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thechadwick

@ thechadwick @lemmy.world

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  • Any Interesting (Not Disturbing) Podcasts?

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  • I used to love Reply All before Alec Goldman's shenanigans (awful behavior) came to light. So it was a real bright spot for me to find that PJ's pod has almost everything I loved about Reply All. He's willing to pursue things past the point any reasonable person with a job would and I love it. If you want a deep dive about whatever rabbit hole that takes his interest for the episode, it's a great place imo.

    Search Engine http://www.pjvogt.com

    RSS address: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/search-engine

  • What is your unpopular flim opinion

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  • Boondock Saints is trash.

    Can't think of another movie I remember loving as a teen, and liking less as a grownup than this movie. Directing, plot, premise, are just as contrived as a film could be. One out of seven rating (and the one is only because of the rice).

  • I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help:

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  • Ⓕ

    Sorry for your loss..

  • Why does bi-weekly mean "every two weeks?" This has always bothered me because intuitively it should mean "twice a week."

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  • Yeah but the rest of us aren't savages though..

    Kidding, much love to the Aussies. Using fortnight unironically and eating Vegemite voluntarily.. you crazy emu-battlers are always up to something wild down there

  • ListenBrainz passes 25k users!

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  • Last.fm used to have a Pandora radio aspect to it, but lost the race with YouTube music, Spotify, etc.

    The thing that last.fm had that made them unique is what they call scrobbling. Basically they kept track of what users were listening to and made links between user preferences that you can use to find new music. I mean they used to, and they still do too, but with far far fewer users. Think Spotify's year in review, but running constantly.

    Honestly, it's pretty great. I still hop on from time to time, because it's a great way to find less well known bands. Makes me sad for when it was better used though..

  • Spicy in spicy out rule

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  • Can you do me a quick favor?

    I've never met anybody with this kind of access before, so could you punch the guy who decided to get rid of the little tabasco bottles in the face real hard?

    Alternatively, (preferably both) if you run into the guy in the hallway carrying something hot, would you please trip him?

    Thanks! -everyone in the army

  • a real feel good story

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  • That cozy Christmas feeling of getting your every need taken care of by an adoring fan..

  • Brain implant improves cognition 15-52% in safety trial for TBI patients

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  • It's science reporting and not immune to headline inflation, but it's not a lie to say there were measured improvements to patient cognition.

    There's a developing consensus that electric stimulation has therapeutic potential in restoring brain function (from basal ganglion to transdermal stim). But if you want the full study findings here, I course this article because it looks the DOI address at the bottom.

    Given how few (none) treatments they're are for TBIs right now, this is pretty exciting stuff to me at least.

  • A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.

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  • Basically, this coming election will be decided by the margins because almost everyone who follows politics–at all–knows who they're voting for already.

    Think about the number of people who follow politics and then understand that those people are already not the demographic that will likely decide the outcome. It's the people who are surprised they Joe Biden and Donald Trump are on the ballot that matter.

    It isn't worth trying to pressured persuade either the right or the left. What we need is to activate and engage the non-participating section of the electorate. This is hard, but achievable. It's people who work multiple jobs and don't have time for politics that need to know it matters if they vote. Civil rights are not a given and 2024 will be hugely consequential.

    Take your friends with you on election day! Register for vote by mail and bug your friends too! Take about it and don't leave easy points on the table. Yes the options are terrible. Yes one of them will make the possibility of improving it ever infinitely more difficult.

    The people saying it doesn't matter do not understand what they stand to lose. It is so so much harder to build something than tear it down and our imperfect institutions will not save us. Politics matters and the luxury of not caring, will lead to co-optation and the loss of rights that are easy to take for granted now.

  • Go ahead.

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  • I mean I get your point, but still agree with op. Running somebody over is unsafe and nothing terrifies me more than backing up in parking lots where kids might dart out unexpectedly.

    There's bad drivers everywhere, but I'd hazard a guess that most of them do not want to kill a cyclist either..

  • Who is Henry Kissinger?

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  • Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!

    • literally every member of c/noncredibledefense

  • Why? Are we not doing enough?

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  • I completely disagree. What this place needs is a bunch of bot accounts that endlessly spam the top comments from when whatever's posted was on the front page last week.

    Or the week before that I guess..

  • Hamas had not planned to attack music festival, Israeli report says

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  • Paramotors. If you haven't, give it a search. I don't think it's been done before outside of this conflict, but maybe in Ukraine as well?

    Powered paragliding and bulldozers too, that was correct.

  • X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post

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  • Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

  • Republican pushes to overturn Ohio election result

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  • Starting to think that maybe these guys aren't too big on the whole "respecting elections" thing..

    Maybe they're not on the up and up after all?

  • What the engineers of the 14th OMBr invented and are doing brings a lot of trouble to the enemy.

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  • Yes and no. You are of course right about the economy of scale that injection molding gets you for price per part, but that isn't the whole story is it?

    When you are fighting in a highly fluid conditions, setting up production lines that rely on tooling would be really really nice, but that not the operating environment in Ukraine where they need weapons yesterday and can't rely on long logistics trains.

    With intermittent power at the front, and the difficulty resupplying anything under fire, a mobile production station like a cheaper 3d printer is the difference between being able to use existing mortar rounds as precision munitions, or needing to spend the fuel, time, and risk of compromise to the logistics convoy and personnel. Trucking in parts from a place with stable electricity, and tooling to produce something cheap and efficiently pales in comparison to the flexibility being able to rapidly iterate and adapt to the changes on the ground gives you.

    It's about the right tool for the right application, and there are negatives to additive manufacturing that are outweighed by the positives on the ground. It's so much better to be able to make a small change mid-operation, than needing to redesign and change tooling for a minor but important change.

    Right tool, right job, right time. 3d printing is a part of that, but not a solution. Nothing is really.

  • YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.

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  • You're right I hope. Especially about gorillas sharing video! We need a guerilla movement to get these gorillas some cell phones and I've been saying it for years!

  • ‘Children were carrying other injured children.’ Witness describes aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp

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  • Yeah, the Palestine problem is surely a tricky one to solve. They'll need some way to get rid of these undesirables once and for all though. A 'solution' that's 'final' or some kind of name like that..

    /s for sad satire is dead reasons. Nazi punks fuck off

  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake

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  • There really was something about the windows phone UI though. If you weren't around to try it, it's hard to properly explain how different and fresh the flat pane interface felt compared to iOS and Android. It really was a phenomenal design language compared to the same old thing in the market.

    I honestly believe it they had just sucked it up and subsidized the cost of doubling the ram on those last Nokia devices, it could have been good enough to break through. Microsoft had everything possible to gain from integrating the desktop-to-mobile workflow for business clients. Then they threw it out the window...

    Seriously, I doubt many people here who aren't used to corporate environments can fully understand how big the market was, that Microsoft gave up, by not spending enough to fill the BlackBerry hole that formed. They had 98% of the solution already developed, and fumbled the ball with a single yard left to go.

    There was room for three players, if one of them actually serviced the business environment; and nobody was better positioned to do so than Microsoft at the time. Excel and PowerPoint that synced from your work machine, to the field, in a zero trust environment... Gah.. they were so close.