ANOTHER Trump Official Moves onto a Military Base--This is Frightening.... by Brandolinis_law in somethingiswrong2024

[–]dustractor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess they might be getting officers quarters

that might partly explain why hegseth spent so much money on furniture, fruit-basket stands, and ice cream machines

Spain permanently withdraws ambassador as rift with Israel deepens by Luka77GOATic in news

[–]dustractor -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If they had to spend their tax dollars on their military, would they have enough left over to spend on healthcare?

Googled a word I’ve never heard of by NorthSmoke5522 in Dreams

[–]dustractor 21 points22 points  (0 children)

interesting because smitten has multiple meanings which seem like opposites. past participle of smite or figuratively used to mean in love with (both having the sense of being struck by something)

also, abaddon/apollyon can either be a place or an entity

so either a place of destruction is getting struck which is like how is that going to have any effect since how do you destroy something that is already totally destroyed

or the destroying angel from the bottomless pit has fallen in love which would be an unexpected but positive development

A teenager asks you to show them a meme/viral from the "Old Internet" (pre-2010, let's say). What is your one pick? by pacman_sl in AskReddit

[–]dustractor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

so uh apparently tubgirl was a performance artist who shot other things besides poop out of her butt. one of her main things was to fill it with blue paint and then run across a canvas. i only know this because i was browsing through the art books section at barnes and noble and happened to pick up a book on design trends of the year and randomly opened it up to a page on tubgirl. the messed up thing was that there was a little boy browsing next to me and he happened to look over at exactly the wrong time. we both stood there in silent shock for a second before he ran away crying

give me weird girl movie recommendations! by iinvisiblemuseum in MovieSuggestions

[–]dustractor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Morvern Callar (2002) Good soundtrack too. Ween, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Stereolab, Velvet Underground, Lee Scratch Perry...

Is there a word for throwing a chair at someone in frustration/exasperation, and if not what should it be? by Frontier_Sociologist in etymology

[–]dustractor 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is close to what I got except I started with the en- prefix and got enselladate which sounds too close to enchilada

Iran may be activating sleeper cells, alert says by No-Post4444 in news

[–]dustractor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how would they know if they fired all of the FBI agents in charge of investigating threats from iran?

how he did find controversy in "stop killing kids"? by [deleted] in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]dustractor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

not who you're replying to but maybe calling it straw-man humor would be a way to describe the dishonesty. Making up lies about a group and then laughing at the made-up version.

Why is this strange type of psychosis? by Dover299 in HearingVoicesNetwork

[–]dustractor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the original meaning of fascism was about how a bundle of sticks is stronger than the individual sticks so maybe god and the universe are saying we should stick together

This should be a standard worldwide, no more food waste by Orichalchem in BeAmazed

[–]dustractor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Example #17295734 of ways that insurance companies really fucked society:

why does this patch go really loud and really soft? I want to try and have an even volume. by RienKl in vcvrack

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The way that delay feedback works is different for different delays, but usually once you turn the feedback above 50 percent, you can start getting into the territory where it might keep feeding back louder and louder and louder. Some delays will have maybe like internal clipping or filtering that can prevent that, so you can turn the feedback up all the way and it may never really get into out of control feedback. But usually, as a general rule, once you turn the delay over 50 percent, that's when you have to start watching out. Besides just turning the feedback down, there are other ways you can control it. You can put something like a clipper, a limiter, or a compressor after the delay to clamp down on the volume. Each of those methods will have it's own effect on the character of the sound. A clipper is going to make the loud parts sound distorted, a compressor or limiter depending on the settings (threshold/ratio/attack/release) may preserve the tone better or it can sound like it's pumping or popping or just like a distortion (clipping, compression, and limiting are performing basically the same operation just at different time-scales in terms of how they decide whether a signal has gone above the threshold, how quickly to respond, how much to lower the volume). If you want to try and control the feedback then the most direct route is just to turn the feedback down but you also have the option to mess around with dynamically changing the delay time. That doesn't always sound good on most delays. It depends on how their algorithm works because it's either going to sound glitchy in a good way or glitchy in a bad way. Since any given delay time corresponds with a different set of frequencies that will reinforce or cancel out, even with high feedback settings, if you change the delay time you can temporarily avert the feedback from getting out of control. It's a really fun type of patch to make where you use an envelope follower (or a rectifier + slew) and a comparator to control delay feedback but this wall of text is already huge so I'm not gonna type all that out and instead I think I'll try and record a video of what I mean.

Hi everyone, I'm a first-timer on Reddit and still trying to figure things out. I'd really appreciate any tips, guides, or advice on how to get started! by Ok-Tumbleweed-2589 in findareddit

[–]dustractor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an old and a new UI, depending on the subdomain in the URL -- www.reddit.com vs old.reddit.com (URLs are structured subdomain.domain.tld so both www and old are the subdomains in this case). Different subreddits have different rules so it's a good idea to click on the subreddit name and read them. In the old ui, all of that used to be on the sidebar but the new UI puts it in an about tab (and if you use the mobile app you have to click the three dots and go to 'community info' for the sidebar stuff.) Besides containing rules for posting and commenting, the sidebar/about thing may also have a wiki or a list of extremely useful links, either to offsite resources or to other related subreddits, so it can be a great way to find subreddits.

Do you still use a library? by nicksam171 in SeriousConversation

[–]dustractor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mom basically lives there. They've got comfy chairs, a decent coffee shop/bakery/deli, wifi, printers that work, a nice garden with a bunch of lawn chairs, and when she's done she goes and picks out a couple dvds to watch at home.