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Bluesky has four kinds of users

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.

stevie wonder is the greatest popular music songwriter of all time and it's not even close. his compositions, his hooks, his lyrics. incredible output

A thing I think gets lost on people is that rank-and-file programmers are, by and large, exactly as liberal as you would expect college-educated members of the middle class to be.

we actually have to destroy the alt-health industry in its entirety, much like we also need to destroy car dealerships

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

this is an argument for big structural change - limiting our ambitions to cleaning up the mess of the reactionaries has done nothing but enable the reactionaries

John Coltrane proves that virtuosity and feeling aren't necessarily mutually exclusive but he also proves that you have to have some life experiences outside of the practice room.

I have my tea that's for drinking now, my tea that's for drinking later, and my tea that's for using as currency after society collapses and there's a emergent temporary barter economy

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a thing about these “priorities” is that they cannot be achieved without comprehensive Supreme Court reform, which means THAT is your actual priority

26. The best Talking Heads song without a member of the Talking Heads in it is, obviously, Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat" but Robert Fripp's "Under Heavy Manners" is the best with the actual David Byrne. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0B...

Reclining Your Seat on an Airplane is an Act of Evil

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34. Frank Zappa is often right about things. The problem is he's a complete asshole about it.

27. If you ever need evidence about how much straight guys think about penises, I give you the complete Frank Zappa catalog.

22. The later Zappa bands were often filled with younger musicians who were fans first or hired guns. Zappa was a shitty, demanding boss. The vibes were always off. The "fun" is forced and sometimes cruel. Compare the later Halloween shows to the early ones. Night and day.

13. "Freak Out!" is also good because it contains a good mix: satirical hard rock, doo wop parodies, sound collages, a genuine blues rock protest song (that he would never duplicate again). A bit of everything.

12. Where do you start with Frank Zappa? "Hot Rats" all the way. All instrumental, the only vocal is Captain Beefheart's righteous "Willie The Pimp." "Peaches En Regalia" is, by his own admission, the only thing he wrote that nobody had a bad thing to say about. The production is AMAZING.

1. We can argue about "best" all day long, but Frank's Roxy era band is the most talented collection of musicians in rock history. George Duke was the third vocalist on the call sheet. Chester Thompson was one of two drummers. All three Fowler Brothers! RUTH FUCKING UNDERWOOD!

Can we normalize Sega Dreamcasts?

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Wait, Shermer wrote a book called "Truth"? And here I thought skepticism was about the weight of evidence. And then the contents look like both-sides centrist bullshit.

Even trace amounts of exposure to the LessWrong discussion boards is actively harmful to your mental health. Cordon it off for 10,000 years.

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Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

"MLP-Music has only scratched the surface with its Bandcamp offerings, partly due to the fact that many of the master tapes are missing, so they have to track down source material on vinyl records, compact discs, and cassette." How MLP-Music Became the Internet’s Largest Collection of Arabic Music:

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There's garbage in the water. There's poison in the sky. I guess it won't be long before we're all gonna die

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I think it's obvious that the problem is they've hired the wrong Jon Taylor from the internet's nerd spheres. We have a solution ready for the Neopet people when they are ready to hear it.

which goes to something i always say: elections aren't just competitions over who can meet the criteria voters have - they're debates about what those criteria *should be*

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

my heart's wish is that no one would ever listen to a podcast on spotify

Off the top of my head, probably this one:

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Most absurd *possible* result of recent events: -Chavismo sans Maduro survives indefinitely in power -Maduro gets acquitted on a legal technicality or wins outright because US case against him was made poorly -Trump makes oil companies invest but they lose tons of $$$

Naive as I was, I found this extraordinary. How could anyone do something so obviously consequential without getting everyone together, hashing out the pros and cons, making sure you’d thought of everything, and ONLY THEN making a decision? I’m much less amazed by this in the case of Trump.

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