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The KLF were integral music to me in my youth, not to mention being the progenitor of one of my favorite bands to this day, *The Orb. So I was much surprised to learn...


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The KLF were intentionally an overt satire of [then] popular dance music. The pair started off with little to no inclination for music, but after witnessing others create with ease using sampling, started in on it for themselves. They literally had a formula for making hit songs that the masses ate up for years. They eventually burnt out on the industry and its lack of self-awareness that these "frauds" hadn't been called out after topping charts for so long. They just up and quit, and literally burnt $1,000,000 of their "earnings" as their farewell "fuck you."

*Alex Paterson was a DJ that The KLF ruthlessly and surreptitiously sampled [from his DJ sets] earning themselves the ostensible title as the creators of Ambient House music. Alex Paterson went on to start his own band (The Orb) who have since garnered their own reputation as godfathers of Ambient/Ambient House music.
I've read that one of the members came to regret that stunt of burning a million pounds, thinking that the money could have gone to better use.
 
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I've read that one of the members came to regret that stunt of burning a million pounds, thinking that the money could have gone to better use.
Most likely. I mean, a million pounds has infinitely better uses than turning to ash in front of the eyes of an industry that cares little for whatever statement anyone wants to make about it. They were probably just so caught up in their subversive act (that had already gone too far) that they didn't think it through. Ironic that the inanity they were parodying bled into the act of parodying itself. I guess the music industry won in the end?

Despite the farce... "3am Eternal" is still a banger. KLF did indeed "rock me."

 
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That using a sanding block is a pain in the arse. I’m very close to ruining the bevelling(?) or whatever they call the fancy edging on wood work because it took 30 minutes to properly sand about 6 inches worth of this fancy shit while my power sander is whispering “Deww Iiit” in my ears.
 

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If this turns out to hold up in future research, would've called it years ago, not from cleverness or anything respectable like that, but an extended period of isolated, rambling withdrawal off a research chemical (can't even Google what it was called anymore cause all results keep coming back with nothing but "FENTANYL!" "FENTANYL REDUX" "FENTANYL BEGINS!" "SHADOW OF FENTANYL!!" "FENTANYL RISES!" "FENTANYL BEYOND!" "FENTANYL INFINITY!" "FENT8NYL!" The algorithm has lost its goddamn mind.) and would like to unethically capitalise somehow of those psychic powers now. Hit me up, CIA: I harbour no, absolutely zero loyalty!


Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an unusual explanation of consciousness as a quantum effect...that actually now may have some proof after all

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0:00 Human consciousness and quantum mechanics
0:55 New study about tryptophan
1:30 Penrose proposes consciousness is quantum
3:30 But quantum states are difficult to produce
4:25 Stuart Hameroff explains it with microtubules and anesthesia
5:40 What is consciousness though?
7:20 Anesthesiology research is exciting
8:05 Tryptophan connection
9:25 Ok, microtubules - what are these?
10:35 Microtubules could be the source?
11:30 Disagreement with neuroscience
12:10 New proposition by Penrose and Hameroff
13:20 Basic explanation of everything
14:10 First negative experiment
15:25 Anesthesia experiment finds positive results
16:40 Recent paper shows tryptophan can create quantum effects
18:35 What this shows and why this is important
19:25 Potential medical breakthroughs?
 
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Ironic twist of fate to the toxic masculinity angle -

Wow, is he serious? I already don't prescribe to the whole "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" school of thought, but delineating "women's" role in "men's" behavior as if the they [women] have something to learn is a pretty bold and sexist statement to make. He seriously just described any relationship with toxic traits, and none of those traits are innately gender-specific.
 
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Wow, is he serious? I already don't prescribe to the whole "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" school of thought, but delineating "women's" role in "men's" behavior as if the they [women] have something to learn is a pretty bold and sexist statement to make. He seriously just described any relationship with toxic traits, and none of those traits are innately gender-specific.
Eh…maybe not innate, but can certainly be learned/ingrained behavior through dysfunctional/toxic social norms placed on either gender/sex/etc. Androgyny would probably curb a good deal of it, but that kind of society likely wouldn’t be nearly as profitable or exploitable.
 
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Eh…maybe not innate, but can certainly be learned/ingrained behavior through dysfunctional/toxic social norms placed on either gender/sex/etc. Androgyny would probably curb a good deal of it, but that kind of society likely wouldn’t be nearly as profitable or exploitable.
Then he should have framed his idea as such. Saying “women train men to be angry” (literally the title of the video) is too broad a stroke, offends women, and men too if I'm being honest. His video title blames women and excuses men for shitty behavior that is unacceptable of anyone of any gender in any relationship. He starts his video with and anecdote about what he felt was a bad relationship with a woman, and then just broadly applies his experience to "women;" that's just too stupidly myopic to take seriously. I mean, he was extremely vague even in recounting the anecdote; what “behavior” was he expecting her to change after trying to communicate his desire for said change? Was it he preferred her to wear thongs instead of granny panties? Because getting her to change to his liking sounds like a manipulative relationship, not one I’d aspire to be a part of.

His ideas are sound; his choice of language and assigning accountability along gender lines are not. "Women" are not legion, and neither are "men," so he cannot, in good faith, prescribe healthy communication and attitudinal adeptness in relationships in general if his basis is "women are this way, so men turn out that way."
 
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PhotoRec is amazing. Recovered pretty much everything from a flash drive that suddenly refused to be recognized by any computer. Lost all the file structure and names, but it's still incredible. And it's free.
 

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PhotoRec is amazing. Recovered pretty much everything from a flash drive that suddenly refused to be recognized by any computer. Lost all the file structure and names, but it's still incredible. And it's free.
One of my friends is trying to get pictures off a flash drive and the only program (Restoration) I've used myself over the years is for data recovery quits out when it scans the drive.
 

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One of my friends is trying to get pictures off a flash drive and the only program (Restoration) I've used myself over the years is for data recovery quits out when it scans the drive.
Well give PhotoRec a try. It's really simple too, pretty much just point it at the drive and it does the rest. You can also use it to recover deleted files and scrub a drive by writing 0s to all the bits.