They *should* feel unsafe. Every billionaire should feel unsafe. Every politician should feel unsafe. Every person who has an outsized influence on a large group of people should feel unsafe.

If they feel safe, they do whatever the fuck they want, consequences be damned. They've clearly expressed no sense of empathy or compassion. It's only when they feel unsafe that they do the right thing that they should have done in the first place.

Make them all feel unsafe.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/salem-brought-guillotine-oppose-data-151045877.html

@hakona @maxleibman The second option postpones it until they are in the middle of something important.

@demofox @Orca

They don't seem to understand the idea of "having a principle". It's all about loyalty: by voting for TFG, Gannon maybe thought he was joining "Team Tr💩 mp" and would be given favored treatment. By acting against his wife (his property), TFG betrayed that implicit contract -- but nothing else; pretty sure Gannon still supports the fascist project.

@mekkaokereke

@mekkaokereke I celebrate every awakening (awokening?), no matter how absurdly long overdue.

...I mean, yeah, what didn't tip this dude off that TFG was not to be trusted?... but apparently he somehow appealed to a lot of people on a non-rational level, and those spells can be really difficult to break... apparently... I don't get it, but here we are. :spiral_eyes:

Ethics aside, we can clearly no longer deny the utility of necromancy. Perhaps a year ago, when the pathetic shambling of the animated dead so often made a hollow mockery of our arts. But now! Incantations that once took weeks of toil can be wrested from their tormented souls in mere minutes!

Without the awesome power of the newly dead coursing through our veins, how are we to solve the great problems of our age, like the mysterious disappearance of so many of our elderly and sick friends, or the festering piles of rotten flesh that now clog our streets and homes?

If you still have qualms about using the large soul providers, you can always obtain your own local, free range specimens, although of course they won’t obey quite as faithfully as ones from the leading charnel houses.

Honestly, do you want to be left behind?

@yusef Hm, that's a thought... I have to remember that this would primarily be for audio-sketches, not full productions -- so the quality just needs to be "okay" not "as perfect as I can possibly get it, even if this means never actually getting around to doing the recording"... :blobcatthinking:

Know your speaker components:

Woofer
Tweeter
Meower

#CatsOfMastodon

It repeatedly drives me bananas that I can't just sit down and record directly from this thing...

• because the line-out jack cuts off the speakers
• and I haven't been able to figure out how to get to the enclosure where the line-out jack is wired, so I can rewire it.

The line-out is also the headphones jack, so it's not like I can leave a pair of headphones plugged in so that all I have to do is plug in the line-out.

What I have to do, because this is not a dedicated recording setup, is set it to playing the demo, plug in the line-out, then go back over to the computer to adjust the levels (using software which does the bare-bones of what it needs to do -- I can't just load a "keyboard recording" profile; I have to mousually (musually?) adjust each slider, including turning down those which normally are used for other things...

I'm seriously looking at getting another e-piano (preferably one with weighted keys and which sounds Really Good, of course) -- but of the dozens I've looked at, almost none of them show a photo of the back panel (every other angle, yes) and few if any describe the analog I/O options.

I suppose if I were a Real Keyboardist™, I'd have a set of really good sounds loaded on the computer and just play them through MIDI. I've figured out how to do the "play music on the PC via MIDI' part, but not the "recording those sounds" or "really high-quality samples" parts.

(Open to ideas, or suggestions for a better keyboard, suggestions for open-source audio-input mixing software that does profiles...)

#MIDI #digitalPiano #musicRecording

@devopscats I keep coming back to the idea that the time is ripe for a crowdsourced SF universe that nobody owns...

@Eris Cute Domains ℝ Us™ :tootcat:

@Landa @Cassandra_Complex @blogdiva

"You have my fruit-basket!"
"...and my bouquet!"

logging in :blobcatpeek:

#fediArt #blobcat #catsOfMastodon

@digyoursoul Gosh, it's a good thing he's preventing bloated government operations from competing with super-efficient for-profit enterprises. That wouldn't be fair, would it. (Won't somebody think of the shareholders?? 🧐)

@farah "too tired to figure out if I should nap" party

@newsguyusa It's truly never about the facts, with them; it's always "what can I say to make our side look better than theirs". I think we, as a society, need to come to grips with that reality.

@cwebber These Words Are Accepted. (You are now a Knight Radiant; not sure which order.)

@cwebber

Perhaps more helpfully, though: it still seems to me (and I've been saying this for years) that reputation-tracking needs to be much more of a thing on social media of all sorts (which includes git forges).

(If I try to explain any further, it goes off into a lecture, so I'll stop there. For now. >.>)

@davidrevoy @spritely

@cwebber @davidrevoy @spritely

To reveal the truth, take their comments and replace the words "comic" and "art" with "comment"...

@In_Otter_News I feel like the dad here maybe understood the true joys of childrearing, and is proposing a lower-maintenance alternative.

"Yes, baby otter is cute and cuddly -- but have you considered... rock? Rock is quiet, does not need feedings, entertainings, skool, or meddical appointings, and wil not disapoint you later with bad life-choices."

@devopscats I am suspicious of the writer's assumption about the reason for the crash. The article mentions no sources whatsoever.