Sunvox is a masterpiece. Perfect for small size audio. It’s strange that it isn’t more widely used in game development or even webpages. Not just because of small sizes, but because it’s also possible to interact with the music, while it’s being generated. I have no idea of how to classify this as a piece of software but it’s mind boggling powerfull and it still runs perfectly on any potato.

It would be nice to have better recording options than using the sampler, but I guess that defies the purpose of it.

When was the last time you ate more or less of something because someone in the government told you to?

This is an old Mandela effect.

The issue is that they don’t actually remember what the sun looked like, because you can’t really look at the sun.

Their memories are of the crayon drawings that they made in school.

I play all the rock instruments and then some. I never got along with fretless strings or horns, because they require much more practice.

My main interests are in theory, composing and synthesizers, so I like instruments that are playable from a logic approach rather than muscle memory.

I’m still pretty technically decent with guitars and the djembe. Maybe blues harp too.

If I were to join a band, it’d probably be on bass though.

Go to the small concert venues and see them play.

Pro tip: Cut the baguette in a 45° angle.

It makes the first bite easier, and it looks better.

The spectrum:

Look at a population pyramid.

This site has done nice animated options: https://chartingtheglobe.com/demographics/population-pyramid

If you want to see more regional overviews, then the CIA also has some nice selections here:

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/population-pyramids-by-region/

The main issue is that the population is getting older. Not enough new borns to pay taxes to care for the old people in twenty years. This can only be solved by immigration from countries with higher birthrates.

That looks like the Emerica G6 Wino slip-ons.

I wore those out in about a year just from walking. The bottom isn’t very good, which is a shame, because they’re otherwise very comfortable and durable.

Shelf angle brackets would beat both the shelf and the screw.

Only if the vending machine is sexy to begin with.

There’s only two classes. There’s nothing in the middle.

If you’re in doubt which class you belong to, look at the paycheck. Does it have your name on it? Then you’re one of the ones who get paid.

Ideas can spread but also get corrected when people interact.

It used to be that people talked to each other and set the dumbasses straight whenever they spit out this kind of “politics”.

These days everyone is just angry online and they’d rather change their online network than to change their minds.

Someone should have told off Trump long ago. They didn’t, and since he chose to communicate official statements on Twitter, instead of passing it through advisers and secretaries who could advise him better, it’s only gotten worse.

Fascism is an idea that needs to die, but it’s really difficult to confront the idea when the fascists hide in their online safe spaces, like X and Truth Social, where they only interact with bootlickers and block everyone else.

I think the best way to kill fascism is to talk openly about it with other people offline.

Finnish Saksa is a reference to the Saxon tribe from Old Saxon in Northern Germany, not the current Sachsen.

It’s that home office printer, am I right?

Fuck you, I won’t fill your cyan cartridge.

Rally round the paper feed. With a pocket full of clips. Ugh.

I think it’s very neighborhood dependent.

The worst places are in rich neighborhoods where all the bored middle managers act like queens and kings of the grocery store.

The GIMP user would never have paid Adobe for Photoshop anyway.

If anything, it actually helped people get into photo editing and ended up using Photoshop at their work.

Picking requires much more control than fretting once you’ve learned the basic shapes or movement.

Think of the timing in it. The fret can be pressed at any time between two notes, but the picking needs to be exactly on time. Fretting basically becomes muscle memory while the picking is the real decision making.

Also think of the expression. Once you’ve fretted a note, there’s little to do with that finger. Bending and hammer-ons maybe, but it’s nothing in comparison to what the picking hand does. The picking can change the volume, overdrive, pinch notes, muting and overtones depending on position. Also of course timing as already mentioned.

Traditionally, it was probably chosen because of finger picking though. A lot of classical music is based on very basic chord shapes while the picking hand does all the coordination of playing both bass and melody simultaneously. That requires a lot more rhythmic independence on the picking hand than the fretting hand.