Don’t know anything about him beyond this YT clip, but I’m hoping someone has eyes on Kline Preston:

Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Moscow Tools | The Daily Show [link should start at ~12:45]

I’m having trouble not seeing the farmer as trying to saw off his fingers with the edge of a crescent wrench.

Warp and weft…until it is done.

Clean URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ndzg0vjgo

Please do not be alarmed, we are about to engage the nozzle.

My tech skills are rusting horribly but I tried to briefly take a look at this…

I’m seeing the same behavior with the Firefox save-as file extension being .m4a vs the displayed URL showing .mp3.

Opening either extension in VLC and viewing the codec info (Tools->Codec Info / Ctrl+J) shows the actual encoding to be ‘MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)’.

I didn’t try grabbing a file from the torrent, but if I use the media tab in Firefox ‘Page Info’ (Ctrl+I) to “save as” the embedded IA player file it suggests a matching .mp3 extension with the displayed address (but the codec is still mp4a).

The main thing I’m not following is what you mean by having parse errors in Mp3tag. So far I haven’t seen any metadata included in either the .mp3 or .m4a downloads (I only tested the first file), they both play audio fine, and if I browse to their directory in Mp3tag (vers. 2.57) it doesn’t seem to show anything unusual to me (empty metadata, no error/alert messages). What exactly is the parse error or how is it behaving differently from what’s expected?

I also just wanted to say “THANK YOU!” for an awesome support post. You posted it to the right community, gave it a short but very descriptive title, gave lots of info about what you’ve tried and the results you’ve experienced – and did so politely :)

haven’t join any other instance besides lemmyworld

Not even @Don_Dickle@lemmy.ml ~30 days ago (banned 22 days ago)?

Hopefully you haven’t been listening to Brad’s rumors.

According to Reddit posts where I first saw this linked it’s from 2000. Here’s the artist’s page, didn’t see a date attached to it there unfortunately.

I was mostly referring to the quality being shitty and less-so the content of the edits themselves.

• To start with, it looks like they used a row-resolution base and then possibly tried to AI upscale it (look at animal faces on the “protect kids” wrap and the artist signature/items on the table)
• The pointless circular blur near the collar of the box holder
• The weird clone/stamp action going on with the side of the box - just use a solid box if the goal is efficiency vs quality!

But also leaving the artist’s signature on an edited comic and not mentioning it’s modified feels shitty too. This isn’t a meme or political community so I’d think posting the original is more appropriate anyway.

Original by John Jonik without the shitty edits:

Does a low resolution desktop capture of someone slowly and sloppily typing messages for the viewer into notepad count as text-based?

How about a gigantic compressed image of mostly plain text attached to a post that requires an account to download files? Maybe also with a colored/patterned background to make trying to print the monstrosity even more fun.

Or maybe actual embedded text, but served via 300 MB of bloated libraries and fonts and a script that disables right-clicking and text selecting.

A 3 day old account that only posts clickbait links to 2 domains, n24hr.com and sciinsider.com – I wonder if there’s any connection.

From https://whois.whoisxmlapi.com/:
Parsed domain name: n24hr.com
Created date: June 13, 2024 18:02:23 UTC

Parsed domain name: sciinsider.com
Created date: May 2, 2024 12:24:55 UTC

His cowworker definitely knows his shit.

I hope Danny DeVito plays the villain.

S04E02, ~33min into episode. Conversation between Firecracker and Sister Sage.

Firecracker:

Purpose. I sell purpose. These people got nothing. Maybe they lost a job or a house or a kid to Oxy. Politicians don’t give a shit, mainstream media tells them to be ashamed of their skin color, so, well, I bring 'em together, tell them a story, give them a purpose. Which would you rather believe? That you belong to a community of warriors battling a secret evil, or that you’re a lonely, inconsequential nobody that no one will ever remember?

I can’t remember if I stumbled across it at a video store or caught it on cable or something, but even though I was a KitH fan I had no idea they were making a movie. Absolutely love it though and even with familiar elements and some returning characters it didn’t feel like just a rehash of the show. I was bummed to learn (from the 2022 “Comedy Punks” documentary) that they were totally miserable making it and there was bad blood between Dave and everyone else.

I had that cover art (without text) as my desktop wallpaper from ~2011 until ~September of last year. As far as I know, the photographer is Dominic Kamp. I like when classical music is “reimagined” so I’ll have to check out more stuff by this group. I haven’t listened to anything beyond her album Artemis but I think Lindsey Stirling does similar stuff with a violin.

In a Neal Brennan stand-up special (Piped link) he mentions he uses a Pavlok to shock him every 3 minutes on stage to remind him to smile.