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And Why I Ended Up Using Shutter Encoder,  AV1 and opus After testing many tools to compress my album/personal videos from the last years, I use AV1 + Opus + MKV with Shutter Encoder as my daily workflow. It keeps things practical while giving modern compression, metadata preservation, filter preview, and predictable results. AV1, Constant Quality, VBR, and Variable Framerate (VFR) AV1 is already supported by most modern devices and will remain standard for a long time. Its main advantage: AV1 lets you decide how much quality to preserve while greatly reducing file size, so the loss becomes dependent on your preference of videos. AV1 also supports variable bitrate (VBR) , where the encoder automatically uses fewer bits on simple scenes and more on complex ones. Combined with constant-quality (CQ) mode , this lets you target a consistent visual quality across the file without worrying about a fixed bitrate. It works very well with variable framerate (VFR) , where f...

Hurt people hurt people By hurting narcissist one is hurting other innocent people indirectly (and most of the hurt the narcissist did is already boosted from other people taking revenge on them). Narcissists are the kind of people that turn hurt into hurting others and it doesn't have to be the people who hurt them, anybody around is good enough. Doesn't mean one's hurt from them is worth nothing and it doesn't mean we have to let them do it. What it means, is that it is fucking hard to resolve this problem, even going in the right direction is full of kindle and oil. Narcissists are one of the most difficult people to heal or to let them heal themselves... It's ironic really, most sociopaths KNOW they are hurting people but they don't care, while most narcissists don't realize it and they would care if they knew but they think they are perfect -in their protective superficial mind, or at least better than other people- and never hurt people or they think i...

I gave myself the exercise of inventing a new word for the right balance between egoism and altruism. Like the perfect balance between caring for yourself and others. Since ego is Latin for "I" and alter for "the other" I was going into the line of nosism (we) or omnisism (everyone) and then I bumped into the word communism (communis, shared, together). Of course immediately realizing that word already exist. Wait a minute, was that maybe the purpose of the first people inventing that word? Some research shows it goes much further back than Marx and it might as well have been! So, wait a minute, maybe through times that word has been changed and even raped, especially by the US? "Communism is eeeevil" Maybe including similar words and systems, like socialism (allies, companion) and many others? (One has to know that they have brainwashed almost their whole population and even big part of the rest of the world against any form of communism as if that is t...

 You’re not broken. You’re reacting to a system built to drain you. A system that thrives when you're tired, distracted, obedient, scared, or scrolling. It sells you noise as news. Identity as product. Freedom as consumer choice. But here’s the trick: the machine isn’t smart — it’s hungry . It needs your doubt. Your clicks. Your endless waiting. Turn off the drip. Step outside the script. Look around and ask: What would I do if I weren’t being managed like a resource? That’s where your rebellion starts. Not loud, not viral — but real . You are not meant to feel numb. That’s just what keeps the gears turning.

Here we are with a new update again. --> https://v-nut.e-motiv.net First of all, we are now hosted on a vegan ethical host! Check it out: https://ethicalinternet.co.uk/ Our new algorithm now automatically picks pictures from wikimedia commons. They then can be corrrected with crowd voting. YOU can make the site better now!    Finally the requested recipe fields: persons, instructions, image£ And some minor improvements (https works again) Hey, which other scientific nutritional site gives you all these features?

I never said it here, but I'm actually the creator of V-Nut , a vegan focused nutrition site. Analyse recipes, check your personal food pyramid and much more! This is the only nutrition site on the web with all these unique features, such as: Total nutritional value for a recipe! Search operators Combined sorting Sorting by nutrition value per calorie Immediately comparing search results by relative bar representation A lot of info directly without information overload. (By using hovers and accordions.) A unique graphical presentation Focus on some important nutrients for vegans Nutrients that "may" be rarer for vegans are marked. Filtering of concentrates Vegetarian food only (and some vegan filtering, though it needs some work) A more real food pyramid in your personal requirements Homepage Detail of one food Personal food pyramid Helpful tooltips R...