SomethingMusic
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SomethingMusic
1yr ago
The gender coding of instruments sort of holds but generally falls off when you get to the professional level. Any social stigma of 'oh your a man that plays the flute' falls off significantly by the time you're making a living playing an instrument, so skill level matters a lot more than social acceptance. Also, by the time you're a professional you survived every cliche and bully about playing a male or female coded instrument that no one cares about the current social coding of any instrument.
There was a study done about 'gender inequality' of professional orchestras, and while strings have gender equality, brass and winds are still VERY heavily male dominated except for flute which is female dominated. Clarinet is, oddly, the most male dominated instrument in professional orchestras.
I chalked it up to the fact that when it comes to a wind/brass instrument, you’re using your actual lungs and voice to produce the sound.
No brass or wind instrument uses their voice unless they're doing some fun extended techniques. Generally, the vocal cords are not used at all. I think it's more that winds and brass use the most musculature of any instrument. To maintain the level of air pressure necessary to activate and sustain notes requires a lot of core strength and embouchure also requires a lot of musculature. I think this amount of physicality when playing a woodwind instrument tends to favor males over females.
Since we're talking about classical music - here's a video of me with my woodwind trio playing a movement of Francaix.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
Firefly. One of the best character-driven sci-fi series. Ended too soon but enough to make an excellent show.
I liked Dollhouse as well even if the first season started poorly.
Community. Last season or two jumped the shark.
Cowboy Bebop. Still the best anime series ever made.
I recently finished the Amazon show Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. A tad too 'Mary sue' the last season is a bit weak, but other than it's pretty fun show. Gives some 'Mad Men' aesthetic.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
Final Fantasy 9.
A mix of comic theatrics and serious exposition, I think it's the best FF out there next to Tactics. Uematsu is at the apex of his compositional powers, and beyond some minor theft (from himself) made excellent music and score with strong melodies. Also the best characters and character development of any final fantasy.
Valkyrie Profile - anime norse influence before it got really popular. Unique gameplay.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
Your replying that us civilians have no chance vs the US army. He's questioning the legality of the US army being allowed to kill its own people.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
And unlike professional basketball, your chances of finding a woman with a generally healthy dispositions who likes you is much higher.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
One since 2017, the other was before COVID so around 2018/19 I think.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
If Stephan Hawking can get married twice, you will be able to find some companionship at some point in your life. Learning self-worth is some part of it, the other part is developing a personality which people can find appealing is also incredibly benifitial.
Since it seems a lot of your hang ups are on height; I know of two people in successful marriages who are approximately around your height. Height is only an issue because you allow it to be one.
I have a feeling you've posted a lot in various threads about your dating over the years. I forget, are you still in school?
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
One of the primary problems of the modern internet is that it creates such false expectations in relationships and dating. 4chan inceldom proclaiming all women need 7 foot 10 gigachads making minimum twelve figures with their own private island is not indicative of women in general but rather of high-visibility women - THOTs on instagram or onlyfans are the focus of a lot of these communities, and these young women are selling themselves for attention and money. Men focus entirely on the transactional nature of relationships which comes at significant cost.
Of course, it's easier to say this when you're not suffering from the anxiety of finding someone. A lot of finding a relationship of it is backing off of that obsession of 'finding' someone and focusing more on building out your friend group.
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Focus less on tearing yourself down and your own self-image and either a) care less about your self-image or b) work on building your self-image up. This doesn't necessarily mean 'more plates more dates' but instead developing hobbies and learning how to reach out to people without the initial expectation of a relationship. This can be at work, finding a friend group, hobby, etc. I found the people who tend to have no problems finding dates are lower neuroticism and more about reaching out to people and being able to talk to them than it is looks and income.
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Many young women have the same neuroticism and insecurities as you. At work I befriended a lot of people simply because I was looking to find people who are similarly social as I am, as I moved to a new state wand wanted to find people to hang out with. That alone gives you a lot of attention because you're inviting people to participate in anything with you, bar hopping, eating out, whatever activity is in the area. Being able to reach out as friends or to make introductions will put you at a significant advantage over a lot of these young males who are too neurotic to do so. A big portion of this is not worrying if it ends up with sex initially. It's as easy as saying "Hi, I'm xyz, mind if I join you?". I wouldn't do this at Walmart but at a lunch table or at a bar or a party it works great.
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Focus on building your friend group over finding a date. If you don't have many irl friends try to find friends first. Show you can laugh at yourself and take a joke and be willing to try new things and most people are pretty inviting. If you find a good friend group girls will naturally be attracted to a group of people having fun, plus you can ask them to join in as well.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
Reddit is beginning to truly shoot itself in the foot. A new policy of charging for API calls of $12,000 for 50 million calls is going to kill 3rd-party developers who have developed lightweight apps that are superior to Reddits own awful app. Reddit is Fun is the app I've used for practically a decade, and Reddit itself has become one of the most important depositories for human knowledge online - how many of us have resorted to "product + reddit" or "problem + reddit" as a method of locating and finding specified information?
All of this seems to be to push reddit towards an IPO and to increase revenues (Especially for a company which has never made money), but I have a feeling their push for revenues will come at the cost of community it has been able to foster. Why reddit even wants to be a profitable company is beyond me - why not just become a nonprofit?
Anyways, I think this will cause a ton of people to leave reddit, or at least cause a lot of grumbling and virtue signaling about going to leave reddit. I haven't used Facebook significantly since the 2016 election, maybe people will flock back there.
I know when the 3rd party apps die (I wonder if that includes RES) I'll probably no longer go on reddit myself.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I got top 5.44% so we can be midwits together!
There were a couple words that I wasn't familiar with, and I think heavy reddit usage and lack of reading has probably diminished my vocabulary somewhat, but all in all I can't complain.
As previously mentioned in this thread, I don't think this result is particularly accurate, but it's a fun little test!
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
As an American, if you wanted to blow the horn I'll be right there with you.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
My only observation is that it is too heavily populated by prisoners, but I didn't know of this till now.
It seems that almost all rehabilitation attempts fail extravagantly. How do you deal with a population which doesn't respond healthily either incentives or punishment?
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
The weird jazz-electronic group Knower is teasing a new Album. Louis Cole is an insane drummer with a unique sound and style which I particularly love.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=O2F0oTqfL3E
I'm also on an opera binge for music reasons. Cosi Fan Tutte is one of my perennial favorites but getting myself interred into italian operas is always helpful.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
A major rule I have to the 'bad upbringing' of criminal actors is the more immediate a person experiences antisocial behavior, the less the opponents story matters. It's easy to read about horrible crimes and violence committed against a perceived person and go 'the decision to incapacitate someone in xyz manner was wrong and should be punished' and give the underdog a sympathetic story. However, it's funny when these people are immediately put on the spot their politics change abruptly. However, when an aggressive drug addict or homeless individual gets in your face the most important thing is to get away safely, not think "oh, the person had a poor upbringing, it isn't their fault," Now that police enforcement (which was successfully keeping away aggressive behaviors) is kneecapped, suddenly people are changing their tune because they're directly experiencing the negative behaviors police were experiencing and successfully repressing every day. It's easy to be sympathetic to someone or something that happens to you far away. It's much harder when it's on your doorstep.
To quote the old saying, "hard men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create hard men'
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I think farm labor would be perfect. Take the unruley city kid and have them manually transplant Vidalia onions for 3 months. If they try to start something I doubt the visa-farm laborers would take a second to beat them to the ground. could even pay them $15/hr subsidized by the government to be paid upon completion of sentence. Any tantrum or loss of crops from the individual can be taken out of their pay.
The problem is that bored young antisocial men have no outlets for constructive behavior in the ghetto. Get them working and put them in a situation where they're isolated from what allows them to misbehave.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
It's not really a laziness thing for me, it's more of a time thing. I have a lot I'm doing right now so it's hard to find the time to really organize thoughts into anything substantial.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I have a few effort post ideas but I really don't have time to sit down and write them right now.
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How the arts are reacting and could potentially react to AI advancements, how performative arts will change verses recorded arts.
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How the internet causes radicalization because there is too much information, causing tribalism as an easy and ineffective method to filter information.
2a) Why cultural elitism has shifted from having excess goods to limiting 'rare' goods - gluten free, extreme diets, superfoods, organics, etc.
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While patriarchal hierarchies and organization have noted and codified negatives, matriarchal organizations have less outwardly and clear-cut outgroups but are even more stifling and cause potentially worse negative externalities.
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How modern gender roles, trans-humanism, and lgbt rhetoric does the exact opposite of what it intends to do - it doesn't break down gender roles but enforces and codifies them.
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The 'normie' vs 'conspiracy' - the statistically average viewpoint of any given event frequently fails to hold up upon closer examination vs the people who closely follow an event/thing (for example, low information atheist vs high information atheist vs Cafeteria Catholic vs studied Catholic.
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Financial debt - how the government leverages people in significant financial debt to consolidate power.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
It can get a bit cultish, but I think it's easy to misinterpret camaraderie with 'cultish behavior'. I think if you like your coworkers and want to have a healthier lifestyle it won't hurt. However, if you hate your coworkers you might want to look elsewhere.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
The reason why Elon went with $8/mo is that is the amount twitter makes of a user in ads. By switching making revenue to the user instead of to advertisers, he's hoping Twitter will become less beholding to advertisers controlling what can and cannot be said on twitter and making it a more open platform.
Whether this will work is something to be seen as Elon went from Reddit's messianic hero good boy to super-evil megavillan in the blink of an eye, but I understand where he's going with this.
I remember someone writing a post/substack about how valuable the blue-checkmark is and that it should be 10k+ to maintain one for products, corporations, and/or power users. Maybe they'll create a higher tier for super users as well? Who knows.
I haven't used twitter in years so I'm just speculating. I just don't find that it's worth it to use.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I was looking more at how the Mao ended the Opium crisis than I was looking at USSR's drug issues and responses. Russia's bureaucrats have always been notoriously corrupt which might have prevented them from effectively fighting drug addiction, but China's ability to turn around drug crime through reeducation and violently eliminating any drug dealer regardless of status were incredibly effective of ending the opium crisis.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I'm fine with no longer importing Avocados, but I'll be completely honest I haven't looked too heavily into how drugs are smuggled into the country and assumed they were frequently imported with illegal immigrants or through holes in the border that illegals frequently use to migrate to the US.
Maybe with the rise in AI the AI can predict which shipments will most frequently contain drugs and we can more effectively screen legal shipments into the US.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
This isn't about reducing migration; this is about reducing the amount of illicit addictive drugs being imported into the country and what hard line/totalitarian methods that could be used to stop it. Do you think that women and children aren't used as drug mules by cartels?
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I'm glad someone else has looked into the Maoist answer to the drug problem. The problem in America at this point is not only do we believe in Democracy, but the Democratic voters paralyze and any decision-making process allowing us to actually begin to answer the problem. Only the wokest policies are able to pass as we blindly virtue-signal the country to oblivion.
The drug problem will not be delt with until we close our southern border -Trump was right, deploy the army, shoot at any illegal trying to enter the country. This won't work as I'm sure firing into Mexico would cause some international treaties to be broken, but the paralysis at every level in US Cities is becoming untenable.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
This is purely hypothetical; the research done in this mind experiment was 0 so I assumed increasing familial and financial stability of the most poverty-stricken (also the largest population pool) individuals would be the best method of increasing population growth.
I think there needs to be a delineation between 'pop country' and 'country'. Historical country in terms of bluegrass, early American songs, etc is very different from the overprocessed rehashed highly codified least common denominator 'music' that it is today.
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