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by bigmealbigmeal 6mo ago
It doesn't matter what is "straightforward", it matters what is true. Kirk was being criticised by Ms. Rachel, who used a section of Leviticus ("love thy neighbour") to push back on Kirk's assertion of homosexu
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by bigmealbigmeal 7mo ago
They’re going to keep ignoring these issues because the wrong people are pointing them out. The enemy must always be wrong. Tribalism is awful for societies. There’s a reason Russia put so much effort into amplifying it in the west.
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by bigmealbigmeal 9mo ago
The blind spot causing your confusion is that you “imagine none of this change under a new owner”. I’m almost flabbergasted by it. The owner decides the rules.
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by bigmealbigmeal 9mo ago
To be honest, I apologise if the following appears a bit terse; I’m just really frustrated with what you’ve said and this is the best I can describe why that’s the case (without watering it down) We don’t need to step back and work out the
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by bigmealbigmeal 10mo ago
> I quit social media many years ago and to answer the question: No, I just watch Youtube. If I could stop watching Youtube, I'm totally sure I'd finally be able to read books again /s You /s, but when I quit the inte
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by bigmealbigmeal 10mo ago
This is a very strong, explicit statement in response to someone using the term rather casually. Can you explain why you are so sure? I do think you need to define 'comprehension' in order to be certain. A statement fitting the fo
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by bigmealbigmeal 10mo ago
I'm not so confident. TV use was higher in the 2000s than it was in the 1980s/1990s. TV viewing hours steadily rose from 1949 until finally peaking in 2010.[1] But when TV finally peaked in 2010, did overall screen time go down? N
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by bigmealbigmeal 10mo ago
> I was surprised because I always considered them to be the worst physical medium for music. That's a big part of why they're cool. Imperfection is beautiful. We feel this intuitively when it comes to loving someone, or when
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by bigmealbigmeal 11mo ago
Yes, it's absolutely the case for Lennon and McCartney, since they didn't give rough ideas to George Martin to fill in; they specifically wrote the exact melodies for half the instruments involved and exactly how to play them. You
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by bigmealbigmeal 11mo ago
Charli XCX was around before PC Music, but the sound she is known for and became famous for originated from PC Music. The fact that she delivered a bit of "minor popstar" cred to them is fine, but the key to my point is that they
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by bigmealbigmeal 11mo ago
The operative word was "rough". They give a few hints; they're not painstakingly mapping out the melodies and chords for every instrument and determining what those instruments are, and how they sound. If you're writing
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by bigmealbigmeal 11mo ago
What you're saying is a very common "poptimist" trope of the last decade or two. To say that, actually, these vocalists are highly intelligent and largely responsible for their own success. Charli XCX, like nearly all popstar
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by bigmealbigmeal 11mo ago
I'm personally a little frustrated with these music theory answers. Trust me folks, these answers are nearly impossible for a non-musician to understand (and even as a musician it's a bit impenetrable). E minor gives you the exact
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by bigmealbigmeal 11mo ago
> Chatbots [are] going to remain niche for quite some time. > iPhone immediately caught on like wild fire. > I'm not saying there won't be users, but it's a much smaller population. The facts say you're wrong ab
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by bigmealbigmeal 1y ago
Putting on a headset for the first time reminded me of using a computer for the first time. It was that paradigm-shifting. The frustrating thing is, back when computers were "silly" and "not ready", the type of person yo
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by bigmealbigmeal 1y ago
No, there isn't some word for that. "Transphobia" is not the same as "damaging societal perceptions of transgender people". My colleague is transphobic. He hasn't damaged societal perceptions of transgender peo
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by bigmealbigmeal 1y ago
I do personally believe that Charlie Kirk has done some damage to societal perceptions of transgender people. With that said, the person asked how Charlie's quote could stoke violence, and then you invented a significantly stronger, mo
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by bigmealbigmeal 1y ago
> What evidence can you point to that supports this "most likely" assertion that isn't purely naturalistic fallacy? Reducing this to the naturalistic fallacy is inappropriate. Notice the commenter said "most likely&
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I think this is mixing up the mythology of Zuckerberg with the reality. There's no indication that he is exclusively or even primarily driven by money or power. Go watch any long-form interview with him, such as with Lex Fridman. It be
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I think you're seriously exaggerating here. I'm 5'3" and haven't needed to take 'drastic measures' to find women interested in me, both in real life and online. I would say that the majority of women 5&#
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I also think there's a key point being missed. That is: being a futurist with high accuracy is useless if your predictions were already obvious. I can score a 100% accuracy rate by predicting things that everyone knows are going to hap
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
You've linked me to a summary article on depression by Verywellmind. Please provide actual specific evidence for your blanket assertion that depression is very rarely caused by lifestyle or life events. Remember, you've made this
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
> Clinical depression rarely has anything to do with what you've done or events in the outside world. Do you have any evidence for this? This contradicts some studies I've seen on the matter, for example, one where 75% of chron
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
The vast majority of human beings throughout time lived in extremely communal situations without separate bedrooms, without sheet music, without books, and without records. Solitude in the home was rarely available. Virtually all folk mus
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I would posit that the person you're replying to is challenging the title, not the article. The title and the article are incongruent. The article essentially suggests that considerable solitude is required to really take one's wr
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
You've shifted the goalpost from "any jam session" to "professional jazz musician". Yes, I'd agree that all professional jazz musicians have spent considerable time working on their craft alone. That doesn&#x27
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
Okay, well look, we have to step back and admit that what makes art valuable is a subjective question. If I understand correctly, your belief is that the art of 'highest value' is created in a vacuum from the approval of others. T
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
Multiple studies show that the majority of young adults in America feel "serious loneliness".[1][2] That's a loneliness epidemic. Whether or not rich people isolate doesn't contradict this. [1]: https://mcc.gs
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
That seems to be a reflection of our society, rather than a reflection of our nature. Civilization is highly alienating and dislocating, but we evolved in an environment in which we were near-permanently embedded within a tribe (or village)
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
> On display in any jam session is thousands of hours of (solitary) practice, study, and reflection. But not necessarily. Some musicians exclusively learn to play through being taught and jamming with others. I admit it's rare, and

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