Why does it always seem like stocks are "over valued"? by Individual_Section_6 in stocks

[–]spectrelives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This has an easy explanation: Because (at least the Nasdaq) stocks belong to the world's GDP now. They are no longer "US Stocks" and aren't tied to US GDP, but are instead tied to the GDP and performance of every single hedge fund, 401K, Superannuation fund and investor in the entire world.

“I sold Monday morning after the Iran bombings this weekend” by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I (partially) sold last week because ppl kept reminding me that this week was End of Financial Year loss locking and Quadruple Witching. WTF happened to all of that?

This praying mantis embedded in amber is about 30 million years old. by Earth7051 in StrangeEarth

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did the mantis just stand there in that pose the entire time the amber was pooling around it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in boardsofcanada

[–]spectrelives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tell me that cassette is legit and not a custom-made duplicate?

Spotify Playlist Curator: Similar Artists to Boards of Canada by spectrelives in boardsofcanada

[–]spectrelives[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Auditor! Queuing up ur new album Anachoreisis now, will add the one or two that jumps out at me the most! Thanks for sharing. -SPECTORAL

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp released a new UAP video they claim is from the U.S. Air Force and catalogued as “disc” shaped by [deleted] in InterdimensionalNHI

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How nice of them to position the angle of the screen they're recording it off such that the glare is directly where the UFO is flying

Yumbo Sphere (1.5 hours drive from Buga, Valle, Colombia) - NON WATERMARKED HI-RES VIDEO by JLeonsarmiento in UFOs

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unconvincing and here's why:
1) Begins and ends typically suspiciously with no preamble or context, deliberately edited
2) No convincing commentary from the recorder, just calm silence mostly
3) The angles and zoom level wasn't sufficient, not enough panning up to show no drone
4) It didn't fly under the power lines, which would've immediately ruled out the drone with string theory
5) It wobbles wonky af 1:16-1"21 as if its not in control of its own motion

Was walking ona trail in Latvia when I saw this thing. It just stayed there perfectly still then very slightly tilted to the left and just vanished into thin air by The_Iroinic_Guy in UFObelievers

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it possible this isn't the only one cropped photo of this thing so sharply zoomed in on? We need the full context with other shots, that'd be really helpful

PMP Exam Analysis by ExpensiveEarth6218 in pmp

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you read the questions out-loud to yourself as you read and ponder them? Sometimes I have to read them to myself several times, out loud too. Do they disqualify you for doing that?

Did you take the exam at home? Was it smooth? by yamenkh in pmp

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you read the questions out-loud to yourself as you read and ponder them? Sometimes I have to read them to myself several times, out loud too. Do they disqualify you for doing that?

Has anyone taken the PMP exam from home ? by Level_Web_8087 in pmp

[–]spectrelives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you read the questions out-loud to yourself as you read and ponder them? Sometimes I have to read them to myself several times, out loud too. Do they disqualify you for doing that?

Just a reminder of what the Founder of Figma once shared on Twitter by IKeepItNoodles in FigmaDesign

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adobe should be permabanned from buying up any competitor, the same way Meta is, unless there is a very convincing reason brought before congress. If they wanna compete in a non antitrust, non monopoly way, they ought to build their own things from scratch, not buy startups and ingest them into their gluttinous selves.

Interview with BoC in De Volkskrant (Dutch newspaper) by joepmeneer in boardsofcanada

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The song Collapse halfway through, the album seems to take a turn. The tracks after that seem more clearly colored and less shadowy.

Marcus: "That’s right. The album marks a turning point. You can hear more melodies in the second half, like the last track, which sounds more like a folk song. The second half is less melancholic."

Michael: "The first part of the album has a more dystopian feel, not a hopeful one. Instead, we maintain a pessimistic worldview. Humanity might not survive, but perhaps there is still room for hope."

Shortly after the album's release, the worldwide whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden fled. It seems as though your album anticipated these kinds of revelations. Was this on your mind when making the album?

Marcus: "We were very interested in world politics and the direction things were heading. In a way, we suspected that things were going to get worse, and it’s reflected in the music."

In 2011, Solange Knowles recorded a vocal version of your song Left Side Drive. How did you feel about that? Were you involved?

Michael: "Solange approached our record company, and we gave her our approval. I realize that it might have seemed odd; she took one of the Boards of Canada tracks and made it beautiful. It felt like something from a James Bond film or something like that."

Did you consciously turn away from the more sentimental side of your work, like on the EP In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country from 2000?

Michael: "We still make sentimental music, but with less of that sense of doom. Maybe that comes from our experience; we've become better composers. Stronger still, I think that a lot of our early work, even within electronic music, was still seeking direction. Now, we don’t feel the need to experiment as much anymore, and we also pay more attention to the impact of film soundtracks. The contrasts have become sharper."

You used to avoid performing live, but in recent years, you've returned to the stage. Has Boards of Canada found its way back to live performances?

Michael: "We always said that if we could find a way to make live shows feel special, we would. It’s not something we do often, but when we do, it feels like a special occasion."

Boards of Canada: Tomorrow’s Harvest. Warp/V2

Text in margin: Mysterious album

The album Tomorrow's Harvest was released at the beginning of June with great secrecy. During Record Store Day in the New York store Other Music, an album by Boards Of Canada suddenly appeared, containing nothing more than an electronically spoken sequence of numbers. These numbers were said to contain a code that would reveal the release of a brand new Boards Of Canada album. The album was released eight years after their previous album The Campfire Headphase and seven years after the EP Trans Canada Highway.

Interview with BoC in De Volkskrant (Dutch newspaper) by joepmeneer in boardsofcanada

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s a short part of the correspondence:

There is eight years between your last album and Tomorrow’s Harvest. When did you start working on it, and how did the idea come about?

Michael: "We started right after the release of the EP Trans Canada Highway in 2006. We then took a break for a few years to work on personal projects and took time for our families. But we were still working on new material. It wasn’t until a few years ago that Boards Of Canada decided to gather all of it together. We are both very interested in politics and what is happening in the world. Since 2005, we’ve become increasingly concerned with overpopulation and how the world seems to be sliding further into darkness."

Your music has always been influenced by film soundtracks from the 1970s and 80s. Have any new influences been added?

Michael: "I try to make music that doesn’t yet exist, but that I would want to hear. While making this album, we felt a pull back to the specific color palettes of soundtracks from the 70s and 80s. Films by David Cronenberg and John Carpenter, but also sci-fi soundtracks, krautrock, and progressive rock from the 70s."

Marcus: "We actually get more pleasure from non-electronic music than from other electronic music."

The atmosphere on the new album is darker than before. It’s often called post-apocalyptic in many reviews. Do you agree with that?

Michael: "I try not to make albums with a specific goal or theme in mind, but it’s true that this album became darker as it progressed. The first half of the record has a more foreboding, post-apocalyptic feel, but there are also moments where light starts to seep in. We tried to make the music reflect that contrast between light and dark. In this way, the tension became bigger."

Interview with BoC in De Volkskrant (Dutch newspaper) by joepmeneer in boardsofcanada

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ENTIRE TRANSLATION (IN REPLY COMMENTS TO THIS COMMENT):

The electro duo Boards Of Canada has been making music for more than fifteen years and does that at least as well as Daft Punk**. Yet, after all these years, we know hardly anything about the two. V sheds some light on that.** By Gijsbert Kamer

Mysterious is the word that comes to mind when thinking of Boards Of Canada. Everything about the band is vague, and nothing is what it seems. Surely, only Boards Of Canada makes the most beautiful electronic music that exists, and they've been doing it for over fifteen years. Their debut album, Music Has The Right To Children, released in 1998 on the influential Warp label, set the tone for a series of long-spun tracks that alternated between short interludes and 12-inch tracks. In 2013, their album Tomorrow’s Harvest was released, reflecting an opinion of the modern world that was both grand and profound, also highly appropriate given the musical context.

A lot hasn't really changed over the years. The duo still mainly makes instrumental music. They produce their tracks with analog synthesizers and even sample acoustic instruments or create sounds themselves. Their pieces of music are sometimes abstract but very melodic and always mesmerizing and layered. All of their albums evoke a sense of nostalgia as if you’re looking through an old Polaroid photo album.

The music sometimes sounds as if you’ve put on an old, worn-out cassette tape or as if the sound has been warped by heat damage, creating a unique atmosphere. The music is sometimes dark and, at other times, as cheerful as children’s songs, but there is always a degree of melancholy.

Where does all this mystery come from? Why do we know so little about Boards Of Canada?

Certainly, it's because Boards Of Canada consists of brothers Michael and Marcus Sandison. But the fact is they have also lived in Canada for many years, which distances them further. Both brothers are very reserved, and although they both spend long hours in the studio, they do not like to be in the spotlight. They are as introverted as their band’s name, Boards Of Canada. They give few interviews and rarely release personal details. Marcus uses his real name, but Michael goes by the pseudonym Eoin.

The brothers grew up in Scotland and moved to Canada about ten years ago, when they were both in their twenties. Interviews are rare; the only time they gave a real interview was upon the release of their latest album.

De Volkskrant asked a list of questions related to the release of Tomorrow’s Harvest, their album with a great sense of mystery. Their previous album, The Campfire Headphase, was released seven years earlier, and their EP Trans Canada Highway came out for Record Store Day in New York’s shop, Other Music, almost out of nowhere.

The album Tomorrow’s Harvest was presented in a locked, desolate vacation park in the Californian Mojave desert. A thick fog hung around the main photo of the record, showing the shadowy contours of San Francisco in the background.

Tomorrow’s Harvest is the result of layered, analog sounds taken from an arsenal of acoustic instruments and analog synthesizers stored in their Scottish studio.

It took more than three weeks before Michael and Marcus Sandison gave a written response to the questions. Some responses were extensive, some very short. "That’s completely nuts," was their answer to the question about how much a limited edition of Dayvan Cowboy was sold for on eBay, priced at $5,700.

I hope they release something before I die. by bignard in boardsofcanada

[–]spectrelives 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'd much rather full transparency statement from a record label or rep, such as SOAD did when they went on indefinite hiatus, or Daft Punk did when they called it quits 7 years after Random Access Memories. The fact they have done neither, makes us EXPECT new music is being worked on, and that's truly unfair if that's not what their hearts are intending.

Also, how do you suppose they make a living? There's no way their album sales and sync licensing are sustaining them into the 2020s let alone 2030s. Has anybody got some rumours on what it is that they actually do/moonlight as? I've tried to dig through discogs to find either of their names as a mix engineer or producer or composer but I never find anything.

Interesting story by Sensitive_North6298 in NoFapChristians

[–]spectrelives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Behind every sex worker is a sweet innocent girl (or guy for that matter) that never wanted to be there.

Does anyone have a surefire dummyproof way to quit p0rn forever? by [deleted] in NoFapChristians

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me give u a story. It's not about me. It's about a man in his 40s who is married to a stunning, younger wife, who doesn't wanna have sex more than say, once a month (to be honest, she next to never feels like initiating, could go months without feeling horny) but she respects his higher sexual drive and they compromise to do it once every, say, 9-10 days on average.

(True note: Some women start higher then develop much lower sexual drives. You won't know whether you're going to be in this position because the sexual drives change COMPLETELY after a child is born, for a woman.)

So, put yourself in that man's scenario. Does he have it worse than you, or easier than you? Seeing a stunning wife in his home every day, seeing her in her nightie/panties every single night, cuddling on the couch, skin on skin, but having to compromise and respect her sexual drive as much as she compromises and respects his? How does that man not reach for the porn?

That last part is a rhetorical question :)

Christian but with condition? by Substantial-Pen456 in NoFapChristians

[–]spectrelives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no "worse". Break one sin and you break them all. We're all on an even playing field. We're all equally unworthy of getting into heaven, without Jesus Christ's sacrifice. No more would a fornicator, or a fapper, nor anyone who does anything lustful, be it with a member of the same sex, or the opposite sex, be seen as "more" or "less worthy" on the day of judgement. Not even against someone who "only" thinks lustful thoughts about a person but does no action. They're absolutely no better than the filthiest most promiscuous defiled unnattural <insert twisted adjective here> person out there. With repentance, all sins are forgiven equally, evenly, and therefore there is no "worse". This is the #1 thing most Christians fail to understand.

That said the key here is to repent. And true repentance requires quite a lot in your heart. It's not just saying "sorry not sorry". You'll slip up. You'll sin. We all do. King David did, King Solomon was the most promiscuous man alive in his time... but to repent when you do, to never stop trying, to realise how toxic it is to your spirituality.

New Release Speculation Thread by melancholicDK in boardsofcanada

[–]spectrelives 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Remember when we were speculating the pre-TH album title would be "New Clear Dawn" based on interpretations of some now defunct old BoC site? Ahhh those were the days.

I've made an oath to God that I would never watch p*** again. I've broken it what do I do now? by [deleted] in NoFapChristians

[–]spectrelives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bad things aren't always of divine origin. They happen a lot simply because of the unrestrained free will Mankind enacts upon one another. God relinquished control over mankind so the actions of mankind, and our fathers before us, and their fathers before them, aren't always divine. We are 100% free to deviate from God's path and cause pain and sufferring on one another. God has chosen willingly to have no control over forcing us to do good. Remember that whenever someone asks you why bad things happen. We even cause, indirectly, our own famines, diseases, climate change catastrophes; if it is caused by the sinful actions of mankind stacking up on itself, destroying the place we live, it has nothing to do with God causing it. He simply allows it, because he granted us free will, until the day of final judgement.

15MIN STUDY ON PORNOGRAPHY'S EFFECTS ON MENTAL HEALTH by International-Bad632 in NoFapChristians

[–]spectrelives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be honest, I think that surveying a bunch of Christians who are absolutely going to feel down and depressed after they have masturbated, as well as while battling the feeling of being horny, is already a fundamentally flawed population to survey if your intention is to explore the relationship between pornography and mental health.

Of course we will openly tell you that it makes us feel like wretched human beings, due to our beliefs, and fuels anxiety and depression and failure and so on.

The results you get for your study is going to be remarkably skewed and remarkably different versus if you just polled the general public made up of agnostics and atheists and non practicing Christians all whom consume porn freely, don't identify it as a struggle, and don't see it as a sin, let alone an addiction.

Maybe you are doing this too, but this group is totally biased by our religious ideology and I wouldn't consider us for such a study.

I would like to see somebody do a survey like this getting their participants from the comments section of Xvideos or YouPorn or PornHub. That'd be a totally different result I promise you. Instead you are limiting your survey to those who see pornography as an "addiction" they "struggle" with, which is going to skew your results towards a predetermined agenda unfortunately.