None of that is novel or unique to Spotify or streaming. The push for radio hit singles was killing the “listen-through album” well before the internet meant individual tracks could be easily purchased (or pirated).

Pop music is always mostly bland, that’s how it gets mainstream appeal. The good ones stand out and are remembered while the rest fade from cultural memory.

I’m prepared to endure hardship if it means the racists of the world have less power.

Fuck my “compatriots”, nations are made up and the geopolitical lines do not matter to me. I do not care more for someone because they are born or reside in the same country as me. The country as an entity can also get fucked, it’s too big and built on death and greed.

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Sometimes I like to think about what the world would look like if Columbus sank in the Atlantic. How long until another European sailed West?

We’re all humans of Earth too but I can only work on my little pocket of it. I’m no more responsible for what happens in Senegal than I am for Texas or Florida or Pennsylvania.

Why pick that border to respect? Do you have political influence in South Carolina? Was your state one of the handful that hasn’t voted the same way in every presidential election of the last forty years? Is your senator a Republican in a district that could have gone either way if you had personally mobilized a couple dozen non-voters?

Because I sure fucking don’t fit into any of those buckets so leave me out of your “we”.

Are you lumping yourself in with anti-vax South Carolinans with that “we”? Because I sure as fuck am not.

Timbuk2 isn’t as good as they used to be. If you can find a used one it’s worth it, I’ve had mine for like twenty years, but I wouldn’t gamble on one made in the last five years. (They closed all their physical stores and cut costs on manufacturing by moving offshore)

Good thing it’s extremely preventable thanks to modern medicine. We should all be so lucky that our greatest fear is 100% avoidable through easy life choices.

Frankly the production started going downhill when they took the robot voice out of the intro.

It’s not a political situation, it’s a societal problem. We need at least an entire generation replaced or re-educated, all these R voters aren’t going to just change their minds and stop being bigoted Christofascists.

youtube was a stepping stone for him

This has been clear from the beginning. Dude wanted to make movies and fell into gaming.

Depends on what exactly you’re looking for. Technology Connections, Steve Mould, ElectroBOOM, Practical Engineering, Hank Green’s various enterprises, Cody’s Lab, and the various “mad scientist” types like StyroPyro, NileRed, and the various people William Osman hangs out with.

I really hope that garage space doesn’t blow up in their faces…

Yeah I feel like he should dial back the vibe and side gags and put that effort into analysis.

Losing Jason was a huge blow to Modern Rogue. Content comes and goes but personality is really hard to replace, so is writing talent.

Streaming is a much more predictable, and often more lucrative, income with less effort (generally). Hard to blame the creators that change focus.

Plastic is pretty much never going to be a greener alternative than a renewable, biodegradable plant. Especially if they can be grown nearby.