dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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Composing and recording music is already dirt cheap.
There's at least, like, one semester of instruction required to learn a DAW. I can teach myself C++ and how to sys admin and use a DJ mixer. But a DAW just feels too hard without hand holding, same as Photoshop for me.
Being able to prompt Suno and get something fun to listen to (albeit flawed) feels liberating.
Is this going to be akin to that study about how good programmers working on mature projects did not save time using AI tools even though they thought they did?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
If people give themselves mental hard-ons for doing good things that's... still good right?
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
I'm sorry, but for me the Culture War doesn't become less damaging when the Right just forgives the left for literally murderign their spokespeople.
That's fair and completely understandable. I would absolutely not forgive and I would see that the perpetrator paid in full and would desire to personally squeeze the life out of them and I might tell the world.
But I'm also not broadcasting my Christian virtues to the world. It is not my moral-political framework. But it's theirs, and seeing a political figure show actual Christian commitment after decades of listening to hypocrisy from the Christian political right is refreshing! It makes me feel this movement could be a force of actual good and not just a slightly lesser evil!
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
I suppose "forgiveness" is not well defined here.
I didn't parse her as saying his killer should go free and live his best material life from this point forward. More like she does not hold hate in her heart towards him nor is pursuing a campaign to punish him with maximum suffering.
A good Christian is not necessarily compelled to stop by he wheels of justice from grinding him to bits if the operators so deem it necessary. I think they very much see the functions of the state as a bit distinct from their religion and something that they needn't overly concern themselves with.
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
What is the incentive to follow through with the plum advisory role after they leave power and aren't worth anything anymore?
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
This isn't a question but rather a statement. But I would like to hear what you think.
So I didn’t care for Charlie Kirk, and I’m not Christian (though I think they're pretty cool in general). But the fact that Erika Kirk, his widow, stood up and forgave the man accused of murdering her husband is staggering.
In an era where public life is fueled by score-settling and astounding cruelty this feels like a rare moment of moral progress. It’s counter-cultural in a good way: mercy instead of vengeance.
Here's an article from The Guardian about it
It's especially notable when you compare this act to yesterday’s generation of right-wing Christian political leaders, who would’ve absolutely doubled down on punishment and wrath. Can you imagine, fucking, Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Falwell or Robertson forgiving someone that murdered their spouse? Yeah right.
And just to remind us of the previous era that needs to finish going the way of the dinosaurs, Trump himself openly said on stage right next to her that he hates his enemies and doesn’t care what Erika just said about what Jesus says about forgiveness.
To see Erika Kirk take the opposite stance, forgiveness, love, mercy, is unexpectedly hopeful. I am appreciating the small bit of moral progress on the Christian right here.
Large enough US companies will still be able to access intellectual capital by hiring them in Canada and Europe offices instead of bringing them into the US. If you can't import the world's talent, the advantage to doing research and development in the US declines significantly.
This policy change mostly benefits American professionals like doctors who can't do their job remotely. Good for them, I guess.
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
10d ago
wow it was a 6-3 ruling and the 3 liberal justices joined 3 conservatives to argue the no plaintiffs thing
amazing
wait so can Kimmel sue and be a valid plaintiff and resolve this question in 4+ years?
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12d ago
I don't really understand why joker-types on the left profess love for Luigi Mangione the health care CEO assassin but are trying to dodge any association with Tyler Robinson the Charlie Kirk assassin?
I'm not really trying to adjudicate what Tyler's beliefs are (or Luigi's for that matter, he was a trad conservative in some ways), just... they both did political assassinations that leftist joker-types are in favor of. Why the selective embracing/rebuking?
Is it because Luigi's cute and has six pack abs? Is it because Luigi killed at the end of Biden's term while Tyler killed after Trump demonstrated a more fierce commitment to law and order?
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
13d ago
I have to admit that's a pretty solid indicator.
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
14d ago
If you want my "Schelling point" for when we are actually staring down the barrel of civil war, it's that you will be able to make six figures enlisting to fight for one side or the other. The reader can judge whether that's fair and exactly where our politics are in relation, but that's how I see it.
Interesting. Can you say more about this?
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
15d ago
I can appreciate being on the edge of killing the guy and giving him one last chance to redeem himself (in the killer's mind). Or alternatively, putting an exclamation mark on something he thought was especially shitty.
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
15d ago
Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?", and instead of replying "I don't know", Kirk replies with the deflective and maximally-inflammatory "Too many." The shot came a few seconds later, but I think this was when the shooter decided to aim carefully and fire. Kirk demonstrated he had no interest in discussing actual numbers that might fail to make transpeople look bad, he just wanted to play rhetorical judo and try to find his dunk.
Political assassination is bad and I don't condone it, of course, but even in condemning the killer, as a Mottizen I appreciate the artistry involved in waiting for Kirk to resort to paltering before killing him. Un bacione, addio!
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16d ago
Yeah. I simultaneously believe it is disrespectful and gross to talk ill of the dead, especially over mere political differences, but that it's outrageous to fire someone or try to marginalize them from society for doing so. I recognize these are somewhat contradictory. I am American AMA.
If Ilhan Omar died in a car accident and people were being fired for voicing disrespectful opinions about her, would you feel similarly?
What if she was killed by a confused person for a non-politically articulable reason?
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
16d ago
The evidence AFAICT is that groypers began ironically using the term "bella ciao" at some point, which was written on one of the killer's cartridges.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
17d ago
Where does anti-Nazism in Russia come from? Is it the same flavor and degree at all?
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18d ago
I have a friend who is a Ketamine addict that I feel pretty sorry for but also can't let myself get too close to because he can say pretty hurtful stuff he doesn't even remember from the depths of his ketamine stupors and I can't always tell when he's in what state.
He didn't start out this way. He was selling weed for a bit on the darkweb in the early days and picked up some Bitcoin but then forgot about selling. Several years later his Bitcoin blew up into hundreds of thousands of dollars. He met a girl, bought a house, settled down and they tried to have kids. He would be house husband and she'd work in healthcare.
She miscarried four times in a row. They gave up trying. He started drinking and doing drugs because and couldn't find a job. She eventually divorced him. He just lives alone now and picks up odd jobs but gets fired because he keeps relapsing. A few months ago he ended up in the ER because he was doing Ketamine and cocaine and he stopped breathing and his junkie friend called 911.
I don't really know what to tell this guy in his 40s with no career prospects and rapidly depleting Bitcoin and a Ketamine addiction. To make matters worse he went on this Facebook tirade where he said he is actually kind of happy Trump won and 95% of his friends in this blue town disowned him.
I check on him once in awhile and offer a bit of advice and try to act like a sane voice of reason but I'm expecting to hear that he OD'd any month now.
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
18d ago
I like your vibe in general but what consequences of his actions? Annoying speeches?
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
18d ago
Now, naturally, I've bought several more for no apparent reason.
What do you mean no apparent reason? You need one with a short barrel for close quarters defense and another set up for long-range precision with a scope. Also one in camo pattern for hunting. Oh yeah, also a spare, in case a friend is visiting when the social fabric collapses and they need to borrow it. Or in case you have one down for maintenance.
I'm pro-2A and own guns myself but there's a certain irony to outspoken 2A defenders being assassinated that's hard not to notice.
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."
I do wonder if his last thoughts were "shit. still worth it, though". You can count on conservatives to be ethically consistent when it comes to gun rights. I don't expect anyone on the right to talk about banning the rifle used to kill him.
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
18d ago
I actually haven't. I don't know if the Trump birthday letter to Epstein is real or not, for example. My hunch is that it is, but I'm not sure.
It seems real but not like a smoking gun or anything. Trump admitting to being a perv just like Epstein and also winking that Epstein likes girls under 18 is not a great quality but on its own I don't think it means Trump knew Epstein was a massive underage girl sex predator and that he also participated in it.
I think lots of people look the other way on underage dating if it seems like the people involved are mature or aren't being harmed. I had a high school music major friend that was 16 who was dating like a mid-30s something pianist guy. Seemed outrageous at first but she was mature enough and we didn't think too much of it.
Oh, I see.
I would guess Suno's use case is the long tail of people who want bangin' music for their YouTube channel/podcast/home videos but have no idea how to license music or find someone to compose it for them.
As someone that occasionally DJs I have wanted music that hits a certain vibe but finding it on Beatport can take hours upon hours of listening. "Deep house, breathy female humming, no lyrics, sexy" is a really hard search but Suno will make you a couple in less time than it takes to listen. I may or may not use them because of quality issues but it does seem to be improving pretty quickly.
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