liquidzoot

Not from personal experience, but it seems that it's an all around decent synth/sequencer/sampler that makes a good musical scratchpad. People like it, and if I had a g to spare, I might join in.

Personally the association with Teenage Engineering makes me more concerned that this will not be as exciting as it sounds. TE's Op-1 is a fine piece of kit, but their recent offerings have been very underwhelming. Also the placement of the crank and the form factor look very un-ergonomic.

So org-babel but with pandoc? I'm on board.

Imagine writing drivers in elisp.

You should be careful with this, you'll wear a hole in your instruction set.

Yes, and like I said, money makes the consent given questionable at best. Threats of violence can also be used to negate consent. Social pressure applies as well. These factors do not disappear in so called amateur pornography.

Money is a coercive agent in any situation, and coerced sex acts are rape.

Pornography is more than hyperstimulation: the messages in pornography are hateful towards women and minorities. Coupling those messages with the reward of orgasm is going much further.

I realize that not everyone accepts that pornography is inherently harmful as a medium, and thought to avoid that discussion (which has been going on for longer than we've been alive) in favor of discussing how futile this act of faux solidarity is.

I'll go further than imply, and outright state that pornography is inherently and irredeemably bad. Enough has been written and said about it, so I'll leave that to you to sort out. I think though that for one of several dozen companies to shut down services just means that people will get it elsewhere, republican or not. They're just trying to look progressive, but real progress is fundamentally incompatible with their business.

I mean the porn. It seems like a non sequitur to withhold something ideologically compatible and inessential, plus the notion of pornographers fighting for equality is a joke.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Rude.

[outside the edit window] Thank you for pointing out that the study was done on rats, I must have glossed over that in my reading. Carry on.

Obligatory reminder that since gender is not innate, studies of male/female brain differences are as likely to be showing the cumulative effect of years of social differences on neurochemistry, as they are to show biological differences between the sexes.

I don't think that this 'fake humanitarianism' is limited to the valley: this happens everywhere, and it really is terrible. Your gleeful materialism is pretty offensive too though. I can't really choose the lesser evil here.

Literally anything else.

I just work in a call center right now, but live in my scratch buffer all day long. Being able to go from note taking to evaluating elisp for quick calculations and never having to switch tools is great. Plus the main piece of software for taking orders is a horrendous java application, with all kinds of weird buggy behavior, so the more I can do with firefox + emacs the better.

I really don't understand what is being said here. How are folders a hard concept?

If someone's going to assert that socialism is bad, as an accepted fact, I really can't take them seriously. He also immediately calls his opponents children, and says that they want people to be "dependent" on the government; by contrast business owners aren't at fault for racial discrimination when they hire, that's apparently nobody's fault. How is it not racist that minorities would be hired, if only they didn't have to be paid as much as white people?

If you use VIM, that might be the best thing to do. Mine's mapped to Control.

I agree with this sentiment, but have some reservations about government ability to maintain neutrality. As things are, government doesn't understand how the technology works, and are ill equipped to regulate something they know so little about.