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  1. Limo
    Does going public and admitting you had sleepless nights over it sound like a coverup?
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    So which is *more* plausible? “It accidentally escaped from a lab that has all sorts of protocols in place to prevent that from happening and just happened to infect a bunch of people” or “vast numbers of people were visiting a veritable virus factory every day and, whoops, the inevitable happened”?
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    The scientist doing exactly this research has been fairly public about this: she said she had some sleepless nights after it turned out there was a novel infectious corona virus on the loose, thinking it might be one of hers. In the end it wasn't, only 80% of the genome matched the viruses she was studying. The viruses, I might add, she was studying because an outbreak of a pandemic caused by bat viruses is exactly what people have been predicting for decades and she wanted to see what it would be that we would be up against. I get it. Humans are hard wired to see agency behind everything, and intent. But it is the very fact that this hard wiring exists that means we should be very alert and vigilant against its temptations.
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    Or what if, you know, there's wet markets in crazy crowded mega cities with all sorts of different wild animals shitting on top of each other so viruses from tons of different places can mingle in all sorts of different and interesting new ways and people have been warning for decades that this is a disaster waiting to happen ... and then a disaster nearly did happen in 2003 but at that particular instance the mutated virus could only spread when symptoms had appeared so it was reasonably easy to keep in check ... and then a disaster nearly did happen again in 2012 but again the virus it concerned did not spread if you didn't have symptoms so it was still sort of ok ... and then in 2019 it happens again Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
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    My dad had his taken out at age 64. It happens. It also sucks, because after age 30 or so your body recovers much more slowly from damage such as extracting wisdom teeth.
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    There was a fascinating book by a Dutch journalist (Joris Luyendijk) about this about ten years ago. He explained it by the Israelis having very slick PR departments that not only take Western journalists by the hand and show them exactly what they want them to see but also that Israeli's talk to Western journalists in a language that they understand, making it much more likely that their views are being put across. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have no such thing. They can't afford to drive Western journalists around and when they give press conferences they're held in abominable English and using language that Westerners can't understand or feel sympathy for*. The result is that even Western journalists who sympathize with the Palestinians (and there very well may be a lot of them, although maybe not in the US) find it very difficult to get their viewpoints across. The Israeli viewpoint pretty much is the default. * remember "the mother of all battles"? In Arabic, that's apparently a normal figure of speech for "a big battle". In English - but also in Dutch and I imagine in other Western languages as well - it just sounds ridiculous.
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    To counter the colossal heaviness posted above ^ here's one of my favorites: 20th century Italian composer. Really like his string quartets. If you want more noise, he also wrote orchestral pieces.
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    Les Misérables (2019). Three cops on duty for a day (and a bit) in a French banlieue. Gripping and incredibly raw. And what an ending.
  9. Limo
    You’re right. This thread is nowhere near constructive enough. I’ll start: Israel should be wiped off the map. So should the people who think that’s a good idea. Problem solved.
  10. Limo
    True, but when Israel was founded said neighbors started organizing pogroms against THEIR OWN Jewish population for no particular reason, thereby driving people who had been living in these countries for almost two millennia to flee to the militant Zionist state that had just been founded and that originally this Jewish population had little sympathy or support for.
  11. Limo
    Try wearing a faux leather jacket for a while and you’ll know.
  12. Limo
    What do you expect when you give every 18 year old, male *and* female, a gun and tell them they need to start shooting Palestinians if they don't want to get blown up? It's a miracle there are any decent Israeli's at all. By the time they get around to backpacking they're all shellshocked and damaged for life.
  13. Limo
    Stereolab and Tortoise were already big before Warp signed them (and arguably did not do their best work on Warp). The other three I'm not too fond of (in various degrees). To be honest, though, I had forgotten about those bands you named. I was mainly thinking of Maximo Park.
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Anti-Jewish_riots_in_Oujda_and_Jerada https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Anti-Jewish_riots_in_Egypt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_anti-Jewish_riots_in_Aleppo It’s not necessarily always that there are two sides to every story, and the Israeli state is certainly a very nasty political entity (as is the Palestinian Authority, btw), but ...
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    It’s like a machine tried to copy truly transgressive guitar music or something. Singer sounds like an upperclass twat playacting Mark E. Smith. Every attempt Warp has made at signing rock bands is like this: too polished, too clean, unconvincing. Can’t fault them for trying and sometimes they’ve hit upon an entertaining song or two, but in the end it’s just not in their DNA.
  16. Limo
    That’s why you need to have a liquor cabinet in it. In the shape of a globe.
  17. Limo
    No experience with these things, but I would save up for a speed boat if lived in a place with the climate for it. They’re fantastic fun. And one thing you can do on a speed boat you can’t do on this: go out into the open sea, stop it and just float around lazily.
  18. Limo
    Isn't that just called "IDM"? ? "IDM" always struck me as "synthesizer music - but not as boring". Lots of detail and trickery to maintain interest.
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    I might be wrong, but I think that is the reason why Max and Pure Data sound as bland as they do by default: because they use mathematically pure wave forms and white noise. Reaktor is much better in that regard because they strove to implement sound generation that mimicks what happens in hardware. Going for an ultra clean, mathematically precise aesthetic is not a new rabbit hole to explore, it's something that has been tried and found lacking. Unless, of course, you're Autechre and your music is so complex and detailed it doesn't matter that the basic sound generation is bland.
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    Credit where credit is due. This one was pretty funny:
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    Read her stories a while ago. She’s a better painter than writer, it turns out.
  23. Limo
    Wait - what is this a clone of?
  24. Limo
    $ 2,19 to chip in for hospitalisation costs. Makes sense, no?
  25. Limo
    I do it all the time.
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