Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh?
Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...
something something "things I don't find funny are objectively bad and wrong and you're a bad person, be a boring serious miserable adult like everyone else" something something
I feel like there's confusion regarding the word "mature". It's supposed to mean that someone has lots of experience and draws knowledge from it, but in reality often people use the word "mature" to describe a certain specific societal ideal of a person that we're supposed to grow into.
The problem is that societal consesus is often wrong, and that image of a perfectly mature person actually does have a lot of problems with it. Every generation discovers this, and redefines that ideal.
40 years ago in my country a "mature man" was expected to take part in alcohol drinking contests until blackout. Nowadays a "mature man" is expected to drink as little alcohol as possible.
Neither attitude is actually about learning and forming a personal, informed opinion, both of them are about following whatever is currently in fashion.
I'm not following your reasoning. Your only objection is that this technology has the potential to meaningfully replace meat production? And therefore, because it is so amazing, no one should be allowed to profit off of it after they do a big chunk of initial R&D?
This legislation is not doing anything at all to help the research go further. It's a bare-naked stifling of a technology that threatens to thin the wallets of a few rich, loud constituents with lobbyists in the building, and probably a healthy dose of emotional whining about some kind of values or tradition being under attack.
Make sure no one is cutting corners in a way that will poison people when food is involved, but otherwise, just let the free market do its thing. I thought that was meant to be the American way.
Yep, innovation shouldn't be blocked just to protect old interests. What happens if labgrown meat replaces traditional farming?
Right now, anyone can raise animals—even a few chickens or cows—with little money or tech. That's how small farmers, rural families, and backyard producers have fed themselves for centuries. It's about independence, not just food. It's about control over your own livelihood.
Lab-grown meat is different. It needs expensive tech, sterile labs, patents, and big investors. If it becomes the main source of meat, only a few corporations will control the whole system.
Worse, future laws could ban personal animal farming—citing environment or health reasons—and make lab meat the only legal option. Suddenly, you can't raise your own food anymore. You can only buy it from a company.
That's not progress. That's a takeover. We're trading decentralized, accessible food production for a centralized, corporate-controlled model most people can't join.
We shouldn't stop innovation. But we should make sure it doesn't erase the ability of ordinary people to grow their own food. Regulation isn't about protecting tradition; it's about protecting choice, fairness, and food sovereignty.
Let innovation thrive, but not at the cost of our freedom to feed ourselves.
"hey, speeding down the highway 35mph over the limit could kill you, especially if you are fat and old. you SHOULD drive under the speed limit, but you don't have to."
No, the point is that it could kill other people. Speed all you want when you're on your own private roads.
Laws are generally meant to ensure public safety and the ability for us to live and cooperate together with mutual trust. They usually do end up restricting your personal freedoms to that end. Deal with it.
Someone just read Atlas Shrugged for the first time.
Despite the attractive purity of this worldview, modern technology and prosperity has only been possible because of the wide spread of reason, empathy, cooperation, and mutual respect on a global scale. Greed and consolidation of wealth are a much more ancient tactic that has in fact been tried many times over, usually to utter ruin. The only reason billionaires thrive so much right now is because we are all thriving much more than ever before in history, and the only reason THAT has happened is because we finally arrived at decent societal compromises and universal guarantees. It was meaningful sharing of power and respect for each others' ideas and differences that enabled all of this - the core tenets of democracy, for one. And yes, it was and still is 'socialist' ideas like building shared infrastructure and societal safety nets that establishes and actively enables the environment in which capitalism is able to succeed.
Stop trying to distill things down to a one-dimensional, teenage view of the world. It's much more complex and beautiful than that.
> Stop trying to distill things down to a one-dimensional, teenage view of the world. It's much more complex and beautiful than that.
Are you thinking more of Narendra Modi or Donald Trump when you you say that? Democracy tends to be more of the one-dimensional teenage view of the world; ye olde voters do not do well when presented with complex ideas. They don't have the time or interest.
This is one of the cases where it seems more justified than usual. This is not a website intended for end users, maximizing for performance and conversion rate. It's a design showcase by a typographer, for typographers. Every pixel is crucial, and the intended audience would rather wait a few seconds to be able to scrutinize the output with the required detail.
I don't know which demo you mean exactly, but 'analog' qualities can be achieved in a number of simple ways in the digital realm (without even getting into advanced modeling). A few of them:
- Focusing on upper harmonic content. Starting with a saw wave gets you far here, as it starts with _all_ the odd and even harmonics which you can then gently trim away. In particular, even harmonics in the mid range are often described as 'warm.'
- Using resonant filters. These too contribute to a sense of richness and warmth, especially if the resonant peak is closer to the mid range.
- Adding a sub oscillator below the primary one to give it a subtle low hum.
- Adding more oscillators and detuning them slightly with respect to each other for stereo width and play in the harmonics.
- Modulating pitch and filter parameters with slow, gentle LFOs.
What then should we call technologies that have multiple significantly lower cost, more versatile, more ubiquitous, and more interoperable alternatives available?
Yes, exactly. Medicine is progressing very quickly and I don't understand where these people get this idea that modern science is fake.
We have big and complex problems, sure. Yeah we're taking a stab at more complex issues, like anxiety and depression. Which, might I remind everyone, had a solution of "idk lock them up I guess" until about 40 years ago.
It's almost never been a question of how to execute the repair - rather, it's a matter of repercussions for repairing 'yourself' (or authorizing a third party to on your behalf). Actors like John Deere and Apple have taken steps that are actively hostile to self-repairs, from voiding service agreements that have nothing to do with the repaired parts, up to bricking your device.
Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...
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