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Kind of splitting hairs there imo. MPV does show the album art if it is on the audiofile metadata for example. I think cmus would fail to be a dedicated music player given your definition.

I still get reddit content by using old.reddit.com/r/subreddit.rss so that I can consume certain content without interacting with their hellsite or bloated app

I studied philosophy and history of art as a double major for undergraduate. Doing a humanities degree was the right decision at the time for me. Should mention that I didn't have to pay tuition fees as a Scottish person in Scotland.

During that degree I ended up getting interested in Linux since I enjoyed seeing a practical example of altruism in the real world. Laterally I did a masters in Computing at a former polytechnic uni and have been working as a programmer ever since. Analytic philosophy actually maps onto coding really nicely since they are both ultimately concerned with discrete mathematics. I did have to take on a student loan for that degree but it didn't take me long to pay it off. It wasn't computer science since I didn't have the prerequisite STEM undergraduate degree but it focused on practical aspects of computing like developing desktop applications with Java, webdev with C# and JS, databases with SQL and introduction to operating systems.

It also helped that in my advanced logic classes in philosophy I'd studied the Church Turing thesis, which is just about the most fundamental concept in Comp.Sci.

Maybe OP was meta-posting

There are also full Afred Hitchcock movies you can watch for free on YouTube, presumably since they are now out of copywrite. Sometimes when people lament the state of modern entertainment in a "born in the wrong generation" way, they are forgetting that media from other decades are more available than they've ever been.

I'm tired of the Honeypop slander - it's a perfectly respectable series of puzzle games

I suspect your answer to the original question was right in the sense that these two have the worst physical dependence but I believe another measure is Capture Rates where they survey users over a decade and they report the number of user still using the substance during the last survey who were using it in the first one. The highest capture rates are around 20% for H and cocaine when I saw the data last time which is worse odds than Russian Roulette!

Actually it's quite funny, if you take a broad interpretation of sealioning that does not involve the internet, Ancient Athens sentenced Socrates to death for "sealioning" in 400BC lol.

This one I've always been wary of. I studied philosophy so I know a bit about arguments and sealioning is unusual because it can only really take place over the internet where someone is asking questions in bad faith and you can't 100% call them out because you don't know their identity for sure. Firstly I don't like the idea that questions can be bad faith - especially seemingly trivial or obvious ones - since that goes against the Socratic method of questioning all your beliefs/shibboleths. Secondly, it is so context dependent that I think it is hard to universalise it like you can do with other fallacies like false dilemma (everyone is either a tequila or a whisky person, etc.)

I like negative income tax better. Basically you declare an amount that is the basic amount someone can live on, I.e. £20k and if you earn less than that your income is topped up by other tax payers. This has the advantage of high tax payers not being given a payment every month that they don't need.

The downside of it is that means testing still requires some amount of beaurocracy. That means you'd be unable to completely axe the department of work and pensions (DWP) for example here in the UK. My understanding is that you could do universal basic income and pay everyone in the UK £1000 per month and those costs would be totally offset by no longer having to finance the DWP so it's a budget neutral policy in terms of government spending.

Friend and I were joking about 120 Days of Sodom so I decided I should pick it up to see what the fuss was about... Huge mistake! It is more deviant than I possibly imagined a book that old being (and I was aware the first draft was written on toilet paper lol)

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