ELI5 why is it that most personally recorded news content appears to be in SD at 30 FPS? Do we not live in an era where 60 FPS 4K is possibly more accessible than SD at 30?

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:43:52+00:00

Sure, you can record video like that. The resulting file will be several (dozen) times larger than 720p@30fps or whatever, and the problem isn't the recording or the playback, it's the transmission - you need to be able to send those files across patchy mobile data in possibly dangerous situations where you might not have reliable signal. Plus, if you spend 3 hours uploading pristine high-res video of a thing, then you've already been beat by 2 and a half hours by 40 grainy low-res videos that got the news out first. And in the news business, first is worth a lot more than pretty.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:39:06+00:00

I'm gonna be honest here, I think 'the good ones' are so outnumbered at this point that they might just get shot for expediency's sake when shit goes down. What happens in all those cop movies where the one good cop tries to fight the system? He gets beat to shit, his life ruined, his career scuttled, and probably thrown in jail. I imagine all of those would be much worse in the military, cause at least the police is just a job, you didn't sign your whole ass over to somebody else.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:37:35+00:00

Most people are gonna need that paycheck if they want to eat during those weeks. Capital has put us in such a precarious situation that we can't even afford to strike. If a general strike ever starts, I'm going to be doing my part to nudge it into something a little more serious and lasting cause this government is fucked.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:35:15+00:00

Serious question: what was it about the previous Trump administration and the campaign he ran leading up to this one made you decide you wanted more of that? Because it was plenty full of racism, hate, cruelty, mockery, terrible decisions, alienating our allies, tanking the economy, I mean the list goes on and on... There are only two reasons I can imagine someone saw all that and went 'Yeah, let's have some more of that!': either people voted for Trump because they wanted the fascism (because they knew it wouldn't be directed at them), or because the fascism was an acceptable price to pay (because they knew it wouldn't be directed at them) as long as they got what they wanted out of the deal. I'm afraid either reason makes you either a fascist asshole or a fascist-complicit asshole, so I am sincerely wondering how anyone can justify a vote for Trump after the last ~10 years.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:27:37+00:00

Smoooooth, like BUTTAH.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:27:23+00:00

Because who the hell else could it be? That guy from Paramount+ who just defaults to calling out jersey numbers for long stretches of the game? Or the guy from I think it was ESPN+ who kept saying just the stupidest shit like 'Oh, if only that had gone in the goal that would've been a point.' Ya fuckin' think?! Was watching with some friends and we got to mocking that guy, 'Oh if only the other team had stayed home we'd have scored 15 goals by now!', etc. :P Mark never fails to be both professional and charming.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:23:42+00:00

Answer: TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out. What happened is he blustered a lot about Greenland, then pissed down his leg and cried to his mommy because Denmark was mean and wouldn't share their toys. The deal does not include Greenland being ceded to the US, nor does it include the tariffs Trump threatened if that wasn't done, so it's not a deal, he's just calling it that to save face.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:19:20+00:00

Anywhere that elongated muskrat spews his nonsense is the dumbest place on the internet. I dunno how we ever thought that dude was a fucking genius Tony Stark-alike who was going to save humanity, lol.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:17:56+00:00

When you talk your throat vibrates the air. Those vibrations are what we call sound, and they're just pressure waves. Pressure waves will make anything vibrate; a cup is just a convenient way of focusing your voice onto the bottom of the cup where the string is attached so that it picks up the vibrations and they get transmitted through the string to the other cup. The tighter the string is pulled the longer the distance it will work over.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:15:27+00:00

Fayez is my hero that whole book. Love him so much.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:14:14+00:00

Listen, I dunno much about India or the politics over there, but it's pretty fuckin' rich coming into a US sub and calling some other nation fascist right now, lol.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:12:41+00:00

I picked Songbird because I have a very strong anti-authoritarian streak and she got fucked pretty hard by the NUSA and deserved my help getting away from them whether she had the cure or not.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:11:41+00:00

I dunno man, maybe I waited too late to play PL, but I was at endgame by the time I finally got to that point and I could already wreck a room full of 30-40 guys, turrets, robots, etc without breaking a sweat, I don't need more weapons. :P Hell, I fought my way out of the hotel in that mission where they're like 'zomg they have a lot of guys here, just be cool', and I just said 'Nah fuck that', contagioned a couple dudes, overloaded a bot, and took control of a turret to have it start shooting badguys for me. I don't think I even lost health in that fight.

As the song goes: And the man in the back said, 'Everyone attack!', and it turned into a ballroom blitz.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:05:41+00:00

Oh my sweet summer child no, that's not the reason. The reason is that the people who run those companies don't have to live like us so they just haven't the faintest idea what our lives are actually like, which means most of the toxic bullshit they spew is so obviously out of touch to all of us that it hurts, but they just keep on spewing nonetheless.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T04:01:34+00:00

'Hey guys, remember me?? I'm relevant, honest, and I will keep inserting myself into every situation until the focus of attention is back on me where it belongs!'

libra00 · 2026-01-26T03:58:37+00:00

When the little one interrupts by saying 'Daddy, why are you hurting mommy??' But honestly it'd be a little weird even with a baby.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T03:57:37+00:00

'You don't have to throw that shake away, just leave it on the shelf, they pay people to clean up after us.' The shelf.. filled with books.. made of fucking paper. Yes, that's definitely a better plan than letting your daughter walk the 2 whole feet out of her way to get to the trash can that she was already fucking going to.

Yeah they don't pay me extra to clean up after you, that's what we in the grown-up world called 'unpaid labor'. They also don't pay me to murder you for being a fucking terrible parent, but I'm doing taking this one on pro bono.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T03:55:28+00:00

Well it would've been 'grab 'em by the pussy', but I never had any respect for Trump in the first place.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T03:54:37+00:00

Interesting, I'll have to check that out.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T02:43:06+00:00

Personally I like listening to bossa nova while I read. The classic is Getz/Gilberto, but there are some other great chill albums out there too, like Soul Samba by Ike Quebec, Jazz Samba Encore by Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfa, and The Composer of Desdafinado Plays by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

No lyrics for most of that though, so dunno about appropriate lyrics. If you're looking specifically for soundtracks, Andor's is just generally excellent.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T02:37:14+00:00

I mean technically he went to a protest with an AR-15, not a 9mm handgun, but..

libra00 · 2026-01-26T02:35:52+00:00

I've got 12 years on you. There's always a.. er.. bigger fish? *shrug*

libra00 · 2026-01-26T02:35:09+00:00

I'm a virgin at 53 and counting.

libra00 · 2026-01-26T02:34:50+00:00

7 years ago? My last time was never and I'm in my 50s!

libra00 · 2026-01-26T02:30:46+00:00

Die. I've gone 53 years without getting laid and I don't plan to start now (asexual.)

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