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Comment Re:Song writers too (Score 1) 105

Gorillaz wasn't really fake though. It was an animated front for an actual human band. The human band even played their live shows. It was pretty inventive, and it certainly gave a lot of work to not only the musicians involved but the many animators, planners, marketers, and others who pulled the whole thing together. It wound up being much more complex than a traditional guitarx2 + bass + drums quartet.

Comment Re: Go into the trades (Score 1) 165

Datacentre expansion has been ongoing for years. Aluminum welding has been in hot demand since aluminum became the preferred material in many vehicles and engine block designs. And that's just two areas. Underwater welding pays quite well I'm told (and is pretty dangerous). There's going to need to be an expansion in the installation and maintenance of power generation facilities which may favor steamfitters and/or electricians.

Comment Re:Go into the trades (Score 1) 165

Who knows? You act as if it's a given that will happen anytime soon. Smart tradesmen will look to the market and use their leverage from years of lucrative work to expand their skillset as the market evolves.

Demand for aluminum welders has been hot for awhile and will probably stay that way. Same for underwater welders.

Comment Probably not (Score 1) 105

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.

Comment Bullshit (Score 1) 60

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.

Comment You are falling for his trap (Score 1) 165

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.

Comment Re:Ok boomer (Score 0) 165

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.

Comment Motte and bailey fallacy (Score 1) 165

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.

Comment Re:human safari (Score 1) 242

Absolutely Israel is fighting for its survival. 7th of October shows that Israel must destroy all of its enemies that surround it. Hamas and others were supplied by Iran, which must be stopped from developing a nuclear bomb specifically because it would be much easier to just get that bomb into Israel through Gaza and blow it up in the middle of any city, most likely Tel Aviv or Haifa (they wouldn't do it in Jerusalem). Any 'civilian' within Gaza is suspect, that's where Hamas is recruiting from in the first place. I applaud Israel for making progress against Iran and now it must finish what needs to be finished all around it, especially Gaza.

So let me get this straight, any and all Israeli actions against the Palestinians are warranted because the Palestinians resent living under occupation and being denied self determination for almost 3/4s of a century? You dont see the glaring problem with that logic? The fact that Israel has made this security problem for themselves all on their own?

The fact that the Western world has been brainwashed and is now so antisemitic and anti-Israel just shows how effective the propaganda pushed from Iran with the help of the ruzzian troll/bot farms became, that's a weapon that must be taken seriously. It was used to brainwash Americans into supporting putin and ganging up against Israel as well.

And there we are, trying to shut down discourse on Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories by claiming anything critical of Israel is "anti-Semitic" . Israel could gas the entire population of Gaza to death and you dumbshits would still parrot this right wing idiocy.

You don't even understand the Russian/Israeli relationship, you sure as shit dont have a clue in regards to the rest of what's happening. You make claims like "Israel is doing all these great things that protect civilians" when there is mountains of blatantly contrary information relative to that claim. You don't care about the region's complex problems and their history facing the region, you just want to root for your side and dont have any interest in anything that interferes with that.

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