Well…thanks. I guess. Now I know. Two little tidbits that I will try to forget.

I figure it’s like I used to feel that my engine ran smother after getting an oil change. The brain is weird and can’t be trusted.

I missed both those references.

Cryofreezing

Here we used to have a University of California (UC) system that let people earn PhDs, which was separate from California State University (CSU) system. Up until a couple years ago, if you wanted a PhD, you had to go to UC. The CSUs were more vocational. Instead of building up the infrastructure, the powers that be decided CSU could start offering PhDs. The result, from my vantage point, has been a flood of dumb ass PhDs appearing. I guess the same will happen with Bachelors with CCs offering Bachelors.

I’ve had a 7t for I don’t know how many years. I always hate phone shopping. I hope that there is something like fairphone available when this thing dies. I just want to have a replaceable battery. I’d probably still have a phone from a decade ago if I could replace the battery.

What problems are you having with cron? I’ve been annoyed with cron many times over the years. I suppose you could just run

sudo shutdown -h 20:00 &

in a terminal to schedule a shutdown at 8pm. Or maybe edit your sudo file to allow user to run shutdown without a password and throw it in a user startup file.

I enjoy both ways, but I can’t grasp how people think they are the same.

According to this page, that is just not true.

When you read, your brain is working hard behind the scenes. It recognizes the shapes of letters, matches them to speech sounds, connects those sounds to meaning, then links those meanings across words, sentences and even whole books. The text uses visual structure such as punctuation marks, paragraph breaks or bolded words to guide understanding. You can go at your own speed.

Listening, on the other hand, requires your brain to work at the pace of the speaker. Because spoken language is fleeting, listeners must rely on cognitive processes, including memory to hold onto what they just heard.

LOL, imagine the losers who actually listen to this crap.

Hey thanks. I found 3 claims and almost $200.

I can’t imagine this helping someone, but on the off chance, if you used org and are wondering what to use, s/org/li/ works for me and seems quicker than the gone one.

Huh, I didn’t know that about China. TIL.

Russia invaded Ukraine and was immediately under many sanctions. I don’t get why the world doesn’t treat the US the same way. Aside from greed.

Ah, I thought that Hillary ended up getting more votes. I must be wrong. I’m in no way denying the fuckery that went along with it, from the DNC to media doing everythign they could to keep Bernie out, but in the end, voters are the ones who vote. Tell me again about how it’s not ultimately the voters. And most tellingly, we weren’t discussing the presidency, which is a whole bag of issues, but Congressional representation. Fucking voters 100%.

Yeah, mpv or whatever media player. Most players can do an a-b loop. But if that’s all, then you’re missing on the historical stats stuff OP mentioned.

How does/did Schumer, Grassley, Graham, Pelosi, McConnell, Feinstein, and so on, stay in power? I always get downvoted and naysayed when I say this, but American voters fucking suck. Just the absolute worst. People will blame the two party system, and they do have a point there, but those same people don’t show up in the primaries to make a difference. They’re too scared to vote for change, as they’ve shown over and over. Just a bunch of ignorant, self-satisfied, cowards.

If you know any scripting, that would be pretty easy to code up something. Simple enough that I would just make a bash script and use it.

yt-dlp <-- download file

ffmpeg <-- trim the file if you want to change start/end times

mpv <— or whatever to play file

printf or echo <-- throw the stats into a data file

Then you could run whatever you want on your data file (sort/uniq/awk/etc) to get bespoke stats, most played, latest <n> played, etc.

Otherwise, something like https://agrahn.gitlab.io/ABLoopPlayer/ gets you some of what you want, and seems to be able to export some of the info into a json file.

I remember when I was in 5th grade, back in the early '80s, a kid didn’t know how to tell time on a clock. The adults then blamed the popularity of digital wristwatches. On one hand it doesn’t really matter, on the other it’s a great introduction to visualizing alternate numbering systems.

I’ve only noticed them at the prisons that are out in bummfuck Cali. Off the 5 in the Central Valley, like OP said, or out in the desert off the 10.