Ross_audio

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[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Negative I am a meat popsicle.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you don't know it already, look up the lyrics to the Mr Bean theme and the translation.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Open AI's core business is lying to inflate their stock price. This tracks.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Carlos Sainz

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Can you still play with the original soundtrack?

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's literally a generic word for video call.

They might have registered it but in the EU it's not enforceable in the context of video calls.

If Microsoft tries to defend it in that context they could lose it in all contexts.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Probably not an enforceable trademark in France.

 

Apparently even the number UPS customer service has is dead and they can only email.

I've had a parcel go missing there and it's also where "lost" items with missing labels go.

Anyone know what happens if I turn up and try to look for my parcel.

It's not something I need for Christmas, so I'm not that mad. I'm just nervous it won't turn up at all as it's a rare item.

Not always worth much but the time to track another down would be huge. When one comes up prices vary wildly and I think I paid below what it was worth.

I've gone from very happy to not very happy.

Anyone had something go missing through UPS and show up later?

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