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11y ago
You consider the US a success?
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11y ago
Man I can't get into this stuff at all because the curiosity and uncertainty alone would kill me. This thing, the cicada thing, that reddit number subreddit thing. Ugh.
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You're right, it's the only place I found John Addison's soundtrack for the Movie Sleuth (1972, Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier).
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11y ago
Man I'll relay the message, he'll be super happy.
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11y ago
I'll take the gun please.
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I thought the same way until I realized that 99% of the people I'm bantering with online are only in my life because they are accessible. Neither of us would ever put the effort towards actually meeting up and hanging out. I only have
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Actually you just described a front-end developer, which I guess you call "UI Development". Which is really a scam by companies to overwork one individual with two jobs. UI and actual development should remain separate as there is
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11y ago
>You can choose from six broad personalities That pun made me chuckle.
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The difference between those hobbies and the ones 0xffff2 mentioned is these are (most of, not all) hobbies where you consume, whereas his are hobbies where he creates.
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11y ago
I hope he tries his hand at building an AM analogue synth.
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11y ago
Checkout "Christ." as well. 3rd early BoC member, he's sort of struggling but his music is amazing. He's one of the only artists to ever get an encore from John Peel. He's reissuing one of his best albums on vinyl a
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11y ago
Yeah, two birds stoned at once.
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11y ago
What's with the ellipses? Always so awkward reading messages from people who always do the ellipses thing.
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I need this. I just about have a breakdown at work every single day because I work in an extremely loud open office setup with no escape to a place of solitude. Everyone on the floor sees me as a wretched asshole, because it's true. Wh
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This perspective is romanticizing their hardships. The reality is probably that they have no way out and they are stuck in a cycle.
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Desperate times if you're bad at what you do.
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11y ago
There's a special place in hell for people that make jokes and post massive animated memes in issues.
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11y ago
An army of Chinamen writing CSS.
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11y ago
That's me, people find me tough to handle and so I spend all my time on my own work. It's liberating in a way.
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11y ago
>"Fuck being Googley" (direct quote). I'd probably get fired for bursting out laughing.
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Hahaha those perfect post-its. Wonder how much that ran them.
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11y ago
Then you are already part of the collective.
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>After that, I think you will find that you are no longer being stomped in the face every day. Yeah, all of that is all well and good, for you . What you wrote has no effect on me as I've already made the same realizations way way
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What part of it isn't true though? Don't look at how it reads, just read the words. I feel the same way, like you're being stomped in the face every day by an invisible boot except nobody knows who's wearing it, but we a
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That's all well and good but we've hit the top. Neither of those were billion dollar corporations.
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There was for a brief period what I like to call the "wild west" of the web. All just shitty phpBB and whatnot boards for every topic. There was no concept of social media. I genuinely got to know the people, mods, smods, gmods, a
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Theory and history, then technical training (scales, chords, arpeggios, ear training, sight reading, and etudes), then my repertoire which currently consists of Bach's BWV 903, LVB's op. 13, Brahms op. 118 no. 1 & op. 118 no
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I manage to practice 6-8 hours a day and I work full time. Just leaves me with absolutely no time for anything else once chores are taken care of. Can't wait to buy a tiny remote cottage so I can practice full time with minimal bills.
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> How much hubris do you need to think that you alone know how best to allocate not only the scarce resources of this planet but also the lives of every single human being on this planet, and to sit in judgment of what work is worthy and
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By virtue of not pursuing something that doesn't efficiently get basic necessities to everyone, I don't need evidence as you're doing the work for me. Great, but they could have added more if they abandoned space altogether a
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