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Awesome sounds good!

Ooof it can get pretty techy. Once you get it set up you likely won’t have to mess with it again though.

I’ve done that set up many times, so if you want help I’m happy to answer questions.

I use a pipewire w/ qjackctl to connect Ardour to my speakers and midi keyboard. I do this on fedora Linux.

Surge XT can do 98% of everything I need. It has a ton of waveforms, filter types, and modulation options. It’s a great synth.

In the rare case that SurgeXT can’t do what I want, I turn to zynaddsubfx. It is complicated, but really one of the wildest synths out there.

Last resort is this open source fork of VCV rack I found. So at the end of the day if you need to you can just build the synth you need.

Here is my software set up for open source music making (I often use midi and audio input):

Core software:

• Ardour as my DAW.
• Liquid SFZ as my SFZ player.
• SurgeXT as my soft synth.

For SFZ instruments:

• Virtual Playing Orchesta (free full orchestra)
• Versilion freeware instruments (mostly orchestra)
• Blonde Bop drumkit

Raw samples:

• samples.kb6.de for drum machine samples

For effects:

• LSP plugins for my basics (eq, compression, etc)
• Airwindows Plugins for fun effects (and some basics)

Ardour is supposed to have a midi related update for its next big release, so stay tuned.

From my perspective, the simplest set up would be Ardour and SFZ instruments. Mainly because I’m quite used to those two.

For set up you’d just open Ardour, make a new midi track, place liquidsfz as the first plugin on the track, then open liquidsfz and browse to the SFZ file you want to use.

Then you just draw in the midi notes you want using either the edit or draw tool.

I cannot belive you have this many

Self defense can apply to systems. Insurance for example. From what I understand United Health Care did change some policies because of Luigi.

I feel the effort homie.

Keep em coming

That was way more explosive than I expected.

If anyone else see this can they explain how wanting voting day to be a national holiday before juneteenth is so touchy?

Like having voting day off would be a tangible benefit to everyone, especially any folks that live paycheck to paycheck or have more abusive employers. It would literally swing our politics in the favor of our most vulnerable.

To me juneteenth is important, but more in a historic and emotional sense. Which is cool, but like if we were gonna do just one I’d pick the one that helps the most folks.

Well for me I guess I would’ve liked voting day to be a holiday before we got to any others. It felt like a vibey culture war win rather than actual progress.

But like it is a thing worth celebrating. Much better than Columbus day lol.

I’ve not heard anyone ever complain about it other than in media.

Maybe you need to be more upper class to relate.

(I get this has gone on a while, of ya wanna stop just tell me. That way I’m not waiting on your reply.)

I lean pretty consequentialist, if that’s relevant.

Yeah that’s pretty helpful. It’s nice to be able to look into that without taking up too much of your time.

I guess I should say I don’t really believe in judging people either, per se.

Noted! This lines up with your last paragraph on not being able to use info you don’t have. That sort of reasoning drives a lot of my non-judgement as well.

I wouldn’t distinguish in any sense between a bad pair of shoes and a bad person.

This sort of dryness speaks to me. I disagree, but I like the energy it’s putting out there. I don’t put extra moral weight into humans. I’m no human exceptionalist.

So this all leads me to two questions that have a lot to do with practical application:

1. You said

Both are obstacles to the world being how I (and most people) think the world should be.

Does this imply that human consensus drives the goodness / badness of an action and therefore the goodness / badness of the actor that brought about that action?

If so, what happens when there isn’t consensus? Sometimes a non-consesus still has intense emotions behind it (abortion for example). Also does that mean minority opinions are morally less good?

If not, what defines an action’s good/badness?

2. What are the implications of an actor being bad? There’s a reason we designated them. What for?

2/3 are not off the hook,

Off what hook? What would being on the hook be for someone?

I would toss bad shoes. But also I know shoes don’t think about being tossed. I guess I could extend an earlier thought and say we do whatever the consensus is to that actor. That way we maximize goodness. Though I think leaving it at that would allow us to justify some radical things.

Yeah we’d need much bigger brains.

You’re doing the lords work.

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First off, thanks for answering. I’m a bit obsessed with this kinda stuff.

I mean, there’s all kinds of ethical philosophy out there. I don’t really deviate too far from it.

So vaguely western ethics? I mean some ethics frameworks are quite incompatible.

In practice, there’s a lot that most people can agree on without too much thought, too.

This is a theme I see. It’s fair to not think through it, especially when it feels obvious.

For example, the classical case study for how being agreeable can work against doing the right thing is how ordinary and nice a lot of Nazis were, when not being ordered into atrocities.

This is consistent with the above statements. I sorta agree, but obviously I have a different worldview.

So my best guess given all that is that doing a bad thing from your perspective is: Doing something you consciously know will bring harm to others.

Which I think requires:

• Free will / Independence / a distinction between internal and external.

Does that sound right?

What does it mean to do a bad thing? (I don’t belive in good/bad people, so I’m curious on how you construct that worldview)

You could define self differently. Buddhism has some fun takes on it.

No. We make choices, we think, but those choices come frome somewhere. And all of the roots are beyond our control. There is no room for free will, it is a magical reduction of why we do things. We don’t say a ball has free will when it is kicked down a hill. I can’t separate myself from the ball in any meaningful way.