bobxmax

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by bobxmax 1y ago
It's only disrespectful if you're a gatekeeper.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
And so sampling, dj'ing, these aren't skills? This isn't music?
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by bobxmax 1y ago
No, the hubris of people deciding they can define what music is is insane Banging two sticks together is music. Get off your high horse.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
> having an ai steal a melody and add it The fact people still think this is how these models work is astonishing Even if that were true, sampling is an artform and is behind one of the most popular and succesful genres today (hip hop).
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by bobxmax 1y ago
What about someone that's very low income, is "none is fine" then?
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by bobxmax 1y ago
What is a loophole? Legally avoiding taxes isn't cheating. What you're describing is tax fraud, and that's different from corporations using legal strategies to mitigate their tax burdens.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
I always find "fair share" to be an odd argument. Who decides what's a fair share?
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by bobxmax 1y ago
The title: "The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations"
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Comparing spend is an odd way to look at poverty - why wouldn't you look at outcomes? I'm not sure how many pockets of, say, the Netherlands, look like Gary, Indiana.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
The post you're commenting on is comparing the US to other developed countries.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Gun violence is responsible for nearly 2% of annual deaths in the US, I imagine that might skew the statistics slightly. But yes, US poverty is much worse than poverty in other countries. But the flip side is also true - it's generally
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by bobxmax 1y ago
I assume he's being tongue-in-cheek
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by bobxmax 1y ago
The fascination between young boys and dinosaurs must be studied. There's something imprinted in the DNA for it to be so common lol.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
I didn't say they invented it. I said it's normalizing was due to them. Big difference.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
I think you misunderstand my comment. When I say "public" school I don't mean in distinction from private. I am referring to the broad modern standard of putting every child in school... which is traced back directly to prote
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Well obviously schools have existed in any part of society. But schools have always had a purpose - whether it's training future scholars at madrasas, training sons of nobility for war, etc. The institutionalized mass factory-farmed ed
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by bobxmax 1y ago
That's incorrect. Public schooling can be directly traced back to protestants - the idea of state-wide mandated education was to ensure the Bible was taught and spread. Education and public schooling are different things.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
It's the anxiety generation. Parents are now terrified of paedophiles and traumas. My generation needed TV commercials reminding our parents we exist.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
The public school system is absurd and the biggest culprit in the vast majority of our modern problems. The idea that we would take children and put them in an environment that is essentially the same as a prison for 18 years, is ABSURD. Wh
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by bobxmax 1y ago
The same GAMAAN org that in 2020 found 33% of Iran were Shia, and in 2022 reported that number was now 56%? Religiosity surveys in the middle east are largely bunk. Actual boots on the ground reality is very different. In the 2000s much was
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by bobxmax 1y ago
None of what you said is true. They still enjoy large amounts of popularity - are you forgetting the entire country virtually coming to demonstrate when we slaughtered their commander a few years ago?
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by bobxmax 1y ago
That's nonsense. This is what westerners like to tell themselves because all they read is western media coverage of Iran. No, 80 million people don't want to end the regime. Westerners can't fathom the fact that not everyone
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by bobxmax 1y ago
American & Western European chattel slavery (or perhaps more accurately, western christianity-driven chattel slavery) is uniquely barbaric historically. The wide-scale dehumanization on a racial basis has no precedent historically. Impe
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by bobxmax 1y ago
That is not a full-time job. If Oog decides he's going to spend 10 hours a day doing nothing but make stone axes for the 15 other men in the tribe, Oog is going to have a bad time. In a hunter-gatherer context, the men are hunting, fis
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by bobxmax 1y ago
> Problem is, the subordinate has encyclopedic knowledge but it's also extremely dumb in many aspects. Most PMs would say the same thin
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Do you find pleasure in being a random angsty troll deep in day old HN threads lol
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by bobxmax 1y ago
What other activities would you opt out of mammoth hunts to do, that wouldn't lead to the tribe exiling you?
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by bobxmax 1y ago
> jesus christ you people are so thick: You think this comment was flagged because of sarcasm? lol
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Industrial-scale slavery is a post-agricultural phenomenon and represents a very small percentage of overall human development. Even such slavery, modern western/catholic chattel-style slavery aside, wasn't entirely transactional
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Correct. The rapid urbanization of society has crippled us - we are pack animals suddenly thrust into an environment with a constant nascent undertone of hostility. The feeling of constantly being surrounded by people you can't trust i

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