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4 minutes ago, t yst r said:
I was actually being silly. Most consider ^these^ outtakes to be better than the albums from which they were omitted.
The outtakes are good and all, but they are not better than the albums from which they were omitted. Except for "Cow is a Mammal", that is a masterpiece.
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16 minutes ago, dr lopez said:
ALITHIA is pretty boring to me but there are some gems in GAIA
ALITHIA much more chill.
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1 hour ago, usagi said:
Petra
That's right. Didn't she sell of them in Japan for like $5k a pop or something? Or am I totally misremembering (entirely possible). Anyways. Fucking stupid bullshit. Almost as bad as NFTs.
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1 hour ago, Walter Ostanek said:
How widespread is this child labour shit I keep hearing about? Fucking nuts
Albeit not vastly different to what Canada does with Indian international students. Exploitation under the guise of feelgood pseudo-philanthropy?
Lol that article talks about using actual children (like 13 year olds) to clean slaughterhouses. You're talking about paying Indian university students less than they might earn as research leads? (Or what are you talking about?) These two things are vastly different.
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5 minutes ago, ignatius said:
yeah. i saw a few things about detroit recently that were pretty inspiring. that piece was written years ago and republished for reasons i guess. it has some lessons in it and detroit does too.
6 minutes ago, ignatius said:there's a lot happening there w/local gardens to combat food deserts and genuine community happening in different pockets of the city. there's big group bike rides and stuff too
Yeah there's a lot going on, but long way to go. BUt if it can happen in Detroit, it can happen anywhere in the US. I think the ability to different types of work remotely now will help with the sprawl and "automobile disease", and creating walkable, 15 minute cities. Although many corps are fighting remote work for a number of reasons, it just feels like an inevitability.
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3 hours ago, ignatius said:
interesting piece
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/4/we-are-all-detroit-2019
We can pretend that Detroit is a case of corruption or incompetence or racial issues or globalization—and there are certainly many nuances and complexities—but at the end of the day, what has happened and is happening in Detroit has a lot of commonality with nearly every other city in this country.
I gotta say though, that the new investment into downtown Detroit has made that area remarkably livable. I visit my friend there a couple of times a year, and there's lots of walkability around Greektown and the MGM. It needs better public transportation, but the idea is right. Condos with grocery stores on the bottom floor, local shops and markets etc. I know it's only a small section of the city, but you gotta start somewhere. The sprawl though....
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It sure is. I'd only heard "More than This" and the title track previous to last night.
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I had never heard Roxy Music's "Avalon" in full until last night.
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On 9/24/2023 at 2:14 AM, o00o said:
I am a fan of these live gifts reaction videos
this is art and it’s something really new nobody did before
There was some girl on here before (can't remember her user name because senility) who made YouTube videos with emojis/icons going down the screen very similar to what is seen in the live streams. Obviously not live, but clearly a predecessor. I didn't think it was art then and I don't think this is art now, but that's just me.
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20 hours ago, xxx said:
Thoughts?
Maybe he sampled the hits but the syncopation is pretty different. And of course he's processed them. It's also entirely possible that it's just a coincidence - Aphex isn't the first person in the world to have their drums gated as fuck.
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4 hours ago, Upset man said:
Oohhhh
The full ruling is here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23991872-ny-ruling-on-trump-business-fraud, and the judge lays down a brutal legal smackdown on Trump's lawyers, Trump, and his family of fraudsters. My schadenfreude is through the roof.
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When I was much younger, I took up the druidic practice in private. The meditation guides and internal spiritual connection with nature I found very helpful, not so much the worship of nature deities/spirits.
The Book of Druidry was a very interesting read and practical guide that helped develop inner spirituality without falling prey to the blind faith required of most theism.
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I just throw them all into respective playlists. So GAIA has a playlist, CYCLES, ALITHIA, PHANTASIA etc.
Put the list on shuffle and you have enough music for the day. So good. Especially on headphones.
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Man that will be a trip. All london-ish watmmers should check them out.
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On 9/23/2023 at 8:36 PM, randomsummer said:
...and the attitude of every French person in that city.
On 9/23/2023 at 8:49 PM, d-a-m-o said:True.
I have to say that all the people I met in the city were fine? My hotel was in Saint-Denis, work was in the 16th arrondissement, everyone was courteous enough. Maybe I didn't meet any "true" parisian/parisienne?
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chen goes to Paris.
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47 minutes ago, cern said:
What I like with Trump tho is that he wants to fight the Deep state. I have always known about it and feel sorry for people not knowing enough about it and how big problem it is.
oh thaaaat's what he wants.
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15 minutes ago, Upset man said:
Well now he doesn’t have the reelection money corporate paymaster thing is all I mean… I know it’s all a pipe dream. It’s all too fucked
Romney never needed the corporate paymaster though. He's got his family money and Bain Capital money. Romney is smart enough to know when he needs to appear principled - a real snake in the grass. Still a thousand times better than trump.
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6 hours ago, zero said:
said it before and I'll say it again - I fault the media for even giving him an inch of attention. we know what he's going to say, just more of the exact same shit he said before and repeats over and over again. he's brainwashing a certain subset of people out there in the most absurd way possible by repeating it. media need to stop covering him ASAP...but they can't. they are addicted to him and his nonsense. he gets them clicks. it's a sick cycle, which showcases a larger problem with society in general IMO.
I mean yes and no. They can't not cover him - he's running for the highest office in the land (and he also committed a bunch of crimes while sitting in that office previously). The problem is they cover him completely uncritically.
And then of course you have the Republican party which has just completely given up any pretense of integrity from top to bottom (the older Dems are not much better - from my outside observation - but at least there are some policies proposed that actually might do something for the American people as opposed to just "getting back at the Dems"): hence Kevin McCarthy's latest buffoonery.
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he’s a literal toddler with power.
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On 9/11/2023 at 2:59 PM, Ivan Ooze said:
Just hang out at the station at night, plenty watmmers there
Will you be there?
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2 hours ago, droid said:
The events leading up to the war are complex, but I don't think there's any serious commentator who claims that political repression in the South was not a major factor. At least 30,000 dead at Jeju, hardline crackdowns of labour movements and protests, the 1948 election mired in violence, murder and boycotts, and ofc Rhee was responsible for the deaths of at least 200,000 between 1948 and 1954, the victims of massacre and political murder, which is strong indication of the character of his regime. It is in this context that the invasion took place, as the North (rightfully) viewed the south as a client state of a foreign power that was hellbent on opposing anything other than the most modest of socialist and political reform, which, as elsewhere in Asia, was wildly popular amongst the population. For the North (as with Vietnam) it was seen as a war of liberation against another set of colonial invaders and their quislings. That said, ofc I don't think the SK right wanted war, but I do think it fits very well historically into the US mode of operation.
I think there are lots of serious commentators who disagree with that analysis. Cumings himself (good use of the word quislings by the way - Cumings loves it) has written that he sees the war as an extension of Kim Il Sung fighting the Japanese, and especially to seek vengeance on the Koreans who collaborated with the colonizers. Don Oberdorfer digs in to Soviet archives and finds repeated requests from Kim Il Sung to Stalin to authorize the invasion, with no mention of the Cheju massacre. This is hardly surprising, as Cheju is as far away from Pyongyang as it is possible to be, but still be in Korea. North Korea had no interactions with nor provided support for the leftists in Cheju. The overall repression of leftists was perhaps a factor, but not a major one. Kim Il Sung saw himself as some divinely ordained leader who would reunite the peninsula (interesting there was an attempt to remove him from power in 1956), and that was really the driving force for the war. The North even made economic plans that were based on them winning the war and including the southern output in their economic considerations.
I'll attach a paper by Don Baker that discusses the collective memory of the four major events of the 20th century (the Cheju uprising is not one of them, but it is discussed).
5 hours ago, droid said:Oh yeah, Im well aware of NK's long history of espionage, but I was thinking of the constant surveillance of NK by UC spy planes and satellites, the time honoured deployment of CIA spies with weapons inspectors and the more recent sabotage of NK missile tests by the US.
Yes, I agree that if NK had spent less on defence they would have had more money for everything else, that's precisely my point. Whatever about the appalling internal policies of the country, they have had a real and legitimate fear, articulated repeatedly by the US of total atomic annihilation.I mean NK did a little bit more than espionage (assassination attempts, landing submarines on SK shores, digging tunnels under the DMZ, kidnapping Japanese citizens etc.) and it looks like NK has gotten around the US cyber program that was sabotaging their missile tests.
The US has only ever threatened retaliation should the North Korean military launch another invasion. I find it a little odd that you're willing to wave away plans for invasions sent to the Chinese in the 1960s, as well as the creation of offensive missile capabilities. Maybe if the North Koreans spent less on their aggressive military posturing (it is not about defence - it is about controlling the young male population and posturing to the North Koreans about the strength of their military - they are very proud of it), they would have more money for economic development.
Anyhow, we're far off the topic of central planning vs capitalism, and their outcomes.
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Aleksi Perälä - GAIA 15
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Lol sorry man, it was meant to be in jest. For me they're not better than the albums (I love onclements to bits), but that's just my preference.