senorjazz

:-D

finally a sensible comment

> Techno finds its roots in tribal music

Not really. Not in the in sense of where the music came from. I'd agree on an enjoyment level it taps into something similar. But the roots of the genre as far as I am aware owe nothing to tribal music.

> They're sort of our equivalent of Antifa in that they are a significant organising presence in lefty street protests

Are you trying to give a wrong opinion of SWP. No "ultra violent, red army faction types" are joining the SWP.

Also your use of "ultra violent" / "red army" surely is used to incorrectly ascertain that there are parts of the left that are much more violent than they actually are.

> They're sort of our equivalent of Antifa in that they are a significant organising presence in lefty street protests

I can see the point you are trying to make being familiar with both, but for those who are not, this analogy is just wrong and confusing to those who do not know SWP and will think you are saying SWP have no qualms about using violence. That is wrong

No. OP made a bad analogy. Antifa will meet violence with violence and don't mind a bit of direct action. SWP are a legitimate socialist party

you'd think but...

> I tried Winamp a few months ago and was disappointed to find that it's evolved into a media center more than a player.

Really? Winamp looks the same to me as it did 20 odd years ago.

Maybe there are different versions? I have 5.65 released in 2013. It's exactly what you describe as wanting.

> This makes me nostalgic of hours of 15 year old me downloading every skin to find the "best one",

It's classic isn't? :)

I'm using 5.65v (2013 release) on win10 without issues

> Thanks to the article editor who did not do the common "The Earth is SLAMMED by a pulse every 26 seconds and NOBODY KNOWS WHY."

FTFY

> All the locals on Bali are richer and better educated than they otherwise would be.

Not necessarily. In the early days, perhaps, when businesses were run by locals and the type of tourist who would go, would use local services.

Now as a place develops, outside money / developers / owners move in, providing higher quality accommodation, fine dining and the once local business owners are employed as cleaners for a pittance.

It is a pattern repeated since the 60s and 70s with the hippy trail when large amounts of people started to visit these places. Once pristine paradise locations are now over developed concrete monstrosities catering to the higher end - out pricing the travellers who first went to the place and the profits all exported to other places

> As mind blowing as you think that was, IMHO its nothing like the experience of candy-flipping...(MDMA+LSD)

I disagree there. There isn't much that compares to a deep k-hole. Perhaps a DMT breakthrough experience. But LSD and MDMA doesn't compare*

* Assuming "normal" LSD dosage, if you are talking about eating a strip of tabs (1000ug) ok, then all bets are off, but at that level the MDMA isn't going to be able to do much