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Giving this album 9.1 is the most old-Pitchfork thing they've done in years. It's the anti-PR move to do.

Cindy Lee isn't a retro revivalist IMO, their previous band Women already had that technique of using 1940s-60s songwriting form and warping it with a noisy, no-wave, DIY sensibili…

The best and worst thing to happen to the album. It fully deserves the acclaim, but now loads of people are only going to listen to it through the prism of the hype rather than hea…

See, all of those sound "derivative" to me. Absolutely nothing against Japanese yacht rock/soft funk, but it's silly to blame musicians for using genre conventions when those are i…

That sounds like a great environment! It seems like a tricky issue for people without the requisite know-how (and most of all, time), though. I worry that in the future, there migh…

> It is because in practice these are politically motivated trojan horses meant to tear down things like a meritocracy, the very thing that created this great software. 1. Why is r…

> so humanity will just have to deal with it and adapt over the next century. Shame about the planet and the natural ecosystem, though. I don't think you understand that efforts to…

> The right of the stronger, fitter. Right, so why don't I just come along and murder you? I have the right, by your logic. Or, maybe, this Social Darwinism is fascist nonsense and…

> Erm, no. Why do you bother commenting on this if you just flat-out refuse to accept scientific evidence in the original post?

> I prefer having bearable temperatures where I live, sleep and have visitors, What gives you the right to all that at the direct expense of the people who can't afford it?

> For example, I got myself air conditioning in a country famous for skiing. AC units are massive drivers of climate change. Honestly, this is a vile and selfish attitude.

What about Signal?

Your comment is exactly the attitude the person you were replying to was mocking. What that person saying is that a lot of reasonably intelligent people who are nowhere near genius…

> If you are taking diversity into account, you are taking things other than merit into account and so it isn't a 'true' meritocracy. Well, no. The point is that due to inherent un…

Being considerate of other people is Stalinism, is that what you're saying?

> believe that discriminating against white men is okay because they enjoy "white privilege", whatever that is > It is hard to distinguish the anti-white vitriol I see on this page…

That's delusional conspiracy nonsense. Seriously, take a step back and look at what you're saying.

The entire point of diversity initiatives is that the meritocracy in theory doest not translate into a meritocracy in practice, due to unconscious bias: https://library.gv.com/unco…

Your assertion that he "stole" Fez is really not supported by the purported evidence you linked. And you totally missed the point of Fez if you think it only has the 2.5D and artwo…

You say you're not trying to make excuses, but you literally are making excuses for him. As is he for himself. No matter how curious, it's just not acceptable to run a service to s…

Don't link to the Daily Mail please. They're a rabid right-wing tabloid rag that deals in invasions of privacy and demagoguery, they're awful.

That's blatantly not true, people on the internet have become massive cheapskates due to the easy availability of everything. Since Napster, piracy has flourished and continues to …

Pirate Bay has 21 seeders but yeah, there's not exactly an abundance of peers there. Really glad I picked up a bargain bin copy about 10 years ago

If you don't mind breaking the law, it's probably a bit more efficient to just torrent it.