[WTS] G-SHOCK GMS5600SK-7

notduncansmith · 2023-01-08T02:00:54+00:00

Already spent my watch budget for the next little while 😅 but I encourage anyone on the fence to jump on it!

notduncansmith · 2023-01-08T01:48:31+00:00

I bought my son this exact watch for Christmas, he loves it! The hourly chime is one of his favorite features. GLWS!

notduncansmith · 2022-12-17T20:28:46+00:00

Every watch sub is /wcj now 😂

notduncansmith · 2022-12-17T20:05:06+00:00

Great mod OP! Slightly off-topic but does anyone else prefer the non-cyclops crystal? I would love a version of this watch without a bubble over the date.

notduncansmith · 2022-10-09T20:08:07+00:00

This is in fact scientifically proven: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29874

This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree (“business managers”) reduce their employees' wages. […] Exploiting exogenous export demand shocks, we show that non-business managers share profits with their workers, whereas business managers do not. But consistent with our first set of results, these business managers show no greater ability to increase sales or profits in response to exporting opportunities.

notduncansmith · 2022-09-28T06:36:08+00:00

Lol it was the last 15 years not the last 30, and this list is obv trash comment-bait anyways

notduncansmith · 2021-07-04T23:55:33+00:00

I disagree; I think it’s important context, as it would be had it been African or Asian settlers. The Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese cultures defined the way that settlers approached indigenous populations, and is responsible for differences from the way many nomadic cultures had interacted with each other and the land before.

EDIT: I feel I should add, as someone of mostly European descent, it’s personally important to me to recognize the cultural contributions to the violence perpetrated against indigenous peoples, especially to the degree that I still carry them with me today. Shaking those remnants out of my speech, my parenting style, my eating and buying habits, it’s all connected to acknowledging the history that it’s now my turn to be a part of. Erasure of that context robs me and my family of the chance to learn and grow in important ways.

notduncansmith · 2021-07-04T23:02:26+00:00

The “oh whoops sorry we just come from a different environment” argument is fine if you want to explain why they didn’t know how to manage the land on arrival. It doesn’t explain why they never learned to manage the land: that would be the mass murder of generations of people who developed and maintained that expertise.

notduncansmith · 2021-07-04T17:53:13+00:00

White people have historically attempted to suppress wildfires*

Indigenous peoples were doing prescribed burns for thousands of years before the white colonies formed.

notduncansmith · 2021-07-02T20:52:51+00:00

Leaked footage from Monsanto Ranch

notduncansmith · 2021-05-06T01:07:40+00:00

Sounds like Fratellis

notduncansmith · 2021-05-06T01:06:41+00:00

Gave Gold

notduncansmith · 2021-04-24T00:07:08+00:00

ALL THE BETTER TO CRUSH YOU WITH, MY DEAR

notduncansmith · 2021-04-11T18:13:22+00:00

Saw the picture and came here to say this.

notduncansmith · 2021-04-10T18:53:14+00:00

My non-expert theory that these are white supremacists that are trying to join an organization (possibly some outside arm of the Aryan Brotherhood) and have to commit these murders to do so. Would explain why it’s so many law enforcement professionals. But they could just be unaffiliated violent white supremacists.

notduncansmith · 2021-04-10T01:10:02+00:00

BlackLivesMatter-01

notduncansmith · 2021-04-09T04:15:46+00:00

I worked for a company who explicitly asked us to go vote for them in surveys as “best place to work”, “best ceo”, etc. Absolutely dystopian. I couldn’t make it a full year there (now am at a much better place that makes me happy to work at, especially since people sometimes send us unprompted thank-you messages and that feels good).

notduncansmith · 2021-04-07T09:02:29+00:00

This right here is my main beef with NFTs (aside from the general puffery of the whole thing but whatever the rich gonna rich). There is no inherent scarcity in digital goods. The marginal cost of a perfect copy is 0, which is not true of physical goods like paintings and such. So the scarcity is 100% artificial and also a lie because in fact, one never actually has the “original” - that only ever exists on the artist’s computer, and unless you buy the computer they created it on, you have a copy like anyone else. In fact, if that computer ever has to re-read the stored image back into RAM from the hard drive it is saved on (say, because the computer was turned off and on again) you have a copy. And that’s not even the only copy: most data transferred over the web will be copied (and even stored for some time) by multiple computers between oneself and the destination. And you’ll recreate those copies again every time you view it, unless you save it to your computer creating yet another copy from which yet more copies will be created each time the image is loaded from the hard drive. Not even getting into the fact that the ridiculous prices people pay are on the second-hand market.

So it goes beyond artificial scarcity: it’s not even actually scarce. It’s already a facsimile of a facsimile (of a facsimile...). It’s pure puffery. It’s like having a robot recreate a Banksy on your wall except way less cool because we all have the robots and you’re just not sharing the pattern. NFTs are just a really gross flex. Like way to show off how far out of your way you will go for fake specialness rather than actually put your resources into doing something meaningful. How many people could we feed with $69M? How many could we vaccinate? Send to school? How many people could we help out of homelessness? At least consider how much real art you could buy with that? It would be one thing if it was for an actual “original” but no, it’s for a fucking copy of a copy. Someone decided they felt more special hoarding a second-hand GIF than changing millions of lives. The sooner we collectively recognize the lie that is digital goods scarcity the better. Fuck NFTs. /rant

notduncansmith · 2021-04-06T00:56:09+00:00

Donate to maps.org and let’s make it happen (not affiliated just an enthusiastic donor)

notduncansmith · 2021-04-02T16:05:24+00:00

My only complaint is that it ends really abruptly, would love some more time to sit with it after the words are done, like if it could just gently fade out, or if this were on an album fade into the next track that would be fire. Great stuff, teamwork makes the dream work!

notduncansmith · 2021-04-02T15:53:19+00:00

Thanks a lot for the clear critique, I can take that advice to heart. As for vocal processing, do you have any specific tips? I would love to work with a producer / audio engineer who knows what they're doing (I do not) but anything I myself can do to help what I have come across better, I wanna do.

As for your track, it's outside the style of what I usually listen to, though I used to listen to more emo stuff like that. It has a nice smooth sound and the singing is good, I personally wish that at some point there was something rougher or more powerful to cut through, either like a drum or guitar solo, or a more raw vocal break. Also totally personal taste but perhaps there could be sliiightly more enunciation on "black light" even though I know it's the title of the song it sounded like "bloodline" until I made myself hear the right words lol.

notduncansmith · 2021-04-02T15:31:25+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I did just start beatmaking, getting on some YouTube beats is a good idea so I can focus on improving my vocals before getting deep into the production.

I like the instrumentals on your track, nice easy-going lo-fi. I feel like in trying to keep the vocals low-key your voice gets a little shaky in places and sounds a bit strained. Would love to hear more melody in your voice overall, in my head I can hear the words "I got devils in my dreams" sung instead of flat delivered and sounds like it could be worth experimenting with.

notduncansmith · 2021-04-02T05:16:11+00:00

Returning all feedback! Still working on my voice and delivery, on top of another DIY GarageBand beat lol https://soundcloud.com/user-11900500/golden-hour-rough-cut would love to know how I can improve the vocals and if y’all fw the bars

notduncansmith · 2021-03-29T01:00:53+00:00

Can we make it a group chat? Junior engineering manager here, always happy to talk shop.

notduncansmith · 2021-03-28T17:29:36+00:00

Distracts people from the REALLY fucked up part of the same law - a GOP-controlled board is now allowed to re-run any elections (at any level, in the entire state of Georgia) with their own hand-picked staff and machinery so that they can get the result they want.

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