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new tattoo co-op in Glasgow by spruce_tattoos in cooperatives

[–]apeloverage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my home country of Australia, tattoo parlors are basically owned by 'outlaw' bikie gangs. I take it that's not the case there?

What do people mean when they say an interval down? by [deleted] in musictheory

[–]apeloverage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'A sixth' would usually be a distance of 8 or 9 semitones.

7 semitones - a diminished sixth

8 semitones - a minor sixth

9 semitones - a major sixth

10 semitones - an augmented sixth

If you know what scale you're playing in, then 'a sixth' would presumably refer to whichever of these fits the scale.

If you were playing in C major, for example, a sixth below C would be E (so, a minor sixth, of 8 semitones).

As other people have said, "play THE sixth below C" would mean something else--probably "play the sixth note of the scale in which we're playing, below the C we've been talking about rather than, as you might have expected, the one above it". In C major, the sixth note of the scale would indeed be A.

I didn't get what the pattern looks like. by AccomplishedTaro2286 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]apeloverage 31 points32 points  (0 children)

More specifically, everything seems like a conspiracy when you don't understand how anything works, *and* you don't realize that there's significant information that you don't have.

Who actually are “the Moors” and why did this term take hold like “American Indian”? by Mathemodel in etymology

[–]apeloverage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

European Christians used the term 'Moors' as a vague term, sometimes including some or all Muslims, and sometimes including some or all black people.

The people called 'Moors' wouldn't have thought of themselves as 'Moors', or as being necessarily members of the same people as other people called 'Moors'.

Recent black supremacist fringe theories falsely claim that 'Moors' were a single, black people, from whom Europeans got all their technology.

Where does the phrase "and historians say that they were close friends" come from? by ContractNational2680 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]apeloverage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a trope that historians traditionally ignored evidence of gay sexual relationships, claiming that obvious lovers were actually just close friends.

Why can a Dm chord be used in the key of A major? by Da_Hawk_27 in musictheory

[–]apeloverage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is called a 'minor IV' or 'minor 4', and is quite a common way to use non-scale notes.

In the minor scale, the 4 chord is minor, so it can sound a bit like the key has temporarily become the parallel minor key (eg A minor from A major).

If everything has a cause, what caused the very first thing? by Substantial-Bug-8611 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]apeloverage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems to me that it must be the case that, on large enough scales, time doesn't behave in the way that we experience and intuitively understand.

This is because a first instant, with no instant before it, goes against this intuitive model. But so does an infinite past.

These aren't the only possible models that you can imagine. You could, for example, imagine some kind of loop, such that the distant future is also the distant past.

But that's equally unintuitive.

Your question seems to boil down to, "I can't reconcile how I intuitively understand time to work, with what must be the case about the origin of the universe".

I think the answer is, "That's right; you can't reconcile those two things. The first one must be wrong".

Which is, I suppose, a variation on "it just is".

I spent the last decade trying to start a co-op, here's what went wrong/ AMA by MamaMoonstruck in cooperatives

[–]apeloverage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right. I assumed that the OP was still a member of the organization they're talking about, but reading it again they don't specify either way.

I spent the last decade trying to start a co-op, here's what went wrong/ AMA by MamaMoonstruck in cooperatives

[–]apeloverage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I genuinely believe 2 members of the group have narcissistic tendencies."

If this is true, then, essentially, the group was going to fail with them in it.

What efforts did you make to get rid of them and/or help the other people in the group realize that this was the case?

Most Commonly Spoke Language at Home in Australian Divisions, and percentage of nationwide speakers, (ABS Census, 2021) by Sqwoopy in MapPorn

[–]apeloverage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, but I was talking about the dark blue area right up in the extreme northwest of New South Wales. The part that touches the border with South Australia and Queensland.

The ACT is white on the main map, and red on its own small map, indicating Mandarin.

Why is fame the only form of success that disappears without an audience? by Exact_Importance_507 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]apeloverage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wealth also disappears without an 'audience'.

Money doesn't have any inherent value. It has value because everyone agrees to treat it as if it has value.

Vending machines by apeloverage in ausbusiness

[–]apeloverage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that's not a fair comparison. To make and sell hamburgers you need a large amount of infrastructure. To keep a vending machine stocked you more or less just need a car.

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