Bubs12

joined 1 year ago
[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

99 percent invisible did an episode about subtitles a while back. It’s mostly automated now but human transcriptions tend to be better.

Here is the episode: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/craptions/

[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Username checks out

[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s very presumptuous to rule out 350 decaf coffees.

[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

Nate is not with 538 anymore. Disney didn’t renew his contract. However, he got to keep the model that he developed and publishes it for his newsletter subscribers. 538 had to rebuild their model from scratch this year with G Elliot Morris.

Now Nate hosts the podcast Risky Business with Maria Konnikova. The psychologist who became a professional poker player while researching a book. It’s pretty good.

[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

No, I think he described a k-hole correctly.

[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The reason the Jedi use live lightsabers to train is because prosthetics are so good.

[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

These justices can fuck all the way off but this headline is taken out of context.

From the article: Alito acknowledged, “What happened on January 6 was very, very serious, and I’m not equating this with that.” But, he continued, “We need to find out what are the outer reaches of this statute under your interpretation.”

[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

“Traditional Capitalism” always works well for the steakholders