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New comment by baerrie in "Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence"

baerrie — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:58:21 +0000

A relationship with an instrument takes time. There are more factors than the mechanical use of an instrument, our hands and bodies feel things on subconscious levels, leading to emergent qualities that don’t fit neatly into “sounds better or worse”. For musicians and artists this is a no brainer, for those that haven’t experienced this I understand why you are incredulous but it doesn’t mean it is a throwaway factor.

New comment by baerrie in "Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence"

baerrie — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:44:55 +0000

It is none of those things despite being not easy to measure. There are many phenomena not empirically proven that science still mentions and theorizes about. The quantum theory of cognition points to something like a soul mattering more than it used to for example. There are countless scientific discussions involving unknown unknowns of our universe yet as soon as we go the opposite direction, into the unknown unknowns of our own experience, that is somehow unscientific?

New comment by baerrie in "Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence"

baerrie — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:18:00 +0000

Furthermore, there are many intangible qualities of the way an instrument resonates and feels while playing that often contributes more to the better playing than the raw sound itself. It’s strange to say but instruments have a sort of soul and that can inspire musicians which leads to better sound

New comment by baerrie in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

baerrie — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:17:34 +0000

No, they are organizing legally, of course there will be bad actors, but blocking an agent out of bad faith is certainly less of a crime than a bad faith ICE agent killing someone for their assumptions

New comment by baerrie in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

baerrie — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:15:51 +0000

Communicating to protest in a legal way is a civil right

New comment by baerrie in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

baerrie — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:55:42 +0000

This refers to physical impediments. Spreading legal information is not an impediment, it is free speech. If all info could be interpreted as impediments to federal officers then phones, the internet, the human voice, etc would be illegal

New comment by baerrie in "The Absent Silence (2010)"

baerrie — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:48:33 +0000

She says so eloquently what is such an obvious crime against consumers that we tolerate because we must. Modern serfdom is when “trust” turns to “must”.

New comment by baerrie in "In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended"

baerrie — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:59:41 +0000

This is the best way for ancient culture to survive.

New comment by baerrie in "Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s"

baerrie — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:27:18 +0000

True, I think this happened to my partner, she had to face the hard limits on her working style and therefore had to shift careers. Thankfully I changed careers 6 years ago preemptive of burnout, etc so I'm still growing skills-wise and motivated by that challenge

New comment by baerrie in "Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s"

baerrie — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:44:06 +0000

Anecdotally I’ve felt this shift over the past few years. I am 33 and have always been a huge proponent of personal growth, change, pushing yourself to be better. In the past few years Ive felt the opposite urge, an urge to accept myself, flaws and all, as the hand I’ve been dealt and I must merely play that hand, not focus so much on what-ifs, etc. Perhaps this is my brain solidifying.

New comment by baerrie in "Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years"

baerrie — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:32:17 +0000

The only testing we need to do is on nuclear adjacent software, some was recently hacked through a sharepoint vulnerability.

New comment by baerrie in "The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices"

baerrie — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:43:10 +0000

Profiting from a design failure indefinitely isn’t malice, it’s negligence that can still be considered criminal.

New comment by baerrie in "[dead]"

baerrie — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:50:50 +0000

He’s projecting his own guilt about his actions onto another. As the article implies, he is a top candidate for Antichrist if there is such a thing, and on some level he’s trying to avoid that truth.

New comment by baerrie in "RFK Jr. Must Go"

baerrie — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:15:14 +0000

We have life-saving allergy treatments that also can target digestive issues that we did not 5 years ago. We have vastly expanded research into chronic illnesses thanks to long covid putting viral fatigue syndrome on the map. Autism diagnosis has risen because research has expanded drastically. There have been major improvements because of existing systems, they do not require entire dismantling

New comment by baerrie in "Heroin addicts often seem normal"

baerrie — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:06:52 +0000

The existing state of society, economics, and governance in the US has led to many people and communities being left behind. Rather than support our people, we call them addicts and jail them for mental health issues. The US is an experiment in replacing true deep community bonds enjoyed by older nations with our purely fiscal bonds. A side-effect of this is that problems without lucrative solutions remain unsolved.

New comment by baerrie in "They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose"

baerrie — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:48:09 +0000

Humanities are why AI exist at all, talking about AI Safety musings as if that’s how humanities are relevant to AI is silly

New comment by baerrie in "They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose"

baerrie — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:44:10 +0000

Rigor is only valuable because the nuance of our existence, captured in the humanities and beyond the dichotomy of true or false, has been erroded away by an entire society built on top of abstract economic concepts in place of true communal bonds that sustained humanity since our inception. This is why Europe and many countries other than the US have healthier humanities, they still have some vestiges of true community that is the heart of humanity, not merely the honor among thieves we see in the US that unites us.

New comment by baerrie in "They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose"

baerrie — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:37:11 +0000

Coding does not equal logic. Language precedes every discipline and even the concept of rational rigor. The study of language, and the stabilization of its form, is what laid the groundwork for every discipline after including religion, math, philosophy, etc

New comment by baerrie in "They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose"

baerrie — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:32:50 +0000

Coding is not mathematics, mathematics is a deterministic axiomatic system for describing quanta. Coding is the creation of instructions for computational logic that then is persisted in non-absolute matter as state. “Engineering” did not create the internet, the desire to communicate in new ways, as humans have wished to do for millennia, led to the internet. I honestly don’t even know how physics created the web when it was literally created to share text documents

New comment by baerrie in "They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose"

baerrie — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:44:58 +0000

The humanities are why the internet exists. Coding is linguistics, writing is the key aspect of most software creation. Why then do we devalue this critical skill and those who wish to pursue its excellence? It seems most of ya’ll are content to make a fat check working a bs job in a marketing/business capacity where no real things of substance are being learned or progressed other than “how do i squeeze the utmost money out of the system”. Is this the world you continue to want to promote?