All the IMAX theaters around my area have closed or are about to.

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?

"Our estimates imply that U.S. innovative firms operate in too few markets relative to the social optimum."

I'm curious what the 'social optimum' is, and who defined it according to what standard.

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.

(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.

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.

Telling parents - especially young ones - how not to do it is of limited utility.

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".

....and have been able to for a while. :|

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.

I think it's rsilvergun likes to lurk as AC
If you look, almost every one of my posts has this shit attached to it. Even if it isn't faintly political.

I have two sons and I can guarantee that "the system isn't skewed against you, look your older brother isn't a failure like you are" wouldn't exactly hit the way you probably intend.

... Are the modern equivalent of medieval indulgences "pay me money and you can go ahead and keep sinning".

And just as likely to be effective in a) stopping sinning an/or b) making you innocent.

Haven't you complained repeatedly about shit-wage jobs and Amazon as a soulless employer?

What do you think will compel them to meaningfully pay more and treat workers better than throttling away their legions of low wage no-questions-really-asked workers?

Maybe Amazon (and their ancestors in big box retail) will even start costing more and spur a renaissance in local retail? Yeah I know that's getting into fantasy...

I'm an ICE user, who just bought a new car and after carefully considering an ev or hybrid, chose ICE again because of a long litany of EV shortcomings for my context.
Nevertheless this range accomplishment is great news. I think that's really great.

Is it constructive to immediately assume anyone who disagrees with you is a zealot? Do you think that's convincing anyone to be more open minded?