Your pointless thoughts & observations

  On 10/12/2020 at 8:20 PM, Candiru said:

 

Trader Joe’s is getting a little too quirky these days imo 

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how do you think i feel?? my balls ache after manufacturing 100 jars this week alone

  On 10/11/2020 at 7:54 PM, luke viia said:

Well... yeah. I got that much.

No, I'm saying that the book requires an extreme level metacognition in order to make sense of it.  I wasn't able to dissect my thoughts to such a degree until the psilocybin.

Trying to read Pure Reason before experiencing it was impossibly difficult, but afterwards it was completely coherent.

Once when I was coming down from 'shrooms, I read some Nitzsche and thought it had way deeper clarity than ever before.  I think I was just in the headspace to be amazed by everything though... not saying that's the same in your case.  It just reminded me of that.  The trip itself was sheer hell, and Neitzsche provided a strange relief.

  On 10/12/2020 at 8:47 PM, pcock said:

can anyone do me a small favour and recommend a piece of free software that can just add audio files to video files? I have aftereffects but i cannot for the fucking life of me figure out why it is exporting videos off my phone that are 1.2 gigabytes as 25 gigabyte AVI's when all ive done is added a direct recording of the piano and change the brightness.

Rendering video can be a real headache if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing. It used to be possible to do what you want in QuickTime, not sure if it still is. Otherwise try VLC. 

  On 10/13/2020 at 1:34 PM, user said:

Rendering video can be a real headache if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing. It used to be possible to do what you want in QuickTime, not sure if it still is. Otherwise try VLC. 

In vlc it would be something like opening the video, add audio track and then save it to a new file 

  On 10/13/2020 at 1:34 PM, user said:

Rendering video can be a real headache if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing. It used to be possible to do what you want in QuickTime, not sure if it still is. Otherwise try VLC. 

In vlc it would be something like opening the video, add audio track and then save it to a new file 

I accidentally quoted myself. Goddamnit 

  On 10/13/2020 at 1:34 PM, user said:

Rendering video can be a real headache if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing. It used to be possible to do what you want in QuickTime, not sure if it still is. Otherwise try VLC. 

In vlc it would be something like opening the video, add audio track and then save it to a new file 

I accidentally quoted myself. Goddamnit 

cheers for the reply. All i need to do is line it up to be frame perfect with the moment my finger hits the first note, which is actually easier said than done with any free software ive tried. Im going to see if i can figure out how to export and Avi properly in after effects though, it seems to be pointlessly upscaling the resolution to its maximum.

Yeah exporting video is a pain in the ass unless you know how the exporting parameters work... Maybe there's presets in afterfx? Like small size low quality, medium size etc etc... I didnt know you could do that kind of shit in vlc... I always thought vlc was a simple video player... 

Are you on windows? I think you can do it pretty easily with windows movie maker... 

if you can run ffmpeg/avconv in a terminal, it's very straightforward to just load a video track and an audio track as two input files and mux them together. i wouldn't do it any other way :3

  On 10/13/2020 at 10:32 PM, Dragon said:

if you can run ffmpeg/avconv in a terminal, it's very straightforward to just load a video track and an audio track as two input files and mux them together. i wouldn't do it any other way :3

I've used this is the past... I even wrote the code and saved it on a text file... But recently I tried to use it and it's exporting completely different segments from what I remember... I need to check the /help again... 

Thinking of buying stock in this carbon neutral fuel company: https://carbonengineering.com

Trying to do some research on how effective it is.

How much money does one need to invest to make buying stock a worthwhile endeavour?

Not sure, I'm new to this. I suppose a few thousand would probably be decent.

Buying individual stocks is essentially gambling unless you know how to do financial DD, even then, there is a famous case of a chimpanzee in the 80s who picked stocks by throwing darts at a board and outperformed most managers over time.

World index funds like VSTAX are a different matter though

inital investment £2,000.00 monthly deposits £200

9.31% annual return.

8 year projection £32,173.17

8 year interest £10,973.17

18 year projection £117,192.11

18 year interest earned £71,992.11

28 year £324,229.29

28 year interest earned £255,029.29

Compound interest is a powerful tool. Those projections are my rough total wealth at 40, 50, and 60 based on my current saving patterns, and im on minimum wage at the moment. if i was to up my savings to 600 a month i will comfortably become a millionaire.

you can also gamble on options contracts for insane returns but that basically the casino.

I'm not trying to make a quick buck. I have some extra cash so I wanted to invest in something that could turn out to be rather important for global warming in the next several years. It would be good to get my investment back as well, but that's not my main priority. I'm willing to gamble on it since I could potentially get a much larger return and it won't cost me much.

the other night my son (who's 6) started in with the "let's ask dad a million questions while he's trying to listen to the new autechre" game. somehow it ended up with him asking me how WWI and WWII started. now for anyone who has kids, you know that there's only so many "I dunno's" they can take, because they know you're lying and just trying to shoo them off. so you have to drop some sorta truth nuggets in there.

I started with answering the WWII question first, which went something like this:

me: "because of the nazis"

him: "who are the nazis" 

me: "they are bad guys"

him: "why are they bad"

me: "because they wanted to kill all the jewish people"

which led to a discussion about jews, religion, and other higher level topics that I had to kick my brain into gear in order to best dumb them down to a 6 year old level. mind you, this is all while SIGN was playing in the background.

next, we tackled WWI:

me: "because of fascism"

him: "what's fascism"

(now let me pause here for a sec to see how the watmm masses would think to respond to this, i.e. how to explain fascism to a 6 year old.)

me: "the government wanted to try to control the people too much"

him: "why did they want to control"

me: "you know how we can go to the grocery store any time we want? with fascism, you can't just go buy your groceries unless you are allowed to."

and just like that, it worked! no more questions.

anyway, no moral to the story here. I was quite proud of myself that I successfully got the question game to end by answering a question about fascism with a grocery store example.

I learned about fascism from Blue’s Clues and The Flintstones. Kids these days. 

9 times out of 10 when I wonder "what's that sound?" it's a can or bottle of fizzy water/soda fizzing away. Apparently decades of hearing this noise haven't been enough for me to be able to identify this spectrum of sound without wondering about it first. 

  On 10/14/2020 at 9:14 PM, zero said:

the other night my son (who's 6) started in with the "let's ask dad a million questions while he's trying to listen to the new autechre" game. somehow it ended up with him asking me how WWI and WWII started. now for anyone who has kids, you know that there's only so many "I dunno's" they can take, because they know you're lying and just trying to shoo them off. so you have to drop some sorta truth nuggets in there.

I started with answering the WWII question first, which went something like this:

me: "because of the nazis"

him: "who are the nazis" 

me: "they are bad guys"

him: "why are they bad"

me: "because they wanted to kill all the jewish people"

which led to a discussion about jews, religion, and other higher level topics that I had to kick my brain into gear in order to best dumb them down to a 6 year old level. mind you, this is all while SIGN was playing in the background.

next, we tackled WWI:

me: "because of fascism"

him: "what's fascism"

(now let me pause here for a sec to see how the watmm masses would think to respond to this, i.e. how to explain fascism to a 6 year old.)

me: "the government wanted to try to control the people too much"

him: "why did they want to control"

me: "you know how we can go to the grocery store any time we want? with fascism, you can't just go buy your groceries unless you are allowed to."

and just like that, it worked! no more questions.

anyway, no moral to the story here. I was quite proud of myself that I successfully got the question game to end by answering a question about fascism with a grocery store example.

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Can you explain it again but this time like if you're explaining it to a 4 yo? 

  On 10/14/2020 at 9:14 PM, zero said:

the other night my son (who's 6) started in with the "let's ask dad a million questions while he's trying to listen to the new autechre" game. somehow it ended up with him asking me how WWI and WWII started. now for anyone who has kids, you know that there's only so many "I dunno's" they can take, because they know you're lying and just trying to shoo them off. so you have to drop some sorta truth nuggets in there.

I started with answering the WWII question first, which went something like this:

me: "because of the nazis"

him: "who are the nazis" 

me: "they are bad guys"

him: "why are they bad"

me: "because they wanted to kill all the jewish people"

which led to a discussion about jews, religion, and other higher level topics that I had to kick my brain into gear in order to best dumb them down to a 6 year old level. mind you, this is all while SIGN was playing in the background.

next, we tackled WWI:

me: "because of fascism"

him: "what's fascism"

(now let me pause here for a sec to see how the watmm masses would think to respond to this, i.e. how to explain fascism to a 6 year old.)

me: "the government wanted to try to control the people too much"

him: "why did they want to control"

me: "you know how we can go to the grocery store any time we want? with fascism, you can't just go buy your groceries unless you are allowed to."

and just like that, it worked! no more questions.

anyway, no moral to the story here. I was quite proud of myself that I successfully got the question game to end by answering a question about fascism with a grocery store example.

 

 

 

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The only problem here is that WWI was not started "because of fascism."  Perhaps it would be a good idea to study the history before you teach it to your children.

lol

@drillkicker do you have kids? I guarantee he's not going to remember this conversation when it's time for him to really understand this stuff. hell, I could probably go ask him now and he won't remember what I said about the cause of WWI. the post was not meant to be taken too seriously, if you couldn't tell.

if it was say, oh an older teenager, or someone with more of an understanding of concepts suck as nazism, fascism, or the causes of the world wars, then maybe giving a non BS answer matters a lot more. but to a 6 year old? c'mon...he still believes in santa claus ffs

Wait, what??? What about Santa Claus?

If he’s questioning you while you’re trying to listen to the next autechre album you tell him Santa doesn’t exist  

  On 10/15/2020 at 12:03 AM, Tim_J said:

Wait, what??? What about Santa Claus?

I'm sorry man

Crocs are just sweatpants for the feet.