yetanotherloser

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   by yetanotherloser 5y ago

   I think it's absolutely splendid the way a 17 day old account with just 2 posts here, both about the Ukraine invasion, has such insight about the deceptive propaganda uses of simulation games! Could you please show us some examples?
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   by yetanotherloser 5y ago

   I'm really pretty sure they did. In fact I'd go one step further and say a lot of Old and Middle Kingdom society WAS a peculiar kind of management theory. Those pyramids weren't built by slaves either. There is plenty of mana
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   by yetanotherloser 5y ago

   I wonder if you can do an interesting Damascus with it like those guys who do the same with old chainsaw chains. In landfill it's a waste of embedded energy but not likely to be a hazard so I wouldn't worry too much, but clearly m
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   by yetanotherloser 5y ago

   Or, alternatively: rancid, fraudulent cooking oil is pretty good proof of the uselessness of the dead hand of the administrative state and given that it can and will crush you for non-harmful breaches of its own rules but can't crush h
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   by yetanotherloser 5y ago

   I think you hit on something I missed, and much of this thread missed: there is one weird generation that was sold the daft idea of rebuying its music as format shifts - the 45, the LP, the cassette for the car, the CD remaster... - who als
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   by yetanotherloser 5y ago

   My 1910 player piano nods smugly. This trend has taken a long time to, as it were, play out. Many of the things that are a mess about music reproduction copyright today are actually artefacts of that era too...
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   by yetanotherloser 5y ago

   I don't mean to be nonconstructive but... my gut response is "naaah". A generation of wealthy nostalgics overspends on the same old music. A generation of hard-up youth (and there's nothing wrong with that in strictly or
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   by yetanotherloser 5y ago

   OK, no dog in this particular fight but as a general principle... why? You can burn through a hundred bucks remarkably easily on subscription TV or live sports or computer games or board games or a few trips to the cinema or a day out or a