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    NOT Coronavirus COVID-19

    in General Banter

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    Sorry to hear that. I hope he has a positive outcome.

    Its appalling to think that there's probably about a 10% chance of a life changing condition everytime we catch covid, and we are expected to catch it multiple times a year. This cannot continue.

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    NOT Coronavirus COVID-19

    in General Banter

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    10 hours ago, thefxbip said:

    Get better mate.

    Did you get tinnitus? no earing loss?

    If i had one thing to advise is watch out for sudden energy crash upon effort if you felt hardcore fatigue. Happened to me and a few other people i know, you feel normal and boom it hits you again. Will not necessarily happen but it's one thing to watch out. Hopefully you won't get it.

    Yeah, I hope the ears are OK. I met someone recently, mid 30s, double vaxxed at the time. Caught covid last september, had a terrible ear infection that never went away, and now has 60% hearing loss in one ear, terrible tinnitus and hyper acuity. The docs say they cant give him an implant or hearing aid because the inflammation is still there.

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    RIP Mira Calix

    in Music Discussion

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    Ah, this is a such a shock. She was instrumental in the development of chill out and electronica in the early 90s, one of those people who seamlessly facilitated communication and created networks with a seemingly effortless charm, and her music was uncompromising from the get-go. It took me years to really appreciate just how forward thinking it was, really unique sounding, even now.

    I can remember getting sent a load of records and promo stuff from WARP more or less unsolicited after meeting up at a gig in Dublin. Only chatted to her for a few hours but she came across as a very genuine and generous person.

    RIP

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    Now Reading

    in General Banter

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    44 minutes ago, dcom said:

    I'm a huge Stephenson fan, but I have to admit that Fall was circumlocutious trudging through story molasses at times. The Baroque Cycle is way lengthier, but it's oodles more fun than Fall. I did get through eventually, but I read a handful of other books in the interim.

    I liked it, the 'fantasy' section was a bit long winded, but I think it paid off, and the chutzpah required to try and create a fantasy epic/genesis myth within the realms of simulation theory was impressive. It was almost like a reverse of anathem. Sci fi segueing into fantasy, reality cohereing instead of decohering.

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    Dub

    in Music Discussion

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    Ive never really been able to find out exactly how the album was produced, but neither Tubby or Jammy were making a lot of dub when it came out, and it sounds a lot like Sherwood's other 80's dub excursions and it was released on century which was kind of a UK outlet for Sherman's releases. I reckon the tapes were shipped over to Sherwood after the others had done their magic and he dubbed them out. It was one of a trilogy of records with Changing Dub and Matrix Dub:
     

     
    There's something special going on with Ghetto Dub, but Sherwood definitely had the chops, especially when he was working with good source material:
     


    That said, despite it being a far more MOR record, I do have a huge soft spot for this other UK guy:
     

     

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    'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'

    in General Banter

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    14 minutes ago, chim said:

    Ok so is there any reliable info on this besides the massively politicized IPCC? Their models are pointless, it's all a bunch of ridiculously chaotic variables that just complicate exponentially with each year modeled. They have themselves admitted to skewing the figures towards the extreme. In the 80's NASA "predicted" that parts of NY would be underwater by now. The global temperature was hotter a couple thousand years ago, most countries' heat records from up to a century ago have not been broken in the last decades. Deserts have actually shrunk in modern times. Most industrial countries' CO2 footprints are no more than a few percent of the CO2 produced from worldwide human breathing. 

    While the IPCC panic porn is touring the western world, China is classified as a developing nation until 2060. During 2020 alone they built 50 GW's worth of coal plants, thrice the amount of the rest of the world, with another 74 GW's underway. Let's not forget the recent mass migrations from countries where the average person produces 500kg's of CO2/year, to a lifestyle of 5 tons. Good luck countering all this with paper straws and wind power... which is far more pollutive and destructive to the environment than nuclear energy, which all the panicky environmentalists are shutting down, not to mention that solar and wind power is ineffective to the point that you need to boot up the coal plants yet again to counter the dips. 

    At this point it might all just as well be the Rothschilds' plan to create artificial scarcity. No government will be complaining if they can squeeze more taxes on the way. 

    There is one correct point in this flaming garbage scow of nonsense, the IPCC is politicised, it is hamstrung by political governance from the people who have a vested interest in maintaining business as usual, a situation that has ensured that their reports always err on the the side of caution and make conservative predictions. This report is probably closest to verifiable reality than any we have seen previously. 

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    'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by droid

    31 minutes ago, thefxbip said:

    Sure is but

    Pretty sure most gen x and millenials would find it more painful having to live without internet for one month than hearing about the biodiversity in their country being absolutely destroyed.

    lol

    I don't think we are that much better to be honest. We grew in an artificial techno-industrial bubble and we are feeding it. And it is ready to explode.

    In the end, i don't know if the blaming is of any use tho. This is a really chaotic and complex situation and both boomers and younger generations are in. The complex web of civilization became more and more complex. The system became toxic in itself beyond individual actions, because of the way it developed. Like, right now, even if i don't want to use plastic or internet or some fossil fuel im nearly forced to use them because of the circumstances. Boomers at large mostly didn't know the effects of fuel and were forced by circumstances to own a car or work in polluting industries. Can you blame a working class miner that wanted to feed his family? I guess you could, but he didn't know better, probably didn't have any other options. Everyone is in the same boat. Humanity didn't know better and fucked it up. The big structure got built up and built up.

    Comes down to the ignorance that what you inflict nature will also come back at you. We are not really separated from nature. There is not a separate environment in which we live in and that we can exploit to our own profit. You poison the air, you will be poisoned.

    Now what tho?

    That is indeed the question.

     

    That's not the case though. Exxon knew in 1978, suppressed their reports and spent millions lobbying to ensure this outcome. Shell did similar. In fact there's probably only about 10,000 people out there that have actively prevented action on this and continue to perpetrate ecocide; the lobbyists, the fossil and big-agri executives, the psychopathic industrialists and billionaires. This is a systemic problem, but there's a good reason why little progress has been made, and these are the people on whom the blame primarily rests. They knew exactly what they were doing. As the saying goes:
     

    “The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” 

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    'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'

    in General Banter

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    AR6 doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know. In some ways its comforting to see the IPCC align with less mediated predictions. At least it's all out in the open now. This is the doctor telling you that you're gonna lose the leg no matter what and if you don't change your lifestyle you'll be dead in 5 years.

    In short, we act now or we're fucked.

     

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