Redfox8
@Redfox8@mander.xyz
- Comment on Petrichor 2 days ago:
At 45 i consider myself to have reached Pro-am status.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 1 week ago:
I believe the receptor cell responds to a particular part of the molecule in question. Artificial flavourings and scents have identical (or similar enough) parts to trigger the same response, but are otherwise different molecules.
- Comment on WILD 2 weeks ago:
But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!
- Comment on It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum! 4 weeks ago:
So do you
- Comment on That hurts a little 1 month ago:
Alien in 1979…
- Comment on Should i be giving a shit about my posture? 1 month ago:
I spend too much time at my pc or driving so get lower back pain. I recently found this workout that’s really good. It’s challenging but really works well! I sometimes have to ease back a little, especially on the last part, but it still helps.
Apologies, I can’t remember how/where to get alternative YT links.
- Comment on Which one is selected? The "Yes" option or the "No" option? 2 months ago:
I think we need to know what the UI looks like before a selection has been made, or what it looks like when the curser is over each option. The ‘interface’ part is lost by a single screen shot.
- Comment on (US question) If the Presidential race in the USA was between Kamala Harris and Nikki Haley how would the campaigning go and would it be more civilized and less low brow comments on both sides? 2 months ago:
Two women vying against each other? Regardless of political ideology, the men would create a hellstorm of bullshit beyond anything else. The candidates views and speaches would be drowned out by male commentary galore.
It’d be a gargantuan mess and no-one would really know what was actually going on, decades later even.
Yay misogyny.
- Comment on The most recognizable leaf silhouette is the marijuana leaf. 2 months ago:
Thanks Bob.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Living standards have improved for many, but at the expense of others through exploitation. Like you say, an age old story. We’re just incredibly lucky to catch a period in the history of mankind where the improvements have benefitted more than just the rich/elite.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Success in business (profit) requires exploitation, which requires few or very select morals to reach the very top. Those people you describe sound a perfect fit!
- Comment on Is there a more Transformers style than Bōsōzoku ? 3 months ago:
Dick Dasterdly approves of this style!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
What exactly are you trying to acheive by studying an instrument? Why did you choose to learn beyond hobby level?
Your approach sounds like you see it akin to training in a skill for a job. Spend the time and money on it and at the end you can play as well as 95% of people. But then you got bored/lost direction as you didn’t go so far as to do this as a new career so there was no end goal. Looking at the kind of money you think you need to spend, that sounds like professional level stuff (hint, a 40k piano will not improve your ability! But must be nice to play!)
It is hard, and not for everyone, to practice so much. I really enjoy playing the piano, but can never find the time or energy or drive to spend the time to learn to even a half decent level. Lessons would help me, but I’ve never found myself in a place to go for it. Which I accept. I’ll never play any Franz Liszt!
I don’t get the impression music is enough of a passion for you to get a lot out of ‘studying’ as you said you dont want to work part time to do so. So my advice would be to keep practicing and push yourself to learn new music as much as you enjoy it and maybe have some lessons to keep you on track . Maybe studying will suit you later in life, but not at this time.
You also don’t sound lazy btw! Like i said, it is hard work, especially alongside a job, but doesn’t quite sound like it’s rewarding enough for you.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 6 months ago:
It amazes me that no-one ever seems to say (not that I have seen, at least)…Isreal is a western, democratic state with nuclear weapons in the middle east.
It’s basically a major power base for the west in the predominantly arab part of the world.
Anything else is a side arguement as far as I’m concerned.
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 9 months ago:
It’s one more than ten, so yeah, it’s better.