Nice; most people don’t make it to Siping! Very friendly area, although a bit cold at this time of year.

Isn’t “theshamblog” AI generated? So in this case, including the Ars article it’s referencing?

The pieces are dated 2024.

Here’s a simple answer: cables going from analog input devices to DSPs, mixers, etc. need proper shielding and should be as short as possible, with low-resistance connectors. Otherwise, EM radiation can be picked up and interfere with the signal.

Anything traveling digitally? It just needs to arrive at the destination in a timely manner; your cable would have to be really bad to have any influence.

Cables out to analog speakers? As long as you have a decent signal, these can use the crappiest connections and unshielded cables — the worst thing they’ll do is provide interference for OTHER cables they’re near. Just adjust your EQ until the speakers provide the response you’re looking for.

Funny thing is: I switched from cheap T shirts to dress shirts after I bought one good quality one for a job interview.

They don’t get hot in the heat, wick away moisture, keep you warm when it’s cold, don’t shrink or wrinkle, last a good 10 years of heavy use and look professional no matter who you’re with.

I don’t know why my parents’ generation ever abandoned them.

I wear a dress shirt to work every day. They’re all no-iron; they don’t wrinkle and are wearable out of the dryer.

Textiles have come a long way in the past 50 years.

On a corruption index, shouldn’t 100 mean entirely corrupt?

Either way, the US doesn’t look good, but this seems to be an integrity index.

Obviously that one guy is unaware of the current easy $140k options on the table.

Trump also trash talked his longtime friend Epstein.

So what would happen if everyone registered as a republican and voted for socialists in the primaries?

For some reason I read that as motorcycle the first time. I was imagining a motorcycle with a sofa sidecar.

Hopefully that’s not what he’s saying. I hope what he’s saying is that the neoliberal Democrats aren’t in opposition to the crazy actions the Republicans are taking, and so anything they’re doing to stop them is purely performative.

Still not quite sure I agree with this, but I’m pretty sure that’s what the OP was arguing.

Isn’t that functionality built in to the OS? Set up parental controls, and you can do this with no extra apps needed. It’ll even generate reports.

Using Shortcuts, you can even map these profiles to different Focus modes.

This might be romanticizing the early Internet.

I can remember plenty of flame wars in the late 80s and early 90s that were all about shutting down meaningful discussion. Informed debate flourished in niche areas, but it still does today, in a similar volume. What’s changed is the massive volume of social media that’s grown up around it, including many types of voices that were in short supply on the Internet in 1989, and many of which are uneducated and/or tribal in nature.

I’ve seen it both ways; the atheists turned christian don’t tend to stand for cultural christianity though.

2024 was unfair because he didn’t win by a landslide.

That said, it’s also the easiest way to turn an atheist into a christian. Just not one that would be into Southern Baptist OR Catholic churches.

That’s Josh ben Yusef to you.

And most Christian Nationalists have never actually read their seminal text; just out of context selections fed to them by their leaders.

Did you try tweeting your rep? That seems to be the only way to get their attention these days.

I’m a free money maximalist.

That’s rich coming from Harper. I guess his vision of Canadian Nationalism includes remaining a sovereign nation for multinationals to plunder.