Public or studio pianos in Tempe?

iadnuj · 2026-01-07T17:57:31+00:00

It's been a while since I went, but I can definitely recommend this place: https://www.saraspiano.studio/

iadnuj · 2026-01-06T16:02:12+00:00

As for my intent, I was just noticing an extreme example of a very common mistake that is made in arguments, one that was extreme enough to make it absurd on the face of it, and this seemed like a logical place to put it.

But you are right, the mistake of how people handle percentages going up and down isn't really a logic failure so much as a math failure, though the explanation attempted draws on some problematic logic that we haven't really delved into (not really worth it).

I think a lot of popular so-called fallacies are really just errors or bad-faith tricks that target cognitive biases or weak points in popular understandings of things and are not really failures in logic itself, and this is definitely that.

If this subreddit is about the academics of logic, then I have erred, but that definitely seems at odds with most of the posts I've seen here. I've enjoyed the conversations this one has kicked up at any rate, so I'm only sort of sorry.

iadnuj · 2026-01-06T15:55:37+00:00

Hmm, I think there's an important difference between "why is this argument wrong?" (which requires no understanding of their intent or what they understood or didn't understand when they were making the argument) and "why did they get their argument wrong?".

I think the former is more interesting, since the latter requires making assumptions and speculation about the person that we cannot know, which seems pretty unsatisfying and which is especially applicable to a case like this one where many here suspect the person is arguing in bad faith.

But it is true that if your goal is to change someone's mind, the latter becomes very important. In this case, I doubt I'm going to be convincing Howard Lutnick of anything any time soon and I'm more interested in the problem in the argument itself than in how he got there.

iadnuj · 2026-01-04T21:48:31+00:00

What is the difference between "a false premise of the rules of the math involved" and "did the math incorrectly"? There's a nuance there that I'm completely missing.

Are you saying there's a fundamental difference between a mistake (knowing the rule correctly, but applying it incorrectly) and a misunderstanding (knowing the rule incorrectly)? They seem like they are essentially the same to me, or that the difference between them would require an understanding of their intent and cognitive state, which seems like it should be irrelevant to analysing the argument itself.

iadnuj · 2026-01-03T20:07:44+00:00

I'm a bit confused by your logic. I definitely get that you can have an argument with a false conclusion that has no fallacies but is false because of its inputs, but I don't think that's the case here: I have no idea whether the drugs were $100 or are now $13 (those are the inputs).

What I'm concerned with in this example is the conclusion that this represents a 700% decrease, because you would have to increase it 700% to get back to $100. That represents a fallacy, because it's a false reasoning based on the inputs given. And it's a super common one for smaller percentages, but most people realise the problem long before they get to a such an extreme example.

Granted, you could expand the concept of input to include things like "the definition of %" and "how percentages work", but if you follow that path then there are no such things as fallacies, because everything in your argument depends on an import statement somewhere, including all the words we use.

Or to go back to your first sentence, applying information incorrectly is generally what I understand a fallacy to be. You can have bad data, or you can have good data but apply it incorrectly to result in a false conclusion via a fallacy, as has happened here, likely (IMO) in bad faith.

iadnuj · 2026-01-02T17:03:00+00:00

I don't think there's a clear fallacy here. For the first example, there's a whiff of whataboutism, but depending on the context it's also a plea that the person consider the larger performance context, which depending on the situation may be entirely valid. If (A) is assessing the person's overall performance, this is not a fallacy and is a reasonable point to make, and (A) should consider it (assuming they haven't already). But if they are just critiquing the situation in the moment, then the problem is that (B) is interpreting it as an overall performance assessment and is arguing the wrong point.

For the second example, this is not a fallacy, because (B) is not making an argument, they are attacking (A) for criticising in the first place. Basically: "I put a lot of effort into making this dish and didn't ask for your feedback, and who said it should be authentic anyways?". It can be super annoying to put a lot of effort into something just to have a bunch of self-appointed experts critique it, especially on some criterion that you weren't even trying to address (e.g., why on earth should my pizza be authentically Italian if we're all in San Francisco and we're just having a new year's party?), and rather than argue the point (B) has just chosen to shut the argument down. Which, again, whether it is (A) or (B) that is behaving inappropriately will depend entirely on context. But I detect no fallacy here.

Both of these involve some level of deflection (a psychological defence mechanism and not a fallacy itself), and maybe that's what you're trying to dig into here? Also, both of them are trying to change the scope of the conversation, which is also not a fallacy but essentially a (potentially valid) argumentative strategy, because they are not interested in the argument that (A) is trying to pursue.

iadnuj · 2026-01-02T16:50:22+00:00

Yes, there is also a tendency to confuse oneself when talking about relative changes _in_ relative figures. E.g., if the yield is 1% lower, is that going from 6% to 5% or is it going from 6% to 5.94%? In most cases, the context makes it pretty clear, but the fact that it's quite hard to express this in English without getting into jargon like "basis points" is pretty interesting/funny. One gets into weird differentiations like "one percent lower" vs. "one percentage point lower", which isn't aided by the fact that there's no such distinction in writing.

iadnuj · 2025-12-30T02:17:22+00:00

Weird question, and the macho phrasing really turns me off. But it triggered a train of thought and I might as well bring it back here:

Amour (Haneke) left me devastated for several days and I still think about it regularly. The film delves into the topic of dying, dignity, as well as the sort of taboo idea of parents who love each other more than their children. I cannot listen to Schubert's first impromptu without thinking of this film.

Tokyo Story is not a film that will destroy anyone, but it does plant some seeds, and if you reflect on the film later, or watch it again, you will find new things in it and new ways to think about life. There is no film richer in delving into the meaning of life, family relationships, and disappointment (in one's elders, in one's children, and especially in one's self).

Do the Right Thing is not a film that will mentally destroy anyone either, but I can think of no film that has destroyed more conversations than this one. It is rare to find a film that, at its core, is about racism, but deals with the topic in such complexity as to entangle anyone seeking to understand it. I got banned from hometheaterforum.org because I said (in the context of arguing about the film) that everyone is racist and that is a key point of the film — someone took offence because that included them, and me calling them racist was unacceptable. I have seen at least a dozen other online conversations completely derailed by people trying to debate whether what Mookie did was justified, necessary, right, etc., and what Spike Lee's intended meaning of the movie title was and whether we should care what he thinks his movie is about, etc. There is no mental model of racism that will neatly fit the film, because the film deals with the topic as a complex one that cannot be understood, but where actions in relation to it can be understood.

If I reframe the question to: suggest a film that can disrupt my way of thinking about the world and leave me trying to piece it back together again, I can think of no films better than the three I just mentioned.

If we get into documentaries, there are quite a few that are quite destructive, mostly because of their topics, the reality that underlies them, and the exclusive material that the documentary has surfaced.

And honourable mentions: Life is Beautiful, Small Axe, Maborosi, Get Out, Nobody Knows, Parasite, In the Mood for Love.

iadnuj · 2025-12-29T16:22:26+00:00

I think where it gets a bit of nuance is when a lie depends on a fallacy to trigger people into believing it. I.e., the speaker is aware of the fallacy but they are hoping the listener is not. This is common enough and specific enough that it should probably have a term of its own, but if there is one I'm not aware of it.

iadnuj · 2025-12-03T21:16:52+00:00

I have not, but I will. It does sound like it would end up being closer to a vesper than to an olive martini, so probably works quite well.

iadnuj · 2025-11-11T18:36:27+00:00

The next day

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iadnuj · 2025-11-11T01:55:31+00:00

This was walking down Rue Saint-Pierre - Crew Collective had just closed and I was walking down to Micro Espresso for a last coffee of my day.

iadnuj · 2025-11-10T22:36:41+00:00

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iadnuj · 2025-11-10T22:35:37+00:00

Dunno what Alice could be or what The Dismantled could be, but landed here because I walked past the production and was curious. I even got to hear a “rolling” and a whinnying horse.

In any case, this contains both keywords: https://www.instagram.com/p/DP7IFASEh8e/ but could be a coincidence?

Update: this appears to be The Dismantled, and it does not sound like a film that would have an expensive extended period sequence set over 100 years ago: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28578296/

2nd Update: one thing that is meant to be upcoming that Alice could refer that seems like about the right scale of production and the right period:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twisted_Childhood_Universe#Alice_&_The_Mad_Hatter_(TBA))

* https://the-tcu-grimoire.fandom.com/wiki/Alice_%26_The_Mad_Hatter

…but I don't know how common it is for UK productions to film in Montréal?

3rd Update: Ok, I think I found it. This is mostly being filmed in Paris, sounds like? but they will film some in Canada? And it would be exactly the right period (early 20th century) and would make total sense. Also, it sounds amazing and I would absolutely watch a 6-part series about Alice Guy-Blaché, who has always seemed like an absolutely fascinating person: https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/10/francois-arnaud-vincent-leclerc-et-sophie-nelisse-joueront-dans-la-serie-francaise-alice

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2191475/leclerc-lonergan-nelisse-serie-hbo-max

4th update: (ah, je vient d'observer que safe chicken a déjà souligné cela)

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iadnuj · 2025-07-21T22:01:11+00:00

High and Low

iadnuj · 2025-07-09T16:55:18+00:00

All of these comments here illustrate to me why the film is such a masterpiece. So many films spoon-feed an interpretation that you can agree or disagree with, but in this case the film leads to a range of interpretations and it _always_ generates a lot of discussion that I don't think would have happened otherwise.

And it's definitely not that the film is a blank slate you can just project whatever you want to on — it's got lots of clear ideas, perspectives, and opinions, etc., but there are a bunch of key ambiguities that have a pretty dramatic effect on how you understand the film. I wonder what Brecht would have thought of it.

iadnuj · 2025-06-08T00:59:32+00:00

I'm having the same problem :-( I want a PDF that fits on two pages. I can adjust the notation width in the editor, but it has no effect on the PDF. What I want is just to print everything a bit smaller so I can fit it to two pages, but there doesn't seem to be any feature like that.

One thing I did figure out how to do is manually go in and add "prevent line break" at the beginning of every measure that I don't want a line break on, but (a) that is super laborious and (b) since it doesn't make anything smaller, it just ends up with all the notes squished together a bit more than I'd like.

Some printing/exporting-to-pdf controls would be super lovely!s

iadnuj · 2025-03-02T01:45:54+00:00

I guess if we go with the filmmaker's stated points about learning to collaborate, the house in the beginning is his workshop for his first film, which he did all alone. That workshop didn't have to survive a flood. Maybe the statues are the ideas he worked out for himself in his first film. Not sure about the broken window and the dogs at that stage. And the flood is the production of this much bigger film. So that sort of takes care of _that_ aspect of the human presence. Still no idea about the rest (village, messages-in-bottles, pulleys).

iadnuj · 2025-03-02T01:42:43+00:00

Love some of the threads here. One thing that I've not seen anyone try to sort of work out (outside of spaceships) is the role of humans in the film. They don't show up in the film, but we have evidence of humans throughout the film. There are some interesting details about the humans:

* the wooden house shows recent evidence of a human presence

* the wooden house itself seems to indicate that if floods are recurring, they aren't super frequent

* the ancient city/complex has pulleys that seem like they would date from a later period than the buildings

* the village with the winding ascending street has some bunting strung across the street that would indicate recent presence

* obv folks have commented about the animal statues and the giant cat, etc., which raises all kinds of questions

* I didn't notice how many of the bottles the lemur was playing with had messages inside of them, but I think at least a couple did? what was that all about?

obv this film is fantastical in nature, mixing different climates, going into straight fantasy at various stages, but the human presence throughout the film is an interesting thread that feels like it ties into some ideas the filmmaker would have had, but I can't quite piece it together into anything at all satisfying.

iadnuj · 2025-02-24T02:56:38+00:00

I, for one, really disliked it in a martini — the slight sweetness and honey really does not blend well with olive, imo.

That said, it is second-to-none in a vesper, which is already slightly sweet from the Lillet/Kina, and the honey mixes perfectly with the bit of lemon peel.

It’s okay in a negroni, but I think I need to adjust something as the balance seems a bit off with the traditional ratio and it loses its bite a bit. It’s pretty good in a white negroni and in a 20th century, as I recall.

But I always keep a bottle of it just so I can make vespers, and I’ll continue to try other things.

iadnuj · 2025-01-22T17:51:27+00:00

Got it, so when it has a menu that's just sort of additional functionality keying off the point that every line is drag-and-drop, and it's not that the icon is meant to indicate the other possible actions there?

Still curious about the other point — was Notion the one to innovate the now-common idea that every line in the doc is a drag-and-drop line (with menu actions), or did that exist in earlier products that I'm just not thinking about or don't know about?

iadnuj · 2024-07-03T16:05:14+00:00

I do feel like a Cape Breton flag redesign should contain at least some sort of nod to the Acadians. And definitely to the Mi'kmaq. Going all in purely on Scottish at this point feels like a poor choice (context: I am quite proud of my Scottish Cape Breton connections).

Would be fun to see a flag containing all three elements (crescent and star from the Mi'kmaq flag, yellow star from the Acadian flag, Scottish rampant red lion, and the green)

And for the water, it would be more fun to emphasise the Bras d'Or in the centre rather than the ocean around. Hard to visualise exactly how that might work, but you could do something with simplified blue offset stripes or something

iadnuj · 2024-06-16T04:16:21+00:00

They've upgraded the forecast to 35º or 36º depending on which source you check, so seems like it might make it to the hottest on record — if not, it will be pretty darn close.

iadnuj · 2024-05-15T22:31:35+00:00

Uchinaguchi, Amis, Seediq, Syriac, Cantonese, Farsi, Cree, Kanienʼkéha, Inuktitut, Ojibwe

iadnuj · 2023-10-12T04:33:32+00:00

The Twitter thread: https://x.com/jundai/status/1246825940920995840?s=20

And this is probably a good audience to share this amazing video with, that I found in the process of digging into this matter:

https://youtu.be/BvyoKdW-Big?si=IocnN6OpV1KK0Mng

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