Unfortunately the stereotypical asocial shut-in types are not the only ones harboring misogynist attitudes. Unfortunately actually interacting with women doesn't always make people have respect for them. Either way, there are a bunch of loner types with poor social skills in higher education.
"Elite" institutions such as Caltech are constantly mired in discrimination issues, and frankly I think some of that is perpetuated by the whole narrative of their supposed prestige to begin with. The need to remain at the top causes such places to turn a blind eye to smart or highly acclaimed people's misbehavior and lets their biases show in selecting who to let in. Caltech in particular is an engineering oriented school and that field in particular has an ongoing history of hostility to women and minorities.
On a more personal note, I'm glad you've had the introspection to recognize your upbringing-related issues with women and that you've seemingly worked to get over those issues. That said, I'd recommend you to avoid things like using genitals as a synecdoche for gender, It reduces people to mere sex objects and bringing up people's genitals when not called for is generally considered crude and embarrassing.
Hello from Radio Yerevan. Our listeners ask if it's true that America is standing on the edge of a precipice. We are happy to report that not only is that the case, but the USSR is once again one step ahead of them!
That's about 800 characters, though. X the everything app has helpfully made it easier to ignore bluechecks by allowing them to make their posts tl;dr and saving me the trouble of accidentally reading them.
His picture is a generated picture so it contains none of the original pixels
Which is so obviously stupid I shouldn't have to even point it out, but by that logic I could just take any image and lighten/darken every pixel by one unit and get a completely new image with zero pixels corresponding to the original.
Yep, agencies do track blood money on the chains and place sanctions accordingly. It's just a little more complicated than checking "was this specific coin used in one of these crimes" and laundering is still possible through a rogue exchange or P2P/sneakernet transactions to parties that don't care about the sanctions.
Bitcoins aren't really discrete individual units like that. Imagine you send me 0.1 bitcoin and my mom sends me 0.1 bitcoin and I then send 0.1 bitcoin to Alice (ignore transaction fees and such). It's not really a meaningful question whether the sum Alice received was the fraction of a "coin" I received from you, from my mom or some specific mixture of both. The blockchain just records increases and decreases of a wallet's balance.
You graduated top of your class in the Navy Seals, and you've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and you have over 300 confirmed kills. You are trained in gorilla warfare and you are the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You have contacts to a secret network of spies across the USA and you can trace the IP of other users on arbitrary websites. You can be anywhere, anytime, and you can kill a person in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with your bare hands. Not only are you extensively trained in unarmed combat, but you have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and you are willing use it to its full extent. You also have a serious case of potty mouth.
YOU ARE AN EXPERT PHILOSOPHER AND YOU MUST EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU! DON'T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME RIGHT NOW OR I'LL LITERALLY FUCKING KILL YOu! WHAT THE FUCK IS A BODY WITHOUT ORGANS? WHAT THE FUCK ARE RHIZOMES? DON'T DUMB IT DOWN OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU
If you're cleaning up the audio separately, I don't know if you're really winning much by having a mic that plugs into your phone directly (unless you are actually planning to shoot outdoors).
If you're going with a condenser mic (and stick to recording at the desk), I recommend skipping the battery power shenanigans and getting a proper USB audio interface. Focusrite Scarletts are popular. I have a Behringer U-Phoria UMC404HD and while Behr gear can be a land of contrasts, I've been very happy with it. The 2-port UMC202HD is about 50 quid from Thomann. Both the Scarlett and U-Phoria work fine on Linux if you're into that kind of thing.
Worth checking out the T-shop's store brand t.bone mikes, too. The Shure SM57/58 clones are perfectly cromulent instrument/singing mics, so while I haven't personally tried the "MB 7 Beta", it seems like the thing I'd try if I were in your shoes. Half the quality of the venerable Shure SM7B for quarter the price is probably not a terrible deal. I'm not a paid shill of Thomann, caveat emptor etc.
At our student radio we use Røde NT1-A mics, which sound great, but you have to talk to them from a very close distance, which is not ideal if you want your mug on the video. Also while they're very reasonably priced for the product category, they are still about 200 reichsmarks a pop.
USB mics used to have a pretty bad rap a few years ago, but they might or might not have gotten better since Røde and other companies what know what they doing started peddling USB dildos for podcasters. Would still recommend the XLR route for a tried and true approach.
I'm not going to tell you to splurge hundreds into gear. You sounded passable with the Jabra. Angela Collier's videos are straight up fire despite teetering just barely on the edge of listenable when I'm wearing my shitty work headset. Saying good words is obviously more important than the words sounding nice.
Clap your hands at the start of every take to get a sync point for audio. Edit it out so you don't look like a poser. Do not hold the microphone in your hand to try and look like one of the cool kids. You're not too old to be cool but you'll want to be too cool to be a kid. Talking head shows aren't my #1 jam, but they can be alright as long as you're not emulating TikTok zoomers.
Keep the audio from the phone microphone as a reference and emergency backup. It will probably save you trouble at some point along the way.
Okay, since I criticised Sammy's story I also have to put up or shut up.
A metafictional literary short story about AI and grief
Imagine someone commits a crime. Shouldn't be too hard, that happens all the time. Let's say it's the kind of crime that the police will bother to investigate. The department has just bought a fancy new AI detective tool and they're eager to try it. Maybe it's a facial recognition program or perhaps some kind of apparatus for reconstructing the events of the scene. Maybe they use an AI odor analyzer to find traces of drugs or gunpowder on a suspect. If you're really fanciful they might have an AI reconstruct a suspect's personality and interrogate it for a confession.
Based on this evidence the police arrest one of your loved ones. Maybe some of you will find that too hard to believe? Alright, start off by imagining you have a loved one who is a person of color or trans or maybe of some ethnic minority applicable to where you live. If you can't manage to imagine that, this story might just not be for you.
So your loved one gets arrested. They might get killed in the arrest, or if that's too rough for this story, they just get their property seized. Maybe their pet is shot or the police plant contraband on them. They're terrified, they're humiliated, their reputation is destroyed. Maybe they're given a plea bargain to confess or risk a longer sentence. They might miss work and get fired. Maybe the cost of the trial ruins them financially. Maybe they're sentenced to prison or even death row. In any case, nothing good comes out of being arrested.
Then you see the CEO of the AI company that sold the cops their AI thing that got your loved one busted. Maybe they're testifying in court or being interviewed on the news. They're being flippant and confident. They're saying this new model has an incredibly low hallucination rate and the chance of a false positive is almost nonexistent. Afterwards the CEO goes home and sleeps in peace. They will never bother to imagine what I just told you to.
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Unfortunately the stereotypical asocial shut-in types are not the only ones harboring misogynist attitudes. Unfortunately actually interacting with women doesn't always make people have respect for them. Either way, there are a bunch of loner types with poor social skills in higher education.
"Elite" institutions such as Caltech are constantly mired in discrimination issues, and frankly I think some of that is perpetuated by the whole narrative of their supposed prestige to begin with. The need to remain at the top causes such places to turn a blind eye to smart or highly acclaimed people's misbehavior and lets their biases show in selecting who to let in. Caltech in particular is an engineering oriented school and that field in particular has an ongoing history of hostility to women and minorities.
On a more personal note, I'm glad you've had the introspection to recognize your upbringing-related issues with women and that you've seemingly worked to get over those issues. That said, I'd recommend you to avoid things like using genitals as a synecdoche for gender, It reduces people to mere sex objects and bringing up people's genitals when not called for is generally considered crude and embarrassing.