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50% of global streaming revenue, you bet it its

In the US, they do.

> long track record of being happy when he moves people even marginally towards his views Most cranks are. Caplan is a radical libertarian bent on annihilating what few functioning…

In 1979, 13% of US hourly workers were making the federal minimum wage. By 2025, that number had dropped to 1%. Inflation-adjusted wages have been at worst stagnant. Inflation-adju…

Yeah it's really messed up that middle class people can't afford to...rent movies...anymore?

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> In matters of bathroom, locker-room, and sports segregation, universities will define sex categories based on reproductive and biological criteria. In other words, trans people c…

> Your example proves my point. If there are no judges, the government has to let you go free. That happens, you believe?

> For example, do all people have a right to health care? No, because, in the extreme, it leads to logical contradictions with other rights. (E.g. Doctors being forced to provide c…

Yes, but it's nonsense to equate identity with difficulty. The goth scene originated in a London nightclub, for goodness' sake (the Batcave). There are goths in every big city, and…

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Basically an uninteresting conclusion. Of course a "non-expert" reader isn't going to be able to distinguish between AI and Walt Whitman--a "non-expert" reader likely won't even kn…

This is a genuinely awful poem, and if you wrote it, you should feel bad.

Fine art is a matter of nuance, so in that sense I think it does matter that a lot of the "human art" examples are aggressively cropped (the Basquiat is outright cut in half) and r…

Which do you think is cheaper to produce, agitprop or deep investigative reporting? If no one pays for news, which do you think will grow in proportion to the other?

> My point is that if a musician is good, they will earn money proportional to their success. If the argument that it's the promotion that makes them successful, then the argument …

I think his prose quality varies widely from work to work. Typically it's not great. In Atrocity Exhibition it's beyond bland, though--almost bureaucratic in its mechanical periphr…

That's an Oberheim, very good demonstration of the distinctive Oberheim sound actually.

Surely a serious musician is going to want to create music that rewards attention, not music expressly built for distracted people on shitty speakers they can barely hear.

Your position isn't in a good place if your argumentative strategy is to search out bad motivations in those who disagree with you, rather than laying out a positive case for the p…

I'm sorry you had a bad experience in Vancouver. But in my experience, bad and even extortionate landlords are not limited to cities--they absolutely do exist in suburban and even …

Living in a city isn't going to be much fun if it's a crappy city, sure. You can say it's not a dump area, but I'm sorry, a city with zero museums and only two coffee shops is just…

The degree to which the SAT is coachable is a subject of debate. The biggest studies have suggested that even private tutoring has an effect of less than 40 points.

Boomkat is also good, different selection than Bandcamp but comparable in size (they definitely have some Japanese stuff that Bandcamp doesn't, e.g. Tzadik's Japanese music line).

That's the wrong way about thinking about it, though. Historical processes don't operate solely based on first principles, they operate according to contingency. Take Western music…