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    Many of these people utterly lack the resources to do so, or refuse due to identity / tribe / allegiance / cult / conspiracy-belief. It's become a thought disease. I think this is an increasingly common example where all we know how to do, or are allowed to do, is hope people come around and do the right thing, but that is totally inadequate. Profit is being made keeping them ignorant and riled up.
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    The tunes in this thread are ok. I actually appreciate his YouTube presence - he can get a little high on his own farts sometimes, but overall he's way below average on the synthfluencer cringe-o-meter.
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    Yeah let's not further cheapen words like "surveillance" and "research" - that's how you end up with QAnon armchair sleuths.
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    Seriously. Death penalty. No mercy or it's going to happen again.
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    Physics is cool but why is it always a fucking ball bouncing off walls and not, like, water ripples, fluid dynamics, population growth, light refraction, etc. It's been bouncy balls for like 20 years now.
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    More like GearCompensators
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    Gearslutz is fairly shit though. Did anyone mention this yet? The only thing I can recall worth saving are tidbits from acreil's incredibly deep synth research, which spans everything from low-level Yamaha FM chip design to FFT synthesis techniques in PD. Also some reviews of practical purchases like monitors. The rest is mostly what I can only imagine are a horde of fat, ugly, white dudes competing with each other for who has the best taste in $20,000 compressors.
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    GearMikePennis
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    YouTube Bandcamp Spotify YT Music (I uploaded a bunch of nice stuff there before Google fucked it all up) mpd/mpc player (usually mods)
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    This is both disappointing and reassuring. Seeing actual organized, armed guards standing on the other of the police line really makes them look like cosplayers, and their rhetoric sound like a bunch of pseudo religious bullshit. This is pure aesthetics. If they really wanted to do some damage, they'd do something covertly and their oversized egos and undersized intellect will not allow it. I think they'll just keep playing dress up for months/years and the only tangible result will be a heightened police presence. Eventually they'll just get bored or humiliated. The shock factor of crackers with assault rifles is basically gone.
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    I keep seeing this title and thinking it's another thread full of Marxist psychobabble
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    Whatever gave this watered-down, Hallmark special Christopher Walken the idea his opinion was in any way relevant?
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    A good chunk of what I did in 2020 was random-oriented. SC's Patterns can help hone in on a sweet spot of structure vs. random (or realtime-controlled) variety. http://doc.sccode.org/Tutorials/A-Practical-Guide/PG_01_Introduction.html
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    If you ever find a few days to invest into Max, PD, or SuperCollider, it can really pay off having building blocks for that stuff. Once you get the foundation you can follow your nose and incrementally learn things. Then you're no longer stuck with other people's tools and you can build things for the occasion.
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    This is actually right below where I am down the rabbit hole. I'm a math idiot; I'm just half-decent at visualizing patches.
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    Accurate, but what I'm personally doing is way less scientific/technical. I'm really just goofing around. I'm surprised recently how much richness you can get just summing a handful of comb/allpass with irregular/staggered times, and a little modulation to further smudge.
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    Watch out, that shit'll turn you into a libertarian
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    Mostly hand-rolled allpass arrays in SuperCollider these days. Otherwise Erbe-Verb. I have a Quadraverb and a BAM but I haven't used either in months.
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    I love how the App Store has significance for the future of the rebuttlickin' party now. What a ridiculous world.
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    Nice
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    I guess the practical question is, should this thread be a "safe space" or toilet for our frustrations, or should this be where we discuss what we can do to stop this bullshit?
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    Yeah I have a postcard print of St. Francis Contemplates a Skull that I got at the St. Louis art museum when I was 16 or 17, and it just occurred to me that he maybe looks like a Klansman. Moved it out of view of my Zoom background, heh.
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    I shouldn't speak for chen, but I don't see it as defending, per se, I see it as pragmatic skepticism, i.e. playing devil's advocate. The problem (as usual) is the laws have not caught up to the bad actors.
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    I appreciate this and I think you have a point. I just don't know what happens when the law utterly fails to diagnose the cancer that is plain for anyone to see. This is my main concern in all this. Trumpists don't give a shit about the social contract because, depending on class, they believe either their money or guns will protect them. Once the rest of us stop believing in it, what's left to hold the country together?
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    Honestly, no, because their chances of success are effectively zero - see Occupy, etc. One side of this divide is so much more skilled at weaseling their way out of anything.
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