🤔 A Thread for my Thoughts

[shrewbie]

@Bamnan

get that if you have put a lot of time into doing something it feels painful to say that the time would have been just as well spent sitting down staring out of a window but it’s probably something we could all stand to remind ourselves of.

I like that someone invented the term flaneurism so i can pretend to myself that my favourite hobby of loafing around town looking at stuff is a worthwhile and valuable activity

[Bamnan]

was that based on the size of cylinder they could construct to shape the vinyl (assume vinyl is made by pouring melty goop into a metal container but actually have no idea) or is there a reason that they couldn’t spin if they were larger?

[Bamnan]

if you’re existing in a public space then you are contributing to other people’s lives. People might see you and think briefly “ah there’s a nice looking man over there just chilling out” and feel happier

[Bamnan]

like in my mind vinyl is made in a really long tube and they just cut off the individual discs like slicing cheese

[Bamnan]

Sound cannot exist in a vaccuum so what you are actually hearing is a shape being cut through the atmosphere? If our eyes had enough clarity/resolution would we be able to see sounds?

[anon50098204]

Can we Ever see Sound? | Physics Van | UIUC

[Bamnan]

that was a great read!

[anon75298087]

Some can see sounds and hear colours - it’s called synesthesia:

What Is Synesthesia?

Dammit @anon50098204 beat me to it!

[Bamnan]

sounds(looks ) amazing!

[eems]

@Scunner

Food? An old favourite. Shagging? Something new.

Instinctively true, objectively wrong.

[eems]

@Bamnan

Why the decimal system? Is this purely cultural or is it really because most of us have 10 digits that we understand this logic.

best researched/explained hypothesis is exactly that. It makes inate sense to us as humans because we have 10 digits. Abstractly and practically speaking, a duodecimal system makes way more sense. There was quite a big campaign in the mid 20th century to promote its widespread use

Duodecimal | Advocacy and "dozenalism"

[Bamnan]

very interesting! We developed time in a system of 12 and also baking. Two very important things time and bread.

[Bamnan]

also 12 bar blues which you should appreciate smee

[Bamnan]

(not cos you have the blues but because you like old time good music)

[eems]

@Bamnan

We developed time in a system of 12

I’m kind of guess-remembering here, and can’t be arsed to google it or even think it through properly, but I think I heard somewhere that our system of time, though obviously based on astronomical realities outside of our control, is divided up in the way it is because the length of a second is somehow deeply imbibed within our species’ experience of time. And the length of a second therefore informs the amount of seconds in a minute, hour, day, month and year. So If that’s all true then we actually got lucky with the duodecimalisation of time.

Yes I’m avoiding some very important work today.

[eems]

OMG bamnanana there are 12 notes

[Bamnan]

maybe it’s tied in with how long it takes synapses to travel or something, like a second is comfortable because it fits a certain number of thoughts into it. Or maybe it’s to do with the rhythm of our breathing? Interesting to speculate!

[eems]

yeah or heart rates? making up science is cool.

[Raanraals]

I think the bride is playing with fire with those two choices thus far.

[eems]

no idea what this post is but sounds dodge