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    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

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    4 hours ago, very honest said:

    we need to empower individuals to be able to sort verifiable from not verifiable on their own. then these monstrosities won't progress so far.

    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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    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

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    2 minutes ago, ignatius said:

    treasonous fucks. 

    FBI authorities are seeking a Pennsylvania woman in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot earlier this month after an accusation from a former "romantic partner" that she took a laptop from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the intention to sell it to Russian intelligence.

    https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/capitol-rioter-plotted-to-sell-stolen-pelosi-laptop-to-russian-intelligence/2447489/?fbclid=IwAR3rsKVcrMdEU-GF9Bpk264WfZWI1WTjud8PVlsut3epjtZ34Jr-sVSO3fA

    Seriously. Death penalty. No mercy or it's going to happen again.

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    Petition to get Gearslutz to change its name

    in Music Discussion

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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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    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

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    10 hours ago, hijexx said:

    Zip ties are the new 2021 must have fashion item for the TactiCool look.

     

    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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    What reverbs are y’all using?

    in EKT General Discussion

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    4 hours ago, sheatheman said:

    I’m pretty good at coming up with patches but I don’t know how to use max or any of that stuff, and while I would love to learn, time is short these days.

    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.

    What reverbs are y’all using?

    in EKT General Discussion

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    2 hours ago, rhmilo said:

    He builds them himself in the SuperCollider programming language.

    EDIT: here’s a good explanation of what allpass filters have to do with it.

    EDIT: link:

    https://www.earlevel.com/main/1997/01/19/a-bit-about-reverb/

    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.

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

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    2 minutes ago, dcom said:

    I know exactly what @chenGOD is doing, but I don't understand why. I play the Devi's advocate often enough myself, but I explicitly divorce myself from things that I find reprehensible.

    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?

    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by sweepstakes

    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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    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

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    2 minutes ago, dcom said:

    You're right on the legalese, but pseudo-objectively defending seditious morons is not exactly woke. I know extreme impartiality is a stance and being a moron is not a crime, but not recognizing morons for what they are is a choice.

    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. 

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

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    10 minutes ago, chenGOD said:

    I'm also telling you that getting to the legal burden of proof to prove criminality before hand is harder than it appears.

    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?

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

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    3 minutes ago, chenGOD said:

    What if they were investigated and the FBI (or whoever) didn't find evidence to meet the burden of proof required by the courts (you know, the same courts that rightly required evidence by Trump's legal team on their claims of election fraud)?

    Flip the script: what if these guys were wearing "FUCK CAPITALISM - VIVA LA REVOLUCION" shirts with a date on them. Would you want them investigated?

    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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