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On 8/28/2020 at 3:14 AM, Chabraendeky said:
I really love the NTS design. Simple but has some effect.
It's great with the physical pieces too. All the recent artwork has really popped with the records and CDs, they're so cohesive.
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Everything You Do is a Balloon
Sunshine Recorder
Cold Earth
Whatever this is actually titled as, the Warp10 track
Bocuma
David Came to Mahana'im, this track was my alarm for like 5-7 years. Later high school through all of university until the computer it was on more-or-less died.
The Devil is in the Details
An Eagle Insider Your Mind
Korona
Chromakey Dreamcoat
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Tell me why your country, not America, is one I should want to move to and why you don't want me there. Go!
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Want To 1 2 is his best album, fight me.
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On 8/1/2020 at 11:19 AM, dingformung said:
There is no reason to be a US apologist at this point.
I'm sincerely embarrassed to be associated with this country at this point.
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Have we adequately talked about how great this track is?
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2 minutes ago, apriorion said:
Sure, but again, these flags are often paraded as a reply to black lives matter, at least where I live. While perhaps it wasn’t meant to express “blue lives matter”, that’s effectively the rhetorical force in many disputes, at least around here.
I agree. The blue line flag is now the calling card of "well I can't fly my confederate flag anymore."
For what it's worth, I'm from Oregon. We have a reputation of being very liberal, and it is in the populated areas of the Willamette Valley, but the rest of the state is country as all hell. If I drive 20 miles east or west, or when I'm between cities going north-south along I5, everything is super conservative and aggie-oriented.
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On 7/11/2020 at 10:45 AM, apriorion said:
Oh yes: where I currently live (middle-of-nowhere farm country Midwest) those have been common enough to begin with, but they’ve been increasing, along with the flags with a red line, which I guess means “first responder lives matter”, too. It’s such an unsophisticated rhetorical move to shift the focus to a different, comfortable Fox News talking point, casting the whole discussion as a merely verbal dispute or equivocation. Then again, the most discourse you’ll get out of these people is that shouting you have from that meathead redneck in his pickup truck.
To add some commentary to this:
First, I want to make it very clear that I think the Thin Blue Line flag is very stupid. Even prior to it get turned into what is essentially a replacement of the Confederate flag, it was still basically a way for people to virtue signal how much of a bootlicker they are.
With that in mind, I want to make sure it's known that the idea of the "Thin ____ Line" flags was ever to be synonymous with "____ Lives Matter." There is no "Red Lives Matter" for fire fighters, there is no "Green Lives Matter" for EMTs (if I am wrong, please point me to where I can read about this). The ingrained culture with Americans and their love of Police Culture seems pretty rooted in our deification/role-modeling of those that serve in any form of armed services. Does this role-modeling apply to Fire Fighters (red line)/EMTs (green line)/Search & Rescue (orange line)? Yes, but to much lesser extent; these civil servant roles don't hold as much of a machismo culture (anecdotally) nor cultural divisiveness (I would not be surprised if there is still some).
American Fire Fighters are not funded like American Police Departments are. Just like American schools aren't funded like American Police Departments.
Americans typically treat their police departments like a paramilitary because they honestly are, nearly 1/5 police officers are military veterans.
I only bring this up because I play sports with a lot of EMT/EMS workers and Fire Fighters, a team of which is comprised mostly of Fire Fighters such that their jersey is a combination of the Thin Red Line flag and what normal American bunker gear looks like (that bright yellow suit). They've had this jersey for a couple of years, its intent isn't "FF lives matter," it's "we're American Fire Fighters." As an aside, I'm completely aware that a few of them are complete "ALL LIVES MATTER" shitheads, which is inexcusable.
Should these virtue signaling flags be retired? Yeah, probably. I personally find it interesting how willing people are to "violate" a flag they hold so dear. Proper flag code is like the only thing I retained from Boy Scouts.
Again, if anyone has any corrections to anything I said, by all means.
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I think "Time" is pretty alright, but the feel of that track is right up my alley. Couldn't make it through the other one, reminded me too much of some Otto Von Schirach without the intended silliness.
Arca's "Stretch" EPs are really great though.
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5 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:
This was in the YT link, slightly nsfw pasties
Yup, saw it when it hit the local news lol. What a time.
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I tried to watch Akira and got bored after like 30 minutes, I made it to the scene where the weird little kid-goblin-zombie made things blow up and realized I had no clue what was going on. My roommate has lambasted me for this, but I could not get into the world.
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On 4/25/2020 at 4:58 PM, ignatius said:
it's mostly SFW?.. story is from a local paper
I've heard people say their food is quite good. Apparently a coworker's wife had a coworker that didn't know it was a strip joint because she only ever had takeout there and was recommending it to people a few years back.
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3 hours ago, YELLOW said:
Surprised no one posted this yet. He did an hour long live broadcast on Thursday with some amazing visuals.
Some unreleased choons too!
It's because it had its own thread elsewhere, but definitely not a problem to spread the love elsewhere for sure.
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When Oversteps came out and I was listening to it my father walked into the room while known(1) was playing and quipped, "your room sounds like a fucking opium den." He then shut the door and walked out.
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I refuse to eat any form of seafood.
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[vibrates in chair]
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I'm pretty pumped.
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I've been making my way through their discog at work during these last few weird weeks. Since it's a bit loud where I work I've been hearing the tunes a bit differently and it all stands up so well.
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So I've got to say that my job has done really well with the whole pandemic thing.
Non-essential staff are to not to report in. I don't know how I feel being deemed essential production support staff, since I do work for the operations department and whatnot. Apparently some people in our design and development group are getting tested for COVID-19 as they're exhibiting the symptoms, which has caused me a huge amount of anxiety as someone prone to that garbage. The solace is that I do not work closely with them in any degree at all. It does make me feel important, but I'm about 80% of the way to an anxiety attack/breakdown similar to when I watched 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and freaked the fuck out at age 7 while my school was in lockdown due to a dude with a gun walking the premises. Anyway, I wish I was valued enough to have someone force me to stay home, because I clearly do not value myself enough to do so as I report in and spend more than 8 hours each day at work despite being non-exempt personnel on the daily; I make an income that can be considered a borderline joke for my credentials, yet I feel cherished by those around me as an example and proverbial de facto leader despite my flaws.
The place has become a ghost town except for our manufacturing floor in our class 10,000 cleanroom, which has been kept well stocked of sanitary supplies. My drive has gone from 9 minutes to 7 minutes as I don't even have to wait at the two traffic signals I encounter. I've spent my few days listening LPs and EPs lost to my past while I organize materials for the materials department to aid heightened production, which we've managed to ramp despite all odds set in stone. I've managed to affect the culture of our quality notices since there are less people to get in the way; I feel empowered in the husk of a company that's marching along as the chassis of its former self.
I'm not sure why I wrote all of this, I'm a stressed small man who doesn't feel like he knows what he's doing.
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It's neat seeing what the crowd here does.
I work something like 8 to 5 or 6 any given day. I'm the incoming receiving material review board coordinator for a implantable medical manufacturing company. If some electrical component is acting up, I'm the one handling it on a batch management level. I'm trying to become a data analyst for the company, since that's something I already do a ton of in house; I'm one of the main ad hoc report creators and editors for others, I have a reputation for having a bunch of my own little databases that are stitch-ups from multiple sources.
I've also started volunteering to be a hockey goalie coach.
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I remember enjoying Piety of Ashes a fair bit. He was also pretty good live when he and Cygnus opened for Plaid.
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Both tracks are solid and I loved Education.
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Pre-ordered it but didn't get the bonus disk? Oh well.
Had this playing in my car the last few days, really solid album all the way through. There's a lot of feeling in there.
New Album (x2) announced (ish)
in Autechre
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All of those covers are great. Also, Cichlisuite man.
I love how much the art conveys it's a collection of material.