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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I have never even read those names before, and I think this illustrates the issue.

    Protest songs used to reach world wide top charts because that’s what people bought. This was ruined by commercialization, so that charts now only show what labels want to sell. People who actually choose what music to consume will scatter out into online bubbles that are completely detached from the mainstream and public view.

    This makes it almost impossible to reach as big an audience as done by RATM and others did in previous decades.

    Perhaps young people ought to do protest TikToks instead of protest songs.



  • It’s worth reading, because it’s very factual, as in, they don’t inject any particular viewpoint or opinion into the writing, unlike some other outlets. Whether or not they chose to report on certain events over others due to bias, I do not know.

    I remember them being wrong one time point though, because they reported on something chaotic that had just happened or was still happening where details were unclear.



  • They tell you the total before you start paying, don’t they?

    They say it’s 10.50

    If you give them a 20, they’ll start giving back 9.50 before you can even attempt to do the exact coin exchange.

    If instead you give the 0.50 first, they can’t start giving change before you’ve presented the rest of the cash.

    That’s how you pay 20.50 in order to get 10 back.

    It’s something you can do for your own sake to avoid having a pocket full of shrapnel. It’s not necessarily a help for the cashier, and they’ll definitely tell you if they need it. So, please don’t hold up the queue just to give exact or optimal change.



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    It’s more of a journalist thing. They take the words out of your mouth to reach their own conclusion fast and deliver an answer that’ll fit inside the allocated screen time.

    “When you heard that people use things instead of measurements to explain the size of other things, exactly how shocking was it to you?”

    They describe these random things to avoid people talking about giraffes for hours.





  • I think things will make a turn in about ten years. Yes, climate is very critical, but the kids of today will have a better shot at shaping the world in a time when the last old ideas from the fossil fueled age have finally died.

    It’s going to get rough, but at least they have a chance of changing it. We never did get a chance, because the boomers were kept alive with improved healthcare. It’s the same people who have all the wealth and power today as it was in 1980s.

    So maybe Gen-X and millennials will be the next old assholes, but at least they’re better educated and their views are much better aligned with younger generations than the old ones. We might finally be able to work together across generations politically in just a few years time. It’s much needed, and it’s hard work, but I envy the kids who get to be the creators of the post-boomer society.


  • Because it’s a cramped space. People who get up when the plane touches ground are going to be standing in the walkway with their bags and butts pressed against other people for all the time it takes for the plane to taxi in and connect the doors to the terminal or stairs.

    They do not get out faster.