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it's about justifying tax cuts for the rich

when there's no need for the working class anymore?

Once it's gone it's gone. That's part of what I like about analogue modular synthesizers. It's a liberating approach to doing music if you embrace it for what it is.

his first term, despite all the clownery and drama, ended up being run of the mill republican politics. Why do you think things will be different this time?

it is something to worry about if you care about playing the original. I'm only interested in straight ports with minimal QOL features like 60fps(or unlocked if viable), higher resolution and controller rebinding.

I haven't played a single remaster that I preferred to the original game. I'm fine with remasters existing, but only if faithful ports are made available as well.

Nothing socialist about it. Eu is neoliberal to its core.

There are other reasons for that. Application is cheap and relatively fast(~3 months in my case).

indeed they are not really left but neoliberals with a leftist aesthetic, just like most republicans are neoliberals with a conservative aesthetic.

so are you in some kind of doom cult?

hnews is now 4chan.

Late stage capitalism got started started in the thirties...

Can't have the kids learning critical thinking.

This is exactly how to not solve systemic issues.

It's just not good enough yet.

all I've seen from AI assisted art is endless variation of what's already out there. form remains the same. maybe it's just me but isn't it weird how technologies that supposedly are democratizing seldom seem to be emancipatory? i fear AI will only make culture and art more standardized, more of an industry.

But I think AI can be a revolution in the sense that it will lead people to think hard about what kind of art AI can't do, and that will hopefully get us back to doing, you know, actual art.

just like poor people choose to be poor.

the very concept of the police is a form of political ideology.

easier to imagine the end of world than the end of capitalism...

The trick is that people really do hear differences when first listening to a new piece of audiophile gear, it's just that the difference doesn't come from the new hardware but from the very act of listening carefully to hear differences . This is a skill that can be improved with practice, it's called critical listening. When audiophiles do it by accident(or because they are told to listen for "details") they basically delude themselves into thinking the hardware really is different. Once the effect wears off and they start listening passively like normal, they go looking for the next thing to improve.

the government spent some money to build a dating app.

beautiful, but I would have preferred it without the famous characters and memes.

love his early Buchla stuff.

Less techy stuff:

- Kirsten Dirksen, for videos about self-sufficiency and architecture https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen

- Hainbach, music-making using test equipment and esoteric synthesizers https://www.youtube.com/c/Hainbach

- Linus Boman, graphic design https://www.youtube.com/c/LinusBoman/videos

- Sebastian Lague, game programming 'coding adventures' https://www.youtube.com/c/SebastianLague

- Great Art Explained https://www.youtube.com/c/GreatArtExplained

- Martijn Doolaard, dutch guy is renovating a house on a mountain in Italy https://www.youtube.com/c/MartijnDoolaard

- Afrorack, guy in Africa makes DIY synths https://www.youtube.com/c/Afrorack/videos

- Voices of the Past, first hand accounts from people throughout history https://www.youtube.com/c/VoicesofthePast

- Mr. Chickadee, large scale carpentry using hand tools https://www.youtube.com/c/MrChickadee

- Jorge Rodriguez, game math https://www.youtube.com/c/JorgeVinoRodriguez

The lack of digital government services has been a real pain for me. I've often ended up in situations where I had to drive around to a bunch of different places to get official documents printed out and stamped for me. In general there's also a lot of situations where you have to fill out a bunch of forms with information they already should have.

In Sweden those sort of things can be handled online. And I don't even remember the last time I had to fill out a form with my information there because it just happens automatically with the personal number system.

I definitely hate this part about Japan. Then there's other crap like how services often won't accept bank account names registered with roman characters. But banks here won't allow you to open an account unless the account name matches your immigration card exactly, so if your name is written in roman characters then you are stuck with that, which basically creates a catch 22 type of situation.

Finally, digital services here, especially the public ones are typically abysmal.

In a nutshell, dealing with Japanese authorities and their apps and forms and stamps and whatnot feels like you are interfacing with a manual, paper based system from the 60's but with the added unpleasantness of user hostile apps and webservices that seem to have been built using a 90's tech stack even though they just came out in the last few years.

Maybe the official who took his own life after being forced to alter evidence linking Abe and his wife to the Moritomo Gakuen embezzlement scandal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritomo_Gakuen

You don't think women who go through abortion face any consequences?

I hate working with DAWS and plugins. I went all in on modular a few years ago and wish I had done so a decade earlier.

It's very easy to find affordable living in Tokyo or any other big city in Japan.

Mcmillen K-mix. I think they released a new version last year.

I don't think that's fair. Sure HH has been going on for eight years, but on average Casey is only putting in 3-4 hours per week. That's not even half a work-day per week. Not to mention that he spends a lot of time explaining every single decision he makes and does black-boarded lectures on pretty much every subject covered in the series.

I think it's reasonable to assume progress would be at least 3-4 times faster if his focus was solely on the code. So what you call "a billion years" is actually more like a total 2-4 months of fulltime coding.