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If affinity launched Linux versions of their software I don’t think I’d ever need to log into windows again.

Publisher is brilliant and there’s an absolute lack of good typesetting software on Linux. I can’t do my job on it.

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Xor

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Or in Glasgow…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f538e539-3790-4eae-9e68-adb45543514d.jpeg

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Dunno, have you ever had a curry in Birmingham on the mile?

I went with two American colleagues and one of them couldn’t finish his ‘medium’ heat dish because they said it was too spicy.

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Careful, that’s like saying that the guy who made it, who was born in the UK isn’t really British either.

Pretty much all food is imported.

As someone else mentioned. The Tikka Masala was invented in Britain.

Italian pizza, the most Italian of dishes, didn’t exist until America was ‘discovered’ and tomatoes brought back from the new world.

Same with the Irish and potatoes.

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I think you misunderstand.

What I mean is the man who cooked the curry and served it to me and my two companions. He’s of Asian heritage but was born and raised in the UK.

Does that mean that he’s not really British?

What if he sees himself as British. Is he then culturally appropriating Asian food?

Because that’s the argument being used about the food too. That dish was cooked in a kitchen in Birmingham. It has Asian heritage too. But is it not the British food?

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Oh fuck off.

I’m making a point about the international nature of food, and the way in which it relates to identity, and you seem determined to take it in bad faith to truss up your own weak argument.

Ok, here, have a win. You’re right. You are so totally right. Well done. Enjoy the glory.

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And then everyone clapped, right?

[Solved] Trees supposedly take 30 years *before* they absorb CO₂. Why?

I often hear science-adjacent folks stating that a tree needs to be 30 years old before it starts absorbing CO₂, usually paired with the statement that it’s therefore pointless to start planting tons of trees now for slowing climate change....

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Something you are missing is that, at night, trees respire. That is, they take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

Now I’m not sure of the whole 30 year thing, but perhaps that’s part of the calculation.

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Yeah, it’s the simplest answer, and likely correct. But a more interesting question is why they got it wrong and what assumptions and misconceptions did they make to arrive at the wrong answer.

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You just know the 36 books you are going to get will be hotel bibles.

adam_y ,
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That looks like the haggis we get here in Glasgow.

It’s always looked like that. You mostly see the texture of the oats instead of the pluck.

I highly recommend veggie haggis though. Seriously, it’s good food.

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According to McSween’s website, their haggis contains:

Oats, Water, Vegetable Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Emulsifier (E471), Flavouring), Black Kidney Beans (10%), Carrot (5%), Swede (5%), Mushrooms, Red Split Lentils (5%), Rehydrated Onions, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Salt, Ground Spices.

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I’m not sure what you mean by “whole organ” haggis. I haven’t seen anything different to what I’ve described in the last 50 years.

The stuff we have still has pluck… The offal, but it’s always minced.

Can you find a picture of it? I’d be really interested in seeing if I can get hold of some to try.

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Keith from Prodigy

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Superb work.

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It’s a contraceptive device.

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Online millenial meme made out of offline boomer meme.

The circle of life.

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You all know this is irony right? It’s either out of Private Eye or Viz.

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Thanks, I wasn’t sure, but that makes sense.

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Read the headline, thought this was about the lengths people go to to complain to open source coders.

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Yeah, we have a ton of trouble with them in Europe.

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And the problem is, when those of you who aren’t susceptible to ads start blocking them, the service has to force a subscription model on everyone.

At one point most things on the internet were free because of advertising.

That’s free as in “free”. Our eyes were the cost.

Older folk will remember the insane pop ups, the animated gif banners, misleading links… But ultimately it let anyone, no matter what monetary status, enjoy the same content.

And now we pivot to a subscription based internet as traditional advertising falters. And then, the crazy thing that will happen is they will start advertising in the subscription services too.

We’ll never escape, we can only keep running.

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I’m not sure why I got downvoted for saying that. I’m not anti-ad blocking, just describing the economics of it all.

But I have been thinking about the situation, specifically with YouTube.

I think that the problem is that the adverts, as they are, interrupt the content, whereas they should be part of the platform instead.

Like old Google search results, you could be offered sponsored content that you can choose to engage with.

That would force companies to come up with things that people want to watch, and would effectively kickstart the creativity in advertising again, rather than the brute force interruption.

Also, the branding of the platform and content. Shows “sponsored” by a company don’t need to run a two minute advert within a video to gain association. A logo, brand awareness, links and a decent service should be enough for them to get value in backing creators…

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Savage use of the singular on “point”.

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Yeah, no.

This is bullshit.

(Especially the stuff about brain plasticity and learning capacity)

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/

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Sure, but just to be clear, it’s about the brain plasticity and diminishing returns. That stuff just isn’t true.

Here’s what the British academy has to say on the subject:

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/

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Did Hamas behead babies? I made a youtube video with a clickbaity title.

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I feel that. It’s the only game to date to leave me just sat there wondering why my face is leaking.

adam_y ,
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Good grief this is some boomer level meme. That joke’s as old as the Parthenon.

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“is back”

No stupid questions, right, but where do you think it went?

adam_y ,
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It’s that horrible situation isn’t it?

The internet was riddled with adverts everywhere. Intrusive things that ate up our time and our bandwidth.

So we used ad blockers.

It became clear that even the folk that didn’t use ad blockers were worthless. That is, the market decided their attention was worthless.

The bottom fell out of the advertising market, so business moved to a subscription model.

We all supported it initially. Netflix was held up as a brilliant model.

Then the subscription services got greedy and let advertising in anyway. Except that money no longer funds your experience, not does it really fund the creators. It just funds the owner of the streaming service.

Meanwhile, the lack of feedback that advertising gave as a metric means that the services are becoming worse, delivering lower quality product.

And now it’s 2023 and I find myself defending advertising.

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I’m a little agnostic on piracy. I don’t mind if others are into it, but I use my local library. I watch older films that can be found cheaply. Sometimes I just choose to do something else.

They keep you on this hook, this notion of current culture. The excitement of the new big thing that everyone’s watching, but really your fomo is being exploited, and often that’s also true of people pirating the material. They are still contributing to this very social form of advertising display.

However, I’d stand by pirates who are looking to find films that have been made, deliberately, unavailable in the public space because corporations can see profit in their absence.

Enhance your calm: Demolition Man turns 30 | The film remains an under-appreciated gem of ‘90s comedy/action flicks (arstechnica.com)

Thirty years ago today, Demolition Man first hit theaters, pitting Sylvester Stallone against Wesley Snipes in a crime-free but killjoy future where even minor vices have been declared illegal. The passage of time hasn’t quite elevated this sci-fi action comedy to the legendary status of Die Hard or Lethal Weapon, but it’s...

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Is it an under appreciated gem though?

It seems to get its way into the thousands of “under-appreciated” gem lists on IMDb and every clickbait website.

I’m not sure there can be an under appreciated gem anymore. Not when we are still talking about 30 year old films that made significant money at the box office and continue to have social and cultural relevance through memes and references.

I’m not knocking the film. It’s a hoot. But this constant media cycle of supposedly “rediscovering” things that are quite clearly not forgotten is a symptom of something unhealthy.

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And then minidiscs, briefly, and then mp3s again, and then vinyl and then tapes, and then CDs and then minidiscs and then mp3s again, and then right track and then wax cylinder and then tape and the vinyl…

It’s just a consumerist carousel. But what you like. Listen to it. Enjoy it. Fuck the format.

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By artist David Shrigley.

adam_y ,
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Look, sometimes I just want to spaff chocolate shards all over myself whilst I’m eating. And I don’t appreciate being judged for it.

Maybe I like having to lick my finger in order to dab up the mountain of shrapnel that remains in the wrapper. Have you considered that?

Perhaps I actually like eating a treat that sounds like it was named dangerously close to something related to dandruff…

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I find it interesting that some “realistic” sci-fi is basically just limited thinking constrained by the technical limitations of the present.

‘You wouldn’t have a building like that because you’d need supporting pillars for a roof that size’ - c.14 Sci-fi critic

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Really hoped Sam Neil was going to shout, “hey… pshshpshpsh…”

adam_y ,
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The pyramids were built without coffee.

Make of that what you will.

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Probably not:

encyclopedia Britanica

adam_y ,
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If I could give you ten extra points for responding like that I would. Instead, have my respect.

Now, I’ve just learnt that beer was involved too… So…

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After a few years of every argument ending in “educate yourself” the people went out and decided that they could.

Unfortunately, education is best practiced by people who have an understanding of the subject matter. That’s whe teachers are valuable.

Now everyone is an expert and we have rampant conspiracy theories because a bunch of people consider watching one YouTube video degree equivalent education.

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George W Bush

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Classically trained film reviewers?

Not sure that’s even a thing. Sure, they were educated and well informed, still…

If you are after a popular film critic that really engages with the material, we have Mark Kermode in the UK. I might not agree with everything he thinks, but he’s consistent enough that you can use his opinion as a yardstick. I strongly recommend you check him out.

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Ah, yeah, ‘classically trained’ means something very different here. My bad.

Star Trek executive producer wants more Strange New Worlds episodes, and I’m nervous (screenrant.com)

Strange New Worlds has been my favorite Trek since Next Generation, and if the quality continues, could easily be my favorite Trek ever. But with the e.p. wishing for more episodes per season, there’s a danger of diluting the show by adding weak episodes that would have never made it in a 10 episode season....

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I’ve talked to some folk who work in TV about just this.

The upshot is that knowing the length of run with enough time creates better episodes whether the run is short or long.

The problem is something getting big and an emergency demand for more episodes after a season has already been planned out. (or that episodes need to be cut for a reduced run).

As for the BBC, we are still very much waiting for the clock to run out on Casualty, Holby City, EastEnders, silent witness…

I’d also argue that even despite a shorter episode length, Sherlock still managed to overstay its welcome.

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I would hire you as my lawyer.

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