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    Coronavirus COVID-19

    in General Banter

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    https://twitter.com/sethbannon/status/1236125593290276864/photo/1

    Projections from American Hospital Association. I've seen similar projections elsewhere. We could be looking at an historic disaster made far worse by the blunders of Trump. Potentially ~500K deaths, all hospital beds in American occupied by April/May. Another admin could not have prevented the outbreak but it seems likely a clear-headed response could have bent the curve.

    By the way, the testing blunders are unforgivable. This is a simply assay with simple reagents. Any undergrad with a day of in-lab training could do it and plow through hundreds of samples per day.  

    What TV series are you watching at moment?

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    Posted · Edited by cooliofranco

    14 minutes ago, caze said:

    Encounter at Farpoint was a decent episode, compared to most of the rest of season 1, which was almost entirely terrible (I still enjoyed it despite that on my recent re-watch, but compared to the subsequent stuff it's bad). Picard has definitely been better than most of S1 of TNG. In fact it's been pretty good so far, the first couple of episodes were very good I thought, last two less so, seems to be running out of steam a bit, and the writing on the last episode was patchy (I enjoyed the stuff with Picard, the rest not so much). Hopefully they're mostly done with the setup now (though I think we may have 1-2 more eps of that yet, we still have the Riker and Troi cameos to "look forward to", I hope Sirtis has remembered how to do the accent this time).

    the Romulan kid was the legolas Romulan, this was very obvious, how did you miss that? the planet looked nothing like a star wars place either, not sure where you got that from. I think your brain has been scrambled by all the godawful trash you watch and you now incapable of consuming media in a normal manner.

     

    1 hour ago, Nebraska said:

    i actually thought the opposite. i loved 'encounters at farpoint'.
    i cannot stand 'picard' with this last episode being the last straw for me. i dislike everyone besides maybe picard- but i also don't buy that he's at it again. also- who was that romulan kid he met? and the other romulan legolas wannabe? and why did that planet where he wakes up in just look like something from star wars? i honestly cannot even think of 1 thing i enjoy about picard. 

    i agree the non-picard stuff is less than the picard stuff. truly, nothing beats picard walking around on a planet one-strapping a backpack.

    it's funny we all agree on romulan legolas- that planet had mad elf-land lighting!

     

    What TV series are you watching at moment?

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    10 hours ago, Lada Laika said:

    Idk I thought the first two eps were great. The third was kinda scattered but still showed promise. As with Discovery, keep in mind that literally all 90s Trek shows took at least 3 26-episode seasons to become great (TNG, DS9) or at least watchable (VOY). Picard arguably has the best pilot episode in the entire fucking franchise.

    yeah the writing so far has been super good. i think it's OK to give this away- the backstory for how picard became disenchanted with the federation is so well-balanced and believable given his character, the ST universe, it's really impressive. and THE FORMULA of impossible problem-crew works out solution- tech the tech-solution, being stretched is great. there seem to be some explicit nods to  in the most recent ep so i'm curious to see how it plays out. heh, i'm smitten ?

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    Electro / techno / IDM on threads* radio

    in WATMMixes

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    https://www.mixcloud.com/ThreadsRadio/cool-and-frank-hour-threadsworcester-ma-15-jan-20/  

     

    Binh - Milky Way (My Own Jupiter), Felon5- Bruce Bonus (Low Money Music Love, Himalaya Juice Culture - Dr. Q Tip (Ovnie), Daniel Bell - Trip to the Moon (Klang Elektronik), Bassam and Kizokou - Rue Saint Marc (Nifo), Eastfield Swing - Pound a Pint (Arcadia), Sweely - I Didn’t Funk Enough (Kafkaesque), Cool and Frank - It Happened Again, Eamonn Doyle - Rangefinder (Lunar Disko), Underworld - Ova Nova

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by cooliofranco

    26 minutes ago, rhmilo said:

    Don't do this. It's a waste of money AND time.

    And storage space.

    Last time I checked (which was about five years ago) good quality turntables didn't come with built-in phono pre-amps. If they had one, that was a sure sign they were bad.

    In fact, most turntables / record players are bad. Below 200 euro or so they're all pretty much the same basic Chinese model that is notorious for carving up your records.

    I'm already addicted to vinyl ? and I second this: spend money on turntable / amp / speakers or don't do it at all. There is a huge difference between second rate and good sounding stuff. Actually 200 euro sounds about right, i would have said $250-$300. 

    Vinyl is tremendous. it will take your music listening out of headphones, make it something you share, make you dance more, and supports artists. 

    it probably doesn't really "sound better", especially if you're getting used stuff (crate digging is really fun and doesn't have to be expensive). pitches get weird, scratches, imperfections, etc. but as i said, the more important points are the other stuff.

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

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    got rid of everything (space, money, usual reasons), and wanna startup with small set up that can be fun for me and my kids once they get a little order. thinking of starting with korg volca bass and korg drum. are there better alternatives in that price range that sound way better or are these as good anything else out there?

    acid1 Tracks

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    On 10/14/2019 at 11:08 AM, acid1 said:

    Figured I would start my own thread.

    As a new father, my time is extremely limited and most of my "experiments" are reduced to occasional modular noodling while working from home.

    First track is a jungle tune I made the other week.

     

    loved this. chaotic but tuneful. i'm also a dad, though not a super new one, and yeah man, it's impossible to make time for hobbies. you're best bet is try to get them into it by having them mess with your equipment and dancing. my girls occasionally request "crazy music" which is basically anything off of Drukqs, and they run around like crazies. i'll be sure to play them this one ?

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    Electro / techno / IDM on threads* radio

    in WATMMixes

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    new show

    tracklisting

    Luomo (aka vladislav delay) Tessio, Sans Sucre Passion Guinguette, Octo Octa Spin Girl Activate, Lauren Flax Earthquake, Paranoid London Dub1, Beethaven Exclusive VIP Area Acid, Cool and Frank Bergorne, Guavid Groovy, Calimex Mental Implant Corp (AKA Legowelt) Carnival of Souls, Alexi Perala Birthday, Drexciya Depressurization

     

    If you have something you wanna get played message me! Always interested in acid, electro, techno...

    2020 US Election

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    55 minutes ago, caze said:

    Nuclear waste is a complete non-issue, bizarre how people have managed to turn into a big deal in their minds.

    It doesn't take up much space, you just put it in a cask and store it for a while. Ultimately it'll all be turned into more fuel, the idea that it's going to need to be stored for thousands of years is nonsense. But if you did need to, no big deal, just bury it under a mountain.

    Here is the entirety of Switzerland's nuclear waste (around 50 years worth from 5 reactors):

    Image result for 1 years worth of nuclear waste

    The contents of each cask only takes up a fraction of the container (most of it is thick layers of protective shielding), the waste itself is a solid ceramic material, chemically stable, just a bit warm. If you were to reprocess it with current technologies you'd be left with about 5% of the mass as highly radioactive waste (this is a good thing in terms of waste, because it means it has a very short half-life), the rest can be used to fuel other reactors. There are a handful of isotopes you couldn't use as fuel, or would cost energy to transmute to a stable isotope so you might not bother, but either they're very short half-life, so it's not a big deal, or they're very long half-life, in which case they're not at all dangerous (the longer the half-life, the less energetic the decay process is - e.g. Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days, and if you ingest too much it might give you thyroid cancer, Iodine-129 has a half life of 16 million years, ingesting it would have close to zero effect), overall these represent a small fraction of the overall waste too.

    yeah i mean, i certainly know less about the waste than you do apparently, thanks for the explanation. so it sounds like, like so many things, it comes down to the politics and messaging- getting people comfortable with the waste in a mountain near them, making sure they understand it's safe and inaccessible, etc etc

    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted

    On 9/25/2019 at 3:05 AM, caze said:

    honestly, even the fancier new reactor designs aren't needed. the current 3rd generation PWRs are all we really need for now. there's a bunch of them currently being built around the world, but that number needs to be about 10 times greater for a start. it's a demonstrated fact that you can decarbonise an entire country with this tech, it's been done before, it didn't take forever, it wasn't dangerous, and it wasn't cost prohibitive - most of the economic barriers are artificial and can be fixed by policy, which is why it's important politicians take this stuff seriously.

    the newer designs, the molten salt reactors (using thorium or not), or even the fancier pebble bed reactors, are great too, and we should be definitely be working on them, but waiting on them will just lead to more delays. it's also important to have modular designs, especially so high-tech countries can churn them out and sell them to developing countries (especially smaller countries where building even one normal sized reactor might be too much juice for the grid).

    there are also a bunch of upgrades which work with the 3rd gen existing designs, which improve safety (using different fuel mixes and other cladding materials for the fuel rods for example) and which can be used to increase the longevity of existing plants, which is a lot cheaper than building replacement plants.

    I've seen that proponents of nuclear are not factoring cost of long term storage of waste at all. It's safer that coal, but storage can be very costly and of course there is always the possibility of the storage going wrong in some terrible way. 

    I'm not joking when I say we should figure out a way to shoot our waste into the sun. Space elevator? I'm sure this is actually a terrible idea that puts everyone and everything at grave risk.

    Electro / techno / IDM on threads* radio

    in WATMMixes

    Posted

    New show posted here

    https://www.mixcloud.com/ThreadsRadio/cool-and-frank-hour-threadsworcester-ma-04-sep-19/

    Tracklisting:

    fabo aninha sunny breaks, @ladymonix track 39 (dub), @JensenIntercept activated, discret popescu lose touch, cool and frank illustrator acid (@florklang), @posthuman back to acid, roy of the ravers miami 303, @Moodymann313  i'll provide @blackmadonnachi jealous heart never rests, @meagersunlight minotaur

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