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What exactly is 'Iran’s fuck up? ’

I have had liberals on every social media site I am on tell me if Trump wins then I, a nonbinary person, deserve to be hate crimed for not supporting Harris, so yeah… I do think that. If genocide isn’t a red line, what makes you think queer rights would be?

The parts of the community that stan democrats tend to be white so I think they’ll stay on board bc white people tend to choose whiteness over all else

The Supreme Court will hand it to Trump 6-3 and the Dems will still blame Jill Stein.

I kind of think they’ll blame Chappell Roan and use it as an excuse to be homophobic.

those libs are gonna be fine and they’ll get to play The Resistance again (which they love doing) so they’re not punished either.

it always was. That was even part of the justification the centrists used to gut the private option out of it. I’m not saying they were honest about their intentions to build upon it, but the ACA was sold to progressives during Obama’s first term as a strategic compromise. of course the fact that the democrats negotiated with themselves to water it down proves it wasn’t, but they at least campaigned for it that way.

what kind of music are you trying to do? A lot of pro music producers use reference tracks of other people’s songs that sound similar to what they want to do and reverse engineer the sound they want based off that. Even if you’re just starting out, beginning your project with an idea of what you want the end product to sound like is very helpful. You’ll be surprised how much more you’ll pick up even from Googling “DIY (genre) recording techniques” vs the more general DIY recording one.

Secondly, bug the shit out of your friends who are better to see what you can learn. I’ve never met anyone who’s into recording that doesn’t like nerding out about gear and recording techniques. You’re not even really bothering your friends bc they will get to feel smart and talented.

Another thing, are you going direct into the interface with no effects/plugins? If so, then you’re probably not hearing something “bad” as much as you’re hearing what your guitar sounds like naturally. Guitar is a wimpy instrument on its own so a lot of times people who record direct in will use amp simulators to bring back the more “natural” guitar tones. On the flip side, synth can be too loud going in which causes digital distortion that sounds bad, so you might need to turn your volume down. You may already know this stuff but a lot of people don’t. Try messing around with the effects in whatever recording app you have as well bc they might help you get a more professional sound.

Honestly being mindful of your volume in general is key to making good sounding recordings. Try to keep your signal from going into the red in your recording app. There’s probably a sweet spot for recording volume with your equipment that you can find through experimenting.

Like everyone else says practice recording as much as you can. I’d add to this that you should practice with intention. It’s kinda like my point about reference tracks but try going into a project with the mindset of “this song I’m gonna learn to do X” instead of “I’m gonna make something good.” Make a bunch of bad stuff while learning and eventually you’ll get the hang of it. You’ll even be able to revisit your old ideas so you can redo them in a way that sounds good eventually.

what kind of music are you trying to do? A lot of pro music producers use reference tracks of other people’s songs that sound similar to what they want to do and reverse engineer the sound they want based off that. Even if you’re just starting out, beginning your project with an idea of what you want the end product to sound like is very helpful. You’ll be surprised how much more you’ll pick up even from Googling “DIY (genre) recording techniques” vs the more general DIY recording one.

Secondly, bug the shit out of your friends who are better to see what you can learn. I’ve never met anyone who’s into recording that doesn’t like nerding out about gear and recording techniques. You’re not even really bothering your friends bc they will get to feel smart and talented.

Another thing, are you going direct into the interface with no effects/plugins? If so, then you’re probably not hearing something “bad” as much as you’re hearing what your guitar sounds like naturally. Guitar is a wimpy instrument on its own so a lot of times people who record direct in will use amp simulators to bring back the guitar tones you’re used to hearing. On the flip side, synth can be too loud going in which causes digital distortion that sounds bad, so you might need to turn your volume down. You may already know this stuff but a lot of people don’t. Try messing around with the effects in whatever recording app you have as well bc they might help you get a more professional sound.

Honestly being mindful of your volume in general is key to making good sounding recordings. Try to keep your signal from going into the red in your recording app. There’s probably a sweet spot for recording volume with your equipment that you can find through experimenting.

Like everyone else says practice recording as much as you can. I’d add to this that you should practice with intention. It’s kinda like my point about reference tracks but try going into a project with the mindset of “this song I’m gonna learn to do X” instead of “I’m gonna make something good.” Make a bunch of bad stuff while learning and eventually you’ll get the hang of it. You’ll even be able to revisit your old ideas so you can redo them in a way that sounds good eventually.

it doesn’t line up with the amount of restraint they’ve exhibited with Israel. Trying to influence the election is just the sort of thing that will get both parties to back an Iranian-Israeli conflict even harder

yeah but the longer the war in Ukraine goes, the closer we get to nuclear war

Also this lol

i was in the gifted program and i felt like all it did was make people more pretentious.

i tried to get my friends to come here! i have a few that are always complaining about reddit and i know this site would scratch the same itch for them while not having all the reddit garbage but for whatever reason, they never checked it out.

Most people don’t know what Nitter is. Most people aren’t “the most dangerous users,” they’re lazy, so any extra steps is a deterrent. Keeping the weak deterrent is still a net positive.

The types of posts i’m talking about here aren’t things like “this is where i live” but innocuous things that transphobes or racists decide to take out of context. I would post all these things publicly but it’s good to be able to make them more private from the freaks who are gonna freak out bc I said trans kids exist and put me in a cringe compilation to encourage others to harass me. Twitter never made it impossible to do that, but Elon’s making it easier.

because i’ve been using it for years and it’s the social media platform all my friends are on. i’m a nonbinary communist, they’re all owned by people who hate me.

The current system makes it harder because you have to create a new account. There are people who are either too dumb to realize they can do that or just won’t bother jumping through the extra hoops. Obviously it’s not perfect, but it’s better than doing this.

And being worried about stalking is extremely counter to posting something publicly.

Using Twitter on private kinda sucks. It makes the site less fun. All this is doing is making it so the creeps can have more fun on the site while marginalized people being harassed by those creeps have a worse experience on the site. not sure why y’all are defending this but whatever.

i’ll be praying for…him.

It never made sense that blocking someone stopped them from seeing your public posts

Yes it does. It’s actually good to make it harder to stalk people. Yes, it wasn’t a perfect system but every layer of extra work makes it harder to harass people who blocked you is good.

The podcast he did was so funny. I loved the bit where he’d write the worst jokes ever on cards and try to get his guests to tell them on air. I also always lost it when he’d talk about how Hitler was “a really bad guy” for some reason.

I also think his WTF with Maron episode was super interesting.

My high school band wrote a country song called “dead dog in a pick up truck” that talked about how my wife left me so we could audition to play at a local bar (which looking back was super sketchy to allow us in to begin with.)