I wouldn’t know about biggest surprise, but I didn’t see the Red Hot Chili Peppers replacing guitar with keyboard. I really liked what John Frusciante and his predecessors had brought to the group. I went from a deep Peppers fan to not listening to anything post Stadium Arcadium
An automated ball-strike system may be headed to Major League Baseball sometime in the future, but any such changes are unlikely to take place by the 2025 season....
Like @platypode, I don’t really see framing as a core part of the game that needs to be protected. If I’m not mistaken, umps used to tell catchers “don’t move your glove” if they did try to frame up a pitch, so framing doesn’t have that much of a history in the game. It’s a product of the analytics and player empowerment trends, I think. I do recognize it as an important labour issue to catchers and pitchers.
I think I’m favour of ABS when used as a challenge system (versus as used for all pitches). I don’t want to remove the human element of calling balls and strikes altogether - that human aspect is special to me. Many of us complain about human umps, and if we eliminate humans calling balls and strikes, I’m concerned that will negatively affect the development of umpiring talent in years to come (i.e., use it or lose it).
One of the issues with low-quality balls and strikes calls at the MLB level is that umps don’t seem to have any accountability. A challenge system would introduce some objective feedback at least that comes from the MLB and is publicly available to fans, analysts, and reporters
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a ‘user...
Great points! Ownership, control, access, possession - these might apply differently to different things. I could see ownership being more relevant than other concepts in digital documentation of one’s genetic information, for example. I think a public library model (ie, access) would work pretty satisfactorily for entertainment media. Our language might have lagged behind the privacy, consumer, and legal concerns of today. My knowledge certainly has, but that can be changed ;)
Thank you very much, kind Lemmy! I think it makes sense for me to postpone that a bit due to other things going on at the moment. But it was really helpful to vent and to hear words of empathy and support from people like you :)
It’s a little beyond me, but I was under the impression that the dictionary lookup feature is purely local. Saying that out loud I’m now not so sure lol
Thanks for the info! I general sail the seven seas for that suff but thought it was a pretty good example of the larger trend.
I played guitar for 5+ years, never really learning properly, but being able to jam okay. I can’t do that any more, but I have a pretty good knowledge base to start from. It’s probably a matter of I should just do whatever’s fun until I’m picking up the guitar a few times a week regularly - then I can get more focused. For easy-starting fun, that’s probably strumming and singing through songs on a less ad and malware-bloated website. To get serious, I’d like to work with a metronome, maybe finally feel confident with a 12-bar blues, transcribe some solos perhaps. Very old school 😎. Do you play or want to learn?
I think I’m more or less with @verdigris. I’d get behind the position that most large corporations have bent the rules of society so much to their favour and accrued so much wealth at the expense of ordinary people that we don’t owe them anything at this point. I got mad respect for the independent creators. But I feel there’s no moral transgression with streaming a pirated show vis-a-vis the corporations missing out on making a few bucks from that, to use a example. It’s not black and white; actors and others salaries are important and related. But those “you wouldn’t steal a car, so why are you trying to a CD/DVD?” ads were clearly corporate propaganda, as another example
What would a child say if they were asked whether they would steal a loaf of bread to feed their starving family if they had no other way of saving them? What would you say? Does context matter in moral judgements?
Wholesome Author (i.imgur.com)
You bore me human. (lemmy.world)
You wake up from a coma that started back in 2004. What music artist/band/group are you most surprised (good or bad,) by the direction they took musically over the last twenty years?
Timmy is literally a go-between for his sister Luci and Miez (imgur.com)
Expand for all images and text. English/German as always....
[Game Thread] 25-26 MAY 2024 - Conference Finals Game 3s
It’s the conference finals! Game three edition....
Commissioner: Automated ball-strike system a possibility, but unlikely to take place by '25 (www.mlb.com)
An automated ball-strike system may be headed to Major League Baseball sometime in the future, but any such changes are unlikely to take place by the 2025 season....
Nikola Jokić, Jayson Tatum, LeBron James Headline 2023-24 All-NBA Teams (bleacherreport.com)
2023-24 All-NBA First Team...
Dress to impress? The Blue Jays debut the Home Run Jacket on a night that the offense comes alive against Chicago (lemmy.ca)
The Blue Jays launched an updated version of the Home Run Jacket in game 47 of the season today, the 3rd of a 3-game series with the Chi Sox....
Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) - Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane, Australia - May 2024 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
This magpie was a very good model. They complied with all of my posing requests to give this wonderful golden hour shot :)...
Badonkadonk she's mine. (lemmy.world)
Olivia Chow skips Toronto's Israeli flag raising event as 'it's a bit divisive' (nationalpost.com)
‘There’s a war going on in the Middle East and people are protesting every weekend,’ the Mayor of Toronto said in a statement
Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a ‘user...