mPony

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Meta is a complete dumpster fire

Nothing profound here, just need to vent: I haven’t used Facebook for several years now, but I just got my 10 year old son a Meta Quest 2 and had to activate it by linking to my Facebook account. Just two days later I got a warning that the account will be locked because they detected that a child was using the Quest with an...

mPony,

Yes, but also yes.

Giving Meta our information is bad enough.
Allowing them to take our information even when we did not give it freely is even worse.
Advertising via Meta is even worse than that, but small businesses have very little choice between Meta and Google for that. Buying something sold by Meta is best avoided entirely.

mPony,

team “OLD WEIRDO” reporting for duty, :)

As of the past few years, I produce pop songs performed in a pastiche of Leonard Cohen’s mid-late 80’s style (when he really started to sound super cool). My buddies and I call ourselves The Three Leonards. Our covers of Toxic and Rusted From The Rain have proven very popular. They’re not jazz but they’re also not not jazz. The cool kids seem to like them. We’ve made over 20 bucks in streaming which is as close to success as you can want. Have a listen and see what madness sounds like.

As far as home studio kit goes, I run Reaper: it’s just great.
Also a shout-out to ReEQ for Reaper which is free and as close to FabFilter as I need.

I have a Nektar 61-key MIDI keyboard. Just the right size. One slider on it has gone wonky but I don’t use the sliders that much. I like the touchpads; they’re fun.

I record vocals and acoustic instruments using a Scarlett interface and a really sweet mic from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_condenser_microphone_(Unsplash).jpg evidently from before they got bought out. I got it as a gift and it does the trick.

I have a reasonably decent multi-effects pedal from Boss that I mostly use for gigging but occasionally for studio tracking.

I did buy Diva and Kontakt and SSD and Analog Lab : they’re all super handy, and are the ones I lean on the most. There are plenty of free VSTs out there to use: only when freeware/demo versions are insufficient should you consider spending money.

but yeah: OLD: check. WEIRDO: double-check.

mPony,

hey thanks :) That’s so great to hear.
I enjoy talking about it because it’s such a fun project.

I really want to get the word out even more, but i gotta say: social media promotional type stuff can be pretty draining. and I want to focus on the positive things, y’know?

mPony,

RIP Timmy
We barely knew ye

mPony,

it’s like a no-fly list, but for food

mPony,

I think you meant “Blowin’ In The Wind”, but still, points.

mPony,

yeah if you wanted to actually fight something on that kind of scale, as opposed to breaking it, you had to wait about 10 years for Foo to show up

mPony,

This movie is goddamn awesome.

It managed to capture the serenity, the adorableness and the utterly uncompromising brutality of the characters as they were originally portrayed in the book.

People should watch this movie. It teaches so many valuable lessons.

mPony,

and the word is never “cunt”. It’s like people are afraid to say that one.

mPony,

using that logic, if you plant evidence of a crime in someone’s home they are immediately guilty and then you can shoot them

mPony,

it doesn’t even fully contradict all interpretations; it just fully contradicts the loudest most obnoxious proponents of a particular interpretation. but those arseholes can go pound sand, for they are deeply wrong.

mPony,

it’s been 8 hours and there’s no reference to the Monty Python “argument sketch”. That’s refreshing.

mPony,

something about crosshairs?

(beg pardon to the international audience, just trying to speak in terms that Americans will understand)

mPony,

you get one choice that has shown he can be pressured with reason and public opinion and one that wants to commit domestic crimes with impunity, that openly wants to have his political enemies killed, and that has shown he can be pressured by Russia. You know, the country that swore to defeat the US from within.

but yeah, both sides.

mPony,

to be fair, that would involve discussing him in any way, which is best avoided

mPony,

yet

mPony,

oh damn that’s funny

mPony,

this wisdom makes me boogie with a suitcase

mPony,

he is afraid

mPony,

there are uncountable number of photos of Facebook, probably a billion taken every single day by people. Not a single photo of one of these classroom litterboxes, though. Yet they believe it with no evidence. Why? because it speaks directly to their biases. They WANT to believe that they exist, because it makes them feel VERY superior, and makes them feel even more right about everything else they think.

Evil succeeds when it speaks to a person’s biases. We are all prone to it; be vigilant.

mPony,

This is exactly why marijuana will remain illegal in France. The wine industry will not allow such verdant competition.

mPony,

I thought your fleshlight was in the barn

mPony,

I don’t care who they were fucking

mPony,

Plenty of room at the Hotel Tinnitus

mPony,

I loved seeing Jeff Healey in the original Roadhouse. That man could play guitar like fucking crazy.

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