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AernaLingus [any]

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  • These past few months have been a little rough for me...lots of small stressors all stacked up on each other and I ended up going off course and backsliding a lot, and I've just generally been feeling depressed and enervated as a result. But, these past few days, I've been feeling like I'm making meaningful, durable progress to get back on track, and my mood has been notably improved! Thank you, Hexbear, for giving me a cozy place to shelter while I waited for the storm to pass

  • Donald Trump invited Zohran Mamdani to visit the White House on November 21

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  • Okay, this one actually makes sense, and I feel kind of silly for not seeing it. I must go into the mountains and hone my racism ESP to improve my comprehension of Trump tweets

  • Donald Trump invited Zohran Mamdani to visit the White House on November 21

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  • I mean, I know he is, but...you don't use quotation marks for that! Put in in capital letters or something, dear god! I mean, the fact that you're including it is already emphasis enough, since it's not usually included when people talk about him. We get what you're doing!!

    I don't know why I'm so fixated on this but it really irks me. I mean, Trump's appeared in WWE events and his main shtick is insult comedy! Surely he should know that the quotation marks are for nicknames, like Jesse "The Body" Ventura or Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. I guess it's just the boomer thing where they use quotes for emphasis. But like...AAAAAA

  • Donald Trump invited Zohran Mamdani to visit the White House on November 21

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  • Zohran "Kwame" Mamdani

    lmao what's with the quotation marks, that's literally his middle name!

  • Oh I guess that one way to avoid the bubble popping

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  • The Planatir CEO is wearing a very silly shirt

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  • Average dem be like

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  • So, you know, I think that since October 7th, but really before then, there have been huge shifts in America on how people think about Jews and Israel. And I think that is especially true of young people. So, we are now wrestling with a new, I think, generational divide here. And I think that's particularly true in that social media is now our source of media. And this, you know, it used to be that the the media you got in America was American media and it was pretty mainstream. You know, it generally didn't express extreme anti-Israel views. You had to go to a pretty weird bookstore to find global media and fringe media.

    But today we have social media which is a global medium, right? It is shaped, its algorithms are shaped by billions of people worldwide who don't really love Jews. And so while in the 1990s, you know, a young person probably wasn't going to find Al Jazeera or someone like Nick Fuentes, today those media outlets find them. They find them on their phones. It's also this increasingly post-literate media. Less and less text, more and more videos. So you have TikTok just smashing our young people's brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza. And this is why so many of us can't have a sane conversation with younger Jews because anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments and they are just seeing in their minds carnage and I sound obscene.

    And you know, I think unfortunately the very smart I think bet that we made on Holocaust education to serve as anti-semitism education in this new media environment, I think that is beginning to break down a little bit because, you know, Holocaust education is absolutely essential. But I think it may be confusing some of our young people about anti-semitism because they learn about big strong Nazis hurting weak emaciated Jews and they think, "Oh, anti-semitism is like anti-black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people." So when on TikTok all day long they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it's not surprising that they think, "Oh, I know the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

    And here's a link to the full video on YouTube

  • ‘China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers’: Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years

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  • The whole company would be worth $1.6 billion...that's less than the DoD loses in the fucking couch cushions in any given year! Incredibly funny.

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  • Downloading a podcast while connected to a VPN server in a far-flung country and seeing the duration drop by 20% because of all the ads getting cut out

  • Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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  • No, it killed one particular method that wasn't even recommended:

    https://xcancel.com/massgravel/status/1989343678020857952

    A lot of misinformation is spreading due to clickbait articles. For clarity:

    • KMS and KMS38 are different.
    • Microsoft had planned to remove the KMS license "migration" for a long time, not just to fight piracy.
    • MAS has several methods, and KMS38 was never recommended.
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  • Winds be at your back!

  • Cloudflare Global Network down

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  • Critical support to Cloudflare for stopping me from doomscrolling o7

  • what if Charlie Kirk had read theory once.

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  • looks like LeFou (Gaston's sidekick from Beauty and the Beast)

  • Monday night visual cuisine Cardcaptor Sakura e21-24 6 pm est; Thutmose e1-4 & Medabots e1-4 8 pm est

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  • I don't actually know the answer to your question, but my first instinct would be that the whole tone scale lacks a sense of tension and release. Since the interval between notes is always the same, there's no inherent sense of a tonic note which other notes gravitate towards, so all the notes just kind of float around in space—great for making certain kinds of ethereal, atmospheric, or unnerving music, for instance, or for temporarily adding a different color to a piece, but not ideal for creating more typical music. Also, if you try to build a triad on the whole tone scale you end up with an augmented chord, which is pretty jarring on account of the dissonant tritone interval between the first and third notes. As for why the tritone sounds dissonant, I believe it has to do with having a complex ratio (by ratio I mean the ratio of the frequency of the higher note to the lower note).

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  • Mega mega THREAD THREAD

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  • I binged that show while in a weeks-long deep depressive episode and

  • fellas is it bourgeois to wipe ur ass?

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  • the real reason Marx never finished Capital is because he ran out of toilet paper and Engels had to use the drafts

  • Now I cant get that image out of my head.

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  • Bondage and message discipline