SomethingMusic
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SomethingMusic
1yr ago
If we were favouring Israel because it advanced our interests, that's fine. But that's not the case. It doesn't do us any good to anger the Arabs, who can cause many problems for us and have much more to offer. Reason dictates that we throw Israel under the bus, so we can strengthen relations with more important countries. I see your surgeon and I raise you the petrol station, the latter is more important.
But it does. Who else in the area is sympathetic to western ideology and willing to house western military bases?
Israel is also one of the intellectual powerhouses in the region. Intel has a 17 billion dollar foundry there. It's become an important industrial and manufacturing area of high level technology in the world. There is huge incentive for the US/west to support Israel beyond slave morality.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
Not really, the lefts pathological obsession to support the perceived 'underdog' makes it easy to determine which side they will take on any given conflict. This need overwhelms their decision making to the point that young leftists will self destruct to support the perceived minority and perceive that the majority is totalitarian in nature that we see plaguing US cities today. The right don't view the world in terms of underdog/establishment dichotomy but are looking at the world in terms of stability and utility, which lends them to pro-Israeli positions as there are major US interests in the middle east and Israel is the primary launching point for these interests.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I'm probably too late but here's my suggestions:
For pc building try pcpartpicker.com They have prebuilds as well as pricing data mining to ensure you're getting the best price for whatever parts you want.
GPUs are really expensive for no reason, the 2nd hand market might not be as awful as you think it is - especially for GPUs. I wouldn't use 2nd hand mobos or psus.
If you aren't doing any video editing or productivity an AMD gpu might be better - be aware that their drivers aren't as good.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I've gotten into the first hour of Chained Echoes. I think they both looks pretty cool but I'm a huge sucker for pixel art nostalgia.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I much prefer twitch/dogfighting space combat in my space games instead of what Starfield seems to offer, so ultimately I didn't even download it.
I admit I'm very interested in what Star Citizen wants to do as it's much more what I'm looking for in a space game, but I really want to wait for an actual release schedule than what they're doing right now which largely seems grifting people out of large sums of money.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I think there needs to be a delineation between 'pop country' and 'country'. Historical country in terms of bluegrass, early American songs, etc is very different from the overprocessed rehashed highly codified least common denominator 'music' that it is today.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
The gender coding of instruments sort of holds but generally falls off when you get to the professional level. Any social stigma of 'oh your a man that plays the flute' falls off significantly by the time you're making a living playing an instrument, so skill level matters a lot more than social acceptance. Also, by the time you're a professional you survived every cliche and bully about playing a male or female coded instrument that no one cares about the current social coding of any instrument.
There was a study done about 'gender inequality' of professional orchestras, and while strings have gender equality, brass and winds are still VERY heavily male dominated except for flute which is female dominated. Clarinet is, oddly, the most male dominated instrument in professional orchestras.
I chalked it up to the fact that when it comes to a wind/brass instrument, you’re using your actual lungs and voice to produce the sound.
No brass or wind instrument uses their voice unless they're doing some fun extended techniques. Generally, the vocal cords are not used at all. I think it's more that winds and brass use the most musculature of any instrument. To maintain the level of air pressure necessary to activate and sustain notes requires a lot of core strength and embouchure also requires a lot of musculature. I think this amount of physicality when playing a woodwind instrument tends to favor males over females.
Since we're talking about classical music - here's a video of me with my woodwind trio playing a movement of Francaix.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
Firefly. One of the best character-driven sci-fi series. Ended too soon but enough to make an excellent show.
I liked Dollhouse as well even if the first season started poorly.
Community. Last season or two jumped the shark.
Cowboy Bebop. Still the best anime series ever made.
I recently finished the Amazon show Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. A tad too 'Mary sue' the last season is a bit weak, but other than it's pretty fun show. Gives some 'Mad Men' aesthetic.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
Final Fantasy 9.
A mix of comic theatrics and serious exposition, I think it's the best FF out there next to Tactics. Uematsu is at the apex of his compositional powers, and beyond some minor theft (from himself) made excellent music and score with strong melodies. Also the best characters and character development of any final fantasy.
Valkyrie Profile - anime norse influence before it got really popular. Unique gameplay.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
Your replying that us civilians have no chance vs the US army. He's questioning the legality of the US army being allowed to kill its own people.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
And unlike professional basketball, your chances of finding a woman with a generally healthy dispositions who likes you is much higher.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
One since 2017, the other was before COVID so around 2018/19 I think.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
If Stephan Hawking can get married twice, you will be able to find some companionship at some point in your life. Learning self-worth is some part of it, the other part is developing a personality which people can find appealing is also incredibly benifitial.
Since it seems a lot of your hang ups are on height; I know of two people in successful marriages who are approximately around your height. Height is only an issue because you allow it to be one.
I have a feeling you've posted a lot in various threads about your dating over the years. I forget, are you still in school?
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
One of the primary problems of the modern internet is that it creates such false expectations in relationships and dating. 4chan inceldom proclaiming all women need 7 foot 10 gigachads making minimum twelve figures with their own private island is not indicative of women in general but rather of high-visibility women - THOTs on instagram or onlyfans are the focus of a lot of these communities, and these young women are selling themselves for attention and money. Men focus entirely on the transactional nature of relationships which comes at significant cost.
Of course, it's easier to say this when you're not suffering from the anxiety of finding someone. A lot of finding a relationship of it is backing off of that obsession of 'finding' someone and focusing more on building out your friend group.
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Focus less on tearing yourself down and your own self-image and either a) care less about your self-image or b) work on building your self-image up. This doesn't necessarily mean 'more plates more dates' but instead developing hobbies and learning how to reach out to people without the initial expectation of a relationship. This can be at work, finding a friend group, hobby, etc. I found the people who tend to have no problems finding dates are lower neuroticism and more about reaching out to people and being able to talk to them than it is looks and income.
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Many young women have the same neuroticism and insecurities as you. At work I befriended a lot of people simply because I was looking to find people who are similarly social as I am, as I moved to a new state wand wanted to find people to hang out with. That alone gives you a lot of attention because you're inviting people to participate in anything with you, bar hopping, eating out, whatever activity is in the area. Being able to reach out as friends or to make introductions will put you at a significant advantage over a lot of these young males who are too neurotic to do so. A big portion of this is not worrying if it ends up with sex initially. It's as easy as saying "Hi, I'm xyz, mind if I join you?". I wouldn't do this at Walmart but at a lunch table or at a bar or a party it works great.
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Focus on building your friend group over finding a date. If you don't have many irl friends try to find friends first. Show you can laugh at yourself and take a joke and be willing to try new things and most people are pretty inviting. If you find a good friend group girls will naturally be attracted to a group of people having fun, plus you can ask them to join in as well.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
Reddit is beginning to truly shoot itself in the foot. A new policy of charging for API calls of $12,000 for 50 million calls is going to kill 3rd-party developers who have developed lightweight apps that are superior to Reddits own awful app. Reddit is Fun is the app I've used for practically a decade, and Reddit itself has become one of the most important depositories for human knowledge online - how many of us have resorted to "product + reddit" or "problem + reddit" as a method of locating and finding specified information?
All of this seems to be to push reddit towards an IPO and to increase revenues (Especially for a company which has never made money), but I have a feeling their push for revenues will come at the cost of community it has been able to foster. Why reddit even wants to be a profitable company is beyond me - why not just become a nonprofit?
Anyways, I think this will cause a ton of people to leave reddit, or at least cause a lot of grumbling and virtue signaling about going to leave reddit. I haven't used Facebook significantly since the 2016 election, maybe people will flock back there.
I know when the 3rd party apps die (I wonder if that includes RES) I'll probably no longer go on reddit myself.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I got top 5.44% so we can be midwits together!
There were a couple words that I wasn't familiar with, and I think heavy reddit usage and lack of reading has probably diminished my vocabulary somewhat, but all in all I can't complain.
As previously mentioned in this thread, I don't think this result is particularly accurate, but it's a fun little test!
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
As an American, if you wanted to blow the horn I'll be right there with you.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
My only observation is that it is too heavily populated by prisoners, but I didn't know of this till now.
It seems that almost all rehabilitation attempts fail extravagantly. How do you deal with a population which doesn't respond healthily either incentives or punishment?
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
The weird jazz-electronic group Knower is teasing a new Album. Louis Cole is an insane drummer with a unique sound and style which I particularly love.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=O2F0oTqfL3E
I'm also on an opera binge for music reasons. Cosi Fan Tutte is one of my perennial favorites but getting myself interred into italian operas is always helpful.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
A major rule I have to the 'bad upbringing' of criminal actors is the more immediate a person experiences antisocial behavior, the less the opponents story matters. It's easy to read about horrible crimes and violence committed against a perceived person and go 'the decision to incapacitate someone in xyz manner was wrong and should be punished' and give the underdog a sympathetic story. However, it's funny when these people are immediately put on the spot their politics change abruptly. However, when an aggressive drug addict or homeless individual gets in your face the most important thing is to get away safely, not think "oh, the person had a poor upbringing, it isn't their fault," Now that police enforcement (which was successfully keeping away aggressive behaviors) is kneecapped, suddenly people are changing their tune because they're directly experiencing the negative behaviors police were experiencing and successfully repressing every day. It's easy to be sympathetic to someone or something that happens to you far away. It's much harder when it's on your doorstep.
To quote the old saying, "hard men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create hard men'
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I think farm labor would be perfect. Take the unruley city kid and have them manually transplant Vidalia onions for 3 months. If they try to start something I doubt the visa-farm laborers would take a second to beat them to the ground. could even pay them $15/hr subsidized by the government to be paid upon completion of sentence. Any tantrum or loss of crops from the individual can be taken out of their pay.
The problem is that bored young antisocial men have no outlets for constructive behavior in the ghetto. Get them working and put them in a situation where they're isolated from what allows them to misbehave.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
It's not really a laziness thing for me, it's more of a time thing. I have a lot I'm doing right now so it's hard to find the time to really organize thoughts into anything substantial.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I have a few effort post ideas but I really don't have time to sit down and write them right now.
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How the arts are reacting and could potentially react to AI advancements, how performative arts will change verses recorded arts.
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How the internet causes radicalization because there is too much information, causing tribalism as an easy and ineffective method to filter information.
2a) Why cultural elitism has shifted from having excess goods to limiting 'rare' goods - gluten free, extreme diets, superfoods, organics, etc.
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While patriarchal hierarchies and organization have noted and codified negatives, matriarchal organizations have less outwardly and clear-cut outgroups but are even more stifling and cause potentially worse negative externalities.
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How modern gender roles, trans-humanism, and lgbt rhetoric does the exact opposite of what it intends to do - it doesn't break down gender roles but enforces and codifies them.
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The 'normie' vs 'conspiracy' - the statistically average viewpoint of any given event frequently fails to hold up upon closer examination vs the people who closely follow an event/thing (for example, low information atheist vs high information atheist vs Cafeteria Catholic vs studied Catholic.
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Financial debt - how the government leverages people in significant financial debt to consolidate power.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
It can get a bit cultish, but I think it's easy to misinterpret camaraderie with 'cultish behavior'. I think if you like your coworkers and want to have a healthier lifestyle it won't hurt. However, if you hate your coworkers you might want to look elsewhere.
Something that modern analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fails to understand is the insane length of the timeline of the conflict and how it changes and shifts the perspectives of these two cultures. It's easy to look at this as an eighty year-old conflict as the state of Israel was established and recognized by the UN in 1948, but the truth is that this is a conflict of literal biblical proportions. Even with Israel becoming increasingly secular over the years (currently around 40%), 60% of the population is still practicing Judaism on some level of observant. This conflict and intermingling of peoples comes to a head in the book of Joshua when God commands the Jews to genocide out the nation of Canaanites as entry into the promised land. Israel's failure to do so has perpetuated this conflict for the past 2000 years.
The importance of this not only as a denote of how long the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted, but also defines their relationship, one of violence and antagonism. Our much more recent historical conflicts shows how much chaos happens when one people subjugates another. In the US' failed occupation of Afghanistan and Iran, there has been little to no success of actually changing the populations political or social alignment at all - as soon as we left the old regime quickly took control the power vacuum and ultimately are as or more cruel as it ever was. England's conquest across the globe has also failed to significantly change the political and social rules of the old societies once England absconded from their (former) territories. Total obliteration and oppression seems to be the most effective method of instilling new values in a society.
I think this perspective creates a better 'screen' in which to view this most recent upheaval, this is not something new, but rather something incredibly old involving religious and historical contrivances as old as the Talmud and the torah.
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