I stopped running with music when I ran a half marathon once and about 17km in I just started getting annoyed by it. I'm out there dying, and some asshole is screaming into my ears.
Idk, I enjoy running by itself. I ran a full marathon without music and didn't get bored once. I'd either just enjoy myself, think about random stuff, look around me, play music / sing in my mind etc. But to each their own I guess.
The guy is a nazi in his own words. Or rather, he wrote that he stopped considering himself a nazi because he doesn't agree that Slavs are subhumans, only the other groups.
Though Filosofem is soooo good. It really sucks that some of the best music was made by some of the worst people.
It was actually quite an interesting discovery that Newton's first law, the way it's usually repeated, was written in Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan", which was published when Newton was around 8 years old.
We just call him "cat"
I think the idea behind the graph was to make it look like blood flowing, but the execution was... not the best
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As others have said, this is financing software development, not a political campaign. I first learned of the fediverse when Reddit removed 3rd party apps, and I felt like my eyes were opened. This is what I want the internet to be, decentralized and running on open source software, and I'm sure I'm far from being alone in this, so thanks to the devs for that.
Also Jerboa is great!
PPS: also, if you just study a lot of STEM in college, your views on humanities may still be atrocious, like elonstans.
This was very depressing to learn. I know a lot of software engineers, some of them PhD students, who are really smart and clever people, able to abstract concepts, form connections in thought, recall relevant information and make intelligent conclusions every day. And then they say things like masks don't do anything during COVID, the vaccines don't work, Russia is defending itself, the wokes are oppressing everyone and destroying everything etc. It's almost impressive to see someone seemingly intelligent act like the lowest Trump supporter with certain topics like someone just flipped a switch.
I still cannot come to terms with the fact that people find it completely normal that modern civilization rests on a handful of companies. If Google, Microsoft and Meta were to disappear tomorrow, half the planet would collapse given how many completely depend on their infrastructure. This by itself should be enough to induce a mania of local development and decentralized structures, but alas.
What?
If you ever used online translators like google translate or deepl, that was using AI. Most email providers use AI for spam detection. A lot of cameras use AI to set parameters or improve/denoise images. Cars with certain levels of automation often use AI.
That's for everyday uses, AI is used all the time in fields like astronomy and medicine, and even in mathematics for assistance in writing proofs.
This is actually a tactic Antoine-Augustin Parmentier used to popularize potatoes in France. He couldn't get people to accept potatoes, so he placed armed guards to protect the plants, and withdrew them at a certain point in the day so that people could steal them.
Just finished watching it, and honestly that's the idea I got after those red flags that jumpscared me when I was watching that linux sucks video. I think I watched them up until 2018, and I remember finding them entertaining and they always ended on a postive note, but I knew absolutely nothing about Lunduke apart from those 4 or 5 videos, that's why I was so shocked to find out that he's a generic right wing parrot.
As a sidenote, Niccolò seems like a really cool guy. Thanks for sharing the video, I subbed
I really liked his "Linux sucks" presentations when I watched them many years ago, but I didn't know anything about him beyond that. Then some time last year I saw that he made another one, and I decided to watch it mainly for nostalgia, and I was shocked to see so many points about how linux companies are woke, something about opensuse firing anyone who was right-wing and redhat doing some white shaming move or something. I paused, checked his actual channel and holy shit. More than 90% was anti-woke "journalism", and has been for years now. I was severely disappointed.
A small correction: there is no leader. The students themselves decide everything on plenary sessions and every decision is executed by working groups that are formed afterwards. You always have different people executing the decisions to avoid any one person being seen as a "leader". And we are slowly shifting to citizens themselves forming local groups in their neighbourhoods with the same organisation.
But yes, the students asked that only Serbian flags be shown, because these are protests that have support from a wide range of people, from anarchist vegans to ultra nationalists, so they want to prevent any division. That doesn't stop some right wing dipshits to bring Russian flags, even though Russia explicitly condemned the prorests as a "coloured revolution", but what can you do.
While some EU representatives from the parliament have been supportive, the EU has a negative image because officials still act like everything's in order. Ursula is set to meet with our psychopathic dictator, and Marta Kos wrote how she had a constructive talk concerning Serbia's steps towards EU integration with the guy who tried to cause a bloodbath during the 15 mins of silence a few days ago. A guy who also officially (as a president under the Serbian constitution) has about as much say as I do concerning these things.
The part about the sonic cannon cannot be stressed enough. People were literally standing still in silence and our psychopathic overlord hit the crowded streets with a sonic cannon which could've very very easily created a stampede that would have led to thousdands of injuries and possibly even deaths. Honestly we were lucky that enough people managed to calm down and stop running after a few seconds.
Honestly, we avoided a massive tragedy at that moment. People described that it sounded like a car or airplane was coming at them at full speed, so they instinctively ran away from the roads. People further away didn't see or hear anything, they just saw a crowd running in panic and so they ran as well. I was maybe 50-100m away from where it happened, and all we heard was noise, yells, and then people running, so the people around me also started running, but we all stopped after maybe 5s.
A lot of people think that our overlord wanted to cause a stampede which would lead to thousands of injuries and just chaos in order to discredit the protests. Or maybe they wanted to launch the cannon after the 15 mins of silence were over, which would cause mass confusion since nobody would have any idea what was going on, but triggered it early. In any case, the psychopath used an illegal weapon to attack people literally standing still and being quiet.
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I'm convinced that at least 400k people were present, probably more. I've never seen such a crowd in my life, and I've been on most protests since 2020.
EDIT: The organisation that usually counts this stuff said around 300k, and maybe more, they couldn't make a precise count because people were constatntly moving from place to place. Still the biggest one is Serbian history.
I'd add Adrienne Cowan from Seven Spires and Melissa Bonny from Ad Infinitum to that list. But, as you said, in symphonic metal you'd be hard pressed to find a band without an amazing female vocalist.
Hands down the best free Greek course I ever came across, can't recommend it enough for anyone interested in Greek.
It's hard to really give a true representation of the general atmoaphere in Serbia during these times. For as long as I've been conscious, Serbia was a land of cynics and depression. Negativity was the norm, and even I said back in November that these protests would last until new year / Christmas, then the students will go back home to get drunk or whatever and that will be the end of it. If someone had told me 3 months ago that almost the entire country would be optimistic about the future, that there would be a real chance to finally end the rule of SNS, that students would walk over 100km to places and be greeted as liberators by huge masses, fireworks and food, I'd ask them what movie were they watching. Also protests are being held all over the country, so much so that someone made a website to keep track of the future ones: kudanaprotest.rs
The next big gathering will be in Niš on the 1st of March.
Seriously. For some people cooking, baking, sewing, cleaning, doing the dishes, laundry are all for women and not "manly". A "manly man" is then someone who cannot take care of himself at all and needs a mother/nanny substitute his whole life just to survive. And that's somehow "strong"???