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Polyrhythms and polymeters are still patterns. They're often harder to perceive and follow than your typical 4/4, but we're still searching for the beat and bobbing our heads to the complex patterns it creates.

That's not "self hosting" related tho lol

So American/NFL rules, apparently. CFL field including endzones is 8152m², NFL is 5350m².

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_Canadian_football

Lufa has a pretty good concept. We used them for a while, in the middle of the pandemic, before we moved out of their coverage zone. Decent amount of dropoff points, we got a big reusable tub full of stuff every week. The pricing was comparable to buying at the grocery store, but the stuff was generally much fresher.

Now, the downside: I actually started to miss those whispers. They were my voice, after all, and they were not only distractions, but also my emotions, my creativity, my wit, my charm. It's not that those things are all gone, but they are certainly subdued, muted.

YMMV on this. I absolutely do not miss the brain chatter whenever it starts again. I do not consider it to be "my voice", but the thing that's making it quieter than I'd like.

Oh, that's for sure. The thing is, you need to be open to the idea that there could be contradictions to realize they are there. If you approach your readings already believing that you are a mere sinner who, in the end, can't really understand God's Plan™, it gets easier to brush off the inconsistencies.

That's why I said "as a general rule". I'm not sure I would consider fundamentalists to be representative of your average Christian - their whole thing is Biblical literalism, after all... I was raised Catholic, in an era where we still had religious courses in school, and I can pretty safely say that pretty much nobody read it outside the bare minimum they had to for First Communion/Confirmation/wedding prep.

You have to be particularly dumb to read the old and new testaments

Do you legitimately think that the same people who get into organized religion, that buy into thought systems that tell them how things are supposed to be and how they should feel about stuff, as a general rule have read their own source material that meticulously?

I had excellent grades in elementary school, then in high school it became excellent grades in subjects that interested me. It's when I got to college and university that it became more like "struggling to get anything done at all cause I forgot about or pushed back every assignment". A lifetime of winging it didn't prepare me at all for courses where I couldn't review the material 15 minutes before the exam and hope for decent grades lol

Aphex Twin is one of those artists that, on paper, I should be all over. I know how intricate his music is, I can hear his talent for sound design, I usually love that kind of geeky, overtly complex music. But when I actually sit down and listen to it... it just doesn't do it for me, I get bored after two tracks. I have no idea why.

centrist and progressive politics have failed to address these effects more recently

I'm more criticizing the very idea that we ever put a remotely progressive government in power in that time period. We've been alternating between centrist liberalism and conservatist neoliberalism that whole time. What are we expecting out of this, exactly?

Plenty of construction doesn't mean plenty of the construction we needed. How much of it was condos nobody can afford in city centers? How much public housing was built in those same decades, as compared to previously? How many starter homes?