digital music: yeah. that makes sense. you turned it into zeros and ones. i can Understand that
vinyl records: youre telling me that you have imprisoned the soul of sound in this piece of plastic and can summon it on demand by striking it with a diamond. sure buddy
if canada win the copa america on american soil, the gold medal in bball in paris, the same summer that kendrick is going after drake and all of canada it's over
candace: "nobody is allowed to talk about hitler."
me: "people talk about him more than probably any other historical figure."
candace: "yeah, but not in the way i mean."
An exquisite irony of the current moment is Trump’s tariff plan combined with SCOTUS lawlessness would yield a moment where we have a functionally unremovable king and a huge tax on tea.
it's shallow analysis but also true that the main recipe for fascists assuming power is fracture and division amongst the coalition of progressive and leftist forces
in every case you look back and think, "get your shit together and stop squabbling over your internal disagreements and focus on the bigger external threat!"
humans were already a resilient and inventive species that had populated every part of the planet even prior to the advent of the holocene. so i don't think agriculture is responsible for making us a successful species (language, culture & technology are more important human features on that front)
but the gigantic population increases produced by the mass adoption of agriculture (not just humans, but the domesticated animals *bred* by humans) produced such an ecological disturbence that it will eventually do us all in (and ultimately will represent only a small slice of our entire existence)
This is the most deranged shit I've heard. People are fucking Reality TV show pilled. This isn't Bang Your Mom's Friend Island or whatever that new one is, it's to decide whether or not the country is finished