I have had my first legal weed experiences in the past year in New York and even the lowest THC % at the legal weed store is stronger than anything I use to get on the black market when weed was illegal.
Then there are these incredible 10mg THC infused lemonades that are amazing.
On the other hand, the novelty of legal weed only lasted about 4 months for me. Because the store was there and there was this selection I never had access to before I wanted to try different things and was smoking more than I would have normally. At the end of the day though it is all still just weed. It is fun for me but only once a month at most now.
I also don't know a single person that didn't smoke weed because it was illegal and now they do because they can go to the store and purchase it legally.
I think that the polling has doubled for users because people can answer the poll honestly when weed is legal. The idea that weed being illegal is keeping 50% of the potential weed smoking population from smoking is utterly preposterous.
If anything, what is interesting is how many people who would never try weed when it was illegal, will still never try it when it is legal. They may say it is because it is illegal or they don't want to smoke but you can't sell them on 10mg legal lemonaid either.
Sounds like you are just saying it needs more marketing. Small timers are all over social media but big timers can buy segments on news and daytime television and pretend it’s a story when it’s really an ad.
Now that it’s “legal” I wonder if that was what was holding it back before.
The problem with these things is they stack on each other and we never go backwards. Any single aspect is not a problem so much and someone will argue the merits of why it is a good idea.
The system this builds though on a multi-decade scale is total insanity.
I don't see how it is possible that there is anything resembling what we would call a free and open society in 50 years.
We love to romanticize the path not taken too. If I look at the mistakes I have made in my life, if I could go back and change them I would still just end up making different mistakes on a different path.
Some of those alternate paths would have been a dead end too, literally. We take the value of the path that was chosen is one that means you are alive to read this on 4/28/24 completely for granted.
Anyone who posts that is an obvious idiot that you shouldn't listen to about anything.
Just someone who either has nothing to do with music or does but has an absolutely obnoxious personality that will point out some meaningless detail in the specification.
It is just mind blowing that my 1997 Korg Prophecy and 10 year old Waldorf Blofeld are all linked up to my brand new computer using the latest version of Abelton live with a midi interface that I don't even remember when I got it but its old too.
I once had the opportunity to use a genuine Steinway full-length grand piano which had been fitted with a MIDI input and actuators. I connected it to the output of a Kurzweil K2500 I believe it was, and I used the arpeggiator and sequencer on that to trigger the grand piano. The Steinway became a different instrument. It was not obvious! It was easy to make it sound like a mishmash.
This is why Synthesisers allow you to control the ADSR Envelope - the decay and sustain on a piano, makes its a bit of beast to sit comfortably in a mix or - as you've noted - fairly dissonant and unmusical when played as a keyboard as opposed to a discrete acoustic instrument with its own preferred range of operation in terms of pitch, timbre and dynamics.
The answer? Tailor the use-case to the instrument, as orchestras have done for thousands of years. A trumpet riff won't sound appropriate or evocative played on a xylophone anymore a Cello aria on a French Horn.
A masterclass on this is Wendy Carlos' Opus 'Switched On Bach', whose entire inspiration was to make "appealing music you could really listen to" using the then-new synthesiser technology.
I typically rent a car to go between LA and the bay area. All modern gas cars can make that trip on one tank. An EV can not.
At this point someone usually pipes up with "well you were going to be stopping for an hour somewhere anyway". No I was not. I stopped for less than 5 minutes at a rest stop to pee. And I stopped at a gas station to buy a quarter tank because that's all the room I had. Price seemed right and the milage estimate said I wasn't going to make it without. Turns out I filled up only 3/4 of a tank in San Jose before drop off so that stop wasn't needed after all.
I would just add that I think I have encountered situations that knowing the weighted average answer from the training data for topics I didn't previously understand created better initial conditions for MY learning of the topic than not knowing the weighted average answer.
The problem to me is we are holding LLMs to a standard of usefulness from science fiction and not reality.
A new, giant set of encyclopedias has enormous utility but we wouldn't hold it against the encyclopedias that they aren't doing the thinking for us or 100% omniscient.
No doubt. I find these churches amazingly beautiful.
I also think in the sense of how a church in 1500 was not a relic of the past the way we view a church from 1500 today. I would say a church from 1500 was much closer to what the churches in this article would have been in 1500.
Of course, there is a real issue that while I find these amazingly beautiful I would never go to one because I am not the least bit Christian or religious.
I don’t have a car, but I would love for the parking garage near me look like the churches in the article (putting aside the practical differences in requirements). Similarly, I would welcome one on these church buildings replacing one of my neighborhood churches just to give us something different to look at.
For most sports, the reason to not sit at home watching on your giant TV is to have social interactions with other people at the event.
Yes and that’s only a subset of the social interactions. Many people prefer to have friends over and enjoy home cooked food and liquor store priced (cf. stadium prices) beverages. Watching the big game on a giant TV with friends is not going to be beaten by clunky headsets any day of the week.
Then there are these incredible 10mg THC infused lemonades that are amazing.
On the other hand, the novelty of legal weed only lasted about 4 months for me. Because the store was there and there was this selection I never had access to before I wanted to try different things and was smoking more than I would have normally. At the end of the day though it is all still just weed. It is fun for me but only once a month at most now.
I also don't know a single person that didn't smoke weed because it was illegal and now they do because they can go to the store and purchase it legally.
I think that the polling has doubled for users because people can answer the poll honestly when weed is legal. The idea that weed being illegal is keeping 50% of the potential weed smoking population from smoking is utterly preposterous.
If anything, what is interesting is how many people who would never try weed when it was illegal, will still never try it when it is legal. They may say it is because it is illegal or they don't want to smoke but you can't sell them on 10mg legal lemonaid either.