mandlebro @mandlebro@qoto.org

@yukiame what is this?

@freemo you have to be careful it’s those button releases. A bunch of people have shot themselves because of button releases where if one uses the index finger and maintains pressure after the gun is drawn the finger slides into the trigger guard. For my revolvers I use thumb strap holsters, for autoloaders I use “level 1”

@augustus What a grand and intoxicating autism!

@freemo @angelobottone you have to be very careful while discussing these things as the terms are defined and used maliciously to confuse the matter.

@freemo @angelobottone This is incorrect. Grammatical gender, gender as a social construct, and see are distinct but inextricable concepts in the sense that one cannot be understood without understanding its relationship to the other, however at the same time neither is equivalent to the others or can be understood entirely through the others. Additionally, identifying someone is not a purely linguistic thing unless all thought is purely linguistic although addressing someone may be. Grammatical gender describes how someone is addressed while gender as a social construct describes how they are identified. To be even more clear, how someone is addressed is what words you use to refer to them while how they are identified is the collection of concepts and perceptions that allow you to understand them in relation to other objects.

@augustus Its like its about European music or something

@freemo I think you pretty much have to go to Nevada and shoot at a mountain on BLM land

@freemo If I was thinking pure vanity, it'd be a Barret 50 cal and a S&W 450 magnum as I have no need for the connective tissue in my shoulder and wrists.

@freemo @gat I would be skeptical of its efficacy as a handheld self defense shotgun, which it is kind of marketed as. Those shotshells have really limited effective range. It seems fine as a 45 though.

@augustus I just re-listened to it and to me, it does not feel like it works as a three movement piece for a similar reason. Ending on a slow emotive movement like that leaves a sense of qn unresolved emotional state that asks for a conclusion, but the conclusion he chose colors the whole sonata. If you interpret it as a peice about death, than the the third movement has a sense of melancholy acceptance to it. The last movement undos this and leaves you with a sense of anxiety and dread. It feels like a death rattle to me. Like you know what's coming and you can't do anything about it and can't quite come to terms with it even though your trying. Really unusual and specific emotional color thats definitely not an obligatory bookend the way some of Beethovens early last movement feel.

@ademan I was shocked by the photos of the fair and looked into what happened to the buildings. Apparently most of the buildings made for the fair were temporary and built out of plaster of Paris.

@augustus Never. We may someday be able to accurately reproduce his style in new pieces, (as a well trained and talented composer probably could now), but Chopin was an artist that continually evolved throughout his lifetime. True new Chopin would be a continuation of that evolution. However, without the pressures of the human experiences that made him evolve the way he did as an artist, I can't see how that evolution could be continued. Why would an AI trained on earlier Chopin write something as shocking as the scherzo at the end of the b flat sonata? It would have no reason for that statement, while Chopin did because of what he was going through in his life.

@Hyolobrika@berserker.town @otso To ignore the strange partisan discussion that this thread evolved into and answer this question directly: globalism is, broadly, the trend away from a localized means of production and governance to a global means of production of governance. For example, the development of banana republics, states that specialize in producing a single good, as well as the move of manufacturing out of western states to China are both considered products of globalism. The formation of supernational governance bodies like the EU is also consider a form of globalism.

Critics of globalism often consider it an impediment to freedom first of all because the formation of supernational governance bodies leads to the formation of new laws and regulations by a body that is viewed as distant to the people. Often it has been argued that the larger the geographic body an organization controls the less representative the government can be. Second, it is considered dangerous to freedom as the degradation of the local means of production in favor of the global one creates a dependence on other national bodies which necessarily compromises the agency of the dependents. If you need imports for food or manufacturing, you need to take into account the will of those who provide it to you when you are acting.

This at least is what I perceive as the actual conflict.

@jeffcliff The statement holds in Z_4, not Z. Consider 1 and 3 as elements of Z_4 and consider the groups generated by those elements.

@PapaPole @mimorinka @coolboymew I love him