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neverbeaten

@neverbeaten@mas.to

Progressive democratic socialist. Bass player in original bands ranging from folk to trip-hop. Live sound engineer. Dabbling in recording, mixing, and mastering. I love nerding out about all sorts of technical and scientific things. Advocate and ally.

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neverbeaten, to random
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Random thought of the day:

Orchestras are just giant cover bands.

Discuss...

Gustodon, (edited ) to Starwars
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In Order of Quality:

  1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  2. Episode IV: A New Hope
  3. Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  4. Episode III: Revenge of The Sith
  5. Episode VI: Return of The Jedi
  6. Solo: A Star Wars Story
  7. Episode VII: The Force Awakens
  8. Episode II: Attack of The Clones
  9. Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
    10: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

neverbeaten,
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@philoserf @Gustodon
Han was the only one who shot.

ambergrey, to random
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Ok buddies, if I would like to lengthen the sustain on clean, and thicken/widen the notes on the higher strings, what effects chain in Logic would you all recommend? I don’t have enough space to get any pedals yet except for the mirrorhouse and the KinKin gummy bear chorus pedal. So for now I’m using the DAW. Thanks!! I can track the higher end parts separately so that I don’t over amplify the lower end parts, if that will help get what I’m going for on the high end. :blobcatcoffee:

neverbeaten,
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@ambergrey @endlessblue
The Universal Audio MAX pedal does both types of compression in one unit.

Another way to increase sustain that I don't see mentioned yet is to increase string tension. You can put heavier strings on (which would also require new intonation and trek recalibration, maybe even widening some nut slots). But if sustain is something you want all the time, it is worth it.

DemocracySpot, to music
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🎧 Mood.

"Funk Not Fight"
ft and (2023)

▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N6DMP9pIoc&list=RD9N6DMP9pIoc&start_radio=1&ab_channel=BootsyCollinsVEVO

neverbeaten,
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@DemocracySpot
Uh, is that AI'ed to hell image bothering anyone else? All those gnarled fingers and fretboard from my worst nightmares.

neverbeaten,
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@DemocracySpot "Ryan Newman" is a fraud if he's trying to pass off AI hallucinations as his own work.

neverbeaten, to random
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The eponymous pit!

futurebird, to random
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Politicians and political commentators whine about young people not buying homes and starting families (not getting married) and then do NOTHING to help the young people (who do exist) who would love to do one or more of these things but can't because it's too damn expensive.

Build housing and coops where young people want to live. Protect their jobs with unions. Make health care not an issue.

Do not make some marriages impossible because you don't like the genders.

Not rocket science.

neverbeaten,
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@futurebird
A big thing I've not seen anyone talk about is how back in the day, a person could work at one company for their entire career. That stability enabled people to consider "putting down roots" and buying a house they'd live in for fifty years.
Jobs would give people real raises every year (not just cost of living increases) to retain experienced employees.

These days you have to jump from job to job (and move) to get any kind of raise. Buying makes less sense.

neverbeaten, to random
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You'd think the time would be about right for college students and professors to form co-ops and start new universities without all the baggage and problems of the establishment.

Who knows, they might even figure out how to make college affordable again.

neverbeaten,
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@oceaniceternity
Partner with public libraries.
It would also be a good opportunity for professors to collaboration on new, open source textbooks, funded by the libraries.

Rather than expensive new editions each year (also unsustainable), they could publish supplemental addendums as needed.

Colleges have turned into giant scams fleeing both students and faculty. The higher ed system needs a hard reset. The past week triple underscores that fact.

compost, to random
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If you think having the body of a man makes you a man, then you have absolutely no clue what it feels like to wake up every day in a body that does not match who you are.

I was raised as a man I was asked to conform and tried to conform. The only thing it has achieved is depression and that feeling of having to perform a daily lie to satisfy others.

I am way too old to worry about what others may think of me, and way too old to apologize to anyone for being myself. It took me more than 30 long years to unpack all of this, so if all you have to say is you have the body of a man that is who you are...

Please do me a favor and keep your mouth shut because you have no idea what you are talking about. And does any of this make me less relevant to talk about the subject of this account?

This is who I am and part of my journey to master the art of composting. If I had to make an analogy it would be a little bit like saying hey the pile stinks bad, well never mind put it on the soil anyway.

It is never good to assume things on a topic you have not experienced before.

neverbeaten,
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@compost
I respect you and recognize you are who you know yourself to be. My parents always taught me that with people "it's what's inside that counts". I don't think they were intending to apply it in this specific way, but logically it is an extension of that core idea.

You are who you know yourself to be. That's the real you.

With love and respect. Thanks for what you contribute and share with us.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Emptywheel:

This is why lawyer people speak in terms of statutes.

In Columbia, you have trespassing and vandalism.

In DC, you had trespassing legally exacerbated by Mike Pence's presence, vandalism, the corrupt interruption of the vote count, assault (including w/deadly weapons), sedition

Bradley Moss:

You can’t denounce the J6 rioters and then say the Columbia students who occupied a building by force and destroyed property should be immune from consequences.

This is the real world.

neverbeaten,
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@GottaLaff
One group is trying to do what they can to stop a genocide.

The other group was acting with violence to overthrow the government so they could perpetrate whatever they wanted (maybe even including a genocide).

mattferrell, to random
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What’s a cascading heat pump? And are our homes ready for them?

Check out our video on it, here: https://youtu.be/wSgv5NwtByk

Or check out the page on our website, here: https://undecidedmf.com/how-this-new-heat-pump-is-genius/

#Flooid #HeatPump #Undecidedmf

neverbeaten,
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@mattferrell
I want a central heat management system based on a cascading heat pump.

Liquid circuitry would run through a house to key locations. The waste heat from a refrigerator and freezer could feed the hot water heater or floor heating. A gaming computer or console would feed waste heat in. Anything with a compressor, cooling fan, heating element, or flame could get more efficient.

TechConnectify, to random
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Proposal to refer to solar arrays as amp farms.

neverbeaten,
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@TechConnectify Photonic Transducers

jake4480, to random
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Do you live in Chechnya? Do you make music that's slower than 80 BPM or faster than 116 BPM? Keep that shit on the d/l because music of those speeds are illegal now for some weird-ass reason

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/08/europe/chechnya-music-ban-scli-intl

neverbeaten,
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@jake4480
LOL. Just tell the authorities your fast music is within the legal range... These are 64th notes.

trumpet, to random
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HI THERE EVERYONE!

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We've recently moved to a new image hosting service which should give us much better performance when loading images, but we had some unexpected (and significant) costs when migrating our terabytes of existing images over to them. Donations are more important than ever!

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neverbeaten,
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@trumpet 10£ coming your way.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Without Black people, THERE WOULD BE NO UNITED STATES. We know our contribution and worth.

neverbeaten,
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@StillIRise1963
No United States
None of the genres of music developed since 1850
No winning the race to the moon
So many other countless contributions, some life saving, others just pure joy (like the Super Soaker).

davidaugust, to movies
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🗡️🏆

neverbeaten,
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@davidaugust Ni!

Mastopoet, to random
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From Google maps:
Congrats! Your photos just reached a new milestone. Collectively they have now been viewed over 250,000 times, helping lots of people get the information they need.

what is really great is how they dont pay me anything for it....

neverbeaten,
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@Mastopoet
My photos on Google maps have over 7 million views and I'm so over it.

I'm ing.
Moved to @organicmaps

LeftistLawyer, to disability

Houston, we have a …
Is there a doctor in the house?

neverbeaten,
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@epicdemiologist @LeftistLawyer

People I'm talking to recently will refer to "back during COVID" or "back during the pandemic" as if it isn't still going on and just as bad. When did the "It's over" mentality become the standard way to think about it? And how?

Graphs like this (and wastewater measurements) show we're still dealing with serious waves of infection, even if people aren't testing.

compost, (edited ) to mastodon
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And this is why we are happy to post our content exclusively on

We try to inspire people to act for the .

Not to have big numbers but because we care and think that by composting, people can in a significant way reduce their waste and build good topsoil with black gold.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/new-push-congress-ban-tiktok-or-force-chinese-divestiture-gains-steam-2024-03-07/

neverbeaten,
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@compost I like to think of it as the foundation upon which all life is built.

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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Tron (3): Ares - First look

Production began in January in Vancouver.

"Tron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with A.I. beings."

neverbeaten,
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@TheSpaceshipper
Easter egg is the Space Paranoids ship on the lumbar?

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    neverbeaten,
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    @petep44 @strandedia @LeftistLawyer
    Always has been.

    enobacon, (edited ) to ebikes
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    In the last five years, caused only 3.8% as many injuries as bathrooms. Wear your bathroom , and shame your friends and family until they stop taking baths

    without a helmet.

    neverbeaten,
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    @enobacon
    I'm so sick of the ebike battery fire stories, too. Please compare those stats to gasoline and diesel powered vehicle fires, injuries from BBQs, grills, and campfires.

    pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to climate
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    Today a colleague texted: brace yourselves! Redundancies email at 12pm! In fact it still hasn’t come (though it will). But i was irrationally angry with my colleague for rather ruining my day, making it harder to give lecture etc. I just really don’t want to know until it happens. Totally head in the sand about this. Made me relate much more to people not wanting to hear about - they too just want a bit more blissful denial, because the news are too bad. 1/2

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    @pvonhellermannn
    In both instances I'm increasingly convinced that the bigger the organization is, the less likely it is to make any positive impact in regular people's lives.

    The solution to redundancies, downsizing, and layoffs is greatly increased self-employment, completely independent of corporations.

    The solution to climate crisis is community based action.

    We need our friends and communities now more than ever (and in the coming years).

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    @pvonhellermannn
    I worked at a college for 10 years. In those years I saw such outrageous erosion of what higher ed was meant to be. It seems to be purely growth-oriented and profit-seeking like businesses now. I had to change careers for moral reasons. It turned into a scam.

    It all needs a hard reset to refocus on academics and on creating the next generations of people that can learn and think critically.

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