maroonblazer

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by maroonblazer 6d ago
> The one that that racist, elitist music programs have been teaching since well before the 21st-Century. Are you this guy? https://youtu.be/u2NKodxRO4A?si=xdOd7I1f_rnFN85C&t=255
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by maroonblazer 9d ago
I get this. Often I'll watch a film that seems just "so so". Then, I'll read a review and gain a new appreciation for the film. I'll see things in the film I'd previously missed and understand it in new ways. R
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by maroonblazer 14d ago
From "American Psycho". https://www.moviequotedb.com/movies/american-psycho/quote_16...
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by maroonblazer 2mo ago
>in effect asking for more units of money than actually exist in the whole system. Depends on how you define the 'whole system'. If I borrow $100 and make $110, the latter didn't appear out of nowhere. The lender, too, cou
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by maroonblazer 2mo ago
> the relevant scale and arpeggio patterns, etc, That phrase is smuggling in a LOT of work that systems like CAGED help to simplify. I say this as someone who has played guitar for decades and slept on CAGED for too long.
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by maroonblazer 2mo ago
Donated happily. Long-time book lover and am always looking for my next favorite read. Thank you for building this!
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by maroonblazer 4mo ago
Where are these quotes pulled from? His autobiography? Something else?
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by maroonblazer 4mo ago
>Of course, modern controllers exist that offer many more literal bells and whistles... Anyone have a favorite 'modern controller' for those of us who no longer have a PowerMate?
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by maroonblazer 5mo ago
Someone turned me onto this podcast several months ago and, after a few episodes, my takeaway was they seem to be against every book they review. I couldn't find a single book they actually liked.
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by maroonblazer 5mo ago
> This I've read is made worse because as it has grown in features and capabilities in the 25+ years it has been available the interface has become kind of disjoint. It's impossible to exaggerate how true this is. I often say &
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by maroonblazer 8mo ago
My partner and I have been through this cycle. Something happens, she interprets it a certain, very specific, way and then has an adverse emotional reaction. In the early days of our relationship I would try to explain to her why her emotio
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by maroonblazer 9mo ago
Me too. For that I highly recommend the Tree Napper from Bearaby. https://bearaby.com/collections/weighted-blankets
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by maroonblazer 10mo ago
I picked up a collection of several hundred of his 4-part chorales. I like to flip through the pages and pick one seemingly at random and play it. While some hit me harder than others, nearly all of them express this "simplicity to dep
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by maroonblazer 11mo ago
The important terms here are "provision" and "without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional". Both of these, separately and taken together, indicate that the terms apply to how the output of ChatGPT is used,
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by maroonblazer 11mo ago
"Uncovering transformative connections between algebraic combinatorics and problems in other areas of math and physics." https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/lauren-k-will...
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by maroonblazer 1y ago
I'd rather it be stored neatly in canisters underground than floating up into the atmosphere.
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by maroonblazer 1y ago
What serendipity! The latest episode of "Philosophize This!" is titled "The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han".[0] I'd never heard of him before. Apparently his book "The Burnout Society" is reco
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by maroonblazer 1y ago
>"If technology can be perfected to manage medicine, navigation, education, and even design, what then becomes of work? The specter is not merely unemployment—it’s meaninglessness." Only if one's identity is defined by the
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by maroonblazer 1y ago
Israel didn't take any actions until Oct 13. What actions 'from the first days' are you referring to?
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by maroonblazer 1y ago
One of Hinge's marketing messages is something along the line of "The app you're meant to delete."
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by maroonblazer 1y ago
It makes me recoil that I replaced my partner with simulacrum of her. I've been in situations like the one you describe but this was not that. It's not about attractiveness. A good analogy is that you can sate your sweet tooth by
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by maroonblazer 1y ago
Not the parent, but for me, porn served as a kind of supernormal stimulus. It became difficult to become aroused with my partner when I had a practically infinite variety of virtual women to choose from, doing an infinite variety of things.
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by maroonblazer 1y ago
Many things in life are traumatic. Me leaving the Catholic church was traumatic for my parents. My years-long girlfriend cheating on me was traumatic for me. Does trauma for the 1% outweigh the benefits of the 99%?
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by maroonblazer 1y ago
What kind of breathwork did you do?
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
I'd not heard that Feynman quote before, so thanks for sharing; I love it. I'd include writing, art-, and music-making in that category.
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Looking at the first few questions from the survey, this seems geared specifically to work-oriented book clubs. I.e., book clubs in a professional context. FWIW, I was hoping for/expecting one that was free of those associations. It mi
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
That doesn't solve parent's (and my) problem. I have collections of tabs in different windows and I assign those windows to different spaces. Every time I reboot Chrome all windows are assigned to whichever space is active when I
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
I don't know that people say 'jazz is dead', but it's certainly a shell of its former self. Wanna make a living playing jazz in 2025? The odds are stacked, massively, against you. Wanna earn enough to buy food for your d
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
If you enjoy this style of writing - TFA's, not D Brown's - then check out The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest[0]. Here's a sample: "Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud
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by maroonblazer 2y ago
Per the below, seems it's not available to many yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913575

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