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I see what you're aiming for with that repeated rhetorical device; the binary answer is a trap - if I answer no, my position is invalidated because I'm admitting Peterson is right - if I answer yes, I'm dismissing common sense advice on how to be a good/better person. No, there's nothing bad about them (unless your dad will beat you with jumper cables if you don't), but it doesn't invalidate my opinion on Petersen being a bloviating buffoon.
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That's exactly my point - if those are things that you need to be told do to get your shit together, you deserve to like the rest of Peterson's oeuvre. It's all about being a (simple hu)man, sucking it up, not being a pussy, standing up straight and getting your collar starched. Read the bit about lobsters and admire how he draws parallels between crustaceans and humans because they share a neurotransmitter.
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He's been a hero of the alt-right and MRAs (men's rights activists, i.e. incels) because in many video clips he "wins" by "owning" the "SJWs" when his regressive gender views are questioned. You can always see how pleased he is with himself, especially if the interviewer chokes and/or spazzes out. "Facts don't care about your feelings" is the rallying cry for the self-described beta cucks who think Peterson's yet another stable genius. The coma he was in was medically induced, he'd become so addicted and dependent on benzodiazepines that his body was simply shutting down. That shit is wack, yo.
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I wasn't going to read 12 Rules because the premise seemed so ridiculous; based on the articles I'd read on Petersen and a handful of video appearances - I started to watch the "lecture" version of the book, but it got so boring so quickly that I couldn't be arsed. Then a work mate asked if I could read it and review it for him - he's a video person, not a reader - he wanted my honest opinion on it and offered to buy the book. I took it as a challenge and read the bloody thing from start to finish, and I was underwhelmed: the writing's bland, self-aggrandising, misogynist, patriarchal and several other kinds of WTF am I reading inane "clean your room" and "stand straight" type self-help mush that'll rot your brain. Oh and there are two ASCII smileys in the book, FFS. I understood why my workmate likes his ideas - he's a right-leaning boomer - but I was not impressed. Peterson loves the sound of his own voice and thinks rather highly of himself, then overreaches by a blatant display of erudition by writing reams of nonsense. 12 Rules is a simplified distillation of his first book, Maps of Meaning, which took him 13 years to write and less than 13 people have read it; Paul Thagard wrote that Maps of Meaning is "defective as a work of anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and politics." I understand why some people may actually like 12 Rules and the ideology of it - but I also know the type of people is far removed (please) from me. To me, it was WOMBAT - waste of money, brains, and time.
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Emotions Electric returns with a radiant compilation of interplanetary waveforms from bleepest space by electronauts both known and unknown. Vinyl only, but worth it - art by Abdul Haqq (Third Earth Visual Arts).
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It's bloody brilliant, although a bit pricey if you're after physical - I paid about 40 € for the extended CD version that includes the three EP tracks as well, but it's well worth it (considering that the combined second hand price for the album and the EP starts at about 130 €).
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I think I have only one Drexciya proper, Molecular Enhancement on RePHLeX. I caned Aquatic Bata [sic] Particles like mad when it came out, but I never got more into them until 10-15 years later - although I've always liked Donald and Stinson's solo alias work, especially Arpanet and Transllusion, and other collaborations like Der Zyklus, Dopplereffekt, Elecktroids, NSRB-11 (completely indispensable) and so on. I really should get Journeys Of The Deep Sea Dwellers I-IV. As an aside, I have no recollection of how, but I found Ultradyne by way of Drexciya, and Ultradyne's been more my thing during the years than Drexciya.
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It's PITA but it is what it is. I looked into writing a CKEditor plugin that takes the release page URL and automagically scrapes the id from the page source for the embed (to be honest I found at least two viable methods of doing it) - I know I'll eventually give up and do it to save humanity from repetitive stress injury - and for the pleasure of implementing something small but useful to offset the insanely, needlessly complex technical yak-shaving I get paid for.
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Forgot to specify that I'm towering over most children under 12 at 168.5 cm (rounded down to 5'5" for you imperial measurement system using weirdos, I can't even, WTF inch = 2.54 cm, 12 in = 1 ft, 3 ft = 1 yd, 1 mile = 1760 yd... ounces (vs. fl.oz), pounds, drams, grains, stones, gallons, quarts, bushels, acres, sq.ft... and gills - not forgetting the mighty Fahrenheit vs. Celsius (Centigrade)? We SI-indoctrinated weaklings have it so easy with most things scaling by base 10... pathetic. I find myself entertaining often enough to irrationally believe I could seem humorous to non-me people.
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He's a bit taller than I am, my starry-eyed, moist gaze filled with unbounded admiration was ever so slightly pointed upwards as we had a chat and he poured me a glass or red wine from a bottle he was carrying. This was on December 6th, 2000 in a now-closed venue less than three kilometers from where I now live. Ph1nland Rephresh with RDJ, Grant Wilson-Claridge and Ovuca. Over 20 years ago, mind-boggling.
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I wrote to Exalt and asked about the vanishing, Jamie replied that after the tapes sold out the music went back to Russ. Fair enough. -
Galcid - Hope And Fear (Detroit Underground)
dcom replied to Extralife's topic in New & Upcoming Releases
Just by giving the Bandcamp release page's HTML source a quick look I found a much better implementation for embedding with just the id: ask for the release page URL, make a simple HTTP request to get the HTML, give it to an XML parser, extract the embed URL via XPath //meta[@twitter:player]/@content, extract id from URL with a regexp, done. There are 38 occurrences of the id in the HTML, but there's no human-friendly way to get it. -
Galcid - Hope And Fear (Detroit Underground)
dcom replied to Extralife's topic in New & Upcoming Releases
Pasting formatted text as white on black background and not nixing the formatting is evil. This editor explicitly ask if you want to remove formatting from what you've pasted - make it so. Embedding Bandcamp releases is horrible in more ways than one. The only way to get the release id this editor's embedding mechanism accepts is to choose Share/Embed on the Bandcamp release page, then Embed this album, then Select a style (any will do), copy the iframe HTML (all of it, it doesn't allow selecting just the id); then get back to this editor, click Bandcamp Player Embed on the toolbar, paste the HTML in the Bandcamp Wordpress Album id field, remove everything before and after the numeric id (found after the string "album=" up until the next forward slash), accept. I've done enough of that to have it in muscle memory, but FFS it's tedious when I explicitly describe how to do it. Why use an opaque system-internal numeric identifier with no semantics beyond uniqueness? Why not the release page URL, which could also have the id in it if the human readable URL to release id mapping is impossible to implement. Also, it would be trivial to extract the id from the embedding HTML with a regexp: /album=(\d+)/ - it's not rocket surgery. If that's not Farnsworth-worthy, nothing is. -
Arkives FTW.
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I noticed, but I'm still puzzled - there are some releases I have bought and they're still in my purchases, but they're not in my collection any more, so there's a way to redact Bandcamp releases completely (the payment/transaction data remain, though, with a "more info" link - with a popup stating that "Sorry, <release> by <artist> is no longer available. Please contact <artist> for more information." e.g. Russ Gabriel's Ancestors and Aurology albums are gone from Exalt's Bandcamp, I have them in my purchases but not in my collection. (Note to self: always download everything bought from Bandcamp in FLAC immediately after purchase.)
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Oh, and the Instagram post announcing their availability has also gone the way of the Dodo. They're still on YouTube, though.
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John Tejada - Year Of The Living Dead (Kompakt)
dcom replied to dcom's topic in New & Upcoming Releases
Tejada's a really good sound engineer, his tracks have a spaciousness to them - that's what caught my ear when I first heard Lucid Dream on A13; Pure Punk gets it right and tight straight away with Dreamworks. Around that time I had already been a huge fan of Mark Broom's Pure Plastic/Rewired/Unexplored Beats - Tejada scratched that same particular itch, but in a slightly different way. -
Interesting, they're gone from Hawtin's Bandcamp, but they're still in my collection and I can download them.
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Just a heads up, seems that Hawtin is adding his back catalogue on Bandcamp, there's a lot there already, so if you're into it, there you go.
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Electronic Atmospheric Pop? Oh my.
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A compilation with an amazing artist roster, and for a good cause to boot. Grab a copy or the digital.
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A new exquisitely beautiful downtempo electronics album from Nick Zavriev. Very highly recommended.
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I feel you, me too. Also, Music Box.
