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Listening to this now at work, some really great stuff, thanks! I am so glad that people like you are out there curating things like this so that newcomers to the genre like myself can have touchpoints from where to start exploring.
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Knives Out. It was pretty entertaining.
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12 hours ago, chenGOD said:
I love those. I drove a few of them when I was a valet and they are the bomb. Plus they can actually go off road, not like 95% of SUVs out there. If I was rich I’d buy one of those. Functional and luxurious, sign me the fuck up.
I agree that they're very competent and quality vehicles, but around here I see them only being driven around Princeton by wealthy housewives, which is what I can see happening a fair bit with the cybertruck.
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2 hours ago, auxien said:
not sure what Bush's strategy was for picking Cheney tho so i could be talking out of my ass
Ummmmmmm, Halliburton/oil/$$$$$$$ ??????
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9 minutes ago, Amen Warrior said:
I'm into it and would buy one, unfortunately it almost definitely won't fit in my parking space, probably won't be sold in the UK cos there's no market for pickup trucks, and I don't have a spare £30k+
Done with fossil fuel cars for sure though, recently sold my aging audi a3 and just using zipcar flex vw e-golfs if I can't be arsed to cycle somewhere
Check out the VW ID.3, the specs look pretty nice. I actually wish they were coming to the states.
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1 hour ago, StephenG said:
The price point is lower than a decent Chevy. A Silverado with a V8 and 4wd is around 52k USD. Not sure I’d call the Tesla truck a rich people vehicle. Assuming it comes in at the price point they’re claiming.
edit: unless you consider all trucks rich people vehicles.
Yeah I consider those big, expensive trucks rich people vehicles.
Given the performance specs of the cybertruck, it can probably cross categories between rich truck people and rich sports car people.
I think there will always be a subset of people who will just want to drive it because of how unique and different it is, and those people tend to have the disposable income to spend on a truck like this. That's really what I was trying to say with my post, I guess.
These big trucks (and SUVs) are the legacy automakers' bread and butter. They had better be afraid of the cybertruck; I think I saw that a few of them were announcing their own EV trucks but they aren't nearly as ahead of the EV game and as agile as Tesla so I'm afraid some blunders will inevitably occur.
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That price point is assuming that when this goes into production, Tesla will have its next-gen batteries which will supposedly be lower cost. It's likely that the production will be delayed and the price increased, based on Tesla's history. However, the specs at that price point are a great value.
Regarding the appearance, it will look slightly different when they add side mirrors and a few other things to it. I think most people probably think it's ugly, but that won't stop people from buying it. I was amazed that anybody bought the mid-1990s RAM pickups or the Pontiac Trans Sport or those ugly expensive boxy Mercedes SUVs. There will be plenty of rich people who will drive one just to say, "look at how rich I am, I can drive around in a car that's expensive AND butt-ass ugly."
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Box set is amazing, so much material! "Dune" might be one of my favorite Underworld tracks ever.
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Growing up in the pseudo-midwest (Ohio), I was subjected to some pretty shitty pizza, mostly of the rectangular and too-doughy variety.
Best pizza I've ever had was at Frank Pepe's in New Haven, CT
Awesome white clam pie as well
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On 11/12/2019 at 7:07 PM, Lachesi said:
I think you should share some of your favorite tracks of the artists you mentioned
On 9/3/2019 at 8:30 AM, randomsummer said:Love this thread.
Hakobune is probably my favorite drone artist, although you might say he borders on drone / ambient. This track is so beautiful:
Some more Hakobune:
https://hakobune.bandcamp.com/track/maps
https://hakobune.bandcamp.com/track/garden-of-ghosts
He used to collaborate a lot with Nobuto Suda, who also released some great drone / ambient:
https://somehowrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-may-apples
On 11/12/2019 at 7:22 PM, droid said:The delineation between reverberated drone and sustained tones is interesting, and there is definitely a big difference in the aesthetic, and there's also people like Windy & Carl, Kyle Bobby Dunn and Celer who use guitar and loops to create dronish music. Ive heard the sound described as 'ambient drone', which I think is a subtle but important distinction.
I guess Id see the major qualities that distinguish drone from ambient in general as being around approach, intent and genealogy. Whereas ambient is a fairly amorphous fusion of ideas from new age, environmental music and the avant garde, 'hardcore' or pure drone is a much more restrictive sub genre of classical minimalism that is based in ideas from the academy. The originators of the modern genre - the likes of Phil Niblock, Alvin Lucier, Radigue, La Monte young etc. all come from a classical avant garde tradition, which is reflected in the austerity and intensity of the music. Drone isnt music designed to be 'ignorable'. Its intended to be a serious, radical offshoot of experimental modernism.
Thanks for the great explanation. It seems that I do prefer the guitar-based looped drone which I tend to call "ambient / drone", hence my post asking if there was a sub-genre.
I am familiar with and do like the other artists you mentioned under that umbrella.
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Thanks for your response! It's hard to explain what I mean by more "hardcore" drone, because I was never trained in music and I really don't know the terms, I only go by what my ears tell me, which is subjective of course.
I guess a lot of the suggestions I've heard in this thread sound more "harsh" and don't have as much shifting around (to my ears) as opposed to the artists I referenced earlier. I've found that I prefer "drone" music that is a little "softer" with more shifting and perhaps tonal layers(?), if that makes any sense.
If that's still considered "drone" and not some sub-genre, then so be it!
It's interesting that Hakobune, one of my favorite drone artists, is also in a harsh noise band.
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hey droid, thanks for the awesome links and recommendations.
when i got into this type of music, it was mainly through the Japanese artists Hakobune and Nobuto Suda, which i considered to be full-on drone and i would describe it as such to my wife and others who were ignorant about the associated genres. after seeing this thread though, i would classify them not as real hardcore drone, but something more toward ambient, but not ambient either as it seems much more toward the drone side of the spectrum than what most people consider ambient.
what would you consider music like this (some of the links i posted earlier in this thread), is there even a sub-genre between drone and ambient? i'm asking because this is where i find most of my sensibilities to lie, i love it much more than most other "ambient" music, but these hardcore drones are sometimes too much for me. thanks!
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12 minutes ago, darreichungsform said:
Why isn't there a legal maximum of private property?
If there is a minimum wage and a calculatable subsistence minimum, why isn't there a maximum?
Hoomans having too much causes as many problems as hoomans having too little
Because the ones who have too much have more power to form and shape the laws and regulations.
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5 minutes ago, rhmilo said:
Another thing I remember reading somewhere is that people in the US tend to base their views on what happens in local of state politics and that in those environments Republicans are actually pretty competent. No idea if that is true or not, of course.
I'm not sure they are any more or less competent than the Dems, but the perception is that they are more competent. I have a feeling that this is because the Republicans are more willing than the Democrats to "play dirty", and by that I mean willing to yell and shout and blame anything bad that happens on the Democrats, justified or not, and take credit for anything good that they can, justified or not. I feel like the Democrats are all like, "hey, why can't we have a civilized dialogue about all this?" and the Republicans are all like, "DO YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN?" Of course many Americans respond positively to the latter.
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4 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said:
That vertical groove is a tiny insignificant part of the stachia. I'm talking about that whole area upon which a moustache grows, the area between the
lines that lead from the edge of the nostril down to the edge of the lip on either sidenasolabial folds. And my avatar is my own handy-work, though I feel like Fred may have started the thread for MS-Paint portraits of that particular actress... Kirsten something-or-other?Yeah I knew it wasn't exactly what you were looking for, but close. My bad on the av, I wish I could find my Fred mspaint avatar, got it saved somewhere.
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12 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said:
1. That bit between the upper lip and the nose upon which a moustache will grow if a man does not shave. I nominate the term stachia (pronounced with a soft "ah" in UK vs. hard "ay" in US)
Kind of what you're looking for, but I can see that you wouldn't know this from your Fred-drawn avatar:
QuoteThe philtrum (Greek philtron, from philein, "to love; to kiss"), also known as the infranasal depression, is the vertical groove in the upper lip, formed where the nasomedial and maxillary processes meet during embryonic development.
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Sideways, but with commentary from Giamatti and Church. A few nuggets of insight, but it was basically Giamatti and Church in a competition to see who could wordsmith the most obscure references. Church won.
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No, I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. Sorry if I can't articulate it well enough, I have problems with that sometimes.
I'm saying that people should vote for the candidate that best represents themselves and their views. Tally up the votes, and the candidate with the most votes wins, which should be the one that represents the most amount of people. Everyone who didn't vote for the winner has to compromise, but that's OK because theoretically the winner will represent the largest subsection of voters. I'm completely fine with the fact that I have to compromise if my choice doesn't get elected, that just means that my views don't necessarily align with the largest section of voters and I'm fine with that. I don't want the government to serve me personally, I want it to serve the largest amount of people possible.
Now I get that if there are only two candidates, people will have to compromise and vote for the one of the two that most closely aligns with their values, but this is why I think the primaries are more important than the general election. For example, I know a lot of Dems who hated HRC but didn't vote in the primaries, then because they couldn't bring themselves to vote for HRC they just didn't vote, maybe also because they didn't think Trump could actually win. All I'm saying is that, throughout the entire process, people need to participate and vote for who they want to represent them. And then if their candidate doesn't make it, compromise and vote for the person who is closest to their views.
Here's my issue: in the last election, I really didn't think that HRC represented the largest section of Dem voters. I'm not just talking about the narrative that Bernie got shafted, he may or may not have, I don't really care. I felt like the people leading the Dems decided that HRC was going to be their nominee no matter what, and I didn't like that they made that choice for everyone which is why I didn't vote for her. I felt like I would be endorsing their tactics and emboldening them to do it again next time. Of course my perception could've been wrong and I'm willing to accept the consequences.
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I see both of your points. The point I was trying to make is that I wonder how many people compromise, like you say, and vote for the lesser of two evils because they're afraid of what might happen if the other guy wins. I wonder if there are enough people who, if they voted how they really felt, could make a difference and shift the system to get candidates that actually serve the people they're supposed to represent. I know it's idealistic, but it's the way it's supposed to work and I just don't want to resign myself to saying, "well that's the way it is so I guess I'll just compromise." I'm asking what would happen if we didn't compromise and actually tried to take control of things.
The government is supposed to serve the people, but I feel that the candidates that both parties keep pushing forward hardly do that and if we keep compromising like this, they're going to keep pushing the limits and serving their own interests over the people's until we eventually reach a tipping point where enough people are in shitty enough situations where they'll be motivated enough to act.
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17 hours ago, Zeffolia said:
good in theory, doesn't work
a write-in is a vote for trump
I'm tired of this narrative. Sure if only 1 person does it that's true, but what if everyone who is fed up with this bullshit did it. Would it be a vote for Trump then? I feel like this was HRC's whole platform, "you'd better vote for me because you don't want Trump in office, right?"
What if I voted for Biden? I would consider that throwing away my vote because I don't want him to be president.
2020 US Election
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I heard someone say that the ideal corporate tax scheme would be based on what is produced. Companies that actually manufacture tangible goods and services would be taxed much less than those that make money just by moving money around or collecting interest etc.
Nice in principle but too difficult to successfully implement without loopholes. Not to mention that it could never possible be implemented considering how much power the financial lobby holds.