yarn

Glad you liked it! Yeah, I love Perlman's rendtion, but Heifetz's just takes the cake for me. The ending is too real.

I don't get my news from any social media platform, including lemmy, no offense to lemmy. I used to do that with reddit, but it's just too unhinged getting your news that way.

I stick with Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times, in that order. I also use Google News specifically for local news, but I don't even peek at the main world news feed there.

More generally speaking, I stick to the old school human editorial board for my news. News that's presented to me on AP, for example, has already been filtered by a board of humans who are smarter than me and whose opinions I trust on the state of the world. Opening up your selection of news to an easily gameable social media algorithm is just more trouble than it's worth, in my opinion.

Cool, sounds like it's coming along well. I'll give it another shot next update or so :)

Thunder was pretty snappy. I didn't know about that one, so I tried it just now. I'm afraid to say I think I like Liftoff better still, because Thunder uses swipe gestures for a few things and is missing a few "top" sorts, but it seemed like it has potential.

I found out that I'm allergic to Preparation H

Liftoff is what I've settled on, so far. I've found it to have the best performance of all the Android options.

Bach's Chaconne from his violin partita in D minor.

It's a song that was written around the time when Bach's wife died, and if you listen hard enough, you can almost hear that it's about her. It sounds like there are two voices, a low voice and high voice, who meet and fall in love with each other, and experience all the highs and lows of life and then are torn away from each other by death in the end. And it's all done with just notes on a violin. And what's more, it was written 300 years ago! It trips me out thinking about how somebody can write something so epic for a single instrument so long ago.

Jacsha Heifetz's version of it is my favorite. Some people don't like how fast he plays it, but he does the ending the best, in my opinion. You can hear the pain and denial and chaos of the two voices trying to enjoy their last moments together and leave nothing unsaid between each other most clearly the way Heifetz plays it.

Itzhak Perlman's version is very good too. He plays at a slower pace than Heifetz, and has a more epic sounding tone. The highs and lows are generally more epic sounding the Heifetz, but I don't quite understand how Perlman plays the ending. I have no doubt that he's trying to tell the same story as Heifetz, but there isn't any of that pain and chaos like Heifetz has. I've seen interviews with Perlman, and he seems like a very happy and well adjusted guy, so maybe that explains why his ending is so different. Maybe that's just how the ending is for happy people like that, and I can't comprehend it.

There are other good renditions to check out too, but Heifetz and Perlman are my favorites. Hillary Hahn and Nathan Milstein are other popular ones. Plus a bunch of others. That's another cool thing about Chaconne. Everybody has their own rendition.

I'm on a lemmy instance called sopuli.xyz. This is what your comment looks like there:

https://sopuli.xyz/comment/929467

If I go directly to kbin.social, then I can see your image:

https://kbin.social/m/astronomy@mander.xyz/t/160781/Map-of-about-0-001-percent-of-the-observable-universe#entry-comment-630589

I don't know a thing about kbin, I'm still new to lemmy myself, but it looks like that picture is an attachment or something on kbin, as opposed to being directly embedded in the comment. When I expand and collapse the text of your comment on kbin, the image always remains at the bottom, as if it's not part of the text. Maybe that's some kbin attachment functionality that's incompatible with lemmy? I'm not sure. Or maybe it's some kbin trickery to always display embedded images even if the text is too long and triggers a text collapse.

Thanks again for the info about superclusters, though! This is all very fascinating.

Your first sentence sounds like you meant to link a picture, but it looks like the link might be missing.

But thanks for the clarification. One thing is I linked to this guy elsewhere in the comments, who explained that the force of gravity is too weak at the supercluster scale for clusters of galaxies to be attracted to each other. But you mentioned that the clusters within the Laniakea Supercluster are attracted to The Great Attractor, and then you further said that the entire Shapley Supercluster is pulling on the entire Laniakea Supercluster. So I'm just wondering, was that guy I linked wrong? It was a random google search on a topic I know nothing about, so I wouldn't be suprised if it's wrong, but maybe I'm misunderstanding what he was trying to say too.

Thanks, that clued me in to the existence of superclusters, a term I've never heard before, and then I somehow wound up here in search of my answer of if the superclusters are orbiting each other. That's a good read, for anybody interested, but here's the summary:

One object orbiting another is an illusion. Instead, all objects orbit their common center of mass, called the barycenter. It looks like we orbit the sun because our common center of gravity is beneath the sun’s surface.

When it comes to galaxies, we can say that each one in a cluster, such as our local group, is gravitationally bound and orbiting a common barycenter. That means the Milky Way is orbiting a point in space roughly midway between here and the Andromeda galaxy.

At the scale of superclusters, however, the mass is too spread out and homogenous for centers of gravity to form. With no common center of gravity, clusters of galaxies have nothing to orbit and so don’t.

Instead, they are steadily pushed apart by the expansion of space.

What's the big blue thing, and are all the "walls"/white clusters orbiting around it? Sorry, I don't know anything about astronomy but I find that photo fascinating. I didn't know the universe was being mapped out like that haha.

Sounds like Russia's defensive lines in southern Ukraine are strained. Also, this stuck out a little:

Russia temporarily disconnected at least partially from the global internet during a test of its “sovereign internet” system overnight on July 4-5.

Nothing says confidence like cutting off your entire country from the internet.