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Let's all give ourselves a pat on the back for eating fruit.

It's needlessly hectic. It's not a movie, it's TEXT. It starts off with some silly animation. Then another entirely pointless page with features that could easily be triggered by some sort of side menu or icon row in the top right of the screen. Now I've scrolled through two pages of crap.

Then there's a paragraph taking up another page. And NOW is the article, which fits into a fixed 800px wide container.

The "A" in the top right is an edgy animated menu instead of being A+ / A- to resize text which is what I thought it was.

- Make it fluid

- Cut any and all fluff

If I have to spend even the slightest effort to get to understand your layout or feel comfortable with the site, I just close it. I don't have that sort of time.

I hate all these new style article sites that are made just to justify the developers salary.

I can't wait until we go back to plaintext articles with a few styles instead of these stupid edgy designs. Unbearable.

I can tell you're autistic just by the way you are.

It takes work but eventually the feedback loop from caring -> not caring will be 0ms.

Just stop caring what people think. It's up to them to signal you to stop. Talking about synths too much and they get uncomfortable? "Oh sorry I'm just really passionate about synths and I can fly off the handle sometimes!"

America is insane by any country's standards.

Worlds top musicians have said they can't tell analog from digital. I laugh at purists.

I started 3 months ago on my synthesis journey. Currently I only have the following: Korg MS2000B (polysynth), Ableton Push (controller), SH 101 (monosynth), 88 key piano, and an Elektron Machinedrum (for drums). Got everything I need.

I started off by:

1) Reading the manuals

2) Reading the Sound on Sound series "Synth Secrets". There's an amalgamated PDF of all the series on Reddit if you search for it.

I have all the tools I need to create music on the fly and it's fantastic. I can't even imagine what it would be like working with old computers, patch bays, analog sequencers ETC. I listen to things like Aphex Twin and it boggles my mind how complex his beats are, especially the stuff from the early 90's when he was only like 20.

Super pumped to be learning this in 2015. Sure a Jupiter 8 cost $1k in 1989 and is $10k now, but you don't even need one at all.

Someone said that that all of those call home as well. I need a browser that just lets me browse instead of filling me with constant "1984-esque" anxiety and paranoia for every URL I go to, and apparently all the extensions I run ALSO call home and leave a uniquely identifying finger print.

Honestly I'm moving to backend work and using a terminal browser. This is so fucking stupid. Wish there was at least one program on my computer that isn't trying to constantly stab me in the back.

Yeah hold on let me fire up Opera. No. What do you suggest? Compile Chromium from source?

Added.

They do both.

Instead of drifting off into sleep focus on a narrative. I try to imagine myself doing things and create new characters as I go, I do this until I notice the sides of third eye start to go blurry and colours start to pour in, that's how I know I'm sleeping.

No practice, just came naturally to me. Learned this while on shrooms and focusing on the visuals, then tried it off them.

I can lucid dream without this easily. Just requires focus until you drift into your REM state then it takes over.

The same reason you get mad at ISIS tearing down ancient structures.

That's not the point. The point is we're already spending tons of money trying to prevent something that is clearly extremely accessible. May as well give them safe places to do it. We're dealing with the reality not the ideology. And that reality is we have a lot of addicts.

Why do people still use Sourceforge?

"They both run on HTML."

Yes we are agreeing with one another here. I was strictly talking about sustainability.

It's not a matter of perspective. The numbers you would need to be pulling on Spotify are huge to sustain yourself on a decent level. By that point, you're already big enough where you wouldn't need Spotify's income because you're big enough to have other sources.

Spotify is shit for artists. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar.

Fat girls can get laid no problem. Fat guys can't. Look how skewed dating sites are.

You are joking yourself if you think it's easier for men to get laid than women.

After reading this article I still haven't the faintest idea what I read. Tinder? Make your intentions clear, wrap it up in a few messages. Go get laid. End of story.

Sex is infinitely easier for women than it is men.

Ever since I got a job working remotely (sleeping 8-10 hours/day and working whenever I want/feel like it) and have eaten 100% clean (reddit.com/r/mealprepsunday has helped immensely with this) I've felt like a robot. Infinite energy. Infinite clarity.

We do endure it. We just don't care and don't talk about it.

I tripped with a few buddies I haven't seen in years. I'm happily tripping and my friend tries getting all deep on me. When I didn't engage his silly questions, he felt I wasn't on his level and that he really did have all the answers. It was hilarious and sad at the same time.

Yeah but colonizing Mars is just straight up cool.

Seems like you only embedded a "mobile friendly" layout really awkwardly in a desktop container.