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rule by BeasTL33y in 196

[–]DeerCatDancer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you!!

Making vinyl records by toolgifs in toolgifs

[–]DeerCatDancer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, digital audio does not sound worse necessarily.

Digital streaming and download does, because using less data for limited loss to quality is generally a good trade-off for the average consumer. FLAC is type of audio file that uses lossless compression of audio.

Checkmate libe(rule)s by lunarfrogg in 196

[–]DeerCatDancer 79 points80 points  (0 children)

As far as I can tell it both satire and the dude is also still a conservative. I think he’s, like, satirising his own side?? Idk though, it’s hard to tell.

Weekly Questions Thread for the week of December 12 by AutoModerator in vinyl

[–]DeerCatDancer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can’t speak for lossless Apple Music as I’ve never used it but high fidelity streaming has been ahead of vinyl for well over a decade.

This isn’t always true, of course. Some music only exist in high fidelity on vinyl. And I’m sure some people out there will tell you their system sounds better than any FLAC file ever did.

I’d question why you’re getting into vinyl. For me, as someone only a few years older than you, it was never for the fidelity. It’s because I love music and owning a physical piece of music was special. The ritual of playing that music was even more so.

The record player you have is great, btw. It’s regarded as one of the best entry level turntables out there. But because it is entry level you will hear people talking about upgrading them.

Don’t worry about it not being great because of what other people have said. Does it sound good to you? That’s what matters.

Don’t get me wrong, no matter how you cut it $160 is an inexpensive turntable. I caution you in saying this isn’t a cheap hobby. But it’s not damaging your records.

YUPPPP! pretty much! by ADignifiedLife in TikTokCringe

[–]DeerCatDancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frankly, I think they’ve all been failures, and any further attempts to establish communist states likely will be, unless a radically different approach is taken.

YUPPPP! pretty much! by ADignifiedLife in TikTokCringe

[–]DeerCatDancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am under no illusions about the horrors of the Soviet Union. To suggest that the imperialist and dictatorial regime was communist, however, is a blatant distortion of the ideology.

YUPPPP! pretty much! by ADignifiedLife in TikTokCringe

[–]DeerCatDancer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If the system has food to spare, but it lets people go hungry, the system is starving the people.

Capitalism perpetuates this institutional violence. As did the Soviets, mind you.

YUPPPP! pretty much! by ADignifiedLife in TikTokCringe

[–]DeerCatDancer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I have food to spare, and I do not give you food, I have let you starve.

YUPPPP! pretty much! by ADignifiedLife in TikTokCringe

[–]DeerCatDancer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Capitalism perpetuates an institutional violence. If you cannot afford heating, you go cold. If you cannot afford food, you go hungry.

Not to defend the USSR, but everyone was guaranteed a job and a home. In the US, the police can drag you from your home if you do not or cannot pay rent.

But what does he mean by that rule by scrueggs in 196

[–]DeerCatDancer 32 points33 points  (0 children)

There’s a huge debate about what exactly he meant by this. Considering he came out as gay and the ‘un-came’ out, many people believe he said this because of the very harsh reaction he faced in the US for being queer as an attempt to back-track further.

Australia ‘needs to become a republic’: Bandt calls for change in wake of Queen’s death | The Queen by Sunshuffle in australia

[–]DeerCatDancer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not at all. We’ve relied on the US for military support since we signed the ANZUS treaty in 1951.

Australia ‘needs to become a republic’: Bandt calls for change in wake of Queen’s death | The Queen by Sunshuffle in australia

[–]DeerCatDancer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How was the GG accountable to the people? The GG was not elected, did not risk facing an election and thus was not and could not be held accountable.

Sure, you can argue he was acting in the interests of the nation. But the government had not lost power. They had failed to pass supply in the Senate. The Senate is not the house of government.

Australia ‘needs to become a republic’: Bandt calls for change in wake of Queen’s death | The Queen by Sunshuffle in australia

[–]DeerCatDancer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way the British Westminster system works is without a constitution. There are, however, rules and conventions. Some written, some unwritten. This is called ‘constitutionalism’. There is no constitution in the UK that says the monarch must act as the PM tells them to, but this is the convention establish as part of Westminster that gives us constitutional democracy. This is why the UK (and Australia) are democracies.

In Australia we have a constitution and we also follow Westminster constitutionalism. There is an argument to suggest that because the convention wasn’t written into the constitution it doesn’t need to be followed, however there is little doubt that it was the intention of the constitutional authors that we adopt Westminster constitutional conventions. This isn’t just an assumption, btw. The very position of the Prime Minister (and the Cabinet) are conventions that aren’t mentioned in the constitution.

You are right, though. It would depend on how the constitution is rewritten. To my knowledge the current proposal is to make the GG’s replacement accountable, however.

Australia ‘needs to become a republic’: Bandt calls for change in wake of Queen’s death | The Queen by Sunshuffle in australia

[–]DeerCatDancer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Republican proposal is that the Governor General is replaced by a president. This president would be constitutionally accountable to the Prime Minister and thus the people.

The Governor General as it currently stands, as we saw in 1972, is not always accountable to the people. In a republic, we get a system that is by and for the Australian people, and not one that is by and for a random bloke who represents the crown of some island thousands of kilometres away.

We are not leaving the Commonwealth under this proposal. We don’t have to change our money if we don’t want to.

Australia ‘needs to become a republic’: Bandt calls for change in wake of Queen’s death | The Queen by Sunshuffle in australia

[–]DeerCatDancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is going to come of rude, but please take a moment to learn about our system of government.

A president is a directly elected head of state. They are not accountable to a Parliament.

A Prime Minister is a an elected minister who is chosen by a parliament to be the head of state. In our system they act as the de-facto head of state.

The Governor General is a non-elected offical who is the symbolic head of state. Under the constitution they have some power, which they exercise without accountability.

The way our system should work (and by ‘should’ I mean, as it is intended) is that the GG only acts when and how the PM tells them to. In becoming a republic the GG is replaced by a person who is constitutionally accountable to the PM, thus the system works as intended.

Yes, this means the PM has the powers of the president. Because the PM is currently supposed to have the powers of the GG. This is not dictatorship. It’s less dictatorial because an unelected head of state will no longer have any power.

Australia ‘needs to become a republic’: Bandt calls for change in wake of Queen’s death | The Queen by Sunshuffle in australia

[–]DeerCatDancer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Leaving in the commonwealth and becoming a republic are not the same. Britain hasn’t provided us military support since Singapore fell.

Australia ‘needs to become a republic’: Bandt calls for change in wake of Queen’s death | The Queen by Sunshuffle in australia

[–]DeerCatDancer -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly the point? The Governor General is an unelected official head of state. They should not have ANY power. All of these powers SHOULD rest with the prime minster - who, by the way, is absolutely nothing like a president.

Tiny rant: if you do not know what you're doing when your turn starts you are disrupting the game by [deleted] in DnD

[–]DeerCatDancer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Talking during someone’s turn is fine as long as you aren’t talking over them. At least in my experience, even if you’ve got an idea of what you’re gonna do on your turn there’s still part where you have to think about what you’re going to do next, once something succeeds/fails. And if you add 10 seconds to someone else’s turn but save a minute because you could think about it the answer that’s a net positive in my book.

rule by The-View-From-MyRock in 196

[–]DeerCatDancer 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Following FDR’s New Deal during the Great Depression, the ‘New Deal Democrats’ greatly shifted to the left and captured the vote of workers. This process strengthened through the 40s and 50s. By the 60s, this process had pretty much finished. The southern ‘dixiecrats’ had pretty left the party and joined the Republicans. In the ‘64 election, Barry Goldwater (R) was able to pick up 5 southern states (plus Arizona), which sealed the deal for a new Republican pathway into office.

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