mingus88

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by mingus88 2y ago
Far be it from me to interrupt your both-sides deflection but I’d like to ask you to cite any report in the recent past when democrats have called for the arrest or use of violence and/or the military against protesters
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by mingus88 2y ago
So, ban cities east of the coast from shipping their homeless people to liberal cities? I don’t know how much you have traveled up and down the western states, but I have driven from Seattle to LA a few times in the past few years and SF do
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by mingus88 2y ago
In 2012 the Republican candidate for president said that Russia was our biggest geopolitical adversary in the debates and the left laughed at him. Obama said something flippant about the 80s Mitch McConnell, arguably the most powerful Repub
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by mingus88 2y ago
There is also the obvious angle to destabilize the world economy to benefit Russia, whose name was not on the tariff board at all. Yes, the excuse was that sanctions already apply but who would like to place bets on when those are lifted (a
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by mingus88 2y ago
You don’t. It’s a great way to get an introduction to a field outside of your typical realm of expertise though. It’s one of those things that really lets you know how much you don’t know. Then when you comment about such things on the inte
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by mingus88 2y ago
You are right, but the choice to attempt a historically accurate reproduction is also subject to interpretation. It simply can never be perfect. Down to the acoustics of the venue, there will always be aspects of a performance that are lost
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by mingus88 2y ago
In other words “interpretation” It’s so funny coming from a musical background and reading all these comments of people who have no idea what they are talking about criticizing one of the worlds most famous modern composers Every performanc
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by mingus88 2y ago
Please explain what makes a composition “genuine” and show your work
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by mingus88 2y ago
Was Israel ever on your list of 50+ countries? I just realized that the most restrictive border I ever crossed was a trip to Tel Aviv and it was well known even back then that they would inspect everything about you before you even landed
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by mingus88 2y ago
I worked for a government contractor and this was common guidance over a decade ago if you are in any sensitive role It is not hard to imagine a scenario where a foreign government might surreptitiously plant a rootkit on a lowly IT workers
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by mingus88 2y ago
Part of the wonder with this work is thinking of how to overcome such a problem It’s actually a very optimistic work for Cage. The idea that we could have a continuous performance for hundreds of years, without ever being interrupted by war
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by mingus88 2y ago
The set of requirements evolved and changed throughout history as our did our culture and society. We do still have a set of requirements for what is considered art, and we still have a set of hyper conservative gatekeepers that are resista
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by mingus88 2y ago
No musical performance is ever a 100% literal translation of the score. That’s pretty much impossible for any work. A score is not a set of MIDI instructions and a performer is not a sound card. This post is wild because “what is the point
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by mingus88 2y ago
TIL that there were no organ works in the history of humanity until electrical power was invented
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by mingus88 2y ago
If you have ever dabbled in philosophy at all, your notion of “real art” would be the first thing you would have to challenge. “What is music” is one of those questions that leads to some truly subversive trains of thought and it’s amazing
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by mingus88 2y ago
It’s obvious that many people in this industry believe themselves to be supremely intelligent and curious hacker types, yet they obviously never taken a humanities course. They have a huge blind spot that they aren’t even aware of, or worse
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by mingus88 2y ago
They can force you to unlock your devices and then take your device away to be imaged. They’ll look at your socials and more. If you refuse then they won’t let you in, and you will be banned from ever returning https://www.eff.or
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by mingus88 2y ago
You should always bring a burner device when traveling to a foreign country, US or otherwise The border patrol can effectively do anything they want, for any reason. If they ask you to unlock your devices, do it. Let them take it away to be
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by mingus88 2y ago
The word for this is enshittification The service has become increasingly poor and the prices climb. This is the phase of Netflix’s lifecycle where all the value is being extracted from the customers and given to the shareholders. They hike
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by mingus88 2y ago
Netflix is what you put on while you are doing other things. That’s not a criticism, really, that’s their product focus https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/netflix-backlash-casual-vi... I had been a Netflix subscriber si
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by mingus88 2y ago
The accusation is fraud
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by mingus88 2y ago
Conservatives by definition are not prone to paradigm shifts. I own an EV truck and I simply cannot comprehend the animus from “truck guys”. Here is a vehicle made in a U.S. factory, powered by 100% US energy, no foreign oil, with towing ca
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by mingus88 2y ago
Private compute cloud is apples solution. It doesn’t matter what specs your phone has because the inference is sent to a data center. They literally have data centers worth of devices running inferences anonymously
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by mingus88 2y ago
The 1A protects citizens from the government. Presently the government is being systematically dismantled from the inside. Madison Square Garden and its investors have the freedom to bar anyone they see fit on their own property. Their port
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by mingus88 2y ago
Take a look at the Oath Keepers or the 3%ers and let me know if you think they are going to do the right thing here. They took an oath to protect their interests. That’s it and that’s all.
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by mingus88 2y ago
The U.S. will never allow any former president to get prosecuted because the precedent is too severe. By all reasonable accounts, GW Bush should have been prosecuted for war crimes. Trump should have been prosecuted the moment he left offic
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by mingus88 2y ago
This is not a 1st amendment issue. This is a late stage capitalism issue where too much power has been consolidated into the hands of too few, and so much as a single comment made publicly can blacklist you from participating in any cultura
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by mingus88 2y ago
Yeah these fantasies where musk would somehow go bankrupt by tanking Tesla and overpaying for Twitter were also wild He’s literally the richest person the earth has ever known. He’s never going to suffer financially. He has countless levers
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by mingus88 2y ago
A recent event in midtown manhattan shows it’s pretty easy to evade surveillance if you can avoid using a car for a brief period of time. Didn’t he get away on a bike into a park? In that case the police had a Starbucks register photo with
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by mingus88 2y ago
Apple Music will not stream 24/96 to you if you are not using compatible equipment But it’s nice to have the option because even my wife, who doesn’t care about audio at all, can immediately tell if my home theater is playing a DTS-MA

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