Honestly wish I’d paid better attention to that song as a kid, I always got the “liberals are kind of full of shit” bit, and I’m sure that was vital to my becoming a radical, but the details are some serious foreshadowing for later disillusionment I could have probably avoided requiring

Teacher’s unions, though. Or unions for any other sector of labor that winds up being partially or totally publically-controlled. I think the example of the police is exceptional, because they’re police. They embody the state’s full potential for violence, and are positioned by the media and in our culture as the…

An “unintended interaction” is literally what a bug is. The developer didn’t intend for setting variable A to 100 to crash the game; that’s a bug. The developer didn’t intend for setting variable A to 100 and variable B to 50 to put the user under the map — that’s a bug. Anything that lets someone glitch to a part of…

No, they’re literally not, for any percentage of the population. Because they aren’t the same thing. I’m a cis dude and if I thought that somehow dictated the parameters of my gender expression and everything related to it I would simply be a horribly maladjusted jerk. As it is, I’m just a reasonably well-adjusted…

Thanks Shep. Just fyi tho, this discount seems to be only for the 2018 Air (as noted in the link title) rather than the “new” Air (which your subsequent copy could easily be read to mean the 2019 refresh). Although otherwise the features seem unusually identical between the two gennies.

Thanks Shep. Just fyi tho, this discount seems to be only for the 2018 Air (as noted in the link title) rather than…

I completely feel you on that — getting away from the computer has been a real unexpected pleasure for me as well. I was a music tech major for awhile, quite awhile ago, and have made all kinds of things with a traditional computer-based recording workflow over the years, but what I need now is a creative outlet, not…

Nice! I’m always intrigued by the volcas, but my volca drums unit has always been a little weird in terms of output and noise so I’ve been wary. The modular is cool tho? And the Z is basically a PO but 16 tracks, higher sound quality, better FX, more patterns, etc — just a lot less limited. But in terms of the…

ha. yeah it’s weird, especially given how outdated the op-1 is in a purely technological sense, except for the weirdly advanced OLED display. the limitations are just very limiting. each sampler ‘instrument’ can have 12s of sample; 6s for wavetable synth; pretty low maximum number of these things can be on there at…

Unfortunately, the real problem is that the people who think that “the first black president wasn’t far enough to the left” is an attitude that will help Trump win another term are actually the people whose attitudes might help Trump win another term. They’re certainly the people who are most responsible for his…

I have no idea what the basis is for the price increase, but I gather that they have had significant supply chain problems, specifically for the OLED display — it’s very possible that they just needed to either start to pay more in order to keep the thing in production, or they decided that spending more would help…

^ Red Means Recording is the one thing YouTube has introduced me to that I fuckin’ love without the slightest reservation. Now if only I could focus on anything long enough to actually finish one of my 50 OP1 / OPZ tracks, I could join the cool kids club too!

Yeah I was thinking the same — this could be a little bit of reverse psychology. Make American entitlement work in their favor by making people demand a game they actually made, the way they actually made it. “Here it is, just as you’ve so maturely demanded! Loot crates and everything. We even went the extra mile and…

Likely so. I do genuinely feel some pain on behalf of all the people beyond them who worked so hard on the show, tho. Seems like pretty much everyone absolutely nailed it, short of the two showrunners.

Totally. The idea that Congress can be trusted as the *one* check against a malignant Presidency was always insufficient, but when parties have so balkanized the government it’s basically not even a thing at all. There’s an election every 2 years. It’s never going to be in any opposition party’s interest to impeach…

Agreed, but how clever is wanting to be impeached? Sounds exactly like his kind of “clever” to me.

Mm. I disagree, and I’m an anarcho-socialist millenial who thinks Pelosi is making a terrible mistake by not impeaching him.

Trump is, indeed, an idiot, as well as a self-destructive narcissist whose role on this planet seems to be to demonstrate the power that wealth has to make anyone invulnerable to consequences.…

Yeah, seems likely that Tillerson wouldn’t have honored a request from Trump not to testify, so he either wasn’t asked or the conversation happened privately. That seems actually pretty interesting, because it underscores the extent to which other folks refusing to testify / respond to the subpoenas are making a…

Yup. And that’s why we’re able to locate reasonably good ideas, instead of simply locking onto intentionally bad ones offered to us by people who recognize us as unthinking morons, and then punching ourselves in the face repeatedly until the rich get what they want.

You’re the one and only person here arguing your principles are infallible: the wheel will always turn blah blah blah. Nobody needs to hear your zero-effort, no-research, conventional-wisdom Dunning-Kruger bullshit. You have zero idea what history shows, because you don’t know history. You don’t know what room there…

Ain’t you heard? Godwin revoked his law, being that there are now a bunch of Nazis running around hurting people and infecting others with their bullshit on the Internet. And radical leftists want to break the wheel, not take it over. You’re listening to the people who work for the wheel and believing their takes on…