Even a fragment of the infinite is boundless. Hope always endures. 🌌
For those that it may be unclear to, the song was removed after the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks occurred in the United States. “The station’s executive music producer Colin Martin describing the song as being ‘too frivolous in light of the news that was breaking’”.
Neck pillow, duh.
Probably the reason I rewatch so much Star Trek. I love seeing what humanity is capable of.
(Yes, I still read/watch dystopic and apocalyptic stories, but I’ve been doing this less and less because it’s honestly depressing when I look at society today and realize this seems to be where we’re heading instead).
grinning ear-to-ear while reading this
Unfortunately, I won’t care what the history books will say because I will long be dead and forgotten as well.
I cannot hope in the hereafter because there simply is no plausible basis for such, as nice as the thought of justice in the hereafter would be.
No. If there is justice to be had, it would need to be in this lifetime to be considered such. Anything less is our failing of today.
sighs Such a crummy species we can be. The only thing I can hold on to is the fact that human progress has trended towards the better and hopefully it will continue that direction (presuming we don’t obliterate ourselves). It’s too bad I won’t be around to see that.
When one focuses on the whole, they can see the positive progression of humanity. It is indeed better than ever. Humans are living longer and healthier and with more dignity than before. But… it’s much too slow. I’ve only this single life. We truly are capable of so much more… if we really wanted.
It’s too bad I wasn’t born much later. I’d like to see humanity at its best. But I suppose there’s just as much chance that we’ll obliterate ourselves.
There is very little I can affect and experience in my lifetime, and so I will do with my time what I might. But goodness, there are some hard days… and years.
Oh, wow. 😏
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Seriously. With the amount of anger regarding the Epstein files, I have zero confidence that real consequences will be paid by the perpetrators and those who looked away. I’ve even less hope in justice for the victims…
I really need some hope in this. Please. 😞
This is the first I have heard of AI upscaling. If it makes people happy, the good for them. It’s always great when people watch great content like this long after it aired.
Personally, I prefer to stick with the originals. In this case, DVD rips since i no longer watch DVDs. If the streaming versions have been updated, then I watch those just fine. I don’t care about the difference between Blu-ray or standard DVD. No need for special processing.
It’s the stories that matter most to me.
I don’t watch 4k television. I don’t have dolby surround sound. When I update hardware, I usually disable various technologies that supposedly make the experience better. (Like that feature that makes everything look like a soap opera).
Things like film grain don’t bother me. It’s what I grew up with. I always watch media with captions. I like foreign films and television. Black and white can be great. Etcetera.
The story and great acting. That’s what I love.
I think it ultimately boils down to your last paragraph. For those content creators that get stuff out regularly and quickly, at least. I don’t usually see this though. Mostly the big studios.
For the big guys, I figure there are third party services that may exist. Or an internal group that archives and tags things of relevance. Or… a hell of a lot of staff working late. But alas, until I meet someone in that industry, I think this will be a mystery.
Exactly. I’m so very curious if something like this exists for processing high profile figures like politicians and celebrities. A catalog of things they’ve said, actions and insinuations, and etc.
I mean, maybe there’s a team that manually looks up every single time X politician mentions or is seen eating McDonald’s. Or… perhaps there’s this awesome database that maintains this kind of info.
You never know when you need a reference every time X politician talks about grabbing 🐈.
Gotta admit, I’ve been curious about this one.
I don’t know. Perhaps it seems like a lot because of how quickly studios can push something out on the most random topics.
Let’s pretend we’re doing a comedy bit where the celebrity XYZ is talking about hot dogs.
If you don’t have a database to search, then you need to start scrapping as many videos from YouTube and other sources of that celebrity. You can leverage YouTube’s existing transcription capability with some additional software. Then you need to at store it in some sort of searchable database to automate it. Etc etc.
And then the boss says, “forget hot dogs! Eggplants! I need all the videos where they reference eggplants!”
Or to make it even harder, I’ve seen so many videos where the person is just gesticulating or making some sort of movement. No words transcribed. It’s just physical. And somehow these studios manage to scrounge up a dozen clips referencing that very thing. Then they pump something out in a day.
I just imagine there has to be some sort of system for this in the film and TV industry. Or maybe a private company they rely on.
YouTube content creators obviously don’t have this kind of cash, so they’re going to have to rely on more manual methods that take time and they’re not going to be able to find nearly as much.
🤦🏽
I’ve been wondering about this for so long. It’s so mundane and useless. And yet it’s a practical element of studio or online content creation that I’ve never really understood. And for some reason I keep thinking about it! 😅
Of course. However, this is time consuming and most people don’t have libraries built up that contain the content for quick access.
I’m thinking more about something like The Daily Show, SNL, or any late night TV show. I can’t imagine that they’re manually doing all this work independently.
Perhaps there are databases made available to them through a third party or perhaps their production companies?
I understand on an individual basis how to search transcripts and find the cuts one is looking for. There’s a variety of applications and indirect ways to achieve this even for a small time content creator. However, this is time consuming and most people don’t have libraries built up that contain the content for quick access.
I’m thinking more about something like The Daily Show, SNL, or any late night TV show. I can’t imagine that they’re manually doing all this work independently.
Perhaps there are databases made available to them through a third party or perhaps their production companies?
I havent created an account with PieFed mainly because of this. I want to do it when Boost is ready to fully support it. Having said that, like the OP, I’m curious where Rubén is with things. If others are actively using Boost, perhaps it’s time I give it a go.
Awesome. I donated this month as well. I need to do a better job of supporting projects like this. 💜
Naturally. And no one would lift a finger to help you. 😏
There’s a handful of phrases that I hear in the office world that make my skin literally crawl.
The update is out and it works as good as new!
This is a good time to remind folks how important it is to donate to projects like this. Thank you, NewPipeTeam!
The update is out and it works as good as new!
This is a good time to remind folks how important it is to donate to projects like this. Thank you, NewPipeTeam!
Well damn, I just watched Secondhand Lions with my children this weekend.
I hope I can live as long as him. What a great number of years.