Negativland - U2
Background.
I'm seeing these guys at a festival in Poland in October (as well as Autechre)...can't wait!
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 16:51,
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I'm sorry for what you're about to go through
Thoughts and prayers
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 21:50,
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That's more applicable for tonight, when I'm at a Coldplay gig...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sun 4 Jun 2023, 11:08,
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Would it not be kinder to just put yourself out of your misery now?
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But then I'd miss the 100 years of Disney music concert tomorrow...!
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sun 4 Jun 2023, 15:01,
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Absolutely disgusting.
Look, I get that some people are dealt a poor psychological hand in life. You don't get to decide how your brain is wired, or what you find appealing. But you absolutely can make the decision on whether or not you act on those urges. I can only hope that those close to you do not suffer due to the choices you make.
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It's heartbreaking to watch people you know self destruct
It's worse than bereavement
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 4 Jun 2023, 10:39,
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I wouldn't bother with Autechre, but would happily see Negativland!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a440MI9mYDE
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Varmint, Sun 4 Jun 2023, 13:00,
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I think a lot of folks here are confused
And think you're going to see U2
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Mon 5 Jun 2023, 13:56,
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"Here we are talking about your stupid headphones with their stupid filter..."
Why did Dyson make this, and what is it for?
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 9:41,
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99% of Dyson
The 1% is the original airblade hand drier. Not the new ones that just blast all the water on your shoes and floor.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 17:07,
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All Dyson products are shit
made exclusively for stupid cunts.
Literally every joint in their over-designed vacuum cleaners is a point of failure. You can't lift them without the part you're holding separating from the rest, and when it hits the floor (or the bottom of the stairs) it disintegrates like lego.
Just one whiff of ash in the filters and the motor will never work properly ever again.
Utterly useless technology. Just buy a Henry, or if that's not hardcore enough, get a pair of ear protectors and a Vax.
Their air purifying headphones are viral superspreaders. You should only use them if you are a very low level supervillain.
You'd have to be suicidal to even test drive a fucking Dyson CAR. Jesus fucking Christ.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 14:39,
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I used to work with two engineers from Dysons safety department
They would agree.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 16:39,
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I remember when we got one of their bladeless fans in the lab
We immediately took it apart and found the fan inside it.
Another mate of mine ended up taking quite senior HR post there. They quit after 6 months or so - with no other job to go to - because the culture in the place was so toxic.
Dyson is such fucking bullshit.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 19:31,
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To be fair, the DC01 was half decent
I've got our old one in my garage and it seems to keep going forever. That said, after we "upgraded" to one where the hose wore out every year and was stupid money to replace, I was finally done with Dyson when it picked up a 2p piece which then got stuck halfway up the pipe. Why on earth would someone design an air path that got smaller?
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 20:33,
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I inherited my dads when he carked it. my cousin got in first and got his flat screen
had it about 2 and half years, I reckon he had it for at least 3.. one of the better models. easier than any vacuum cleaner ive used. really good suction for cordless, especially on carpets. quick and easy emptying. hardly gets blocked. to me it does seem a bit top heavy and fragile, so I'm careful where I stand it. but other than that it seems a great vacuum. cant really talk about the value as I didn't pay, but probably overpriced to buggery if you look at all else they flog. but cordless beats having to plug in something and drag it around anyday of the week, and its a pretty powerful cordless. I reckon I vacuum the house twice as fast
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 5 Jun 2023, 23:14,
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I've got a shark
It's fucking ace and about a third of the price
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 21:51,
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That's an animal, you massive twat.
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Mon 5 Jun 2023, 22:41,
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Cyclone tech is sound.
After all, they'd been using it for years before Dyson "invented" it.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 4 Jun 2023, 2:39,
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Bagless tech is fucking wank. Complete fucking wank.
My folks decided to invest in a fancy new vacuum cleaner and ended up opting for a Miele Blizzard. It's the most miserable pile of shittybollocks to masquerade as a hoover that I've ever had the mispleasure of experiencing.
Its suction power barely exceeds half-hearted and the fucking thing overheats every 5 minutes, entering a filter self-cleaning mode that sounds like the cursed plastic bastard is eating itself from the inside out before having another go for a minute or two before shutting down completely lest it burst into flames.
It turns out that the fucking shitty filter needs replaced more frequently than a fucking shitty bag would, because cleaning the fucking shitty thing under the tap makes absolutely zero fucking shitty difference.
I've only used the bastarding thing three or four times and I fucking hate it.
By contrast, my Miele C3 is an absolute dream.
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I was having a similar experience with a Miele
But when I realised the filter was washable it was just a matter of giving it a good wash with washing up liquid, working it well into the filter so the dirt would then rinse out. The same works on Dyson filters.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sun 4 Jun 2023, 18:18,
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Talking about the six foot high ones they have in sawmills and such.
Fuck Dyson. He had one idea and it wasn't even his.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 5 Jun 2023, 5:03,
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Which? reviews have changed
haven't they?
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 5 Jun 2023, 10:17,
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As it happens, that's almost certainly where it was recommended to my Dad.
He's been an avid Which? subscriber since back in the days before they became the bagless vacuums of the consumer advice sector. These days you're probably far more likely to find an honest, unbiased review in What Hi-Fi.
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dyson vacuums are terrible
heavy hard to clean. hard to use. over heat
Henry is the best. simple vertical stack design. reliable. light. easy to use. plus it has a nice face
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Totally agree
I used to repair them. Utterly pointless,. Overpriced plastic shit. The battery fail rate on their cordless stuff is criminal.
Tip- best vaccuum cleaners ever made - SEBO
Absolutely bomb proof.
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Sun 4 Jun 2023, 16:31,
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Its for waiting till any hype passes and their remaindered/sold cheap secondhand
then you follow an online tutorial at how to remove the filters, motors and possibly replace the metal endcaps* to end up with cheap, reasonable quality headphones with a 50hr battery life.
*Not forgetting the tape to cover the Dyson logo
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You'll need some spray paint too
to hide the god awful colours
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claptonista ,the idiot boy.........., Sat 3 Jun 2023, 16:38,
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The newest model sucks out ear wax and pumps it into the mouth
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 4 Jun 2023, 6:28,
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Think i just cracked a rib, proper lols here
Woo
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Sun 4 Jun 2023, 16:32,
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I’m waiting for the upgraded version that picks your nose and feeds you bogeys - nom, nom, nom!
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thats another rib gone!
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Sun 4 Jun 2023, 22:21,
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That lady has a huge pocket
Just wait for the drums to come in, woah
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simbosan is too tired, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 9:22,
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The trials and travails of an Imperial HR officer.
There's something about the Brooklyn accent that makes it perfect for the put-upon functionary, or perhaps it's just that she reminds me of Janine from Ghostbusters.
Part 2
Part 3
Gwendoline, if by some vanishingly small chance you're a b3tan, please do a collaboration with this lady.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 7:04,
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I love her stuff at the conventions
- the cosplayers tend to play along perfectly
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 10:04,
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I did see Ian McDiarmid present her with an employee of the month certificate
But of course she and Sheev were tight.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 3 Jun 2023, 21:19,
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Gears that are fixed together with no frame
but can disconnect from each other, change position, and do other weird stuff.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 20:57,
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Other weather persons are available.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Db6WHtNV5-I
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Unfortunately I have been unable to find a decent quality version
Just rips of ancient VHS tapes
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European Space Agency hosts first Mars live stream
The stream will start at 6 p.m. Central European Time, or noon ET.
On Friday, to celebrate the 20th birthday of ESA’s Mars Express, you’ll have the chance to get as close as it’s currently possible get to a live view from Mars. Tune in to be amongst the first to see new pictures roughly every 50 seconds as they’re beamed down directly from the Visual Monitoring Camera on board ESA’s long-lived and still highly productive martian orbiter.
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Woodkovsky ☹️➝🚻➝🚽➝😣➝💩➝🧻➝😁, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 16:49,
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best song ive heard in a while
dont know why i like it so much
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colmcq2, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 15:34,
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DRASS - Zen and the Art of Procrastination
I made this!
4 track EP out today
streaming in all the usual places
(e.g. spotify: open.spotify.com/album/59xJJzZYy35ZEm9eIFZeD8?si=K_o5Rjr3Sj-m78bV0PaLig )
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the most annoying thing about this video is...
why didn't they tow the boat to shore?
great stuff tho!
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colmcq2, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 9:30,
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Jay Foreman
A new series of seven mapmen videos is coming in a month.
Meanwhile,
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also that song ft in At the end of the earth
the werner herzog film
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colmcq2, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 9:32,
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That's possibly the most hauntingly beautiful thing I've ever heard
I had no idea Bulgarian folk singing was so good - the discords in this piece are great.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVqrW-fPOQ0
*edit* Ah bollocks - I'm into a proper rabbit hole now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqVpIbmq24k
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 19:04,
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Welcome to the rabbit hole
It leads past Kate Bush at times (which is where I first heard it) :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLqjJKEoWMs
Also, Dead Can Dance :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyVsRGyd2r8
and Lisa Gerrard :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc8QRI6lXb8
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 20:45,
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Ivo brought it to us
This is where it started in the UK: 4ad.com/releases/211
The last track is a gentle haunting entry to the work: youtu.be/woSZMkzFgyk
But the power when they al go for it in the fractions of a tone harmony is more challenging, but worth it.
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jagwap, Sun 4 Jun 2023, 16:09,
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When Ms Smith met K9 it was MOIDER!
— Link to tweet
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 23:38,
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I can't stop watching this guy's channel.
Love it or hate it, he's damn good.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 23:37,
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flippin eck
One man's eleven year journey to find some trousers that fit.
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Andante Risoluto (Nicholas Britell cover)
I made this!
Spent the better part of these last two evenings trying to recreate Nicholas Britell's monumental "Andante Risoluto" (from the Succession season 4 soundtrack). For no particular reason other than trying to see if I could do it, and to find out that makes this amazing track 'tick'. A work in progress, as ususal, but I think I’m coming really close to the original, really happy with the results so far!
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c_kick or, as some people call him, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 22:22,
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who uses Reason these days!?!?!?
er
me
edit: at 1:52 or thereabouts there's a couple flat notes - can you check that?
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colmcq2, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 9:35,
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What makes your guitar sound the way it does?
Let's do the science!
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 18:47,
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You don't have a guitar?
Preposterous. Next you'll claim you don't have a synth.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 20:01,
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Being able to play chords?
Hammer-ons and pull-offs might be tricky too.
I like how he's gone about it and it illustrates a point.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 1 Jun 2023, 20:32,
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I'd prefer
if he'd used a cleaner signal path because that amp/mic setup is adding a fucktonne of distortion which is going to diminish all but the least subtle differences. Also you can see him playing the parts differently according to body type, it's especially prominent when he uses the 2x4 body compared to the 'caster.
The air guitar test isn't great because the two benches he bolts it to are not bolted to the control guitar... I think the sound is resonating through those benches.
To make the tests fairer I think he should have a robot doing the strumming, and break out the oscilloscopes and spectrographs to do some slightly more objective comparisons.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 21:48,
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My guitar sounds the way it does
Because 'it fell off' the wall when the kids were playing football and the soundboard is held on with No More Nails.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 22:07,
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Antmulder and the GlueTones
my frets are so worn down if I play near the nut they now buzz as the strings touch the other frets
but Im too attached to the old girl to get another, and too lazy to replace them
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 23:20,
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tone is in the fingers
before I played guitar I thought the way it sounded was how you play it
that's mostly true
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colmcq2, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 9:38,
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yeah this guy talks crap
He is using a slide for starters so the neck is removed from the equation. Sustain is totally changed.
I have 3 electrics and they each sound differently acoustically and that difference is the difference you hear when plugged in. So that's all you need to know.
And there's more! How the guitar feels affects how you play, the build of the guitar changes how it feels to bend strings, fckn countless things all of which change tone.
I call bullshit, clickbaitery and fakism
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simbosan is too tired, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 10:01,
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I don't think he's trolling or deliberately bullshitting, he's doing his best.
But as I said, put literally any signal through that path and it will share timbral characteristics *by design*. A direct input (with no distortion, no added noise, no filters or signal processing) into a computer equipped with an oscilloscope and spectrograph would reveal so much more information.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 17:39,
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The greatest thing that has ever happened.
— Link to tweet
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 18:23,
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Ants built the pyramids
probably not
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 7:30,
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I see no connection was inferred between these two statements
"For their experiments, the researchers followed the ants with a GPS device. This allowed them to track the ants on their way to the saltpan and back home"
"However, we also observed an unexpectedly high mortality rate. About 20 percent of foraging ants do not find their way back home after extremely long runs"
Interesting though, seems they rely more on visual acuity than I'd guess, rather than following chem trails. Suggests some more complex cognition in pattern recognition and memory
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 12:01,
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Do you mean the ants were led astray by GPS like human drivers?
The researchers carried the GPS device to record the ants' path (because ants are just too lazy)
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 17:58,
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I can't see their methodology without paying, at least til Im at work
they glue microtrackers on other insects, though even if its just trudging over them they might be interfering given their contention the wee buggers are good at seeing. seems to be a lot of research about em, I counted a dozen recent papers on their navigation alone
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 22:21,
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Yes, it's pay walled so looked up the GPS method in another paper by the same ant people
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 5:59,
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Decs was just getting off his face
and crashing cars
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 14:08,
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