’d order pizza). I quit it pretty much cold turkey, and not only did I stop drinking it at home, I no longer order it at restaurants either, which is something I did ever since I was a little kid. The idea of just buying a bottle of soda and drinking it is straight honestly grosses me out now even though getting a can or bottle from a vending machine was something I’d do without thinking. The one exception is when I’m pigging out at the movies with a bucket of popcorn, but that’s pretty rare.

Here ya go!

Whoa, that looks pretty sick. Definitely will give it a shot next time the need arises!

A good example of this in action is detailed in a book called “how the workers’ parliaments saved the Cuban Revolution”, by Pedro Ross.

That sounds like a fascinating book! I’ve always been interested in the nitty gritty of how the Cuban democratic process works, and this book seems accessible and is just under 200 pages (not including the appendices/bibliography) so I might actually get through it.

Here’s a temporary download if anyone wants to grab it (it’s also just on libgen if you prefer to find it yourself)

Here’s an insta of an actual Japanese wildlife photographer chock-full of great photos of this bird (among others)

If you’re watching consecutive episodes of a series you can always just download them to your phone before you head to work. Not really viable if you hop around a lot, though.

Seconded, that beast (well, one of its predecessors) got me through college on the included toner cartridge alone and it’s still kicking

Link to the report

Thanks liberal justices, very cool!

wdym, that’s clearly just a PenTomo who loves his oshi

I cooka da pizza

One thing I’ve wondered about is what role streamers would play in a socialist society. I think that there will still be people who just want to chill and watch someone prattle on while they play video games or draw or whatever, but the growing prominence of streamers seems inextricably linked to the increasing alienation and isolation caused by capitalism. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that, for the majority of diehard streamer fans, the streamer is less an entertainer and more a surrogate friend (or even romantic partner).

A socialist society wouldn’t be a utopia, of course, but integral to its success would be layers of strong communal social structures which are incompatible with the epidemic of isolation we see today. Instead of abandoning people to have nothing but their screens for company, we would do what we can to reintegrate them with their communities and build meaningful relationships.

As for the desire to be a celebrity, I think it would definitely be lower in a socialist society. There are people who do purely want fame, but I think for most celebrity is a means to an end, as you say. One streamer that I follow is an incredible vocalist and pours immense effort into making music, which they are only able to fund and find the time for thanks to their following. In a world where this person had the free time and resources (without IP law or other artificial scarcity) to just make their art with likeminded creative folks to their hearts’ content, I really doubt they would have ever gotten into streaming or worried themselves about getting a huge audience. Out of all of the streamers I know, only a few seem like pure entertainers (the Jermas and Northernlions of this world)—the rest just stumbled into something that is a lot more rewarding than toiling away for wages and are riding the wave for as long as they can while funding their true passions.

Apparently so

According to a site admin from that forum post (which is from April 2021–who knows where things stand now):

If you use the OpenSubtitles website manually, you will have advertisements on the web site, NOT inside the subtitles.

If you use some API-software to download subtitles (Plex, Kodi, BSPlayer or whatever), you are not using the web site, so you do NOT have these web advertisements. To compensate this, ads are being added on-the-fly to the subtitles itself.

Also, from a different admin

add few words from my side - it is good you are talking about ads. They not generating a lot of revenue, but on other side we have more VIP subscriptions because of it :) We have in ads something like “Become VIP member and Remove all ads…”

Also, the ads in subtitles are always inserted on “empty” space. It is never in middle of movie. What Roozel wrote - “I think placing those ads at the beginning and end is somewhat OK but not in the middle or at random points in the film” - should not happen, if yes, send me the subtitle.

If the subtitle is from tv series, there are dialogues from beginning usually. System is finding “quiet” place where ads would fit, and yes, this can be after 3 minutes of dialogue…

This is important to know, I hope now it is more clear about subtitle ads - why we are doing this, there is possibility to remove them and how system works.

so a scenario like in the screenshot isn’t supposed to happen. I guess if you really wanted to see if it happens you could grab all the English subs via the API and just do a quick grep or what-have-you

Fixed link:

https://ankino.xyz/trashfuture/20240119 - Left on Read_ When We Cease to Understand the World.mp3

This one (it should go without saying that the original is dumb, but the remixes can be fun)

Someone take that old “know your work rules” comic and make a “know your international rules-based order” version