I found something about some recent-ish LG TVs having a default mode that shows static, but I couldn’t find a clear answer on why, and the way to disable it is to enable “Cable DTV”, which seems to suggest that it might actually be trying to get analogue signal by default…?

That noise is horrible; why would someone simulate it rather than just show a blue screen?

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But the human portion has normal human proportions (though potentially scaled up a little). Why would being on a giraffe’s body change that?

That only applies to humans. So Jesus was certainly cut (and uncontroversially), but if God the Father has genitalia, he may not be; same for the holy ghost.

Pretty sure the official position in most sects, including Catholicism, is that God is not “male”, but singular male pronouns are nevertheless the only “correct” pronouns for “Him”.

For blue checks it’s now much higher

No Claude? It’s pretty good in my experience, and I follow someone on twitter who does absolutely wild things with it.

This is the opening of both Blade Runner movies

…ashamed to admit I didn’t recognize the flag, and was thinking of people saying that the two political parties are indistinguishable. That does make more sense.

Not saying I condone political violence, but the Democratic Party has absolutely not been willing to stop Republicans “by any means necessary, even violence”.

Large parts of “the Left”, maybe; but certainly not the actual party politicians.

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I read a lot as a child and watched very little TV. So in first grade, I only knew the “traditional” meaning of gay. The first time I remember hearing it in the sense of homosexual was when a classmate told me, in a hushed and gossipy tone, “one of the Teletubbies is gay.” (I did know about the show even if I hadn’t ever watched it.) I didn’t really react, but all I was thinking was, “aren’t they all?”

Obviously that’s not “gay”, but is it…useful? Convenient? How often do you actually do it, and why?

I mean…okay? My whole point is that “purchase a bunch of music to own forever” and “pay a streaming service to hear a bunch of music once” are totally different use-cases. It’s great that you own music. Good for you. I own some too! But streaming fits my needs better overall.

And all of this is completely beside the point that it’s really not that weird that the cost for two people to stream is higher than the cost for one person to stream.

Get an extension cord?

…sure. Yes. If you own a song, you can listen however many times you want, simultaneously or not.

But streaming services are simply a different value proposition. Listening to an mp3 means either buying all the music you listen to or pirating; it also means having the music stored on your listening device in advance, or streaming from a personal media server. I listen to a lot of music that I haven’t heard before and don’t know if I’ll actually like; I also listen on my phone a fair amount and have a limited amount of storage space for music. For that use-case, streaming is preferable (to me).

Maybe, but how is that different from needing to pay for two separate copies of anything else if two people are using them at the same time in different places?

I’m not a fan of how little the major streaming services (except Tidal) pay artists, but they do all offer bundle packages. Spotify’s pricing is $12 for an individual, $17 for two people, and $20 for a family of up to 6. So it’s only $5 more than the base cost if two people stream simultaneously.

That’s just the name of the device. Unless you’re saying that smart speakers, or whatever you want to call them, are inherently not wholesome, which has some merit.