postman

I thought we were giving opinions on search engines? And what virtue am I signalling??

Also, your comment seems overly aggressive for a casual conversation. Just my opinion.

We're all supposed to be friends here.

I'm a fan of udm14.com which removes the AI from Google search, and that's fine by me. To echo your rant, Gemini is atrocious compared to Chatgpt or Claude.

Add gpodder for sync and perfection!

*whips

Ayy, mine is Not_Available

For those that may not be aware, McSweeney's is a satirical quarterly that generally publishes absurdist humour. That they have published these remarks in full and absolutely verbatim is worth noting.

Janine Jackson on Counterspin seems like the last sane media commentator.

Reagan ended his term 36 years ago. Don't make us that old for being there!

AeroInsta

I see where you're going with this and I accept the possibility Trump is just clumsy and avoidant on the issue.

But you must be aware that there is a strong belief amongst MAGA types and deep conservatives in general that slavery was benign if not beneficial to those subjugated. D'Souza wrote a whole book about it.

They believe liberals exaggerate the bad parts of slavery due to irrational white guilt and black people agree because they are whiners and want reparations.

I strongly suspect this plays into Trump's rants regarding museums and history curricula.

I realise this is a tongue-in-cheek title but for anyone unaware, sheet music is a very clinical and skeletal approximation of music. Like the difference between reading I Have a Dream and actually hearing MLK deliver the speech. It's why you can have 1,000 different recordings of a Mozart piano concerto -- and why they're all superior to a PC playing a MIDI file (most accurate representation of sheet music).

Having said that, and despite sheet music being about as far from 'lossless' as a stickman drawing, musicians are particularly good at 'visualising' music. So much so, that a brain scan can't distinguish between a musician actually listening to music and a musician merely replaying music in their head.

The Murder