Sarcasm. The comment you replied to was being facetious. Obviously things are not going swimmingly. Use your context clues.

Seriously. Took Rome over a hundred years to have their Republic fall from when it started tumbling. We’ll be lucky if it takes us 2 decades

“This small town pulled together to raise $10m to not send any children to the orphan crushing machine for an entire month!”

So they were off by a factor of 2.35 (47 years is 2.35x 20 years)

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I have mine set like this. Clear bass can be adjusted further down, just depends on personal taste. 400Hz is the boomy, buttery part of the range so if there’s too much boxy-ness you can turn that down judiciously. Keep in mind most musical pitch lives there too, though.

My preferences are towards a relatively flat sound so my setting reflects that

Makes sense, inflation and tariffs

Maybe it’s just because I’m an audio engineer so I was able to EQ them to my taste, but I love my WH-1000XM4 cans. But yeah, their studio cans are both top tier and dirt cheap. MDR-7506, they’re like $80 and generally sound like a million bucks because they’re used in basically every single recording studio as reference headphones.

Well, their TV brand is gone. Their headphones are still the top tier of consumer stuff and price-performance king for studio headphones

communist government

Socialist government, sure, but communism describes a stateless society. “Communist government” is an oxymoron.

Yes, I am that guy. Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There’s definitely a number of statistical anomalies that map too cleanly to be a coincidence.

Free Luigi

The fungal zombies seem to operate at an instinctual level, so I’d argue that yes, they are able to stay hydrated. They also seem to have some sort of hive mind going on to a degree.

Don’t tell us, tell the oligarchs

Only about 2/3rds voted, so closer to 30% voted for him

Hundreds? Pretty sure it’s thousands

… as long as the giant corpos paying through the nose for the data centers continue to vastly underprice their products in order to make us all dependent on them.

Just wait till everyone’s using it and the prices will skyrocket.

If you think people will pay for AI slop, you must be young or deeply cynical

The vast vast vast majority of artists create art with neither expectations of payment nor the ability to do it full time, yes.

There was one other time, when he cursed a tree because he didn’t like its fruit, but yeah in general he disliked the nascent forms of capitalism and money people that he encountered.