It's some of that, but he's not just saying his music was cool and today's music isn't. His problem is that he's educated himself to like music that has a level of chin-stroking complexity that pop music generally never has had, except for a brief period around the 1970s. He should stick with jazz.
Thanks for responding, and you're right. I never had reach over there, so it cost me nothing to come and have none here. But I don't think there will be any major migration away from ex-Twitter unless (or as I think, until) it collapses financially under the debt he's heaped upon it.
No direct knowledge, but I've worked with an org that usese it for on-the-fly first-pass translation of auto-transcribed voice communications. Could imagine the NSA being interested in something like that.
I have it, and Chicagoland is the first place I've lived that satisfies it. My perfect day to go outside is 40 degrees F. and sky the color of corroded zinc. The news once reported that we hadn't seen the sun for 50 days straight and I hadn't noticed.
Over on ex-Twitter, I presume they've already been doxxed / identified and the hounds are being released. Pray to god their ethnicity is not something other than white
I've accepted that in common usage the word "sentient" now means "sapient." You can watch this happen in the Mass Effect franchise. ME1 (2007) uses "sentient" for "sapient". In ME2 (2010) somebody got on their case and the characters all say "sapient". But by ME3 (2012) it doesn't matter any more.
Thinking of my friend who had a pistol shoot-out with another car (that had cut into his lane), both going 75mph on the interstate in San Antonio, TX and then posting about it. I said "You realize what you're doing?" He said, "There is no fucking chance anything will come of this." He was right.
When I'm on a trans-Atlantic flight waiting for the toilet, & I look down through a door window & see icebergs scattered like dust across a waste of freezing ocean 11,000 meters below, and I think "This is deeply weird. this should not be happening."
The avatar is bad, yeah. It's been my experience that good follows sometimes go through bad periods; I know more than one that I'd swear got replaced by text generators. So far my general practice of muting a lot of words & seeing only replies with a certain number of likes keeps him under control.
Agree that "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is nauseating for several reasons, but I will say that the cultural & class distinctions of "Chicagoland" are nowhere better evoked than by setting this film against "The Blues Brothers": made only 5 years apart & yet they take place in utterly different worlds.
That's the USA system: the maximum good response is understood to mean "adequate". Same with recommendation letters. A university prof once told me, "Whatever you do, never ask a British academic to write you a recc; the American institution will think they're calling you an incompetent dunce."
"Like one that on a Lonesome Road
Doth walk in Fear and Dread,
And having once turned round, goes on
And turns no more his Head,
Because he knows a Frightful Fiend
Doth close behind him tread."
-- Coleridge, 1798
Have come to the conclusion that anyone who intentionally identifies themselves as any kind of "nerd" is -- apart from whatever else they may be -- either a naive hardcore scientific-materialist or a naive hardcore Cartesian mind-body dualist.
