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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

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    crucial to note:

    14th amendment section 3 could be enforced at the state level. it's an argument against being eligible to be on the ballot. any citizen can contest the eligibility. lawsuits may be utilized if necessary.

     

     

     

     

     

    Elon Musk's Starman - Is this shitty future real wtf

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    9 hours ago, zero said:
    18 hours ago, trying to be less rude said:

    i swear this dude just wanted to destroy twitter for shady reasons

    that's what I thought whenever this all started last year. the moves he was (and is still) making in the public lens made it seem as though he deliberately wanted to tank twitter. which doesn't really make much sense, since he had to get the banks involved to buy it in the first place. his stupid childish actions will ultimately cost him a shit load of money. and last time I checked, most people don't try and deliberately lose a lot of their $...

    so what is the advantage to tank it? I don't know enough about financial cat and mouse games to make sense of it. it really does come across as an ego thing. baby Elon got mad during the months of will he / won't he buy it negotiations last year, wanted to screw the place up to stick it to the libs, or something like that. he may have been thinking to turn it into a maga stronghold, but then donnie boy un-friended him, so now he's left with a sinking ship.

    he sure looks like a blackmail target, to me

    add in mutual benefits like

    • tossing trends of his me too scandals
    • political leverage against the biden administration, which has demonstrated disfavor to musk, and which musk's companies rely on deeply for success.

     

    remember how facebook rebranded and promised a multiverse at the same time as their very bad facebook papers scandal? they've now admitted that this is what they were doing and that it was successful at supplanting the disfavorable coverage. musk coincidentally did this billionaire troll move at the exact time that it became public that his companies repeatedly paid out large sums to silence accusers. one way to wipe that off twitter is to... buy twitter and smash it.

     

    wouldn't be surprised if he's spending his time over there because tesla and spacex let it be known that they're good without him around all the time

     

    honestly though, twitter was an information tool like none other before. it was really an incredible achievement of web development. a unique creative creation. what occurred with twitter never happened before it and may never happen again. it was the one amalgamator that the journalism of the world came together on. now the ecosystem has shifted and the audiences are dispersing to various other places. hopefully the federation thing works out and amounts to the same thing, again, eventually.

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    Elon Musk's Starman - Is this shitty future real wtf

    in General Banter

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    wild that the dude is rebranding twitter as X. what? replace the major global brand name with some new stupid bullshit? 

    what possible marketing sense does that make?

    who the fuck wants to use X?

    seriously, WHAT?

    i swear this dude just wanted to destroy twitter for shady reasons

    and botch the roll out? (half of presence is still twitter and half is X)

    just the latest in a series of massive "wtf" decisions that are consistent with someone trying to destroy twitter and not consistent with someone trying to make the platform successful

    and LOL at just taking his old idea and renaming twitter as that. rather than build X, just buy twitter and name it that. 

    someone get this guy a horse

    coincidentally, this move permanently fucks twitter, so that even if he sells it, it's fucked from returning to its former state

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    'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'

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    capitalism is a lazy term and socialism is a bad slogan

    it's not even clear. it's ambiguous.

    almost no one doesn't want capitalistic socialism

    the problems are not as simple as "we just need to do something about capitalism." 

    we don't need to take action against "capitalism," we need to take action toward net zero carbon emissions. upgrade the grid. invest in cold fusion. de-subsidize oil.

    we need to crack down on big oil who are running the game. their fracking is dumping methane into the atmosphere, which is 10x worse than co2, and no one is even talking about that. their sociopath puppets the GOP quash the annoying regulations that would fix that. meanwhile the arctic ice cap will be gone in 10 years, and people are being catlazered into talking up socialism, which makes the left lose elections

    do people in big oil enjoy the right to own companies? yes. is the solution demonizing that freedom? no. the solution is to work within the same exact capitalism system. and if you want better socialism, we will also increase socialism within the exact same capitalist system

    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by trying to be less rude

    trump's recent indictments

     

    the indictment for stealing national defense information is a good read. the federal coup indictment is a great read. i didn't bother with the ny one. didn't read the georgia one yet (just happened)

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    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted · Edited by trying to be less rude

    1 hour ago, marf said:

    If he put this on there it would be a good release. At least something. Otherwise this release sounds like those throw away tracks he does.  Its ok. He's human. I wasn't sure for a while there, but he is I guess

     

     

    calling it not good is harsh

     

    m12 6 omc test is classic afx with overt punch. blackbox 21 brings depth and covers new territory. all of it has subtlety that unlocks with age.

     

    rich knows what the catalog of an artist looks like, and i'm glad that he is confidently doing that. blackbox is a unique, interesting, and well-crafted artifact from the journey 

     

     

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by trying to be less rude

    10 hours ago, Upset man said:

    It’s pretty fucking weird how half the country thinks trumps the hero and Biden is the villian

    it is.

     

    we're going through challenges of the transition to the digital info space. deceivers seize on exploits quickly, in this rapidly evolving space, and it takes time to patch the vulnerabilities. so the honest are on the back foot. 

     

    inverted messaging is surprisingly effective. "i know you are but what am i" - this 5 year-old trick prevails in congress and national discourse. it rather efficiently mitigates an attack on one's self. all you have to do is make an accusation and act like it's really bad. 

     

    the extent to which society will use the trump prosecutions as an opportunity to outgrow these challenges will be directly proportional to the extent to which individuals engage in good faith debate and help each other to navigate the modern info space. the societal transformation consists of individuals developing the skill set to sort out deceit from verified info, and developing the skill set of good faith debate. 

     

    the trump prosecutions will serve as an opportunity to address these issues. these are the root issues. these are the issues that brought us trump. society kind of went nuts. and it still is. there is a way out and it's to explain to people why they're wrong and deceived, and to show them where info is that's not trying to trick them.

     

    it's not easy. it's kind of insidious how we've ended up with powerful forces jamming stuff in a hole that's hard to undo. it is hard work to unfuck all these minds. and if we half-ass and wait for someone else to fix the problem then it will just linger and this broken machine will continue to lurch or eventually collapse.

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    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

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    1 hour ago, Wunderbar said:

    Does anyone here experience a type of synesthesia when listening to music ? 

    Do people also experience synesthesia when looking at paintings or something ?

    yeah, i get a lot of sweet & sour from modern era aphex. you know he talks about doing that deliberately, i think in syrobonkers or something back around that time

    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    4 hours ago, thumbass said:

    Everyone seems to forget soundlab but in my opinion its one of the best modern afx tracks. At least it's one of the best layered tracks of his

    definitely among my favorites from the post-syro material

     

    pleased by blackbox, i will inform you all. 

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    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

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    3 hours ago, cern said:

    It is so nice this release.. I feels like a B-side to the Collapse EP. 

    All the tracks from Collapse and Blackbox Liferecorder 21f EP have been a perfectly good album + some of the soundcloud tracks.. 

    throw soundlab in there

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    Interesting things

    in General Banter

    Posted

    On 7/27/2023 at 6:51 PM, auxien said:

    string theory has been essentially abandoned/ignored for quite some years now. the 2000s were kinda the last bastion of many scientists still clinging to it.

    shit sure sounds pretty and all of course, but yeah...it ain't reality.

    that video's amazing

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