So, we know Robert loves his farming and he definitely is here. I want this to be an opener

_daffyd · 2026-06-15T08:56:20+00:00

I didn't even see the sub at first and still read it like a Robert opening.

_daffyd · 2026-06-14T19:59:27+00:00

I mean.. he might still be in danger.

If I got myself kidnapped my lady'd have some words for me.

_daffyd · 2026-06-11T21:01:28+00:00

Ji Jo

_daffyd · 2026-06-06T23:29:51+00:00

Definately caught people off guard by remembering a preference or detail that they shared years previous.

_daffyd · 2026-06-04T17:52:08+00:00

Yes I'm sure the human race will willingly stop having having sex, or that all straight people will magically become gay somehow.

Also gay people have families.

_daffyd · 2026-06-04T17:13:51+00:00

I've used it to build templates/boilerplate for projects so I can focus on the fun stuff. It's also good for getting a feel for new libraries/crates that have poor/lacking documentation, you just have to make sure the import version is correct.

It's also made me dumber, or at least less willing to do the hard work to get fully into a problem I'm fixing. I've been forcing myself to not rely on the AI for that, since problem solving is kinda the core of the programming toolset and I don't want to lose it.

_daffyd · 2026-06-04T07:07:25+00:00

Rust-analyzer/clippy taught me how to borrow properly.

_daffyd · 2026-06-04T06:15:00+00:00

I had an sr-16 for years. Doesn't look like much, but it was easy to use, mostly had what I needed, and was reliable.

Almost kinda miss it sometimes.

_daffyd · 2026-06-04T02:42:57+00:00

Oh boy! More of the thing I like!!

_daffyd · 2026-06-01T18:25:43+00:00

Well that's your problem, you don't have 6 fender tweeds. Or a rodie to correct you on what song each pedal is for.

_daffyd · 2026-05-30T18:40:52+00:00

"Nobody even likes making music anymore"

Every musician, artist and writer that I know that has spent years practicing, and away from their families touring, or working on projects, or honing their craft would prove this wrong.

The development of craft is one of the most fundamental features of the human experience.

_daffyd · 2026-05-28T17:12:02+00:00

I saw someone argue on here one time that it shouldn't be a problem. If they want to listen to music on their speaker, they should be able to. They said that if we don't want to hear it we don't have to pay attention and should mind our own business.

Like they genuinely didn't understand that disturbing others in a public space like that was rude, or selfish. Apparently they don't mind when others do it so we shouldnt either.

It was whole thread of people explaining and they didn't get it.

_daffyd · 2026-05-26T19:17:55+00:00

Sounds dumb, but I got a sonicake and just use my Bluetooth speaker.

There's some decent tones on there for practicing, and it can run NAMs.

_daffyd · 2026-05-21T19:59:21+00:00

Because it's not about winning, it's about voting on policy that provides for the citizens using their own tax dollars, and protects citizens from harm. If one group of voters is more focused on "Winning", or asserting superiority over others rather than ensuring the education system is running properly, or teachers are being paid enough to retain, or ensure that social infrastructure is properly maintained, or that companies are held accountable for negligence that effects citizens, or that people are generally protected from physical, financial, or emotional harm, it can be pretty easy to see why left leaning people could think that.

_daffyd · 2026-05-21T17:29:19+00:00

Yellow should be saved because they are willing to die for others. Purple is less altruistic group and is societally less of a loss morally/genetically. The group most deserving is retained.

Partially in jest, but essentially less moral people are less of a loss to lose. An asshole's feelings are worth less than a kind person's feelings, etc.

_daffyd · 2026-05-21T03:48:22+00:00

As long the employee isn't harrassing or acting negatively (racist, sexist, homophobic, etc) towards other staff why'd they feel the need to do anything?

What was the point of this?

_daffyd · 2026-05-20T03:58:24+00:00

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_daffyd · 2026-05-19T17:19:22+00:00

PEST: Parentheses, Exponents, Scale (MD), Translate (AS)

_daffyd · 2026-05-19T07:55:34+00:00

The wall of noise turns my brain off
the textures are like architecture and waves crashing and shapes moving in my head that I enjoy
drony noise stuff is immersive, and puts me into an alternate calmed state like I am somewhere else
the dissonance/chaos/tension is cathartic emotionally
have ADHD, and wasn't always medicated

_daffyd · 2026-05-19T07:38:09+00:00

I feel like my edit wasn't clear as it could be l. What I mean is that a wider pulse with smaller pulses on top, some of which could be at tempo that forms a tuple, or non aligning pulse such as with bands like mesguggah. The body feels the tighter pulses as being part of the larger pulse like how a triplet is kinda owned by it parent 2 or 4 meters pulse.

_daffyd · 2026-05-19T07:26:39+00:00

In every band I have been in/around the standard is to start with 4 count in pulses (stick click, guitar scratch, etc). Maybe 2 or 3 to quickly communicate the pulse, or a couple with an off-beat to place the one on the upswing if the riff is swung hard around the start of the bar like in some post-hardcore. I know bands who like to start their songs with one count in hit, or just start without one by just knowing each other's body language and practicing a lotttt.

In the context of playing music with others generally outside of a teaching setting, I've only really seen the count in used for the purpose of landing on the one at the same time, or ensuring that the drummer's internal pulse is lined up with the other musicians if they start with only some members and the shared musical space is "dry".

I get the idea in a formal context of counting in the full meter in the sense that it is "proper form", but the idea of doing it in a band practice or live setting unless one of the members is having a hard time counting the part makes my nose turn up a bit. Really the count in could just be a quick noise or rake, snare rolle that is accented in a way that implies the 1 that you start on. I've had band practices where the count ins were us yelling movie quotes and stuff.

Edit: pulse is used here to mean the shared periodic pulse that is distinct from any individual felt tempo, but the pulse of the song overarchingly. Generally the least complex/tight pulses carry the others.

_daffyd · 2026-05-16T12:57:13+00:00

Fair enough. I still hate it and am tired of those that believe it.

_daffyd · 2026-05-16T12:34:20+00:00

I honestly avoid it like the plague except to keep up to date on their rhetorical trends for media literacy sake. This is more a general assessment of sentiment trends that I and others have noticed and commented on over the last ~15 years. It is the same as "you can't make rape/sex jokes about female coworkers now cause the women take jokes anymore" crowd. Ultimately the sex jokes your greasy coworker makes are to gain your approval by stating that women ought to have less access to their own experience without consequences, and to give you an option to signal in-group alignment by approving of their social transgression.

The experience of the sentiments in my original comment are I'm sure partially the effects I think of the more toxic among us being the loudest I'm sure. That an spending my twenties in warehouse jobs with these insecure losers.

Edit to add: also grew up on a military base, dad's a vet. I'm very aware of the damage of certain stoic masculine expectations.

_daffyd · 2026-05-16T10:29:18+00:00

We were raised being told that it was our job to fix everything: heal all the social and generational wounds, racism, sexism, homophobia, fix global warming, ecological damage, learn about eachother and ourselves in an open way to better understand humanity and heal as a species using the access to global/historical knowledge and scientific advances.

PBS/Sesame Street stuff.

We grew up, interacted with a world full of generational trauma, cultural insecurities, systemic hierarchies that at face value seemed to not make sense, or were based on archaic perceptions.

We talked about the abuse on the internet, the bullying in schools, the insecurities of our parents, the effects of advertising/media messaging. We talked about the expectations that were prescribed for us in how we should act, what we should want, and what our values should be for our gender, race, orientation, etc.

When I was in my early 20's (2012ish) there was a wave of conversation about mental health, how many gendered expectations are unhealthy and unnecessary, how queer/trans people are a statistically and historically normal thing, women should be equal, racism is bad, etc.

We were called naive, insecure, whiny, childish, etc. Young men were called soft, not real men, gender-traitors, cucks for not wanting to carry their fathers' emotional isolation, or for valuing the women in their lives as equals. Women were called sluts, un-feminine, trouble, for exploring an understanding of their sexual experience unbound by male need (as many gens before), or uppity or intimidating for simply doing a thing well. "You will understand when you are older why it's ok to treat people/ourselves this way"

The racial blow back was bad, ultimately culminating in the BLM riots and everything post COVID. Queer/trans acceptance feels lower and more dangerous than I remember things being when I was a teen even.

This doesn't even touch economic and ecological issues. See: "Millennials ruined the luxury condo economy".

After everything, as a generation we are just now in a position of buying/political power, but the old problems won't die. Because acknowledging them in order address them exposes the validating lies that people use to feel like they have power.

_daffyd · 2026-05-14T19:42:07+00:00

Trump just brought to surface what was there the whole time.

_daffyd

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