I've always liked country, but over the last year of streaming I've mostly listened to:
Country
Los Tigres Del Norte

I wouldn't be surprised if Los Tigres concerts started getting overrun by white hipsters in Mexican made western wear.

Country and all things western/cowboy saw a big rise in popularity as part of the Yellowstone effect. Residents of Montana (Montanans?) can attest to this. See @hipstersofbozeman on instagram and real estate prices in Bozeman.

Ah the old adage: give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish...

Skills don't get you a job necessarily, and a job doesn't mean fair pay.
"Changing the situation" means building an equitable economy where all/most people get paid enough to accumulate wealth. It also means the cost of living is reasonable, instead of having everything optimized to produce as much revenue for the rich as possible.

For the GOP, "Changing the situation" means everyone follows strict Anglo-Christian "family values" - You know, like the Taliban, but with Christianity. And state's congressmen with corporate sponsors make all the laws and decide where tax money gets spent. And there are no books except party approved bibles, atlas shrugged, select works by Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro, Don Jr, etc. You know the bestsellers, but all the right-wing ones only.

Seriously. Like "Give your own bootstraps a pull! What, you have no boots? Well go get some then!"

The poor are definitely not meant to get out of that loop. Keeping them in that loop keeps the money flowing towards the rich.

Ever notice that the less money you have in the bank, the more often you pay ATM fees? If I have $20k in my checking account, I withdraw the maximum amount of cash to carry for a week or so. If I had say, $1000 or less, I'd be taking out $20 at a time and paying for it each time. It's silly. The poorer you are, the more expensive it is to get at your money.

Women with 1.5 kids can't work full time and can't live on part time wages without some help. Even if they have a functioning ex-husband who's paying child support, they're living on the edge of broke all the time. This is most of the women I know who are around my age and had bad marriages. I can count maybe 5 white women I know offhand who are hard working, dedicated, smart and will never be able to afford a house to live in at this rate. Growing up they lived in 3-4 bedroom houses on one working-class salary.

Now you'd have to have 2 upper-middle income salaries to afford a 3-bedroom house.

While I agree that this kind of equity program has the right intentions, rolling back/eliminating the Reagan/Bush/Bush Jr./Trump tax programs would set the country back on a path to sustainability and a more prosperous working class. The GOP's tax programs shifted the burden to the workers/poorest people, and lifted all the burden from the rich. The working class now pays for everything, including bank bailouts, 11 super carrier fleets, ie the things that keep the ultra-rich flush with bank money to do whatever the F they want with.

Agreed - Google bought Wing because it's developing drone hardware and the software to control them. Drone delivery is a minor/tiny application compared to what larger drones of similar kind can be used for:
https://blog.wing.com/2022/07/...

Drones are really good at surveillance. Just like Reaper drones, these can be used to provide the same information that news helicopters do without all the expense of owning/maintaining a helicopter. They can fly over private property and send all kind of data back to google. I would think they're using it for not just the dumbest applications (ads), but also to sell to governments and other agencies.

Pop bottles are plastic. Pop probably contains the same amount of plastic particles as the water does. Same bottler.
Most of the bottled water brands are just filtered tap water from wherever the bottling plant is. If that plant's on an aquifer, well it's from that aquifer, just like the town's tap water.

Capitalism, that's who!

She was home-schooled, so go easy on her. She has an impressive list of degrees. But it seems like she read Seveneves and decided all that space shit would be cool. Probably except for the earth burning for 5000 years. That wouldn't be cool at all. But the space stuff. Living in space sucks and she refuses to acknowledge it because MIT keeps paying her to be an optimist.

VTOL is incredibly energy intensive, even with really huge rotors that a helicopter employs. Technically surmountable problem, but helicopters are more efficient than anything that looks like a car. The length of the rotor has a big effect on the efficiency of lift. Small diameter ducted rotors require some serious RPMS and horsepower. The problem is gravity and the density of air. If we had less gravity and more dense air.. I mean boats don't need to do anything to float really.
But yeah, people suck at everything and only a very few are qualified to operate flying machinery in 3D space. And fewer of them can operate a helicopter.

One thing you don't want in zero-g is a lot of people in the same space/container/ship without full environment suits. When someone loses their fluids in some way in a one-g concert, it just spreads to a limited area on the floor and people step in it. Your shoes get dirty.
In a zero-G concert, any liquid that gets broadcast into the sphere will soon be all over everybody. Blobs of fluids will float around and engulf people. I think concerts are pretty bad in the first place, but taking gravity away would make them significantly worse.

This is an AI generated result from Google:
In 2000: Bezos invested $60 million in Kozmo.com, a shampoo delivery service.
In 2012: Bezos lost $175 million when he purchased LivingSocial, a competitor to Groupon.
In 2014: Bezos was involved in the design process for the Amazon Fire smartphone, which was a major flop.
In 2019: Amazon wrote off $170 million for its failed Fire smartphone.
In 2020: Amazon launched the free multiplayer game "Crucible" after five years of development, but it performed poorly and never reached enough concurrent players to make money.
In 2022: Amazon invested half a billion dollars into Drugstore.com before selling it for a fire-sale price.

"But comrade, it's not my fault! LED curtain device was hacked!" "Nyet traitor! tonight you will be on front line in glorious special military operation!"

Livestock investment looks like a good place to put money if you like investing in burning down the planet. Not that I don't like cows per se, but ranching has never really been sustainable. Cows turn grain and grass into methane and beef. Beef is what's for dinner, until it isn't and the planet is too hot to grow anything.

Same here. The grift was right there in the title. People who read it invariably were at the bottom of the MLMs or borrowed money to pay for expensive seats at seminars where cheap advice was dished out over a few exhausting days. Tony Robbins, Landmark's "The Forum" and "Advanced Course" etc. They'd end up in car sales or real estate.

Capitalism espouses anti-social behavior! Everyone acts in his own interest and magically God creates a stable economy with infinite growth. Because that's what Adam Smith said so it must be true. The billionaire set is mainly involved in turning money into CO2 via private jets, helicopters, yachts, motorcades of SUVs, stables of exotic cars, dozens of properties with heating and cooling running all the time, etc.