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shit! scary stuff, worst time for it to occur just before Chinese new year, loads of mobile people |
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i don't know about deez chineez but i was convinced i was being tailed home by teams of orthodox jews once. it was really weird, they were doing front-and-follow shit like in the wire... paranoia kicked in and i got lost trying to shake them, was walking for hours. i was on a lot of drugs though (natch). maybe umbro knows what the fuck was going on, cos i don't jews: im confus |
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i had a similar moment today, then laughed at myself for getting caught up in it all. when umbro is all "25 people dead already, jeezus" i am wondering if he is serious or not. according to wikipedia, typhoid fever killed 150k people in 2015 -- down from 181k in 1990. i am about as scared of coronovirus as i am slamming my toe into a doorframe in the dark: i don't want it, it will be unpleasant, but in the grand scheme of things it's pretty irrelevant not to trivialize 25 deaths, just feel a real disconnect between panic over this and century-old illnesses that kill thousands on a daily basis |
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(re: then I turned around and all I could see was Chinese people) |
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Anyone who mocks the virus is going to die from the virus. (don't blame me, I don't make the rules of irony, I just enforce them) |
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bet you $100 i don't die from coronavirus payment via paypal. |
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Your punishment is: Incredible Death |
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that sounds like a name for a hot sauce and i love hot sauce |
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make incredible death for great china new year |
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Of course France has it, they’re nearly as lucky as people from Yorkshire. |
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Mucky! |
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What sweets? |
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The tv said 26 deaths Pretty sad |
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yeah its likely to be quite a bit higher, I think it will peter out, well I hope so, the media love a bit of scare mongering |
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Non dovevi usare la ferrari Roman |
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Thats fuced up |
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"Sometimes man advances so quickly that the wilderness reappears behind him. The forest has only bent underneath his feet; as soon as he has passed, it recovers. It is not rare, when passing through the new states of the West, to encounter abandoned dwellings in the middle of the woods; often one discovers the debris of a hut in the deepest solitude, and one is astonished to come across partial clearings which attest at once to human power and human inconstancy. The ancient forest is not slow to push up new shoots among the abandoned fields, over the day-old ruins; animals retake possession of their empire: laughing, nature comes to cover over the vestiges of man with green branches and flowers, and hastens to make his ephemeral traces disappear." Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America |
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Someone invited me out for a Chinese on Sunday and I had to be a bit racist and ask if it was alright if we went to the Italian nearby. |
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Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatric infectious disease expert at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, said that when someone on a plane is found to have influenza, fellow passengers are not quarantined. "We don't do this for the flu, and it's known to cause 30,000 deaths in the US every year," he said. Schaffner, however, said that this virus is different from the flu, because there are so many unknowns about how easily it spreads. In addition, even though it appears unwarranted, there is more public anxiety about the Wuhan coronavirus than about the flu. "This virus is new, mysterious, strange, and from over there in some exotic place," he said. "The psychology here is very different." CNN reports on the logistics of dealing with a plane full of 240 people en-route from wuhan to the US ~ |
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My Chinese friends tell me the worst part of all this coronavirus business is the constant barrage of racist bat soup jokes they're forced to suffer. Who fucking cares, I'd eat a fuckin bat, I'll try anything once. I'd rather have a real traditional bat dish than whatever the fuck it is in Count Chocula |
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i can imagine you rehearing this post in your bathroom, glossing over the fact that your 'chinese friends' consist of some guy who replied to your reddit post once |
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I guess that makes your imagination overactive then |
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ahahaha the bit where his legs disappear |
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aaah what's that track he stole sounds like YMO but i could swear it's actually something else |
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is it an anime theme i think |
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It's Rydeen and it's not stealing it's sampling which is a legitimate artform |
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Of course Viper is "stealing": EpicMegatrax's unconscious bias on display |
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people reacting like they're animists |
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Interesting. |
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Care to elaborate on your interest, porridge pants? |
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ahahaha porridge pants, i'm nicking that all the possibly plagueified britons are being dumped in the wirral apparently, hope they don't infect hyperflake |
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well fungus feet it's like this: he seems to be implying that we're ascribing agency to the virus as though it had a spirit, which is an intriguing observation, and makes me think of |
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(I'm sorry, I cannot top porridge pants, I'm bodied) |
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fuddy duddy ghetto body |
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walking distance from where I live, im sure everything will be alright, well I hope so |
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hope you're ok, sorry guys I just wanted an excuse to post that track (sheepishly holding monkey's paw behind back) |
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i think i have a coronavirus but not the coronavirus slept through about 18 of 20 hours up to 3pm and feel much better i would have kept sleeping but i was worried about being able to sleep tonight, and i had to get some work done i am hoping i can go back to the office tomorrow |
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i am hoping i can go back to the office tomorrow this is a Sad Sentence |
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still beats the piss out of getting 40 quid on bandcamp for something i spent weeks on |
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it's the life of a true artist, one who hasn't monetized his beatz for The Man, man |
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i'm still paying off debts from that stage of my, ahem, career |
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i do have significantly complex feelings on this. 2009-13 was probably my best run, musically. i was work-from-home consulting and able to put around four days a week into music. i'd already amassed a decent amount of gear from previous jobs, and promptly tried really, really hard. i put every spare cent i had into it, not so much purchasing gear, but working on music on spec instead of work i was being paid hourly for. then my obsession with music was in no small part responsible for the end of a five-year relationship, and i no longer had anyone to split rent with, in addition to being an emotional wreck for months. because of being an emotional wreck, well, i didn't exactly melt down at work, but i definitely did a lot less well, and they eventually decided they didn't need me anymore. so then i'm out a job, too. then my dad begins dying of cancer. i manage to find a really cush gig, working at home while living for next to nothing in cape cod, and, promptly, my dad gets worse, and by the time that ends he's gone and i'm a mess again. two years of moving from place to place, getting evicted, because i'm having trouble finding a proper job and uber doesn't particularly pay the bills. and i'm gutted over my dad. still am. i still manage to put out a bunch of stuff via tracker, mostly for myself, but i was hoping to get a bit more attention for that level of effort. didn't happen i've been in my current place for about a year, now, solid salary job for about a year and a half, and i've paid off my credit cards, some friends, mostly just filling out the last few $k in back taxes at this point. my commute is shit, but the people at work are nice and they depend on me and that is actually reasonable motivation. it's tiring, long hours, and i don't have much time for music. that bothers me. i've managed to buy some gear again, but with stabbing panic, i think: i'm never going to do that to myself again. my life has to be squared up before i can fap around on my synths all day |
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anyways, i will always be writing music, but i feel like the whole "i'm an artist and i put everything into it" is a childish denial of economic reality. you can put everything into it, as long as that everything includes paying the bills, saving a bit... because, if it doesn't, eventually, you will be fucked and worried about sleeping in your car |
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belb, i know you're probably just kidding. but i've been stewing on it all recently |
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yeah i'm just funnin ya man. it's only because of circumstance that i'm not sucking the corporate peenur. though if i wasn't locked down (ish) i'd be working on music and art all day long... it's just that i'm paying out about 1/4 of my minimal benefits to store all my worldly possessions. books, chairs, stereo, pc, cds, vinyl etc. the situation doesn't leave enough for a laptop and therefore i'm just a consumer not a producer. hoping to swing it the other way asap. fuck a job, nobody in their right mind would cut me a paid dealie anyway |
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i'm hoping to volunteer for the rspca or cats protection league soon but you have to keep it under 16 hour per week if yr claiming benefits. once i'm under a treatment order in the community i'll be getting a lot more cash so i'll be able to get back into all the creative shit but i don't romanticize the starving artist thingi. i still want to have something to do so i don't forget how to interactwith other humans. and cats |
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but just to keep it on topic, would be just my luck to succum to oriental plague before i can do shit |
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it's just that i'm paying out about 1/4 of my minimal benefits to store all my worldly possessions. books, chairs, stereo, pc, cds, vinyl etc. the situation doesn't leave enough for a laptop and therefore i'm just a consumer not a producer. yes, i think this is a valid point. to work on music you need a certain minimum of equipment, a place to keep it all, time, and other things like food and weed. these things all cost money, and if you fall behind on it, it rapidly cascades. rent is due and you have to sell off gear. you can't pay rent and now you have to find a new place to live, and scramble for money, leaving you with no time for music. i have this vague suspicion that, over the centuries, music was something you did holed up at winter, when there was nothing else to do. but, the other seasons, lots of work preparing for winter making tunes has a definite momentum to it. three hours of focused music time is not the same as three separate one-hour sessions. working on music every day, it builds. waiting until the weekend, less so. but it all gets flushed down the toilet if the bills aren't paid. so, tactically -- doesn't it make more sense to stick it out, write a bit here and there, try to arrange proper amounts of time down the road, that will be paid for in full? but, yes, still sneaking into the studio regularly anyways |
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