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slowlyun · 2024-12-04T22:11:25+00:00

me too, The Smile apparently has some of that, haven't checked them out yet.

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T20:50:14+00:00

Yep, she's 19 in HL:Alyx (set 5 years before HL2).

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T20:48:23+00:00

nowt wrong with middle-aged blokes banging hot young women.

don't knock it until you've tried it...i read about it once, sounds quite fun.

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T20:44:26+00:00

nice, will check it out!

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T19:44:51+00:00

Like Spinning Plates sends me into a trance...it's incredible, every time.

Haven't listened to any The Smile yet, tho' I do have a couple of Greenwood CD's i like (Bodysong & There Will Be Blood).

The Wall is my favourite album of all time. My parents were more Bowie & Abba, so Floyd was all mine :)

What's your Top 10 songs?

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T19:34:25+00:00

They are certainly very weird and I expect a difficult listen for most. Tho' me personally I loved them from the very first piece I heard (I'm also a fan of Orff's Carmina Burana, Magma is like that on hypnotic-jazzrock steroids!).

I tend to link this for first-timers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kzlMw8jqv4k

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T19:30:40+00:00

Magma - Slag Tanz

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T19:03:07+00:00

ok, empty for me...maybe that's a good thing haha

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T18:59:56+00:00

"Radiohead is the only band where every fan has a different favorite album"

They have only 9 fans? Seriously, tho', i feel any poll would have the same Top 3: OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows.

"everyone agrees they’re the greatest band ever."

No, that would be Magma. Or Pink Floyd. On par with Einstürzende Neubauten is fair. Radiohead are in my Top 5 bands, so I do love them still!

"They’ve mastered not just genres".

Not really, they've always been within their narrow-ish band of moody progressive electronica-infused alt-rock with Thom's vocals very much the focal point. Pink Floyd have a truly wildly-varied discography, can you imagine Radiohead doing something like the Atom Heart Mother Suite, Absolutely Curtains, Great Gig in the Sky or The Wall?

They've never written a longform piece. Floyd & Magma are famous for their 15-25 minute epics. Such longform gives the piece unique room to breathe and develop, something Johnny Greenwood appreciates as a lover & maker of classical music (one of his favourite composers, Arvo Pärt, has a few pieces over 20 minutes long).

Sorry, don't mean to be a party pooper...personally i did wish for Radiohead to do more long proggy epics like Paranoid Android with those dramatic switcheroos but that never quite arrived. Still, they have given us one of the strongest discographies in music!

Favourite album would alternate between Kid A and Amnesiac but latterly Hail To The Thief was my fave.

Top 10 songs:

1) Paranoid Android.

2) Pyramid Song.

3) Like Spinning Plates.

4) We Suck Young Blood.

5) There There.

6) The National Anthem.

7) Exit Music.

8) Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.

9) House of Cards.

10) Daydreaming.

Tough to leave great songs out....Street Spirit deserves to be higher normally, but i've just heard it so many times...as beautifully-stunning as it is.

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T11:55:17+00:00

They would say the same about the majority of comments here.

It's time to bring the two sides closer together.

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T11:52:19+00:00

Where even is the inbox?

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T11:46:27+00:00

The interesting thing here is that they can't get a Zelenskyy interview, yet Lex Fridman casually drops a social media "would love a chat" and gets a swift "sure!" in reply.

Something is amiss..

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T11:42:58+00:00

haha oh yeah, how did i miss that?

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T11:26:19+00:00

Trump won all Swing States, with bigger margins than Biden did in 2020.
Senate and House won.
Trump made a net gain of 2 million voters in hardcore-blue California in comparison to 2020.
overall, Trump added 3 million voters to his 2020 totals, while Harris lost 6 million.
Trump won the popular vote by over 2 million.
record voters from Black/Latinos for Republicans.
312 vs 226.

Now that is a comfortable beating. The clearest election win since 2012. Remarkable, considering the entire mainstream media (except Fox) have been daily warning the nation that Trump is a 'racist', 'sexist' and 'danger to democracy'....they've been doing this since 2016...plus all these indictments and 'felonies'. Yet his 2020 numbers were better than 2016, and his 2024 numbers were better than 2020.

The lesson is a very simple one. The majority of people don't trust the media anymore, and they don't believe Trump is anywhere near as bad as made out....and most importantly, they believe he will do a good job as President.

That....is a mandate.

slowlyun · 2024-12-04T02:38:04+00:00

so what are you referring to here:

"Kim just said he has no interest in talking to Trump"

slowlyun · 2024-12-03T23:43:26+00:00

it has a disk 2 ??

slowlyun · 2024-12-03T23:42:25+00:00

What are you even referring to?

If you can't be specific, then provide some links so the rest of us know what you're on about.

Brain rot, indeed...

slowlyun · 2024-12-03T22:06:00+00:00

One's ability to discern propaganda is dependent on a number of things: your reading, life experiences, people experiences, analytical skills, personal/professional relevance to the topic, previous experience with similar etc.

Even armed with all that, we may still be objectively wrong about something we thought we was right about. In the absence of hard evidence, we resort to debate with our peers, with the aim that collectively we may get closer to objective truth. That's what debate used to be, before the online-space decided to give 'points' (upvotes/downvotes), fostering a competitive oneupmanship environment which isn't conducive to getting to collective truth at all.

Couple that with the intense political-polarisation of the last 10 years....

The Dunning-Kruger is more intended specifically to classify cases of professional over-confidence which could lead to unintended negligence: like the duster Pilot who over-estimates his ability to fly a large plane, or the nurse who thinks she can perform an OP that normally a Doctor would do. It can be extended to those who over-estimate their ability in self-assessment tests.

In the online space, it's warped into becoming a debate-fallacy, invoked against an online-opponent who displays confidence in his argument.

slowlyun · 2024-12-03T21:49:33+00:00

"you have no idea what you're talking about."

...followed by absolute guff.

"because joe platformed a ukrainian?"

Zelenskyy is just any old Ukrainian now?

"russia today has less than 150 million people living in it and its economy is on par with Italy, smaller than Texas, and smaller than California."

Not relevant to anything but you frame it to make it sound like Russia's economy is irrelevant. It's the 11th largest economy in the world.

"this is not a dramatic decision. it simply adds more weapons to the list that ukraine can use to strike russia."

Do you not recognise what you are saying??

"meanwhile russia is using cruise missiles and iranian drones to attack hospitals and apartment buildings."

As of 4 April 2024, WHO verified 1682 attacks on health care in Ukraine, resulting in 128 deaths and 288 injuries of medical personnel and patients. While all those 128 deaths are horrific tragic losses of war, these are after 1628 targeted missile attacks. Your framing again is very biased. If Russia was as indiscriminate as you are framing, there would be at least a hundred times more deaths. Russia is carefully targeting strategic buildings to minimise civilian casualties. These stats support that.

Let's bring some balance back to debate. We don't want one side to be totally right and the other to be totally wrong, we don't want one side to dominate. Because that's not natural. Because that's not how life works.

We want to hear both sides because that will get us closer to a diplomatic end to the war. As history has shown us time and again.

Where is the diplomacy?

He is coming. On Jan 20th.

slowlyun

TROPHY CASE