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    More fresh Lackluster.
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    A new downtempo IDM psychedelia album from MOREGO. Recommended.
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    Darker beat driven electronics. Recommended.
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    Spacious & glitchy classic style IDM album from Build. Recommended.
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    Why so serious?
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    Oh, I didn't notice that the topic was modified from proverbs to malaphors - damn the torpedoes.
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    We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
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    Skateboarding

    dcom replied to gmanyo's topic in General Banter

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    WATMM is as WATMM does.
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    Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?
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    Now with a fresh remaster of Artifax from Likemind LM01 (and Syncrophone w/ Antigone remix). Really looking forward to getting a copy. The original Artifax is digitally available only on All Tomorrow's Parties 3.0.
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    Australia's got the best safety campaigns.
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    Please elaborate on what @BCM starting this thread actually means - their house, their rules?
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    King Crimson's virtuosic guitar track, "Fracture" (from Starless and Bible Black) is considered by most to be impossible to play. Even Robert Fripp himself has stated so. Italian guitarist Maria Barbieri: "Hold my beer."
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    Semi-redacted (personal issues). You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.
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    Just to digress and derail the thread a bit more, Tom Holland's Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World is a great book.
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    Religion is responsible for plenty of atrocities, internally and externally. The good parts are good, but the bad are really, REALLY bad at their worst. The Enlightenment wouldn't have come about without religion, or widespread reading and writing skills, to name a few. There's plenty of arguments both ways.
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    I was being sarcastic (hence the "humanity is a virus" trope used in e.g. The Matrix). Although I'm a pure-bred atheist, I acknowledge the role and benefits of religiosity and spirituality as mental health support systems - but I also have an extreme dislike of religious people pushing their belief systems on others due to evangelism being a virtue. They think what they're doing is good, but to someone like me, it's an irritant. Nevertheless, I'm not against religion pear se, I just rather keep it away from my mental environment. I also didn't intend to disparage religion by calling it a pandemic - I meant that as an idea virus it's infected most people on earth one way or the other in the context of memetic - whether you're a believer or not, most people have a conception of what religion is - some innately, some extraneously.
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    Finally got around to this as well (vinyl backlog yadda yadda), beautiful release. Remember to add a paper sleeve in the PVC cover or transfer to non-plastic.
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    Religion is the second worst and still ongoing pandemic we've ever had. Humanity itself is the worst.
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    Just to go further into meta (and although it has been discussed elsewhere, too), the misinformation, conspiracy theories and bullshit are information viruses, evolving and mutating and their field of study is memetics (emphasis mine): (The irony of memetics being labeled as pseudoscience - untested, unsupported, incorrect - doesn't escape me.)
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    I'd suggest A New Kind Of Science - it's controversial and hard, so you'll need to flex your connectome in various ways.
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    DEVO's Gerald V. Casale ``I'm Gonna Pay U Back``
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    Yes, critical and metacritical faculties are as important as the ability to assess both knowledge and metaknowledge. Metacognitive skills require learning and they're never ready nor finished, even the most intelligent people believe stupid things. To know and understand you need a mountain of base knowledge and information coupled with the ability to separate wheat from the chaff - and that takes time and dedicated work. I just turned 47 and I'm starting to grudgingly accept that I can know and do anything, but not everything.
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    You're discounting the over four million people who have died from COVID because you and your close family have survived it without vaccinations. That's about as callous and insensitive as you can get towards those perished - you've been statistically very lucky, but then again, as a Westerner with access to high-quality medical care you probably didn't have to worry about it that much anyway - you've played the game using the lowest difficulty setting there is, and now you're gloating. This is the other kind of bullshit prevalent nowadays, the "me and mine had the disease and it was nothing, the vaccine is unnecessary" crowd - they're equally dangerous compared to the misinformation and conspiracy theory rejects. Just because you've had good luck (or access to high-quality medical care) - or you're fabricating your story for whatever reason - doesn't mean that the rest of humanity needs to suffer and/or die when preventative medicine is available. Yes, there might be long-term effects, but I'm betting that the effect will be millions and millions of saved lives.
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