Holy crap that mushroom pasta from the beginning of the Mario movie looked great.
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I think it's a combination of YT creators professionalizing, and YT itself applying some loudness normalization to all videos. I don't think we're at risk of a loudness war like the one that ruined rock music, but it's still been a remarkable trend to witness first-hand.
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Over the ensuing four years, everybody's vids have gotten really loud, to the point where I'm wondering if I need even more compression to keep up.
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When I started making YouTube vids for a living, I compressed the audio to make them LOUD, and sometimes viewers complained about that. I thought to myself, "Just you wait. Soon everybody here will be doing it."
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It'll never not be funny that the French transliteration of Vlad's name is the same word used in Canada for french fries + gravy + cheese curds.
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« Poutine s'attendait à ce que la détermination de l'Europe et des États-Unis s'affaiblisse. Il s'attendait à ce que notre soutien à l'Ukraine s'effrite avec le temps. Il se trompait. » - Le président Biden
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5-year-old says, “I want to go to Disney World. No, wait — Nintendo World,” and that’s when I realize everything has its own world in his world.
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I am a reformed hot take artist, and so is Steve. Hot takes = usually bad for the world. But they can be awfully fun to read, and they can contain lots of useful truth if you don't take them too seriously or literally. I like Steely Dan. I like Steve Albini. I like this thread.
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I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan
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Congrats to the GOP on Streisand Effecting a gas stove ban onto the policy agenda rather than just ignoring the CPSC nitwit.
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Public-housing tenants in #NYC who traded gas stoves f/electric induction ones saw better air quality vs neighbors, per results of a pilot program in The Bronx.
Households w/electric ovens cut nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by 35% + carbon monoxide (CO) by 42%.
thecity.nyc/bronx/2023/1/3
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You know what’s fun and relaxing? Go to a satellite map, zoom in tight on a river and try to follow it all the way back to its source.
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Whoever invented this little lip on the container of baking powder?
I fucking love you! 🥺
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The moth joke will always be my favorite. RIP.
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This is an unbelievably good song. The halftime groove with the strong upbeats, the spinning 6 over 4 keyboard hook, that big upbeat hendrix chord on the strat, the understated vocal so full of mystery — Vega at her top was just tops.
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I should not feel as validated by this as I do but I do.
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Obsessed with this picture from the Boston Globe of a lobsterwoman yeeting one that wasn't big enough
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IMHO the “watch/warning” system is bad. The wording gives no clue as to the difference between a “tornado watch” and “tornado warning.” The difference must be explained, so the terms are useless. Shouldn’t it be “tornado possible” and “tornado spotted”? What am I missing?
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To be clear, I mean “fancy” in the sense that this is the term used by English-speaking chefs when they want to be fancy. In French it’s just French. Also, many people are pointing out that pomme (and apple) just used to mean fruit, which I think is true and relevant.
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Why is "pomme puree" the fancy french name for mashed poatoes? It makes no sense, considering that pomme = apple in french, not potato. Well, I just figured it out. "Pommes de terre" = apple of the earth = a fancy french name for potatoes. Congrats if you already knew this.
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Every day I get more and more certain that the best piece of video content I’ve ever seen is the How It’s Made episode about latex gloves.
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So, which pronunciation of mortar and pestle will get me fewer snarky comments?
- PES-uhl62.6%
- PEST-uhl37.4%
1,041 votesFinal results
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I have a lot of faith in humanity to keep inventing brilliant solutions to its problems. But the notion that “overpopulation isn’t real” is just silly. Borlaug knew it and so should we all.
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Brilliant as they are, the systems that have allowed humanity to sustain its current enormous population are not sustainable. I’m mindful of this as I drive through endless acres of center-pivot irrigation systems all drawing water from a non-renewable aquifer.
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Yes, the Green Revolution and other technological advances diffused the population bomb. But even the father of the revolution, Norman Borlaug, believed it was (and is) merely a temporary reprieve.
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We're delighted to listen as & #montanastate's Catherine Zabinski (author of Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of #Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop) talk all things wheaty. Watch both eps. on Growing #Bread !
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A basic principle that almost all of us can apply more in our respective lines of work. ❤️ you, Donna. Rush forever.
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Replying to @RossOnRadio
When I was a radio consultant, I taught about the "deejay rule"-- remember that whenever you have to play a song that you personally hate, some listener out there is so grateful, because it's their favorite song.
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Also goddamn Neil Finn has written way more than his fair share of great songs.
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Somehow I had never seen the video for this song. This is a freaking hilarious video. Think this was according to the director's treatment? Or did the guys just show up pull shenanigans on the whole thing?
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33) Seriously Benmont Tench always looks like he is just so proud of the people he's playing with and it is warm and lovely and I would pay him to look at me like that.
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32) Benmont is like: I see you, Mike. Just know that you are loved.
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31) SOMEONE GIVE ME AN EDIT THAT'S JUST STAN LYNCH'S HAIR FLIPS ON SNARE HITS.
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30) Ron Blair slyly holsters his pick to go fingers on the beautiful solo that Mike Campbell actually played on the record but who cares because check how slyly Ron gets the pick back 2-seconds later so he can shift that P-bass into rock mode for the coda.
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28) Stan Lynch starts off lip-synching the harmony vocal he's ostensibly singing but then continues synching even after said harmony line has terminated IS IT BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE SHOULD BE THE LEAD SINGER.
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27) Ron Blair is significantly ahead of the beat this time in his head-turn-to-backup-singers move COME ON RON GET IT TOGETHER.
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