Ist nur ein persönlicher Eindruck, aber schöne Tattoos von Künstlern mit echtem Talent gibt es so wenige in der echten Welt, dass es kaum Sinn macht, sie für eine Studie auch nur zu erwägen. Subjektiv ist es ein winziger Bruchteil von einem Prozent aller Tattoos, der nicht wie entstellende Verletzungen oder trendgetriebene Krakeleien aussieht, selbst im Neuzustand.
Do you blame capitalism and America for bad weather too - or when you stab your toe in the morning?
Capitalism is a product of human nature; nobody designed it that way. When people attempt to design better systems from the ground up, far worse human behavior is being directly rewarded. Seriously, do you have any idea how much more disgustingly selfish and self-centered people are under economic and political systems that are supposedly better?
If you look at the most democratic nations on Earth, the ones with the best functioning institutions, the best education, the most innovation, least inequality, you'll find nations that are fiercely capitalist, with strong mercantile tradition dating back centuries. These people were capitalists before the term was first coined and they selfishly wanted the state to protect their investments, so they created strong institutions for that purpose. They had no idea that these institutions would end up doing so much more, spreading and maintaining wealth far beyond the small elite that they were supposed to serve while at the same time slowly moving power away from them. The many smaller educated merchants, who only educated themselves, because they selfishly wanted more prosperity for themselves, ended up being an amazing nucleus of a well-formed civil society, which is the backbone of every single successful free country.
Forget about America for a second or pie in the sky ideas that failed spectacularly any time they came in contact with the basic reality of human nature. This is what works: Stumble into a system that accidentally rewards selfish human behavior in such a way that everyone ends up benefiting from it. The problem from the perspective of ideologues is that this isn't glamorous, there are no dashing revolutionaries applying catchy slogans with the butts of their rifles. It's slow, incredibly difficult to replicate, requires rewarding the "wrong" kind of people for the longest time and. There's no trickling down or other such nonsense, but rather the slow collective realization that the same system that protects investments and the free exchange of goods and services can do a rather excellent job at protecting and increasing civil rights. It was neither linear nor planned and the resulting societies are by no means perfect, but they are the best we managed to achieve as a species so far, so consider learning from them how they were able to make capitalism work.
Sorry for the uncalled for wall of text, but I'm increasingly tired of people here blaming capitalism for everything. It comes across as performative, even downright intellectually lazy. I get that this is a left-leaning place to say the least and there's a reason why I'm here too, because I'm identifying with many typical left political positions - but certainly not all of them and most definitely not those that have failed historically and don't hold up to the most basic of scrutiny.
Do you really think that had AI been available to apparatchiks in Communist countries, they wouldn't have used it to advance their careers?
The problem isn't capitalism, it's human nature, regardless of the system. Incentivize behavior that is beneficial to the individual (even if just in the short term), but not society as a whole and people will engage in it. It doesn't matter if there's a democratically elected leader, monarch or first party secretary at the helm of the nation.
How mature is the game? Can it be recommended to players looking for a complete experience or are there still many bugs and obviously unfinished features?
This wouldn't work, given that TikTok isn't allowed in China. This cyberweapon is only meant to be used against foreigners. Either way, don't help them and instead actively dissuade them from trying to keep their addiction alive.
No, that's not what they are talking about. Even if you set the video to 1080p and make sure that YouTube isn't lowering it to a lower resolution, it still won't look very good.
Whether you notice or not depends on how perceptive you are, the quality of your eyesight and also the size and quality of your display. It's hard to notice on a low-grade laptop screen (or smaller), as well as a cheap TN panel monitor, but go beyond around 20" and use a decent enough IPS panel and those blocky compression artifacts are hard to miss.
AVI is a container, not a codec. An AVI container can contain video encoded with any kind of codec (unlike some other container formats, which are more restrictive). If you want to, you could put e.g. a VP9 or AV1 video stream (so the ones that YouTube is using) into an AVI container. In theory at least, if you uploaded an AVI file containing VP9 video, YouTube could just extract it from the container and stream it as is, but they'll still re-encode it. Before you think that all of this talk of modern codecs in AVI containers is theoretical, AVI is used a a standard for archiving with some institutions, so it's more relevant than you might think.
However, you are partially right in that AVI can not be used for streaming, not just by YouTube, but in general, since this requirement obviously wasn't taken into account when it was introduced in 1992 and thus not incorporated into this standard.
Are you seriously trying to argue against necessary communications infrastructure (mere days after Russia severed an undersea cable) with emissions?