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That’s cool it just reads like an onion piece.

This article has to be satire…

Typically at this level the scales will be performed in more difficult variations, e.g. the right hand plays starting on the third or 6th note of the scale.

There are also cases of concert pianists who notoriously refused to practice scales for these kinds of exams.

> Tick-Tick

I read this as Tik Tok. I’m ashamed to admit I spent a good moment trying to figure how someone could use Tik Tok for GTD :)

Maybe I’m just bad at Vim (though I use Vim keys anywhere possible), bit I’m starting to wonder if Vim combos crowd mental space that would be better used for programming. It does take a certain amount of mental energy to constantly be computing effecient key combos. And the half seconds of moving the hand to the mouse are mindless, allowing for the brain to remain focused on next steps.

On another note, the productivity I’ve gained from using an actual IDE, particularly for things like moving files, renaming symbols, and other refactoring tasks, has probably saved me far more time and headache than avoiding to use the mouse.

> Pressuring a foreign leader to investigate potential corruption

Right, anti-corruption Trump. Just stealing classified documents, installing his kids (and fucking son-in-law) in the white house, spending a third of his presidency hosting events and bookings on his properties, blackmailing Ukraine for political dirt, Trump University, refusing to accept a peaceful transition of power...Ok. My time is being unfairly wasted here.

Abusing power to get re-elected is not the same as abusing power to advantage one's son in their career.

Again, both unsavory.

"literally the same story"?

Calling it the "mother of all conflicts of interest" is inviting a direct comparison to other conflicts of interest, unless words have no meaning. I'm suggesting they do, and what OP said was absurd given the surrounding context, which I brought up.

It’s definitely unsavory, but absolutely nothing compared to the conflicts of interest under Trump, ironically even in Ukraine. Remember the withheld US money used to blackmail for political dirt?

And AR-15s hurt no one. Yet they are purposed to have massive killing power against humans, and massively amplify the damage a single ill person can do. Hypothetically there could be some type of weapon that once discovered could end all life on this planet. If that weapon was trivial to build, it would take 1 person with that knowledge to end eveything. Human knowledge is a human construct, and shouldn’t be thought about in absolutes.

If I say, “EXERCISE is a physical activity” in the context of a discussion about physical exercise, and you say “No, EXERCISE can also be a mental exercise” you are being 100% asinine.

Emacs would like to have a word. But seriously, that would not be an important feature to me. Obviously everyone has their preferences.

Why is your tone so angry and condescending? In context, the GP is just saying that cardio and reading is not really equivalent to mediation. He's not wrong.

As someone who enjoys all of those activities I will say that meditation offers something that those activities do not offer. There is an inner clarity that can be found in a much more profound way from meditation, in my experience.

That music is terrible. Why don’t we automate away sex and conversation, too, while we’re at it.