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durdenhobbes
11m ago
10-15 years lines up pretty precisely with the advent (or at least the widespread acceptance) of online dating and hookup apps. Dating and sex are commodities now, and the experience is significantly cheapened as a result.
chooky
17m ago
I am far more nail reliant in Silksong than I was spell-reliant in HK, partly because the upgraded spells in HK were just completely OP. It always kind of hurts to use tools because shards are not actually that easy to rapidly acquire if you are aggressively using tools.
I do greatly appreciate tool repair being free for some tough act 3 battles.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
17m ago
Besides being antagonistic, you are obviously having a moment. One day timeout.
chooky
22m ago
I am sure this has been asked before, but why is it that these purported consequences of the 1970s sexual revolution have not shown up until the past 10-15 years? It really took 50 years to come to a head?
SkoomaDentist
29m ago
And perhaps more importantly, using Suno or other service might be quite a bit faster than trying to find a suitable backing track from collections of free tracks.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
40m ago
Yeah but within the ultra-processed junk food is chemicals and hormones that they didn't have in the 1950s and 1960s. Nutrition 'experts' have clearly let us down on the obesity front, they don't know what all these chemicals do in the long-term or in combination. And not just in food but the plastic wrappings on everything, the particles in the air, in sunscreen, in clothes...
I agree that eating healthy food is good. I do this myself and remain fairly healthy, no weight problems at least. I can eat as much as I like. But there's more to it than just surface-level health/obesity/malnutrition. The body is very complicated and poorly understood.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
40m ago
People laughed at Rudyard Lynch's incel revolution predictions but historical trends don't lie: having a lot of disaffected men with nothing but violence to turn to is massively destabilizing.
SkoomaDentist
55m ago
Also, like two years back I talked about how I was still collecting music to my local devices through force of habit. It seems even more laughably futile now in the face of tech which can keep producing songs faster than I can even listen to them.
Why would it be futile if you actually cared about those songs? Unless you mean you collect music in the same way warez people collect releases, ie. without any real care about the actual content.
Unless AI music generators achieve near true sentience level understanding of music and prompts and can use that understanding to analyze a database of my preferences, I just can't see AI music in any way competing with the music I have collected (and slowly keep adding). If anything, the problem with collecting more music is that it's so hard to find something I'd like that I didn't already know of (and Spotify's piss poor recommendation system certainly doesn't help there *).
*: Would it really be that difficult for them to add options to "never suggest this artist / album / any variant of this song for this playlist / ever"?
Rov_Scam
58m ago
The thing that I think you're hung up on here is that you're assuming that a lease interest operates the same as an ownership interest, and that simply isn't the case as far as the law is concerned. A lessee may be entitled to compensation in a condemnation proceeding, especially if, as in this case, there is a long-term lease in operation at below market rates, but this isn't always the case; someone on an annual lease at market rent probably doesn't have a recognizable interest, no matter how inconvenient moving may be. The onus is thus on the lessee to prove to the government that they are entitled to compensation.
The short answer to why ACME wasn't compensated here is that they didn't intervene in the proceeding, didn't pay an expert to find out what their lease interest was worth, and neither the arbitration panel nor the court was in a position to make a determination of their interest. But that doesn't really answer your question; I suspect that had they intervened they wouldn't have gotten anything. The reason, I suspect, would be because eminent domain statutes generally only contemplate owners. Since a lessee would have to show extraordinary circumstances to be entitled to compensation, the what-if game doesn't apply to them. They broke the lease in 1999, could have only extended it to 2012 at the latest, and the building was demolished in 2015. They can't credibly argue that their interests are somehow prejudiced. The owner, obviously, can't either, but there's a statute that applies specifically to them and has to be followed. If the property had been taken in 1994, the grocery store would have had an argument and probably would have intervened in the condemnation suit.
If you're worried about the government being unjustly enriched, this isn't really the case to raise that concern. Their argument was to use the 2018 market value, and by that point the ACME store was razed and the rest of the plaza was dilapidated and vacant. This is what the township wanted to do, as it would have resulted in a much lower price.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
1hr ago
Well, that got a good chuckle out of me.
In my defense, I was thinking more about the standard predator-animal sparkle dog fare when I wrote that. I figure rabbits in particular are probably close enough to ‘loli in a onesie’ that they cross-pollinate, but I dunno. I was mostly thinking about that fucking Zootopia meme anyway.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
1hr ago
Most rocket launchers in military use are recoilless by virtue of having a big hole in the end of the tube which vents exhaust gas. You could fire an RPG-7 one-handed if you wanted to, though the ergonomics wouldn't be great. You could even do that with the much heavier Carl Gustav.
There are guided missile launchers like the Javelin which do have recoil, but only a minimal amount, mainly from the soft-launch system that gets the missile a few feet away from the user at low velocity before the main rocket motor kicks in.
For a combat vehicle the size of a Gundam, it's a non-issue.
SkoomaDentist
1hr 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.
I can't find myself caring one bit because the good stuff slowed to a teeny tiny dribble close over two decades ago. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing left for AI to drown.
SkoomaDentist
1hr ago
Beethoven and Mozart were "pop" for the upper crust of society.
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.
DeanoBongino
1hr 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
1hr 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
2hr 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.
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr ago
In that metaphor, what's the babbling?
Robinson had a partner but threw his life away anyway. I mean, technically. Presumably they were intimate.
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