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Jentu

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  • What are some good keyboards brands?

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  • what do you make with it if you don't mind me asking?

    A bunch of trash 😅 but if you’re interested, I made a bunch of stuff earlier this year when I was less busy (essentially, the challenge was to make a whole song every week of the year, which I failed to keep up with haha)

    https://weeklybeats.com/jentu

    A lot of it is with software synths, but I did use my hardware synths like the minilogue, Dirtywave M8, and Roland SC-88 on a few songs.

    Generally, you can find me on streaming services and Bandcamp under Jentu if you like any of it. I mostly just make music for myself without really caring much how it is received.

    Do you make music too?

  • What are some good keyboards brands?

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  • I have a Wobkey Rainy 75 and it’s by far the best keyboard I’ve ever bought/used. That being said, don’t go out of your way to buy one since they have gotten far more expensive than when I bought mine AND support for it has been very difficult. Yeah this was one of the many Kickstarter keyboards that was sent to a bunch of keyboard reviewers and they hyped it up massively, which I got swept up in. I’m just glad my keyboard was actually delivered at the end of the day.

    I had a used keychron for a long time and loved it except for the non-swappable clicky switches. Highly recommend them.

  • What are some good keyboards brands?

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  • Korg minilogue has been a favorite of mine for years (since I can’t reasonably afford a Moog).

  • Who is old enough to remember after 9-11 the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the possible usage of such department?

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  • The day-of, I just remember my teacher being out in the hallway on the phone for like 30 minutes, then an announcement was made over the intercom that parents would be picking us up. I didn't know what happened until I got home. Then we just watched news replay the towers getting hit over and over for a few days.

    A few years later, I remember being instructed on coloring in an outline of the country of Afghanistan (joke here about Americans only learn geography from war) and the teacher told us if we wanted to draw a bomb or something in the air above it, that'd be okay. Shit was absolutely fucked. I remember having a mock vote for Kerry v Bush and I was the only kid who didn't vote Bush and the principal called my parents to collect me from school for the day.

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    [CW] Comrades, this is a reminder to get your shingles vaccine

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  • I got shingles earlier this year, caught it early and went to urgent care, and it was hell for a few weeks. I still feel twinges every now and then and get worried that it’s coming back. Good luck with your recovery!

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    [CW] Comrades, this is a reminder to get your shingles vaccine

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  • Ooh! I’m in a very similar situation to you (but I have a process that I’ll explain later). One of the Covid vaccines I was given in the local CVS had me on the floor and seizing and apparently there was a kid freaked out that the vaccine caused that. My partner had to tell them “no, that’s just something that happens sometimes with them”. I had to get my wisdom teeth removed earlier this year and it was a similar nightmare.

    Anyway, this doesn’t fix the issue entirely, but it does help immensely:

    First of all, have someone go with you to your appointment. Have them go in ahead of you and tell the person administering the shot that you have a phobia and for them to give you the shot as quickly as possible without all the verbal preamble. The goal is for you to walk in, immediately get the shot, and then (if possible) sit in a chair while you give yourself some time to recover since sometimes I’ll pass out 2 minutes after a shot is finished just because I’m thinking about it too much.

    Next, cold surfaces really help. If there’s a tile floor, I’ll lay down on that while the shot is happening, but if not, I’ll bring a gel freezer pack to put over my chest.

    As for the site of injection, 3D print or use a printing service to get this thing. https://www.printables.com/model/260883-snapshot-needle-injection-pain-relief The goal is to “confuse” your senses at the injection site so it’s harder to fixate on the needle. I’ve tried numbing the site with ice or topical gel, but that’s never really worked for me.

    Lastly, put some headphones on and have a cold drink you can distract yourself with. You probably only need 2-3 songs but you don’t want to be figuring out what to listen to in the moment- prepare for it.

    Some of these tips might not be as effective for things like IVs (luckily my only IV experience was for dental work where I also was on Valium and nitros oxide), but hopefully it’s able to help!

  • This Soviet World reading group — Week 1, Jul 20–26: Introduction and Chapter 1

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  • A few days late because various IRL things, but I’ll edit this comment later once I’ve gone through the chapter Just finished the intro as well as chapter 1.

    There something about the section which talks about how "the mind of our people is changing so fast under the conditions of socialism, that it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to speak with the rest of the world." which gives an immense amount of optimism. Though I'm aware of the folly of the "human nature" argument, pessimism can still start to wear on me if I don't keep in mind how quickly that "nature" can change with a different, less exploitative system.

    It also reminds me of that one quote from Omar El Akkad that focuses on how much capitalism is changing the hearts and minds of those in the west.

    "It is an admirable thing, in a politics possessed of a moral floor, to believe one can change the system from the inside, that with enough respectful prodding the establishment can be made to bend, like that famous arc, toward justice. But when, after decades of such thinking, decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?"

    I love how easy to digest these concepts are (though I guess the real test of this would be on someone who isn't already familiar with marxism), so maybe I'll be suggesting this book to my friends who are "revolutionarily curious". Excited to read more!

  • huh, I wonder why that would be

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  • YouTube thumbnail from the 1950s

  • gots to be honest with yourselves

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  • Just wait until you find out about the Supreme Court and how long their terms last.

  • ComLib/This Soviet World reading group with Edie and Cowbee, looking for participants

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  • I'm interested in participating!

  • Paid shitposting

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  • Travel bidets may not really compete with an actual appliance, but it's better than just shitty workplace toilet paper

  • People are starting to get it

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  • They've already explained that China has more economic data to determine that theoretical cap location, so you, not being Chinese yourself, are basing your cap entirely on vibes with no insight on to how it hurts or helps Chinese people. It's just as arbitrary a number as the equivalent question one could ask you- Give me a hard number of people who should be dirt-poor in China today to prevent billionaires. Quick economic development (with the help of leashed capitalists) has lifted so many out of poverty and it seems you would happily undo this purely because rich people exist and it isn't pure enough.

  • hollywood colors

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  • Just have the post/vfx house mask over the rainbow?? The post house is probably replacing a lot of background stuff already. This feels like the world’s worst lie.

    Next up: production shut down because lead actor got a pimple.

  • Caption this. Wrong answers only.

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  • "The stars have fully aligned and this Taurus will now become a Rising Saturn"

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  • Just to piggyback off this comment a bit (since I'm not sure I've ever rented anywhere with MERV 13+ filters). Try making a Corsi–Rosenthal Box with a box fan and 4 air filters. This might be beyond your price range since MERV13 filters aren't the cheapest in the world when you have to buy 4 of them, but I've been using mine for years and they work REALLY well. My PM2.5 sensor is consistently on "0" unless I'm cooking.

  • Corporatism

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  • Why would people who want socialism vote for people maintaining capitalism? Why would you equate participating in bourgeois elections as an indicator of motivation of all political action?

    There's ~40-50% of US potential voters who don't vote for various reasons- Living in a state where the results are almost guaranteed, being alienated from politics in general because of the distrust in our government as a whole, leftists who don't vote but are politically active in other ways, etc. There's also people who do vote because they feel like they have to vote against the worse choice. If only all this alienation and lesser-evilism and feeling ineffective politically could be siphoned into a mass movement that helps all of us. Capitalism cannot be "fixed" if a group of people who don't vote suddenly start voting. That's pure fantasy. But it seems people who believe this would rather hope for a fantasy situation than actually looking at reality and adjusting their strategy to make things better. Otherwise, you'll just delay necessary change and feel resentment toward people who couldn't convince you fast enough.

  • Corporatism

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  • Or when "corporatism" doesn't work, they'll just make up words like "leveragism"

  • Le oops

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  • “I swear, we’re just really really really really obsessed with Roman aesthetics. Pay no attention to the fasces literally everywhere”

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  • Since heat index/wind chill/UTCI exist, maybe someone should take the opportunity to just throw out both Fahrenheit and Celsius as units for comfort since both need to be modified to be actually meaningful anyway.