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  1. On 10/20/2020 at 10:48 AM, Friendly Stranger said:

    Big fan of Hand Cranked (and Fi) but I'll take this opportunity to once again voice my extreme desire for a Vignetting the Compost repress. I like Ambivalence Avenue well enough also, but Vignetting just resonates with me. 

    Some day! It's between VTC and Orbus Terrarum by The Orb for "#1 vinyl repress I regularly complain about wanting". Give me what I want!

    Vignetting the Compost test pressing posted by Bibio today.  Its coming ?
    https://www.instagram.com/p/CIF190OB1Bk/

  2. 11 minutes ago, user said:

    People straight up facepalming this should read about the after effects of the swineflu vaccine on a small part of the kids that received it. Not anti vaccine but some concerns are legitimate. Don’t just wave your hand at it. 

    What are your sources here? I understand the need for skepticism here and to not dismiss arguments either for or against.. but I gave a look at the wiki (of course a brief overview, but it is sourced from relevant data rather than anecdote); concluding in general there haven't been significant long term adverse effects.

    in spoiler to not take over the thread..>>

    Spoiler

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic_vaccine#Adverse_events

    According to Marie-Paule Kieny of WHO assessing the side-effects of large-scale influenza vaccination is complicated by the fact that in any large population a few people will become ill and die at any time.[71] For example, in any six-week period in the UK six sudden deaths from unknown causes and 22 cases of Guillain–Barré syndrome would be expected, so if everyone in the UK were vaccinated, this background rate of illness and death would continue as normal and some people would die simply by chance soon after the vaccination

     

    The U.K. National Health Service stated in 2003 that "There is no evidence of long-term adverse effects due to the exposure levels of thiomersal in vaccines."[112] The World Health Organization concluded that there is "no evidence of toxicity in infants, children or adults exposed to thiomersal in vaccines".[113] Indeed, in 2008 a review noted that even though thiomersal was removed from all US childhood vaccines in 2001, this has not changed the number of autism diagnoses, which are still increasing

     

    On 15 December 2009, One of the five manufacturers supplying the H1N1 vaccine to the United States recalled thousands of doses because they were not as potent as expected. The French manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur voluntarily recalled about 800,000 doses of vaccine meant for children between the ages of six months and 35 months. The company and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) emphasized that the recall was not prompted by safety concerns, and that even though the vaccine is not quite as potent as it is supposed to be, children who received it do not need to be immunized again. The CDC emphasized that there is no danger for any child who received the recalled vaccine.

     

    This following one is perhaps concerning, and i dont want to dismiss it.  But I'd be curious if the instances of narcolepsy have persisted or were temporary conditions (especially as in young adults sleep conditions can be multifaceted and hard to attribute).  @user Was this the one you are talking about?

    At the end of March 2011, an MPA press release stated: "Results from a Swedish registry based cohort study indicate a 4-fold increased risk of narcolepsy in children and adolescents below the age of 20 vaccinated with Pandemrix, compared to children of the same age that were not vaccinated."[32] The same study found no increased risk in adults who were vaccinated with Pandemrix. While cautioning that the increase in risk for children is still uncertain in magnitude, it recommends they not be vaccinated

     

  3. 24 minutes ago, drillkicker said:

    moderate about implementing it

    what does that even mean?  the whole point of developing a vaccine is to give as much / enough of the population immunity to stop the spread and eliminate the virus. and the reason its not widely distributed already is because it's undergoing rigorous safety and efficacy trials.

    sorry i know this isnt the covid thread, but im more worried about misinformation getting in the way of a vaccine actually working and us not being able to go to sick shows because 'the plague' will linger in the population

  4. 5 hours ago, iococoi said:

    it's moon (2009) time, again

    i didnt really like this film, which was surprising considering im generally a fan of real-leaning or minimal-storytelling scifi. been quite a few years tho.. worth giving it another chance?

  5. 15 minutes ago, nickinko said:

    I was thinking the same. Love that track.

    According to lastfm playcounts, F7 is the most played autechre track recently (Not sure who actually uses last fm, i dont but check it´s stats and comments for fun sometimes)

    I also love F7.  Weird in just the right way

  6. deckards dreamscape B.. such a cool fuckin track.  turning into one of my favorites from both albums.

    both this and marhide have the very apparent tape hiss at the end.. i also love the sound at the end of dek that sounds very much like a microphone drop.  busting out the hardware / samplers on these tracks probably?

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Nebraska said:

     


    got a bottle of whiskey and a smoke on the ready. just waiting for the green light

    Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk
     

     

    lol, partner and i opened a bottle of wine on election night.. drinking accelerated when florida was called.. we both ended up passing out with npr on the speakers.  woke up around 2am and checked for results, which were identical to earlier in the night.  i can only imagine there are some people who have spent this whole week in some sort of long-drawn-out bender / daze

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  8. On 10/30/2020 at 5:33 PM, dr lopez said:

    i have an original pressing of TEE and computer world and the remasters sound just as good. very good.

    those remasters sound good, but as you admit they were already starting with very high quality source material. i have TEE original pressing as well and it sounds excellent.  so the objectives are quite different with that kind of remaster as opposed to "cleaning up" something lo-fi.

    im not intimitely familiar with this boc album so i cant comment if they lost any detail with this remaster.  it does sound quite clean though on first listen, sort of what i imagine it would sound like if they put out an official release (infamous boc-set). but i probably wont bother to download this, as the lofi qualities of the original tape never bothered me, it fits the music yknow..

  9. 17 hours ago, Hugh Mughnus said:

    I’m not seeing a lot of love for 7FM? For me that’s one of the weirder, stereotypically autechre-y tracks from the two albums. One of my favs

    its still my favorite (or at least tied with ecol4)!  it has more hip hop swagger than any other track on these 2 albums.

    x4 is the only track im not in love with on PLUS.  it really dwells on those farty sounds..

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  10. 35 minutes ago, Braintree said:

    We have a solid chance of flipping the senate in 2022. 12 Democrats and 22 Republicans are up for reelection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_elections

    Thanks for the info, i really hope so.. But this year Republicans were also  defending 23 seats and Democrats 12 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_elections). One can hope that a different mix of states will be more competitive and they can net flip just a couple more seats needed

  11. the gop mostly likely remaining in control of the senate is a disastrous result, and will severely limit any efforts to make the usa a more equitable and democratic country.  granting PR and DC statehood (4 more senate seats), and then inspiring a younger generation to vote, could have gotten rid of the clear power bias which currently exists, paving the way to get rid of policy that blatantly upholds monied and/or white interests.

    also agree everything @jules said.  i am dissappoint

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  12. 8 minutes ago, scumtron said:

    I really don't get the winner takes all for each state. If it's 60/40 in a state, wouldn't it be more beneficial and representative for the population to let the losing party get around 40% of the electoral votes? What's the rationale with winner takes it all?

    theres no sense trying to rationalize it- the electoral college is still around because it is politically advantageous to small states (mostly republican) to keep it in place.  and the political will to change would have to come from the senate, which already overly represents small states (2 senators per state no matter the population).  the electoral college, at this point in time, upholds racist and monied interests, valuing the votes of white america more than diverse cities where there are actually  more people

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  13. 19 minutes ago, aencre said:

    I’m firmly in the fuck google camp, even if as a paying member I get spared the billboards.  But that doesn’t mean I expect someone else to pay for that.

    One thing I’d love to be part of the discussion is ways to actually lower the hosting costs. How much of the bandwidth is "downloads" vs actual forum? And of that, how much of the database callups could be shedded off with a stripped down theme, one that doesn’t contain all the gizmos, stats and such a non-suscriber (and even more so a bot) couldn’t care about? Set as a default, wouldn’t it alleviate the load somewhat?

    Agreed- I would be curious if that could reduce the costs.  The downloads and blogs havent really become part of the core of the watmm community.  As long as members have the files, we can generally act as a distributed peer community (for files that are legal to share of course) by requesting and sharing links within discussion threads.

    Also, as a currently non-subscribed member, i had frankly forgotten to renew, and plan to rectify that soon.  Maybe some sort of annual virtual event, with a prominent spot on the front page, could help remind non-subscribed members to re-up.  Like a membership drive but cool.  Members could contribute tracks and dj mixes. And you could just embedded external sites like mixcloud for the streaming functions of this "event"

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  14. 37 minutes ago, toaoaoad said:

    Fair enough, that larger print is kinda nice.  My eyes just hate the parts where the shapes overlap (esp bottom corners?)

    i find these sort of shape-combining overlay games super aesthetically pleasing (especially as an architect where i spend too much time squinting and scrutinizing drawings.  but i must be their target audience).  its kind of the point that the overlaps are very odd or subtle in certain areas.

    22 minutes ago, jaderpansen said:

    yeah it's awesome because it's actually so easily missable. also worth a mention: colored sleeve insides of oversteps and SIGN (and presumably PLUS, too).

    also worth a mention, the glossy overlay pattern that adds an extra layer to draft.  and the peel session 2 vinyl that literally has the title 'peel session 2' printed as just gloss-on-white at like size 2 font.  you literally have to squint and do like a magic eye thing in full light to just barely see that shit.

    shoutout this blog/website thing that hasnt been updated in ages but has some nice documentation of autechre physical stuff http://www.hardformat.org/index.php?s=autechre

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