FtttG
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FtttG
3hr ago
Blastbeats get stale unless used sparingly. For album #2, I've had lots of ideas for things I want to do, and early on I decided that I want the first song proper to feature blastbeats right out of the gate, to grab the listener's attention. Then the next three or four songs will be slow (or at most mid-tempo), followed by a song which starts off slow but steadily builds to an explosive blastbeat at the end. This will either be the second-last song, followed by another slow song, or it'll be the last song and the blastbeat will be the last thing you hear before the album ends.
I haven't started writing this album in earnest, but yesterday I thought of a riff which will be the riff playing over the second instance of blastbeats. It's gonna cook.
In January I recorded a guitar arrangement of a piece of modern classical music, but never got around to mixing it. Going to start mixing this evening.
The belief that American police officers are gunning down unarmed black men willy-nilly led to the 2020 riots (causing something like a billion dollars in property damage), and the subsequent police pullback (resulting in the murders of an additional ~10,000 young black men).
FtttG
5hr ago
Has he ever used profanity in a public communication before?
One incredible thing about Trump's continued insanity is how much of a natural loyalty test it creates.
It will come as no surprise to you that I think there are many progressive beliefs which serve a similar function as loyalty litmus tests.
FtttG
13hr ago
Hold on, are you saying JD Vance personally commented on one of Scott's articles?
The impression I get from him is that he's a corrupt bureaucrat who leaned on a medical organisation to manipulate their recommendations of best practices for political reasons, not to conform with the best medical evidence available.
The impression I get from him is that he's a shameless hypocrite who wants to prevent young children from ever having children of their own while freely admitting he can't imagine life without his own children.
The impression I get from him is that he's an autogynephile whose wife predictably divorced him shortly after his "coming out", as she had no interest in playing along with his delusions/roleplay/whatever.
FtttG
1d ago
Third example: "lit bro", a stereotype of a man who's very interested in fiction but whose reading is limited to the oeuvres of uber-masculine powerhouses like Ernest Hemingway and, um, David Foster Wallace. Freddie deBoer is convinced it's a category with no members, a literal empty set.
FtttG
1d ago
It's interesting that certain professions are seen as intrinsically high-status. Doctors are presumptively taken to be morally upstanding individuals, to the point that "he's a doctor, but he treats everyone like shit" is seen as such a surprising twist it can power an entire TV series for eight seasons. More darkly, I wonder if this presupposition might be the root of the Lucy Letby truther movement: perhaps these people just cannot believe that a trained nurse could be this spectacularly vicious. I was once speaking to a former veterinarian who complained that, whenever she reads a novel in which a character is a veterinarian, it's always used a shorthand for that character being of good moral character: "aww, look at him, he cares about teh animals!!" But in her experience, most vets are dickheads.
FtttG
1d ago
She was a very prominent journalist when she wrote for Jezebel in its heyday. My understanding is that a previous memoir she wrote was adapted into a TV series, although I haven't heard of either before the recent kerfuffle.
FtttG
2d ago
I'm legitimately surprised that, to the best of my knowledge, no one made a top-level post in any of the CWR threads about Lindy West's latest memoir, Adult Braces. For the last few weeks it's all that certain corners of the internet have been able to talk about.
FtttG
4d ago
42% German, 24% autistic. The fact that the two figures are mirror images of one another is pleasing to me, which probably means I should be awarded an additional 5 autistic points.
FtttG
4d ago
I first came across it when Scott linked to it in "Radicalising the Romanceless". I think it should be required reading for anyone training to be a GP, social worker, psychotherapist etc..
FtttG
4d ago
As ever, I'm reminded of this immortal piece by Theodore Dalrymple.
FtttG
5d ago
Fine, why some women. I've never even suggested this is true of all women so please don't put words in my mouth.
FtttG
5d ago
True, some people are better at compartmentalization than others. But I'm not talking about the more general case of a boss who takes credit for his subordinates' hard work while blaming them when his projects don't go according to plan. I'm talking specifically about people who develop the defense mechanism of referring to nasty things they did as if they were committed by a third party.
FtttG
5d ago
Well, it's a sort of first-order/second-order problem. Why do people drink too much? Addiction pathways in the brain. Why are people violent and abusive? Testosterone + a strategic understanding that this can be an effective way of getting what you want, in certain contexts. Why are some people controlling? See previous point + evo-psych explanations for jealousy and mate-guarding behaviour.
These explanations are straightforward and uncomplicated. But a statement like "some women are attracted to men they know to be abusive and controlling" is counterintuitive – it contradicts a basic understanding of human instinct rooted in self-preservation. It's so counterintuitive that feminists spent decades flat out denying it ("of course women don't go for assholes – if they did, you'd have a girlfriend" etc.). We notice we are confused, and attempt to explain this surprising observation about human nature.
Lesbians aren't sexually or romantically interested in male people, regardless of how they "identify".
Funny how so recently you were speaking so dismissively of the "cotton ceiling" people and how they don't represent all trans people/all trans activists. Now you've just outed yourself as one of them.
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