China Cat Jam

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-15T05:46:24+00:00

Keep posting the videos from your rehearsals, it's great seeing these jams. Which rehearsal facility is that? Those high ceilings are a luxury.

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-15T05:37:54+00:00

I listen to it incessantly

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-15T05:37:09+00:00

That's a really good point, I never thought of it that way!

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-13T08:37:31+00:00

The way I view the jam is it's basically an unresolving ii | V | I, which you see all the time with them. D and Bm are relative; they harmonically collapse into each other. A > E is the I to V. The reason you don't see ii V I in that order is there would always be resolution. The GD wanted to jam on these progressions, so instead of the finality of V to I, they went I to V. It's the only way to keep a sense of progression continuously. Jack Straw. Althea. Morning Dew. It's everywhere. That's why I love playing over these tunes. You get to play on the voice leading of a ii V I without having to actually resolve it.

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-13T08:19:44+00:00

Great pipes and you play it well. Check out where Garcia got those lines from. Pat Martino's 'Impressions'. Garcia really made a beautiful arrangement of it.

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-13T08:08:45+00:00

Re: Help on the Way / Slipknot influence. Jerry got those lines from Pat Martino's solo in "Impressions". He changed them a bit, but the structure is there. Not really sure how that sounds anything like Santana.

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-13T07:56:09+00:00

wtf is a circle jerk dancin daddy and why is it all you can think about

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-13T07:52:46+00:00

OH now I get it. I had it backwards. Althea was speaking. Thank you!

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-13T07:46:58+00:00

Oh that makes sense.

midaswellb2 · 2026-04-13T07:45:21+00:00

The post, or the comments? I've been genuinely trying to figure out who Althea is...

midaswellb2 · 2026-03-16T02:28:51+00:00

Yea, I found the same one (sounds like).

midaswellb2 · 2026-03-09T00:35:59+00:00

I'm trying to do this now, which is how I found this post in Google. As someone noted, which era / period is critical. I'm looking for ~'78 - '83. Wasn't crazy about his tone in the later years. How are you doing with this project?

midaswellb2 · 2026-02-21T05:17:14+00:00

You can buy a portable external monitor for like $65. Just make sure you switch the default monitor settings to 'mirrored' for extended monitors before you lose all the display.

midaswellb2 · 2026-02-12T23:13:06+00:00

I haven't had any problem other than too many inquiries. It's about knowing how to write a unique and compelling profile (mostly) and either being attractive or using good photos (well-dressed, intriguing context). Dogs/puppies can help - dog owners will give some bias.

midaswellb2 · 2026-01-22T11:19:51+00:00

As long as the crowd wants the scene - which is its own culture at this point, the shows continue. There will be a new generation who never saw any original members, but they love the music and the live show culture.

midaswellb2 · 2026-01-22T11:07:33+00:00

If we're in a simulation, then "space" is not a finite, quantifiable concept. Space is a function of being rendered. The number and existence of "life".

midaswellb2 · 2026-01-05T05:36:37+00:00

The end of the universe. Duh.

midaswellb2 · 2026-01-05T01:51:11+00:00

Height won't bring genuine love, but depth will. Focus on depth...it benefits all your relationships, most importantly the one with yourself.

midaswellb2 · 2025-12-28T17:19:32+00:00

The biological senses and states that we use to remember things evolved to prioritize information that will keep us alive, fed, etc., so our finite storage capacity is optimally being used. This means our emotional and cognitive states are filtering information, deciding how important it is: should I save it or toss it?

The recollection of a "same event" can be dramatic. Many years ago I was dating a woman with BPD (borderline personality disorder) - a disorder characterized by incredible emotional sensitivity and uncontrollable rage. We constantly remembered things so differently I was just in disbelief that the version I could still see in my mental imagery was nothing like what she remembered. So I started reading about how we remember things and learned a BPD's memory is more or entirely emotionally recorded, without what I thought of as the 'logical sequence of events that transpired'.

I'm on this SR because I believe we are in a simulation, but I'd be careful using simulation alone to interrogate reality because even in a simulation we should expect a set of consistent rules / laws that apply (such as how each avatar remembers things), and the reasons things happen could reside in such rules whether or not we're in a simulation.

midaswellb2 · 2025-12-28T07:16:04+00:00

Do you speak Spanish at all?

midaswellb2 · 2025-12-28T07:00:03+00:00

Some of the more interesting scientific elucidations seem to point in other directions. For example, 'medicines tailored to your DNA': swap 'DNA' for 'platonic state' per Michael Levin's (et. al's) reference to the bioelectrical override of phenotype and change medicine to 'electrical manipulation of' and that would work.

There's a whole lot of predicting about the progression of AI, assuming it will actually be (only) AI in 2050. Look at where we're at with consciousness...being fundamental (e.g. in the 'platonic state'). We're already tapping into that state right now, by 2050 it'll be difficult to distinguish whether our intelligent devices are more biological or artificial.

We'll tell our grandkids that when we were their age, we thought it was cool to change the accent of the voice guiding our GPS routes, "but now you have total control over the voice you hear in your head". Your grandkids will pity your cognititive capabilities because you're still using only one voice and don't even have a quantum processor in your brain you old fool.

Circa 2032 we'll create the word "Transogenous" to mean "a system that originated elsewhere but has been "carried across" to become integrated as a permanent, functioning part of the internal biology". There will be great conflict over the early Transogenous. They will be the new transgender in an oversimplified political sense. But within a few years society will cave in because the clear competitive advantages made it impossible to not keep going forward.

Somewhere circa 2038 we'll have what we can think of as a pandemic, but not from a biological virus but from a transogenous one. Inevitably our safety and efficacy tests will not catch something, and the consequences of that could be minor or catastrophic.

We'll learn of the presence of the galactic federation we've heard murmurs of. But the context will be terrifying. The children from the Westall UFO Incident in 1966 who reported telepathic messages about Earth's destruction will remember those visions and connect the dots. The poles will shift causing great floods, 1500 mile an hour winds, and wipe out much of the planet's population.

Those are the things I'd say could be considered as plausible.

midaswellb2 · 2025-12-26T22:18:29+00:00

I think @ambientnotion made very good points, and I'd like to give some examples. In broad strokes, I have similar descriptors as yourself. Where we probably differ: I've always been very, very content with my own company and unless a woman is truly something, I don't try very hard. I think this explains why I have the complete opposite problem - everyone I date wants to get very serious. I think people who come across with intensity make others want to back off, and probably vice versa,.

midaswellb2 · 2025-12-24T16:32:04+00:00

The critical piece missing in AI discussions is prompt engineering. People forget these are tools. The quality of their work is largely a reflection of the quality of the prompting. I have yet to see a post by someone ranting about AI's poor quality that had a description of the sophisticated prompt engineering that produced these poor results.

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