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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

This was Braun's last ever HiFi system, released in 1990. In their own words:

"The consumer electronics market is characterized by cut-throat competition. Manufacturers not offering an innovation or at least cosmetic pseudo changes every 2 years are quickly suspected of being obsolete.

This increasingly risky development would mean having to weaken certain principles of our design philosophy: honesty & durability. We will no longer support this development.

Braun HiFi becomes history."

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow's linkblog") wrote:

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• It’s jarring to read a story about a neighbor calling the police on a nine-year-old Black girl spraying for invasive lanternflies, describing the girl to a dispatcher as a “little Black woman walking, spraying stuff”, and then switch over to another tab with a story on the 30-year old “crypto kid” who might’ve just made an oopsie with billions of dollars of customer funds. On one hand, literal children are portrayed in the media as adults, and treated as such in the prison system; on the other, a man who’s been old enough to vote for over a decade is being described as “a young man in need of both defense and a friend” offering refreshments to a reporter “as if we were there for a playdate”. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I keep a hummingbird feeder going. Ever since the brief, but bad, cold spell we had about a month ago, I've noticed that the rate at which the level in the feeder goes down has decreased. I wonder if some of our tiny bird friends didn't make it through. :(

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

One day I will own a Braun Atelier HiFi system. One day.

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chjara@snowdin.town ("chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:") wrote:

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• just-shower-thoughts: I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren't the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months. advanced-procrastination: Whoever fucked this up should be stabbed brunhiddensmusings: good news! (remote)

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ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("ancient catbus") wrote:

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• Real Racoon inside a ceramic racoon caption reads 'this is no cookie jar this is my battle armor' (remote)

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yayKM@aus.social ("Kristina") wrote:

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• Toast with avocado and hummus, fashioned into Jabba the Hutt. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Yay. We popped a balloon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/04/who-was-afraid-of-the-big-bad-balloon/

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• The balloon! (remote)

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allafarce@hachyderm.io ("Dave Guarino") wrote:

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

@nadim Nice! Pika as in Pikachu? 🙂

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dale@toot.cafe ("Dale Harvey") wrote:

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Today is a momentous day: my fiancée and I adopted our second dog. His name is Pika, and he is a Papillon dog.

Pika is a nine week old puppy, and he just arrived home today. Spent the evening introducing him to Diffie, our miniature poodle.

We are all incredibly happy.

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

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breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

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• Chart showing household greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 by income group, within the United States and across other countries. Bottom 10% (globally, by household income) = avg. 17 tons annual emissions Average USA household = 42 tons Top 90-99% (globally, by income) = avg. 81 tons Top 1% (globally, by income) = avg. 173 tons Top 0.1% (globally, by income) = avg. 955 tons Super rich & billionaires = avg. 3,443 tons (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Managers: if you want your web app/site to make more money, pay people for solving problems with markup and CSS rather than creating them with JS.

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

One image she had on display in a shelf behind her, together with the albums she had, reminded me of artwork from "Poison Elves", so I was intrigued. Just checked their page and it's artwork for exactly this song and available on a shirt! :D Now I'm waiting for it to hopefully arrive.
(Image taken from NFDs bandcamp: https://nfduk.bandcamp.com )

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• Photo from NFD's bandcamp merch shop. A black t-shirt with a white print. The bands logo on the top, at the bottom in handwriting "When The Sun Dies" and the print shows an upright panel with drawing of a long haired man in a long coat, behind him in the distance a church, the sky is dark and the sun is only visible as a corona. (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Thanks to Jane Wilkes I now have a new band to listen to. She made a video, talking a bit about the band (which has members from Fields Of The Nephilim) and showing the new merch she purchased. Been having this album on repeat and the first song is stuck in my head.

NFD - When The Sun Dies
https://song.link/s/2e8Y0GsMUyqTQo7bsOstmM

#music #NowPlaying #goth #GothicRock #NFD #NoiseForDestruction

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josh@hooray.computer ("Joshua Mauldin") wrote:

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• Cute black cat with green eyes stares into the camera. Her eyes have the letters F and D on either side, making out the word “food” (remote)

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Lowie@universeodon.com ("ElleDawgg (She/Her)") wrote:

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• Pretend movie still from Alien. Shows an orange tabby holding the baby alien in its mouth dead in the spaceship. (remote)

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amy@jawns.club ("Amy Hoy") wrote:

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steveschmidtses@mastodon.world ("Steve Schmidt") wrote:

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Kurt@mstdn.social ("Kurt Opsahl") wrote:

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fluxed@ieji.de ("input.translation") wrote:

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• A black-and-white photo of black inventor, Elijah McCoy. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

currently BBC World is running & rerunning a clip of some retired COL asserting the PRC balloon has been somehow made to hang over a US target. you can put them & even maneuver them to where the prevailing winds are likely to take them somewhere near some earth-bound target, but you "can’t turn around and go the other direction; you can never go upwind in the balloon. You’re always going to be moving with the atmosphere that surrounds it." moving...

see for more info: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinese-spy-balloon-has-unexpected-maneuverability/

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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• Image of girl conducting non-Christian worship with caption: "prayer in school, be careful what you wish for" - unknown source but everywhere on the Internet

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@fishnette cool! good to see you "here"... hope you are enjoying yourself

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theappletree@ruhr.social ("Annie") wrote:

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Lucomo@social.anoxinon.de wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

well, maybe the day *will* improve

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