SomethingMusic
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SomethingMusic
8mo ago
I'm not so sure about that. Most millennials and zoomers grew up on 'comedy politics' as their primary method of political indoctrination in high school through college, be it "last week tonight" with John Oliver, 'The Colbert Report' with Stephan Colbert, 'The Daily Show' with John Stewart, etc. Political comedy has been around for the past 70 years and has been an important part of at least informing, if not indoctrinating, the past few generations.
SomethingMusic
8mo ago
I haven't followed the DJT stock at all. It's pretty clear Truth social's constituents client base has been basically cannibalized by Elon buying X and making it a more open platform for a fuller range of political appetites. Perhaps Elon will use X to buy Truth, but it seems unlikely. To be fair, they could have many paths towards diversification, (Truth.TV?) (Truth.news?). The question is if they raised the capital requirements to make such a website, hire talent, and prevent hackers from attacking their platform.
I agree though, unless there is a clear plan going forward, I highly doubt DJT's long term profitability unless they can post some insane earnings.
SomethingMusic
8mo ago
I could never get into HPMOR. I've tried several times, but the author always gets caught in their own intellectual obsessions and forgets about characterization, the plot, and generally seems like an autist overanalyzing every situation. It reads like bad Frank Herbert, or a particularly bad Ender's Game with a need to articulate every thought an analysis of every situation.
SomethingMusic
8mo ago
The soul bending bit is by far the weakest part of the show and is the one thing I truly dislike about it (much more than season 1 starting clearly as a kids show). It undermines the roll of the Avatar and one of the most important lessons Aang has to deal with - to be the arbiter of justice, you must sacrifice your own spiritual needs to protect the world. In the same episode, they completely undermine this important lesson with the soul bending. I understand why they did it (it is a kids show) but it undermines an important parallel of the real world, that to be the arbiter of justice is to sacrifice your own humanity protect other peoples.
What makes avatar great is that there clearly is a power curve where characters get more powerful over time, but what's much more important and prominent is that the characters grow and have emotional and physical challenges over time. The avatar is stupidly powerful, yes, but in Shonen anime the character arc is about getting more powerful to defeat the bad guy, while in Avatar it's much more about the change from a kid to an adult, and the emotional and moral growth you have in that journey. Diminishing it to just a 'shonen anime' overlooks a lot of what makes it popular.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
I'm surprised the number of responses that recommended split keyboards. Maybe I should look into those more closely.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
Something that bothers me about the whole mechanical keyboard market is that there really is no good way to test keyboard without spending the money. It's more than what I'm willing to spend by about $100, especially if I'm going to be leaving it in an office. I might bring my current keyboard into the office and keep the new keyboard at home.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
I'm leaning toward Keychron myself, but almost everything I heard says they still require modding after work to make them really good. Maybe their higher end models are better out of box experiences.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
I'm starting another office job which requires a reasonable amount of typing, so instead of using the work supplied keyboard which makes me want to throw it out the window, I'm interested in what input devices everyone uses. I find my YouTube and internet searches aren't definitive, and I really don't want to spend a grotesque amount of time and money on finding the right keyboard. My current criteria are:
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I prefer linear over tactile or clicky. I hate clicky the most.
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Full size is preferred. I use the num pad for work
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Hall effect is a plus
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Minimal out of box tinkering, even if it comes at some premium.
What keyboards are you using?
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
I'd watch that show.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
The supreme court ruling made their job harder, but there's plenty of ways to get around AA directly. They just have a harder time sorting and categorizing student essays and using plausible deniability. They have to go by application address and correlated by essay instead of a box the applicant clicks.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
I agree, Trump had a lot of attack vectors. Debates are stressful. If your body was in full adrenaline mode, it's hard to fully concentrate and really have the calm analytical mindset. As soon as Trump is in control he dominates, but Kamala really prepared well and was able to match Trump's energy, preventing from giving him time to calm down. Having to debate the moderator as well didn't help.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
He's a very extroverted and present focused individual, I think he probably feels emotions and slights acutely which causes him to overreact when attacked. I would argue it is a strength in many situations, but a weakness in prepared debate prep, especially when the 'moderator' is actively causing a further hassle for him.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
Kamala got under Trump's skin. Trump had good zingers but is forced to fight against Kamala and the 'host' at the same time. The mics are live and Kamala was talking over Trump when it was Trump's turn. He should have pointed out how Kamala claimed she was the 'president of democracy and not name calling' and proceeded to name call Trump.
Trump did one of the three things he needed to do in the debate: Kamala and Biden's weakness and failure on immigration.
The other things he needed to do is remind viewers how unpopular and useless she was as Vice President and how much we wasted government tax dollars on projects which yielded nothing. If he wasn't emotionally suckered into Kamala's attacks, he would easily dominate the debate.
Kamala is performing better than I thought. Trump is performing about par compared to his other debates.
I would prefer a Trump presidency vastly compared to a Kamala presidency.
Kamals' voice is not particularly pleasant to listen to.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
Conflating Canton with Cleveland is a misnomer, Canton is about an hour drive away and doesn't share any local government services with Cleveland . The likelihood of any significant cross pollination between impoverished Clevelanders and Cantoners(?) is pretty minimal unless Cleveland is buying a one-way bus ticket for the mentally ill.
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
You know the media's successfully pigeonholed reality when no one is mentioning that Trump was shot at and very nearly killed at a rally. Don't you think that would negatively damage ones ability to rally?
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
The larger problem is that it'll be ineffective. As you said, it really isn't enough to defray costs. Every 1st world country is running into population replacement problem, but the larger problem is sticky wages, the lack of young men willing to be fathers, the lack of infrastructure in cities for children and families, and the widespread popularity of reproductive services. Current societal standards aren't supportive for children, and the increasing selfish nature of young generations is compounding the problem. At some point throwing money at the problem isn't effective, it is the culmination of many social issues compounding into the lack of family formation.
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
Ahh ,my bad. Still pretty accurate and funny in a dark humor way.
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
Cash tips are generally not taxed, it's literally one of the reasons why I tip servers cash when I think the did a good job. Automated tips are taxed though, and they should because waiters can make 6 figures at a good restaurant. There's a reason why pretty much every wait staff prefers tipping over regular wages.
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
I hate 4chan but I can't stop going on it, like a bad pimple you want to pop or an awful car crash you can't look away from. Can anyone recommend me site add ons or website blocks on phones that aren't easy to circumnavigate once installed?
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
I'm still quite sad about what happened to JP. Benzos, and getting off Benzos, definitely did a number on him. His podcast isn't that bad, but dunno what's going on with his Twitter. Canada also did him really dirty and put a huge chip on his shoulder.
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
DC has the assistance of endless Federal programs pumping the city because congresspeople don't want to live in a dump. I haven't been to DC in years, but as a child I loved visiting there. At some point in adulthood I want to do a big museum tour, but I don't know when that will happen.
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
You don't need to write comments, you just need to vote. When China brainwashed American POWs in Korea, they never told them what to say. They simply rewarded them for saying the right things. The Americans invented the Communist propaganda themselves. Training people on Reddit using updoots would be the simplest thing in the world.
That actually explains modern "journalism" frighteningly well. Use capitalist incentives against your opponents by signal boosting and paying the absolute worst journalists (see the top level post below) the most money to generate the most divisive shlock.
SomethingMusic
10mo ago
Where do comedy podcasters get their discussion topics? When Joe Rogan goes 'Jamie, look that up' where do you think Jamie gets his links? All podcasters did is eliminate the middlemen of a team of writers between the personality and the news.
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