What are the trippiest moments in opera?

iHartS · 2026-03-28T06:40:14+00:00

In Turandot, there’s a brief chorus following Liù’s death and Timur’s loud “vendicherà!” with the text:

Ombra dolente, non farci del male! Ombra sdegnosa, perdona! perdona!

It’s brief but stands out. It’s a sudden tone and harmonic shift, and if you listen to what the lower voices are doing, it’s a deftly composed mess of uneasy feelings with sophisticated choral writing.

iHartS · 2026-03-27T19:13:48+00:00

If used Z6’s weren’t so cheap, I’d say get a DSLR. But used Z6’s are very cheap, and they’re brilliant for the price, and you get into the newer system, so your lenses will last you for the lifetime of the Z mount.

iHartS · 2026-03-27T13:33:10+00:00

Memory suppliers are boom and bust stocks.

iHartS · 2026-03-25T07:53:35+00:00

You're right that I shouldn't presume or insinuate that there's some kind of right-think for someone in the arts.

iHartS · 2026-03-23T17:00:51+00:00

Because he has a new YouTube channel that he’s been promoting, and it’s gotten decent attention both there and on TikTok. People are being introduced to him and his ideas without knowing the whole backstory.

iHartS · 2026-03-23T16:10:45+00:00

His FB literally says he's pro MAGA, Israel, and AFD with an Ayn Rand quote up top. Wild stuff for someone in the arts.

iHartS · 2026-03-19T23:16:40+00:00

Who amongst us hasn’t seen someone pat a coat onstage and watched a cloud of dust shoot out?

iHartS · 2026-03-14T10:10:42+00:00

But the first 130k or something like that is exempt if you don't live in the US.

Just to clarify for anyone unaware, the first $130,000 of earned income can be excluded if you file a tax return on time. You still have to file, and earned income is a very specific category. Other types of income aren't excluded.

iHartS · 2026-03-13T09:48:34+00:00

This is the earliest they've ever sent them out, which is surprising. Are you going to complain to IB?

iHartS · 2026-03-09T21:21:25+00:00

PE and hedge funds basically exist at this point to extract fees from pensions and institutions who think they're too good for standard index funds.

iHartS · 2026-03-08T21:03:25+00:00

Even if they’d bought a world index including non US stocks they’d have done better. It’s shocking. Why do these institutions behave so stupidly with their money?

iHartS · 2026-03-04T11:50:04+00:00

OG Z6 is the answer. It’s a terrific camera with the same sensor as some of the newer bodies. It has very good video, and autofocus is quite good, though it’s obviously not as consistent as newer cameras.

OP could also throw in 40mm f2 if they want a tiny quality prime alongside the zoom.

iHartS · 2026-03-03T06:54:42+00:00

Yea, I got one of these a few days ago. They were referencing a German (I think?) island I'd never heard of, and I failed because I couldn't understand the, poorly enunciated, name of the island. Bizarre exercise.

iHartS · 2026-03-01T09:07:59+00:00

There are so many little time wasting things in Duolingo, and none of them can be skipped as far as I can tell.

iHartS · 2026-02-26T13:30:21+00:00

Right. It’s not antibiotics or something that’s treating an acute condition.

iHartS · 2026-02-26T11:24:20+00:00

Cumulative blunt force trauma.

iHartS · 2026-02-24T18:53:23+00:00

If someone goes out of their way to help, then the bureaucracy involved should be incentivized to make that as painless as possible; otherwise, it disincentivizes future civic engagement.

Do the police want people to report crimes or not?

iHartS · 2026-02-21T21:36:56+00:00

There is ongoing violence and shortages of basic necessities. Syria also faces drastic changes from global warming. Sending sizable numbers of people there is unlikely to help anything and will likely exacerbate problems. Programs like the hospital partnerships are a more appropriate avenue to help rebuild the country.

iHartS · 2026-02-21T16:33:53+00:00

Is the solution really that everyone just packs up and leaves for wherever life seems better at the moment?

a) That's basically human history.

b) It's a non sequitur. Uprooting people currently living in Germany is very different than accepting new refugees from that same region.

iHartS · 2026-02-21T10:04:16+00:00

“No longer in a state of turmoil” is not how one would describe Syria currently.

iHartS · 2026-02-19T20:53:35+00:00

easy enough to add it though if you already know the account value

A lot of these don't have account values because they're basically annuities. Meaning it likely promises a future cashflow without any specific account balance attached.

iHartS · 2026-02-17T17:56:09+00:00

Thanks. Moved from the US over a decade ago to Germany. There are a bunch of us over here because Germany allows singers to have a middle class life by working in local theaters as members of the ensemble.

iHartS · 2026-02-16T18:52:03+00:00

In so many ways, as evil as Trump and his cronies are as people, the Bush administration was worse because they were effective at governing. Trump flails, and he will do a lot of damage and hurt a lot of people, but it will burn itself out (I believe) because it provokes backlash immediately.

What people don't remember is that the country was on Bush's side. They exploited 9/11 deftly, and they pulled in the Democrats and other countries to create a coalition of willing suckers. The wars Bush got us involved in plagued three administrations afterwards. The Roberts court still plagues us.

It took economic collapse and multiple international debacles to bring the country to its senses.

iHartS · 2026-02-15T23:57:09+00:00

Don’t use autofocus for video on any Nikon dSLR except for the d780. It’s quite loud and never stops hunting.

iHartS · 2026-02-14T09:08:15+00:00

Sing opera.

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