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cgod  ·  28 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 586th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" · 1

Might be my album of the year.

cgod  ·  109 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jesse Welles - Walmart

This guy is great.

Thanks for posting.

cgod  ·  148 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 576th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

cgod  ·  168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 574th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

I've been facing a lot of adversity and about to experience a lot of change, make me listen to more hardcore.

cgod  ·  168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 574th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

I've been enjoying a lot of the stuff Nick Cave has been putting out the last year or so.

I really like the Grinderman albums.

In the past two weeks I've listened to "Shivers" by Roland S. Howard with the Young Charlatans two dozen times.

The Charlatans broke up and Roland joined Nicks band The Boys Next Door and recorded Shivers before they became the Birthday Party.

Basically a giveaway to big pharma.

Local conditions don't' change much, you still can't bank in the industry, you can't sell across state lines.

Pharmaceutical companies can start researching and developing "medications" for public consumption. Chance that they can get "products" approved for the public and steal any value that the little guys have scratched out in local markets.

Biden could have made things more like booze or tobacco but chose not to do that in favor of the drug companies.

I can't smoke weed because I'm about to drug test for jobs. I don't smoke much weed but the second I can't I want to all the time, lol.

He might not debate.

It might or might not be the right move.

I didn't vote for him and I won't vote for him.

I'm not going to be spoon fed the Steve Bannon Biden edit but you are welcome to it.

You can make the same edit of Trump stumble bumming his way through speeches.

Both guys are old and have lost a few steps, Biden was never a good public speaker and I don't believe that he's riddled with Alzheimer's or something, they just know that no matter what he's going to end up being edited into senility.

Watch his State of the Union or the yesterdays Press dinner speech and get back to me, or keep being spoon fed the media line.

He may be complicate in genocide but he isn't mentally gone.

cgod  ·  209 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HVAC Technician Salary: U.S. Guide State by State in 2023

You make me glad that I didn't go to school for HVAC because it pays so much less than the water and environmental tech job is going to pay me. Thanks for making me feel good about my decisions bro! only five semesters to make 30k more!!!!

cgod  ·  259 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 566th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

I'm digging the new Kim Gordon album, it's loud, ugly, silly and funky.

The new Mary Timony album was good.

cgod  ·  264 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Palestine and the power of language

We are soooo far from pulling out all the stops....

cgod  ·  277 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Taking a weight-loss drug reduced a craving for opioids

I've been curious to see if these drugs raise the suicide rate in patients that are taking them for weight loss.

I think that suicide rates might go up if they get used for addiction treatment.

food and drugs make life bearable for many.

Haha, I did a little search before I "contributed" and lo and behold.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wegovy-other-weight-loss-drugs-scrutinized-over-reports-suicidal-thoughts-2023-09-28/

Suicide rate increases have knocked past weight loss drugs off the market.

cgod  ·  280 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 564th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

I pretty much can't deal with how much i want to go see this live.

cgod  ·  300 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: American Dream - Donny Benét

My latest weird audio obsession.

cgod  ·  300 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Cult of AI

I've been mulling what I'll remap my windows AI key to be.

cgod  ·  300 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

I've consistently found you over optimistic about over big picture U.S. politics.

Guns is the one that stands out most clearly.

In a country that has now tightly restricted abortion in just about half of the states I think bounds of the possible are wider than I've ever seen them.

I hope you aren't right.

While the breakup would be painful, I think many places would realize futures that would be more fruitful than they would otherwise be. The costs would be significant and the benefits would probably not be evenly spread out.

cgod  ·  317 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The desperate race to save Generative AI

Having just started my first week in a new semester with seven classes running 18 credits I've been told many many times that if I present someone else's work as my own I will face the academic firing squad.

I'm sure that I would actually get a session of positive counseling and a second chance but that seems like a pretty fair deal when some of the people in my classes only academic bona fides are a high school diploma.

For the past two weeks many of the social justice warriors I follow (and admire) on twitter have been wringing their hands that the president of Harvard shouldn't have to face consequences for plagiarizing. I've been wholly indifferent their pleas. I don't' care that the president of Harvard has been taken down by a fucking conservative devil, if I plagiarized twice I'd be kicked out of school.

It's even crazier that if you are a tech bro that plagiarizes you should get to become a billionaire. I shouldn't be surprised. Why would any argument that helps you become a billionaire seem perfectly suited to reality if the steaks are billionairehood.

cgod  ·  317 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why America Hates its Children

Exposing you kids to unique opportunities is not overparenting, but I understand and share your fears.

cgod  ·  317 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why America Hates its Children

My kid does roller derby. It's very physical (not rough but lots of coordination). The ladies who do the camp are just the kind of people you want influencing your kids, the values are accepting eveyone for what they bring to the table, good team work, pride of your physicality.

I think they might do school of rock this year.

They really should have done school of rock two years ago but they have to master shit before they do it in front of people.

Sometimes they do coding camps for games but if they don't think their game will be the best they don't' want to do it. I get them to go anyway and they have fun. It sucks because they spend about ten to twenty hours a week creating game fodder.

Sometimes they go to theater camp and have fun. The theater camps they go to are JUST FUCKING AMAZING. They make original and complex plays that riff off old school or modern themes.

Camps are good for kids.

My kid hates camp but has a shit load of fun going to them.

I'm trying really hard to get them to do a hip hop dance camp because the social capital you gain from being a good dancer can be massive. I want my kid to be able to attract the people they want to attract socially and romantically in the future and dance is a gateway.

I made my kid do many swimming lessons. I'm pretty sure that my kid could be just short of black out drunk in their twenties and not fucking drown when they fall off the dock. MISSION ACOMPLISHED!

cgod  ·  324 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 560th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

I like that Songs:Ohia song.

cgod  ·  324 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 560th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

Less McCann passed away this week.

He was a forward looking jazz musician.

Less recorded the first album recorded in a 32 track studio, he was the biggest name and one of the first to record with a synthesizer in jazz.

He had very progressive social values.

cgod  ·  449 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Progress August 2023

I'm fine great satisfaction in my collection of very pedestrian saws, I'm guessing you are having a ton of fun.

cgod  ·  449 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America's Regional Hot Dog Styles

Wtf is that cheese doing on top of a Coney dog?

cgod  ·  539 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

Russia doesn't want to go to war with NATO.

No one wants a nuclear war.

I don't know what it is you don't see that I see.

The Russians have always been conflict adverse, they barely had the courage to ship most their comrades small arms during the cold war, let alone stand up to the west.

Their tactical dogma is built around the assumption that they are being invaded, which is part of the thing that's put them back on their heels in Ukraine. The only aggression they have ever offered is against weaker foes.

In contrast the US is not all that conflict adverse and has often shown up to help weak "allies". NATO doctrine is pretty aggressive and the US is more aggressive than that.

I don't see what advantage could ever be gotten by playing a weak hand against Russia.

cgod  ·  548 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

Reading The eXile was a decent primer on Russia.

I'm pretty sure you turned me on to it.

MS-13 is a real problem for El Salvador, I don't' think any gang in the Philippines was a seriously challenging government power.

I don't know how to justify it but I feel like Duterte intentions were less sincere. He saw the drug crackdown as a good path to power and a great way to get rid of trouble makers.

Bukele definitely gets off on the adoration but I think he saw a problem he wanted to solve and went for it.

I could be wrong.

El Salvador had lost it's monopoly on violence. Before the crackdown Bukele had done a few cycles of treaty and and violent rebellion with the three different gang factions. I think he realizes he couldn't get ahead without decisive action.

I think Duterte is more of an opportunist. Drug users and dealers were an attractive victim for his populism.

How far is Mexico from trying the same?

Locking up all the gangs looks like a viable path to power, some one is sure to throw the dice.

Mostly not from the "news".

Lawfare has pretty good coverage of the things no one paying attention to.

cgod  ·  611 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Credit Suisse Bond-Wipeout Threatens $250 Billion Market

Conservative love for the unitary executive is part of the problem.

I don't know the financial side of this all that well, but on the national security side congress just doesn't have much bandwidth anymore for serious detail oriented work that isn't extremely pressing. This is especially true on the republican side where a huge number of representatives entered congress with a MAGA mindset. Good national security legislation is innately bipartisan.

It's not a love for the unitary executive as much as owning libs on Twitter and other performative ritualistic politics is how you get ahead and hard work doesn't count for shit.

We are going to see an interesting test of Congress ability to do more than be shit flinging monkeys with the AUMF repeals the Senate is sending over. If they get repealed it would be a bipartisan step towards Congress clawing back a little shred of power, hopefully that might become habit forming but I should probably be careful what I wish for.