This song is just
six
words
long
This song is just
six
words
long

I love that it's seven.

shame

love the large scroll wheel. is it free wheeling?

they expect you to work in a hazardous environment but don't provide protective equipment? seems like a dangerous place to work.

so you want like an adapter that can deliver audio separate from hdmi? like it has a hdmi port and a 3.5mm jack? i think i've seen stuff like that but i doubt you'd get a good dac in one of them.

bear in mind i was 10 during 9/11 so a lot of it was just upending things i had taken for granted. but like, how the US was pretty much allied with the taliban throughout the 80s, giving them training and weapons to fight against the soviet-friendly progressive, secular government of afghanistan.

doesn't hdmi send digital audio?

i got the soviet-afghan war and wow did that recontextualize a lot of things about the modern world

like movies?

i wouldn't say "i don't do albums" is a negative response. i even asked about it to see if it's just me. then you start talking about formats and fidelity rather than music, which other people engaged me about.

i "get" why people like vinyl. it's a ritual thing. i can't do rituals due to how my brain works. i also "get" why artists make albums. it's a way for music to tell a story, for narratives to interleave, to experiment with emotional changes. i "get" all that. i understand it. i know it. i would love to listen that way. it just doesn't work on me. i don't know why. i've tried, god knows i've tried.

jumping to the conclusion that i do not understand, and then reiterating that i do not instead of trying to explain it, and using unattributed quotes, is being cryptic. it is not clear.

and regarding cobain; artists know that the way people interact with their work is not up to them. throwing tantrums, accusing people of being "fake" for being... people, that's a teenager's way of looking at the world. it's not enough to create something people love, they must love all of you, or it's "fake". this happens all the time. look att blink-182, toto, chumbawumba. fucking rick astley. the difference is what they make of it. and to be clear, i'm not being down on curt. the man was obviously going through it. i'm just saying that you're not making the point you think you are with that.

that would be interesting! the few "albums" i have gone through recently have all been by mashup artists, so the genres have been all over the place but the "touch" of the artist has been there throughout.

i realize you get off on being cryptic, but i can't accept this gatekeepy bullshit. I'm too old and neurodivergent to care about whatever profound wisdom you want me to discover. be straight with me, or shut up.

what a weird thing to say. please explain.

going from "i don't listen to albums" to "maybe you don't like music" is incredibly strange. i listen to tons of music which i love. i just don't do albums. I buy loads of songs on bandcamp and have multiple constantly growing playlists hundreds of tracks long.

You will never hear a recorded song more clearly than vinyl

that's just demonstrably not true. maybe on a perfectly calibrated player in a completely dust-free lab environment with no air movement on a never-played vinyl that was just pressed and has never been moved. as soon as one of those conditions fail to hold the sound is distorted. from an acoustic perspective, live music also tends to have really weird sound and it's usually muddied by the environment.

i mean i get it, but at the same time people need bandaids.

we had a lot of vinyl when i was a child. i listened to that one ELO track a lot. i have no real nostalgia for the sound.

so the local-only recommendations based on anonymized data about things that ublock stops, and the opt-out malware scan?

thank you for replying with something substantial. thankfully this is all stuff that's inconsequential and/or easily disabled.

but if you had to pick? since you've so obviously studied it.

answer my question.

i have. which part do you find objectionable?