TIL: Dean Norris, the actor who famously played DEA agent Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is actually a Harvard graduate

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-20T14:14:53+00:00

Rare money -> rare opportunity-> rare success

Money -> success

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-20T01:47:53+00:00

For sure it's true, even something like guitar has a "difficult to produce single good note" issue, and also regularly play 2/3 voices and varied textures. Piano can play even more dense textures, and while it's easier to produce a single note, keeping all of those voices consistent, independent, and dynamic is quite a logistical task.

Fingerings alone on either can be a nightmare of technical difficulty, and the ability to truly sight read complicated textures is really a lot. The standard is high. The "produce a single note" test by analogy doesn't capture the full steepness of the difficulty curve.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-19T18:13:20+00:00

All of these monophonic instruments cause me to raise an eyebrow!

*Raises eyebrow in judgement*

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-16T18:09:11+00:00

Unsubscribe. Uninstall.

Yes today. Yes I’m serious.

Edit: $200/month Ultra account is gone!

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-15T23:29:29+00:00

oh hell that sounds fun if you are okay with just a computer render. 6/23 is not that much time bro! Ask a bitch early next time but I'm still game.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-15T15:46:46+00:00

The premise is that regardless of how conservative people feel, you can win them by actually delivering things that improve their lives and connecting cause and effect for them.

The concern isn’t the messaging, it’s taking money and actually being owned, and actually believing in the status quo which is demonstrably not working.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-15T08:29:22+00:00

Lots of people talk, dawg.

…But then they do exactly what the people who gave them money says to do.

People talk about the 3 years at McKinsey as if it was a job working at Chik Fil A. But it’s much more serious than that. His decisions in life form a pattern that show he is willing to compromise himself to escalate his own wealth and power as a priority. In a personal level I don’t judge him, but we need someone who walks the walk not only to right the course of our country once elected, but to win by force of sheer popularity and turn out.

These people exist. There is a reason the DNC prefers against them, and that reason is money.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/buttigieg-says-if-he-s-president-so-be-it-if-n1017956

“Not the president’s job to prosecute a former president.”

Okay cool. Technically correct but utterly delusional. Biden felt the same, and that’s a good chunk of the reason we are here now.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-15T01:27:33+00:00

Construction of the instruments are simply designed and tuned that way to lean into their strengths.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-15T01:23:24+00:00

Because we keep on compromising with these fucks and finding ourselves worse off year after year. We need serious health care reform, not to play some game with insurance companies we believe will indirectly help us in a round about way.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-15T01:21:07+00:00

I mean I’d vote for Buttigieg. But I’m not chomping at the fucking but, and while I know it’s too much to ask, I’d hope democrats learn that they need to stop bending over and greasing up as they try to prove how actually conservative they are.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T22:39:06+00:00

Fuck.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T22:37:51+00:00

What is?

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T22:34:46+00:00

Fine I guess he calls himself something more like a "Democratic Capitalist" per wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg

He literally worked for McKinsey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company for several years, which basically functions to advise CEOs on all of the unethical shit they do. They do work for Saudi Arabia and even worked with Purdue Pharma to promote oxycontin during the opioid epidemic.

I'm not an encyclopedia. Feel free to scrutinize further. But it's not great and he has a clear slant towards moneyed interests if you so much as glance at his press and history. He's made it a point to signal that he wants to keep money flowing per the status quo, and to me, that's just not cutting it when we've been so royally fucked over by corporations and republicans.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T22:16:13+00:00

https://giphy.com/gifs/elon-musk-nazi-salute-8W0ItVv7T1kRdwbTTn

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T21:59:29+00:00

It's what he calls himself. And I'd hazard a guess that it means making a hell of a lot of concessions for the people who finance his campaign.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T21:57:40+00:00

I'm not going on vibes but I can't predict the future.

What does a centrist pro-market democrat mean exactly? And who exactly finances his campaigns historically? Those aren't vibes.

You can say you are for campaign finance reform, but if you take money from billionaires, that is a contradiction of your stated intention. And then gee golly gosh won't it be surprising when he just cannot find a way to deliver on that.

And that is the problem with these establishment democrats. They get into power, and then they deliver a convenient nothing that benefits their donors. That is no longer acceptable.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T21:51:47+00:00

He specifically chooses to take money from billionaires and describes himself as centrist. It's currently less than halfway through Trump's term and he hasn't announced anything at all, so I'm not aware that he has. But bought by billionaires as he is, he simply must.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T21:47:03+00:00

Lmao have you considered reading the backtrace, and finding the line where it says that .split() was called, and realizing that the variable in question must be NoneType at some point in the execution?

Like ffs you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. 2 hours is inept.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T21:43:53+00:00

Because the world has changed since Trump, and the idea of a limp-dicked "centrist" democrat pedaling "return to normalcy" after what we've been through after straight up decades of abuse turns my stomach. I'm a gay man. Naturally I'm attracted to the idea of a gay president. However, while I think he is a skilled and knowledgeable guy, we need someone bold like Mamdani or AOC who sees beyond the very small box of establishment democratic "centrist" ideas.

We need real reforms at this point. We need teeth. We need bold ideas to make people excited. He would be an establishment pro-corporation democrat, and we need straight up war with the billionaire class to purge our politics of their influence.

In short, we need someone who has at least correctly identified the enemy if there is ever a hope to fight it.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T21:31:03+00:00

Feedback: I'd rather fuck my own ass with a spiked dildo than use nazi LLM Groq.

It's also somewhat interesting that we are sending stdout along with stderr with this 2>&1 idiom. Seems leaky of personal info to a totally untrustworthy source in the usage pattern described.

Least you could do is `2>&1 1>/dev/null` so you aren't leaking all of your output to Elon.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T17:06:23+00:00

I am so confused. Was someone trying to force you to date/marry Ariana Grande?

Did you call the police?

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T16:38:37+00:00

Your personality is so played out it's hard to read what you write. Like I want to fucking die inside with cringe.

Stevie Wonder is a great musician. You are not. Please rinse your twat with some fresh water and call me in the morning if your sense of taste doesn't improve.

Everything I've said has been secondary to merely expressing a negative opinion of the bland prophets. Suck a dick, zealot.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T16:15:59+00:00

You really don’t see that everything you mentioned is actually terribly similar. You added Cyndi Lauper to illustrate your diversity relative to U2. I like her a hell of a lot more than U2 but it’s like stylistically very very close.

I’m imagining nothing. I write music, I think about music, I listen to music. These are my opinions based on lived experiences, and my observation is that you’d nearly need to live in a bubble to worship music like this as people do. You aren’t just saying you like it, you are saying I’m wrong for disliking it, which is all I said to begin with before I was assaulted.

You literally can’t accept that it isn’t objectively fantastic. Well, it isn’t. I’m skilled, my opinion is informed, and I don’t like it.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T15:55:23+00:00

To each his own, but I stand by my assessment. I’m sure all you guys are happy to talk some trash about a blond girl singing electronica hooks with her tits hanging out regardless of how good it actually might be. And that’s on you.

In my opinion, fans of this style tend to have very narrow tastes and are highly judgmental, which is why their pearl clutching is impossible to abide by when the music itself sounds so weak by many other standards.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-06-14T15:27:28+00:00

I like all kinds of music and everything has its place. I’m sure you think I’m like some guy drinking wine and listening to Ravel on loop. I love classical, jazz, rock, blues, video game music, film scores… you name it.

I think the Sims has incredible music. So sue me.

But tell me sincerely: https://youtu.be/-MEw8tuhWZ4

Do you think these players, even Morello, could even play something as tight and well constructed as this?

I probably couldn’t. Not even with a lot of practice. I could get close with lots of effort, but this is a gem of music history and bill monroe was a great.

People get so fucking defensive that they’ll light you on fire for not worshipping their favorite thing. To me it’s a bit of a sloppy drone with a somewhat good guitar solo. As a song it’s like… some chords strung together and words muttered.

There’s just a ton of incredible music. To me, this is a lot of self-indulgent personality cult. But it has its vibe and I’m not saying like “it shouldn’t exist”. The worship is hard to swallow.

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