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But there are at least two problems with such a deceptively simple statement:

1) Road construction is constantly expanding. They create their own demand by diverting resources away from many things including affordable housing -- the number of people I know that commute for over an hour because they cannot afford to live near their work is non-negligible. At some point this becomes a planning/resource issue and at the moment the decision is to carry on as usual with a system that is causing major problems.

2) The amount of traffic makes a huge difference. It is well documented that roads create ecological bubbles affecting animal populations negatively. The speed and frequencey of the traffic (type of vehicle) makes a difference.

And the desire for recreation. The explosion of cars isn't necessarily that cars are so useful. Certainly they did have utility. But really they were kind of liberating. In the late 19th century, nobody ever heard of a vacation

We can see examples of other places where railways were the "liberating" technology that allowed people to go on holiday. For example:

Up to about forty or fifty years ago travelling was a solemn act, not to be enterprised nor taken in hand unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly,’ so writes the Belfast News-Letter in September 1888. But all of this had changed; from the inception of the railways ‘day excursions’ had become ‘entirely modern pleasures,’ the British seaside and countryside opened up to visitors who could travel there easily by train.

https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/08/12/how-th...

The "cars are liberating, what a shame they destroy the wild place I went to meditate in" schtick seems like a deep-seated cultural echo of all the automobile advertising that has been consumed for about a century.

Basic use case is being able to take input from an old MIDI keyboard and feed it into a DAW so that a simple melody can be turned into something more exciting.

I would appreciate someone being able to point a complete beginner towards a path (if one exists) in which initial work getting familiar with an interface will not be wasted if more advanced functionality is desired later.

I don`t mind paying for tutorials and/or books or the software (and I see Bitwig has some tutorials) but I want a rich environment that is going to reward investment of time. I would prefer something without lock-in and strongly favor FL/OSS.

1. https://manual.ardour.org/introducing-ardour/understanding-b...

He, and Shellenberger and the other writers at "Public" are slowly revealing the outlines of something disturbing. Namely that social media companies take the direction of state surveillance and espionage actors -- including those of foreign (Israeli and Ukrainian secret services) governments, currently considered allies. This is being revealed to be effected through a sinister network of supposed "civil society" NGOs and 501c3s. That's a worrying idea to anyone that considers themself a democrat or a republican (in the non-partisan sense).

If you had followed up on this you would have noticed that although Taibbi rapidly admitted conflating CISA and CIS a further look suggests that the CIS is deeply inter-twined with the DHS and that Taibbi was correct about the CISA's involvement with the EIP. Taibbi is good at admitting his errors and correcting them publicly and rapidly: https://www.racket.news/p/lee-fang-vs-mehdi-hasan-round-2

With regard to the 22 million versus 3000 , Taibbi's co-author Michael Shellenberger notes that:

https://public.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-censorship-karen...

“Stamos & EIP worked to get entire NARRATIVES banned outright,” explained Mike Benz, the State Department official-turned-whistleblower. “Those narratives, by EIP’s own math, had millions of associated posts.”

Taibbi pointed out that the 3,000 number was chosen to hide the full extent of the censorship. “They're playing games with terms like ‘unique original URL,’” tweeted Taibbi, “where more than 1000 tweets can be "collapsed" into one ‘incident.’”

Here’s the thing: it doesn’t matter how many posts they censored. No amount is acceptable.

Again, as stated in my original response to this: yes, the full dump would be ideal, but it is definitely worth considering what Taibbi says. If he's right this needs to be stopped now, if he's wrong then trying to safeguard against the massive abuses and manipulation will not cause harm.

https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/the-censorship-industria...

https://public.substack.com/p/censorship-leaders-accuse-us-o...

The curl tool comes installed in addition to the dreaded curl alias that plagues Powershell users since it is an alias that runs the invoke-webrequest command and therefore isn't acting much like curl at all.

A work-around is to invoke curl as "curl.exe" to prevent powershell from treating it as an alias

I invite you to show any evidence that anyone else has ever used "sopping to" in this sense. That's exactly my point.

In addition the "verbing with a noun" is a red-herring. Sopping has meanings related to being small or wet/absorbent. So, you could verb that noun all you wanted and succeed only in confusing your audience. That's the best thing to keep in mind: are you communicating or obfuscating.

You can usually "sop up" == "soak up" something which leads to the common "sopping wet". You can also have a "sop" == "morsel".

"Sopping to" makes no sense in English.

Sources: google ngram, wiktionary, merriam-webster, concise oxford 1971

There is a very good SciAm article explaining Karikó and Weissman's work at the time of their Breakthrough Prize announcement: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-mrna-pioneer-d...

But maybe that's the fashion nowadays among sophisticated thinkers?:

" I want you to think very seriously over this question of poison gas. I would not use it unless it could be shown either that (a) it was life or death for us, or (b) that it would shorten the war by a year.

   2. It is absurd to consider morality on this topic when everybody used it in the last war without a word of complaint from the moralists or the Church. On the other hand, in the last war bombing of open cities was regarded as forbidden. Now everybody does it as a matter of course. It is simply a question of fashion changing as she does between long and short skirts for women."*

They have no lack of information: they just don't do anything with it because their fundamental job at the moment is not protecting us, it's destroying others. MI5 had all they needed to stop the Manchester Arena bomber etc.

Journalists need to be free to pursue their activities in order for us to have a functioning democracy. The detention of Kit Klarenberg, this detention, the detention of the French publisher (for Gilet Jaune protestor links IIUIC) are definite indications that these intelligence agency perverts feel empowered to interfere with one of the important parts of a democratic system.

Don't forget: Putin was the hand enforcer entrusted by the West while they were dismantling the old USSR.

If you care about there being genuinely independent news media then funding these guys is something you can do right now.

Don't particularly care about your personal opinion about Grayzone - this is an outrageous attack on press freedom and should be condemned. The reason @gofundme is targeting it & similar outlets is because they know few people will object. They'll eventually expand who's a target.

To you that is art. To me it is kitsch.

I don`t care if it took 3 months to make something that makes me want to strangle the artist at birth or if it took 10 minutes to produce something that makes me feel there are other humans in the world.

That`s the problem with art: there are no mensurables, it is completely subjective. Probably that is what makes it art.