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Goredho

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  1. I didn't really give a shit about Ewers as a pro, I was just glad he moved on. After the last couple pages, I really want to see him become the next Tom Brady just to see what it does to Derka's brain, lol.
  2. At this point in the conversation is when you usually hear "UBI". Edit: Which to me, sounds like a tech-y way of saying the tech oligarchs will allow a little to trickle down to the masses.
  3. I mean, AI is doing a lot more than that now in some industries, but the amount of money being thrown at AI is only justifiable if general artificial intelligence and a significant elimination of white collar wage costs is just around the corner. At some point, investor patience will grow thin. I find myself in an interesting position with AI, as I have concerns as A) a tech worker in their last 10 years of a career, B) an investor with a not insignificant portfolio that is on schedule for a retirement and C) as a parent who worries about what opportunities will be left for their kids to build their own lives from. Some of the concerns from those different perspectives are in opposition to each other. Regardless, I have to be willing to be an AI-fueled tech worker now, or the last chapter of my career is going to be a lot shorter than 10 years and the rest becomes kind of a moot point. When someone like Elon has a generally available neural implant linking brains to the intardnet, and we start seeing tech workers gleefully getting implanted for the productivity boost of having a direct link between their brain and AI is when I'll say fuck it and become a plumber. Anthropic will have succeeded in making me a misanthrope
  4. I pretty much agree wholeheartedly. But, I think velocity is also a component. The speed at which the magnitude of what AI might be is realized. Its basically a race against investor expectations at this point to determine if the bubble pops. This article claims that the investment/spend on the AI race is masking a lot of other problems in the economy, and that if the AI bubble pops and all the other issues become unmasked, the general economy will be in danger, too.
  5. That's a deep cut.
  6. If anyone has any objections speak now or forever hold your peace…
  7. As far as replacement goes, in either the workplace or bedroom, these guys seem to have some misplaced anger.
  8. GG and Wishbone Ash are seriously underrated. Gentle Giant β€œFree Hand” is a fantastic song.
  9. Dunno, I really enjoyed β€œSuppers Ready” and I view it as a bit of a masterpiece. Anywho, I know my musical tastes are in the minority, but the ear wants what it wants.
  10. Yeah, everything that was "progressive rock" from the 70s did. Genesis became what they became, Yes had "Owner of a Lonely Heart", etc... But, to me, while PG obviously embraced mainstream songwriting to have charting singles like Solsbury Hill and Sledgehammer (great songs), he also had a whole lot of less mainstream stuff on those albums, too. Intruder, Biko, Rhythm of the Heat, San Jacinto, etc... were really creative, interesting and different from so much of what was being pushed on radio and MTV. I think he did a great job straddling the fence. Yeah, they certainly found a lot more people in the 80s than they did the 70s.
  11. That's cool. Yeah, I mean, it's nothing against Phil Collins, really. PG left, Collins stepped up, and they became something different. I just didn't like the band's output much after they had become much more conventional/radio/video friendly. And by the time they had gotten to "Invisible Touch", they had lost me.
  12. Missed this back in December. Yeah, it's bad (just imo). But that's ok. Peter Gabriel's solo career was really what a continued arty Genesis would have been.
  13. That would have been the smart thing to do. Instead, I listened to the one 23 minute song 7 times in a row while touring the galaxy.
  14. quornholio is still available.
  15. Can I choose the four other posters?
  16. Yeah, I mean, I understand a billionaire being 3 orders of magnitude more wealthy than a millionaire is a fuckton, but I am used to thinking in those terms. Proportionally, having a billion dollars compared to a million dollars is as having a million dollars is to having a thousand dollars. Once you get past 7 or 8 zeroes, it's just past what the average human can really fathom. It's like trying to comprehend galactic-scale space or time. I see a lot of jealousy of people at the next one or two orders of magnitude. Meaning, someone who has a 5 figure net worth looking at the people around them with a 6 figure net worth and thinking those are the people that are holding them down. When in reality, the people with <5, 5, 6 and 7 figure net worth are all in the same boat that the people with 9 and 10 figure net worths are shaking (down). The people with the 8 figure net worth are in a sweet spot hoping no one notices them. Also, Democrats standing up to Republicans by fleeing is pretty damn funny. I know this happens from time to time in Texas, but in today's political context, it cracks me up.
  17. Saw Lumineers this past weekend in Mile High. They did a good job of sounding exactly like the record. A mid-set rain delay was the only downside.
  18. Yeah, dunno, video was posted 15 years ago is all I know.
  19. There is no try, only do (little kids, apparently)
  20. I find it crazy there is no way of knowing how many people died in this event. I mean, I get it when a tsunami hits Bangladesh and they can only say something like est 300,000 dead. But this isn't Bangladesh and the number is several orders of magnitude smaller.
  21. Missing meant dead a long time ago. Was there ever an accurate count of people that are dead/missing? I mean, not just campers, but the total number of lives lost from this event? It just seemed to keep growing every day and then it fell out of my news cycle (I'm out of state).
  22. 15 years old but I missed it until recently, kind of heavy but with some strong melodies.
  23. I highly recommend taking a solid dose of mushrooms, putting on a good set of headphones and listening to this on repeat.
  24. I think there's a lot of room for interesting music between 3 chords and the truth songwriter types ala Tom Petty and guitar virtuosos like Yngwie Malmsteen who only view a song as a platform on which to jerk off 64th notes out of their fretboard. I don't know enough about Tim Henson to know where he might fall on that spectrum, but I'd be surprised if he isn't a lot closer to the latter than the former. What interests me are elaborate, varied compositions involving excellent musicians. Like, my favorite band is probably Yes, and "Heart of the Sunrise" is my favorite song of theirs. I can put that on over a good pair of headphones and it takes me on an 11 and a half minute journey where the world fades away (gummies help). I can't recall a single line of lyrics from it. I vaguely have ascertained its about being lost in a city, but its kind of silly if you were to just read the lyrics. But Jon Anderson has such a great voice, it doesn't matter. He could sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" with the same melodies in the song and it would still be incredibly beautiful and moving to me. And yeah, there is some virtuosity on display, at times. I am sure a lot of people would listen to it and have the reaction that its just a meandering, self-indulgent mess. And that would be a perfectly valid opinion. Don't care, had ear sex.
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