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biboo-taxation
14d ago
I don't think Sheeran was wrong, I just think this is the opposite of a case of "wage the culture war, die by the culture war". If anyone "died" here it was Sheeran who chose not to wage culture war and if anyone didn't die it was Macklemore who did. In terms of optics and public opinion Sheeran looks really bad here. If the other were weak for following Macklemore then the average person is at least as weak and will see Sheeran + evil billionaires against every artist on his own tour. As for Macklemore this might be the most relevant he's ever been since his debut.
biboo-taxation
14d ago
Do you cook? I think there's a lot of people out there that would say they don't know how to cook and yet most people can't eat out every meal, so I wonder what are most people actually doing? I'm trying to learn to cook and I've realized something. There are so many cooking resources out there but they are all focused on recipes and techniques. It gives the impression that learning to cook is just about finding recipes and executing them well and doing this over and over. The problem with this is 1. it's a lot of work and 2. ingredients get wasted. This is even more of a problem if you are cooking for one and the less frequently you cook.
I see two ways out of this. First way, develop an understanding of how to use ingredients flexibly across a variety of meals, knowing when and what ingredients to buy ahead of time, understand how food can be preserved. It's actually a pretty high bar, especially when you don't even realize these are skills you need, which I think is why I've bounced off learning to cook in the past. Second way, cook the same few things over and over. I'm guessing most people are actually doing this, but doesn't it get boring eating the same thing repeatedly?
So I'm curious how often posters here actually cook. What does your cooking situation look like: are you cooking for one or more, are you cooking everyday or less? Do you have a system that makes it work for you?
biboo-taxation
14d ago
Wage the culture war, die by the culture war.
Is this the takeaway? Considering the fact that literally every act including Sheeran's own band has backed Macklemore and pulled out of the tour, I think Sheeran who just kept his mouth shut is the big loser to Macklemore who I think is a net winner here, from gaining favorable publicity and successfully pushing his political position.
Jamiroquai is another one. In the states people probably remember only Virtual Insanity which was fairly popular for their trippy music video. Meanwhile in Europe and UK they were much more popular and released album after album of great music. This one might not exactly be a one hit wonder, people might also recognize Canned Heat from the famous dance scene in Napoleon Dynamite. I would say most of their music sounds more like that than Virtual Insanity. They had enough songs to release a greatest hits album High Times: Singles and I think literally every song on that album is great.
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