Yeah, too relatable and not enough crazy racism for pol, I am disappointed.

Es geht wieder los.

It starts with questionable stuff, and ends on fucking Ketamine. Bravo. Yep, that is a perfectly healthy routine.

Also, pro tip, don’t mess with your hormones (like testosterone) just to get more gains. There are many “body-builders” who have fried their hormone system and have to rely on permanent medication to function.

Yup. She’s actually a pair of wooden legs with a wig.

“Hey Grug, this shroom makes me understand the will of the great mammoth in the sky, let’s plant a shit-ton of it, just in case we need mammoth-advice in the future”

With great power comes great responsibility. The ability to control comes with the burden of having to exert that control

Jokes aside, my ears are not that terrible, but modern compression is pretty damn okay.

I don’t have an anechoic, soundproof listening room, no soundcard I’ve measured myself had more than 80-90 dB SNR in real world scenarios anyway, and I am not going to turn off all electronic appliances in my apartment when I want to listen to music. Plus, most headphones that don’t cost a kidney or two will likely be a weak part anyway, as they are analog, mechanical, imperfect devices with manufacturing spread, wearout, and just general real-world mess.

I had pretty good ears as a kid, and I remember taking an mp3 blind test at a museum back then. Sure, the lower quality levels are easy, but past 128-192 or so kb/s? Maybe if you know what to listen for, and switch back and forth, but out of the blue I personally wouldn’t notice compression in anything higher.

Therefore, I believe that anything past CD quality is voodoo and won’t hold up to a blind test for 99,999% of people, especially if you randomize loudness a bit. The ~100dB dynamic range are more than enough for normal music, and the frequency range is plenty for everyone older than 3. Enough space for decent filters to practically eliminate aliasing as well. The only reason I see for higher resolutions and bit depths is mixing/mastering, if you want to modify things several times and not have audible quality issues.

No offence, but 700 MB a song from an old tape master sounds borderline snake-oily as well. I wouldn’t call tape motor rumble, dust specks or random background EM “soul”, and I kind of doubt you can squeeze that much resolution out of old tapes, but I may be wrong here, tapes were largely before my time.

I firmly believe that high-res bluetooth codecs have way more fidelity than my ears have left after years of enjoying music

While i wouldnt mind that either, I fear I couldn’t keep up with that

Same. I am not the biggest fan of his music, but from what I’ve read, he seems like a somewhat decent human being

Got it, I will set my dating profile to me programming while naked. Ideally at 3 am, after a healthy diet of caffeine and chocolate and not having slept or showered for 48h. Surely that’ll attract all the hot, nerdy girls.

Isn’t that just James May?

While it must suck for you, I am kind of jealous of that strength. I don’t even have a vagina, yet the thought of being able to break medical equipment with my private parts… dude…

now

Americans

leftists

You did read the news who won the last election, did you?

I kind of thought of him as a high-functioning psychopath with some autistic tendencies. He does not really care about the consequences of his actions, and derives his meaning in life from doing a good job only. If that includes helping people, nice, if not, oh well.

Women as well, I had a relative die of (maybe curable) breast cancer, who had avoided screenings because she was scared they’d turn out positive. Yeah. To be honest, I am not much better, I should get some check-ups done.

The Dems are the conservatives, they want the status quo with maybe some mild reforms.

The Republicans apparently are the radicals, they want to change society (in a direction that I think is completely stupid, but still)

And it’s an EV

Don’t we all

Been there, done that, decided that I won’t slave away my remaining time on this earth in search of the mythical six figure engineering job :)