I don't want to burn out my battery quicker than usual, so I was forced to switch off. I'm currently trying Orion instead and have been loving it - aside from several poorly implemented websites just not working on it. And the Cloudflare false positives, but that's as much or more an issue on Zen.

This is a debatable goalpost. It seems more reasonable to me to assume that meeting basic shelter needs includes having a private room to oneself. The only reason to argue otherwise is to try to drive down the wage further, and is that at all necessary? Renting a private room was possible on nearly any wage 50 years ago, and the only reason it seems out of reach for many now is because purchasing power has been slowly stagnating for decades, while housing costs have soared in recent times. Yet this whole time, GDP continues to rise. It seems that our society can easily support much higher minimum wages (and this would likely have only a positive effect of stimulating the economy), but simply chooses not to.

Hi-fi speakers, tube amps, and other accessories generally "degrade" the sound with added harmonics and natural smile EQs. That's what makes them sound more pleasing.

(I'm not disagreeing with you, just adding more color.)

Of course, with the rampant anti-intellectualism burning a path through our institutions, we're currently doing our best to kill that and make sure we fall behind in every respect.

Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...

This legislation is not doing anything at all to help the research go further. It's a bare-naked stifling of a technology that threatens to thin the wallets of a few rich, loud constituents with lobbyists in the building, and probably a healthy dose of emotional whining about some kind of values or tradition being under attack.

Make sure no one is cutting corners in a way that will poison people when food is involved, but otherwise, just let the free market do its thing. I thought that was meant to be the American way.

No, the point is that it could kill other people. Speed all you want when you're on your own private roads.

Laws are generally meant to ensure public safety and the ability for us to live and cooperate together with mutual trust. They usually do end up restricting your personal freedoms to that end. Deal with it.

Despite the attractive purity of this worldview, modern technology and prosperity has only been possible because of the wide spread of reason, empathy, cooperation, and mutual respect on a global scale. Greed and consolidation of wealth are a much more ancient tactic that has in fact been tried many times over, usually to utter ruin. The only reason billionaires thrive so much right now is because we are all thriving much more than ever before in history, and the only reason THAT has happened is because we finally arrived at decent societal compromises and universal guarantees. It was meaningful sharing of power and respect for each others' ideas and differences that enabled all of this - the core tenets of democracy, for one. And yes, it was and still is 'socialist' ideas like building shared infrastructure and societal safety nets that establishes and actively enables the environment in which capitalism is able to succeed.

Stop trying to distill things down to a one-dimensional, teenage view of the world. It's much more complex and beautiful than that.

- Focusing on upper harmonic content. Starting with a saw wave gets you far here, as it starts with _all_ the odd and even harmonics which you can then gently trim away. In particular, even harmonics in the mid range are often described as 'warm.'

- Using resonant filters. These too contribute to a sense of richness and warmth, especially if the resonant peak is closer to the mid range.

- Adding a sub oscillator below the primary one to give it a subtle low hum.

- Adding more oscillators and detuning them slightly with respect to each other for stereo width and play in the harmonics.

- Modulating pitch and filter parameters with slow, gentle LFOs.

Ironically, shocking claims about the scope of the replication crisis are themselves difficult to replicate.