been thinking again about the pardoner's tale. no, not chaucer and canterbury, i'm remembering the pardoner's tale by silverberg.
there's this one line that i'll return here to quote, something about not being able to just pull data out of the air. checked myself and i'm thinking of something else. here already though, so putting either work of "speculative" fiction in context?
easier than trying to understand 14th century prose or poetry?
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SCP Foundation <<< once again, i have to thank youtube's 'algorithm' for recommending something i enjoyed. i only vaguely remember this genre from years ago.
realize that you can't see views for embedded clips. since the old comedy central and late show clips are only viewable with access to my clips page or as embeds... guess i'd have to share screen grabs.
posting these will give me something to do while everyone waits for the obvious republican, old man bum fight for the Presidency to end. would be nice to see common sense prevail and for both candidates to step aside. nobody involved seems to realize how bad this makes them look, supporting two people each of whose second aspiration to (our country's highest) public office shows no interest in what's best for our government. as to leaning left and pivoting right, can you claim totalitarianism is on the political spectrum? tough to say i find a difference between an obvious republican and a republican. both democrats and republicans don't seem to mind ignoring the constitution (which provides rights in return for establishing our government). in the 2020 election not much talk about trump's support of the clintons or of biden's tattered, political past made news. guess deciding that covering diverse aspects of political concern isn't valuable enough in attracting audience interest to offset the potential loss of non-profit, political monies.
[both biden and former President trump wear a nixon pin. is it supposed to make it tough to tell them apart?]
11/29: audiotool seems to have a problem at the moment. it crashed when i tried to load a different synth last night. it wouldn't let me change the file settings to or publish with remixing allowed. will check back to see if they hopefully fix it.
12/3: able to change the properties so that plainer fiction is now remixable.
[the audiotool track (linked again here) is about a forty second loop, repeated once, with a one measure/one note bumper at the end to facilitate looping. it's recorded a bit loud even if it doesn't seem like it.]
maybe i'll wait another year before checking back to see if there is any change in google's recognition of audience viewership after posting another image above tomorrow.
funny when republicans see anyone who isn't a republican as a democrat or when democrats see anyone who isn't a democrat as a republican? even among people that bother to register to vote failing to affiliate with either party is more popular than choosing either party.
there are more democrat and republican voters registered than those unaffiliated, potential voters. invested as is anyone interested in voting the following poll numbers for our congress would make more sense if the affiliation of those participating were known?
does it matter what political party we belong to if most of us regularly agree that the government sucks? then again, can you trust opinion poll results?
[ the fireman clipped above has a point. it's pretty important. so i'll actually close this post with this. gasoline is actually really dangerous if you're not careful. even if the car wasn't going to blow up the fumes would likely incapacitate the driver, the car would crash, and you'd likely have a fire and a possible explosion anyway. don't put gasoline in unsafe containers and avoid breathing its fumes. the fumes alone can kill you even if they don't ignite. if they just make you sick you might have to call the fire department anyway. ]
