Interesting. It looks quite dull from the thumbnails indeed. At the moment my current source of city council white noise is Spokane, Washington - the stories that people tell during open forum are entertaining and I sometimes hate how an amazing story gets cut off by the 2-minute limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise#Work_environment
Just background noise to listen to, because sometimes you just don't like silence.
Yeah, but the city council meeting I'm listening to is on the other side of the Pacific Ocean (Filipino here), so I couldn't do anything even if I wanted to. And given the geographical distance, the impact on my day-to-day life is.. zero.
But still, the stories I hear during the meetings are entertaining and they really do help me understand America just that little bit more. Curiosity for the win!
When I set dark mode in an app, the top of the window would remain light, in XFCE. But in early January 2024, I realized it was because XFCE had a theme setting in both Appearance and Window Manager, and they were conflicting with each other. I ignored it for quite a while but now I'm happy with my full dark mode computer
~~Didn't we use copies of that book to alleviate the toilet paper shortages back in the day?~~
You don't get the right to make decisions about other people's pornography viewing habits.
This is coming from someone who doesn't consume the material, but still believes in the right to do so for other people, despite not exercising it.
Research. Many people I'm interested in still use Twitter. And I hate how Nitter instances globally have started to become rate limited or outright obliterated by Twitter API weirdness/
I use Image Max URL so when I open an image in a new tab that I want to inspect in greater detail, it redirects me automatically to the highest resolution version for my viewing pleasure.
They should offer a JSON download of the thing so it can spread far and wide and we all won't have to go on the website....
How much is it gonna be to repair it all now?
Does the interstate that takes 15 minutes actually take 15 minutes? If that interstate is crazy congested, the state highway might actually be faster. Or maybe this is some rural part of America, I don't know.
Fuck Discord and their shitty new username system. BRING BACK THE DISCRMINATORS, WE DEMAND IT!
wang-wang meaning
"wang-wang" is a term used in the Philippines to refer to police sirens, especially when the sirens are coming from police cars escorting VIPs through traffic while the non-VIPs get stuck and have to wait. This sign essentially boils down to "don't cut in line".
https://opinion.inquirer.net/160073/wang-wang-i-have-returned "Wang-Wang is not only sirens, policemen and soldiers escorting their VIP patrons, it is a traditional face of elitism. When streets are wide and traffic is light, as when wang-wang started in the 1900s, the people looked at them with some awe. The people knew an important leader was around."
So "background ambience" would be a better term to describe the city council meetings?