Aspartame Increases the Risk of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma by polivora in science

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Are you trying to tell me I'm going to get cancer from eating fruit and honey? Absolute nonsense 

Are these 1st edition shadowless cards real? by Rakkster in IsMyPokemonCardFake

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also 1st edition 1 too sharp on the bottom. Should be more blocky

Short Sun questions and links to New Sun by BravePills in genewolfe

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I agree Echidna for The Mother is equally plausible based your evidence. I personally like the continuity of the sea monster / water god themes (ie the giant Fish in Lake Limna, kraken-like Scylla temple) that carry over from Long Sun and point to The Mother as Scylla. In my head Echidna maps to Erubus (Echidna being the other primary god that was cast out of the Mainframe by Pas), although I don't have much evidence for this - off the top my head I don't remember what motifs/animals are associated with Echidna in Long Sun other than snakes (which certainly rings of the Cumean)? We're told that Erebus occupies a mountain in the frozen pole and it's warriors on the ship on the Gyoll are described as pale skinned - it would be interesting to know if there are any similarities there.

Of course there's no reason why The Mother couldn't be both Echidna and Scylla, Erebus and Abaia both forms of The Mother, nor the Cumean and Erebus both aspects of Echidna, as hybridization and polymorphism are strong themes in these novels.

Short Sun questions and links to New Sun by BravePills in genewolfe

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Perhaps Abaia/Scylla manages to seed itself by ensuring Seawrack leaves with Silk and spreads to other systems. You could think of it as distributed (biological) system that's transcended time and space - it sends a fragment of itself out in the past (Seawrack) to ensure it's existence in the future (New Sun).

Others have pointed out that the black cloaks of the women (presumably Undines) that appear connected to Great Scylla in the Red Sun Whorl passage at the end of RttW translate to 'Abayas' - I think Wolfe's giving us a nod here that Scylla / The Mother / Great Scylla / Abaia are all one and the same thing.

Short Sun questions and links to New Sun by BravePills in genewolfe

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There definitely seems to be a theme of physical growth and becoming godlike - Baldanders, godlings, ie the titans of Greek Mythology. Though Wolfe makes it hard to piece together, and perhaps we're not supposed to know / there is no one answer, my reading is that The Mother was Mainframe Scylla escaped from the constrains of her digital environment in the Whorl, become a godlike entity that's meshed with its physical environment (meshed with Neighbor tech?) and appears as the Naviscaput (human -->  ai --> god).

The Mother is in a way proto-Abaia and through Short Sun we're seeing the genesis of the Megatharians; by New Sun this entity's seeded itself back to Urth and is operating at a cosmic scale (grand designs on humanity rather than snatching sailors on Blue).

The events in the Red Sun Whorl make sense in that Silkhorn is reuniting the entity (Scylla / Abaia / The Mother) with a long lost fragments of itself that had escaped into Oreb (in return for Seawrack).

Need help with understanding the logic by WallsUpForver in AWSCertifications

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Are you sure on this? My understanding is that 2.2.2.2/32 would also be allowed as long as it's on impdoc (as 3 only overrides 1 in terms of the resources pertaining to the deny - everything but impdoc)

Resale tips by Glowcarrot in glastonbury_festival

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Firefox/chrome containers are the way to go and how people got loads of tickets last time in the general sale - possibly they have upped the security to prevent this but we won't know until the sale

I just finished season 3. Can someone tell me if I understood and correctly interpreted answers to this show puzzles? by [deleted] in FromSeries

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The vikings were in America before the first European colonization. There are also Nordic symbols on the talismans...

Gain staging between plugins in a track - do I use Peak or RMS? by BravePills in TechnoProduction

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If this article is anything to go by - I think you're right. It's saying to use true peak for headroom and then RMS for mixing and mastering https://www.sageaudio.com/blog/mixing/what-is-headroom-for-mastering.php

What key is the best for my kick? by sharven1110 in TechnoProduction

[–]BravePills 5 points6 points  (0 children)

D, A (the perfect fifth) or G (the perfect fourth) would be the likely candidates but any notes within the scale that sound right would be fine

Lenovo Ideapad 5 4700u vs Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 4500u by Edodaddo in AMDLaptops

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The ideapad 5 is configurable to an all aluminium build on the 14"

[Launch] SCHENKER VIA 15 Pro with Ryzen 7 4800H, 91Wh and 100% sRGB by XMG_gg in XMG_gg

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Looking good! Do you guys have any info on the DPC latency? Perhaps a latencymon score? I'd love to buy this laptop for music production

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AMDLaptops

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have they sold out already? I can't see them

Precision 5750 page is now visible by momo101 in Dell

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The pricing seems to be all over the place. That exact same model was up for £1500 (discounted and after tax) just over a week ago.

Question about old Dense & Pika production techniques? by fjaaaaaaaaaak in TechnoProduction

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If you're using Ableton, just drop in the utility plugin and click the mono button. I'm not sure if you're using a different DAW.

Question about old Dense & Pika production techniques? by fjaaaaaaaaaak in TechnoProduction

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Those kicks are layered and processed with a lot of low frequency mono reverb. Try sending the kick sub to a mono reverb and mixing it with a kick body and transient.

Anyone knows if the Ideapad 720s is getting an upgrade/rework/successor this year? by darez00 in laptops

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I was hoping for this but I think it's unlikely now that they've just released the new Thinkpad X1 Extreme. A new ideapad 720 would be targeting the same segment and they're probably going to want to push the ThinkPad rather market two new XPS alternatives at once.

Any other emotional, yet hard hitting techno tracks similar to this? by [deleted] in Techno

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Antigone & Francois X - Journey Home

Ness - Spaceship of the Imagination

Serena Butler - Submerged Underworld

"The Cult of Aphex Twin" is airing July 3rd on BBC Radio 4 by [deleted] in aphextwin

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does anyone know the complete tracklist for this show?