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AND it looks like tenforward.social blocked qoto. I'm not entirely sure, but I can't find there from here. Pffft! How might I check on that, @freemo?

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Because of Phil Plait, the "Bad Astronomer", I now have to go check out @SazeracLA@tenforward.social. Yay!

@freemo Just goes right over my head. That's ok. When I'm asked to stay alert because of a concussion or other medical situation, I start going over the powers of 2 starting with 2 until I get to 65536, because binary is awesome!

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Or just being treated like a human being woukd be a nice start for them too.

@freemo I really dig @TDL99's response. I'm an armchair "I'm into lots of different stuff, nothing too deep" guy.

I watch RIck Beato, a former music producer as he discusses "what makes this song great?" or other various music related topics.

youtu.be/6IV29YNTH3M How Auto-Tune DESTROYED Popular Music is one such. This also relates to "beats." According to Beato, having the players not quite be on the same beat preserves the humanity of the work. The slight variance of timing, the "not quite 120 bpm" and so on reflect on the ears as, "this was made by humans, not machines." For Beato, one of the current trends of using digital tracks to force notes to be on a precise beat is sucking the humanity out of the work, and he will provide examples of really great songs, but the artist isn't *quite* on the beat... and in the process making the music more interesting, more emotional, more compelling.

Listen to youtube.com/watch?v=vZAkqukvfS and try to find the precision of beats. Everything isn't quite 100% locked into a beat, but DAMN the raw, naked emotion of the song comes out in just that tiny bit off. It's the room for the humanity to come through.

youtu.be/zTX1VyHiBJg with the Professor of Rock gives us the story by the drummer of how he screwed up the beat going into the song, "Low Rider." He kept going anyway, and everyone else jumped in like it was nothing KNOWING he screwed it up. And out of the screw-up came a great masterpiece. TDL99, despite being humbly "I'm not qualified" is WAY more qualified than I am. But between Rick Beato and Adam Reader of Professor of Rock, I get the idea "it depends," but also "using a machine to lock the beat suck the humanity out of the music."

For what it's worth. :) Thank you for this opportunity for me to share what I get to experience listening to these guys.

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Does this mean that showing the Tom Hanks/Peter Scholari sitcom “Bossom Buddies” to kids in Tennessee will become a felony? I realize comedic tastes have changed in the last 40 years, but felony seems an over reach. I guess less gov’t regulation is only good when it comes to hauling toxic chemicals by train, and not the LGBTQ+ community.

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NEW COMMANDMENT:
Thou shalt not use your religion to take away other people’s rights.

@ChemBob @zleap @freemo @trinsec @boris_steipe it is a horrible reality of life that sometimes all options suck. I am glad to see this discussion and to have the power of choice among the user base rather than by fiat behind closed doors, or worse announced based on false information.

If the radical get even more radical, whatever the reason, let them be punished under the full extent of the law for criminal actions they commit.

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Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

science.org/content/article/mu

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

and

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

@freemo Congratulations! So you get the Senior Discount when you dine out?

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Well Ijust got the official notice, I am now a IEEE Senior member (The highest level one can apply for)

@Dennis1212 Damnit! Now you are going to send me down another rabbit hole of memories I'd long forgotten about, but should never have lost. Life is so short!

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For my time spent building in , I have learned I wish to build 2^n+1 centered on an even number 0-12 within a chunk. Anything else leads to madness. This is why I really *HATE* Ocean Monuments. :(

Unless you can spread misery equally, options to allow choices *OUT* of misery should not be permitted. Except in cases where some are more equal than others.

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Birdsite conversations:

"Can we agree on what I said? (what was said prior, "Can we also agree that the people with the fewest resources generally have the fewest options when it comes to commuting longer distances to receive better service?")

What is implied, "Poor people are just too damned stupid to come up with solutions to transportation of their child, and too selfish to work as a community for any to manage to get their child to a school of their choice. Obvious conclusion: poor people should have no options to get their child out of a shit public school."

Also finds rebuttal to presumptions of poor people incompetence "boring." Yet, "Don't call me racist! I didn't call you racist for only wanting rich white people to have options!"

@freemo My religious dad: "I'm not the Bigot! This is God's Word, that's what it says. If you have a problem with it, you need to take that up with God!"

Much fun to be had now that the grandkids are African-American.

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Just a reminder, being a horrible person shoukdnt be tolerated simply because they claim their religion says so.... **YOU** choose one of any number of interpritations of your religion that caused you to be a horrible person. Thats not your religions fault, thats just you finding an excuse to be a shit human. No one needs to tolerate you being a shit human just because your a religious shit human.

That is all...

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Lauren Boebert literally prayed for Joe Biden's death while giving a speech at a Church. In contrast, I want Donald Trump to live a long life--but in a prison cell so he serves as a warning to all who attempt a coup or incite a terrorist attack on US that they will die in prison

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