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paulthenerd

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The name is Paul, I live in #NorthernIreland with my partner and our cute British shorthair #Cat Truffles and ragdoll cat Gizmo. I like #Music, #Books, #VideoGames, #Food, #Tea and #Rum. These things will be the subject I toot most about.

Going to try and keep it positive and fairly wholesome.

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paulthenerd, to random
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The Shadowy Conglomerate Behind

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/14/the-shadowy-conglomerate-behind-lbc/

paulthenerd, to Eurovision
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So the Netherlands entry has been disqualified for threatening a crew member?

Guy sounds like a right Jeremy Clarkson type

paulthenerd, to Steamdeck
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If this works on I'll get it there. The lack of marketing is frustrating though which only feeds into my concern that Ninja Theory are in line to be shut down no matter what happens with the game

is only two weeks away, and fans feel Xbox should be making more noise

https://www.eurogamer.net/hellblade-2-is-only-two-weeks-away-and-fans-feel-xbox-should-be-making-more-noise

drinkswriter, to drinkstodon
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Rum maturation: who's doing it differently?

This could be what goes into the cask, something about the cask itself, perhaps even something about where/how the cask is kept as the rum matures.

@drinkstodon

paulthenerd,
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@drinkswriter @drinkstodon Two Shores rum. Distilled from sugar cane juice and aged in Panama then finished in Irish whiskey casks on the west coast of Ireland

albertcardona, to Trains
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In Europe, flying is cheaper than taking the train.

It's an embarrassment, and a major problem: we have to stop flying for silly short distances. Realise that the overheads of flying (reaching the airport, awaiting 2 hours, the flight, the unloading, reaching the destination) largely cancel out any time gains of flying. And the carbon costs are utterly untenable. Not to speak of the modern, dire conditions of the whole flying "experience".

Another embarrassment is that train connections can't be guaranteed when across countries or companies. They aren't even coordinated. As if those who commission and set the schedules didn't travel by train themselves, at least not internationally. In considering how tiny most European countries are, it's frankly bizarre.

There are so many destinations one could travel by train to, yet in practice, it's not sensible. A disgrace.

The upside is that it can be fixed.

paulthenerd,
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@albertcardona lets be real, all short haul flights should be banned

paulthenerd, to Spotify
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I honestly think has missed the boat on this one. Those who care about will already be on or ; and those who don't care won't pay the extra to get it. The fact the aforementioned three services all include lossless in their base subscriptions while it will be an extra tier on Spotify won't help matters.

If they'd gone lossless a year ago it might have mattered. Now, not so much

Spotify lossless audio said to be close to launch, with third branding

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/03/spotify-lossless-audio/

paulthenerd,
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(and especially ) audio is all a placebo at best (and a marketing con at worst) anyway. The vast majority of people cannot tell the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and a 192KHz24bit file, and that only gets more true as we age. Lossless is useful for archival purposes; audio consumption not so much.

CindySue, to books
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More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows
Do you read YA?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/30/more-than-a-quarter-of-readers-of-ya-are-over-the-age-of-28-research-shows

#bookstodon #books #read #reading

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paulthenerd,
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@CindySue @bookstodon I’m 41 and I unashamedly read YA fantasy quite often.

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