the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@codl what's this?
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@Austin_Dern I believe they're marketed at audiophiles too
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I wonder if anyone ever made a record that had two or more spiral grooves intertwined, so that every time you put down the stylus you got an effectively-random selection from a bunch of different choices
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@Austin_Dern i'm not sure how much of it is rule-of-cool because-lasers and how much of it is people wanting to preserve their discs by not touching them (not that a properly weighted stylus really does much to the disc unless you play it tens of thousands of times)
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@Austin_Dern you can actually get record players that *play* the record optically these days

they work... abysmally. they can't play picture discs or weird-colored discs at all, and even on plain black discs they react really badly to any amount of dust on the record at all
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@Austin_Dern Those exist! I have no idea how well they work but there have been record players that can identify where tracks start and end

i think they use optical methods but i'm not sure of the details
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why do blocks on telegram not do a thing if people are talking in a public chatroom
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@Oneironott like you!
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@heatherhorns in general if we're banned from anywhere or blocked by anyone i would appreciate knowing why

but also i get it if they don't want to say why
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@owashii@plush.city i'd be surprised if a squirrel fell on my head too!
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@Taylor You're extremely cute!
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@Dex Ah, then yes, that sounds like they got your information from some other way.
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@Dex It's generally not hard to get geographical location to the resolution of a postcode just from your IP address, though, unless you use some method of disguising your IP. It may not have been a data breach.
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@LexYeen by "real conspiracies" i mean like, corrupt politicians or the entire institution of capitalism
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@LexYeen Conspiracy theory: all the wild conspiracy theories are intentionally invented and propagated to distract from real conspiracies

actually that's... distressingly plausible
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yes, including emoji
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someone should make up cursive versions of every unicode character
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@patchwork It's real nice to just, make things, isnt' it?
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@LexYeen (note that there's a difference here between an unpleasant experience and a traumatic one--it's entirely possible to be completely physically unharmed but still have a traumatic experience. but i would be very surprised if eating an incredibly spicy gummy bear would be traumatic)
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@LexYeen There's also the fact that it's not actual harm, capsaicin *hurts* but it doesn't actually hurt you, if that makes sense? like sure that kid had an unpleasant experience but they'll be fine
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