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Movie theater audio systems continued to go big blue baby boinking bonkers. Remember when the THX logo wasn’t survivable by children under 7?

Yes

So, the solution to completely fucked up sound is to use a device to mangle that sound back into something which isn’t complete shit?
And yes, I understand it’s about the director wanting the loud sounds to be loud. But, when your art direction means that a major (if not majority) of your audience is going to have to “fix” your artistic direction, your artistic direction is the problem.

p.s.: don’t mean to jump down your throat, this is just one of those things that grinds my gears. Along with the “let’s make everything too dark to possibly see” art direction which has become popular.

I think it’s less about the tech picked and more about developers with no sense of security and a poor understanding of networking. I’ve seen far too many web applications where the developer needed some sort of database behind it (MySQL, PostGres, MSSQL) and so they stood up either a container or entire VM with a public IP and whatever the networking layer set to allow any IP to hit the database port. The excuse is almost always something like, “we needed the web front end to be able to reach the database, so we gave the database server/container a public IP and allowed access”. Which is wonderful, right up until half of the IP addresses in Russia start trying to brute force the database.

Ya, they kinda should be. While I don’t like Youngkin one bit, he was pretty well calibrated to run as a Republican in Virginia at the time he ran. He was elected in late 2021, and people were pretty unhappy with the situation around COVID at that point. And much of that blame was piling up on Democrats (read: Biden Administration). Virginia was not some solid blue state. With a heavy military and FedGov presence, there is a lot of pull towards the GOP politically. And Youngkin was reasonably charismatic and appealed well to the GOP base in Virginia. Also, the Democrats had gone out of their way to find as bland of a candidate as possible. Sure, there was nothing major wrong with McAuliffe, but you really don’t want your campaign slogan to be “meh, he’s ok”.

Earle-Sears is basically the wrong candidate at the wrong time for the GOP. She’s done little to nothing to distance herself from Trump, and that brand is not doing well in a lot of Virginia. Even in the Southwest, which is redder than a baboon’s ass, Trumpism has been showing cracks. Earle-Sears’s has also not been doing a lot to promote herself, hiding out from journalists and avoiding debates. She’s just not the charismatic, “independent conservative” which Youngkin built a campaign message around. By contrast Spanberger is pretty close to the center of politics in Virginia. She’s basically a centrist Democrat who has been out pushing a left of center economic message. She’s also former CIA, which I think helps on the balance in Virginia (again, big Military and FedGov presence). She won’t win any sort of popularity contest on Lemmy, but the candidates Lemmy would like aren’t going to win in Virginia at the moment.