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They're so spacious

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Most passenger cars don't really have bucket seats. Bucket seats like in race cars have hard, deep structural sides, whereas in passenger cars they're just soft pillows in a very shallow bucket shape. This is obviously because getting in and out of an actual bucket seat is difficult and consumers don't like it. Because the pillows are soft, they're not going to stop you from sliding out in an impact.

I imagine the vaguely bucket shape of modern passenger cars has basically nothing to do with safety, at least not in the "stops you from flying sideways out of your seat" sense, and is mostly just a comfort thing.

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They're so spacious

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I mean, isn't that what the seat belt is for? I can't imagine the typical front seat in a modern car keeping you put in a collision either. They're definitely shaped comfort-first, and at best keep you from jostling around on uneven roads.

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Three wishes

This isn't really a paradox.

On panel 3, the genie ignores the first wish, which means the wish in panel 1 never happens. Guy gets 1 wish back, but because he wished for his 3rd wish to not be fulfilled, that wish will do nothing. Genie peaces out because his job here is done.

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Help me, crash in fillet

I imagine the reason you're not getting help for your issue on GitHub is that your report makes it impossible for anyone to say what's wrong. You're supposed to submit an example project where the issue occurs.

If it happens every time you try to use those tools, then the problem is likely specific to your system, because evidently most people can use those tools just fine.

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Now the gay frogs rule

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Like any good conspiracy theory, it has a grain of truth in it.

We really do live in a world full of unnatural endocrine disruptors and their use has drastically increased over the past several decades (though it's unlikely there's a conspiracy to deliberately poison people, or frogs, with them), and endocrine disruptors really do fuck the body up in all sorts of fascinating ways.

That article says so too:

In contrast to claims about chemicals in the water, the effects of hormones on sexual orientation appear to occur at the prenatal stage, during organization of the brain.[16] Endocrine disruptor exposure during fetal development has been shown to affect sexual differentiation of the brain in animals,[4] however any effect on human sexual orientation or gender identity requires further research.[4][3]

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I'd like some feedback on a YouTube decentralization project I'm working on: Torrent-Tube

I have no real feedback on your project specifically, but I've had this same concern of YouTube eventually probably going away or being totally enshittified and the videos on it becoming effectively lost, so I've been archiving a few of my favourite channels using ytdl-sub. It's a script wrapper for yt-dlp that downloads the videos along with a bunch of metadata.

Personally I've been adding them to my Jellyfin server for now under a separate category (ytdl-sub creates Jellyfin-friendly metadata). Some kind of community archive would of course be best, but there's many difficulties with that. Most prominently the fact that YouTube isn't dead or completely enshittified yet, so there's no driving motivation for the effort. Copyright issues would be the second major problem.

Creating an individual torrent for every video doesn't seem like a great solution, because the typical channel has lots of videos, up to thousands. Just between the four channels I've archived I have about 2000 video files, which is getting in the realm of torrent clients starting to choke on that many torrents.

Also these four channels add up to about 500 GB of data, which is why I pretty quickly started having second thoughts about archiving every channel I'm subscribed to. I mostly went with 1080p quality; settling for 720p would probably help a lot in the disk space department.

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Bee fly

The larval stages are predators or parasitoids of the eggs and larvae of other insects. The adult females usually deposit eggs in the vicinity of possible hosts, quite often in the burrows of beetles, wasps, or solitary bees.

Larvae live parasitically in the nests of various solitary bees and wasps.[2] When the fly larva locates a host larva, it will consume it slowly, greatly increasing in size as it tightly holds onto the host, eventually becoming a pupa and overwintering.[9]

haha yeah, adorable

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There is no pro capitalist left

Extremely American tweet. "Pro-capitalist left" is the definition of European social democrats. No, I don't agree with European social democrats, I think their economic policy was built for a pre-neoliberalism and pre-globalism world that no longer exists, but I just wanted to point out that this guy is clueless.

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EU ban on BPA chemical in food packaging takes effect

This apparently also bans BPS, which is chemically almost identical to BPA and has been used by the industry as a replacement in many "BPA free" products. Could not find word on whether BPF, another bisphenol that's chemically almost identical to BPA, is banned. The regulation just says that "Further harmonised classification of bisphenols and bisphenol derivatives is likely in the future".

The regulation: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/3190/oj/eng

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I'd like some feedback on a YouTube decentralization project I'm working on: Torrent-Tube

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Perhaps grouping by year would be a good compromise. The problem, of course, is what to do if you're wanting to track channels that still actively upload. I'm not sure there'd really be an audience for that though -- if the channel is still active, people can just go watch the videos on YouTube directly, no?

Most torrent clients start having trouble at around 10k torrents, forcing use of multiple instances, and that will be fairly easy to hit by seeding entire channels worth of videos as individual torrents.

I feel like most people think of YouTube in terms of creators they like rather than individual videos, and the way the site is structured makes it difficult to cleanly subdivide a creator you like into smaller parts than "all their videos". Therefore if one archives something, more often than not they'll probably archive an entire channel, so it'd be easy to end up seeding a ton of videos.

The other option is that they archive random individual videos that mean a lot to them, but I feel like that approach is rather incompatible with a private tracker-style community archive to begin with. It'd be a bit like a music tracker where people just upload individual songs they like.

For stuff like this I wish there was a better option than torrents. If only IPFS was actually practically useful...