Just an FYI - the "is a hotdog a sandwich" part is actually from a super popular podcast called exactly that (in that the people giving the "answer" and arguing are the hosts of the show). They go into tons of other topics. I assume this is more just showing off some popular people rather than being an actual answer.
When courts still use lie detector tests and first person accounts as evidence (both of which have been proven to be close to useless), this will take a while for an actual solution to come by.
So-called "lie detectors" are based on pseudoscience. They are just as much "investigative tool" as a kazoo can be used for drilling a hole in concrete.
Even in music it is not that helpful to be honest. Eg. most live shows you tune the instruments to the piano. If the piano is slightly out of tune, someone with perfect pitch will be annoyed the entire time trying to deal with that while everyone else hears a perfectly good concert.
having good relative pitch is way more useful.
Many musicians with perfect pitch have also been really obsessed with tuning in their recordings and it sets off a lot of anxiety for them cause they can hear themselves the smallest amount off, when no one else can and the performance makes it a perfect take to use in the song.
It can be helpful I guess for composing, but as someone who does composing, it's not hard to just tinker with a piano to get the notes I want, no need to be able to perfectly hum them when I think of them.
I get it - they are in a tough situation but... This is not the best way to go about it.
First time seeing the site - it's hard to navigate, small fonts that are hard to read and tons of text all squished together. Then when I read, what is essentially a sales pitch and I still don't know what they DO.
Like - you tease "but just look at what you get in return…" but don't actually answer what you are - or how you are different from a million other publications.
Sure, you don't have a ping pong table, but can you tell me why I should pick you over say the NYTimes Music section? Or some other indie music magazine?
This sounds like I am crapping all over them, and I guess I am a bit, but I just get frustrated when people can't be clear about a differentiator. Tell me WHY I should pick you over everyone else, THEN tell me pricing and perks.
I think the target audience of this is people who already regularly read the site and know what it is, but haven't subscribed. It's not an external ad to attract new readers.
From my experience, they find interesting new artists well before you're likely to hear about their work on the NYTimes, Guardian, or MSM music publication. They are particularly good at catering to listeners with an interest in experimental and ambient music.
I guess my issue is figuring out where the value is?
There are legal procedures for anything important (eg. financial accounts). You don't need the password, you just go through the legal frameworks that have been set up for years.
Almost everything else mentioned just doesn't matter that much. My personal site? Why would my wife want access? I guess maybe to put a "good bye" not or something but in the long run it doesn't matter.
My emails? Again, why would my family care? It'll rot away just like I will! (morbid, I know, but I liked the humour!)
The creative stuff I have made is either easily available on the web, or I intentionally don't want it shared, so whatever.
Social media posts and the like are unimportant.
Photos maybe? I have those backed up on an SSD, no password needed for that.
I used to care a lot about this, but over time I just realized how unimportant that stuff is once given a long enough time frame.
I agree, have you ever had to go through a dead relatives stuff? You can tell it meant something to them, but most of it does not mean anything to you. Most of it gets thrown out, a few things get sold, a few mementos are kept, some of the tools go in a toolbox, a lot goes to Goodwill. Mostly nobody wants it, nobody wants to continue maintaining all your stuff, nobody is going to take over your blog (they'll start their own instead), they are not interested in your kaliedescope collection or collection of antique dinner plates, a lot of your stuff is more worn out and useless than you think even if it works fine for you (as long as you reboot it every Wednesday). They have their own life to live. More expensive assets are worth trying to preserve, but your IoT house system is not a rabbit hole anyone wants to reverse engineer or read the 1000 manual pages about. Concentrate on the important things, let go of the rest. If you have enough warning try giving some of it away. Then you might find someone who will appreciate some of it.
I have a ton of friends I only know over the internet. I'm involved in a few communities as a pretty central figure. This is the weird sorta edge to this. I would like people to know what happened to me, and that I just didn't stop replying to them or leave them. I own a few Discord servers I'd want to pass off.
It's understandable that not everyone has people they talk to weekly where they don't know real names or locations outside of time zones. You say social media posts are unimportant, but I think that's only true if everyone in your social media circle know who you actually are.
when the author wrote "our emails" my assumption was that the family all has <name>@customdomain - so that would absolutely include the spouse's (and maybe other family members') emails.
I was very confused when I was in check mate, but the other player didn't capture my king for some reason.... so in the end I won. Didn't expect that. They probably just didn't see the check mate even if it was obvious to me!
A clever way to escape checkmate is to move your king towards or away from the piece that placed the king in check (as long as your new square doesn't also place you in check by a different piece you should be able to avoid the initial capture and still be safe since they won't be able to move this same piece right away).
Twitter penalizes links. If you post a tweet with a link only a fraction of the people will see it compared to a twitter thread. They much prefer people stay on platform.
It's not just Twitter doing this - all social networks prefer you stay within their platform. Facebook is notorious for it.
If you put all that work into a blog post and only 5 people see it versus typing it out as a twitter thread and 1000 see it, it makes it obvious which ones ie better - even if its a worse UI.
>If you put all that work into a blog post and only 5 people see it versus typing it out as a twitter thread and 1000 see it, it makes it obvious which ones ie better - even if its a worse UI.
that's not some universal truth; the method creates certain feelings within the reader.
A plane trailing a banner for "EAT AT JOES" over a metropolis gets a lot of eyes, but there is a certain group of people below that plane that don't appreciate trying to squint at a banner in front of the sun while witnessing the waste of hydrocarbons and the cloud of AVGAS for such a trivial advertisement.
Likewise when i'm being asked to read a 2000 word essay that is composed of a cloud of tweets interspersed with reply tweets and advertisement/related(s)-pushed by Twitter it's similarly angering.
Why should the reader get the shortest end of the stick possible just to nudge some marketing numbers up? "Because the numbers aren't large enough." really isn't a suitable answer as the reader.
Thank you for posting this. I have been on the anti-thread bandwagon for a long time, but something about your post really opened my eyes and convinced me to stop being so stubborn.
I had shared an article link on Twitter earlier today and it predictably didn't get much traction. So I just turned it into a thread in 5 minutes and re-posted it like that. If you can't beat 'em...
