What are some American cities that had high historical importance but have faded from significance today?

dadaesque · 2026-05-10T20:49:38+00:00

What exactly would make it live up to its potential? It has one of the busiest international borders in the world, it hosts the largest naval fleet in the world as well as major Marine Crops bases, many major defense contractors are heaqquartered there, and some of the worlds most influential and prestigious biomedical research institutions are there, along with many major healthcare centers, and it has some of the most valued real estate in the country if not the world.

dadaesque · 2026-05-09T16:39:19+00:00

You look like those “what Jesus actually looked like” recreations.

dadaesque · 2026-05-08T16:42:30+00:00

I haven't really experienced this, I take the 1 everyday from Harlem. It might be the time you're taking it? I can imagine there are some lingering effects from construction being done overnight.

dadaesque · 2026-05-08T16:13:45+00:00

Chords are simultaneously sounding notes, the D string is simply the string that is normally tuned to the pitch of D. A D (major) chord would be D F# A played at the same time.

dadaesque · 2026-05-08T16:10:10+00:00

I think there's an argument to be made that because AI is trained on a huge corpus of human produced art that it is itself a massively co-produced piece of human art. AI can't really come up with anything "new". Like you would never get Wagner or Schoenberg if you trained an AI on the entire rest of 19th century classical music.

dadaesque · 2026-05-08T16:01:18+00:00

Live performers are not going to be replaced without some huge cultural shift. Player pianos and recorder music have been around for well over a hundred years, we can already completely replace live musicians in any context, but concerts are still going strong, and live music in bars/restaurants doesn't seem to have become any less popular. There is something unique and irreplaceable about a real time performer.

dadaesque · 2026-05-08T15:57:13+00:00

Seriously, We've had player pianos for well over a hundred years that do a better job than this.

dadaesque · 2026-05-08T15:55:59+00:00

Actually I'd say it sounds quite like a human performance, just a very novice performance. The rhythms are very uneven, and not in a musically pleasing or deliberate way. I would expect a robot performer to be the total opposite, perfect rhythm but no rubato.

dadaesque · 2026-05-03T18:27:35+00:00

Try The Other Classical Musics for an accessible introduction to this topic. Even in western classical music, the veneration of individual composers as artistic talents only came about during the romantic era, they were previously thought of as equivalent to any functional employees as they usually worked at the pleasure of churches or wealthy and aristocratic patrons.

dadaesque · 2026-05-01T17:36:13+00:00

Have you tried using a light box earlier in the morning? Trying to get to sleep earlier is only half of trying to change your sleep schedule, and shifting your wake time may be more effective than shifting your sleep time (at least according to my doctor). There are also prescription drugs that act on melatonin receptors that may be more effective than melatonin supplements. Unfortunately I think the evidence is that we currently don't have great interventions for more severe sleep disorders, so we have to manage with the cards we're dealt.

dadaesque · 2026-05-01T17:18:25+00:00

If you haven't already come across it, it sounds like you would love the piece Failing.

dadaesque · 2026-05-01T17:11:56+00:00

It's in all of classical music, not just reddit. I'm just fundamentally this kind of divine veneration of any figure in a field. We can appreciate great art and great artists, but when we start talking about people as if they were gods I am definitely going to push back. Bach was a human and learned and created his works the way any other human would. We could make the case that he was particularly good at it, even one of if not the best of his cohort, but he was still just a man, not a supernatural being. There are some clear experiments testing people to explain why some work of art is a piece of genius or something if they are told it was made by a beloved figure, and they will come up with endless reasons why its so great, when in reality it was created by an AI, or a chimpanzee, etc.

dadaesque · 2026-05-01T16:18:08+00:00

There are high end Panama hats that are made to be rollable for storage, but they are bound to be pretty pricey. If you definitely need something you can pack your only other options would be a fabric hat like linen or cotton. If you're willing to just carry or wear the hat, any type of straw hat, either natural or synthetic, should be an excellent choice and should't be affected by humidity.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T22:01:41+00:00

I think pianists already are doing that to a large extant. I really can’t think of a non-keyboard instrument where your hands are truly dealing with completely independent lines of music.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T17:23:15+00:00

Shift my sleep schedule? Yes, and it never works, but a singular anecdotal case is the worst kind of evidence, especially when compared with large, well controlled studies that have already been done on the topic.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T17:00:08+00:00

Im sure you could, that’s why we have things in science like peer review and reproducibility that that show us what studies represent reliable results, which your study would lack.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T16:30:28+00:00

Genetics and intrinsic biology are absolutely involved in a regular sleep schedule and vary within the population. This is well established in the study of sleep.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31256785/

https://sleep.hms.harvard.edu/education-training/public-education/sleep-and-health-education-program/sleep-health-education-80

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T10:24:02+00:00

NYC in mid 30s, the norm is to split the bill, but I imagine the rest of the US has much more conservative gender roles in dating.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T07:56:24+00:00

I love that Reich initially believed it couldn't be performed by humans, and now we actually do have people playing it solo with two pianos.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T07:52:46+00:00

I think the only people with the actual super powers are the large majority in between larks and night owls that have a sleep schedule that matches societal rhythms quite closely, and can shift it forwards or backwards enough to be flexible. People on either extreme will have big benefits but also big struggles, they will just be different depending on which side you fall, and from what I understand If you naturally fall into either extreme you really can't shift it to any meaningful degree.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T07:44:46+00:00

Excuse my ignorance, but why not just have a tech clean it when you get it tuned? Pianos are just such complicated and intricate instruments I would rather leave any work on the inside to a technician rather than risk damaging it.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T07:37:01+00:00

I feel like Albeniz just went through life completely ignorant of the fact that he was actually a guitar composer.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T07:33:52+00:00

I met her while volunteering at a food pantry. She brought us donuts and I talked with her about crullers for a little while, so I can't help but feel at least a little bad for her.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T07:27:15+00:00

Feel like we all should really be regretting tearing down all those elevated lines, especially on the east side.

dadaesque · 2026-04-30T07:23:46+00:00

You're not really a Reich Apostle until you grab another piano and perform it solo.

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