If you found out that your specific facial features as a kid were used in some of the highest grossing films of all time, without your permission, you really wouldn’t be upset and expect some compensation?

Doesn’t matter if you personally don’t think they look alike.

Really interesting that you’ve encountered this, I have no trouble at all watching super-high bitrate media in Infuse. I may be spoiled with my gigabit internet, but the Apple TV caches entire 4K Blu-rays in minutes on my local network (you can watch the seek bar fill up, it’s really satisfying) so I never thought about this. I’m curious why this hits some users and not others.

As others have said, Jellyfin server with Infuse as the player on Apple TV is the best experience, especially for Dolby Vision, which works flawlessly. Anyone in your house should find the interface super-easy to navigate. But if the price of Infuse turns you off (which I get), the native Jellyfin app on Apple TV isn’t terrible (Swiftfin), and there are some other less-polished apps for way cheaper than Infuse (MrMc I think?). The native Jellyfin app struggles with Dolby Vision, otherwise you’ll have no trouble with it, but definitely a slightly clunkier experience than with Infuse. I personally find the price of Infuse way too high, but I can’t argue with the stability and slick UI.

The Apple TV also caches content really well, so you won’t run into any issues with high bitrates over streaming. I regularly watch full 4K Dolby Vision Blu-rays (50-70 GB files) with buttery smooth playback, no issues at all.

Most do. You can tell a lot about the health of your population by testing wastewater. Hell they can detect levels of albuterol, the medicine in asthma inhalers, to correlate with increases in air pollution. WHO has global programs for this, and the majority of countries treat their wastewater already, so it’s not a huge leap to run some tests on it.

It’s clearly on his mind, he’s been mentioning it out of nowhere lately. He doesn’t want to be impeached for a third time. Now you’re right it won’t actually do anything to the administration, but this is one of those times when the principle matters. It’s worth doing it because he deserves it and it would infuriate him.

It’s unethical for companies to force you to buy overpriced essential parts. If you find a compatible battery for cheaper, there’s no reason not to buy it. Unless the company prevents third-party batteries from working in their products…

Nothing unethical about finding a better price.

You’ve just unlocked the Empathy skill tree, congrats!

I wish my neighbors acted like they knew other people lived here…

Yeah this bugs me too. When Cleopatra ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom, the Old Kingdom Pharaohs had been dead for almost 3000 years. They were more ancient to her than she is to us.

Lots of people are surprised to find out the Ptolemies were Hellenistic.

Kenji Lopez Alt’s method is the best I’ve found for consistently good poached eggs:

• Boil the least possible amount of water, but reduce it to a subsimmer, you don’t want it to be fully simmering or boiling when you add the eggs
• Gently break egg into fine mesh strainer
• Let the loose whites drip through the strainer
• Carefully lower the strainer into the subsimmering water
• Roll the egg out, and keep it moving gently with a wooden spoon
• Allow to cook, moving eggs around a bit
• Remove after around 4 minutes for fully set whites and runny yolks

I came across this post after checking the rules to see if there was a “must credit original artist” rule, and was frankly shocked to find out there isn’t, which means Beep isn’t breaking any rules by plagiarizing other people’s comics.

So yeah, we need a place to discuss this type of thing, and hopefully the mod will be responsive and add the new rule.

It shouldn’t be controversial, I’m sick of seeing uncredited art.

In grad school I remember being encouraged to submit a paper to a journal that would have charged me a few hundred dollars to put it in for peer review, and I told my advisor no, I needed to buy groceries, I would not throw my money away for an extra line on my CV. He got all flustered and it was a great example of why higher education is so fucked. My advisor, who ostensibly understood my background and means, could not understand how such a relatively small fee would be so prohibitive. He was incapable of understanding that I was essentially unemployed while enrolled as his grad student, and every dollar of funding went to bare essentials so I could continue breathing. He had access to discretionary funds for this exact kind of issue (I found out later), and didn’t think to offer.

Without independent wealth and deep personal connections it’s incredibly difficult to succeed in academia, regardless of the quality of your research.