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    @milkfacewhat are you studying? personally i do see university as kinduva huge scam in many regards (ie as this thing that's pushed on every teenager for years & years as being essential for any hope of future success & happiness). Obviously you need the degree for certain fields, and some people just really require that external structure to adhere to, but imo there's this massive swindle going on with the idea that any self-education or networking a person might do outside of formal academia just isn't real or useful for anything. with many subjects a person can get quite far these days without dropping a dime, thanks to the internet. like the actual course material itself is out there for free, often
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    oingo boingo was my favourite band in highschool *born in 1991, for context* & I stand by their tunes being fockin jamz
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    is this the new death grips album
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    yeah i mean in general threads like this aren't going to convert anybody. at best they're a way to score style points with ppl who are already in your camp but imo that's not gonna happen here, all the non-joke posts in this thread are teal deer
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    wife was going into labour. i had to get her to the hospital. suddenly i get a call. it's an emergency. it's my friend, the giant anthropomorphic talking toaster pastrie. he says "hey man i hope this isn't a bad time it's just that i woke up this morning it's just, i dunno, i feel like every body's being so frosty & not in the delicious chocolatey sprinkle kinda way. i just need someone to talk to rn". and i said "bro you know it's never a bad time. i don't mind when you call me. in fact...
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    gonna have to change his name to coronavax point never, next album will be constructed entirely out of modified infowars samples + midi saxophone
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    aiyo china whats dis i hear u tryna genetically alter sharks to walk on land & breath fire, what u doin over there bro? bro bro don't worry man it's cool, they's communist sharks ah okay bro i gotchu man, that should be good then. stuff that calls itself communist usually turns out fine
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    if you put Aphex Twin albums on one of those political quadrant maps it'd be RDJ Album in the bottom left, SC Dump Trx in the top left, Come to Daddy EP top right, and 26 Mixes for Cash bottom right
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    yo this is totally an aside but are you familiar with the book MP3: The Meaning of a Format by Jonathan Sterne? He basically traces the history of the filetype as a series of topdown private/government funded research projects (skunkworks basically) that built off each other over the course of a century. no real connection to marxism tbh (I voted for Harambe), just got reminded of this book for some raison
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    I wonder if I have to ask of if they just know to add Heinz Kethup to my sushi
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    i used to love making sourdough back in the day. would do it again but i don't eat near enough bread these days to maintain a fecund starter
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    if biden makes meat illegal i'm starting an illegal meat commune
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    Ben Shapiro hasn't even been the most relevant of the Shapiros ever since people realized his sister was hot
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    i always dryshave with disposable razers because my skin's oily af.. But I also have a perpetual five oclock shadow goatee, even when clean-shaven, because my hair is quite dark. that being said i've been tempted to get an electric razor at times because i regularly go through phases of maintaining a shaved head & that's a real pain to do with a disposable. rn i seem to be in a "let my hair grow however it wants for many months" phase tho so no rush
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    I have noticed this phenomenon any time I've gone out dancing & really gotten into it: at a certain point (even totally sober) it actually becomes difficult to stop moving in time to the rhythm. It's like a sort of kinetic flow builds up - I'll leave the dance floor, and notice that my fingers are still moving or my foot is still shuffling as I'm talking to people, almost of their own accord. I imagine it might be the same way with drumming - you become so engaged with the rhythm, that it takes actual conscious effort to break out of it literally chained 2 dah rhythm
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    my go-to meal for the last week or so: take a pound of raw ground beef & spread it out on a plate. season it, set it aside. dice up some bacon, mushrooms, onions, and a banana (the banana is key), and fry lightly in butter. add in cheese curds at last minute just so they get kinda warm. pour all this onto the raw beef & set aside. fry up some eggs and then add that onto the beef as well. eat with chopsticks. the banana is the real moneymaker here
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    ty will check it out! i'm almost done with Schumpeter now. Overall quite enjoyed it, particularly the way he dismantles popular forms of political idealism just by pointing out basic logical contradictions in their models...I do feel like I'm going to have to read some more contemporary analysises of his work, however, because I'm not sure his notion that Western Capitalism ultimately trends towards bureaucratization, class leveling, and formal adoption of socialism holds up. I mean obviously socialist concepts seem to have really started to catch the public imagination on the right & the left in the last decade, but this seems less like societal evolution & more like the old model of society feeling increasingly unworkable for most. Also I dunno if the reality of ultrawealthy tech overlords, the idea of neofeudalism, and corporations increasingly weighing in on political issues really fits in with the idea of management becoming more diffuse & less motivated to maintain individual power in society.
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    i'm not gonna watch it but based on the thumbnail i'm assuming it's the usual "[contemporary popular genre] uses [standard music structural elements] that are also found in [highly regard classical compositions]. Incroyable!" shtick
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    Every mainstream American Conservative figure: Curses, my own younger self - my only weakness!
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    i wanna hear, like a ten minute long funkband cover of windowlicker also that for minipops & the chill stuff off icbyd
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    scooby doo singing toxic by britney spears but he's singing about wanting to eat chocolate out of the garbage
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    for real tho, the whole magic of sampling is in all of those borderline-subliminal background details, which only become apparent in the context of hearing something looped over & over. because i make music on a computer i try to introduce as many "noise" elements as i can without totally destroying the track - ie, having the samples be kinda messy, the timing on some loops just a little bit off, weird little glitches in the mixdown kept instead of being corrected. my goal with making music is similar to my goal with photography - i'm not trying to construct a perfect shot, but rather to capture the organically unfolding moment in such a way that it elevates the constituent parts with a minimum of authorial intervention
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    probably but i'll have to stumble upon one. this was really one of those "oh yeah i feel like that's a thing i hear a lot....but I can't think of a single other specific example" moments
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    i think the specific track that inspired this post was this one, although tbh maybe it's not even a great example. like i said i'm not complaining about this sound, more just recognizing it consciously (and how it inevitably causes there to be shimmery hihat texture in the mix whenever i sample the tonal wash from the end of some piece of muic) 1588009350_chrishinze-easyanswering.mp3
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