belastend

joined 6 months ago
[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 hours ago

DO IT! DON'T LET YOUR MEMES BE DREAMS! DOOOOOO IIIIIIITTTTTTTTT

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 hours ago

They had. Couple of months ago.

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

One more case of "etymology is definition". A lipophobic substance doesn't fear fat, it is repulsed.

"Phobia" describing bigotry is not the "phobia" in things like arachnophobia.

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A 60% compromise!

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I had a friend who believed in that. She tried to explain to my then GF how her having a symmetrical face means she's definitely a Libra.

Now, I loved her to bits but my ex-partner did not have a symmetrical face. Few people have. But apparently the way stars aligned on her birthday meant she must have one, so that friend insisted on it.

This isn't reason or just a different jargon. This is woo-woo. Sitting down everyday, trying to manifest a leading role in a famous TV show but doing nothing else to get this because "manifestation will do its thing" isn't jargon.

That friend was someone I got along with. Because she did not try to convince me that vaccines are evil and instead I should just do a spirit cleanse. Like others tried to. This "jargon" is accompanied by fundamentally different ideas about how and why things happen and can lead to anti-scientism.

Lastly, yes, I consider sound healing bogus. The idea that frequencies alone can heal serious injuries is dumb. The difference between acknowledging that vibrations picked up by the brain can assist in a healing process and the idea that this can somehow replace any other treatment is fundamentally unreasonable.

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

She also has a very funny article about how Stalin is a God of Science

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Exhibit A of "bigotry is totally funny if we don't like the victim"

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You wanted him to break him out?

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 days ago (7 children)

How did Ukraine land on that list?

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Well I now gave shining a listen and tbh, while it isn't my jam, it sounds like music.

Pho Queue did not sound experimental to me, it was dissonant. Not in a good way, in an "I don't know what the fuck im doing" kind of way. Shining sounds good because they know what they are doing. What kind of principles they violate. An AI has no idea what these principles even are.

In the end, we won't agree here. I think that AI fundamentally lacks the one thing Music has: A miniscule amount of thought. Even the worst pop slop follows certain principles because they just work in some way.

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

She will never engage with any other this.

 
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