Tuesday’s court ruling also permanently stripped Bai of his political rights and ordered that all his personal property be confiscated.

If we don't get to execute corrupt grifters in the US, can we at least do this?

I work in music and audio post, and everyone I work with would love to be able to use Reaper (or Logic, or Nuendo) instead of Pro Tools, if Pro Tools didn't have the post industry completely captured in the US.

Reaper is a world-class product, and the team could easily charge 10x as much for the pro licenses, and get it. Stick with Reaper.

There are alternative drum triggers for Linux, I'm sure. Even SPL makes a drum exchanger. There's got to be one out there.

VMR shouldn't be a problem to run, I just don't know what the install process would look like.

I'm pretty sure Airwindows plugs are Linux compatible, probably Audio Obsession too.

In any case, Reaper's stock plugins are awesome. My only real complaint about them is the EQ cramping in the hi-end, which is typical for stock plugins.

Alpine is great for VM and containers... Light on resources because of musl.

I know NATO doesn't have unlimited resources, but given that this is an explicit proxy war with Russia, doesn't $100bn seem kind of paltry? That makes it appear that they're planning on continuing cash infusions from the US.

Mozart's full baptismal name was

Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

But he went by a few different names, partially because there were so many different languages spoken by the aristocracy in 18th century Central Europe that he adapted his name to suit whatever language he was using at the moment. "Theophilus" is the Greek form of "Amadeus." Sometimes you'll see the German translation of "Gottlieb." Day-to-day, he is reported to have gone by "Wolfgang Amadè."

It wasn't uncommon for people to translate their names freely like this. Beethoven went by "Luigi" in Italian texts, and "Louis" in French.

"Giuseppe Verdi" would today be translated to English as "Joe Green."

I think she ended up not even going to that school

When AIPAC stops buying the US government.

New Coke was a ruse to switch Coke to corn syrup.

Most of them, but I'm just tired.

Putting Zimmer anywhere near the same league as Williams is grotesque.

Zimmer writes a medley, then has an army of underpaid and under-credited orchestrators write 95% of the film. He couldn't orchestrate his way out of a paper bag.

His primary skill is pushing the "every instrument on every note" button on his Project Sam VI and then adding an additional 6 french horns, 6 trombones, and probably a pipe organ.

Can you recall a single melody from Oppenheimer? It's all just environmental boom and brass shit, with strings that might as well be synth. Can you recall a melody from Inception? Nope, just BWAAAAH.

There's a reason all of his legitimately musical scores in the last 25 years are co-written with another composer. Batman films, The Rock, Gladiator, etc. He musically peaked as a solo composer with Backdraft, imo.

Williams, on the other hand, employees orchestrators solely because he is required by union rules to have an orchestrator. His short-scores (the blueprints that orchestrators work from) are UNBELIEVABLY detailed.

Williams went to Juilliard. Zimmer took two weeks of piano lessons and was in a band.

And no one, NO ONE, has written the number of iconic melodies and scores that Williams has. Star Wars wouldn't be Star Wars without that score... Mark Hammil has said that John Williams is more responsible for the success of Start Wars than anyone other than George Lucas.

Jurassic Park wouldn't be JP without his score.

ET. Superman. Indiana Jones. Harry Potter. You can hear the music to these films in your head right now.

Or, you can listen to Hans Zimmer in your head now too: BWAAAAH.

I'll leave you with one thought: A few months ago, my Uber driver was a former orchestrator for Zimmer at RC. He hated it and quit. Re-read those two sentences.

Every part of me wants Mitch McConnell to publicly suffer.

It's the interest rate hikes. Tech companies relied on limitless free money from VCs before, without the pressure to turn a profit. That tap's been turned off now, so here we are.