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on me_irl · c/me_irl · 2 pts · 8d

There's a Bluray that includes the quadraphonic mix re-taken from the masters.

It's how it should have been and is well worth a listen if you've got 4 matching speakers and are willing to fiddle with an audio interface to get it to play right.

You're simply wrong about your own experience there.

At 90% humidity and 100 F the heat index is 176 F which is astronomical.

A heat index at 125 F is lethal to any human being eventually..at 176 F you're dead in 15 minutes.

Either the temperature was lower, the humidity was lower.

Lots of people take the temperature high point they see and the humidity high point they see on the weather forecast and assume they happen at the same time. That's generally not the case.

So people say "it was 100 degrees and 90% humidity",, when actually it was only 50% humidity at the hottest part of the day and something like 80 degrees when humidity was 90% in the evening.

Everyone's guilty of this. They've experienced a really hot and humid day, they then tell the story with the 2 highest numbers because it felt really hot.

It's an accidental embellishment and ultimately leads some people to die of heat stroke as "they've worked through worse" in their own mind when the warnings come in with numbers they think they've experienced before but haven't in reality.

I could guess. Most English actors are not used to doing dubs. Lots are just giving it a go when they want to be a screen actor.

There's a far more reliable pool of work for dubbing TV and film to languages other than English and therefore a greater pool of professionals to pick from. Leading to higher standards.

On top of that there's an anachronism of American actors accents in older stories set in the past that don't fit, or trying other English accents they've never been exposed to fit in.

Good English speaking actors and voice actors are in really high demand outside of the gaming industry too. There are a huge number of bad or inexperienced actors trying to get a career going.

The quality of actor for dubbing a game you can get for a budget is probably lower or at least much less consistent.

When we love an actor they get star billing and the cost to hire them rockets. They then move towards film and TV.

We love our good actors but that means they're too expensive.

on Dear God lol · c/football · 2 pts · 164d

Forest could win the Europa League while getting relegated too.

Which is another way a Championship team could compete in the Champions League the following season.

In civil cases they're used by those who can afford them to oppress those who can't.

Lawyers follow the doctrine that both sides need representation in criminal cases but time spent is still weighted to those who pay.

Lawyers claim a position of moral neutrality when picking a side as part of a process which compensates each side differently.

One dramatic way to reform the system is to enforce an equal budget to both sides of a case in civil and criminal cases. If someone pays for thousands of hours of legal representation to attack you, you should be able to spend that money on legal representation too.

All too often defending a case is not worth the price.

Anecdotally I'd actually like to bring a case against my landlord but the similar cases against them have been sat for years and often time out due to technicalities when someone can't afford yet another solicitors letter.

A plurality did not.

~77 milion out of 265 million - Trump

~75 million out of 265 million - Harris

~113 million out of 265 million - Nether

Getting a plurality of votes cast =/= a plurality of voters

It's how fascism has risen in the past as well. Chasing a minority of voters because they can win an election should be an alarm bell.

Every democratic system should engage a high turnout and require a majority, not just a plurality.

80% turnout should be a norm.

Personally I am in favour of mandatory voting, with the caveat that the bottom of the ballot should have a "none of the above" option. Australia gets a ~90% turnout.

Single Transferable Vote is the best election method as it avoids wasted votes in multi party democracies.

I'd look at HMD fusion if I were buying now and look for the business edition with longer update support and more RAM.

My Nokia was made by HMD. It's been great and will be for a while longer as it's got plenty of support.

You can get an "outfit" (case) with a built in ring light for the 108MP camera which I definitely don't need. The "outfit" system is basically the phone has a set of pins on the back that allow custom hardware extensions built into to the case.

The HMDs have got to the point I could repair them or replace the battery without worrying about a heat pad and glue. That's a big selling point.

Unfortunately not. I really looked.

My criteria are:

  1. Receives Security Updates for 5 years of more.
  2. Has headphone Jack
  3. Enough RAM to switch between apps without them closing.

I ended up with a bigger phone than I wanted. A Nokia XR21 which will last me until the updates end.

I recommend the "Quick Cursor". It lets me use a larger phone one handed.

I miss the 4-5" smart phones. A HTC Desire was the perfect size and form factor for me. It's not been beaten yet.