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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.

Australia's got the best safety campaigns.

Please elaborate on what @BCM starting this thread actually means - their house, their rules?

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Religion is the second worst and still ongoing pandemic we've ever had. Humanity itself is the worst.

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.)

I'd suggest A New Kind Of Science - it's controversial and hard, so you'll need to flex your connectome in various ways.

DEVO's Gerald V. Casale ``I'm Gonna Pay U Back``

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.

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.

-- Max Planck.

No amount of evidence to the contrary will convince someone who thinks they're privy to something that no-one else knows and/or accepts as true. If anything, the voice of the overwhelming majority standing on the proverbial shoulders of giants of established science and trustworthy sources will make them dig their heels even deeper in the dirt, exclaiming that people are not ready to accept "the truth" about the world populace being controlled, manipulated and lied to in service of some insidiously nefarious entity. I'm not a scientist, I'm an autodidact (self-taught) so basically everything I claim to know is by definition suspect, but I choose to lean in on the expertise of a couple of thousand years of scientific progress instead of cherry-picked solipsistic self-claimed experts producing algorithm-friendly bullshit videos on the internet with dubious credentials and conspiracy theory rhetoric. I understand and admit that the COVID vaccines have unknown long-term effects, because there is simply not enough data to analyze and make inferences from, but coupled with active misinformation and conspiratorial campaigning from parties whose motivation for such is suspect we've ended up in a situation where a noisy, sensitive and obnoxious minority is pushing absolute bullshit wherever and whenever they can, cussing people because their beliefs are not uncritically shared - ridiculed, even. I know people crave certainty, it's an evolutionary need. I know people feel powerless against huge, global things like COVID. I know people love to feel that they're special. I know there's a lot of people spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories because they lack the knowledge to critically assess the information (metaknowledge, Dunning-Kruger being the obvious keywords here) - this is also about education: most bullshit peddlers are (statistically) less educated (so don't take this personally and carpet-bomb me in your qualifications, real or imaginary). While I subscribe to the adage "I would rather have ques­tions that can’t be an­swered than an­swers that can’t be ques­tioned" (dubiously attributed to Feynman), there is a proper way to question the answers, and it has a method - something the tin-foil helmeted cohort isn't using. Personally it's really hard for me to constantly and repeatedly encounter bullshit without saying anything, because there's so much of it nowadays. I become condescending and oftentimes even rude, because I just can't fathom wherefore people invest their time and personality into bullshit and sling it around like apes hurling feces at the spectators in the zoo. Like religious zealots they think they're absolutely right and under the impression that if only everyone else understood what they know, the universe would be a better place, all the while making the universe a worse place with their bullshit - and they take immediate offense if their views are not accepted as valid. Better living through chemistry - less than three weeks to my second jab.

We're not sharing and/or accepting the right kind of information and/or not acting in a proper way when presented with it?

As the OP you have the ability to do that, but if I were you, I would not. You might not like what's going on in the thread, but at 250+ pages it's not really "yours" anymore and besides, you're not responsible for anyone else's posts. Just ignore the topic.

Finally got around to listen to this (I've got a huge vinyl first listen backlog), a really great album. Should get the digital for easier listening, but the idea of spending another nearly 20 € on top of the over 30 € for the vinyl is painful.

Oh cool, Helva is actually an Inzec release, i.e. Repetto's own label, I have some of the early releases on it and thought the label had been scrapped years ago.

The Purple Universe is one of the RePHLeX releases I still return to every now and then, it's brilliant. Should get the semi-recent 2xLP repress, I have the original CD and vinyl and the 12" with Free Sphere and Natural (The Ono [i.e. Gregory Fleckner Quintet of Clear fame] track on the other side is also very good).

Does anyone have or know about the Third Shock digital releases Sampler and/or Mermaid/Manhole? The label's been defunct for a few years already, and as they're digital only, no shop that I know of carry them. Any pointers to downloadables, not streamables appreciated.

I'm always reminded that Kilmer memorized all of The Doors lyrics by heart and sent videos of himself singing the songs to Oliver Stone - and he actually sings all of the songs in the movie as well. If that's not impressive, nothing is. Heat is a fucking diamond of a movie, one where guns actually sound like guns and not special effects, the cast couldn't be better and the execution of the whole is well nigh flawless.