FourPacketsOfPeanuts

mishandling migration, and ignoring populist concerns.

I think Vance is a tool, but can someone explain how these two points aren't objectively true?

Me trying to do anything turns into a depth first search of all human knowledge

Trying telling an artist you're not stealing something when you use their work without permission..

It's traditional to crap on the brummies, but I've come round to the melodic innocence of a good brummie accent.

The actual worst is the unremarkable and boring middle class thames estuary accent, esp out the mouths of strivers in London who think they're something special.

If that were true then why agree a ceasefire at all? If hostages were disposable then it would serve his purposes better to sabotage negotiations, blame Hamas, and continue destroying Rafah.

As it stands there appears to be at least some elements in Israel that count retrieving the hostages to be more important.

Surprised this got announced while there are still hostages to release tbh..

It's very well written satire. As someone who's previously been part of evangelical house churches I can tell it's been written by someone who was part of church life for years.

It's so very well done I wasn't sure myself of it was real or not. Believe it or not I've known many genuine Christians who could crank out earnest content that was this cheesy and insane.

The clincher for me if that it neither asks for money nor gives an address. => Satire

(On the kids ministry page, the music track listings are particular genius)

I had a washing machine that made audible chirps as you dialed through the programs and an irritating ditty whenever you engaged a program. It couldn't be turned off. That was on a physical dial. But it also had flat touch buttons with no bevel or edge or tactile feedback - and these were always silent - so most of the time you didn't know if you'd really pressed it or not. God. The first time I used it I was like.. "what the fuck". It was brand new in 2023. I cannot comprehend how someone can design, make, and program something so stupid.

Same as all the muppets in the city dressed up to the nines in their new beemer than you know is on monthly payments.

On the other hand; being debt free, now there's a status symbol..

There isn't a solution. People don't want to pay for something that costs huge resources. So their attention becoming the product that's sold is inevitable. They also want to doomscroll slop; it's mindless and mildly entertaining. The same way tabloid newspapers were massively popular before the internet and gossip mags exist despite being utter horseshite. It's what people want. Truly fighting it would requires huge benevolent resources, a group willing to finance a manipulative and compelling experience and then not exploit it for ad dollars, push educational things instead or something. Facebook, twitter etc are enshitified but they still cost huge amounts to run. And for all their faults at least they're a single point where illegal material can be tackled. There isn't a proper corollary for this in decentralised solutions once things scale up. It's better that free, decentralised services stay small so they can stay under the radar of bots and bad actors. When things do get bigger then gated communities probably are the way to go. Perhaps until there's a social media not-for-profit that's trusted to manage identity, that people don't mind contributing costs to. But that's a huge undertaking. One day hopefully...

How can someone not value the ingenuity and creativity behind a work of art?

Their point of view is that if people do actually value this then there will always be a market for it.

If they don't, there won't.

I suppose a long time ago the radio and gramophone looked like they'd been the end of live performing musicians but they still exist, everything's just continually changing..

Because men are "allowed" to look however they want, grouchy, happy or 'keep the fuck away from me'. If a women does it she's got "resting bitch face" or gets told to smile. It's just a subtle way of saying "you don't look right here let me change you". If you kept saying it to guys they'd tell you to fuck off.