Yeah to expand on this, in professional settings you'll want a higher sampling frequency so you don't end up with eg. aliasing, but for consumer use ≥44–48kHz sampling rate is pretty much pointless
Probably the latter. Seems like a cynical marketing ploy, really
Surprisingly enough, some essential oils do have research-based actual uses, such as topical antibacterials, antifungals and antiparasitics.
While there's quite a bit of woo woo around them, there's also a lot of interesting research into phytochemicals like essential oils. Same with a few other "plant-based" things like pine resin; there's even a clinically tested pine resin salve that helps with wound healing and is used for treating difficult wounds in some hospitals in Finland.
The problem with essential oils is trying to filter out the snake oil claims from the actual research-based claims. Most vendors tend to have pretty, well, wild claims about what their products can do, so your best bet is scholar.google.com or www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and the like
So because VPN works for you, it's impossible for it to not work for literally anybody else?
Ahh right yes, gotcha. I misunderstood you and thought you didn't think the statistics were believable because they're so skewed
How do you propose these "open source journalists" make a living? Corporate grants or straight-up corporate jobs just like a huge chunk of Linux development, landing us right back at square one, if not even somewhat behind it? At least independent media exists nowadays, but if the assumption is that all news has to be freely available, like acastcandream said that'd just lead to journalism being very effectively locked out as a career path for anyone who's not independently wealthy or somehow able to make people actually donate or pay for a subscription despite the content being available for free – and that hasn't worked out too well for most publishers so far.
no one ever tactfully includes ads
This is pretty patently hyperbole; I've run into many sites, including news, with non-intrusive ads.
Whether it's class-based gatekeeping is another matter entirely. For-profit media employees have to eat too, and in the current economic system most can't just give people access to content for free without any sort of monetization mechanism and with a voluntary subscription, because that'll very often lead to income dropping off a cliff. Unfortunately people are very loath to pay for online services except for some more niche cases like the Fediverse where instances run on voluntary donations – although I've seen a couple of moderately popular instances struggling with upkeep being higher than what people are willing to donate (and it's not just services either; open source developers face similar issues.) In some countries we at least have public broadcasting companies, although eg. here in Finland the current extremist right-wing government is looking to reduce its funding by quite a bit and possibly even entirely dismantle it if they get their way.
While I definitely agree that news should be available for free, railing against a for-profit publisher's paywall is, frankly, myopic; like it or not, in the current system even content producers have to make a living. None of us really has a choice in whether we want to live in this system or not
Why does it seem statistically unlikely? If the assumption is that minorities are somehow being targeted, wouldn't statistics like this be exactly what one would see?
If Trump wins, I figure it's fairly likely that Russia will turn its sights towards attacking one of them smaller NATO members at its borders. Probably not a full-on invasion at least at first, but more of a test of whether Article 5 actually holds water or not – and with Trump in charge of the US, it's unlikely he'd decide to stand up against Russia
Well, whatever the solution to this problem is, I'm fairly sure "put a blockchain on it" isn't going to be it. Distributed ledgers do potentially have some uses, but using them to carry "proof of humanity" information doesn't make much sense
Well, for many publishers the choice is either ads or paywalls. The fact that people feel entitled to get everything for free is a part of why things are going to shit, because ads bring with them a whole slew of perverse incentives (eg. optimizing for ad views instead of content quality)
Drawing, vaguely 50's retro style.
In the center is an anthropomorphic egg character, dressed in a "sailor hat", a shirt and a tie, and shorts. The character is walking in a sort of jaunty-looking fashion, but on closer inspection the poor egg is looking a bit ragged, with a large network of cracks on its shell right next to its hat, a missing tooth, and bags under its eyes.
The character is surrounded by the text "one minor hiccup away from losing my shit"
4 panel comic.
In the top left panel there's a slightly antropomorphic tortellini that has eyes, and it has a thought bubble reading "I wish I was skinnier". Next to it is a similarly antropomorphic spaghetti thinking "I wish I wasn't so skinny".
In the top right panel there's a small macaroni thinking "I wish I was bigger" and a ravioli thinking "I wish I was smaller".
In the bottom left panel there's a… uh… tube-shaped pasta that I think is a rigatoni thinking "I wish I wasn't hollow inside", and a clam-shaped pasta (lol I give up with the names) thinking "I'm just an empty shell".
In the bottom right panel we can see part of a plate that has the antropomorphic pasta on it, and then the top half of the face of a female-presenting person with dilated pupils, peering over a table edge looking at the plate thinking "I wish I wasn't tripping so hard".
Meme (??) image. On the left side there's a picture of a cylindrical metallic container with the text
DANGER
RADIATION
☢️ (radioactivity warning symbol)
DROP
&
RUNCo 60
3540
CURIES
7-1-63
And below it the top part of a similar container is just visible.
On the right side next to the first container are 4 lines that look like they measure out portions of the container, each with the text "mmm tasty."
Then below those lines, "measuring out" the empty space between the two containers is the text "sadness", and then below it where the next container starts is the text "another :D yeey".
(This might possibly be the worst description of a meme ever, but goddamn was this not easy 😅 Corrections / edits welcome)
Screenshot of a social media post – maybe Mastodon? – by "Cuttlefish Brand Ambassador" @Sir__Ian.
It has the text "Upstaged by cuttlefish yet again" and below it a screenshot of a preview of a news article. It has a photo of a pair of cuttlefish and below it the headline reads "Cuttlefish have ability to exert self-control, study finds"
meme image. Top part has text on white background:
Android: file saved successfully.
Me: and where exactly it is saved
Android:
Below that is a black and white picture of a chimpanzee (or is that a bonobo?) dressed in a long sleeve shirt and smoking a cigarette, with the caption "who the fuck knows"
Taking a stab in the dark here, but they probably don't like the genocide of Palestinians that the state of Israel is engaged in