Oh I’d somehow forgotten this era

That shit was in everything non solid for like 2 years

I’ll have to see if hypernormalisation is still on iPlayer

Edit: yes it is, well that’s not what I needed to discover at 1am with work tomorrow…

Siren song for those browsing with an internet connection of a geographically British persuasion: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c

There’s a reason the more educated you are, the more likely you are to hold left wing views.

You can’t learn how the world works and not want to take obvious steps to improve things

…unless you’re a psychopath

I’m pretty sure you could drop a phone-less trump less than even 100m from his home without him being able to find his way back

In answer to the making a good living:

Historically, record labels, then streaming becoming the norm allowing the collision between record labels and streaming services driving down the artist’s cut. Now increasingly so more recently, Live Nation/Ticketmaster and similar live event conglomerates taking bigger cuts and liberties from the last line of revenue traditionally successful artists have. And it’s at every level, there will be a local event promoter behaving as the live nation of local music in your area.

For new artists, most people discover music via streaming recommendations these days, if the algorithm doesn’t smile on a given artist for whatever reason, they won’t get played, and therefore they won’t get signed (given more and more up and coming artists self publish their earliest stuff these days)

You’ll get the odd station elsewhere that peppers in a sound effect or two, but this kind of faceroll on the soundboard is a uniquely American radio station thing in my experience

American republicans are so fucking stupid they can’t understand the soft power they’re burning that basically already made them what they’re lusting for.

I miss the era of SA/4chan/YTMND being the meme factories of the internet.

It was chaotic, yes, but goddamn were there fewer problems

Annoyingly I’ve used them for a number of years as a good way to make internet comments flow a bit more. However I find myself doing it less and less now because I’m worried people are just going to think I’m using an AI if they see an em dash.

(You just long press dash on android to get to it, opt+shift+dash on Mac, and the admittedly Byzantine alt+0151 on windows. Can’t remember iOS off the top of my head, but I think it’s similar to android)

Why would they start telling the truth now?

i.e. Helping others modify their own devices

You’re splitting hairs

Gary Bowser got fucked by Nintendo for doing shit to a device he bought. Got sentenced for nearly 4 years, now owes like $15m

gives famous example off the top of my head

Well this isn’t as important as that

…?

Well that’s objectively false, the tampon tax one is a pretty famous example.

This is how you start a war with Scotland

I think every petition that’s ever been through the website has got the “lol try harder” response at 10k.

No one pays attention to that one.

Oh so you’re telling me that my storage unit is actually incredibly well optimised for space efficiency?

Nice!

100,000 means they are forced to debate it in parliament.

If we get to that point, email your MP and tell them to show up

Ah apologies, I missed that. STV is good too, the Scottish use that and it results in good representation for everyone

Go on Elon, just another line of ket and you’ll get your revenge