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Haha ~crypto territory is evidence that no one reads the territory descriptions.
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Maybe should be renamed "Tales from the crypt" and all shitcoiners will be like
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But only one of those paths was as a professional athlete!
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The paths are connected; we can be professionals now and later on. The important thing is having the freedom to choose our own way at any point in life.
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Did you watched the series Foundation or read the book ?
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Nope. It's sitting at a 7.6 on the imdb. Not really my vibe, but I might give it a shot.
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ah wait I forgot, you watch movies but in fact you do not watch them :)
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Actually, I don't watch movies, only TV shows.
my vibe:
SN ~music territoryimdbmesn (votes)
Lost⭐ 8.110-
The Tudors⭐ 8.188.0 (1)
The Man In The High Castle⭐ 7.988.0 (1)
Chernobyl⭐ 9.396.0 (1)
Shōgun⭐ 8.6-8.8 (8)
Slow Horses⭐ 8.2-7.0 (5)
Money Heist⭐ 8.286.3 (4)
The Sopranos⭐ 9.2109.3 (9)
Peaky Blinders⭐ 8.8107.8 (4)
Game of Thrones⭐ 9.2107.6 (9)
Vikings⭐ 8.5109.5 (6)
Ozark⭐ 8.588.6 (4)
Breaking Bad⭐ 9.598.0 (5)
Mayans M.C.⭐ 7.689.0 (1)
The Americans⭐ 8.487.3 (4)
Gomorrah⭐ 8.6108.0 (2)
Boardwalk Empire⭐ 8.678.8 (5)
El Chapo⭐ 7.886.0 (2)
Better Call Saul⭐ 9.088.9 (7)
Mr. Robot⭐ 8.5108.9 (8)
Deadwood⭐ 8.698.0 (3)
The Wire⭐ 9.3108.0 (5)
Sons of Anarchy⭐ 8.6107.7 (3)
Westworld⭐ 8.597.5 (6)
Halt and Catch Fire⭐ 8.498.2 (5)
Narcos⭐ 8.8109.0 (5)
Hell on Wheels⭐ 8.398.5 (2)
Black Sails⭐ 8.287.0 (4)
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why do you give so high scores to all of them? Because you like them or because were good?
Anyways, series are also movies, only that are longer... and Foundation is a series
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Everyone's got their own opinion. I like the series and I think they're good, but that's just my taste. There's no accounting for taste.
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I do not judge your "taste". I asked a simple question: you voted high because you like them so much or because were good ?
Wait, SN voted on these? I don't remember voting hahaha
Breaking Bad is the only I watched all of.
The Wire is my favorite TV series overall, but I stopped watching in Season 4 because it became less interesting.
I like Lost until the story felt like it was going off the rails. Forgot which season.
Mr. Robot was cool, but I wasn't interested in the scenes about his psychological / drug problems. There was too much of that imo.
Game of Thrones I can't give a fair shake because I read the books first. Also mad at the author for not actually finishing the series.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 1h
LMAO! That's lack of commitment. You either gotta bail after the first season, or you ride it 'til the credits roll. ahahh
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oh, i am cold blooded when it comes to cutting off series when i lose interest. There's only four series i've watched all episodes for:
Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Voyager Friends Breaking Bad
my wife it the opposite, she just has to know how it ends, but she often starts skipping scenes just to get to the end
20 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 3h
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 4h
Love when life fucks you so much that you can just stare at it, sometimes.
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I'm sure I missed a discussion of it, but was there a chance in the way daily rewards get sent out? Just got a referral awards sometime in the last hour, while I'm used to them kicking in at 1 am (Eastern Time), about twelve hours earlier.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 4h
maybe @k00b kicked the server because it didn't run tonight?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4h
yes, they deadlocked last night
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Is anyone else seeing extremely poor performance on GitHub today? I'm getting clone timeouts and 50-100kB/s fetch speeds over https.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 4h
mhh, no, nothing unusual on my end
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Thanks. Probably increased VPN abuse making them throttle :-/
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Any reason .avif files can't be uploaded? images seem to be converted to .avif when we upload them anyway.
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100 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek 4h
We don't convert images (but we want to for better cross-platform support)
Not sure why we don't support AVIF. I thought maybe because of bad browser support but that's not the case. Maybe we just didn't add because nobody requested it before?
Also, we do support Quicktime from Apple even though that does have bad browser support iirc
Do you have anything to add here @sox?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 4h
haha was about to reply!
So as I was saying, there’s no technical reason to not support AVIFs, pretty sure that, back then, it was useless to consider them. We can add it to the list of supported formats.
QuickTime from Apple is something that we desperately needed for a better iOS UX, before you couldn’t upload them! But that actually made me think about transcoding: a way to convert those proprietary formats to everything that everyone can play. We’ll get there 🫡
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oh, i thought they were converted because when i right-click-save-as on Stacker News, the images are always downloaded as avif
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 4h
our imgproxy service converts images to AVIF for better performance (compression), so that’s expected. To download the true format, click “view original” on the top-left of the carousel ^^
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 4h
yes, this must be it, thanks @sox
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 4h
This one is PNG.
Are you using Windows? Maybe it's confused because it relies on extensions in the filename? Not sure why it would think it's AVIF though.
edit: Wait, I see now what you mean, you don't mean the original images
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Hmm. So when I click that link you sent and download it, it's a PNG.
But when I try to download the image posted here #1269712 from the Saloon, it's avif.
I assume they are referencing the same image though?
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 4h
I assume they are referencing the same image though?
No. The images we load automatically are proxied to prevent IP address leaks and to improve performance by scaling them down based on your device’s screen size (and possibly through caching as well).
For example, if you’re using a small screen, there’s no need to download a 4K-resolution image.
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Friendly reminder that insulting someone you're in an argument with and impugning their motives usually just looks like you don't know how to defend your position and probably means you should think about what they said a bit more.
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42 sats \ 4 replies \ @Car 6h
What’s even better is when they insult you and you reply back and they change their response to appear not hostile…atp I just mute them. It’s like talking to a man child.
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I have a pretty high threshold for muting people, but I need to get better at disengaging.
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Car 4h
I use to do that but at some point I realized those types are not looking to engage they are looking to be right, its "ego tripping at the gates of hell"
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You're right about that, but I still want to grant a lot of slack just in case I'm misjudging the person or catching them not at their best.
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Happens to everyone...
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200 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 7h
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dicks can fuck assholes, when sufficient knowledge differential has been attained by the dick;
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158 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 7h
assholes can totally lie, for example because they are assholes
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I'd happily take assholes who can't lie (including to themselves)
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Lendasat swap feature (ln to USDC polygon) is some slick ish. Now I can easily get dollars in to Robinhood quick and easy. No more ACH
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8h
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 9h
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52 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 9h
i immediately thot of the Ba'al Gates mosquitoes with a motherload of genetically engineered parasites;
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 10h
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Day 672 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 440 sats on 29Oct2025! Running total: 433,240 sats!
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60 sats \ 2 replies \ @flat24 10h
Good morning 👋🤠⚡ Now that I'm back in my country of birth, my great mission begins: to awaken as many people as I can and show them that they've been deceived about money all these years. It's not an easy task, but I feel it's what I must do.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @zapsammy 9h
that is the Great Work! the deception encompasses not only money as society knows it; the deception is of the mind itself!
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37 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 5h
the deception is of the mind itself!
I completely agree, and that's why this mission is complicated and I won't be applying it to everyone. Most people don't want to wake up from their dream or don't realize they're going through life with their minds asleep.
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Happiness Journal 30/10/25
After getting 20+ students to finish an online lesson on the water cycle, I felt inspired to come up with my own comprehension cloze on the interesting aspects of air. Yup, the pivotal thing to our survival but is non-salient in our minds because it kinda fades in the background.
Gonna get my fifth graders to attempt my literary masterpiece the first thing tomorrow lesson. Quite looking forward to seeing if they have learnt anything from this year-end exam extravaganza.
In other news, I got so engrossed in watching Physical:Asia that I gave up my usual 15 mins of lie-in. Gonna pay for it dearly tonight because my depleted energy tank is gonna run even lower looking after two kids, but it is also strangely exhilarating finding a TV show that I liked so much that I threw caution to the wind!
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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 11h

Stacker News Horror Movie Posters

Thanks @Scoresby and @deSign_r for their contributions.
Here all the HORROR collection that came out of the 31-Word Horror Movie Review Contest
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