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@codebreakerblue

by god, I'll bloody up my hands with everything I am / to cut away the mountains I've made and fill the dales below

daily reminders

  • no human being is 100% happy 100% of the time
  • being a person is extraordinarily difficult even in the best of times
  • this is not the best of times
  • someone is grateful you exist (don't argue, it's true)
  • a bad day does not predict a bad existence
  • it's gonna be okay

The band, the music, the dance.

puts on sound 📣🎶🎵

Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.

1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.

2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.

3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT.  To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.

4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!

5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.

All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.

i am a firm supporter of changing your name to whatever you want regardless of your gender. if a woman wants to go by matt then matt she shall be. godspeed

The band, the music, the dance.

puts on sound 📣🎶🎵

Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.

1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.

2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.

3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT.  To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.

4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!

5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.

All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.

I died but I came back exactly the same. You though, I came back and you were wrong. Did the fact of my dying really damage you that much? Was bringing me back worth what it cost you? Would it have been better to just leave me?

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One of my fav things abt The Oh Hellos are their song transitions/connections!! Here are the most notable ones + my favorites:

Like The Dawn -> Eat You Alive -> Second Child, Restless Child

Bitter Water -> There Beneath

Pale White Horse -> Where Is Your Rider -> Soldier, Poet, King

Planetarium Stickers -> Constellations

Notos -> Mandatory Evac / Counting Cars -> New River

Dry Branches -> Grow

Eurus -> Faunvocation -> Hieroglyphs

Zephyrus -> Murmurations -> Soap

I just absolutely love how every time there’s an instrumental between songs it serves a narrative purpose, or that some songs come in a trio/are all parts of a mini story within their respective albums. It’s just SO COOL I love it!

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this is how the movie went right

Kronk: By whom, though? I might be your classic "hunk" body type, but I'm not exactly a top. I have a couple exes I could call that might be his type. Do you want someone who would take him out for dinner first, or just...

Yzma: ... I WANT you to KILL him!

I READ THAT IN THEIR VOICES HOW TF DID YOU GET IT SO PERFECT

hey coffee intern, I've got a coffee question! been thinking about buying an awesome coffee club subscription for my mom, but she's told me before that she doesn't like coffee that's "too strong". I'm not a coffee drinker myself, but she pretty much exclusively drinks dunkin. in your opinion, is awesome coffee club coffee Strong Coffee?

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Coffee is generally made "strong" not by the kind of coffee but by the amount of ground coffee used to make a cup or pot of coffee.

That said, I suspect your mom means that she does not like her coffee too burnt--that is to say, she is not looking to experience ONLY the "coffee" taste in coffee, but is also looking for other flavors.

Both our roasts have complex flavor profiles because our beans aren't burnt, so if she's looking for more of a coffee and chocolate-flavored coffee, I recommend Octavia, and if she's looking for a lighter flavor profile with many tasting notes, I recommend Calypso.

Thanks for working to improve your mom's coffee life. What you're considering is a lasting and beautiful gift.

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You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.

i think kids online should really get back to making internetsonas instead of whatever fuckshit this is with putting their entire real faces, names, ages, and such everywhere. you're not gonna realize how nice internet privacy is until you dont have it anymore and no chance at getting it back. make up a guy and a name and just be that online. make up conflicting details about your completely made up backstory. make a fursona or something

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This will be amazing, though!

Just think about it:

We are in the era after it caused SO MUCH, and caused so many sites to put in blocks and other restrictions to stop it from scraping everything

If they are forced to wipe their entire dataset then they won't be able to get even a fraction of it back!

Not only that, but they would be forced to get permission of the owners for everything they use. Which would IMO, actually kill most of the issues with AI and actually make the technology into something actually useful.

hey i wanna use lich as support, do you have any advice. im new to lancer, and just learning

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well youre in luck, support is what the lich will be made for. we think. were pretty sure

honestly we think its systems are pretty straightforward, your #1 concern as a lich pilot is getting focused by enemies- a lich can handle a hit or two cos occasionally it can just decide that nothing bad ever happens to it and be correct (regardless of what causality would normally dictate) but the price it pays for that is glass bones and paper skin so like. try to stay out of the line of fire

liches have a pretty broad array of supportive capabilities, theyre not overly focused on either fucking up enemies or helping out allies but honestly the time and place where any system is most useful is something you have to feel out for yourself based on your team. a less mobile mech for example might appreciate the lichs ability to speed up time for it for a couple seconds that way it can get itself into a good position faster, or a more violently inclined glass bones and paper skin mech (cough. SSC striker models.) might appreciate the lichs ability to pause time for them long enough to rescue them from some bullshit situation theyve gotten themselves into

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This is why I dislike looking back on the past as if everything has been constantly improving to get us to where we are now

Our cement isn't as strong as the Romans, our steel isn't as strong as Damascus steel, we cannot replicate the beauty of a Stradivari violin, we've already lost some of the technology that flew Apollo and Gemini to space

And when I live out a suitcase I have to sift through a pile of stuff like a neanderthal

I don't think that this is a very good way to view the past, things have changed, but a lot of them have changed for a reason and we often tend to view the past through rose tinted glasses. That's not to say everything that's being used now is an improvement, but that's usually not a function of not knowing how, but rather a function of companies doing whatever they can to cut costs and do things cheaply.

To go down the list, many types of concrete we have now is stronger than roman concrete, which we do know how to make thanks to recent advancements in materials fields and research. However, roman concrete has some self-healing properties that coupled with a mostly ideal climate have made it very long lasting. Roman concrete is more durable, but it isn't stronger. It also doesn't work well in every climate, and there's reasons to use it or not to use it.

Damascus steel was great for it's time and all that, but several types of modern steel well outperform it in any category. Plenty of people have also made modern recreations of Demascus steel, so we can still do that if we feel a need to.

Stradivari violins aren't actually better instruments than other well-made violins. That's a long held myth that's been disproved time and time again by blind experiments from all the way back in the 1800s. In fact, a number of studies have shown that audiences tend to prefer modern violins for having better sound carrying quality. Expert players can't actually tell apart when playing either. The idea that Stradivari violins have some magic to them is mostly marketing.

We also haven't really lost technology from the Apollo or Gemini missions. While hardware has been discarded, it's because it wasn't useful anymore and for stuff that was useful, most of it was preserved. Almost none of the previous technology would fit in to modern plans and materials, so most of it wouldn't be of much use anyways. Technology has advanced, and methods of travel have to advance too. Even space travel.

Finally, that motherfucker above would be literally worse than a backpack to have to live out of. It's a steamer trunk, which means it's meant to be stored for a long period as you took a steamboat somewhere. They're very heavy, and good luck trying to get anywhere with that.

If you actually want a suitcase that turns into a dresser, those already exist in the modern day and they're much easier to use and they don't weigh 30 lb.

Again, this isn't to say that everything is rosy in the modern world. But that has very little to do with inability, and a lot more to do with a the profit motives of companies not aligning with the idea of giving people the best possible thing that they are capable of creating. We have the ability to be doing better. It is not beyond us.