Notices by JoshuaSlocum (joshuaslocum@poa.st)
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i'm just gonna come out and say it, since nobody else will
you can put rotel on pretty much anything
whatever you want, as much as you want
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@s2208 why do they post picture with two womens
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@sickburnbro apple is waging a secret war on fatties
do not interfere with the message "thinner is better"
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@sapphire @sickburnbro @CleverMoniker Back in the day, it was Arbitron. If you were selected to participate, you were supposed to keep a diary of what you listened to. It was seriously that grug-tech. There wasn't a lot of accusations of chicanery and fuckery, but there was some.
Everybody kinda sorta knew it was pretty limp data, but a lot of station managers lived and died by it. The college radio stations all ignored it, and that's why you got a bunch of folks who knew about The Smiths and REM and whatnot back in the day. The college stations also tended to be low-power, so they operated under somewhat different rules, IIRC.
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@sapphire @CleverMoniker @sickburnbro >your entire perception of music was shaped by your local radio DJ
Hard to overstate the importance of this at the time. This was prior to the deregulation that allowed a handful of companies to own all the radio stations, so A&R reps had to actually travel to Poughkeepsie to unload their payola (hookers and blow) to the local DJ.
It was a real thing back then. You could make or break a band by bribing tastemakers, and they did.
They still do a version of this, but it's much more, well, corporate. Tbh, if I had to choose between the two, I prefer the hookers and blow version.
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@sickburnbro @CleverMoniker Disco was alright. Sure, highly produced and marketed, but it was dance music, and people still danced.
There was also a lot of blow involved, which helps.
But then the dancing fad went away, and then you're just left with the music, which wasn't *that* good. And then the negroes got into the coke, and it all went to shit.
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@s2208 unless she's very smol, she plays viola
viola players are the strippers of the symphonic world
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@Cornelius @SK1ZM If you pick and choose certain metrics, yes, things are easier today. You can hop on Amazon, order a Wonder Widget, and get it delivered in a couple of days. That's easier than before, where you had to clip out something, write in your name, mail a check, and in a week or two your Wonder Widget arrives in the mail.
Food is another one, for sure. We have a surplus of calories available, no doubt. $10 will buy you a days worth of calories from Chick-fil-A.
But once you take all the factors into account, including such things as health care, quality of life, future prospect, etc. (some of which is difficult to measure, for sure, but it doesn't mean they don't exist), it's not great.
The surest sign of decline is if you ask the young people today, "would you like to go back to 1955 and live then?" They might miss having the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe available in their pockets whenever they want (they probably won't), but they'd trade that for a fridge that doesn't shit the bed after 2 years because it got a fucking virus, a wife that isn't fat and crazy from excess calories and overwhelming ennui, and a car that doesn't look like Megatron took a shit on some wheels.
(Oh, and they don't have to spend every day dodging violent negroes, because they're all together on the other side of the tracks.)
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@Escoffier @Cornelius @SK1ZM I only eat artisanal wagyu fillets and fresh-melt glacier water filtered over the pert breasts of Aryan supermodels.
So, yeah, I guessed.
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it really bothers me that the weird guy who can't sing in the B-52s is famous
but, on some level, i guess it gives me hope, too
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something has changed with saltine crackers
they're significantly weaker than they used to be
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@feralphilosophernc @NoDoxGregBrady @grizzlywhisker @lovelymiss @Escoffier @dogslurp @epictittus @vonzeppelin @Morghur @Lady_Penelope @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain i make it on the regular, it's dead easy
though you have to make it and let it sit for a while. and it helps to have good cukes, though even grocery store cukes aren't terrible.
also, plenty of places in Greece/Crete put fries on their gyros
and dipping your fries in tzatziki is 💯
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all this food talk is making me hongry
and we're coming up on the Sunny Times of Good Vegetables
horiatiki for everybody, extra feta
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@Eleutheria2 @jb @Escoffier @sickburnbro it will definitely have a lot of dudes trying to hide their second chin behind a goatee
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@s2208 @Marielle_Redclaw equivalent number as in number, or equivalent number by weight?
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@s2208 it means she is a dish
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@Mister_Sunshine @TrevorGoodchild @idea_enjoyer @EightEight @sickburnbro she only has one garter
this has activated my rustling almond jimmies
where is the other one
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER ONE
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@AmonMaritza @WTFPurpleAlpaca @sickburnbro There is something to that, within reason. And there is a cultural aspect as well. The non-figurative designs of the Islamic world appeal more to their sensibilities, for example. I can appreciate it, but I would rather my church have icons or figurative stained glass, because it appeals to my sensibilities.
Germans have a distinct set of sensibilities that may include a bit of brutalism here and there.
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@sickburnbro @WTFPurpleAlpaca An excellent and concise summary. Great clip.
Humans relate to faces. We evolved that way. It's why the aggressively-online tend towards nihilism, crushing ennui or cruelty. What we create--cars, houses, buildings, art--have faces too, and when those faces are made drab, or bland, or remorseless, or cold and unfeeling, we respond in kind.
It's difficult to quantify, and it's hopelessly unmeasurable in any hard-scientific way, but it's the sort of thing *everybody* notices.
It takes a fairly high IQ to even be able to talk oneself into accepting the ugliness as something other than ugliness, and quite a few smart people have managed to do so; but for the honest smart fraction, and the great average middle, it's just a corrosive environment.
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@Humpleupagus @Red_Hat @BattleDwarfGimli @KK954 @Azzmador @judgedread yes, but, Colbert is turbo-angry on the Internet
which trumps logic and laws and such
don't you feel foolish now
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