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Its interesting. We can both look at a landscape and agree there's two mountains in the distance and a forest in front, and can agree on a thousand further details like if the mountains are barren or snow-topped. But only when it comes to colour can we doubt whether what the other person sees is what we see. To be fair, the artist Monet did that experiment on himself. Painted a scene with one eye open and the next day with the other. Details are pretty much the same, but the spectrum is pretty different

At least it is in terms of a spectrum. Everybody finds orange text on a red background uncomfortable to read. So there are plenty of shared perception categories at least

Yeab I've never set a contact photo in my life, with one exception: my sister hated a photo I'd put on Facebook so much she demanded I take it down (not just untag her). That pic is now my contact photo for her. It is awful.

Yeah the grass to milk, meat and hide pipeline is a great one

Any chemistry we could perform to make it more viable? E.g. cook it with alcohol?

By modern standards, VHS has plenty of advantages too. A corrupt portion of a computer file often means it won't play at all, while a tape will just play apart from that section. Audio and Video are always in sync with a tape - digital files are often out by up to a couple of seconds. A tape is often more robust than a hard disk or a DVD too.

The only downsides of VHS that immediately spring to mind are quality (not that that mattered at the time - it was and is still good enough) physical space (not that I ever ran out of room) and speed of skipping to particular times, and speed of backup. Oh... and lack of togglable subtitles too (not that digital always has those either)

Oh yeah, fascism/vice-signalling definitely becoming more prominent here too, though mostly because the media makes them prominent. They tend not to show the "hope not hate" or "march against racism" rallies. A bit too hopeful

Sadly, socialism-lite is the nearest thing that tends to come up. Like "we can keep capitalism and billionaires, but a bit less" rather than stopping it

Ah, bugger. Got the two muddled

You know McCartney is British, right? Quite famously so?

Louis Mosely, the UK boss, is Oswald Mosely's grandson. Y'know, the famous British fascist who wrote the Rivers Of Blood speech. One wonders how far the apple has fallen from that particular tree

If they're the sort of people I've seen on televangelist shows, then I take it all back. Those guys are terrifying

I think you're probably mistaking the loudest christians for the majority. Easy mistake to make