My evening snack turned out to be a #meme in two different realms.

@LadyZurk
I respect that the creator of this meme was efficient, in that they used a key signature with the fewest possible sharps to make it work.
#musictheory

All of these Assange apologists need a hard smack down.

We will never know how many good people were captured and killed as a direct result of his actions. This is NOT an acceptable by-product of exposing government cover-ups, civilian deaths in wars, or other things he published.

It is horrifying that he is allowed to walk free, and the people cheering him on are disgusting.

@Render
China has the only viable hypersonic missle tech at this point, yes? I remember Russia's top speed figures were found to be greatly exaggerated; nowhere near Mach 5.

There's no way such missiles could be launched from a SAM array by themselves, unless I'm missing something. They would have to piggyback on another vehicle to reach a speed where the scramjet could function.

@rpardee

@Render
Rick Beato recently tore apart their Top 250 list:

https://youtu.be/YkjFAcJChXc

@anthauk
Why don't you tell us what you think it is?

@Render
Thanks. I do have a very good friend who works for LM in their Space division, but it's not like I can ask him for details.

@Render
Would you please share what's *actually confirmed* about the SR-72 / Darkstar? YouTube is rife with analysis videos, and even I know enough to say that most of what they are reporting is BS.

@MPCavalier
There is lots of amazing music being made today. But because of some of the points Rick rays in his video, it's easy to get lost in the noise of all of the mass marketed crap out there.

He didn't even get into how algorithmic feeds on TikTok and YouTube play into this machine.

@MPCavalier
The fact that you and I are people who will purchase a download or physical copy of an album from artists we want to support isn't too relevant, because streaming is such an enormous part of the wider market. And it's been proven that the big streamers like Spotify have predatory relationships with artists. So yeah, I think Rick is absolutely right to tell people not to consume music that way if they care about the artists.

@MPCavalier
I would counter that "bad" music in this context isn't made by bad musicians, as it is greedy record companies who found out they can maximize their profits by leveraging tech to make exactly the kind of homogenized crap that's become so popular. It sells. Furthermore, they've quantized and pitch corrected everything to Oblivion, that kids growing up today think that's what humans singing and playing instruments actually sound like. As a music teacher I find that damaging.

@tgraph52
It may have been good going in...

"If used properly"
Well, there's the rub. Yes these tools are amazingly powerful, but more often than not they are being used to take the humanity out of performances, fix things that don't need fixing, or compensate for deficiencies in musical skills.

The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse

This is one of Rick's most cutting videos ever. It's not a rant; it's an intelligent point-by-point breakdown that covers everything from quantization to AI to streaming services.

I encourage anyone who loves music to watch this, and then think about what they are consuming.

https://youtu.be/1bZ0OSEViyo

@BillyBones @JoyfullyDazed
🤯

Literally every aspect of this is better than the album version!!! How have I never heard this?

@phase2
I figured you'd like the production even if you'd didn't care for the music.

FYI, I posted this on a pro classical recording forum I'm on, and those people agree this was studio recorded and performed in sync to be videoed. But even that is hugely impressive to me, given the incredible complexity of this music. The only thing that might have taken longer than the video editing was the performers learning and rehearsing this!

@corlin @codeWhisperer
The conductor's score alone is $200!

To put in perspective how overpriced that even is, I went looking for the most expensive edition of a full conductor score for Götterdämmerung, the final part of Wagner's Ring cycle, which takes upwards of 4 AND A HALF HOURS to perform:

https://www.schott-music.com/en/goetterdaemmerung-no17676.html

There are several other editions where you can get the full score for under $50.