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10 小时前The actual domain is still up (you can go to just plain matapacos.dog, which I now learned redirects to readsettlers.org after 15 seconds), but the Mastodon instance doesn’t seem to be reachable, at least not through a browser.
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New pannenkoek2012 Super Mario 64 A Button Challenge video dropping in three and a half hours (11 AM PDT/2 PM EDT/6 PM UTC)
Is this a “gamers never look up” situation?
Visiting museums with other people tends to be an exercise in frustration for me—I like to take my time, but it seems like the people I’m with always want to sprint through the exhibits. Much prefer it as a contemplative solo experience.
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No everything has to be serious at all times and we cannot find any humor in the absurdity of hell world. The last time I smiled was on August 19th, 1991. I wear a dirty ushanka at all times, do not shave, and only take cold sponge baths because hot running water is bourgeoisie decadence. Every day at exactly noon I have the same meal of an expired Maoist MRE I store in a pit covered in old issues of a revolutionary newspaper. I sleep in a bed made of flags from every failed revolution so that they are never forgotten. In the evenings I stare at a picture of vodka by candlelight, but I do not allow myself to drink because there is nothing to celebrate. Every local org has banned me after I attempted to split it by assassinating the leadership. There is no plumbing in my house I shit in a brass bucket with a picture of Gonzalo and Deng french kissing in the bottom of it. My house is actually an overturned T34 in an abandoned junkyard in Wisconsin. I have a single friend in this world and it is a tapeworm named Bordiga that I met after ingesting spoiled borscht on 9/11 in the ruins of building 7 (I blew it up after finding that a nominally leftist NGO inside of it wasn’t sufficiently anti-imperialist, the attacks on the world trade center were a perfect revolutionary moment for me to enact direct praxis against liberalism). My source of income is various MLM schemes in the former soviet bloc that have been running for so long no one remembers who I am, they just keep sending money. I have not paid taxes since McGovern lost the Democratic nomination for president and my faith in electoralism died more brutally than my childhood dog after it got into an entire jar of tylenol. I own 29 fully automatic rusted kalashnikovs and three crates of ammunition entirely incompatible with them or any other firearms I own. My double PHD in marxist economics and 18th century Swiss philosophy (required to understand Engels) sits over the fireplace of my home, my fireplace is a salvaged drum from a 1950s washing machine that was recalled for locking children inside of it. I chose that washing machine model on purpose because I am anti-natalist. During the latest BLM protests I firebombed a Nikes outlet in the middle of a peaceful candlelit vigil. William F Buckley and I wrote hatemail to one another for 47 years until my final letter gave him an aneurysm. The only water I drink is from puddles. George Lucas and I dropped acid together during an MKULTRA southern baptist summer camp and he went on to write the movie Willow about our time together. The best way to test whether an electrical wire is live is to drool on it and shrimp salad is racist. You can make an IED out of potassium and the instructions are online thanks to Timothy McVey, who was actually a committed antifascist communist slandered by the deep state as part of operation condor. Every time a liberal files a restraining order against me, I carve a mark into the wall. I am runningout of walls. When Amerika finally collapses I will be ready to lead the revolution. I am very smart and people like being around me.
Lol yeah, I didn’t even mention the errant
What is this horrifying chimeric language that uses
=for testing equality,==for assignment, and++for either “add and assign” or “multiply and assign”? Whatever it is, the code’s not gonna compile/parse thanks to that mismatched". My guess is that it’s written that way to be engagement bait—worked on me I guess, although this isn’t Twitter so I’m happy to respond since I’m not worried about anyone farming clout or actual money.
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🐟🐟🐟🐟🐈This is a neat concept, hadn’t heard of it before! Definitely challenging, though.
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China has demolished 300 dams and shut down most of the small hydropower stations on a major tributary of the upper Yangtze River to safeguard fish populations as part of an effort to restore the ecology of Asia’s longest waterway.
According to a report by the state news agency Xinhua on Monday, 300 of the 357 dams on Chishui He – also known as the Red River – had been dismantled by the end of December 2024.
In addition, 342 out of 373 small hydropower stations have been decommissioned, enabling many rare fish species to resume their natural reproductive cycles, the Xinhua report said.
The Red River flows for more than 400km (249 miles) through the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. It is regarded by ecologists as the last refuge for rare and endemic fish species in the Yangtze’s upper reaches. z Over the decades, water flows have been increasingly blocked by the dense network of hydropower stations and dams, restricting water volumes downstream and occasionally even causing some sections to dry up entirely.
This has drastically reduced the amount of suitable habitat and spawning grounds. The stations also blocked the routes of migratory fish species between breeding grounds and non-breeding areas.
Zhou Jianjun, a professor of hydraulic engineering at Tsinghua University, said that the decommissioning of hydropower stations usually referred to the cessation of electricity generation.
“The key is not whether the facilities still exist, but that, after power generation stops, the method of water control can be changed to meet ecological needs,” he said.
According to the Xinhua report, the large-scale rectification work that began in 2020 has meant that aquatic wildlife species, including the Yangtze sturgeon, have regained their habitat and vitality.
Along with the Chinese paddlefish, the freshwater sturgeon species – known as the last giant of the Yangtze – was declared extinct in the wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2022.
The natural population of the sturgeon has declined sharply since the 1970s, largely as a result of dam construction and the development of a shipping industry in the Yangtze River.
No naturally bred young sturgeon had been found in the entire Yangtze River since 2000, but a team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Hydrobiology has reported promising signs of recovery, according to Xinhua.
The team, led by Liu Fei, a researcher at the institute in Wuhan, released two batches of Yangtze sturgeon into the Red River in 2023 and 2024, which have successfully adapted to the wild environment and are thriving.
This year, the researchers decided to take it a step further and examine whether the fish could migrate naturally for reproduction. In April, they released 20 adult Yangtze sturgeon into a section of the river in Guizhou.
By mid-April, they observed the fish displaying natural spawning behaviour and successfully hatching fry, the researchers said.
“This achievement indicates that the current ecological environment of the Red River can now meet the habitat and reproductive needs of Yangtze sturgeon,” Liu told the news agency.
According to the institute’s latest monitoring results, the Red River’s aquatic biodiversity is steadily improving, with a significant increase in the number of fish species collected in various sections of the river.
China has launched a series of policy measures to protect the Yangtze’s critical role as an aquatic habitat, all centred on a 10-year fishing ban imposed in 2020 and the regulation of the small hydropower stations that have affected its biodiversity.
For example, by the end of 2021, Sichuan had essentially finished rectifying its 5,131 small hydropower stations, which included shutting down 1,223 of them, according to a local official report the following year.
The local government has also strictly prohibited sand mining in the rivers in a bid to create a more favourable environment for aquatic animals to breed and reproduce.
In a communique released in August last year, Beijing announced that aquatic biodiversity had steadily improved since the fishing ban and other measures were introduced.
Fish, invertebrates and amphibians continued to recover, while the overall water quality of the Yangtze and its tributaries was rated as “excellent”, it said. The intensity of sand mining and other projects affecting fisheries had also decreased.
5·3 天前I prefer an Epstein Linked List because cache rhymes with fash
My best guess is that they grew up in an era where they didn’t have access to italics since they were using typerwriters, so if you wanted to show emphasis you had to do it some other way. Underlining was possible, but it’s also a pain in the ass to backspace to the beginning of the phrase and spam the underscore key compared to just putting quote marks before and after.
Honestly, it’s making me wonder about the origin of using * for the same purpose in computing contexts. I’ve been doing it for decades, but I just picked it up from other people and never really thought about how arbitrary it is. Maybe it’s as simple as being similar to quotations marks/apostrophes (in that it’s a small superscript punctuation mark) but without an established meaning when used in pairs? The only other character on a standard US keyboard that fits that definition is ^, and asterisks look snazzier.
27·3 天前If they weren’t fake fans they’d use the actual bridal gown outfit from Odyssey
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The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 “Intelligence” Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at - It’s all they have - They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates. Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Damn, that really seems like an unforced error.
Half the posts are about israel and nothing is in order.
FYI, if you go to a Twitter profile without being logged in, instead of seeing the tweets in chronological order you get a bunch of random ones out-of-order, as you said. In the future, you can just replace
x.comwithxcancel.comto see the normal feed.
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Ooh, this one’s going into my Watch Later. The PC-Engine is one of my retro gaming blind spots, so I look forward to learning more about it!
Somehow I kept meaning to reply to this and then having it slip my mind, but better late than never!
Confession time, I was going off the memory of playing early in the morning while half drunk, haha. And I was particularly fixated on the exact phrase you called out as being in Bb major… that F works too well and was really calling out to me there. I do remember thinking “maybe G minor?” but I was so wrapped up in that hook!
No worries! I myself only just got started on really focusing on music theory these past couple of years. I was always more of an ear/memory player—I’d either figure out the song by ear through trial and error, or I’d read the sheet music, but only for long enough to be able to memorize it and then never look at it again. In either case, if you were to stop me at any moment in a song and ask me what notes I just played, I honestly wouldn’t know. And even if I had known, it wouldn’t have meant much. I knew the basics: how to build major and minor scales, as well as how to build basic triads and seventh chords, but beyond V resolving to I (e.g. G7 to C), I didn’t really understand what made songs flow. It’s been really gratifying to do transcriptions and analysis of my favorite songs and figure out what makes them tick—and then recognizing those same patterns in other tunes.
while I still get things wrong I still enjoy learning through the mistakes!
This is so important! At first when I was doing analyses I would leave stuff blank when I wasn’t sure about how to name a chord or what function a chord had, but I realized I was robbing myself of a learning experience. By committing to an answer and then having someone more experienced look over your work, you can figure out what error in thinking led you to a particular mistake and refine your mental model bit by bit.
One YouTube channel I heartily recommend is 8-Bit Music theory. He does some really great breakdowns of music and covers all kinds of theory topics. You’re not going to come out of a video having mastered any particular topic (which is true of any YouTube video, I suppose), but by watching his videos and getting that first exposure to topics I was able to recognize things and go, “Oh yeah, I remember 8-Bit Music Theory talking about this!” and then being able rewatch the relevant video or search for more information since I had a label for the phenomenon. I think that’s especially true of his series on the major modes which I keep coming back to and gleaning a bit more each time, although they might be less relevant for you depending on the kind of music you’re playing. A great video to start with that covers a smattering of different topics is his breakdown of “Baka Mitai”. Another top-notch one is his analysis of the Dolphin Shoals sax solo, which really changed how I listened to (and played) solos. And of course, you can just scroll through and see if there are any topics or games that catch your eyes.
The Doo Wop progression is one of my favorites to play around with
That’s another great one! One unexpected place that it shows up is the classic Stage 1 song from Sonic Adventure 2: “Escape from the City”. A YouTube creator I follow played off of that and did a doo-wop arrangement of it, which is how I found out about it.
Okay, I’ve really got to stop myself, but one more shared chord progression: the choruses of “This Love” by Maroon 5 and “Cruel Angel’s Thesis” (the OP from Neon Genesis Evangelion) are both in the same key and have the same minor circle of fifths progression: i-iv-VII-III (so in C minor that’d be Cm-Fm-Bb-Eb).
(sorry for rambling—I don’t really expect a reply, but I just wanted to acknowledge your comment and nerd out a bit more!)
VTuber posting
Aster is finally fucking gone. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
I feel weird doing a pure dramapost, so here, listen to Enna absolutely owning Ado’s “Odo” as a palate cleanser
You weren’t kidding, cursed stuff