Tricone RC

As the hour approaches, I'll darken the room and pull all the curtains tight, fish a razorblade from the cupboard and queue up Steinvord. As 23:59 passes into 00:00 I will jizz myself and slit my wrist in perfect sync with *that* bit from Maelstrom. Thus I will summon the antichrist

I was given a $1500 bonus. Grand, right?* Except that they've owed me $7,000 for about eight months, and there's still no sight of it. I just got neoliberalism'd *more like grand and a half ROFLFLOL

I've always lived by the smell test - I'll happily keep, and eat, things well past their sell-by date as long as they smell/taste/look alright. Cheese? Cut the mouldy bit out, the rest is fine you wuss. Pasta? Don't be dumb, pasta never goes off. But today I met my match. Natural yoghurt. It smells and tastes sour anyway. I've done a couple of really weird shits this morn

Yanqui cheese and chocolate tastes like plastic. yo

Can When Back is great. There 'a bit of dross in here lol, but you could def compile 1 or 2 albums of bangers from all this material

It's interesting to think that, the whole underpinning of our system of economic liberalism is that open market activity is a maximization of free choice. But IMO, free choice as a concept can become a bit shaky in our modern context where several generations have been born and raised in an environment that is saturated with broad spectrum marketing. Are your choices really your own when advertising has influenced your very upbringing? (I assume I've pinched that line of thought from Adam Curtis somewhere)

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didn't realise the Edwardians had such a good crack at alleviating famine. Pax Britannica?

Official WATMM endorsement of Andrew Yang? (and fundraiser compilation)

I like MBM because I, too, am a dad Delicious stuff, and that ScanOne EP is great

that first one is cracking stuff. listening to the rest after

but will it be good

Really don't get how that's your takeaway. We've not triggered or added to anything, we're directly causing warming, totally overriding natural forcings which presently would actually be causing a very slight cooling. We're swinging atmospheric chemistry around to a level hundreds of times more extreme than anything that's happened naturally since that big space rock fucked the dinosaurs

It's pretty unique from the last several tens of millions of years, at least. Historic atmospheric carbon levels (i.e. CO2+CH4) can be gleaned from lots of different sources in the sedimentary record (shoutout to forams), and you can map out historic fluctuations (inputs or drawdowns of biogenic carbon) using the 13/12C ratios. You can, crudely, convert this type of data into estimates for the actual CO2 atmospheric ppm, but for our purposes of survivability what is far more important is the rate of change. A high rate of change means a big "spike" or excursion in the 13/12C ratio. There aren't any 13C excursions that stick out against the glacial/interglacial cyclic background, until you get back to the Eocene ~50Ma. These tie in with the "hyperthermal" events of the Paleocene and Eocene, the most famous of which is the PETM - these are our best proxies for our current ill-advised atmospheric experiment. They were probably (but not conclusively) caused by magmatic activity in the newly opened north Atlantic, vapourising coal and hydrocarbon deposits. From the sedimentary record you can see that these correlate with temperature spikes of 5C upwards, rapid onset of a monsoon style hothouse climate across much of the world (mixed in with increased aridity in a few spots e.g. arabia, western-interior north america, central europe), more forest fires, major dieoffs of marine organisms, poleward jumps in ecosystems, and erosion of shallow carbonate deposits (probably caused by shoaling of the lysocline, caused by higher CO2 and also releasing more CO2, lovely feedback). Another odd one is increased insect damage to plants, which can be seen in the fossil record. Possible cause is reduced nutrient content of plant matter in higher CO2 environment (known experimentally). The various negative feedbacks did their work gradually over hundreds of thousands of years following the events. So, if we were to undergo another hyperthermal today, that's the kind of thing we should expect - with the added complication that we also have ice caps (which didn't exist then), so there's a bonus sea level rise factor for us. You can also put a rough figure on the absolute amount of organic carbon pumped into the atmosphere. The PETM was about ~2000Gt of carbon, over perhaps 20,000 years. Current human emissions are pushing 10Gt a year (this doesn't take into account the differing effects of CO2 vs CH4 of course). So we're playing out our current shenanigans at hundreds of times the speed of the only remotely comparable event in recent Earth history. PS any discussion of what is or isn't "normal" is vapid - what matters, surely, is whether it's survivable or adaptable, and are we causing it?

count me in for a lush track submittal, itching to make something again

Just listened through for first time, agree it gradually gets better. A very "synthetic" feel, far removed from their more recent luvvy dubby albums with overt uplifting melodies, but nothing like the Spokes, Greedy Baby era that was colder but still very "organic" or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCZekPKqhQs

Present is a lovely album, I find most SE (and possibly most Fehlmann-heavy stuff?) quite lacking in the melody department but Present is their best in that sense. Looking forward to hearing that extra FFWD track later!

We must protect Stonehenge from the Eurocrats. Knowing them they'd want to put the stones in a straight line with even metric spacing or something *tuts*

^ is that the flag of Florida?

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