TheRtRevKaiser
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The Flugelhorn is such a beautiful instrument! I almost had a chance to play a solo on one in my high school marching band, but the first chair trumpet stole it from me, lol.
I tend to like jazz that leans more latin, like Chuck Mangione or Arturo Sandoval. They’re both typically a little more upbeat than the example you gave, but of the two Mangione is definitely chiller than Sandoval, some of Sandoval’s stuff gets pretty frenetic.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•Thousands rally in 'Hands Off' protests against Trump policies and Musk-led government cuts11·26 days agoI think the thing that has been most encouraging to me about these protests is seeing pictures folks in small towns and deep red states are posting of protests there.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Gaming@beehaw.org•[Enter the Gungeon 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2339840/Enter_the_Gungeon_2/)4·28 days agoHey just FYI, links in the post title don’t work on Beehaw. Here’s the link to the steam store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2339840/Enter_the_Gungeon_2/
I loved the first EtG and played a ton of it. I’m not entirely sold on the new 3d art style, but I’ll try to give it a fair shot once it gets here.
Also, the original Enter the Gungeon is available on Xbox Game Pass for any of you folks that have it. It’s absolutely worth checking out.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Music@beehaw.org•Imagine Dragons: ‘The worst band ever’ or a refuge for young fans?4·1 month agoIMO Stevie T is best taken in very small doses.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Music@beehaw.org•Imagine Dragons: ‘The worst band ever’ or a refuge for young fans?5·1 month agoMy kids are obsessed with Imagine Dragons. Honestly it could be worse, but it could also definitely be better. They’re mostly just kind of there, although some of the songs definitely get grating when they’ve been played 200 times 😅
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”36·1 month agoI’m on board with Eno here. There are issues with the current wave of generative AI, but the main reason they are such huge problems is the people who are pushing these technologies have zero concern for the potential social harms they could cause or exacerbate.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts2·1 month agoPlease have the common sense not to call for violence on a public forum, especially one run by other people. I get where you’re coming from, but it’s doing anyone any good.
This kind of behavior is antithetical to Beehaw’s ethos. It’s fine to be dismissive of systems, but ever user here is a person who should be treated with kindness and respect. Please do better in the future.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica4·1 month agoor not enough of a gamer
Yeah, Discord’s easy/free voice chat was the reason it got so popular. It was so much easier to use than any of the alternatives, and in-game VC was a mixture of piss-poor quality and full of toxic 14 year olds.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality2·1 month agoThe audience for an author’s gripping life story in every goddamn recipe was never humans, either. That was just for Google’s algorithm. I know this sentiment gets repeated a lot, but I’m not sure it’s universally true. I know back in 2012/2012 my wife was very invested in a bunch of bloggers along the lines of Pioneer Woman. A lot of the posts on those blogs were a mixture of personal anecdotes and recipes and I know my wife was there for both. It’s frustrating when you’re ready to cook and just want the recipe, but that’s not the only (or maybe even the primary) way that a lot of these cooking/homemaking blogs were made to be consumed, I don’t think.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•Louisiana to use nitrogen execution method it bans for cats and dogs8·2 months agoProponents say that that it should be a relatively humane method of execution: Nitrogen is inert and the body doesn’t react to breathing pure Nitrogen with a feeling of suffocation the way that it does with CO2, and suddenly replacing the air a person is breathing with pure inert gas can lead to unconsciousness within just one or two breaths. In practice, though, the first Nitrogen Gas execution that was carried out in Alabama last year did not go that smoothly. I’m not sure about subsequent executions, there have been a handful.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in112·2 months agoHey @[email protected], I realize you’re not trying to be hurtful to anyone in this comment (except maybe Musk, but honestly fuck that guy) but including a common condition that many folks live with in a list of things that make Musk a bad manager likely is hurtful to those people, even if that’s not your intention. If Elon does have ADHD, that’s clearly not the problem since I suspect we all know tons of people with ADHD who are a) great at their jobs and b) not trying to dismantle the United States. In the future, please try to “Be(e) Nice”.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgto LGBTQ+@beehaw.org•CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast2·2 months agoI assumed that was probably the case, but Poe’s Law and all.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgto LGBTQ+@beehaw.org•CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast12·2 months ago/s <– I hope you dropped this…
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Gaming@beehaw.org•Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty"63·2 months agoIf you can’t tell the difference between being upset that a game was made badly and being cruel to the developers, you may need to take a step back.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.3·2 months agoSorry, I just realized that you might take that as directed at you. I realize that sometimes the NYT is the best or only source for news, I’ve just been very frustrated with the NYT, especially when it comes to stuff like this.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.4·2 months agoThis is a bad headline and it lends credence to the GOP framing that Trump and Elon are “cutting waste” and “saving money”. Musk didn’t “save” 8 billion OR 8 million dollars, he illegally halted payment for 8 million dollars worth of government services. Whether those services were wasteful or not has not been examined at all, as evidenced by these absolute clowns accidentally firing critical government workers who oversee things like nuclear arms and monitoring avian influenza. Multiple times these people have admitted to accidentally firing people when they had no idea what those people were doing and how the firings would affect citizens. We can not roll over and allow them to frame this the way they want to.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website5·3 months agoPlease don’t post full article text in post bodies or comments. If you want to help people read a paywalled article, feel free to post an archive link.
I can’t tell for sure, but it doesn’t look like Revolt has voice chat yet? Which was what attracted my friend group to Discord initially.