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    Coronavirus COVID-19

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    7 hours ago, dingformung said:

    I'm by no means a health expert and can only regurgitate what I have read in media and heard from others about Covid (and it's not even a very interesting topic to think about), but even if this is all true, then at a point when everyone has access to vaccination, shouldn't it be his own decision (because if you want to get protected from the virus you can and it shouldn't matter whether others are vaccinated or not if you are vaccinated)? If there is no area-wide and egalitarian access to vaccination it's a different story, and I don't know about Canada, but I from what I've heard, Canada is well supplied with vaccines. If he has lots of contact with people who for whatever reason can't make this decision (like homeless people or paranoid people that for good or bad reasons don't trust anyone), then it's a different stoery as well. But like most middle class people he most likely doesn't have much contact to them.

    But (I'm sort of repeating myself) if he lives in an area where everyone can get vaccinated if they so desire, and if my conclusions aren't wrong, it should be unrisky for others if he doesn't get the vaccine. I may be wrong, though and I guess that if in doubt it's best to get it, just to make sure.

    So he might not be wrong, but you should still send him to get vaccinated. Because if there is even a slight chance that he can help others by getting vaXX'd, he should do so... I guess.

    You don't need to be dramatic about it when talking to him, though, as this would surely spook him further and make it less likely that he gets the vaccination.

    I mean, by his own admission, he is "not sure", which should be enough to get the vaccine. But yeah, it's a tiring topic. Also, family dynamics etc. pp.

    I think this sort of depends on which scale you look at it. On an individual level it probably doesn’t matter so much and it might be difficult to justify getting angry with one person for not getting shots. Otoh this person probably represents a larger group that decides not to get vaxxed for various reasons and this group might fuck things up on a sort of gliding scale with varying degrees of fuckupedness and shitty outcomes for the rest. 
    It’s a bit like being into soccer and having a nephew that’s a hooligan. There’s a shared interest but hugely differing views on how to approach it. 

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    I think saying that you were afraid they would consider you a suspect is a legitimate answer to that question. But is there no way of reporting this type of thing anonymously where you are? In NL there's a phonenumber for anonymous police tips, I mean it's probably not anonymous as they'll probably have the exact time and location the call was made logged but in most cases this information wouldn't be used. Or maybe you can get someone else to report it for you? Don't get me wrong, I'd probably have the same doubts as you but the only right thing to do is to report it. It could belong to a missing person whose family has been wondering about where they left their head at for ages. Or it could be a rotting cabbage.

    Elektron Octatrack MKII

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by user

    Probably quite a lot? You don’t just slap a usb chargeable battery in a device and sell it. Probably would’ve cost them quite a bit in r&d. 

    But I do agree having a portable device run off batteries that you can buy literally anywhere in the world for reasonable money for the foreseeable future and probably until the end of times is ridiculous. Now people can’t complain about having to play shows with a device that takes some exotic usb connector that broke right before their set on the summit of the Mont Blanc and have to come up with a different excuse of why their performance sucked. 
     

    If only chargeable AA batteries with a little USB port right there on the fucking battery that could be ordered online in packs of about four for around 20 local international monetary units existed. Things would be so different then. 
     

    Edit: there can be only one existence.

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by user

    18 hours ago, drome said:

    The system wants you to believe they’re for minorities but they want to use them to push their agenda; namely control.

    They claim to care about people.

    Do they fuck!

    Listen to people when they give you an alternative narrative.

    Don’t fall for labels and slurs like ‘conspiracy theorist’.

    The system just wants to divide the human race.

    Listen to opinions on both sides.

    You might not agree with everything someone says but why throw the baby out of the bath water.

    No one has authority over another human being.

    We can sort the mess out amongst ourselves.

    Humans are good.

    Those who seek power should be feared, not their lies and manipulation.

    Ps sorry to those I’ve burned. This is crazy right now, what with the threats the government’s are making towards people’s rights and livelihoods.

    Does it never bother you that people have been prophesying catastrophic domination for ages but it never really pans out? Go on dailymotion and watch David Icke’s appearances on Terry Wogan. He’s saying exactly the same things a lot of people in the alternative thought corner are saying now but with some slightly different players and scenarios but with the exact same outcome. Why is it that things never seem to pan out? Are the evil plans foiled every time? 
     

    Another thing that bothers me is what/who will be replacing our current evil overlords and what society will look like. As a white male in a western-European country life’s pretty good for me but throughout my life I have occasionally depended on our state, eg in the form of healthcare or financial support. When the system is overthrown will those support systems be kept in place? And who will make sure that the new people in charge won’t be corrupted? 

    Coronavirus COVID-19

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    15 minutes ago, BCM said:

    drome has many completely valid points and is right to be concerned. there is no reason to castigate and vilify him as some kind of "UNBELIEVER!!" (pitchforks out). why are you so against a healthy debate and sharing of ideas and concerns? surely it's OK to question this? like, does none of it seem just a leeetle bit suspicious to the fervent vaccine proponents? you can't see anything in all of this that makes you slightly worried? i mean, jesus christ guys, i thought this place was supposed to be frequented by free thinkers? something very very odd is happening to lots of you - e.g. many of you would associate with the left side of politics and would position yourself as generally against big business, hyper-capitalism and government control etc. but by and large you're pushing for everyone to imbibe a product produced in a novel way, sidestepping many of the usual checks and balances, by big pharma, which is going to hugely increase their revenue and power. do none of you see the hypocrisy in this? i feel like i'm taking fucking crazy pills!

    I don't agree with drome and I think you're making a couple leaps of logic in your post but that of course doesn't mean that there's no truth in what you say. I do however fully agree with you that the way some people like to show their socially desired behaviour, unyielding faith in all kinds of institutions and shout down those that do not align is embarrassing. Personally lost all interest in having any debate about this when I realised that every time it basically boils down to either an expert level discussion on disease, biology, medical science or becomes a metaphysical discussion on what is real and when something is actually really true or not.

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    Posted · Edited by user

    You could definitely use the excuse that in some countries where large portions of the population have been vaccinated (Bahrein, Uruguay, Seychells, Maldives and Chili according to a dutch newspaper) covid infections are resurging. Although 65% of people infected apparently weren't vaccinated yet. Or point to the dutch nursing home where all staff and residents were fully vaccinated and yet  12 of the 29 people living there got infected.

     

    edit; added the word "some" to the first sentence

    stupid first world achievements and successes

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    10 hours ago, brian trageskin said:

    it is more convenient for me yeah. i don't have to do shit except click a button and voilà, i can use anyone's roof as my own and i don't have to do shit when i leave. i should mention that i'm unemployed and have 0 social life, and live off the financial help i got from my family a few months ago + monthly payments from the government. you can call me a parasite, i do call myself that lol. it is more expensive than renting but you can't have it both ways. 

    We’re all parasites in some way or other. 

    what is the worst word?

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    Posted

    Terrible things to call someone:

    Koekwaus

    Ploert

    Huichelaar

    Tuig van Laban

    Paljas

    Klaploper

    Schorriemorrie

    And some generally disgusting terms:

    Krentenbaard

    Wild Vlees

    Lichaamssappen

    Vruchtwater

    Smeuïge details

    Puddinkje

     

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    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

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    18 hours ago, TubularCorporation said:

    The thing is you don't want to delay the dry signal, only the pre-effect send signal, so I don't think track delay would work?  In Reaper it's just a matter of using extra channels in a track, probably most easy/CPU efficient to do the delay on the sending tracks rather than the receiving one.  For a stereo track, add two more channels, insert your predelay plugin of choice and route the audio to it on channels 3 and 4, add a send that sends only 3+4 to 1+2 on the receiving track, and then if you need to make sure that only the dry signal gets to the output of the sending track you could  turn send-to-parent off and use another send to rout it to the master or a submix, but this only really matters if you're doing surround mixing or using folders instead of busses for submixes.

     

    TDR Proximity is fantastic, I haven't used it before a reverb in a long time but I remember it sounding great, especially if you're automating the send and use Proximity instead of the send level.

     

    Actually, the van driveby sound at the beginning o this track was done mostly with Proximity:

    https://elemental95.bandcamp.com/track/westbound-on-the-interstellar-hwy

     

    I recorded a snippet from this record playing through some kind of 80s DIY 2" powered speaker I found on the curb on garbage day that had leaky capacitors inside and went back in the trash right after the recording, layered it with some engine and screeching tire sounds that were synthesized from scratch and recorded live in two passes on the Redsound EleVAta, and then routed a submix of that through Proximity and some kind of simple pitch shifter.  Automated pan, Proximity distance and a tiny bit of pitch shift for a subtle doppler effect. There's probably a reverb send with automation, too, but I might have just used the reverb in Proximity.

    Kinda had the feeling I was missing the point as I hit "submit reply", thanks for the clarification.

    Had more or less forgotten about proximity until recently and now wonder how I did without it all this time, it's been great for quickly helping things gel. And it greatly improved the realism of the piano plugin I use for practice. 

    Cool track btw, conjures up a nice mix of Kronenberg and kraut vibes in my head.

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