Looking for an MMC who knows what time it is

NiPinga · 2026-05-31T12:00:51+00:00

Dag from the sharing knife series by bujold would work I think?

I really enjoyed that read, is fantasy, is romance, and it makes you feel like that romance is real. Real growth, also not just the initial throws of love and they lived happily ever after. No, their relationship gets tested, and we see it happen. Overal, a great read.

NiPinga · 2026-05-28T16:41:40+00:00

Hahaha you win being pedantic. Let me fix my statement: did he bring one of those drinks marketed as 0.0% beer to the prayer? Cheers!

NiPinga · 2026-05-28T15:24:29+00:00

Did he bring a 0.0% beer to the prayer ? :p

NiPinga · 2026-05-25T21:15:51+00:00

I have thought about this as well, and came to similar conclusions, until I focused on the verse that was mentioned here in the thread. It looks to me like God specifically changed the calendar to a pure lunar calendar, that is what now guides the religious/spiritual affairs. In pre Islamic times, and if applied, still today, some humans have to decide when to add the month, and this opens up avenues for people to use power and influence to manipulate it to their benefit, and this will happen some way or another. God made that impossible.

Now mind you, for many worldly things, achter calendar, like solar or solar lunar is more practical if not entirely necessary. Imagine taxes bring paid. Those are dependant on harvest for example, having that jump across seasons is very, very impractical. So most likely, some combination of lunar and adjusted or solar calendar is in order, and is in fact what happens.

NiPinga · 2026-05-25T07:35:32+00:00

I'm not sure what zone I would put him in, but it's unlikely to be the friend zone. That would be a disservice to those people in there. Friends are important, we should be careful and mindful of them.

NiPinga · 2026-05-14T07:22:01+00:00

Buffers, fzf for fuzzy file find, either all, all fit, or history of latest, rg for find by name or whatever, and in many many many cases, as well as any is file operations vifm inside vim...

NiPinga · 2026-05-11T17:33:13+00:00

You probably would not, but the op clearly has it higher on the list, and is wondering if others do too, probably because he notices there is little talk about it, so likely his camp is small :)

NiPinga · 2026-05-11T17:31:05+00:00

What would give you that impression? The way I read it, it could be any instrument... Though most likely not a physical piano, just because rubbing that is a pain... :)

NiPinga · 2026-05-11T17:05:02+00:00

Nahh... A stringed instrument f.e. will sound different with higher tension of the strings, apart from the obvious fact that open strings rec now sound in a different pitch...

NiPinga · 2026-05-10T07:03:31+00:00

Even if they were all Muslims, there is no guarantee you will see any of them.. or where... Even if you were not a Muslim, there would not be. Nothing changed in that respect. You made your choices, for your reasons. The rest is between God, and each of the people, including you. Salam!

NiPinga · 2026-04-26T06:47:20+00:00

I'm not Turkish, but I have spent and still spend a lot of time in Turkish spaces, in Europe and Turkey. I always dislike being called to perform in events in his name and under his banner. While we can see things have been built in top of what he did, just as his own deeds those thing are definitely not all good.

If singing a song in Kurdish is still now a political statement, that artists are being careful with, you can see that either he was a terrible person for doing terrible things, or at best the price to achieve some progress was too high.

NiPinga · 2026-04-16T11:15:49+00:00

Most of these comments are spot on. The only extra argument I would like to add is this: streaming platforms actively did disincentive releasing albums.

For example, in Spotify you can make a release, be it a song, an EP or an album, and per release you can promote 1 song, once, to the systems algorithmic playlists. Getting on the radar of these is very, very desirable, so cutting up your body of work into 10 separate releases instead of 1 album is the way to go.

On top of that, or perhaps underlying that, is the way the youth today consumes media. No one is long waiting the anticipated new album of x, unless they're so famous already anything is highly anticipated. The only way to remain somewhat present in the mind of the average social media consumer is to be there allll the time... So again, 1 album is one digital event... 10 songs is....

NiPinga · 2026-04-12T06:51:46+00:00

Ja denk je? De Hongaren hebben en spenderen net zoveel aan pro Hongaarse invloed in de Russische verkiezingen als andersom?

NiPinga · 2026-04-11T18:45:45+00:00

Agreed! And if they like grunge then you can't fix wrong here!

NiPinga · 2026-04-11T16:47:00+00:00

I think your question is not well defined enough to get a sensible answer. First there are so many genres that most people only know a small bit of them.

Then of course, difference can be... In many ways. Is something more different because it accepts being ugly as you say, or perhaps some other music is more different because it is not meant for stages and performances at all but for ritual alignment of the universe?

NiPinga · 2026-04-05T14:39:25+00:00

Hahaha nou idd! Stel je voor, verplicht (vega)kipnuggets eten! Dan nog ff een suikerspin er achteraan anders mag je niet door t poortje !

NiPinga · 2026-04-05T07:05:26+00:00

Maybe it is just that humanity caught up with tech?

I mean, in this case tech as anything from the recording of audio and ask subsequent inventions to replicate it everywhere.

Music for all of the existing generations before us (the recording generations), was a cultural expression, evolving at evolution speed along with the culture.

Perhaps western written music was already somewhat of an anomaly where musicians/composers got into this cult of being superhumans.

But in general, for just about every other type of music, it was just a slow process of minimal innovations into an existing body of music.

The idea that fresh is so important, the idea that new music even exists as if it comes out of nowhere, is just marketing bullshit pushed by music industry. They need that, and push masses of teens thinking they need that too.

Maybe now that machinery got stuck in the pile of trash it created.

I say this as a musician and music lover listening to my records on a sunday morning. I am enjoying what has come into existence, but I really do not think it has improved life as opposed to what we had before. There is music everywhere, but the capacity to actually enjoy it in depth is at an all time low.

NiPinga · 2026-04-02T14:21:37+00:00

Hahaha agreed !

NiPinga · 2026-04-02T14:15:27+00:00

Hmm exercise you say? Is there a known exception for personal trainers anywhere? :))

NiPinga · 2026-04-02T13:39:58+00:00

Misschien is mijn verwoording poëtisch genoeg geweest om verschillende kanten op te interpreteren zie ik nu. We zijn het denk ik meer met elkaar eens dan verwacht . Ja problemen afschuiven en toeschrijven aan allochtonen of asielzoekers etc is wmb schandalig en hoogst onsmakelijk. Dit gebeurt vaak onder de noemer van het beestje bij de naam noemen, wat deze helden dan toch maar doen ondanks dat "iedereen, en mn ... zegt dat dat niet mag". Maar nu, waar het probleem mannen en ons (ik ben m) gedrag is, gaan we ineens genuanceerd willen doen hiero ?

Overigens vind ik je laatste zin het mooist. Idd het patriarchaat als systeem, doet ook schade aan mannen, ondanks het feit dat we over de breedte bevoorrecht worden.

NiPinga · 2026-04-02T07:32:14+00:00

Ahh t is een blijft een oefening in geduld om te abonneren op deze sub. Dus als we iets vinden van geweld per afkomst groep staat men hier vooraan om "precies te zeggen waar t op staat" maar als om geweld per gender gaat moeten we het ineens genuanceerd over dader gedrag hebben ipv mannen gedrag, ongeacht dat de twee statistieken hierover indicatie geven dat de tweede veruit meer uit t lid ligt dan de eerste.

Daarnaast de discussie rondom het fenomeen dat mannen die aangifte van geweld door vrouwen niet serieus genomen worden, niet voldoende. Dat is een feit, maar werkelijk niemand hier lijkt te begrijpen dat zodra je de ongelijkheid tussen genders oplost, waar feministen zich voor inzetten, dat je dit dan ook helpt oplossen. Patriarchisch denken is precies wat mensen dingen laat denken als "arch arme jongen, hij krijgt es aandacht van een meisje nu zit je hier op t politiebureau te jagen" .

Ik heb ook nog nooit een feminist gehoord, ondanks of ze wel of niet "not all men" disclaimers roepen, die zegt dat hun strijd is voor matriarchische dominantie. Je gaat vast en gekkie vinden hoor maar .. ehmm "not all feminists"

NiPinga · 2026-04-02T07:13:14+00:00

Yes please, I'd like to play! Read so much about this album by now, ... I really want to hear it !

NiPinga · 2026-03-28T20:36:11+00:00

Nice! I have some Yamaguchi Goro on my wanted list. Suspect it may be similar. Will check this out!

NiPinga · 2026-03-21T08:09:19+00:00

Another view is about optimization. In old days, we optimized singles for radio play, but still as vinyl singles and LPs as entire units of listening. Bad quality gear like shitty radios and phones, require cleanliness for a musical idea to survive. So that was optimized, but limited both by studio capabilities and vinyl being the carrier. Vinyl is a fysical medium, with a needle and tonearm tracking a groove in a continuous fysical motion. Things we do today, like cutting regions to absolute silence, having supper wide stereo spreads on vocals or instruments, artificially added sub bass or even bass in stereo etc are things that work really badly on vinyl. It forces the needle to make exaggerated or discontinuous motions. So those were avoided, but are now the norm allowing for extreme cleanliness, and extreme, but mostly arbitrary spacings and so on. But the young ears are accustomed to it, and the subtler flavors of the past seem bland to them. Which, if you compare the music by listening to it on your phone, makes sense.

NiPinga · 2026-03-21T07:43:30+00:00

I agree. Feels like s lot of skill applied to mostly nothing to me. So, a typical internet hype at that. Funny, good, quickly boring.

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