Huh..... I don’t REMEMBER writing those words... but since they describe my exact same situation..... weird.  

“Firefly”.... “Better Off Ted”.... now “AP Bio”.

Think of it this way: Just because you can tell something is Soul music by looking at the mathematical particulars of time and timbre doesn’t mean you can make Soul music by replicating those same mathematical particulars of time and timbre. Computers can’t make Bill Withers’ music because the algorithm always…

Yes, but you’re confusing the “rules” with the item itself (and assuming the rules are non-transitory, which is historically false). Math can describe literally anything. A description of something does not contain the totality of its meaning. In other words, I can certainly use math to describe the frequencies Bill…

Last point... here’s a pretty good discussion on how things like octaves - what we call a doubling of frequencies - isn’t mathematical certainty, but culturally derived (not all “octaves” are actually a doubling of frequencies): https://www.quantamagazine.org/perceptions-of-musical-octaves-are-learned-not-wired-in-the-…

The Circle of Fifths is just a short hand descriptor for what we’ve culturally decided could sound nice. It’s just a suggested roadmap for what people already do.  I mean it’s not like every song perfectly follows the circle of fifths. Yes, you can use math to describe SOME of the aspects of music, but it isn’t music.…

Looks exactly like the bowl were Mazda keeps its fucks about what one customer wants.

I see your point but I think it lacks historical (and geographic) perspective. Did you know the frequencies we call “pleasant” today weren’t the same frequencies Europe called “pleasant” 1,500 years ago? Just think of the seemingly dissonant sounds we hear in, say, Indian music or far Eastern music. That means that…

That’s a difference without meaning if you ask me. Music simply is NOT math. Math is too basic to describe Music. Math can’t do anything but simply describe only one aspect of music.  That aspect might be useful, but it is to limited to be called “Music”.  

No, it isn’t. Yes, you can describe it mathematically, but you can also describe literally any audible language as a relationship between frequencies. That doesn’t make music math, nor does it mean you can use just math to make the totality of music. You can put literally any three frequencies together mathematically…

what’s known as “music theory,” which is basically the science behind music.

Has the government really relied on tax revenues to cover spending for decades now? Hint: No.

The DeVos family did NOT employ “thousands upon thousands”. This bullshit myth needs to die.

It is only “equal and fair” if we start from the same starting point. If you don’t ever have to worry about the cost of toothpaste and effectively have an infinite supply of toothpaste, you have a decided advantage over someone who has to pick between toothpaste and a meal. Your model of equity only works if we have…

We focus on wealthy people because, to quote Willie Sutton from a different context, “because that’s where the money is”. You might think it’s too hyper focused, but history shows that’s the inevitable result of concentration of resources into few hands - those people get the focus, usually at the end of a point stick…

I’m dead serious, how does it affect my life or anyone else’s life if some billionaire uses the laws we have in place to save some money on taxes?

Blame the National Democratic Party. They took WV for granted for 50+ years and just assumed they’d be D no matter what. They failed to make the investment in the state necessary to keep a vibrant WV Democratic Party (of which I’m a member) moving forward. WV flipped R in 2000 after almost 80 years of the strongest…

There’s no real reason to have a Senate if it’s apportioned by population. That how the House works. It’d be redundant. The problem is the original framers never envisioned the Senate being popularly elected. Once we started doing that, the Senate stopped making sense. Really the only logical step would be to go to a…

Bunk. The credit industry created a credit score to help the credit industry maximize it’s profit margins and minimize it’s profit loss. It’s entirely productive to call out a broken system and the few companies that created a system that routinely fails to consider those factors that are larger than themselves. In…

Meh, the whole thing is a big scam. I went from a bad score (sub 620) to a good score (718) in less than 4 months. I didn’t do anything particularly magical either - just paid down some credit card debt. Blowing these trends out to an 65 year lifespan (assuming 18 years of being a ‘child’ and 65 of being a credit…