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    not had it either. suspecting lots of re-infections occurring, hinted at in press recently. omicron. expecting there are locations, lifestyles, that will gradually identify themselves as most likely places waves of infection spread to. i’m in a smallish town (circa 30K) that’s had around 50 deaths, half in care homes, afaik. don’t know about infection rates here, but do sense people gradually convince one another that as more have it and survive (which most always would) that deaths don’t seem so problematic and it’s not that bad after all . as has been said elsewhere, learning to live with covid is not the same as learning to die with covid. hundreds of deaths each day in the UK should not be acceptable and should be a scandal now rather than down the line when left to continue for months and years.
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    https://brainwaltzera.bandcamp.com/album/itsame
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    i was a member of that original IDM message board / email subscription thingy in the 90's. talked to richard (briefly) through that, via email, about video game emulation. probably mentioned it before around here. any other members or discussion about that initial use of the term on this forum over the years?
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    ordered the boxset. needs to be warm and hypnotic. currently worried it's too simple in structure. the frequent bypassing of following or progressing from 90s electronic stuff seems calculating and convenient. it was more of an issue when forse was written, perhaps?
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    people on the whole are very much clutching at straws in hoping it’s evolving itself out of causing as much damage. omicron is more infectious but seems to bring less death. but … you’d still have massive hospitalisations and deaths as it’s a swings + roundabouts situation because it’s always a percentage, and a small percentage of deaths of a much higher number of infections is still a huge figure. reinfection can’t be avoided either. psychologically, UK is a small country with a sense of global influence and importance, doesn’t see why it’s faltered or is failing but imagines elsewhere is letting us down by falling behind when we aren’t as good as we imagine at all this … the USA struggles with a global perspective and sees it as a state by state issue too. it will remain tangled and unpredictable, flawed, inevitably. i suspect people in news and society at large are also frequently emphasising one aspect of omicron (lighter symptoms) and downplaying the other (infection rates) in hope of feeling it’s over, giving others a similar impression, creating false hope. would imagine a cycle of this for a long time to come, as vaccination rates aren’t as high as they at first appear - plenty of countries still to get going or are resistant to it, used to other techniques for coping - so variants of concern will be a norm, even if most restrictions and mechanisms eventually melt away, with covid probably never eradicated but endemic globally. i’m also expecting revised vaccines and further boosters in spring (march / april, in UK) and eventually one every year like annual flu one is, but for over 18s or teens and older.
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    the actions against anti vax citizens will be the wests biggest issue with CV 19 in ‘22. patience will run out, as money + sympathy does too. in those less vaccinated countries, international efforts to assist will be hampered by further rounds of the west keeping their own countries heading closer to the right direction. more new variants, more concerns about protection and pressures. two steps forwards, one step back. or something like that.
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    i think it was earlier, but remember those earlier / earliest releases probably constituted more 80s material done primarily prior to signing to warp / R+S or getting rephlex going. he went away to uni very very early 90s, and i remember SAW2 was the kind of material being finalised or mixed when in halls of residence, with some being later described as stripped down versions of long existing stuff. there’s apparently mostly a lag between recording and release, but not necessarily absolutely always.
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    the geography of cornwall will explain a lot. it’s always been something i remembered pointers to in interviews over the decades. rephlex was started to issue what they were creating to counter how they found it hard to buy what they wanted. being remote, with plymouth the nearest big city, few record shops there in the 80s/90s. just enough connected to know and hear some stuff, not enough to know the full or wider picture. SAW and SOSW era always sounded like someone being slightly off in their interpretation of someone else’s styles, making something completely new in the process. you can hear elements of what was elsewhere in UK, UsA and italian house, acid and so on, all sprinkled in and coming out in a very individual way. the move to london or elsewhere that richard made always struck me as a change of dynamics, even personality as time went on. staying remote and disconnected would have probably kept more individuality than you can find when you begin to see other clear genre influences that were happening from things like HAB, that sounded more like being directly close to current trends.
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    had my booster yesterday. ive noticed the talk of dramatic improvement in protection after it. involved mixing or varying type / make of it, so 1st two were astrazeneca (march, may) and third is pfizer. one observation has been that some people seem to believe they were told what was necessary and they did it, now it's being changed (adjusted, really) as data comes in and time goes on. initially one dose was portrayed as vaccinated, then they shifted to 'fully vaccinated' when second doses timing and necessity became clearer. some don't think its necessary to do a booster; many feel safer as time goes on, and some are getting a shock as they imagine it's not going to reach them. this is an oversimplification and misunderstanding, to my eyes. for me, as the UK had many deaths and much mishandling, the need to be obvious and reliant upon vaccination whilst also wanting to not be definitive (matter of fact, preferably) about making a move to require it (from an early time) meant too much liberty was actually too much room to manoeuvre and dismiss. long before first lockdown here it was clearly spreading fast and killing people quickly. vaccination could have been positioned before any other action was taken due to development process (global, started late '19 early '20) coming long before major issue (late march) in the press or from government. i think we'll long see major deaths globally, and more mandates / protests next year or two, as well as younger age groups and further doses and improvements on how long it lasts. taking time to get people to realise just how many vaccines and responsibilities to society they already accept that are no different to this one.
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    interesting. charts like this have been regularly included in UK news over the last 18 months, but ours are far harder to determine the current relevance of. for the most part, i'm surprised at how the stats here are presented in the press. i'd highlight % in hospital without vaccination. also wondering to what extent avoidance of local councillors involvement was down to their dominance from opposition party around london and across regions suffering from reduction in budgets since '08 crash. looking at my town, it looked like 25 deaths for the longest time. last time i looked at a map with data a few months ago, it had risen to 50; population about 30k. the early run of deaths were in local care homes for the most part, as far as i know. i keep wondering about some of the elderly folk i'd see around on my regular walk (done for 20 years) as a handful have disappeared. all from one road, around half a dozen or so. one went into a care home march last year at 90+ yrs old, another died at home, another moved to family during lockdown and died there. missing the details though. most cases i know about in day to day life are actually where my brother works. some with major effects from vaccination, plenty of tension on site from variation in rules across departments, some anti-vax sentiment from someone who lost relative to extreme vax reaction ... and one ex-colleague death : a small group of friends who went out together and all got ill, this chap was recently retired. also, a b'day party couple of weeks ago with 17 people all catching it. worst affected fully vax'd, turning 40.
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    i use an iphone (now 13, not pro) and could never figure out the best apps for improving photos. i’ve looked, but trying is expensive + reviews are just about selling. also like glitch techniques that cause sudden slopes within pictures, which isn’t done with apps but is about moving the camera when shooting? could never remember how exactly.
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    Brexit :(

    logboy replied to BCM's topic in General Banter

    this depends on either ignoring evidence or not being made aware of it, with covid being the cover story for situations not being experienced prior to brexit kicking in - january 1st 2021 - long after the beginning of the pandemic. we didn’t have food and fuel shortages, rises prices, dramatic staff shortages during last year. we do now. anything remotely similar happening elsewhere is dramatically lower level - a subset of effects due to covid, without the extra layer missing due to changes at borders, ports due to leaving the EU. not surprising, any of it, but more dramatic to see it as it’s happening rather than suggested or pointed to prior to this year. and odder given determination to deny it or inability to research realities and present it easily to politicians and public in pretty dramatic levels of denial.
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    yes, plastic. or ‘acetate’. lots of quality plastics are italian, lots of manufacturing is done in japan for western brands. there are even limits and low production levels on some plastics that are hard and time consuming to make; ‘aged acetate’ for crystal frames will survive better over time. it’s funnier at the high street level. the prices still get high - especially if you’re anything other than single vision lenses - but the materials will be noticeably better in the specialist end of the market. you’ll feel the weight, density. they’ll look glossier, solid. they’ll behave differently over time. they are still expecting you to judge just how much vfm you’re getting, so if you’re wealthy you’d not use them for long or have multiples and get more impact or mileage from wearing them. look at all the wealthy folk who’ve worn C+G over the decades. you can sense the benefit over just wearing something from a lesser brand that’s widely seen. its quite a thing in showbiz to buy high end glasses as something to set themselves apart on screen because they’re more dramatic and will come across as expensive on screen. good investment to avoid looking like an unsuccessful cheapskate.
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    i wear cutler + gross currently. they’re solid, weighty. had repeatedly thought about them for years before i bought some. they certainly look a cut above when worn. biggest disappointment is that when they adjusted the arms they melted (collapsed because they’re hollow to allow frame to move inside) - i was due to have them replaced for free in march 2020, so not been back yet. they’ve lost their sheen + slightly oxidised, but not as much as other frames i’ve had. i’d advise buying from any brands own shop (if they have one) for reasons just like this. i went to their spitalfields shop. also really like SALT optics.
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    i had the aiwa hs-px1000 in my late teens, 30 years ago … £200, top of the range, amazing sound. used a rechargeable battery, which was so unusual i didn’t realise they lost the ability to hold their charge gradually, so i assumed it was breaking. they now sell for a lot of money. no better personal stereo, as far as i know. a top blank tape, probably about £5 a time, from a CD, and the sound would be better than official release tapes, easily. http://www.walkman-archive.com/gadgets/series_aiwa_px_line.html
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    anyone wondering why boosters will be needed so quickly, i'd suggest it's because of the size of the world's population, the need to keep economies going, the lack of speed possible with giving first doses across the world. there is a world outside your own country, and it doesn't just exist on the news.
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    if you believe brits (reading this as 'english'; received pronunciation / RP) talking in upper class, english accents are being universally respectful, then i guess you've not experienced much of life in england first hand. as john oliver has pointed out, that formal use of english that involves appearing to be respectful actually hides astonishing contempt. it's a tool private schools teach their pupils, as though they're perfectly fine to say anything they wish about another person as long as they stick to basic rules of appearing to be polite. there's plenty of humour about the technique (see alexei sayle's 'the noble art of verbal abuse' for example), so you'd also get a reminder that it's a certain section of society that can deploy it. most can't, and are probably in the camp of falling for it quite often. it shows people so determined and entitled to be offensive that they've refined the tone and pronunciation to be so beyond fault that anything being said can be hard to pick up the flaw within. experience often lets you spot the flaws - drawling, derisive, bitchy, snobby - when you (rarely) experience it first hand regularly. other than this, it's usually about professions / positions of privilege and rarity that upper class find themselves in - law for example - and wanting to be clear, accurate and controlled, devoid of the various stereotypes associated with working class accents.
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    i can't actually figure out what this means. i'd seen it, but as my brother would probably get the CD, it's only making semi-clear claims about the vinyl mastering.
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    are these reissues actually new masters or just a new label for old ones?
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    that's what i am thinking of. something about the way it's been reported as a massive issue in india (and some other places) as resulting from compromised or weakened immune systems which would normally tackle it. being vulnerable to other things as a result, rather than just another in the catalogue of symptoms. i am not sure the issue is far along enough in the studies. i am interested in it, but the way it's spoken of feels a little detached or as though relatively minor cases that are enough to cause hospitalisation might then pick up black fungus as a bigger issue. after all, i hear covid 19 causes multiple organ failure, so there's lots of things within or connected to this umbrella term?
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    could be. there’s a lots of failure to understand science that’s still widespread. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/21/anthony-fauci-emails-criticism-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other the one from twitter that sticks in my mind is “died with covid, not of covid”, which misunderstands terminology for recording cause of death, and forgets comorbidities exacerbate covid 19 infections. these days you also have covid compromising immune systems allowing fungal infections, which is starting to look like something that might not have covid recorded alongside it as a cause of death … ?
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    doesn't kick in for a few week, of course. this is one of the major timing factors being used for easing of restrictions - you might offer vaccines to everyone over 18, but they all need to have been done a few weeks prior to any action to change what can be done that resulted from it having been completed.
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    cobblers, apparently > https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/22/windmills-of-your-mind-viral-covid-jab-hack-placebo-effect-at-best-say-doctors i've had both. arm ache lasted seven weeks from first. when i had the second, woman told me to relax my arm. she could probably see it was tense. no pain at all from the second one. that's the key : relax. just a little prick.
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