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more simply, I dont think tolerance means much, except as a lesson hard learnt about the consequences of not knowing. cultural wisdom seems fleeting, and even if it wasnt, right now in the west, cultural innoculation is at an all time low anyway. do I save the babies from abortion and perverts ? or ...

I believe we are post precipice in terms of them knowing, but for now, they understand with both the phones and the computers they are only getting access to the "good stuff" because we still trust those devices. this creates an environment that they sit of the data and only use it in the ...

Sure, thats the sensible balanced opinion.

I was thinking of the haters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

In Australia the variations of this occuring has its own saying.

he cultivated the "im the nice guy of rock" as his image, and like cosby or anyone else that cultivates that fake image, its going to bite you harder when it all evaporates. man hater chicks getting all righteous about it, well, i spose they gotta stroke they need things to stroke their kn...

I have several GB of roms.. somewhere.. im sure.. on one of those drives in the cupboard which may or may not still work :/ the discipline required to keep moving that kind of thing from new storage to new storage every N years gets harder over the years. specially since we arent very far away from ...

Im a tad jaded for all this, I think its all just corporate mission statement stuff on a personal level and cultural level - some wisdom is recent and hard learnt, eg: not starting fights over how the other is rasing their kids. the furthur we get from that cultural memory, the more the righteous on...

its got that same uncanny thing going on the pictures do tho - only works on a casual level and lacks in something crucial on focused listening.

as far as strategy games go, its got an excellent mix of plans you can make based on the random luck of the system. once you get the hang of its mechanics, it hides the spreadsheet and the "meta" better than any other game I think Ive played. you get the cards you get, you can remove some,...

I see the constitution like a corporate mission statement, which puts me at odds with many Americans.

the government and mood of the people , leaves all things open to interpretation.

slay the spire on android is something I never thought id like - but quite enjoying, a turn based card battler game.

the difference between my grandads definition of fresh versus my own, versus the average middle class person is quite large.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/musician-made-10m-streaming-ai-143502786.html A guy makes thousands of AI generated nonsense songs, uploads em to spotify and employs a bot farm to listen to them. makes 10 million bucks :) he gets done for fraud. when the big boys do it, they get copyright protection !!

This is dead true, and back to Naps post - GnR smells much more like ACDC than they do nirvana.

This the fake paradox.

the real paradox is if I have to tolerate thee or thee has to tolerate mee

my problem with that paradox is just the vagueness of the words, and the fact wordplay is really interesting to intellectuals, and not very interesting to angry mobs. the disconnect between all that just leaves me bemused. my whole life folks have been trying to stop the usage of words that represen...

words like classic and vintage *are* rolling targets, and aggregations get bigger the furthur into the past things are.

classical music covers 500 years of stuff that is completely different in each era.

jazz and rock have a simmilar thing going on.

yeh, all guitar music over 60 years has turned into classic rock, and metal is splintered into a million specific 'songs as genres'

according to that map, Im a texan.

coolest grandpas olds on the planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h50eAv9tjvA

libertarianism in the small, with a coherant community works fine, until it doesnt. just ask any of the native cultures minding their own business until a well organised empire arrived in this modern super empire world, it would require reservations, like the indigenous in anglosphere get, and im n...

https://x.com/LukePlunkett/status/1819503669878182288

I did get a small twinge of cultural pride from the half japanese australian girl who won the BMX event.

"i just had to fucken go and i just fucken went"

The practical example of the libertarian state, as explained to me, was the Holy Roman Empire. A well disorganized empire which could not for the life of it protect its borders from yearly incursions during "fighting season" by the French, the Polish & whoever else wanted to take a sw...

Weird as a campaign attack seems already out of the news cycle. My guess is that it landed like a lead balloon in private metrics. "Keep Portland Weird" - long held positive connotations makes it friendly fire. And to use it as a negative just conjures up "mean girl" stereotypes...

oh dear. ---- I try and keep and keep my edgelord contrarian tendancies minimised but alas, with world cup soccer, "the horse race that stops a nation" melbourne cup and the olympics, I maintain my disinterest in all those activities even when culturally its suggested I become an instant e...

I have no idea how real it is, but it gave me a laugh. https://x.com/smashbaals/status/1819555990947152060 https://x.com/RealBenGeller/status/1819555623068963097 the idea being something always big happens when the pentagon does late shifts for a couple of days, so the pizza sales go up and the gay ...

libertarianism in the small, with a coherant community works fine, until it doesnt. just ask any of the native cultures minding their own business until a well organised empire arrived in this modern super empire world, it would require reservations, like the indigenous in anglosphere get, and im no...

murdoch has made a career out of hiding the flaws in his fave candidates and exposing the ones in his disliked ones.

media has always been dodgy on those levels, our only freedom has usually been availability to all the different prejudices , not just the single government enforced one.