True! I love the retro look but the hair thing isn’t ideal

Do you have a third party you would trust to help mediate? Sometimes it helps to have an outsider’s perspective.

Yep Yaxi, between that and the built in comfort slider in the headphones it’s comfortable enough

I did get aftermarket pads for them but they are not made for long term listening. But that is beside the point - they show you don’t need to spend $1000 to get great sound and they are only one example of that.

The eye opening moments for me were

1. Listening to $35 Porta Pro headphones and realizing you don’t need a lot of money for great sound

2. ABX testing and realizing I couldn’t tell the difference AT ALL and certainly couldn’t remember the last sound bite well enough to make a real comparison anyway.

Seems like a win? Otherwise the GOP can hold all the things the Dems care about hostage as leverage.

And let’s face it, they have been given carte blanche to kill

Not really sure. Not an expert but it seems like Russia already trashed them.

I mean at this point I’m all in on Ukraine and I’m sorry to see my comment interpreted as anything but the hope that Ukraine could get the support they are asking for.

I know peace deals are precarious and complicated, but I dream of nothing less than pre 2014 borders, the end of all Russian hostilities, and a defense pact, if not full inclusion, between Ukraine and the EU.

Ah - respect, cheers friend.

I wasn’t refusing to correct the mistake, thanks. I just hadn’t checked my replies until now. I have made the edits now to clarify.

It was in today’s dollars. See my edit. And I don’t think it is suspect to ask Ukraine’s allies to do more to help them actually win when Zelensky is saying it himself ad nauseam.

Though your snippy reply maybe doesn’t deserve it, respectfully- the figures I quoted were in today’s dollars. I guess I shouldn’t have assumed people would know that though.

They aren’t wrong though - the USSR got somewhere around $100-150B from Lend Lease. Ukraine has gotten something like $300B already.

But it’s certainly not money laundering. Wars cost a lot in the modern age. The real question is why are countries giving so much but only to keep Ukraine from losing.

It’s embarrassing for Russia that this war is now longer than their war against Germany in WWII but it’s also sort of embarrassing for Ukraine’s allies.

EDIT: I was estimating in today’s dollars, from Wikipedia - A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $690 billion in 2024 when accounting for inflation) worth of supplies was shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S.[3] In all, $31.4 billion went to the United Kingdom, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to other Allies.

Is that true? I haven’t heard MS say anything about enabling local LLMs. Genuinely curious and would like to know more.

And he got a majority in the popular vote too. Enough people went to vote or didn’t care enough to vote to make that happen.

Yeah you’re probably right - I guess my impulse is more that even in this the Dems need to be talking about how Trump is equally lawless and incompetent and in need of removal. But they don’t understand or want to understand that in the misinfomation age, if you don’t fill a space with the truth it will be filled with lies.

He’ll just replace her with someone worse. This won’t end until they remove the tumor at the center of this all.

Oh fuck off with that. Y’all are promoting the technology with the promise of replacing human jobs. What did you think the response would be?

That is not to mention building it by literally stealing the wealth of human thought and then being surprised that we’re mad you want to sell it back to us with brand new monthly fees. Fuck off with all of that.

All AI models should be required to be open sourced to compensate humanity for this theft of our labor and ideas.