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[Frumple]

It takes a disbelief in some portion of the old tri-omni conceptualization of the divine, mostly. Same as a lot of things about biology that's either remarkably dumb, maladaptive, or would be outright malicious if intentionally designed.

"God made man, but god is an incapable idiot asshole so man's pretty shit," basically.

[Ziusudra]

Except who's to say we've always been as we are now? May be we didn't used to get hiccoughs.

Now some thing like the recurrent laryngeal nerve is a bit harder to explain away.

[Frumple]

Eh, with tri-omni "used to" is irrelevant; god had to plan for whatever came after, too.

'Course, the consideration for something like that should probably be about at the same level as that given to assholes that build planned obsolescence into their dryers and such, heh (i.e. it renders the benevolence peg nonsensical).

Though yeah, without tri-omni the idiot just didn't think ahead and built something that would eventually develop hiccups or whatev' without knowing what they were doing. It still works out if the designer's not all powerful, all knowing, and/or benevolent, but most conceptualizations of intelligent design I've seen are pretty leery about going, "Yeah, god built us but did a (possibly intentionally) terrible job so we're scuffed", heh.

[Ziusudra]

Though trying to apply reason to the unreasonable is just as silly, so we're all fools.

[dragdeler]

I had it when going to bed and I had it when waking up, I wonder if I had the hiccups during sleep.There can be no evolutionary advantage to it, it's just plain torture.

[Eric Blank]

There's no evolutionary advantage to it, but there's not enough risk to get all your ancestors killed, so it persists.

[King Zultan]

I thought hiccups exist because god hates us and wants us to suffer or something like that.

[MCreeper]

wrong thread

[MaxTheFox]

how could one possibly believe in creatonism or intelligent design, in a world in which the hiccups exist

[dragdeler]

To assume the visitors organize themselves on whatsapp to cause as much trouble as possible is quite absurd, you could call it a psychotic breakdown, or a paranoid episode, schizophrenic! Sure sure I have no issues following the reason there.

But why did I know I would be confronted to an example so striking it borders on the comical? Yesterday they fucking lynched my woodcontainer, 1 trailer after the other, uninterrupted, to make sure I could not reasonably stack the wood, 90 minutes straight, left me with a big pile of mikado BS, heap higher than me and filled with enough holes to shelter my whole extended family from the rain. Not just bad, actively crap, took more effort to make it this crap than it would have to heave the wood barely above the border, and let it fall straight down.......

So I had a big tantrum and ordered that container bam like that, fuck it don't want to deal with another afwul saturday... Ok so then no more wood for the rest of the day yesterday, today also no wood... They come grab the container after I have been here for 6h45min, not a gram wood the whole day, so thing takes off weighing like 900kg whe  it should weigh 4 tons.

Trust me the second he was gone, I had not one but two trailer filled with wood. Fuck atomclocks if you want to be reeeeeaaaaally precise, set the clock after their intuition to show up at most inopportune moment, it is a fucking force of nature, strong nuclear force is like offbrand water soluble glue safe for children to use in comparison.

[Rolan7]

What do most people see when they look at body-horror artwork?
Presumably the same gruesome possibilities for oneself, of course...

But I don't know what the conclusion is, for them.
For me, it was always that I needed to pursue those possibilities.

And I've done so in such a tame way, at least, it feels tame to me!  I've *only* done a manual bypass on my endocrine system.  I haven't even pierced my ears, or written on my flesh.  Hell I'm still working up to cutting my hair!

It's so natural.  The most natural thing I've ever done in my life.
That's what I would see in a fleshy painting of eyes.
The gory things I'd see in my dreams...
Those visions stopped.
I'm me

[Loud Whispers]

Hi Me I am Yu

[TD1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAVnOz7i-JA

[dragdeler]

Are video fidelity enthousiasts the new audiophiles?

Seems like when it comes to sound, most people have got the idea of "good enough" by now... I'd even say we are in a reverse trend: I see loads of people throwing away pretty decent, or even relatively high-end hifis and home cinemas, in order to replace them with soundbars with speakers that are a third of the diameter and a quarter of the ouput power.

Whereas when it comes to video it has been while that people are chasing resolutions, and sure hd ready was a scam and full HD has become the norm by now, which yes, you wouldn't want less than 1080p these days... sure, sure... But see the thing is @1080p60 24bit we are allready looking at a bitrate of 2,98gbit/s. Even now in 2023, a savemedium capable of writing 2,98gbit/s is not something trivial. I don't know of any camera that'll take pcie nvme drives.

Certainly compression exists, and does a good bounce forward every 2-3 years or so. I'm not the type to pretend a blue-ray isn't perfectly transparent. But I know the type of person who'd be kinda dissapointed if they had "only" a FLAC and would much rather have a WAV (flac is allready kind of silly and overkill).

So these people that bought a super expensive 4k tv ten years ago, and are now considering 8 or 16k in order to step up their TV game... Do they know that the best consumer grade signal that can be bought is around 100-150mbit/s (bluerays) and that most big production movies are shot in 2048x1556 or 2048x1080 (typically not RAW either but usually at like 300-400mbit)... Let's be really generous here and say 500mbit, that'd be like 1/24th of the bandwith of uncompressed 24bit 4k60fps. It must irk those number chasers, it is impossible that it wouldn't... Like that meme: if those kids could read they'd be very upset. Hehe. Hell netflix 4k mode tops out at 16mbit.

So ever since YT got too greedy I download every video onto my hardrive, so I got more aware of hoe much I use, and what's the treshold for my preferences. I never felt like going beyond 720p60... Which most of the time yield about 20mbit (Funny how sites that specialise in delivering on type of media are allways skimpy on the quality like it's not that long ago spotify got 320kbit mode. Before that they considered their 160kbit .ogg high quality, I honestly thought YT sounded better with less at that time.)


Anybody thinks there is a chance with might return to analog signals one day?

[King Zultan]

Anybody thinks there is a chance with might return to analog signals one day?

I'm sure we'll get need to when we have one of those apocalypse things people keep talking about.