Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 22

@karen Because mid-winter is only two months away.

Neither will I. Pencils are too thin to wind tapes with. You need a BIC pen.

Kraftwerk once described themselves as "German industrial folk musicians". I find that description to be very apt. Embrace the machines, the concrete and the robots, and enjoy them in a simple manner.

https://youtu.be/cQe9eK_4U0U

With very minor modifications of and the removal of the vocals, this old Kraftwerk track is basically a hip-hop track.

Later remasters of the song bring it even closer, but they are worse revisionists than George Lucas, so you have to hunt down older releases of their material before you make any statements about them.

They probaby like to cultivate the image that they were ahead of their time, thus why their modernised rereleases are rarely explicitly labeled as such.

Listen to this Kraftwerk track from 1981 and tell me this isn't house music: https://youtu.be/bu55q_3YtOY

Listening to Kraftwerk is always a stark reminder of how influential they still are. I'm listening to this and it sounds like trap, dubstep or hip-hop mixed with vapourwave, and the truth is of course that they all heavily borrowed from Kraftwerk. It's widely known that the house scene in Detroit pretty much erupted because Kraftwerk came there to play a concert, and black musicians realised it was possibly to be funky in a highly unfunky way.

@jk Wait, someone named a synth GRANDMOTHER? As in the grandmother of all synths? Or just a cute granny synth that you play in your rocking chair in front of the fireplace with a cat on your lap?

@cocoron Also, intersectionality is inconvenient. Instead of being able to draw attention to yourself as uniquely oppressed, you are suddenly just one of many voices competing for attention. Taken to its extreme, everyone belongs to a minority of some kind. There are also minorities that are openly and willfully oppressed and few are willing to defend because everyone else perceives their behaviour as sick and harmful (paedophiles), but that subject is a whole other barrel of dynamite...

@cocoron What you say about British feminism is also extremely true of Scandinavia. Feminism is establishment politics, female prime ministers are the new normal, and half the parliament are women. Also, some teenagers are saying very sexist things because they know it'll provoke their parents. Immigration/religion also gets a say, but it's always the same people, typically descendents of Pakistanis who have joined the political establishment and are so moderate as to be Muslims in name only.

@jk A tiny finger on a huge arm playing the keyboard.

@cocoron This is why right wing populism is so, uh, popular. Politics and public discourse are dominated by toffs, and that applies to every developed country. The aristocracy of 19th century Europe has been reinstated. It just has a different name now.

If history truly does repeat itself, we are about to have a war or a revolution.

@Algot It's a box for gamers. It combines two 5.1 signals (such as two computers) into a single 5.1 signal for feeding into a shared input (such as a 5.1 speaker system). It allows you to control the volumes and monitor them on a front panel display with buttons. It's also fairly specific. All the generic problems has already been solved by the big name brands.

@Algot *as per today

@Algot I think I have a couple of audio circuits that I could probably touch up and order some boards for, but they have rather specific applications. One of them is for connecting a lapel microphone to the line input of an computer audio interface or a mixing desk, the other is for connecting an electric guitar or bass to the microphone input of a mixing desk or computer audio interface. Musician's tools. My only consumer facing design today is the project I'm designing right now.