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helIy posted...

its not copyright claims.

It would be, however, if the holder of the expired license continued to distribute the content. Again, that's a gross oversimplification of the nuances of copyright law and the world of intellectual properties, and the two aren't practically comparable, but the underlying logic is the same.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

helly thinks game companies can come and legally take back your physical games... don't pay attention to his thoughts on copyright

Oh, they legally can. It's in the EULA. Practically, it's never going to happen, but it would be legal for them to do so (or at least to render the game inoperative). At least, they could try, but in practice EULA's often don't hold up in court because everybody knows they're written to obfuscate what the end user is actually agreeing to and the end user doesn't get a chance to read them until after they've made the purchase. But it is in fact in there.

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I've been hearing an unusual amount for the past couple months. I think it's just people being bored.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

lucas has nothing to do with them, its 100% non-canon my dude

Lucas has nothing to do with canon anymore. Again, canon is simply a matter of being recognized in-universe moving forward. Nothing more. If future media recognizes the events of the ST, then the ST is canon. If future media retcons or does not recognize the events of the ST, then the ST is no longer canon. Simple as that. Lucas doesn't get to decide that, and you don't get to decide that.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

In this paragraph 2 sentences are about what took place at the march. And the other sentence is only 2 words which is used to describe the subject of a neighboring sentence.

Thus:
I was marching Apartheid style
At the Apartheid style march

If the second sentence is not also about the march where does does the change of subject occur?

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

so many other black americans that have been murdered in America. Apartheid style.

Again, you really shouldn't have to try this hard to seem smarter than Duckbear, and you especially shouldn't be failing so hard to do so. No, that's not a proper place to put a period, but you shouldn't be rendered so incapable of understanding what's very obviously being said by a bit of misplaced punctuation.

BeerOnTap posted...

Yeah cuz these protestors arent throwing things. Burning down buildings (in my city they sat a building on fire and there was a child inside). Beating people up. In some cases shooting and killing people. Several cops have been killed in all of this. David Dorn was shot and killed by a protester.

Police arent perfect. But this Marxist mob is insane.

There are countless stories and videos out there of police full-on assaulting people who are not in any way being violent. If it were just collateral damage from handling violent riots, sure, but that's very much not what's happening at most of these protests. Heck, there's ample evidence out there of police themselves smashing windows to give themselves justification to start responding to peaceful protests violently. In many cases, police are the ones instigating violence.

Furthermore, regardless of the challenges of crowd control, there is absolutely no situation in which a police officer is justified in firing a rubber bullet point blank at somebody's junk. That's not crowd control, that's not dealing with a difficult situation, that's not restraining somebody who needs to be arrested, that's "I'm angry so I'm going to hurt you now." A civilian would be convicted of attempted murder for what he did, no questions. This is exactly the sort of behaviour these protests are complaining about, and displaying exactly that behaviour in dealing with protests against it really isn't helping their case.

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Muscles posted...

Yeah but death of the author is a thing, and as much as I would like it not to exist it does, and comes in handy with this

Sure, it exists, but it's not going to be particularly relevant to Star Wars. So long as Disney considers the ST movies to be canon, future Star Wars media will make references to them and their events. They will continue to exist and be recognized in the Star Wars universe, which is all "canon" means and all the relevance the concept has. You can say that you don't want them to be canon or that you'd prefer they get retconned out for the sake of telling better stories in the future, but you don't get to decide whether or not they will see official recognition in future media. That's completely up to Disney.

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Sahuagin posted...

one thing that annoys me about this is how "white" people are not literally white, and "black" people are not literally black. it doesn't make any sense to project race onto colors of inanimate objects, or to object to the words "black" and "white" in non-racial contexts. there's more to race than skin color, and more to racism than color-ism.

This is completely about skin colour, though, because these are skin whitening products. Demonizing the word "white" more broadly than that would indeed be silly, but this is a matter of changing marketing that literally promotes whiter skin as being desirable/better.

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Mmm, dessert wine.

Now I really want a nice, rich chocolate cake with a glass of port. I have neither of these things readily available to me. My life is so hard sometimes.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Outside of the OG trilogy most are really shit.

As much as the PT movies were pretty bad individually, the prequel trilogy as a whole told a pretty interesting story about political corruption and the arrogant hubris of an ancient religious order. It's sometimes difficult to follow that story because it means you have to pay pretty close attention to the PT movies and subject yourself to "I hate sand," but it is a very solid story if you can tease it out.

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Muscles posted...

I don't pretend they don't exist, I just don't think of them as canon

"Canon" is literally "this stuff exists, anything else is unofficial and will not be recognized moving forward in the universe." If you treat something that is canon as though it isn't, you're pretending that it doesn't exist in-universe.

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helIy posted...

music licensing isnt anywhere close to what copyright trolling is

"I own this IP and if you use it in any way I don't approve of I'll sue you."

Sure, the practical reality of it is very different in that being able to control one's IP is vital for art in general to be a viable commercial enterprise, but the fundamental reasoning behind it is basically the same. That's why copyright trolling continues to exist: You can't outlaw it without undermining legitimate copyright claims in the process.

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Muscles posted...

It's as canon as I want it to be, which is none

So what, any time you're discussing Star Wars with somebody and the reference the ST, you'll just say "that didn't happen you're lying"? Yeah, that's practical.

Again, you don't have to like them, but the new movies are canon. You're going to sound much less like a petulant toddler if you accept that your opinion can be formed independent of that fact than if you try to pretend they don't exist.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

the disney movies were bad fan fiction and not canon

I'm afraid you don't get to decide what's canon. You don't have to like them, but those movies are canon no matter how desperately you try to insist otherwise.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

In practice I don't think pulling your mask back for a drink or wiping sweat off your face is going to be a huge risk (particularly if you wash or sanitize your hands regularly).

That's the primary issue. You get a whole lot of people making adjustments to their masks without washing their hands. I especially like the ones that wear a single pair of rubber gloves to do everything and then take their mask off with said gloves. If your hands are clean, yes, it is generally going to be okay, but I know I really only wear a mask in environments where hand washing/sanitizing isn't readily available, and in those cases, I don't remove it until I can wash/sanitize my hands.

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Zeus posted...

The fact that Canada completely disregards masks

adjl posted...

including wearing masks

Are you okay, dude? You seem to be kind of coming unhinged lately, particularly regarding the intersection between BLM protests and anti-covid restrictions.

TomNook posted...

I'm not one of those "I won't wear a mask!" people, but I would prefer to not see a movie at all if I wasn't able to be completely comfortable and enjoy it without one. My house is just fine. Masks are good for being out as a necessity.

I can agree with this. Even before the pandemic, the only reason to go see a movie in theatres was it being a better experience than seeing it at home. Wearing a mask (which I would regardless of how mandatory it is, because duh) changes that dynamic and makes it less enjoyable, which means I'd rather watch at home.

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In person? New Year's Eve, when I was back home for Christmas and a buddy came over to hang out. Over Discord? Last night, during our weeklyish one-shot RPG session, and I'll be e-hanging out with a slightly different group tonight for games of a more videotic sort. That's less Covid's fault, though, and more a consequence of me living half a country away. Covid would have limited my contact with them if I were living closer, but that's a moot point.

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It's really going to depend on exactly what mead you're drinking. I made one a couple years ago that I don't find too sweet at all. You're generally going to have some sweetness in there, but I've had much sweeter wines than this stuff, even just looking at stuff that would be considered off-dry. But then there are some that are sweeter, whether because they just weren't fermented as completely or because they started with more honey or added some at the end to adjust the flavour. If you look for one that's labeled as being dry or off-dry, you may find something you enjoy more.

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I call him Ken, because that's his name.

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rjsilverthorn posted...

I'd only heard about this a few days ago, but it makes sense when you consider how many places aren't doing business in person and a general trend of people moving away from cash payments due to COVID.

Pretty much. Cashless is the way to go these days, and that means there are a whole lot of coins that have effectively been temporarily taken out of circulation.

JixHedgehog posted...

Perfect opportunity to scrap 1c pieces like we did in Australia decades ago

I really don't know why Americans are so resistant to ditching the penny. I see a lot of them concerned about being cheated by rounding, but that's really not a significant issue. Out of curiosity, I went through my books for 2019 (which are all non-cash transactions because I just export my bank/credit statements into Excel) and rounded every Expense number to the nearest nickel (how it's done in Canada) to simulate using cash for it.

Over the course of the entire year, I spent ~$47,600, and if every single one of those transactions had been cash, not having the penny would mean I'd have lost 34 cents. Sure, that is technically a loss, mostly due to the fact that $X.99 prices are so common and they get rounded up (though I could easily see it going the other way), but it's a loss of 0.0007% of what I spent. "It adds up!"... to an extra ice cream cone every decade. I'm so glad I don't use cash much and therefore can avoid getting so horribly ripped off.

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ChimeraBlue posted...

TIL people from New Mexico are called New Mexicans.

I'm not sure what I expected.

This also took me a couple passes to understand. Go figure.

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Justin2Krelian posted...

So I'm guessing the next Nintendo console/whatever will be well after PS5 and XSX are out?

I'd expect it in 3-4 years, given that the Switch released in 2017. Nintendo's really not trying to maintain any sort of hardware parity with the other two (nor do they really need to, since hardware isn't really making significant advances anymore), so they have little reason to follow their generation schedules. 6 years is typical for a Nintendo generation, and I'd expect them to roughly stick to that (the WiiU was shorter because it did poorly, the Switch may be longer because it's doing well enough to not really need a replacement any time soon).

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A cloud of neon gas walks into a bar and asks "Ne one here?".

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teddy241 posted...

cry me a river. a lost a testicle as a kid and ain't nobody funding me with 10s of thousands of dollars.

There's a substantial difference between losing a testicle because of a childhood accident and losing a testicle because some power-mad douchenozzle decided to shoot it off for no reason. Well, unless you did lose yours because of somebody's deliberate actions, in which case you (or at leasd your parents) would also have been well within reason to sue.

Revelation34 posted...

What if he had a small testicle?

It's still very heavily vascularized tissue, and complete rupture is going to result in more open blood vessels than most gunshot wounds. Testicles really don't get small enough for a ruptured one to not be a medical emergency.

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Zeus posted...

So Canada doesn't use masks and their cases have gone down. The US uses more masks than ever and it only increases. What the f*** is in these masks?

Canadians have generally been more compliant with infection control recommendations, including wearing masks in many other situations (despite it generally not being mandatory), and Canada's governments mounted a much faster, more decisive response to the pandemic than the US' did. Even now, Canada's only very cautiously reopening in areas that are doing very well.

The US, by contrast, has suffered from a whole lot more problems with people disregarding recommendations because "muh freedom" and/or because they believe the whole thing is a hoax, was generally quite slow to implement recommendations and testing (and even now has a president suggesting that slowing down testing to help the numbers go down so the country looks better isn't an incomprehensibly insane idea), and is being significantly less cautious about reopening everything. It's very much not just the masks that differentiate the two countries' situations, especially where I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that Canada currently has a higher mask usage rate than the US.

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I've asked a similar thing about yogurt soda.

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FrozenBananas posted...

its not really a speed run but I can get 120 stars in super Mario 64 in like 5 total hours without really trying I feel kinda bad ass for that

Last time I replayed SM64, I was pretty surprised just how quickly those stars rolled in and how comprehensively I had the game memorized. I don't know exactly how long it took me, but I could believe 5-6 hours.

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Jen0125 posted...

I got a clear case

Oh okay.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

What I saw on the news in reaction to protests over police brutality is some of the worst brutality police have ever initiated against peaceful people.

I really don't get it. It's like they want to prove the protesters right on a public stage. They certainly aren't convincing anyone that they aren't abusing their power.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I don't understand what this detail has to do with the story.

Context. The writer is establishing him as somebody who's no stranger to protesting racial injustice before going on to tell about his current experience doing so. It's not strictly necessary, no, but it's a nice bit of added background that paints the guy as an actual person instead of another injury statistic.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

What does that mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (or white supremacy), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minoritywhite population.

So Apartheid style means... the march featured forced segregation with minorities given the highest status?

The actual quote specifies apartheid-style murders of black people, of which the obvious interpretation would be "murders of black people similar to those I saw during Apartheid." That's really not something you should have to consult Wikipedia to figure out.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

So the government is both doing a good job and abusing their power? If he approves of what the country has accomplished why is he protesting it?

Because generally doing a good job doesn't mean it's not failing horribly in this particular aspect. Protesting aims to improve the country by fixing a perceived flaw. It doesn't mean you hate the country as a whole.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

From what? Nothing in the story mentions anything about sustaining potentially fatal injuries.

mrduckbear posted...

One o which was ruptured and led me to almost bleeding out on the streets of Los Angeles.

And that's ignoring the fact that the potential for bleeding out through a ruptured testicle is extremely obvious to anyone that understands how large of a wound that is.

Come on dude, you shouldn't have to try this hard to seem smarter than Duckbear, and you especially shouldn't be failing so hard to do so.

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Muscles posted...

But there are objective differences between a street art though, there are some masterpieces and others of low quality

Objective differences, sure. Objective quality assessments, less so, because that's just how art works.

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streamofthesky posted...

So the NY Post is a credible source to cite now?

The paper it links to is.

streamofthesky posted...

Also the % difference between men and women refusing to wear masks is close to the gender gap in Republican vs. Democrat voting percentages.

Are you referring to the 51-48 split the NY Post article mentions? Because that's just the demographic breakdown of the sample population, not the results. That said, reading the actual article, my last stats class happened too long ago for me to readily figure out what the exact numbers are, since they're using regressions in some capacity and not just giving nice, simple percentages. The bar graphs and numbers used certainly make it look like there are significant differences, but I can't quantify just how significant.

streamofthesky posted...

So it seems to me more likely that it's just a reflection of Trumpers' refusing to wear them because dear leader said so, regardless of gender (there just happen to be more men who are Trump supporters)

The sample population used was predominantly left-leaning (50% left, 21% centre, 29% right), so I don't think that explains it.

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Probably Nintendo's, probably not any others. PC+Nintendo has been serving me very well since the Wii, and I don't see that changing any time soon. How quickly I'll buy the next Nintendo system will depend on what it actually ends up being, but I'll almost certainly get it eventually.

Horse_ebooks posted...

I want to get a switch but I heard the battery isn't good

It gets the job done. It's not enough to last for the entirety of a major road trip or anything, but I usually don't have to worry about it dying before I can get it back to the dock.

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Jen0125 posted...

It's matte pearlescent purple, blue and pink.

That sounds cool and all, but isn't it just going to be covered up by a case?

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FrozenBananas posted...

I still dont know how wearing a mask shows weakness.

Same reason you'll see people mocking those who choose to wear a bike helmet. There are a non-trivial number of people out there who consider precautionary measures to to be a sign of fear, and that "strong" people should accept the risk and tough it out. Never mind that there's really no way to "tough out" a traumatic brain injury, that's the attitude.

FrozenBananas posted...

Wearing a mask has nothing to do with you and will not protect you from anything.

It does offer some protection. You're not going to get a huge benefit from it unless you also use eye protection (tear ducts are a nice, moist, direct line to the nasal passages, after all), and it does more to prevent transmission from an infected person to others than vice versa, but it's still a non-zero benefit.

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Revelation34 posted...

Citation needed.

Clench281 posted...

https://nypost.com/2020/05/14/men-less-likely-to-wear-face-masks-because-theyre-not-cool-and-a-sign-of-weakness/

Reading is fun!

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Muscles posted...

Yeah, I guess nursery rhymes and orchestral masterpieces are on the same tier of quality since none of that matters

That has nothing to do with what I said. Try again.

bulbinking posted...

https://playback.fm/blog/science-proved-music-getting-worse

Despite the headline, all that "proved" is that music is getting simpler, which anyone who's ever looked at classical music can tell you has been happening for the last century. Heck, it actually debunks its own premise by pointing out that simpler music is better for easy listening/background music, supporting the idea that there is no objective "better" when it comes to music.

bulbinking posted...

People need to realize if anything can be art than nothing is art.

Not at all. "Anything can be art" is not "everything is art." Conditions still apply, just very vague ones like "anything that expresses creativity" or "anything deliberately portrayed," which still limit art by enough to make the concept functional. They just don't limit it more than is necessary.

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Muscles posted...

but if you are talking about about quality as in complexity, range of notes, dynamic range, etc. then it is objective

How do any of those count as objective quality? They're objective measures, sure, but none of them automatically make music better simply for having more of them.

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Muscles posted...

I haven't heard 1 person claim it had anything to do with masculinity

People whose insecurities about their masculinity drive them to do silly things never outright say that they're doing those things because they're insecure about their masculinity. That would only make the insecurity worse. Duh.

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Only if invited to or it's a quick trip in and I've asked permission. I generally don't wear them in my own house, so I'm not about to do so for others unless I've got an explicit indication that it's fine.

Zeus posted...

Canada is the same

Hardly. Unlike those boors to the south, we're civilized up here.

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Honestly, all that really needs to happen is for Trump to admit his previous show of machoistic bravado ("The CDC is now recommending that everyone wear a mask, but I'm not going to wear one") was a mistake and to start wearing on at every public appearance. A sizable chunk of the insecure manlings in the country are basically just following him blindly, so if wearing a mask is manly enough for Trump, it'll be manly enough for them. Granted, getting Trump to not only admit to making a mistake, but also voluntarily do something that he feels would damage his image would probably be harder than just about any other solution, so I guess we're stuck looking elsewhere.

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Muscles posted...

Do they know what bars are? It would be like banning restaurants from serving food or movie theaters from showing movies

Which means that significantly fewer people will go to the bars, thereby cutting down on transmission rates. At the same time, this doesn't outright close the bars and leaves them with options for maintaining some revenue, helping to alleviate the economic impact such restrictions will have. It's probably the best possible compromise, actually.

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Far-Queue posted...

Maple and brussel sprouts sounds gross to me, but I'm always open to trying new things and in my experience a lot of stuff that seems unappealing ends up being pretty good.

Both maple+bacon and maple+balsamic work quite well, whether you're pan frying or roasting them. Maple is a delightfully versatile flavouring, even for savory stuff, and I find it really shines when the stuff you're pairing it with strongly contrasts it.

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Zeus posted...

Sounds like a lot of work. Why not just kill one mobster, take their cell phone, invite them all to dinner at a restaurant, and then blow the restaurant up?

Because then you'd have to quip like 50 one-liners in a row and that really takes away from their dramatic impact.

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sveksii posted...

You could argue Taylor Swift is talented and I imagine she cares about music.

For that matter, given the number of major genre shifts Taylor Swift has undergone, there's ample room to argue that she's got a lot more agency in what she sings than most pop stars. Most pop stars don't get to try anything different (unless they're forced to change to something more homogenized to boost sales), but Swift's fanbase likes her performing ability well enough to stick with her through some pretty radical changes and weird experiments. Sure, she's still definitely a pop singer and a lot of her stuff is pretty formulaic, but as far as pop singers go, she's got some pretty unusual stuff.

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Muscles posted...

I don't need to be a judge, the fact that they turned an art form into a soulless money making machine isn't up for debate

Music has always been a soulless money making machine. Bach's choral works - despite now being regarded as some of the most complex, intricate pieces of choral music ever written - were largely ignored in his lifetime because the masses (by which I mean the aristocracy, since the actual masses didn't have much to do with music until the advent and proliferation of recording and playback technologies) were more interested in complex keyboard works than complex choral ones. One of his contemporaries literally described some of his choral pieces as having "far too much art." Contemporary choral composers saw more success by dumbing down their choral pieces to be more accessible for the average chorister because those pieces were more widely performed and recognized during their lifetimes.

That was in the early 18th century. 300 years ago. As a professional industry, music has always favoured people who produce things that are popular over people who produce things that are technically or creatively demanding. Obviously, that paradigm has progressed and evolved as science and technology have enabled more effective, lower-effort means by which to act on it, which is why comparing The Messiah to Teenage Dream is more than a little silly, but the fundamental mentality is the same. In order to be significantly commercially successful (which is the only way to define any given era's "pop music"), composers have always and will always have to cater to the lowest common denominator, both on the performance end and the listening end.

Quite simply, you have two choices:

• Get over yourself and enjoy listening to the music you like (which will always exist) while letting other people like what they like
• Continue insisting that you're better than the unwashed masses that consume music you don't like and be miserable because nobody cares and nothing will ever change

Personally, I'd recommend the former, but then I've never been one for sacrificing happiness for the sake of a little impotent self-satisfaction. Your mileage may vary.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

you cant truly put all of the blame all on any one single person but our dumbass President does seem to be enabling a lot of idiots to not take this seriously at all

Pretty much. The US' response has been a failure at pretty much every level, so pinning the blame on any one person is incorrect, but Trump has been very publicly making things worse since day 1 and is therefore awfully tempting to treat as a representative for the collective incompetence of the country.

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thedicemaster posted...

a lockdown of a month.
that's all it should've taken.
a month of no contact beyond the most basic necessities, and wearing a mask and keeping up with your hygiene when close contact is unavoidable.

Eh, pulling it off that quickly would have been a tremendous logistical challenge. You would have needed to preemptively supply everyone in the country with enough food and other necessities for the month and suspend all rent, mortgage, and property tax payments for the period to account for people not working, to say nothing of the nightmare that would be organizing emergency home repairs (which requires a supply chain of many steps, plus professional labour). Truly essential workers (mostly utilities, medical, and emergency services) would basically need to be confined to their workplaces to avoid potentially being contaminated (and good luck dealing with those services collapsing if the virus starts making its way through those workforces). And that's not counting the military presence that would be needed to effectively keep the entire country on house arrest, nor the logistical nightmare it would be to test everyone before lifting the lockdown.

It wouldn't be impossible, no, but that would be something that would need to be planned and prepared for long in advance of the pandemic actually happening and require extensive, unquestioning cooperation from everyone involved. It's a lot less simple than simply "everyone needs to cooperate for a month."

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Zeus posted...

although, again, I'm not sure either masks or social distancing actually make a difference any more because, if they did, the protests wouldn't have been allowed

Did you really just suggest that the decision whether or not to infringe on the First Amendment would be based purely on the best available public health recommendations?

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My girlfriend's work wanted her to get tested because she had a sore throat (despite said sore throat almost certainly being from talking all day because she just started the job after months of staying home all day), which meant I got tested too. She got her negative result back the next day, I'm still waiting on mine because the online portal for them doesn't work with out-of-province health cards. I get to call in tomorrow morning and be told that I'm presumably negative.

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Pop music has never not been mass produced garbage. What you see in the industry now is exactly what the industry has been doing for as long as there has been an industry, just evolving according to the technological capabilities of the era. If you're building a business around something, predictability and reproducibility are vital to being able to turn a reliable profit, and the process of hunting for talented artists and hoping that the public likes them is neither predictable nor reproducible.

Basically, you're asking if the pop music industry will ever change how it does business such that it makes money less reliably, and the answer is very obviously no because that's a terrible way to do business. Fortunately, it's easier than ever for people to produce and release their own music without needing to go through an industry middleman, and while that does mean you've got a lot of independent crap to sift through before finding something good, there's still plenty out there worth listening to if you're willing to look. You just won't be able to rely on the industry feeding it to you.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Considering they soak the coffee beans in solvent, usually methylene chloride or ethyl acetate, I wouldn't even let it touch my lips.

Depends on the method. Supercritical CO2 and Swiss Water don't use organic solvents at all, and it's not hard to find decaf coffee that explicitly advertises that it's been decaffeinated with the Swiss Water method. Even with the solvent method, though, the solvents used have boiling points far, far below the temperatures at which coffee beans are roasted (40C and 77C, respectively, roasting temperatures vary between 195-245C), so there isn't exactly going to be a non-negligible amount left.

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