scarecrowbob

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by scarecrowbob 5d ago
I am not a capitalist, but isn't that the kind of problem that capitalism would solve? Wouldn't the landlords would just take a loss and sell the property to avoid penalties?
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by scarecrowbob 9d ago
Cool, in what world is that a credible threat?
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by scarecrowbob 9d ago
I love this, what a pleasant take./ I dislike AI because it represents the state's power to automatically surveil mass populations and automate everything from labor it's use of force in warfare. Please, do go on about how th
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by scarecrowbob 9d ago
Hey now, these folks are -really enjoying- their highly contrived version of the events. How dare you limit their enjoyment by recontextualizing this into what most of my non-highly-online friends would view as the "normal" under
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by scarecrowbob 10d ago
I'm sympathetic to the problem that folks like Mark Fisher have laid out, in which (to paraphrase) "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism", and that indeed might be one way to understand my f
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by scarecrowbob 10d ago
I live near Durango, CO and this happened last week.
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by scarecrowbob 10d ago
I remember walking over a hill into a rave in the Utah desert that we'd set up and thinking that it actually was the cyberpunk dystopia that I had been hoping for. That kind of stuff is around but maybe not evenly distributed or legibl
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by scarecrowbob 12d ago
I love that "over-medicate" language (really). I will add that to my list of "things that are classy when rich people do them". I always forget how geeked out these folks probably are and so I appreciate the reminder he
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by scarecrowbob 13d ago
It took me quite a while to "get" the "Arby's" restaurant name.
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by scarecrowbob 14d ago
Not me, but I've been thinking about it a bit lately, and what I believe is this: the idea that we can have something that so deeply ingrained into my practice as a human just kind of tossed out there easily as if it's no thing at
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by scarecrowbob 15d ago
You make the CSS and branding into a thing that folks are "discouraged" from distributing. That's most of the WP plugin and theme ecosystem, or was when I retired from it.
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by scarecrowbob 15d ago
I'm thankfully about 4 years out of making a living un-fucking WP sites but one of the strangest things about the ecosystem is about "for-sale" GPL software. It's felt somewhat unique to WP for sure, though maybe there a
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by scarecrowbob 15d ago
Yeah, that's pretty much how it works in the big bands I've played in- you need to be able to both read and improvise and know when to do either. I very much can and do read for a lot of instruments. In some situations (I played
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by scarecrowbob 15d ago
Well, you do you... if you're putting piano rolls in front of the folks you're performing with and asking them to use that as a basis for a tune, then that's neat. I don't believe you are, but hey I have been wrong abou
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by scarecrowbob 15d ago
It would be really hard for me to improvise a clarinet solo based on the melody line in that kind of notation, which is something I have to do pretty frequently in my old style jazz band using fake books. I'm sympathetic to that view;
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by scarecrowbob 15d ago
Even more, my experience as a person raised by and sometimes married to professional music pedegogs and who plays in a lot of professional situations is that the "theory" itself really isn't that hard when we understand the p
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by scarecrowbob 16d ago
Look, just because someone doesn't have a functioning soul doesn't mean they are a bot.
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by scarecrowbob 18d ago
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by scarecrowbob 18d ago
I agree with you. Maybe consider my conciliatory rhetoric ("folks here think") in the original post as statement about what I think the vicious and hyper-authoritarian tech bros here believe, namely everything from obviously dumb
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by scarecrowbob 18d ago
I mean... Ken Paxton?
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by scarecrowbob 18d ago
I understand that folks here think that the general anti-AI sentiments that can be found in some of US culture are often misguided. It's likely projection on my part but I have a deep suspicion that people understand that mass surveill
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by scarecrowbob 22d ago
Nice list. Maybe a bit over the top for a lot of situations. I assume folks would acquire these things over a long period of time depending on their projects or what they are repairing. I have a 2-ch function generator coming because afte
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by scarecrowbob 22d ago
I'll also echo the "practice kit" thing, especially for desoldering- solder stuff on, take it off, do it agin. Also, good tools and supplies- kester solder and liquid flux. It took me quite a while to figure out that my prefe
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by scarecrowbob 26d ago
My buddy called me yesterday just before he got into the playa so I could cover a sound tech gig for him. He's not "wealthy" by most folks' standards. He is a tech guy, though. But he keeps having to go to oil productio
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by scarecrowbob 27d ago
What if you just stated your actual point instead of asking stupid questions? Look, I get that folks in the US and other colonial projects feel a-okay in genociding the folks who were living there previously. I also get that you can't
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by scarecrowbob 29d ago
What you're missing is that while it's certainly true that there are plenty of small groups working from the antifacist position, the claim isn't simply that these groups exits- the claim (by the US gov) is that these groups
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
I wish those actions made the folks doing that "better" instead of implicating beautiful parts of my childhood in their vicious attempts to keep the entire world under their thumb... The obvious problem is that when the same group
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
I miss being able to simply wish folks ill and hope they get what they "deserve". Instead, as I get older all I can think of is how horrible it would be to possesses some vague idea of escape but have to deal with a smoke or risin
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
Yeah, I feel you on that. It took about 20 years for my philosophy and literature degrees pay off. I know more now, but I had to start -somewhere- even if it was hard to get the whole context. Much of that time between putting in all that w
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
One of the problems for me is that the people I disagree with are the white supremacists who operate the empire. I know them pretty well. It actually has been quite difficult to extricate my thinking from that culture which raised me and I

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