What does "real" mean? How much autotune is allowed in that?

If people care they're welcome to follow bands which exist.

But people don't care about bands because of people, they care about the people because of the bands.

There is not a lot of money to be made in Spotify plays for anyone except for the owners of Spotify.

The music industry trades in celebrity. You don't listen to crappy pop music because it's good you listen to it because you're excited by the celebrity.

If you take that away all you're left with is the music which is just background noise to most people. That's not enough to sustain the industry at the profit levels that publicly traded companies require. They'll get eating alive by their shareholders.

Profit comes first doesn't mean you keep the business open. Plenty of businesses can be plenty profitable but it's never enough.

Profit comes before human lives. Humans are disposable shareholder value is not. That's because shareholder value serves the ruling class.

And as a dedicated nation of 12-year-olds America refuses to acknowledge the existence of their ruling class.

It is as bad as it sounds. If you triggered it at the right time you could cause a derailment as the brakes applied full across the entire train. This is only likely if the train is moving at relatively high speed on bad track, though.

Trains use an air brake system with glad hand connections so that if a coupler fails (or more likely, wasn't correctly secured) the pressure is released and the brakes set on the entire train. The device we're talking about, which is known as FRED (on railroads the F is considered to be an F-Bomb) replaced the caboose in the 1980s. It monitors brake system pressure to ensure that it is in the operating range, and can also release the system pressure from the rear. This is needed so that the train brakes more from the rear than the front, although there is not much difference in timing unless the train is very long because the hoses are fairly high diameter.

It really ought to allow the user to just add new currencies of their choice.

BTC does make sense for inclusion, though, since it is popular.

They have always run firmware. I don't think it was always Java, but it has been for a long time.

Lick harder, I see some leather left on the wealthy's collective boots. Surely they will reward you richly!

If he wanted to help me with that he could have made the phone call, which either also would not have helped or would have done. He also didn't offer to call when I told him what happened, he acted like it was my fault.

Yeah I'm aware he was a shit father but there's lots of those

He's trying to avoid arguing any of the actual points that I raised about how younger generations have it harder factually. So he's trying to get you into a weeds argument over the differences between the two.

When it comes to old farts with bad ideas they can never actually argue their points so they try to change the subject. It's all they can do.

Did you somehow not know what the fuck survival bias is?

Yes the entire human civilization has not completely collapsed and we aren't cracking our skulls open and eating the goo inside. Good for you.

I fucking hate this. I hate the way you guys like you act like just because somebody blundered into a decent life that luck doesn't exist. We have hard numbers that clearly show that everything is harder for the younger generations. That is just a fact and that is why you aren't addressing any of the points I raised.

None of you old farts have a leg to stand on. You know you're leaving a worse world and you know that a better world was given to you and so instead of stopping and thinking about it and making the world better you double down. It's gross and it angers me.

You can't win the argument so you retreated to a easier argument. It's a variation on the straw man argument. You know damn well I never said everybody is going to fail.

What I said is that older generations had it easier than younger generations because of the world older generations created.

You wanna tried disputing literally any of the points I made? You're going to find they're all quite true. And I didn't even bring up climate change. The droughts caused from that have caused the price of beef to skyrocket. When I was a kid we had 99 cent large hamburgers. You could get an entire value meal large sized for less than $4. The same thing today is going to cost you 12 to 15.

Hell kids don't even have cheap video games anymore. The Nintendo switch 2 is the most expensive console Nintendo has ever released adjusted for inflation. I used to be able to buy a good mid-range to video card for around $200 and now I can't get that for less than $450. Those are all inflation-adjusted dollars.

Kids pay more and work harder and get less and that's the world we left them and we don't like that and we don't like thinking about that so we do the Socrates thing.

It's bullshit advice in general anyway. My dad thought he was friends with some guy who was an exec who worked for Diversey-Lever (initials J.L.) and he gave me "his" number to call to allegedly get an interview. So I called up about it and got a receptionist who I couldn't get past, and never got a call back. People like that don't have friends, just people they can use, and they have people in between to protect them from people who think they are their friends.

They don't have the exact same upbringing, in particular first and second siblings are typically treated differently in a number of ways. They also are not the same person, and different people are able to take advantage of different opportunities for multiple reasons — not all people have the preparation to take the same opportunities, and not all people will have the same opportunities handed to them. So no, you are factually incorrect, they did not have the exact same upbringing, and even if they did that would only be partially relevant.

Logic, you fail it.

Oh look, more clown shit. The government provided more funding to those schools instead of offering predatory loans directly to students, so the tuition was a lot cheaper for the student, because so much of the cost was paid before they were billed.

You fail at facts, too.

Modern life as we know it is completely impossible without cooperation. Even the most trivial of finished goods require the input of hundreds or thousands of people. It is also be competitive, but it is inherently cooperative, and there's no reason not to make it moreso just to make the bootstrap pulling, boot licking crowd satisfied.