Landrin201

I've always like the idea that the Olympic events should have one "normal" person do them, at least for ones where that is plausible and makes sense (like racing events, maybe not stuff like the giant slalom or the ski jump)

Like, if you had a 9th swim lane and put a guy who swims 3 days a week in there for fitness, I guarantee he'd get completely smashed in a way that would really illustrate how much faster the Olympians are.

Usually I try to listen to a few different versions until I land on one that really clicks with me. It takes a little bit to really understand what that means. To me the orchestra is less important than the director. The music is always the same, but the director decides which parts will pop out the most, how fast the tempo is, and how he wants the orchestra to play parts.

I'll use the beethoven example again.

Here is the version that I don't like. That was the "familiar" version I knew, and I didn't like it so I never listened to this piece.

When I got into my current classical kick, I went to Spotify and stumbled on this version: https://open.spotify.com/track/4mw5oRBKNBfNV0dXAOIcne

I literally picked it because I thought the album cover was interesting because it had some color. A lot of classical albums are committed to black and white for some reason.

Googling a piece can help, especially if you search for like "beethoven 5th best recordings." You'll find a lot of opinions out there, and it can help you get a starting point for a given piece to go from.

If you find yourself wanting to go to a more "comfortable" version, it means something in the recording you're listening to isn't clicking with you. That's OK! Try to identify what it is that makes you not like that recording, and what the one you prefer does differently that makes you prefer it. It helps to write it down; if you make posts here or on Mastodon that may help a lot with articulating what you do or don't like (and boost engagement).

Seemingly "simple" things like "i think this section is too fast" or "the version I like has the horn section louder here, but this version focussed on the windpipes" really influence how you hear the music and make a big difference, and are completely valid reasons to prefer one recording over another.

Or we could just life the embargo and allow them to trade with the countries we have strong armed into not trading with them.

We have deliberately crippled the Cuban economy and are surprised they're asking us to stop.

Yeah NGL I loved that game. I obtained it... Maybe not legally so that I wouldn't give JKR money. But oh man did the kid in me who grew up with those books absolutely love it.

Though... The slytherin dudes plot goes kinda Hog wild.

Look. I really hate to be harsh here, but this is terrible advice.

Yes you'll lose weight because eating only 1500 calories a day is definitional malnutrition. Any "diet" which claims that is healthy is very literally encouraging people to develop eating disorders. You absurdly absolutely can't do it by "eating anything you want."

Unless you are doing this under strict super vision from a dietician and your doctor, for a specific medical reason, it is extremely dangerous and more likely to cause other problems with your overall health in the long run. You will almost certainly not get the nutrie ta your body needs to function correctly if you are not carefully monitoring what you are eating with professional help. You're also significantly more likely to end up with an eating disorder. These diets are extremely harmful, I hate seeing them literally everywhere.

You may have seen results in losing weight in such a "diet" because you were very literally starving your body of the calories it needs to function. That just isn't a healthy way to lose weight.

If your doctor is telling you that you are in good health and the only reason you want to lose weight is cosmetic, don't do it. Unless it is directly impacting your health and your doctor is recommending it and supervising it, forcing yourself to eat significantly less than what you need to function is not safe.

A lot of Muslim men wear what appear to me to be long white skirts, especially in the middle east and north Africa where wearing a flowing, loose garment that reflects lots of light is a practical measure for staying cool. I think it's called a Kandora?

My point is that such garments DO exist, they just aren't common in the west because of western views of male gender norms and Islam.

Mahlers 5th is good, but I think his 4th is better.

But my personal favorite is Beethoven's 5th. I used to HATE that symphony when I was a kid, my grandmother loved it and it bored me to tears.

Turns out the version she had on CD that she always listened to was the worst recording you can find of it. It was WAY too slow, it made the whole thing drag on. That symphony works best when it's damn near rushing. When I got back into classical a few months back I found the Berliner Philharmoniker playing it directed by Simon Rattle, and the sprint through that symphony, and it works SO MUCH BETTER. It was very clearly intended to be played fast, so many of the parts feel way more interesting and there's sections where each part of the orchestra feels like it's tripping over the others to be heard.

He's incredibly good at turning experiences into words. Allentown is still relevant today, the way he wrote it it just describes so many peoples American experience.

But he did that a lot. Where I think he's best with it is more emotional songs, he really captures whatever emotion he's getting into words well. Like, Captain Jack does a good job of telling the story of someone in small town America, but I always heard it as a song about depression. All this stuff is happening around you and you're just kinda there for it, not really feeling much of anything.

Or how he captures that nervous feeling about meeting a girl for the first time in Get it Right the First Time. He is so good at getting emotion into music.

Lots of classic rock. Billy Joel, led zeppelin, etc.

But lately I've been on a classical music kick.

Yep bitwarden is the best

Yep, that's basically the only LED that I miss. I used to REALLY like that LED light that would flash to tell me what notifications I had. Different colors for different notifications.

At night I'd just flop the phone over so it doesn't light the room up.