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I think we need to encourage a culture that package managers are our shared garden and we must all help in the weeding.
The real danger is not the warmed up trickle-down deregulation shite. That is nothing new and already a cause of current problems. It's that it's in furtherance of a techno-authoritarian fascist cult of the twitter poisoned. God knows where that will take us but given the vast wealth and power of the people losing their minds, it's a greater threat to democracy than Q.
That sounds like a middlebrow dismissal of what these groups are. I think you can describe them with more tangible psychological/philosophical motivations which I don't find useful to describe as "transcendence" e.g.
- belonging : the appeal of the gang, the cult is to find acceptance, your tribe, your family. If life has thrown you to the curb and vulnerable, such organisations will take you in.
- guru syndrome : the search for a paternal figure to structure and make sense of the world, to surrender to, to love, to give devotion, to follow, no matter the path
- meaning : a thirst, an existential emptiness, a desperation for life to have a purpose, any purpose
- rationality : extreme groups are often fighting a real injustice and the tactics often have reasoned philosophical basis - we may not like them, may consider them immoral, but they are often more deeply thoughtful than who they fight
- emotion : the injustices are often personally experienced by their adherents, they are angry, they may seek not just redress but revenge, it's a cause which attracts them as a moth to a flame
- stimulation : the dreary day to day, the monotony vs. the thrill of action, the fight or in some cases straight-up sociopathic indulgence
It feels like a product of the "we have always been at war with Russia" political fluidity when the applause was triggered by claims of fighting Russia in 1940. Today we funnel guns to units wearing SS unit patches with no scandal. There is no international effort for peace. There is no widely held principle that we must turn enemies into allies. Instead there is glee at every Russian death and disinterest, unless useful, in every Ukrainian death. To be anti-war gets you treated as a crank. It makes me feel sick.
Melodic female lead was always there in DnB e.g. Goldie's timeless.
> latest Subfocus album
I don't want to offend... but clicking through that... my god that is some nauseating garbage lol! The electronic aspect sounds like a typical 90s dnb video game menu background music and the vocals are the commercial dance music banality that cuts me like fingernails on a blackboard. You are allowed to call be grandad in return :)
> Counterstrike
Sounds like what I would hear at a typical dnb night back in the 90s that was on the harder side. Not sure why that counts as a new genre. Isn't it what Ishkur would call darkstep?
They are the only unfamiliar things among a sea of the old familiars: house, techno, dnb, garage, electro etc. I see a fair amount of "Dark Wave" which is not electronic and not new but not a common term back when I might have been going to gigs.
Is it true that there just aren't any major new genres and subcultures with music? I know people will respond with "I love new genre X" which will turn out to be a handful of bedroom djs on soundcloud. There needs to be some notability standard for a genre which IMHO is that there are multiple clubs that specialise in it and larger clubs have a regular night for it showing some general appeal. Anything else is just some micro-niche that should be categorised under an existing genre.
But on an AMD/Nvidia desktop it's unusable because it's buggy as all hell. It's endless glitches in dozens of applications. At first it appears fine and then you get subtle stuff like like letters not appearing in vscode when you type, OBS won't record etc.
It's what the general public needs that us nerds can least relate to.
As far as I can recall, the only time I need to know day-of-month is when scheduling and I need my actual calendar with existing appointments for that.
> While performing a conjuring trick for the amusement of his children in 1843 Brunel accidentally inhaled a half-sovereign coin, which became lodged in his windpipe. A special pair of forceps failed to remove it, as did a machine devised by Brunel to shake it loose. At the suggestion of his father, Brunel was strapped to a board and turned upside-down, and the coin was jerked free.
It feels like the hacker spirit - the enthusiasm for dumb tricks and then having to invent your way out the pickle you have got yourself in.
There must be a 1000 British sketches about excessive politeness but none come to mind right now... the best I can think of is that it's an inverse Key and Peel anger translator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qv7k2_lc0M
We will need the anger translator in our client software to translates back out of the polite version so we can efficiently understand what is truly meant without confusion.
This is the original. I prefer it personally - just tidier and showcases Kate Bush better but then I am old and loved it back in '92. The video is... well I guess it shows every penny of it's £5 budget. Maybe some 90s pop/rave nostalgia.
How is dating as a science faring in the replication crisis? It seems fraught with incentives for those involved. Discover something 2000 years old and no-one cares but 12,000 years old and you've got a TV career and a book deal.
It's like a mouse riding a credit card. It feels... human. I would like the world to have more cute nerdy fun like this in it.
It's not famous for it's age but because it's appearance and location made it a loved landmark despite it's youth.
Our oldest tree is the Fortingall Yew which is up to 5000 years old.
What is that? "Ablation" as in removal? Do they AB test removing new features just for data? ... and also monitor SM threads for feedback?
My main bug bear is how how some screens are drawers and some screens are pages which makes navigation confusing. Even after years of use, I still keep accidentally closing the drawer screens when trying to scroll and trying to navigate backwards which isn't allowed. Please... just make them all pages so they behave consistently with the same navigation and gestures.
FWIW I can't say I have noticed any radical increase in popularity. The number of Leechers on the most popular piratebay torrents are only in the 100s so I assume it's very niche. I suspect that "playing an .mkv file" is already too technical/clunky for much of the public compared to using streaming app. Let alone setting up a seedbox and media server behind a VPN or whatever for the best experience.
You'd think the head of the Remain campaign might deserve a little blame? Totally blameless for their failure apparently. The actual strategy of the campaign is never even discussed. It's just "how dare Corbyn cause Brexit! The Fiend!" How about all the other names and faces leading the Remain campaign? Cameron, Osborne? Nope. He gets more blame than fucking Farage.
I have no respect for anyone that pushes this shit. It's just disgusting post-factual factional lying crap. Stop it.
Looks like only one NBA GMs is paid over $10M.
You crash an end-of-life trainer dressed up as an F35 in a carefully chosen site with no natural foot traffic. The FBI then sits in a bush and arrests everyone that turns up.
The F35 is the prime intelligence target for Russia before it gets in Ukrainian hands so they might risk some of their most valuable "illegals" i.e. the long-term embedded agents with flawless identities. For a big target, you gotta go big. Hang out the biggest prize in the most embarrassing way you can. This is a typical type of plot from The Americans TV show.
That or it's testing the adversarial satellite or balloon surveillance tech for how long it takes to find the craft. Maybe it's a test of Open Source Intelligence networks. Maybe it had genuine stealth tech and they are monitoring channels to find out if it was being successfully tracked. A top of the line stealth craft is hell of a honeypot so there are endless things that might get revealed - I imagine all hostile intelligence networks are lit up like christmas trees - it's like a barium meal.
Do I believe any of these? Nah. Reality is more ridiculous than fiction so no doubt it really is the case that they have just lost a prize intelligence asset.
I'd be more inclined to believe that it's a gambit to flush out an intelligence leak rather than an inability to find their own $160M plane.