Are you saying that if you aren’t capitalist then you are a tanky? That may be a hint reductionist lol.

BTW I think you are a fine fella. Sorry I didn’t say that more. I wish ya the best.

Oh yeah you are 100% right. It was the rest of the comment.

Homie I gotta stop biting. If you can’t see how your comment was:

• overconfident
• inaccurate
• oversimplified
• and could be read as condescending

Idk what to tell ya.

Good luck out there.

The only place I see those terms used to describe benign behavior is in rage bait. My guess is that you haven’t heard someone use those terms in a serious way because of an internet bubble or something.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining Wikipedia says it originated as a call out for internalized misogyny, but now is used very generally.

I bet you could find info on the rest pretty easily.

Also its real ironic that your comment meets the definition of mansplaining lol.

“(for a man) to comment on or explain something, to a woman, in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner”.[1][2][3][4]

I’m not a woman though, but if any read your comment then you meet the strict definition lol.

Ah fair. I was confused by the language. I thought you were saying broadly that AI was bad because it is unnatural rather than because it is cultural / technological.

I still don’t think you’ve made a good case though. We have lots of tech that had us think less that didn’t lead to the end of humanity. What would make AI special enough to end us? People have felt apocalyptic about a lot of things.

From my perspective the issues aren’t about AI itself. The issue is that a small group of folks control our society and how tech gets used.

I am here to call out the natural/unnatural fallocy. It is silly. Can you really draw a line between the two (natural vs unnatural) in a way that is logical and still supports your argument?

Though those aren’t really proven real: From that same Wikipedia article:

Although widely used, they are by no means a necessary feature of QFT, but rather are mathematical conveniences — as demonstrated by lattice field theory, which avoids using the concept altogether.[citation needed]

I mean aren’t you saying: “Something can happen without a cause if we just ignore the cause.”

I read ops question as about reality, not hypothetical universes that contain a hand that moves a without an arm or brain attached.

Around me sativa/indica is just a short hand for how sleepy weed is. No one (around me) pays attention if the weed is actually genetically close to either.

I think its just habit that I use those words rather than saying sleepy or energizing.

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Awesome sounds good!

Ooof it can get pretty techy. Once you get it set up you likely won’t have to mess with it again though.

I’ve done that set up many times, so if you want help I’m happy to answer questions.

I use a pipewire w/ qjackctl to connect Ardour to my speakers and midi keyboard. I do this on fedora Linux.

Definitely watch some gameplay. The super early game is quite self explanatory, but noita quickly escalates to puzzles so hard a community needs to get together to solve them.

Playing Noita with all the knowledge of the wider community has made so many cool bosses actually beatable, and made the whole game a lot more fun for me.

Sorta, but it neglects to mention the bottlenecks where power concentrates. There are really only 3 companies in the US that manage retirement funds, and they all own a decent bit of each other.

Also 90% of stock is owned by the top 10% of Americans, so average folks retirement funds don’t have the power you might naively assume they do.

Its great! It will not hesitate to kill you until you learn it.

Binding of Isaac has a bit of invincibility after every hit, and that works for the game really well. You need to be able to recover and not die immediately.

Noita has no invincibility frames like that. You need to be able to die immediately. An instant death is essential for the game tone and balance.

Surge XT can do 98% of everything I need. It has a ton of waveforms, filter types, and modulation options. It’s a great synth.

In the rare case that SurgeXT can’t do what I want, I turn to zynaddsubfx. It is complicated, but really one of the wildest synths out there.

Last resort is this open source fork of VCV rack I found. So at the end of the day if you need to you can just build the synth you need.

Noita!: I agree with many in dubbing it my favorite single player game.

It is a pixel art alechemy and magic roguelike where every pixel is physically simulated and destroyable. Find spells and wands and combine them in programmer like ways to multiply their power. Many tricks in the game are so strong they feel like cheating, but the game has been built with challenges that surpass every trick.

It is the epitome of endlessly repayable. Especially switching between the few mods that drastically change the map.

I can easily have a god run last me 5-10 hours. But I still have a lot of fun with the more common 30min-2hr runs.

God tier game. I’ve never even been close to beating it.

Here is my software set up for open source music making (I often use midi and audio input):

Core software:

• Ardour as my DAW.
• Liquid SFZ as my SFZ player.
• SurgeXT as my soft synth.

For SFZ instruments:

• Virtual Playing Orchesta (free full orchestra)
• Versilion freeware instruments (mostly orchestra)
• Blonde Bop drumkit

Raw samples:

• samples.kb6.de for drum machine samples

For effects:

• LSP plugins for my basics (eq, compression, etc)
• Airwindows Plugins for fun effects (and some basics)

Ardour is supposed to have a midi related update for its next big release, so stay tuned.

From my perspective, the simplest set up would be Ardour and SFZ instruments. Mainly because I’m quite used to those two.

For set up you’d just open Ardour, make a new midi track, place liquidsfz as the first plugin on the track, then open liquidsfz and browse to the SFZ file you want to use.

Then you just draw in the midi notes you want using either the edit or draw tool.