We're talking about a rap icon whose heyday was during that era, so those really were the subjects of most rap songs in those days. I was specifically saying that modern rap has kind of moved on from most of that - with some of it just being incomprehensible mumbling, repetitive gibberish, and dare I burn more karma by saying it, but if you head over to Reddit you know it's true: stuff that young white boys listen to because it's the genre du jour that pisses off their parents. Every generation has that.

My neighbor has a teenage kid who blasts whatever it is that passes for modern rap, anytime he's driving through the neighborhood in his van. I'm absolutely fine with being the old man yelling at a cloud over that, because it truly is awful. Way worse than the 90s era rap (which actually did produce a few bangers). I'd honestly rather listen to AI slop.

On an e-bike or going downhill, maybe. A person has to be in relatively good physical condition and an experienced cyclist to maintain 24 mph along level ground.

Hollywood already had an older trick they'd use: dubbing over someone else for the singing parts when an actor wasn't a very good vocalist.

Came here for this.

Tell me you don't like 80s pop music without telling me you don't like 80s pop music.

Modern rap is mostly incomprehensible mumbling these days. To be fair though, there's probably only so many songs you can make about bitches, hos, 40s, nightclubs, drugs, Cristal, excessively large wheels on expensive cars, gold grills, and Glocks.

The record industry has always been about marketability first, talent second. Nothing new under the sun there. It's an industry that has always been about who you know, and every once in awhile they'll let somebody new in if they're exceedingly talented (but mostly because it benefits someone already inside who will get a cut of their earnings).

This seems to be propaganda : There's absolutely no independent source, this seems to originate from some gossip by an official in UK's government, sourcing it to the NCSC (a branch of GCHQ), who in turn declined to comment.
The Telegraph heavily uses "it is understood that..." which hints that they were giving very vague information that they're in no way able to confirm.
Also, about Slashdot's summary: there's no more details from the BBC, they're basically pointing to The Telegraph's article.

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Blame it on feminism all you want, but everybody knows it's a lack of sea pirates that's causing climate change.

Mostly it's because they end up jacking up your electric bill and don't create much in the way of new jobs.

I'm convinced this is just because of bad logistics. I've got three Walmarts in relatively close proximity and often two will be completely out of something, while the third will have an absolute shitload of it. My guess would be that the stock intended to be split between the other nearby stores just gets all dumped at one location by their freight unloaders, and they call it a night.

Except when it's a kid or animal below the view of your rear windshield. You're also kind of forgetting that those big ginormous pickup trucks that are rather popular in the US could easily hide a full grown adult from view if they're close enough to the rear of the vehicle.

It really wasn't entirely a nanny state thing - kids really were getting run over.

I still actually have one of those yellow GPS dongles kicking around somewhere. Used to use it with one of the earlier Asus Eee PC netbooks.

Yes.

This is like being charged with destroying evidence because you were witnessed flushing something down the toilet prior to being detained. It might've been drugs, it might've been a fresh turd. If law enforcement can't follow the pipes and find the evidence, that's their problem. Does it mean some criminals might get away with crimes? Yeah, but that beats the alternative of charging people with destroying evidence unjustly, because they were just going to the bathroom at the wrong time.