Incognito
5mo ago
...And that's a good thing!
Listening to music with high dynamic range is a drag. I want to hear the quiet parts over ambient background noise without bursting my eardrums in the loud parts. Normalise normalisation!
Incognito
5mo ago
Bluesky is just the left-wing version of Truth Social. I thought that was intentionally obvious, with "Blue" right there in the name.
Incognito
6mo ago
I see AI art as just another tool.
It's extremely similar to the backlash against Digital Art about 25 years ago. Any art created using Photoshop was low status, debate as to whether it counted as "real art" if you didn't use a pencil/paintbrush/whatever, and produce no physical artefact. But nowadays it would be bizarre to consider all digital art as "not real". Give it a few years and it'll all blow over. Actually I did encounter someone who considered electronic music to be "not real music" within the last year, which was pretty weird, so there will be some holdouts I guess. Maybe in the short term we'll see resurgence in demand for non-digital art, at least until someone hooks up AI to a CNC machine with a paintbrush.
Incognito
6mo ago
It was doomed from the start. The "No" ads practically wrote themselves. The Yes campaign had no path to victory. In the Republic referendum, the No campaign argued technicalities "Even if you like the idea of a republic, this specific proposal is bad" - and that would have worked here too. So they gave almost no details and tried to coast through on vibes, then rightly got criticised for asking the public to sign a blank cheque.
As someone who cares about indigenous rights, I was angry at Albanese for introducing the legislation and it all played out pretty much as I anticipated. I did vote yes for idiosyncratic "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" reasons. The whole debacle set back indigenous relations at least a decade I reckon. Anecdotally, I've seen a marked decrease in "acknowledgement of country" lip service before events/meetings etc in the last year. And now everyone turns a blind eye to the goon squad that rounds up blackfellas in the CBD and dumps them in a park somewhere.
Incognito
10mo ago
Have you tested your modified puzzle on a smart-high-schooler? "The feed will eat the chicken" lol.
Incognito
11mo ago
Are there any Mottizens who are regular or semi-regular festival goers? I most certainly am not, but would be very interested into what the median level of price gouging / blind eye to drug use / criminal activity / hostility and violence goes on at these kind of things.
price gouging - Yes, but not for water. Water is free. I think this is a legal requirement these days where I live.
blind eye to drug use - Haha that's one way to put it! At many festivals the assumption is that the majority of attendees are high.
criminal activity - Drug related only
hostility and violence - Not at the festivals I attend.
Incognito
11mo ago
I think it came off the back of Fyre Festival, the "worst music festival since Woodstock 99". Once everything that could be said about Fyre Festival had been said, there was still a market for festival schadenfreude so it was the obvious next choice.
Woodstock is not some "relatively obscure music festival", it was perhaps the most well known music festival in history. I'm not American, but everyone knew about Woodstock 99 - it was international news for weeks (both the hype and the fallout).
Unfortunately, your beliefs are wrong. There's probably nothing I can do to convince you, except to say I have direct experiential evidence that I cannot square with nonexistence of god.
I did get to this point starting from agnostic materialism. Assume there are no souls. Assume there is nothing special about human brains. You're having an experience right now, how does that work? As far as I can tell, something to do with information processing... why would that be unique to human brains? What is it like to be a bat? Why unique to brains at all? What is it like to be a tree? What is it like to be an interconnected global financial system? Connect two or more "conscious" information systems, is the resulting system conscious? What if you connect ALL information systems?
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