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People who refuse to get vaccinated increase the spread of COVID and thereby make it more likely for someone who is vaccinated to still catch COVID
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1 hour ago, dingformung said:
"Vanity is the evil twin of creativity. Those who value themselves too much are no longer open to new ideas and approaches. They already “know it all.” The only way to avoid this trap is to maintain the humility that accompanies knowledge and experience. We all have a tremendous amount to learn. No one knows everything.
If you are too attached to your own ideas, you will never be able to reach a good solution. You will never be able to hear what other people are saying or follow the spirit of an idea. The more important the decision, the more you need to be receptive to others’ ideas.
Curiosity and creativity are the necessary counterweights to the natural tendency to get stuck in your own way of thinking."
- Richard D. James
Where's this quote from? I tried googling but nothing comes up
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1 minute ago, Brisbot said:
Seems like an incredibly stupid plan. I mean the people he stole from have the original projects. Unless the intent was to get away with it for a short time, stealing people's money, and disappearing.
Yes, I think stealing people's money and then quickly disappearing was his plan. And it's pretty stupid anyway but that's what he did
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43 minutes ago, Brisbot said:
Has that actually happened?
It happened in the BoC fans community. Some guy called Jason Dowd ripped some artists off and sold the music pretending it was his own. Here is a Twoism thread about it:
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11 hours ago, Claudius t Ansuulim said:
A metric fuckton of projection going on here. First of all, I’ve spent the majority of my life studying and working in the sciences. And I think it’s bullshit that no matter how well versed in the sciences you are, no matter what your field, people will tell you that you aren’t qualified enough to have an opinion on it (other than “shut up and take your shot”). And if you are somehow qualified enough to have an opinion, and that opinion runs contrary to yours, that person must be a ‘lone idiot’. I get it, I’m not gonna kick the pilot out of the cockpit at the first sign of turbulence and 5 minutes on google. But this happens to be in my area of general vocation, so I’m trying to peel back all of the layers of bullshit to see what is really going on as best as I can tell. If you think I’m anti-vax you’ve done well to pigeonhole me without attempting to comprehend where I’m actually coming from (that may well be my fault as well). If you want to take any of the vaccines, great. Do it. It’s your choice, and it may very well be a good one for you. All of my immediate family has taken it. I didn’t scream at them that the 5G nanobots have taken over their brains and now Big Bad Bill has control over their CNS or some such bs. This is the internet, right? There is A TON of garbage information out there, and wading through it can be tough for even a trained professional. But there is a cautionary tale in here somewhere for the blind believer as well, and it doesn’t take a discerning eye to see all of the ways this could go very wrong, and if you don’t want to concern yourself with that then ok. But I very well do, so that’s why I listen to heterodox views.
I think Claudius t Anuuslim posted in a wrong thread by mistake. Mods, can you move his post to the flat earth thread?
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I think being boastful is quite a harmless character flaw compared to other kinds of character flaws. Most people have some kind of a character flaw, so if that's her worst trait, that's not that bad at all
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3 hours ago, thawkins said:
I don't know, I feel like mixing theory and frequency response and all that is still a part of music theory as a whole.
Like when theory says all your notes have to be on the same scale, but you ignore it when your chords with off notes sound better to you.
3 hours ago, thawkins said:Music theory is a really broad subject. No surprise if you and I and all the other posters in this thread are simultaneously talking about different things.
I don't have a good example on hand, but my go-to trick when I feel like I need more harmony or something is to move or add one of the notes so that it's 2st above or below. Yeah, maybe it does fit in the "allowed notes list" of whatever scale I am working in, but I don't go and check whether by doing so I changed scales, I just trust my ears and gut feeling.
Music theory doesn't really say that all your notes have to be on the same scale. Theory tutorials for beginners might say something like that but that's just oversimplification of theory that's done with the aim of making it easier to digest.
Music theory has concepts e.g. passing notes, chromatic harmony, borrowed chords and modulations for describing the off notes. I'm sure whatever you come up with by moving the notes by 2 semitones, theory actually already has names and concepts to describe it.-
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31 minutes ago, thawkins said:
Isn't music theory some stuff smart people figure out way longer after the fact to objectively try to explain and reason about some music?
Not necessarily. Music in some melodically and harmonically complex styles like jazz or classical is generally made by people who use theory while constructing the music. Music theory is less relevant of course for making three chord punk rock, or techno where the only element that's not a percussion is a three note bassline
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14 hours ago, vkxwz said:
And aphex proves it's not about knowing music theory so you nerds can fuck off with that
Is it known for a fact that Aphex doesn't know music theory? To me, his early 90s stuff sounds like it's been made by someone who doesn't know music theory but I would guess he has picked up the theory later
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13 minutes ago, BCM said:
it seems many of you never want to return to what we used to think of as normal. i don't understand why but too many of you appear to be revelling in all the restrictions and want to keep lockdowns, masks etc ad infinitum.
Anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, COVID deniers and too early releases of lockdowns increase the spread of the virus and make the return to normal take much longer than it otherwise would
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4 minutes ago, drome said:
Insulting people with valid concerns is for the weak minded.
Are you trying to insult me for my valid concerns right now?
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26 minutes ago, BCM said:
you think many people are unaware at this point?
I would also say that yes, many people are unaware. A large proportion of people are dumbasses who are in denial about the pandemic, or still haven't understood the basics of how the virus is transmitted and how to prevent its spread
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1 hour ago, milkface said:
grow up
The post was meant as ironic, if it wasn't clear. I'm not actually a Hitler supporter and I prefer modern and postmodern art over classical art
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36 minutes ago, milkface said:
???
Hitler tried hard to rescue this with his ban on degenerate art but in the end, it didn't work out as he planned
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Staff members in all four fast food takeaway places in my neighbourhood wear their masks under the nose all the time. Both the people preparing the food and the people facing the customers do this. I'm not sure if this is illegal or not but it's definitely stupid
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6 hours ago, randomsummer said:
Had a squirrel in the attic once. Those fuckers are 100x more destructive and determined than any mouse. This asshole made a nest in the attic above my garage and chewed though the drywall ceiling. Plugged its entry point, so then it started chewing at the outside of the roof to get back in. Apparently, once they build a nest they'll kill themselves trying to get back to it.
Yes. This is especially bad if there are any electrical cables or plastic water pipes in the attic. Given enough time, the squirrels are guaranteed to chew them into pieces, causing either a fire or a flood
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DAWs normally have automation tracks that are independent from MIDI CC tracks. What DAW do you use? Can't you just use the DAW's automation tracks instead of MIDI CC messages?
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17 minutes ago, luke viia said:
Can you not just stay logged out of youtube when watching random shit on wattm?
Google still tracks you when you're logged out and the Youtube recommendations are still affected by what you watch when logged out. I never log in to Youtube and the recommended videos still change based on what I click on
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4 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said:
I went to sleep with youtube playing, and woke up to the CPAC Day 1 speeches. I blame this thread for fucking up my algorithms. Press play on one JBP vid and the internet automatically assumes you're a fear mongering piece of shit.
This is very relatable right now:
The Channel Blocker browser plugin helps to remove stuff like this from Youtube's recommended videos
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Has anyone put together a comprehensive list of tracks that Aphex has never made? It would be handy to have a list like that. I'm pretty sure he never made a track called River Wharfe that starts with a reversed 808 cowbell. Unfortunately, I can't think of any other tracks he never made besides this one
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3 hours ago, ignatius said:
kurt cobain! look at that room. if only jordan peterson could've gotten to him
Posture too
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It seems to me that the main thing that made Jordan Peterson world famous was some odd quirk in Youtube's recommendations algorithm that made Youtube persistently shove his content at everyone a few years ago. The quirk in Youtube's algorithm can also explain why there has been such a backlash against his content: viewers get annoyed if Youtube tries to force feed them content they don't like. Without this force feeding, the viewers wouldn't really care what this guy's opinions on things are
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43 minutes ago, kakapo said:
excreted musk
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23 minutes ago, Amen Lare said:
I generally agree with the notion (discussed in detail in this Yale lecture by a TV guy who worked both in US and USSR, now in Russia) that it is the US who created Putin by continuing to disregard his objections, mainly to NATO bases crawling closer and closer to the Russian border.
It's a bit hypocritical of Putin to say he has no interest in invading the neighboring Easten European countries, and yet be upset about the NATO bases established in these countries. If he is not going to attack these countries, why does he see these bases as a problem? The idea that NATO itself could invade Russia is so implausible that it doesn't really count as an answer here.
Also, the main reason for the expansion of NATO bases to countries neighbouring Russia was that these Easten European countries themselves invited NATO there to be guarded against Russia. The expansionism of the USA had a much smaller role in it.-
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UFO'S
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One possible explanation for the Fermi paradox is that the universe we live in is a simulation, and distant stars or distant galaxies do not actually exist in the simulation. The entities running the simulation may have created a universe with a limited map in order to save computational resources. This would be similar to an open-world computer game where when you get to the edge of the map, you will run into a barrier that cannot be crossed, e.g. an endless ocean or mountains that cannot be climbed. When you are at the edge of the map, you will still see something at the horizon but the territory at the horizon cannot be reached because it is outside the map of the game.