As a result of some research, listening to a lot of German lieder:

And for some reason, Beach Bunny:

I run a node of a social media platform and in my experience you can basically forget about friends and family ever participating. You will have to make a new set of "friends" who share your decentralized-social-media values.

| the freeze peaches crowd

I'm baffled with upcoming generations' comfort with government and corporations regulating speech. Probably the last thing I would have expected myself to part company on.

edit: that Konrad von Marburg guy seems like a real dick.

I mean it hands down beats having to watch a copy of a copy of a copy of a bootleg Eraserhead VHS - which is how I first saw it.

Just a side-note: I first saw Eraserhead in the mid-1980s and thought it was mildly intriguing but a bit slow on (story) action. I watched it again more recently and it was far richer and more complex. My life experience over time was cramming the previously-perceived "blank spaces" with meaning.

Hallucinogenic drugs are timeless, and ageless.

I watched about half of this, and would have finished if I hadn't something to attend to.

I'm really glad that it's possible to do almost anything visually and sonically these days. My feeling, though, is that this is just a collection of cool things. I'd like to see this surrealism hint at an underlying theme or point, however vague.

I'd never heard of Greta Van Fleet so I gave a listen and that is straight-up Led Zeppelin. A highly amusing interview video followed in which the lead singer cited almost every possible influence except Led Zeppelin. I wish Greta Van Fleet to be a Kaufman-esque prank that got out of hand.

I posted an earlier comment on this thread that someone saw fit to delete without notifying me in any way. In short, that avoiding scenarios like this is one of the benefits/consolations of remaining child-free. It would be nice if something in the faq explained that this is a possibility, and why.

In response to OftenBen: I suppose it is has proven evolutionarily successful to impregnate women with a child and to let her and the unwitting partner raise it without taxing your own resources. It might come to be not that evolutionarily successful at all if/when genetic heritage information becomes widely accessible.

i like it

but i want to retire pls

What surprises me most about this article is that it's in National Review.

There is a phonetically consistent language that is highly consistent in other respects as well - #Esperanto.

People can learn Esperanto several times faster than organic languages. Studies show that a student who spends one unit of time to learn Esperanto has that investment more than repaid when going on to learn other foreign languages, because its consistency allows the concepts and mechanics of language in general to shine through the particulars.

It's often possible to guess the Esperanto equivalent of a word based on its nature. Example: if you know that `foto` is the word for photograph, you can guess that a device for making photographs is called `fotilo` - because that's how you construct the word for the maker or do-er of something.

That English has become the de facto language makes it easy for native English speakers, but so much harder for the rest of the world since English is not nearly as comprehensible.