#an inconvenient truth

[lenbryant]

But Republicans told me the climate crisis was a hoax.

[jessubear]

An Inconvenient Truth, 2006, USA

Can a 97 minute TED talk style slideshow presented by a former presidential candidate really be the most frightening documentary ever produced? People in 2006 seemed to think so, however a modern viewing looses a drastic amount of the film’s weight when many of Al’s catastrophic predictions have yet to manifest. It was, however, a sensation of it’s time, with a soundtrack that charted and a bestselling book.

“I used to be the next President of the United States of America.”

[takmiblog]

不都合な真実

アナログレコードプレーヤーーー＞CDプレーヤ

しばらく長い間イノベーションが無かったオーディオ業界にとって、デジタルで音楽を再生する（DA変換）というアイデアはビジネスとして圧倒的なDriving Forceとなった。ユーザ（顧客）にとっても22KHz以上の帯域がカットされていいのか？という疑念よりもメディア（盤）面のキズやホコリから解放されることのほうが重要だったのだ。しかしこの時点では、音楽プレーヤという＜周辺機器＞で起こったイノベーションにとどまった。いうまでもなく、＜本丸＞はパワーアンプである。

A級、AB級ーーー＞D級（PWM)

しばらく長い間イノベーションが無かったオーディオ業界にとって、パルス幅でスピーカを駆動する（PWM）というアイデアはビジネスとして圧倒的なDriving Forceとなった。なぜなら歴史的に最も物量を投入してきたパワーアンプを（特に筐体にこだわりがなければ）１ｋｇ未満に仕上げることが可能になるのだ。これはＡｍａｚｏｎでパワーアンプを気楽に何個も発注して楽しむ時代の到来を���味するとともに、特に日本のオーディオメーカにとっては冬の時代の到来となった。時計で起こったことが、オーディオでも同じように起こったのである。

An Inconvenient Truth

[asyoulikeitnow]

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort, you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C.S. Lewis

[errata-ad-absurdum]

How genocide stops, how justice and peace and humanity are achieved. You have to control the gold in order to make the rules and therefore, to all my leftist compatriots I say starting another political party doesn't work, will never work, IS NOT THE SOLUTION. You need to control the corporations not the parties. You need to control Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed-Martin, British Petroleum, the list goes on an on. Policy is not so much set by the candidate as it is by the advocates for their campaign. You need good advocates to have good policy. You need to be an indispensable key to power in order to influence power. Anything less is high-brow, academic, coffee house masturbation and (this is my specialty) impotent righteous indignation. No one rules alone and the throne acts on those who take it in order to act.

[scottguy]

It's common sense to listen to experts.

[godhasheardtruthfully]

Sam-Amina! Welcome me as a friend or an inconvenient truth but it’s just as wild to me (that I am here)

“Can you believe it? “

As I make myself at home in your pantry.

the body only exists to verify one’s own existence.

[isawthismeme]

[epitome-the-burnkid-viii]

[takmiblog]

不都合な真実（２）

　廉価なD級アンプ素子の性能をデータシートで見る限り、低出力時のTHD値は確かにAB級アンプのそれにかなわない。しかし実際に低出力（ミニワットのレベル）で静かに両者を聴き比べてみると、D級アンプのプレゼンスの良さに驚かされる。

　これはあくまで私の仮説であるが、D級アンプの場合、たとえ再生音量を絞ったとしても、駆動電圧振幅は常に一定かつ高位（=Vdd）に保たれるため、Loud Speakerを駆動する能力（リニアにスピーカを動かせるかどうか）が（AB級アンプに比較して）高いためではないかと思われる。鳴らしにくいスピーカで比較すると良くわかる。D級アンプは実に軽々と鳴らす（鳴らしきる）のだ。（大雑把に言うと）D級アンプの場合、パルス幅の正確性は担保されているのでGNDとVddの（動的）安定性にのみ着目すればよい。見通しがいい分、隘路にはまり込むリスクが小さい。総合的な音のキャラクターはプリアンプの設計でどうにでもなる。よってD級アンプがAB級アンプを駆逐するのは時間の問題なのである。

　先人・先達たちが

『D級アンプのほうがAB級アンプよりもスピーカの駆動能力が高い』

とこれまで評してきたことは、このことを指すものと思われる。やはり趣味のオーディオはデータの優劣で比較できるほど単純ではない。古い世代の人は（出来の悪い）D級アンプになかなかなじめないかもしれないが、新しい世代の人はAB級アンプやA級アンプの洗礼無しにD級アンプの音で育ってゆく。そんなところだろう。

An Inconvenient Truth(2)

[genderfluid-druid]

having a minor, routine identity crisis about the difficulties of handling a social life while autistic because you always feel like you're programmed wrong for the situation? why not put on an audiobook about an AI struggling to pass as human despite having been programmed to run a ship, which is not at all the same thing as being a person--

[valyrfia]

I have been thinking about wlw f1 fics for a while, I want a big boom in them so it’s its own sub genre within the fandom. That’s my dream

I mean, I don't know whether I'm biased but there's a fairly small but steady community of people contributing to wlw F1 content and ever-growing number of wlw rule 63 F1 fics. I remember when I first started whining about it beginning of this year there were THREE F/F Lestappen fics, now there are sixteen and I know that anyone who's ever written wlw Lestappen is hooked and wants to write more. I think we're steadily growing and I'm going to keep whining about it until we've got pages upon pages of F/F Lestappen on ao3. Landoscar fic is also quite good for F/F stuff ('like she gives a single flying fuck about Mark Webber' lives in my brain like a sleeper agent) and the rarepairs also really save the day (this Max/Kimi fic changed my brain chemistry a few weeks ago). All in all, I think wlw F1 fics are on the up and I see the future I see them becoming their own very well loved well established sub genre.

[peterfeld]

I posted this in September 2009 😑

…as I’ve been saying since that movie came out. The planet will never recover from George Bush.

[scottguy]

For anyone saying, "There's no way a hurricane can ramp up that fast!"

In 2006, Hurricane Katrina was just a category ONE over Florida. Then it moved over warmer gulf waters. The extra energy in warm water was transferred into the air. It's that simple. It was a five when it hit Louisiana.

It's been nearly 20 years, and the water is a degree or two higher now.

We're witnessing the exact scenario predicted by climate scientists.

It's COMMON SENSE to listen to experts.

Denial just allows it to get worse.

[heedra]

it's so sick and twisted how much a good breakfast impacts my whole day