Except snake oil can contain bleach…

most doctors in your city/state can’t/refuse do anything about your problem

There’s almost nothing a chiropractor can do if doctors aren’t treating you. Except lie and steal your money.

The thing is, placebos can work even if the patient knows it’s a placebo. Which I think is crazy and amazing.

But it doesn’t look good for homeopathic grifters.

Obligatory Vic and Bob.

Chiropractic.

Everything in Holland and Barrett.

That’s a strange film. I watched it at the cinema when released and enjoyed the visuals, but it seemed like the story was purposely simplified to a wild west love yarn so that the audience would have to focus on the visuals. There’s so little to distract from the “cutting edge” CGI, any depth to the plot or characters would be detrimental to the six fucking years he spent making it.

Which I can understand as it does achieve that. And I didn’t hate it, mainly because it did look amazing and I wasn’t distracted from that. But I’ve never watched it again and wouldn’t want to.

Weird.

I can be. The other day, I was driving on a 70mph road and the lead car two in front hit a young deer. She had tried her best to avoid it but there was nothing she could do.

She pulled over with her signals flashing and as I went past I realised no one was going to stop, and then I had the thought of that happening to my wife, who is a vegetarian and would have been in bits, so I pulled over and ran back to check on her.

She was crying and shaking, I asked her to drop the window a bit and if she was ok. I told her it wasn’t her fault and she should take as long as needed before driving, and that I would be in my car if needed.

I had my lunch and her husband soon arrived, coming to thank me, which I wasn’t expecting. They were very nice and it was very sad and I was slightly emotional. They left eventually and I carried on with my day.

I can be grumpy as fuck, though.

Most modern DAWs will have plenty of realistic sounds, it’s getting them to play realistically that’s difficult.

Edit: forgot you use Linux.

Does your DAW not have those built in or are you after hardware?

I try to make electronic music, mostly with a laptop but I also have some equipment. It’s really just to scratch my engineering itch.

Photography. I mostly use my phone but I have a proper camera which is for my very specific use case.

I’ve been doing both of these most of my life, my father gave me my first camera around 10yo and I got into electronic music at about the same age.

My son is using my old camera a lot now, and he’s making music on his PC. Which is very pleasing to me.

Yes, yes, yes!

In fact, I think you could extend this to all art and possibly even to the online identity of all humans.

Guys, I’ll distract him, you get his bike!

Uplifting news

Sweet graffiti

Optimists unite

Normative determinism

They give me a bit of balance, along with the cats. Must have cats.

Early 2000s we started playing Typing of the Dead in our breaks so we could get the parts of work that needed typing done more quickly.

Still can’t type, I switched to swiping on phones the minute I could.

BMW iX3. It has both and is almost exactly like the X3 ICE predecessor.

With age, convenience features become more desirable. YMMV.

Football Manager phone versions.

All on Windows XP:

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Max Payne

Max Payne 2

Aliens Versus Predator 2

Half Life

COD 1,2 and 3

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

As you’ve discovered, Bose lead the way in ANC. The way to know if there’s a new model coming, is firstly to check the release date of the current one, and secondly to see if significant price cuts across retail are coinciding with the release schedule.

Failing that, or at least not being conclusive enough to make a decision, check retail at the usual seasonal sale periods. You can do this historically for additional info.

Don’t forget to check the manufacturers website as well.

That’s my guide to buying electronics.

but may eventually be placated if insects are unable to communicate and we develop convincing meat like insect protein forms.

Brave of you to assume enough insects will exist.

In practical terms, how realistic is it to just not allow the stuff to be made?

I see much less of it these days, which is great and it’s usually replaced with cardboard that I imagine is much easier to recycle.

Can we do away with completely? It’s such an awful substance, it grinds my gears, as they say.

I’ve used my Genelec for over 25 years for everything from mixing/mastering to house parties and home listening. They are indestructible and sound amazing. Never selling.

If this is what it looks like, then it’s about fucking time. Hopefully others will follow and it won’t be too late.