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At this point if I want the best audio quality I’m sitting down and using my Hifiman Sundaras thru my Schiit Amp and Dac stack. When I’m mobile I am usually not paying enough attention.

What happens is that they actually measure this shit. Walmart has an entire system that tracks how much staffing affects customer attrition in order to keep staffing at minimum levels without losing too much in sales.

You can do a true wireless IEM with the Schure True Wireless Adapter. I’m running Linsoul 7Hz Timeless off of mine. Bigger box than fully integrated true wireless buds, but it does allow you to drive MMCX IEMs and it has a very good battery in comparison. The 2 pin options are worse than the MMCX options only FIIO and KZ makes them.

The only good (tech wise) true wireless buds are typically the flag ships from tech brands (Sony/Apple/Beats/Samsung/Google) but the audio quality is typically average compared to wired IEMs or a Schure True Wireless setup, the Sony flagship WF-XM1004/5’s are better, but the battery basically thins out too much over time.

I’ve had Galaxy Buds / 2 Pro / WF-XM1004s/ Schure True Wireless, and the glitchiest ones have honestly been the Sonys. Maybe the momentum 4 TW are just a bit janky in terms of wireless hardware and sound hardware, because I have had a good time with the Schure True Wireless adapters.

Many new phones don’t even have a digital audio converter built in anymore, so the basic USB C to 3.5mm pass through dongles don’t work. You have to get a dedicated DAC dongle and many can’t even charge the phone while they are in use, it’s insane.

Ah so Adams has Billions’d himself out of this huh.

Meanwhile Chris Murphey went on PodJohnsPodJohnHour and said that Democrats are quiet because people keep calling them on the staffer office lines and telling them to kill themselves.

The US Opposition is hilarious. These people really thought they’d defeat fascism in 2016.

In practice they’ll wholly generate things and lie through their teeth in court and to the copyright office – the government will take them at face value.

I am in software so it’s the least bad option. Software options are like:

• Scams
• Waste
• Terror
• Neoliberal Helping

This one of those things that seems anachronistic but it’s not. Much like the complaint tablet of El Nasir

Yeah people tabulated data thousands of years ago, crazy. In fact you probably do less personal accounting than people 200 years ago let alone ~5000.

This is one of those America brained things where you don’t realize that there are these things called seasons that affect resource extraction and in societies where you didn’t have the global imperial might to cajole resource trade in off seasons and have the logistical technology to deliver it, you had to actually plan for winter or die.

It’s why almanacs were a thing for centuries, here’s a Roman one inscribed on a stone pillar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menologia_rustica

As a person who has had many neoliberal paradigm helping jobs and currently has one: my brother in christ we are the anomie.

The way the helping from a neoliberal paradigm works is creating anomie by carving out and privatizing what should be public services.

The example machines in the first picture are type AT-101 SM which meant they had the glass rinser which is true. The problem? No soap. So you’d often find lipstick on the glasses, not really a “wash”.

But the risk of infection is minimal and nobody really got sick from them in any noticeable way, it’s just icky. Drunks stole the glasses all the time tho.

Here’s a museum talking about the soda machine inside of the GES-2 power plant.

Imagine a Coke Freestyle Machine that only serves seltzer, but instead of plastic cups you have 2 glasses. This machine is a vending machine that’s just installed on the street. There is nowhere to wash the glasses.

This is an older design, but it shows the glasses well.

This is the “classic” design that’s Sovietana

This is a modernized replica that you’d use with paper cups

This is retaliation in every state.

Nah it’s actually a real thing, it was a real thing in the United States too. My mom’s side of the fam hated the public soda fountains because they thought sharing cups with half the city was gross.

I was reaidng one of those Cool Russia blogs at one point because i was researching something and it was on epidemiology in the USSR. The article was titled something like “The USSR conquered disease, but is that the whole story?”. It basically talks about soviet immunization campaigns, and then at the end complains that in the USSR the soda fountains only had 2 glass cups people shared.

You’re thinking of The Virgin of Guadelupe which used to be a folk tradition from the 1500’s until the Church canonized it in the 1800’s.

Mexican Catholicism

Is just a normal diocese.

They’re protestants they don’t recognize the Pope or Vatican II. Anglican Catholic is an ironic misnomer.

Old Catholics (incl Norse) and Anglican Catholics basically want to rewrite the power of the Pope but keep other Catholic shit because they’re control freaks.

edit: Actually I’m wrong Anglican Catholics got the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter under Pope Frances in 2012.

For those of you that play Rogue Trader, it’s basically a Warrant of Trade for the Church. They now are part of the Catholic order but their Personal Ordinariate allows them to mix up how they do communion and liturgy and shit.

Fucking 40k ass religion. Though I’m pretty sure the Pope would have stepped in to defrock him personally if the Anglican Church didn’t.

EDIT 2:

Okay I’m wrong again. Personal Ordinariates allow for the followers of sects of Christianity to worship as Catholics using their own liturgical process when worshiping in a Church under the supervision of the Ordinary. The ACC doesn’t recognize the Pope. Anglican Catholics in the US can simply worship as Catholics and take Catholic communion through the Ordinary Steven J. Lopes. The ACC itself has rejected the Personal Ordinariate and is not a part of the Catholic Church.

I repeat. Fucking 40k ass religion.

Do Americans even get TB vax as standard?

I know I have superior Soviet vaccination regime of TB and Smallpox. But I have never heard of an American getting a TB vaccine.

Not only do you have to cut that number in half and then by 75% for what would actually be war ready at any given moment. The F-35 is not a bomber, it’s a multi-role combat aircraft, and a stealth strike fighter, which means they’re a one and done type of air to surface attack. JDAMs, JSTOWs, Paveways, and some laser guided Cluster Munitions that can fit on the F-35 can be intercepted with easier than the plane itself which is a choice. JDAMs and JSTOWs cannot aimed while in flight, they’re pre-aimed. So if you have mobile air defense it’s pointless. The laser guided stuff is very slow. In practice F-35s would be used to maintain air superiority to protect MQ-9 Reapers from air to air interception. Reapers are extremely vulnerable to SAM missiles, the Houthis have taken them down.

The reason that America is mad about Iskander is because mid-range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles which Russia has spent more time developing are emerging as a way to breach air defenses in modern warfare as well as loitering drones. America doesn’t have enough cheap swarm tech ready to go because we get milked by the MIC so we don’t have anything to pad out missile barrages to attempt to get enemies to make unforced errors in targetting. That’s precisely how Russia is getting past the magical Patriots impervious air defense shield in Ukraine.

America would have trouble maintaining NATO bases in Europe as a springboard because Russia would throw meat at every country it was at war with. Also Putin would 100% pull the trigger on launching ICBMs with MIRVs if an overwhelming conventional force was at his doorstep.

Beyond that the trick to defeating Americans is to take out their range extension which at “bombing Russia distances” is typically gigantic refueling planes. Russia or China out of all countries would be best equipped for this task.