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DeanoBongino
8hr ago
For what it's worth, I'd be very surprised if she personally wrote her book. She probably hasn't even read it. In my understanding all celebrity/politician books are written by ghost writers.
I'd imagine her writer took a few too many liberties here and that's what's caused the controversy.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8hr ago
The music being a major point of pop music goes back centuries: For example Mozart and Beethoven were "pop" artist in their time.
The top answer suggests that a much larger fraction of the population has heard e.g. Michael Jackson than Beethoven or Mozart in their time. Beethoven and Mozart were "pop" for the upper crust of society. Has music popular with the 1% gotten worse? I don't know, but certainly mass media has transformed who you have to appeal to in order to have mass success.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8hr ago
I went without having sex well into my twenties, for what it's worth, largely because I saw it as a sacred act at the time but also because I was terrified of screwing up (no pun intended). And of various other parts involving intimacy. It scared me. I sometimes wonder if my own mystification of sex was a smokescreen for that. But yes, getting outside one's head does wonders.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
"Stochastic terrorism" is a bogeyman made up to justify suppression of right-wing speech; it is not an actual exception to the First Amendment, not even when the right flips the script. Nor is it "fighting words"; "fighting words" are an insult offered in the moment which provoke a violent reaction (and in the landmark case, was used to justify a conviction for calling a cop a "fascist"). The doctrine is fortunately mostly dead.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
9hr ago
How about it causing actual real life shootings? We’ve had 9 months of crying about Nazis, Fascists, White Christian Nationalists, and Gestapo, and we’ve now had within that same time frame dozens of incidents of Teslas being destroyed, several incident of people showing up to the homes of government officials, an assassination, two incidents where ICE officers are shot at (and detainees died), and several riots in Los Angeles. Exactly how many incidents need to be tied to the “MAGA = White Christian Nationalist = Nazi” do we need before anyone that isn’t on the right can say “yeah maybe calling everyone who doesn’t agree with us fascist and calling ICE tge Gestapo is a bridge too far?” Like are we waiting for something bigger? As I see it, if the words are causing actual violence, then it’s not all that hard to make a case for those words being “fighting words”. And this is where we are — stochastic terrorism inspired by claims that MAGA is fascism and therefore must be stopped at all costs.
I don’t see any other option. Either the Nazi and Fascist talk is banned from social media and media figures or influencers lose their jobs because they’re comparing MAGA to Fascists and Trump to Hitler, or we simply allow the current media atmosphere to remain until the next assassination. But I can’t understand how people cannot make that connection and I hope it doesn’t mean that those spreading these messages want more terrorism.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9hr ago
And you’re blaming that for a rash of violence dating back to July, if not last year?
I mean, I guess I think the trend is overstated, too. But it is obviously not due to cancellation.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
The Atlantic is establishment as establishment gets, they don’t want revolutionary leftists(thé kind that shoot people) in power any more than they want thé handmaid’s tale.
stuckinbathroom
9hr ago
What might be other ideas for actionable things to combat the misery and cultural malaise?
Unironically ~all of this is downstream of broken dating/relationship-formation norms and scripts among young people. The sexual revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race, and I am extremely blackpilled and pessimistic about our odds of putting that particular genie back in the bottle whence it came.
Soteriologian
9hr ago
I just use extra-strength Tylenol, since it's extra strong. Supplement with Brain Force and a good huff of a helium balloon.
Music is perhaps not the point of pop music
Certainly not today, but it used to be, at least for the better tier pop. Just take the Beatles. Are they pop? Inarguably. Were they musically good? Without even the tiniest shadow of a doubt.
There are gobs of excellent pop music all the way up to the 90s. Then it went to shit for reasons I haven't been able to fully articulate yet but involves the concentration of labels, rise of solo artist & built groups and of course modern production methods (and a bunch of other things).
Edit: The music being a major point of pop music goes back centuries: For example Mozart and Beethoven were "pop" artist in their time.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
9hr ago
In that metaphor, what's the babbling?
SkoomaDentist
9hr ago
The question of the hour: Is that really different than most songs produced by human artists?
Does it even matter? The world is already full of slop and having one more way to produce slop isn't helpful for anyone except some SEO spammers.
SkoomaDentist
9hr ago
Can it do The 80s?
Not just completely forgettable fourth rate slop or faux-80s but actually good stuff that resembles songs like this, this or this, without forgetting this absolute classic.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
9hr ago
Is it me or does Silksong gameplay make the player rely on tools and spells way more than Hollow Knight? In particular, flying enemies seem much more of a menace, constantly dipping out of reach of the primary weapon while often chucking projectiles at you. If I'm stuck in an arean with multiple of those I basically have to blast them quickly with a spell or I'll be toast. I don't envy the "nail only" gimmick players.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9hr ago
No and no. The courts have routinely protected far more aggressive speech, as in Brandenburg.
True threats can be legally prohibited, but “mere advocacy” is not enough.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
9hr ago
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
9hr ago
The idea of relying on the feedback loop of remixed AI slop for entertainment and it drowning out genuine good stuff evokes in me disgust that is hard to convey.
This is the part where the whispering earring tells me "better for you that you take me off".
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
9hr ago
Still playing Clair Obscur. It kinda reminds me of Wes Anderson's films (before he completely fell into self-parody). My lexicon utterly fails me in my quest to describe what I mean without somehow confusing it with Whedonesque snark. I can only explain it by using an analogy.
Have you ever been to a Bobby McFerrin concert? The first few minutes are quite unsettling if you're there in person: an old black guy takes the stage with his co-singers and waits for the applause to die down, the audience falls silent, he raises the mic to his lips and starts babbling like a crazy hobo. You know that's what was supposed to happen, but you are still gripped by the "wrongness", that "that's not how you do things" sensation that quickly dissipates as the babbling turns into a melody, and you sit back and enjoy the next ninety minutes.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9hr ago
I think "touch grass" is sometimes a useful thing to say to people who are in a doomscrolling spiral. Obnoxious, but useful.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9hr ago
It's pretty obnoxious to come onto a political forum and argue that your opponents are wrong and insane because they spend too much mental energy on politics.
DradisPing
9hr ago
You're not likely to find any good numbers. The immigration debate is pretty famous for having the government withhold obvious stats and academic researchers not looking into topics that could have results the left is uncomfortable with.
The other problem is how recent this all is. What numbers are eventually available for 2025 likely won't be released until early 2027.
My sense is that actually being deported incorrectly is pretty rare. There is a lot of due process, it's just in the immigration courts instead judicial branch courts. They sort out visa status issues pretty quickly. Things get tied up for years because defendants bring up a lot of long shot defences on humanitarian grounds.
There's probably a decent number of cases where someone is taken in but released in less than 48 hours after their identity is verified.
There's also a "the dog that didn't bark" aspect. If reporters had found a bunch of people improperly held for weeks or deported then they'd be making noise about specific cases. I haven't heard of any.
Also immigration enforcement has been so lax for so long, ICE has tons of low hanging fruit to go after.
Soteriologian
10hr ago
I haven't tried patch 1.0 yet, but I did play back when the alpha was released.
From what I remember, it's not bad, but I much prefer the vibe of Hades 1. Hades 1 is just very strong thematically - at first you think your dad is kind of a bad guy, keeping you down, but as you fight your way to the surface for your first glimpse of paradise, it becomes apparent that the curse is much deeper than you know: it's in the blood. You were born condemned, to a Sisyphean quest to seek paradise but be denied access, and yet... through your failure, you make lots of friends, realize your troubles may not even be that bad compared to theirs, and well, I won't spoil the ending, but one can almost imagine Sisyphus content. It's a very deep game.
Hades 2 isn't bad, it just... it feels like Arcane season 2 compared to Arcane season 1. It would feel a lot better if its predecessor hadn't set the bar so high. And yes, as you mention, it does feel a bit woker.
Now, admittedly, I haven't played the new 1.0 patch for Hades 2 yet, so I may be missing key aspects of the story that pull things together in ways that make the game deeper. But from what I remember, Chronos sure felt like an actual bad guy, in a very cookie-cutter sense, and there didn't seem to be much thematic depth behind this, like the passage of time rendering the gods increasingly impotent or something (the main character is a witch, after all). It just felt quite shallow.
My dude, I appreciate the report! I'll just comment on a few things here:
I enjoyed a pleasant buzz from the caffeine in the first few days - a better buzz than ever before in my life from coffee, it seemed.
I also feel perkier when I'm drinking pour-over coffee when compared to a cup from a Keurig or an automatic drip coffeemaker.
The grinder (Krups Silent Vortex; blades) is not that great. It does its job, but the coffee ends up ground to different sized bits. There's some light brown bits that are clearly much bigger and are thus perhaps not infused to the same degree into the liquid, compared to the tinier bits...?
This is exactly why the grinder is the second most important component. Equal grind size equals equal infusion, which yields a more consistent flavor from the beans.
The taste was not all that special. I was whelmed. The Yirgacheffe clearly tastes better than pre-ground Arabica, but not that much different. There's a few subtle notes of perhaps fruit or a spicy flower or something, but it's all a bit too subtle for my untrained, somewhat aged palate. Pleasant to drink though. I don't need cream or sugar when brewing this one.
This tells me that you've got enough of a sense of taste and smell that you'd probably get to the point where you could get definite flavors from your brew if you decide to keep going down this path, especially when combined with your sharp observation that different sized grounds will yield uneven results in the taste department. When I first started down the road of fresh roasted coffee it seemed like drinking tea to me, which is to say that I definitely noticed differences with different varieties of black tea and so did freshly roasted beans seem to have some distinct flavor to them. I still don't know that I'd be good enough to actually go cup individual coffees and buy for a specialty house or operation but I'm definitely in wine snob territory when it comes to getting a lot of flavor notes out of a good fresh roasted pour over. I suspect that there's similar potential for you there if you choose to pursue it.
The Rugori was even less impressive though. It was far too close to a totally average cup of coffee.
Sorry to hear that one wasn't so special for you, though it's entirely possible that it might come into its own if you keep trying it over the next several days.
Regardless, I'm glad you shared your experience and it sure sounds to me like you've started your journey. If you decide to continue trying fresh coffee, please continue to write more here and feel free to continue asking questions, I'd appreciate it and from your last I know we have a few other coffee buffs around here that might chime in as well. Enjoy!
samiam
10hr ago
A lot of people were cancelled for celebrating Kirk’s death.
Sure, but that was an economic divide, not a divide based on artistic qualities. It doesn't change the fact that 1) they were widely popular and 2) they have inarguable artistic merit. If anything, they were more pop music than what general folk listened to as folk music was anonymous and lacked any of modern pop music's parasocial relationship that Mozart and Beethoven had among parts of their audience.
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