The section of the video on “scratch board art” claiming it was ubiquitous is very odd to me. I’ve never seen art in that style despite being of the generation that would have. It’s discussed in the video as if it was some kind of cultural touchstone of the era and I promise it was not.

Where and when are you from? It was commonplace in New York in the 1970s and 1980s, both for small business signs and school art projects.

Er, no. You’re greatly underestimating or misunderstanding the forces involved here. “Instantly pulverized” barely even begins to describe it.

In the video in the thread, it seems to go from fully extended airplane to pancake in about two frames, which is, again, harrowing, horrible.

It's basically airframe to dust in three frames, so maybe a 1/20th of a second. The moment of impact would have been mercifully quick.

Nerve impulses travel at about 120 m/s, max, and that's along long myelated runs. Cohering raw pain signal into the experience of pain takes at least 150 msec according to the best measurements we have on the topic.

The vertical speed of the plane alone at last reported speed indication exceeds the speed of neuron transmission along myelated nerve tissue. This impact event is mechanically impossible to feel.

Unfortunately, even at a descent rate of 30,000 feet per minute you've got a full minute to anticipate the impact before you don't feel it.

Yes! This seems like such a patently obvious thing that it’s amazing it needs to be said. Yes! There are national security concerns with China having detailed transportation data from other countries! Good god I feel like I’m taking crazy pills that I have to type this.

I bet if you ran the analysis for Aja you wouldn’t hear 100% perfect quantization.

No need to bet. You are right. It wasn’t possible at the time.

Legend was that the title track is all musicians in one room recorded live in a single take.

I posted then deleted some anecdotes I heard at NAMM or AES from Gary Katz thirty years ago, but found this Sound on Sound article about the sessions which is way better than my memory. https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-steel...

I had never heard the Steve Gadd version of Peg. It sounds so different, more “upright”: https://youtu.be/WcrQ20UCxiM

FYI it’s Chesterton’s Fence, named after writer G. K. Chesterton.

Fixed, thanks!

The point is that a slightly slower delivery feels like a rather small reason; for tolerating the collape the entire market of online purchases to a single abusive and monopolistic marketplace that is actively reducing the quality, trustwortiness and safety of everything we buy.

The reason everything else is worse than Amazon is itself because of Amazon. Once you've taken over the entire market; subsidising your delivery networks to the moon keeps the moat.

Amazon is just rentseeking the entire US consumer market while being a rather bad online marketplace. The only solution left is a antitrust breakup.

Feel free to look up the percentage of the CA tax base by 50th, 90th, 95th, 99th and 99.9th percentiles. The myth that billionaires don’t pay their fair share is just that - a myth. A lot of lower income people don’t pay any tax at all and have their state services entirely subsidized by the rest, the vast majority of which is paid by the richest 5%. Every time I see a call to tax the billionaires I know I’m hearing from a fool too partisan to look at really simple to understand numbers.

I canceled almost all streaming services this year and kept YouTube Premium, and honestly it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. Watching costs spiral out of control of just absolutely garbage is insane to witness. I cannot imagine spending hundreds of dollars a year to watch __any__ of the what is largely low effort, low budget trash barely a step beyond the crappiest reality TV. And for the rare diamond in the rough I can almost buy those separately, à la carte, and not have to give a crap when it canceled after a singe season.

I used to sort of scoff at the idea of streaming services being a bad deal, now I can’t even imagine paying for them. They’re so awful. They make me wish we had cable still!

This is a level of cope even I wouldn’t have thought reachable.

Hoka is big in the running market but that’s basically all. Same with New Balance. I think where Hoka got lucky was with the explosion of popularity of running and Nike failing to understand their need to offer a fashion running product not just a performance running product. Hoka did and reaped massive rewards as a result.

New Balance were Dad shoes 10 years ago but somehow they are now fashionable in the UK (also Asics).

I'd literally never heard of Hoka or On in my life though before this thread and they do not look fashionable