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Perhaps they want others opinions on the matter, or some information not heard of before, or from someone learned on the subject, or they are lonely. There’s nothing wrong with it at all

I really don’t know what would posses them to use glass instead of a metal mesh to begin with but I guess that’s beside the point here. Those look more like display cases tbh

Fuck Mitch and fuck Kentucky for enabling him so many years

He absolutely cheated, his campaign arranged for the hostages to be held in Iran until Reagan was elected president

I’m not 100% sure the reason, I suspect a lot of people just wore athletic socks as regular socks, so those are just plain white socks, they are a lot more comfortable for working class people on their feet all day. White collar folks tend to wear darker socks more with the suits and all that. I see younger people wearing darker socks more now though, like gen alpha. Personally I have a rainbow of socks and don’t like either ;)

I think it already did with the invention of the vending machine, at least the snacks are better today, people are replacing their chips and candy bars with what appear at least to be healthier options in a lot of cases, although who knows about those protein snacks, that is still ultra processed food

I guess I did one thing right and had the foresight to do that over the years lol, but yeah it’s rough now. Soulseek is still around :) then I usually use Bandcamp if I wanna buy things

Yeah this is also a key part lol

I built up my own personal library through the years that I will probably still be working my way through in 10-15 years, when I find something I like in it I search out more. I realize that doesn’t help anyone else, good luck out there

I dunno, I think a lot of mechanics are dorks too, just a different kind of dork

I don’t right now :( I have a small mini system that has a tape player but I don’t trust it, I’ve been meaning to buy a proper nice cassette deck like a Nakamichi, Denon, Tascam or something like that, like the old component stereo ones with decent transport mechanisms and play heads, but I keep putting it off for other things I guess. I don’t really wanna risk mangling them as some of them have recordings of music I made ages ago lol.

That makes pretty good sense to me. I think that’s part of my attraction to 80s new wave and synth pop so much, it was a time of such androgyny and gender line blurring, not needed to be defined, maybe part of it was for band image but it was still there, and a lot of the songs had more hopeful messages as well. It’s so poppy and fun to dance and sing along to as well :) So I totally get where you’re coming from, music is so powerful in that way how it can really transport you, and even choosing which medium to listen to it on makes a big difference in the mood which is a cool effect

I’ve semi-recently re-discovered my love for singing so Madonna, Tina Turner, Donna Summer, Steve Nicks, Cyndi Lauper, Blondie, Pat Benatar/the GoGos, The Bangles, Tiffany, Bjork, Siouxsie, Eurythmics/Annie Lennox, Bananarama etc. are all some go-to’s, so many amazing, talented ladies.

Haha weeeell, I don’t listen to it so much anymore, it’s a tad noisy for me these days, but that’s rad that your Dad is a fan, any fan of EN seems like they must be a pretty interesting person, it’s so visceral and raw

Right, I mean, that’s what the idea is in theory… who knows, it feels like it should be right but maybe the heavier ones warp more. Then there’s all the funky clear and color ones which are even more expensive

Wow that is a very diverse selection indeed and your media divide is a bit fascinating lol. Any reason, do you find female singers sound better on vinyl or is that music you are willing to pay more for?

Yes :) Most of my music collection is flac and mp3 I have collected through the years but I have some cassettes, CDs and vinyl as well. I wanted to be a dj for a while so I have some electronic records, mostly from a local record label in the 90s called Drop Bass Records, that is pretty hard acid/hardcore techno, but I have some other electronic music as well. Recently I bought a re-pressing of the Fires of Ork and Dreamfish, two ambient albums, also from the 90s, which incidentally is where I learned about the vinyls weights and such. :) I have some other from Panabrite, Bluetech, and I have some records that were my folks, Simon and Garfunkel, Creedence, Beach Boys.

I don’t listen to much metal these days, I guess mostly new wave, synth pop, electronic, alternative, getting back into some industrial though as far as heavier music, Skinny Puppy is always a favorite, I kind of poo-poo’d VNV Nation when they came around before because I was more into industrial like Einsturezende Neubauten, but they have some good stuff as well, and Covenant, Frontline Asssembly, Front 242, Thrill KIll Kult :)

I guess I should listen to some new music, but honestly I have a lot I haven’t listened to yet and haven’t really found myself wanting lol. Sorry for the wall of text.

I forgot to mention as well that the thicker/heavier vinyl is also less susceptible to warping, sounds like you have a lovely setup though :) and nice records!

It’s mostly a matter of quality, vinyl records are weighted in grams, heavier being thicker records. The thicker vinyl allows the vinyl cutting lathe to cut deeper into the record so it is more durable and will last longer. Usually for things like special editions or that sort of thing, they will have heavier vinyl for collectors, where as a normal pop record you buy at a store will be a thinner, quicker cut record that is not as durable to more and more replays but is cheaper to produce. I’m sure someone has a more detailed explanation but that’s my understanding.

You can’t take it out of the conversation, that is the entire conversation; it is not a choice it is there all along, there are people who want to make you think it’s a choice, but it’s not. The only choice involved is listening to yourself and who you are because there are a lot of people who would have you deny who you really are, then you become miserable and sad and just consume, I was there. If it was it’s not a choice anyone would even gain anything from making in this society, as far as we have come there is so much more to be done as far as people’s views on the whole LGBTQIA+ spectrum

Yes I read about this as well. https://japandaily.jp/the-johatsu-japans-evaporated-people-who-vanish-without-a-trace/
Perhaps that’s what you’re thinking of? I don’t know about the accuracy of it.

Fundamentally yes, just on a different degree of magnitude as mentioned. Any time you automate processes you risk losing the knowledge of the way things were done before hand. With CGI this wasn’t as such a big deal since it only affected things like movie and TV, but a lot was lost if you think about it, stop motion is all but dead, I guess no one knows how to do claymation anymore, I’m sure a lot of practical effects and stunt knowledge has been lost as well. Now, with AI we are replacing the sum of human knowledge. It’s a hugely different scale. We are talking about replacing human cognition, which is actually a pretty radical proposal. (Not the good radical, imo.)

It’s been about 20 years since the intro of the iPhone and most people are absolutely lost without their smart phone maps, because they have offloaded that part of their cognition to their phone. Now, imagine if they keep offloading other things, those faculties are not being used, your mind is not sharp because you are always deferring to something else. It will be interesting to see how things look after 20 years of AI usage, I guess, if we haven’t been destroyed by it yet. (Joke, I don’t think it would happen quite so fast, hopefully.)

I think the key is really the degree to which people rely on it. If it’s the first go to for all the answers we’re in trouble.

Oh sorry, no, I don’t think it’s necessary to do anything in particular, just being a decent person is enough. I always felt like I needed to do something or something was undone when I was confused about my identity, so I thought maybe it could be the same for others.

I have no idea how you gleaned that from what I said. I was talking about my personal experiences and not talking about anything else.