What about something like google-docs-highlight [0].
It's inspired by the Gary Provost quote "This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with the energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals - sounds that say listen to this, it is important."
That quote is fantastic. I could feel the pace and rhythm change.
Sometimes I wish poetry other than rap music was popular. I know no one I can share poems with or equally show me their finds like we do with music and memes. I’m forever sending an mp3 or Spotify link to friends and vice versa.
Gotta love how people will talk about how going to large gatherings is not just a personal choice during a pandemic but then if you tell them their demand for people to shove a bunch of birds in a damp warehouse with poor circulation and horrible conditions is going to cause the next flu pandemic it's somehow a personal choice.
Not that being hypocritical is always bad but in this case there's zero introspection.
Umm you got it backwards. Shoving birds into a sealed warehouse keeps diseases from spreading quite effectively. Letting birds free range and cross pollinate diseases with wild birds is how you get massive new outbreaks
This seemed counter-intuitive to me, and in particular I recalled a scene in the documentary Food Inc where an organic poultry farmer extolled how much cleaner it was to be processing meat in the open air rather than in an environment mediated by chemical sterilization.
However, it does seem like this is a thing, in particular there was a Swedish study in 2009 that was referenced several times in media coverage and I can find no follow-up or rebuttal to:
Free ranging birds are in less proximity and healthier conditions. There is less contact between them, more sanitary conditions, and healthier birds. But yes, they could have more contact with outside pathogens.
Whereas many poultry barns have thousands of chickens standing in their own excrement, shoulder to shoulder. There are even decaying corpses strewn about and being pecked. Whatever pathogens in there with them could spread and mutate readily, and the birds are likely less healthy and more vulnerable to it.
I'm not sure if there is solid evidence to claim one is more risky than the other, but I think it would be the former.
Are you aware that ~80% of antibiotics are used for animals? This and similar practices are making "super bugs" (bacteria that is resistant to treatment by most antibiotics).
Splice is literally a sample shop, instead of buying from a certain company's web shop and paying for a whole sample pack at once, you can cherry pick sounds and just pay for what you need and mix and match several packs and company offerings at once.
They're under rather strict licensing terms though, no reselling as samples even if they're heavily modified for example.
It's inspired by the Gary Provost quote "This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with the energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals - sounds that say listen to this, it is important."
[0]: https://github.com/ojoven/google-docs-highlight