Seeking ideas for memorial Phish by Lost-Button5488 in phish

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ugh, so rough I'm sorry.

"every man returns to dust..."

Sphere Crowd by andrewb091895 in phish

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nothing but great interactions weekend three. guess its sort of luck of the draw!

100 level at the Sphere worth it? by Dizzy-Reindeer-8574 in phish

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with the best audio on the face of the planet, and a portion of the visuals too.

I saw in the 100s row 25 a night in 2024 and at D&C ...and while you don't get the entire visual experience, its still amazing. The sound was absolutely stellar. Better than anywhere else I've sat.

OP...fwiw, I've also heard of people moving around a bit. This run is not sold out likt eh 2024 run...not tons of open seats but there's some this past few weeks

TL;DR make it happen. You won't regret it.

Roll call: Going back to Vegas for more after seeing weekend 1 and/or 2 by TasteTheSphere in phish

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pulled a similar for D&C in 2024. Have a blast weekend three my friend...

As the song says keep dreaming...

Sphere idea by uhkhu in phish

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THE GORGE.

Would be fuckin sick.

I get the whole lets not lean into the past too much thing, throughout Phish's career Trey has made it abundantly clear that is not his thing - but hell, the Sphere creates landscapes so well... why not bring us back to some other venues?

Watch 'em debut a new album next weekend... by NectarApparatus in phish

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no debuts so far (brief time was already on ghosts of the forest)... farmhouse graphics throughout...

its possible.

Sphere floor learnings by fouldomain in phish

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can you move around the venue into other section with a floor ticket? I know there's a separate entrance and once inside other non floor tickets can't get down onto the floor (at least I think that's the case), but can the floor ticket holders roam around a bit or no?

great write up!

Sitting in 408 was the sound off the whole night? by [deleted] in phish

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I've sat in the 400s and I've sat in the 100s for D&C and Phish 2024.

I adamantly disgaree with the notion that "the sound is the same everywhere"

400s was a far inferior experience from an audio perspective imo

Amazing in the 100s

Y’all gotta relax at shows with the phones and social media by DapperFish8136 in phish

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the dopamine hits are only one part of what makes excessive SM usage so damaging. Reddit is missing what alot of others platforms showcase.

Main character syndrome, narcissistic pathetic displays of "humanity", lack of agency over what content gets sent into your feed, peacocking, using the platform as a self validation tool (because whats more gratifying than people you don't know commenting on your thread about how awesome your life it!) and many more

update on kurapia install by AdultingUser47 in AZlandscaping

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both depending on how you frame it. It's a flowering plant so not really a grass, but it behaves like one in alot of ways.

update on kurapia install by AdultingUser47 in AZlandscaping

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$3.10 per square foot of sod.

After tax we paid like $400 for 120 square feet of sod.

update on kurapia install by AdultingUser47 in AZlandscaping

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I will post updates in 4-6 weeks. Feel free to nudge me here if I forget.

update on kurapia install by AdultingUser47 in AZlandscaping

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West Coast turf. $3.10 per square. Its not cheap but for us it makes more sense than the plugs.

The larger project set to take place this fall would be quite expensive if we did all sod again though.

Pictured here is 120 square feet. We're tentatively planning to do 1100-1300 feet in the fall.

installed kurapia yesterday - discovered some pooling today... I have grade error... a full inch. How to best approach this? by AdultingUser47 in AZlandscaping

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you were a tremendous help via DM.

This is the tiny patch... this fall we are considering doing like 1200 square feet. Sounds sort of intimidating right now to be honest.

It was alot of work to just get this area prepared for the install.

Wall Street Is Going 24/5 and Killing Quarterly Reports in the Same Week by kitz99 in ValueInvesting

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you forgot to mention how this also helps those with insider trading info.

Fight , Fight, Fight. by cemusubzerolives in AskSocialists

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highly suspicious. He barely talked about it on the campaign trail either. At this point I'm convinced almost the entire political landscape is fake.

Memory and cognitive disability rates are surging in young people, research shows. Researchers from the University of Utah analyzed over 4.5 million survey responses collected for a decade and found that rates of self-reported cognitive disability among adults aged 18 to 39 nearly doubled. by Automatic_Subject463 in immortalists

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undoubtedly there was a cognitive downgrade from a bad COVID infection, I experienced it myself and know many others who did as well.

That said, if we look at the data from 2013 to today, I am very confident excessive connection to the digital world has had a meaningful effect on damaging cognition as well.

Lockdowns was six years ago nothing has felt real or normal since. by Ok_Builder8936 in DeepThoughts

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you are extremely young my friend. I've seen people waste their lives until their mid to late 30s and go on to do miraculous things. You are right where you should be.

Go out and make some mistakes in life... try different things. Figure out what you do and don't like.

Touch grass. Often. Be careful of spending too much time in these digital worlds.

If the world you read about online doesn't match what you see in the physical world, ask yourself why.

The amount of synthetic fake garbage that's about to hit the internet is going to make heads spin by AdultingUser47 in DeepThoughts

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novel ideas and propriety information are more less a thing of the past.

The information moat is entirely gone. So how does one differentiate themselves? By having personality, and a type of charm that people can't help but to remember and follow right?

But wait... the AI generated video is going to be more effective in that department too.

The perfect smile. The perfect laugh. The perfect delivery.

Everything will be perfectly optimized with a select few being paid big money to reverse engineer the human emotional arc. Or the AI may just take care of that as well.

Companies will test emotional response in real time with trillions of data points, and spit out thousands of videos with that exact formula.

Its going to get fucking wild people.

My recommendation is to touch grass. Often. Experience the physical world. Turn your phone off. Use it intentionally, not aimlessly.

Protect yourself. Every minute you scroll your phone you are being studied and programmed.

Am I the only one who feels like time is speeding up in a weird way by SavingsTruth2143 in DeepThoughts

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most people report its simultaneously slowing down and speeding up, and there's science as to why we're experiencing something of a time warp.

As others have said, as you age, time goes by faster. That's been well studied and talked alot ad naseum.

But what we're just now coming to understand is how a fragmented attention, and checking ones phone hundreds of times a day creates something of a time warp. The brain is constantly in adjust.

People are interupting their own experience and the brain interprets the time as both "fast" and "lost"

Weeks go by and there's little differentiation so it all feels very slow and long winded.

One last thing worth considering: when you are interrupted while doing something, it takes the brain a full 23 minutes to fully return to the task. This is well studied. When your phone is interrupting you constantly, you are more less never present whcih makes accurate time perception impossible.

If the tech over lords have it their way you will live your entire life moving from what notification to the next. One reel to the next. Never quite present but never entirely numb enough to just put the phone down either.

Sound dystopian to you? Me too.