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Comment Re: Federal Law Says No (Score 1) 97

I think you think you're clever, but a) understand that your justification ("they're awful for lots of reasons") would have in other times and places been the same justification other people could have used against groups like homosexuals, and b) I rather suspect you fling the term Nazi or fascist around at nearly anyone who disagrees with your politics, which then just makes the term a crutch for you to dismiss and/justify whatever things YOU want to think or say about them. Or do, like "banning them as a political party".

Comment Re:Still not good enough! (Score 1) 201

Frothing eco-marxist is angry.

As you suspect, I would in fact prefer to literally pave the roads with the bodies of the children I am going to kill with my CO2 emissions. Ideally, they're not quite dead yet so their chorus of little screams will cheer me along during my commute. Can we throw in some endangered animals as well?

Comment Re:Song writers too (Score 1) 203

"I've long stopped considering electronic music to be music because a computer is not an instrument."

I play a digital piano. It's always perfectly in tune and it's got a nicer tone and sound than most upright pianos since it's based on a Steinway Grand sampleset.

It looks like an ordinary piano but "under the hood" it's chips and circuit boards.

So is what I play on it (Frank Sinatra tunes, movie themes, "popular music" from the 1940's, etc.) not actually music?

Comment Re: How it's made (Score 1) 203

My point, as you apparently missed it, was that the recording / broadcast industry has massively enriched a few while leaving most artists scratching for pennies. I don't feel the collapse of that business in favor of artists playing live is a terribly sad thing.

Just keep handing your $ to P.Diddy, I guess. Baby oil ain't free.

Comment Re: How it's made (Score 2) 203

(shrug) feels like people are missing the point, enraged about the AI origin, and not the fact that it's "fine" compared to the rest of the (human created) slop on the radio.

I don't care in the slightest.

A photograph can more accurately reproduce an image than the most precise painter ever. What did we get since? Picasso, Nieman, and "modern art" that pretends to greatness like the Emperor's New Clothes.

Before the era of recorded music, musicians made a living by live performances and patronage. Now we have DJ Khaled and Kanye, utterly talentless billionaires. Actually talented people can still perform for incomes vastly beyond normal people's dreams. If ai can effortlessly replicate the crap that fills the pop airwaves? So be it.

Comment Re: Statistically Infuriating. (Score 1) 189

I run a small regional office for a large multinational.
When I've needed to hire new people, I'm well aware that basically nothing in college prepared me for what we do (manage logistics). But when I put in the job posting that "no college degree is necessary" I get heavy pushback from corporate hr. They actually edited it out once.

They seem to believe that implied that I was just going to hire any deadbeat off the street and not evaluate them like any other hire. I really had to fight for it to remain.

Comment Re:Still not good enough! (Score 1) 201

By "every couple of months" you mean every time I recharge the car and it takes 20-30 mins instead of 3?

But you've already lost; you're NOT trying to persuading according to the compelling objective advantages, now you're just quoting sacred creed. "SHAME! SINNER! ECO-SHAME!"

"more important than the environment." You misspelled "virtue signaling".

Comment Re:Still not good enough! (Score 1) 201

I drive to Chicago from Mpls maybe twice every 3 months. Essentially 400 mi.

ABRT shows an EV makes a 6:30 drive over 8hr, almost 25% longer.

I even tried to rent an EV (Genesis GV60 from Avis, that was a clusterfuck) for a run last year and ended up just driving some shitty jeep because when I showed up they'd forgotten to plug the GV60 in and if I waited I'd have missed my meeting in Chicago.

That and I test drove a Volvo PHEV and a) it was kind of a shit ride, b) it has a 35-40 mi elec range* at best, c) despite them explaining when the electric would kick in, when I drove it around for 20 mins, IT NEVER DID...so what the fuck? Why would I pay for 2x powertrains and double the maintenance to (basically) drive an under-engined, overweight car?

*which sales admitted during MN winter coldest months would be more like 20-30 tops...I couldn't even GET TO WORK on that.

Look, I absolutely think eventually EVs will dominate. Right now they're for people who functionally could probably get by with a golf cart instead, virtue signalers, and religious zealots.

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