Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
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Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
8mo ago
Yellow Magic Orchestra (and the various solo projects of their members).
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Discogs to find other works and collaborations by producers, musicians and labels that I like.
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Collecting entire discographies has allowed me to find hidden gems and collaborations with artists that I didn't know previously.
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Shazam.
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Maroofy has assisted me in finding songs that are sonically similar to ones I already like. It's a gem for finding stuff with <100 YouTube views.
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The YouTube algo, which is worse than it was in 2015 or 2016 but still delivers gems on occasion. Finding full DJ sets on YouTube also has introduced me to tracks and artists that I'd never would have gotten into otherwise.
I discovered the band that I've listened to the most in the past 10 years by just by hitting the random article link on Wikipedia. Also, I spent a substantial amount of time on /mu/ during the pandemic, and wasn't introduced to a single artist that I liked through the wisdom of that community.
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
8mo ago
I was a hospice volunteer and they tend to do a good job at connecting volunteers with people who have no kin or are estranged from their kin. The problem is, those people need to be on hospice to receive the benefit of the volunteers, and there could certainly be benefits for those not just on death's door.
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
8mo ago
The reality of age segregation becomes blatant if you spend any time in a nursing home and see the residents living in an eternal present punctuated by episodes of The Price is Right, feuds with other residents, and rounds of meds. Those residents with families who visited them regularly had something to look forward to and experiences with people who weren't just acquaintances who lived on the same floor. I volunteered in one for a while in my 30s and the residents would often go out of their way to get my attention, chatting and having the attention of someone younger made them happier. The perspectives that the young and the old can give each other are invigorating to both cohorts. Keeping the old away from the young makes aging an unknown to the young, and thence something to be feared.
I will note that I truly felt sad for those in the home without any family to visit them. Volunteers would be assigned to specific patients, but many people had no one and it just looked to be a lonely existence.
As is pointed out by others here, it's all about framing. I frame this as:
-Blue pill: You join a death cult that will commit suicide unless half of all people join them.
-Red pill: You don't join this death cult.
Those blue-pillers are going to live or die in circumstances outside of my control, but the one thing I can control is my ability to save my own life. Perhaps another reframing is that instead of making the choice for myself, I am making it for another person. By selecting blue for this other person, I am willing to wager their life on an unknown outcome, and by selecting red I am guaranteed to save one life that would not be saved otherwise. I suspect that the calculus of this decision changes when the life of someone else is being wagered instead of one's own, but the difference is between having compassion for others and having compassion for one's self.
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
9mo ago
Circa 2008 Ferrari's F1 team was sponsored by Philip Morris despite a ban on tobacco advertising in the EU. They ran a 'barcode' red and white livery which was reminiscent of the Marlboro logo. The discussion of the ban after the fact and the piqued curiosity about the mysterious barcode provided more media interest about the brand than if the pain old Marlboro logo were on the car.
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
9mo ago
There's a difference between your average civilian and one of the 59 people who are a sitting member of the House Armed Services Committee. Personally, I'm agnostic on the aliens explanation, but when parts of the military feel free to deny access to individuals responsible for its oversight, then something is not as it appears. Maybe civilian control of the military isn't as clear cut as it seems.
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
9mo ago
I watched the bulk of this hearing and two things stuck out to me. The first was when Rep. Burchett entered this document into the record: Advanced Space Propulsion Based оп Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering. I found this interesting as it implies that the Congressman was lead to believe for whatever reason that energy for propulsion can be gathered from the vacuum of space. So either he has more info and this is relevant or he is buying a line of malarkey, but at least this document gives something to work off of to determine if it is malarkey.
The second was when Rep. Gaetz remarked after he had been informed of a UAP sighting from a source at Elgin AFB:
We were not afforded access to all of the flight crew, and initially, we were not afforded access to images and to radar. Thereafter, we had bit of a discussion about how authorities flow in the United States of America, and we did see the image, and we did meet with one member of the flight crew who took the image. The image was of something that I am not able to attach to any human capability, either from the United States or from any of our adversaries.
This indicates that (as long as one believes that Congress isn't in on a psyop), at minimum, powers within the DOD are trying to keep Congress out of the loop as much as possible when it comes to the UAP stuff.
I'll also note that members of the committee made it seem that they wanted to clear a path for commercial pilots to be able to report these phenomena without fear of any negative consequences; after hearing this I couldn't help but scour PPRuNe.org to see if any pilots had anonymously reported such phenomena, and didn't find much of anything before the past year (and the stuff from the past year appears to be sightings of flares from Starlink constellations).
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
9mo ago
Motte: In my opinion the compassionate thing to do is to mitigate any suffering and withhold the truth in regard to any interpersonal interactions. Bailey: I would even take this to a grander level and say that certain Big Lies can be ethical as they allow humans to cope with almost unbearable sorrow.
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
10mo ago
I have a 7-month-old, and I'm his primary caretaker. I do this while working from home at the same time. The most important advice is that time is precious, and finding ways to cope with the drastic change to your life is vital if you're looking to optimize the wellness of your family as a whole during the transition to being a parent. You and your partner will need wellness time to recharge and recover and stave off fatigue. You may feel like you're giving 120% when your partner thinks you are giving 70%, and vice versa.
In regard to stuff: Dr. Brown's formula pitchers (they mix the formula and you let them sit in the fridge for a few hours so there are fewer bubbles) and bottles (they're plastic, I know, but they have a device that has an anti-colic feature, and my kid could hold them propped at 4 months). I have a hiking backpack with a seat for my tot by Kelty and a top-of-the-line jogging stroller that allows me to get out of the house and enjoy life. Both are worth it as they make it easy to spend time recharging my battery while letting my kid explore the world. My house has been subsumed by a tsunami of clothes and toys, so much time is spent on inventory management. The more you can limit the inflow of stuff, the better off you will be as you will have extra time. Finally, I normally despise screen time for kids, but starting at about 3 months, I was able to use Hey Bear Sensory on YouTube to steal 20 minutes of time for chores here and there.
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
10mo ago
Why suddenly hate the laisses-faire outcome of Harvard deciding how to allocate Harvard's resources?
This is Culture War, the integrity of the debate crumbled long ago. As is often said here: My rules applied fairly> your rules applied fairly > your rules applied unfairly.
If all universities receiving federal funds were allowed to discriminate on the basis of race and could discriminate against any race, I think libertarians would have a more tempered view. But when its only against Whites and Asians, the one-sidedness of the argument becomes apparent and we enter the matrix above.
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
1yr ago
How do I deal with my AI-driven existential crisis?
The best I can do for you is plant seeds of doubt with a list of questions.
What is the similarity between Yudkowsky and his milieu and a new religious movement or a millenarian movement? What is the propensity for new religious movements to predict a near- to medium-term apocalypse? Is there something in special about the rationalist community that makes rationalists immune to the sociological dynamics that have popped up in other human groups throughout history, and for this group to be so different as to the the first group that is correct about predicting the apocalypse? Is there something about Yudkowsky that makes him more effective at prediction than the cassandras that proceeded him? Is Yudkowsky better at marketing himself than other cassandras? If Yudkowsky is so convinced of an AI apocalypse, then why would he bother inflicting memetic despair on much of humanity during its final moments? Is Yudkowsky more of a sci-fi writer or a domain expert of AGI? Even granting Yudkowsky the title of domain expert in AGI, how frequently do domain experts make inaccurate predicitons in their areas of expertise (think of Malthusian predictions among economists and ecologists, or of sovietologists prior to 1991)?
I returned to my regular group yoga practice after being absent for 10 months. I was a regular practitioner for 7 years, and the practice came to a halt in the lead-up to the birth of my son. Aside from the expected improvements in my flexibility and relief from minor aches, the most notable effect is a greater ability to focus.
I found that I was rather scatterbrained and overwhelmed with the tasks that I faced while doing WFH and taking care of my home and an infant at the same time. However, the practice of mindfulness and the 'moving meditation' that I engage in during my yoga sessions has made it easier for me to organize my thoughts.
During the months after the birth of my son, I didn't bother to engage in solo mindfulness/fitness practices (aside from walking) because the temptation to do work/housework became overwhelming. It's nice having returned to the community that I've practiced with for so long; just a few casual daily conversations with others (who aren't coworkers) outside of the home does wonders for my mood.
Finally, I want to note that having a kid has done more to strengthen my legs than all my prior yoga practices combined; chair pose is no longer a pose I dread.
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