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Israeli settler shoots and kills Palestinian harvester as violence surges in the West Bank
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Technology
Samsung and Other Manufacturers Disable Phones Bought on Gray Markets: A Consumer Nightmare
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LG V60 user reporting in, phone still kicks ass.
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11 months ago
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Ignoring the fact that All Jazeera is a biased propaganda network for a second, and that this article should be removed for violating rule 2.
There are millions of other israelis currently under attack, defending them comes first.
World News
Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty offices
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11 months ago
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Only if tax money is being used to pay for it.
World News
Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty offices
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11 months ago
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And I want politicians to start living in trailer parks, projects, and section 8 housing in the parts of town that their policies are destroying.
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Can't... I was permanently suspended for mass reporting content that was promoting hate and violence. I guess one of the terrorist supporting mods didn't appreciate me reporting all his buddies and got me suspended for "Report Abuse"
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Canada.
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Won't somebody think of Pfizers quarterly revenue gains!
Technology
The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier.
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11 months ago
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I'd gladly pay the extra fuel costs to have a vehicle that's worth a damn and has actual towing, hauling, and off road capabilities.
A body on frame SUV (like a Ford Excursion) is quite possibly the most utilitarian and swiss army knife like vehicles available. It seats a huge amount of people, has as much space as a cargo van, has the same tow rating as a 3/4 ton truck, and its 4WD with big tires and lots of ground clearance.
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I'd be far more worried about society collapsing from the economic damage caused by leftist authoritarians in government using this excuse to greatly expand their power and regulate and control all human activity.
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The US not responding forcefully and decisively is way more likely to start WWIII.
Showing weakness, holding back, and playing it soft does nothing but present our enemies with opportunity and a false hope that going to war with us would actually be advantageous. The notion that an enemy will be totally obliterated if they attack us and our allies is the best motivator for working towards peaceful coexistence there is. All this hemming and hawing, delaying, and waffling coming from our current government is just showing our enemies that we are weak and disorganized and lack any resolve.
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Great, now scientists have joined the ranks of those religious doomer cults.
News
Palestinians plead ‘stop the bombs’ at UN meeting but Israel insists Hamas must be ‘obliterated’
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Should have said: "Stop Hamas and save lives!"
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Can you speculate on what is causing all this brain damage we are witnessing in these ""protests""? Is it anti-western propaganda from TikTok, infiltration of our educational institutions by auth-left Stalinists, what is it?
Also, why aren't they supporting ISIS and/or Al Qaeda and their decolonization efforts too, they're practically the same thing.
Reddit
People still on Reddit: How is the narrative of the Israeli/Palestine conflict playing out?
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Numerous subs are openly supporting terrorist groups and calling for genocide and the admins are doing nothing. Its getting ugly.
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Wore themselves out with all that dancing on TikTok.
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Sounds like the US is preparing for a "Proportional" response should Iran do anything stupid again.
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 Steven McClintock - Edge Of A Dream - (Unofficial Music Video) [HD] Edge Of A Dream is PEAK 80's! I'm not sure why this song and a couple others from this artist weren't major hits, and never got the music video treatment. If there's one redeeming quality to the movie Space Mutiny, it's that it featured this 3 minutes and 55 seconds of 1980's audiological excellence. As a tribute to both I have crafted this music video from restored and upscaled footage in the hopes that others will enjoy it and not let it be forgotten. [Youtube Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfPFG0jgYAw) [HQ Direct Download](https://archive.org/download/space-mutiny-edge-of-a-dream-music-video-hd) ----- [Steven McClintock on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CB7fNUW96dz7L0UuZcVpu?si=0AXS_rG2SuewxZD-CL6Ykw)
politics
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I call them the Corporate Party, because that's who they serve
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Sure would be nice to have a functional, sane, and reality based conservative party in the US, not this circus sideshow they call the Republican party.
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11 months ago
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If anyone wants to share this on the reddit sub that would be helpful as I no longer have an account there.
 All the creepy, crawly, scary, mixed-up zombified MST3k episodes we could dig up to make for one extra spooky Halloween weekend. 24+ hours of upscaled and digitally Frankenstein'd classic MST3K content compiled into a playlist so you can watch at your convenience.
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Japan's automakers unveil EVs galore at Tokyo show to catch up with Tesla, other electric rivals
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11 months ago
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What they need is some big meaty V8's and turbocharged diesels. These electric toys need to be put away.
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Outlets in space!
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Are there any clips of what the surgical enhancement results are like?
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What is the current state of the art of upscaling DVD-only releases?
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They are all interlaced, you just won't ever see it unless you have a really really old DVD player that isn't progressive scan or rip the files directly.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
What is the current state of the art of upscaling DVD-only releases?
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I do this quite frequently for a certain youtube channel, you'll want MakeMKV, Hybrid, and Topaz. If you really want to go all out and make a huge project out of it you can upscale each scene individually and stitch them back together in Premier, ain't nobody got time for that though.
Rip the disc with MakeMKV.
Then open and deinterlace the file with hybrid, I use the QTGMC filter, if you're doing film content you should use ivtc. Do any other filtering or denoising in Hybrid, the video really needs to be clean before upscaling. Then export it in a lossless file format with passthrough audio.
Load that file into Topaz and upscale it with the Proteus AI model, I use the manual setting (40,20,10,1,3,-2) with 25% original detail recovery and the grain filter on a low setting to help restore what the filtering removed. Your settings will need to be adjusted for each project. Export again in the highest quality that you can, then load that file into your favorite encoder and compress it down to whatever size/bitrate you want. Topaz's encoder doesn't have any configuration options so I use Hybrid to do the final encode.
News
It's Day 20 with no House speaker, and lower-level names seek Trump's support and race for the gavel
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News
It's Day 20 with no House speaker, and lower-level names seek Trump's support and race for the gavel
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News
It's Day 20 with no House speaker, and lower-level names seek Trump's support and race for the gavel
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worldnews
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News
No evidence found linking synagogue president's fatal stabbing to antisemitism, Detroit police chief says
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News
Dwindling fuel supplies for Gaza's hospital generators put premature babies in incubators at risk
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guns
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News
Israel-Hamas war: How attacks by settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank have risen during Gaza conflict
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Unpopular Opinion
Adding funky songs to people getting killed is disgusting no matter what
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When I die I want PHONK blasted at my funeral.
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Well, get ready for action with this weeks film. It's a post-apocalyptic thriller, and it starts Persis Khambatta, and that guy from Paperchase. Enjoy, I bid you pain!
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It's bold enough to bulldog your taste buds and hogtie your tongue!
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[MST3k - S10E08 - Final Justice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqgxw8sBZI) [MST3k - S10E01 - Soultaker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnOrmZ0CqlI)
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A scientist is injured during an experiment and develops a "touch of death". He seeks revenge on those he believes to have wronged him.
Your experiment today is called Pod People. It has nothing to do with pods, it has nothing to do with people. It has everything to do with hurting.
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Dedicated to the chickens who lost their lives in the great chicken war.
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In the future, a dissatisfied worker at an oppressive corporation has his mind projected into a computer simulation. First he takes the form of an animal in the jungle, then he enters the film Casablanca. This enables him to disrupt society. This video has been processed, upscaled, and cleaned up as best as possible for viewing on modern devices and preservation purposes. Note: There are some short framerate dropouts that occur in this video, they were present in the source material and are not a result of processing.
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A young woman leaves her unpleasant home life and goes to Los Angeles with a new boyfriend and a charming drifter. She is hired as a dancer in a nightclub but the trio soon find themselves embroiled in the world of illicit narcotics and organized crime. This video has been processed, upscaled, and cleaned up as best as possible for viewing on modern devices, and preservation purposes.
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A special gift to welcome MST3k fans to our new home: The fan favorite episode Space Mutiny, AI upscaled, deinterlaced, cleaned up, and encoded with the latest software and codecs, to improve the image quality beyond the original sources and ensure a great viewing experience on modern devices. Here is a comparison of normal DVD playback vs AI upscaling: DVD:  AI:  DVD:  AI:  DVD:  AI:  Update: I am currently experimenting with new filters and processing settings to increase quality, along with fighting youtubes upload compression algorithm which doesn't seem to favor 4:3 content. The dust should be settled shortly.
       [Full Episode Download](https://mega.nz/file/hbE2WaZB#aQefdXD-2U-SqZlKIZ-cnFCqUscHM-OF01c6kcoBtHU)
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Additional Photos:      Camera: Canon 2000D Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1.8 / EFS 18-55mm ISO: 100 - Aperture: Various - WB: 5200k Exposure: 5 Shot HDR - RAW Lighting: 4 x 10 watt - 365nm UV LED