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- Beeswax2
Lana Del Rey could be sued by Radiohead as the band accuse the pop-star of copyright infringement over similar-sounding hit
- I mean out of all songs decide on Creep to rip and expect nothing happens?Beeswax
- lol what an idiot.fadein11
- lol what a creepGuyFawkes
- yup rippedutopian
- haha wow, that is incredible...kingsteven
- She could claim she's never heard Creep can't she? It's more possible than impossible that someone can create a song exactly the samemicrokorg
- .... Infinite monkey theorem.microkorg
- She is stupid for offering them 40% royalties in the first place even though she says it was not inspired by their song. That's admitting 40% guilt. lolmicrokorg
- turgid nonsense. radiohead should sue for defamationhans_glib
- First time I heard that song i thought it was inspired by Creep on purpose. Seems like they tried to steal it for free. Its a blatant rip off.Bennn
- I hear Can and Galaxie 500 are going to sue Radiohead for their entire back catalogue.face_melter
- And that Neu have been given special dispensation to kick each member of Radiohead in the pills before every live show.face_melter
- What Nue track did they rip off? There's a difference between influence and taking a melody.section_014
- all they had to do was pick up the phone and it would have likely been fine. they/she deserves it imhofadein11
- I was reading a bit about this, apparently Radiohead themselves were sued over ripping off another older song.yuekit
- https://www.youtube.…yuekit
- ^ And in fact those people won in court and now own part of the royalties of "Creep"yuekit
- ^ 2 years earlier (1972) Albert Hammond: https://www.youtube.…Krassy
- Seems like a lot of pop artists these days do this. But i like the song anywayssince1979
- GuyFawkes6
A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
- _niko3
the level of stupidity displayed by some people is staggering. I have no words. They were stealing gas or oil from a tipped over tanker, some smoking while doing so.
Fucking tragic and unnecessary.
- oh, fuck, sorry about this, there was a different cover image when i clicked on it._niko
- isn't the first time this idiocy happenedsted
- Darwin Award?monospaced
- fuck me..saw it yesterday..who the fuck is gonna light a cigarette in that situation ..retardsureshot
- People do stupid things when they are uneducated and desperate.BusterBoy
- Islami_was
- But boy oh boy were they in flavor country. ***Smoke***futurefood
- when science is secondary to allahhotroddy
- the fuck are you halfwits bringing religion in to this? The lack of self awareness needed to fail to see how fucking moronic you sound is truly impressiveset
- whats going on setsureshot
- Well the imam did broadcast it over the mosques' lowdspeaker alerting the town to free fuel. Instead of warning them to stay as far the fuck away as possible_niko
- Shows how people will do absolutely anything their religious leaders tell them to do with no regard for logic or safety._niko
- They are fucking poor and suddenly 'free' oil is there... I think hope and desperation too away any logic and IQ.mugwart
- _niko where did you learn that an imam broadcasted about it? I've found no reliable source about it.Beeswax
- bee, I first read about it on the CBC here: http://www.cbc.ca/ne…_niko
- Poverty is the issue herelowimpakt
- Bad religion is poverty, dumb leftisti_was
- grafician8
"Watch live: Thousands of women's rights activists gather to protest Poland's near abortion ban"
https://www.euronews.com/2020/10…
- why downvote this?!grafician
- Protesting for murder? Sounds like a biden supporterHayoth
- Religious integrismi_was
- hayoth must really hate women to the gut.neverscared
- And back to the Middle Ages we go. Crazy shitIanbolton
- Justifying murder Never? How progressive of you.Hayoth
- u women hater stfu... not your body , no wonder u hate them so much.neverscared
- u conversvite losers want to build a western style kalifat coz u hate the ladies so much, go to saudi arabia u pricks.neverscared
- hayoth, just die alreadybabydick
- sarahfailin8
People who have been convicted of possession of one ounce or less of marijuana in Colorado are being pardoned by Gov. Jared Polis.
Polis signed an executive order on Thursday issuing the pardons, according to a news release from the governor's office.
"We are finally cleaning up some of the inequities of the past by pardoning 2,732 convictions for Coloradans who simply had an ounce of marijuana or less.It's ridiculous how being written up for smoking a joint in the 1970's has followed some Coloradans throughout their lives and gotten in the way of their success," Polis said.
- About fucking time. You can pick up an ounce at the store on the way home from school now ffs.monospaced
- I wonder what effects living in prison had on them and what life will be like as they try to rejoin society..SteveJobs
- Yet another failed Ronald Reagan policy. I guess the "War on Drugs" was just another Republican scam that got exposed.utopian
- I remember Nancy’s “Say No to Drugs” initiative.dasohr
- Crime Dog McGruffimbecile
- bravoneverscared
- scarabin3
- Who brings a gun to a prostrate exam?Gnash
- Some people would pay extra for thatimbecile
- Is that the pic of the doctor, or the guy who popped a spunky during his cherry tomato tickle?Akagiyama
- And the guy should have known better. He was at the dentist, FFS!Akagiyama
- Lol_niko
- Floriderputopian
- Homophobici_was
- Will become his kink now.PhanLo
- 50 yo closet gaydrgs
- I mean, clearly he liked itsarahfailin
- clearly, I have the wrong doctorTurboslacker
- Again, if I've not mentioned - I'm glad you're back, Scarabin. This shit here's good ol' old internet quality content.Nairn
- yuekit7
New technology leads to discovery of largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/scie…
Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Neolithic peoples who constructed Stonehenge, a masterpiece of engineering, also dug a series of shafts aligned to form a circle spanning 1.2 miles (2km) in diameter.
The structure appears to have been a boundary guiding people to a sacred area because Durrington Walls, one of Britain’s largest henge monuments, is located precisely at its centre.
- Yass up the magic mushroom people!PhanLo
- Submerged alien spacecraftyuekit
- hard drugskingsteven
- so Britons in 2000 bc could dig really big holes? no way!Gnash
- A series of shafts is not a structure.monospaced
- Seriously bunch of losers back then, dragging rocks around :)yuekit
- And with Brexit in 2020, we're digging ourselves into an even bigger hole... of shit.shapesalad
- The bigger take away being that researchers were surprised the britons could even count back thenGnash
- I didn't know 'til recently that the stones at Stonehenge (etc) had Lego-like dimples and bumps in for securing:Nairn
- https://www.theguard…Nairn
- It’s not even a ‘shaft,’ it’s a pit/holeGnash
- Cmon guys, you can read the article right?yuekit
- "Shafts...each more than 5 metres deep and 10 metres in diameter. Approximately 20 have been found and there may have been more than 30."yuekit
- The interesting part I guess is that it was a big enclosed area used for some sort of ritualyuekit
- They only say Shafts’ because saying ‘we found a bunch of really big holes’ probably made the press release sound pretty lameGnash
- lol @ holes vs. shafts debateyuekit
- It’s only a debate in your head, even the guy writing the grant application knows it :)Gnash
- You know I think you're right Gnash, hopefully we can get the word out to the public about this coverup.yuekit
- Lol @ coverup. Some guys digging in the muck 4K years ago — that may, or may not, have learned to count — is not ‘news’.Gnash
- It’s funny that it’s presented as such, and that people got excited by it. That’s all. No conspiracy. It’s not important enough, lol.Gnash
- Hmmm I was under the impression Stonehenge and the other monuments were an impressive technical achievement for the time.yuekit
- Honestly man I don't have a strong opinion on this topic, but you seem weirdly hostile towards ancient British people...yuekit
- Hostile, lol. And who said anything about Stonehenge? If you think digging holes is laudable, awesome for youGnash
- Any hostility you may detect is directed more at way these type of articles are written, and regurgitated by the mediaGnash
- And then consequently shared as if it’s a big dealGnash
- I mean yeah it seems kind of obvious no? This was surrounding Durrington Walls which is next to Stonehenge, part of the same religious site/ complex.yuekit
- No one knows exactly who built it or how they did it. And holes or shafts positioned in a circle were probably not dug for the hell of it but perhaps remnantsyuekit
- of some larger structure that didn't survive. At least that's what archeologists seem to think, but hey what do they know? :)yuekit
- nb2
From Wikipedia:
Floyd says: "I'm about to die."
The police ask Floyd: "What do you want?"
Floyd repeats: "I can't breathe."
Floyd continues: "Please, the knee in my neck, I can't breathe."
The policemen taunt a trapped Floyd to "get up and get in the car", to which Floyd replies: "I will ... I can't move."
Floyd also cries out: "Mama!"
Floyd protests: "My stomach hurts, my neck hurts, everything hurts", and requested water. The police do not audibly respond to Floyd.
Floyd begs: "Don't kill me."
A female bystander points out that Floyd is bleeding from the nose.
Another bystander tells the police that Floyd is "not even resisting arrest right now."
The male bystander protests: "He's not resisting arrest or nothing. You're enjoying it. Look at you. Your body language."
Floyd goes silent and motionless, but Officer Chauvin does not lift his knee from Floyd's neck.
The bystanders protest that Floyd was "not responsive", and asked the police to check Floyd's pulse.
A bystander questions: "did they fucking kill him?"
Officer Chauvin does not remove his knee until emergency medical services arrives and puts Floyd on a stretcher.
Chauvin had knelt on Floyd's neck for over seven minutes, including around four minutes after Floyd stopped moving.
- I often wonder how close the States is to teeter-tottering into all-out Civil War.Nairn
- Which is why, I guess, Russia was so keen to get Trump into position.Nairn
- closer than ever i'd say. So much hatred on either side, so far apart on everything. No unity on anything really. Just dumb fucking people, pawns of Putin._niko
- Is/was there another nation this polarized that didn't break out in civil war? Yugoslavia broke up over a lot less._niko
- Trumpers are praying for another Ferguson. They've become so emboldened. It won't end well._niko
- Covid lockdown poisoned USA, people seem 2 B fighting and killing more, ugh. https://bit.ly/2BaQX…robotron3k
- lol! you assholes have been killing each other for no reason at all for a long long time now.scruffics
- I don't believe the polarization hype. It's only loud people who are polarized. Most people don't even vote. We're not about to start a civil war.nb
- this is so upsetting.sarahfailin
- There's no chance of civil war because there's nothing to fight over.monospaced
- I don't think we've been further from a civil war since the civil war. There aren't two sides, to view points, or two groups willing to fight.monospaced
- Seriously though, this is worthy of a murder charge. So intense.nb
- Yes. This is murder.monospaced
- fucking horrible.Fax_Benson
- This is normal in North Korea, i mean Americafisheye
- Iam speechless and fucking angry about that news, i don't wish trouble to anyone but i would want that police officer to suffer big painBennn
- Black Lives: " We need to demonstrate that George Floyd and his race are peaceful, civil people. Let us all burn down the city & go lootin'! "BustySaintClaire
- So revolving. Murder.maquito
- Gardener0
the hole in our road has just got a lot bigger!
before
today
- Your house'll be gone by next weekset
- war of the worldsinteliboy
- purple construction fencing?Fax_Benson
- next level fencing, it's probably scienceGardener
- never thought I'd see such a thingFax_Benson
- in the beginning...
http://i207.photobuc…Gardener - Shove a Chipotle burrito in it. Those things can fill anything up.
I should have been an engineer.kona - lolscarabin
- keep us postedernexbcn
- The guy there looks like he's doing a sterling job there of watching the hole.microkorg
- Tremors™sureshot
- and LOL Fax_bensonsureshot
- Lol. I'm in Mexico at the moment and I can take a picture in any direction and capture dozens of this babies in a single shot.
1st world problems right there.VectorMasked - https://www.youtube.…face_melter
- ha, yeah it got upgraded to fence level purpledigitdaily
- it's just doing that on its own?scarabin
- https://scontent.flh…Gardener
- as wasGardener
- https://scontent.flh…Gardener
- as isGardener
- I've cancelled all my activities for the next year to follow that story! Keep me posted! I'm in front of my compute.Bennn
- will do bossGardener
- Black guy.OSFA
- https://scontent.flh…Gardener
- https://scontent.flh…
well, that escalated quicklyGardener - https://scontent.flh…Gardener
- The mole peopleGeorgesII
- BustySaintClaire5
Carl Sagan prediction, 25 years ago:
- This.. isn't news of the day.Nairn
- https://www.qbn.com/…utopian
- ^ and some guy running in his living room is?BustySaintClaire
- Anyone else take 10 minutes to read that in sagans slow drawn out cadence lol_niko
- Well yes, it's not a fairly mundane excerpt from a book written 25 years ago by someone who long dead.Nairn
- "someone who's long dead"Nairn
- people are tall when they're alive, long when dead.renderedred
- I SEE SOME JADED CYNICS ARE PRESENTgrafiske
- "I predict a future that will be a lot like today but more of it", Carl Sagan 1995nb
- "I predict a future that will be a lot like today but I will be confused and stubborn before dead",
Carl Sagan 1995sted - @grafiske - nb's hit the nail on the head - this was a fairly common trope in the 90s and as interesting as it may be otherwise, it's hardly 'news of the day'.Nairn
- Read this book a while back, it’s great.OP31
- Gnash6
- It’s actually feeds on the radioactive energy, not on irradiated organic material. AmazingGnash
- Apparently SpaceX is sending some of this shit into space for testsGnash
- Could be used to convert radiation into energy for use in space flight. TheoreticallyGnash
- Cool, thanks for sharingOBBTKN
- https://youtu.be/xhX…Hayoth
- The White House could use this for its administration.utopian
- Life always finds a way.Gnash
- maybe our sun inhabits life?hotroddy
- Musk face creamMrT
- Pretty amazing... and more proof we don't have a fucking clue what the Earth is capable of producingPonyBoy
- Or how it’s capable of healing itself. Carlin said it best “ the earth isn’t fucked, we are!”_niko
- So true, niko.PonyBoy
- Bennn1
"The MacBook Pro has ‘Fisher-Price’ audio quality and most consumer audio sucks"
- Neil Young
> https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/…
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- Every time I see people listening music with the white Apple earbuds i think to myself, poor people.Bennn
- Neil Young sounds like hard work.Nairn
- The MacBook Pro sounds better than most laptops on the market though.monospaced
- pedants will pedant i guesshans_glib
- oh wait, Neil Young was behind Pono, an iPod competitor, and failed.monospaced
- https://qz.com/17116…monospaced
- grumpy old man yells at cloudKrassy
- "Well, they’re starting on a MacBook, recording straight to MP3." - Love Neil but he's talking through his arse.kingsteven
- Also, nothing wrong with apple earbuds Bennn you fucking snob. get a life...kingsteven
- It's weird how in the visual space we're all pushing better resolution but on the audio side people balk at getting better quality.zarkonite
- Also I'm with Bennn, the apple earbuds sound thin and shitty.zarkonite
- if you think the white Apple earbuds are good, kingsteven, I pity you. You dont know whats good sound.Bennn
- haha, i have hifis in 3 rooms with speakers over £1k, i'm sitting now in front of 3 sets of studio monitors worth £2.5k, i have 3 sets of cans over £100...kingsteven
- Apple Airpods are shit sound.monospaced
- but when i'm walking my dog i use wired earbuds because i'm listening to fucking spotify on a DAC the size of the head of a pin.kingsteven
- it is convenience! fidelity does not equal enjoyment of music. if i thought that, i would give up making it.kingsteven
- neil young talking this way about modern music is no different than someone his age in the 60s criticising for distorting his guitar... old man yells at iCloudkingsteven
- All laptop speakers are shit, is this news somehow? Also, fuck Neil Young.section_014
- i'll criticise the fuck out of a soundsystem in a club and i've given old hi-fi gear and turntables to mates listening to records on crosleys but laptop ADCs?kingsteven
- Oak Felder whos referenced in the article is sitting with an apogee quad interface beside his macbook. they work with ios too... even the apple lightning jackkingsteven
- does 96kHz 24bit, the adcs are grand for what they need to do and will keep getting better.kingsteven
- rock dinosaurs have these meltdowns now and again. Roger Daltrey had a hige one at the 80's because he didn't understand the revolution he wasn't part of.fadein11
- does he have a greatest hits coming out?fadein11
- huge*fadein11
- end of*fadein11
- You're right, king, fidelity doesn't equal music enjoyment. But that's separate from the fact that the sound from AirPods are shit. They're as bad as $50 junkmonospaced
- Clearly you know good sound so you understand this. I know a lot of people that are totally okay with Airpod sound quality. They just don't know better.monospaced
- Conversely, he's saying Fisher-Price has MacBook audio quality. Huge win for Fisher-Price, I'd say.sarahfailin
- haha flol sarahNairn
- "They just don't know better." ah yeahsted
- Computers don't compress audio. Software does. I love Neil but this cause of his is pointless.CyBrainX
- He knew Pono wasn't going to make money. He was just getting attention for his cause.CyBrainX
- Ironically, Donald Trump invested in Pono.CyBrainX
- He's acting as if the sound and music industry doesn't use pro grade hardware with Macs, which they obviously do. Expecting it built in is ridiculousmonospaced
- After reading the article, he isn't talking about the speakers. He's talking about the quality of sound in/out. And on that point he's exaggerating insanely.monospaced
- AirPods are garbage for music. Also spending money on audio equipment doesn’t make you any more knowledgeable about sound quality.ben_
- People like what they like though, it’s all good.ben_
- It's all subjective I mean I get paid for mixing music and end up in these conversations with folks proclaiming the quality of their bluetooth soundbar...kingsteven
- Or proclaiming the quality of a shit modern vinyl pressing when I'm here deep listining test pressings... most folks know shit all about sound quality andkingsteven
- technology and know shit all about music and just spout this rookie audiophile nonsence all day. It has nothing to do with how music is created and enjoyed.kingsteven
- Neil youngs best music was recorded live in a barn and got huge from folks listening on mono dansettes. I'll work for weeks on mixes to make them sound as goodkingsteven
- but folks need to wind their necks in when talking about consumer audio quality it's generally driven by the size of your dic than the size of your dackingsteven
- A critique of a pop music mix through your teeth via a vibrating lolly pop is just as valid as one from a single malt sipper in front of their floorstanders.kingsteven
- Gardener6
- https://www.mensjour…utopian
- Despite how annoying militant vegans can be, people that feel the need to denigrate vegans must have tiny cocks...or loose vaginas.BusterBoy
- ^ this guy is a veganfooler
- To be fair. Not alot of animals up there to eat.rootlock
- people who eat meat also die on Everest. It's a bit of mission getting to the top - from what i've heardIanbolton
- If you can't get the humor of a vegan dying on Everest to prove vegans aren't weak you are already dead inside.palimpsest
- Most people attempting Everest these days are just tourists, the sherpas do all the work.i_monk
- BaskerviIle3
- What's a WeWork?NBQ00
- Don't cry for Adam...he already cashed out at Least $700 Million Via Sales, Loansutopian
- He's like the Donald Trump developer of shared workspace.utopian
- My office is in a WeWork space now and its pretty nice, but this definitely makes me wonder "where do we go?" if they crash based on their current issues.mg33
- Pic: when your lambo breaks down?sarahfailin
- @mg33 they will probably sell the leases to another company and keep it like it isernexbcn
- The pic is for fans of Silicon Valley on HBO. Russ Hanneman who goes from 3 commas to 2 commas :(BaskerviIle
- If I was that guy, I don't know if I could gracefully take losing that kind of money. Nightmare fuel.shellie
- @sarahfailin That's a McLaren.fooler
- shh @fooler we don't point. :)helloeatbreathedrive
- I’m in a WeWork and the big bowl of free goodies on the front desk has recently disappeared. The signs were there.MrT
- Silicon!tank02
- skinny_puppy8
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Aptos - New Microsoft font https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/…
- At last, decent type for Microsoft.
Too bad it looks like an outright Univers rip, though.Continuity - finally.utopian
- 2 days ago https://qbn.com/repl…grafician
- Also, Robo is that you!? Welcome back lolgrafician
- Missed that grafician, apologies. Not Robo.skinny_puppy
- LOLmonospaced
- At last, decent type for Microsoft.
- Fax_Benson2
- Methinks he's getting used to being a billionaire, or at least a significant % of one.Nairn
- I read headlines like this and wonder how humanity can still progress.monospaced
- Inheritancejmckinno
- America's future looks brighter than ever.utopian
- QBN, the new generation.palimpsest
- humans telling humans how to feel. "your reaction should meet my expectation" so perfectly stupid.imbecile
- Nepo...ideaist
- ...tism.ideaist
- ..babyutopian
- Going on OF is now despotism?
So woke.palimpsest - Headline has something for everyone. Money, divorce, rap, kink, submersibles, gen-z internet stuff, 90s jock-rock, religion..Fax_Benson
- ^ !Krassy
- Ayeeee DailyMail!
Also how is this news?pango - What's a Cardi B?sab
- its a vitamin of some sortpango
- Lolsab
- I thought Blink 182 died of old agemonospaced
- scarabin4
- well, for one thing the immigrant boat is getting 24 hour a day coverage in Greece. The sub is getting little coverage. Same with countries like Pakistan and_niko
- Italy, I'm sure it's all over their news.
But there's nothing to be done about the boat. There is still hope to rescue the sub. Same thing with the Thai kids_niko - there was still hope. Also, people like train-wrecks, especially ones involving the uber-rich...we almost feel good about their hubristic demise._niko
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- "still hope" ...
https://i.imgur.com/…
https://i.imgur.com/…
https://i.imgur.com/…kingsteven - D E A DPhanLo
- "we almost feel good about their demise" - has your heart always been so grim, or is this a learned thing?canoe
- Wonder how much the traffickers made sending those migrants to their doom? Probably over what the idiot sun men charged to kill their passengersPhanLo
- Canoe you left out the hubris part. But seriously nobody cares about rich cunts dying after spending 250k for a joyride when children are literally slaves in..._niko
- ...their factories. They’ve lived a life only a handful of people could only dream of, they’ve got so much money and are so bored with spending it that they do_niko
- The most absurd things like take a submarine ride to the bottom of the ocean to see the titanic first hand. So yeah it’s pretty hilarious._niko
- And it’s not just me, the internets are full of these memes https://i.imgur.com/…_niko
- niko, so people who make memes are your moral compass? And it's ok for scientists to explore the ocean, but the people who fund the science can't go. And...canoe
- of course all rich people have made their money off the back of child slavery.canoe
- Especially the private jet broker and the guy who owns the fertilizer company who are on the submarine. Laugh it up. It's hilarious. Sicko.canoe
- Sinking refugee boats are a weekly occurrence
Logitech controlled submarine game can be played only oncedrgs - I'll go hold a vigil for them, maybe make some t-shirts. #1%LM, maybe we can start a movement._niko
- Dude, they literally paid some eccentric inventor $250,000 of their pocket change to climb in to a death trap to go take a peek at the Titanic_niko
- If that isn't the hight of absurdity, then you crying over them certainly is. Don't know about you but I've got a thousand other real problems in my life to_niko
- ...worry about. The misadventures of rich cunts certainly isn't one of them._niko
- Carnival rides have more tech than that sub, at least they have some levers and a bunch of switches. This literally had one red button and a game controller._niko
- Migrants also did a crazy thing of paying traffickers to take them to Europe in hope if free this and that, in a unsafe vehicle.shapesalad
- In El Pais of Uruguay there were 5 articles about the submarine Yesterday.maquito
- DIEmaquito
- The migrants do it through desperation.PhanLo
- they found it:
https://twitter.com/…sted - niko - you just it's absurd for the rich to spend their money freely, and then said that a carnival ride has more tech than a submarine. Define absurd.canoe
- You have a million other problems - but still take the time to argue about how rich people should spend their money, live their life and deserve to die. Ace!canoe
- money still doesn't makes you immortal.sted
- He at least got to be close to his son, so close that they were probably fused together as some kind of 5 penised meatball for a few seconds. RIPPhanLo
- Gardener8
- Amazing, they finally caught up to 1957 Soviet Union._niko
- ^^ First time anything has ever landed on the dark side of the moon.BusterBoy
- far side, not dark side.Gnash
- but did they intend to land there though ;-Pmugwart
- said half jest, we sort of have to wonder if this is real. We are in another silent cold war with china right now. This could be a power play?mugwart
- Just thinking a thought aloud!mugwart
- ... but did they remember to bring turntables for that bad woofer to pump up the miami bass?!! https://www.youtube.…prophetone
- lol, mugwart ... we don't sort of have to wonder if it's real ... it's real! there's no reason to question this achievement.monospaced
