@freemo Can't eat popcorn on the floor at work... but we on the bottom rung often find ourselves mimicking the motions of eating popcorn while watching the antics.
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?
@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!
@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.
https://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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAkqukvfSE 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.
https://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.
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.
@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.
Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight
Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
and
https://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:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
What are we waiting for?
@freemo Congratulations! So you get the Senior Discount when you dine out?
@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!
"I fly my geek flag proudly!"
— #LevarBurton
The actor, director, #ReadingRainbow host and #StarTrek icon is 66 today
For my time spent building in #Minecraft, 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.
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.
Grinnin' Ferret