grasshopperpurp

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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
Unfortunately, it's the slavers who HO for efficiency and the people who suffer
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
>It's no coincidence that the countries with the least free speech also tend to be the most regressive on civil rights and some of the worst places to be an ethnic minority. Feels like this is an attempt to simplify something comple
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
>All those things I said stop them from fleeing? I'm not sure I understand the question. Yes, you can flee, but you're going to spend the rest of your life as a wanted criminal. It's not exactly easy. But, this is true wit
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
I'm no expert on RBG, but I always pegged her as a Neo-Lib, rather than a Leftist.
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
>Feeney seems like an awesome guy but sadly in 100 years nobody will know his name! I'm 99.9999999% certain that no one cares about their name when they're dead.
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
Was listening to Rick Rubin interview Andre Benjamin on Broken Record, and they briefly touched on this and agreed that constant touring creates a bubble that is terrible for writers. In another part of the interview, Andre Benjamin said he
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
I enjoyed the Switched on Pop episode on Lo-Fi. I don't listen to it a lot, and I didn't know much about its origins, but I'm a big fan of J Dilla and Madlib, who they cite as major influences on the genre. Strong rec for J D
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
For myself, I have two main creative outlets that take up most of my personal free time, and I alternate between the two depending on how I feel. I find them both rewarding and never regret the time spent on either - even when I don't
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
>By the time this is all over and society resumes I will be pretty far past the cutoff point for fixing my social life and still managing to be relatively "normal" It's like anything else you want. Put the work in; enjoy t
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
Quote would have been better if he said "and can" after "and want." But, as general advice, I think it's still pretty good.
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
In that spirit, the self-titled album, The Great Speckled Bird, is worth checking out. The songwriters and vocalists are Ian and Sylvia, probably most famous for Four Strong Winds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
Lots of good examples in sports, where wasted movements lead to failure, particularly at the higher levels
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
At the other end of the spectrum, his acoustic album, Folk Singer, with Buddy Guy is some of my absolute favorite Muddy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_Singer_(album)
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
>Meanwhile in US/Western Europe riots are for some reason seem to be directed not at government and police but at uninvolved car/store owners. Makes it seem like those rioters have different - maybe opposite - motivations than
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
This highlights our inability as a society to properly value things. Things like education, the environment, mental health, and just creating a place that does right by as many people as possible are improperly weighted. I'm not saying
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
Good example of how the US is hurting itself by picking petty fights with friends instead of unifying against China.
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
I like Bandlab. I wish the mobile version let you mess with sound effects, but otherwise, it works great.
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
>This isn't true unless you're talking the bling Era of the late 90s. You lived in a different 90s than I did then. >Now who deviates? Danny brown? He's like 40. RtJ? They're like 40 too. Kendrick tends to always b
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
Andre 3000 is a big fan of Future fwiw.
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
>Same beats. Same cadence. Same flow. Voices indistinguishableffrom each other. This is how people used to talk about Hip Hop in the 90s. People familiar with Trap can easily distinguish between the different rappers and producers - just
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
I often think of Yeats' lines from Adam's Curse: I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. * I believe there are exceptions, but in gene
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
The only album that comes to mind is Exile on Main Street, but I'm not particularly into back stories. Were a lot of people doing this in the 70s? I'm D'Angelo is as good as it gets. Voodoo and Black Messiah are two of my abs
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
Most low-paying jobs can't be done from home. They require the person to show up at McDonald's or Walmart, etc., so I don't see how this applies.
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
Except for bailouts - like the one currently being proposed - USPS is self-funded and does not receive money from taxes. One problem is that USPS is meant to be a service (congress has to approve rate increases), but it's treated like
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
The main problem with the way most people look at meritocracy occurs on the fringes. Billionaires deserve that much more because they earned it; if they didn't, it'd mean the system is broken, corrupt, or both. The destitute deser
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
Fake it 'til you make it applies. When you're in the habit of stressing/overthinking, it's temporarily built into the way you process things. To overcome it, you have to practice controlling your mind. Sometimes starting
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
These pants look fine. When I think of cargo pants, I think of ridiculously large pockets that really only work in the context of the baggy style of the late 90s/early 00s. It's not my favorite look (though it was when I was a ki
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
I believe you, and I didn't mean for my parenthetical question to minimize the suffering of those who do experience it. It seems like it's more prevalent in some circles than others, but I could be wrong. Either way, I don't
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
This is a real solution to a real (maybe exaggerated?) problem, but I'm curious to see how people in general would accept it, because the solution is associated with the Left, and the problem is associated with the Right. It's cle
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by grasshopperpurp 6y ago
>Anyone who suspects they might have regrets or will be giving things up... I don’t know if they should go through with it. That's where we're at. We're open to changing our minds depending on our situation, which is about

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