Useless twisting of our new technology
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I see you have good taste.
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You're not at all worried about the phenomenon of diluting definitions of powerful words until they lose their power, are you?
it's more like if we don't talk about how these schemes of oppression hand off to eachother, pass the baton, now, the knowledge becomes lost to everyone but the academics who study ur-fascism. i work to be very considered in how i phrase things because words have meaning. i also come at it from the angle that a lot of people living in the imperial cores of America, Russia, and China don't even recognize that they live in the hellscape outlined in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four and that talking about capitalism v communism is not the fight most of the world at large is having, they're talking about fascism v anarchy.
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Cheeba cheeba is a helluva drug
Maybe I'm gonna have to get high just to get by
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I remember my mind being blown away by a TV segment that explained how the practical effect was achieved.
Not sure if this is the video you're referencing, but it explained it for me: https://youtu.be/MzwY7ii582Y
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it's more like if we don't talk about how these schemes of oppression hand off to eachother, pass the baton, now, the knowledge becomes lost to everyone but the academics who study ur-fascism. i work to be very considered in how i phrase things because words have meaning. i also come at it from the angle that a lot of people living in the imperial cores of America, Russia, and China don't even recognize that they live in the hellscape outlined in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four and that talking about capitalism v communism is not the fight most of the world at large is having, they're talking about fascism v anarchy.
The problem is if everything becomes fascism, then nobody cares about it. I remember in high school people calling Obama a fascist. So now they have nowhere to go when Trump showed up.
That kind of vague academic language screams of "word salad", of people using big words to make themselves feel smart and feel like they've said and done a lot without doing anything at all. Like this Calvin and Hobbes comic:
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Went down a rabbit hole bc of this (thank you) and found out JK is a twinkess twin and so is Elvis
Not sure what that means but I saw him live a few years back and I was shocked how extremely British he is, both in accent and great sense of humour. Also the whole band is now a bunch of old dudes. I guess that shouldn't be surprising but it was very different from the picture I had in my head since my childhood.
Except the music. The music was just as good as ever. It was awesome.
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Yeah it's not about the Internet and virtual reality or fax machines etc, it was about overpopulation and ecological collapse among other things.
The song was inspired by a trip to an underground city in Sendai, Japan if you read Wikipedia. In the late 90s Japan was a gadget obsessed place with neon signs and screens packed into places like Sendai. Japan had industrialised rapidly over the 20th century and gave the impression of a thriving technology and manufacturing industry.
It was seen as a futuristic place by people from the rest of the world when they visited. Of course in reality Japan was in the first of its "lost decades" of stagnation that's run from the early 90s to now.
Yeah, sure. I suppose next you're gonna say that The Return of the Space Cowboy is not about the movie Serenity.
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i don't know who this is
waits
walks away
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The problem is if everything becomes fascism, then nobody cares about it. I remember in high school people calling Obama a fascist. So now they have nowhere to go when Trump showed up.
That kind of vague academic language screams of "word salad", of people using big words to make themselves feel smart and feel like they've said and done a lot without doing anything at all. Like this Calvin and Hobbes comic:
wrote last edited by [email protected]You're not wrong. This is what anti-intellectualism gets us, and that goes double for the Hyper
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Then your mind will literally explode if you listen to "Computer Love" by Zapp & Roger, released in...... 1985!
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Besides not meeting its capitalist expectations, how have Japan's "lost decades" impacted its people, and how does that impact differ from that within comparable nations that had continuous economic growth during that same time (e.g. the US, Europe, Australia, and South Korea)?
Overworked, or refusing to work at all. No one's having sex. Their economy is further collapsing, their population is converging to the point of a death spiral. No one can afford to have a family.
They still like tech in Tokyo and pump out anime, though.
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Isn't this just Pasttime Paradise by Stevie Wonder?
I'm a fan of both. I don't hear it. Different key, different progression. What are you hearing that I'm not? Also, IMO it's absolutely impossible to not be influenced by Stevie if you play this type of music, so there's that.
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I miss the old internet. Usenet was magic.
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I'm a fan of both. I don't hear it. Different key, different progression. What are you hearing that I'm not? Also, IMO it's absolutely impossible to not be influenced by Stevie if you play this type of music, so there's that.
Nah my bad it was Stayin Alive by Bee Gees
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I don't know that I've ever actually registered any of the lyrics within this song, save for "vurchahwuhh insayynatyy!"
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Nah my bad it was Stayin Alive by Bee Gees
It's a stretch, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't like it.
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We tried to cover it with my band, but it sounded really boring. Upon listening closely to it, I was surprised by how minimalist it actually is. I mean there's barely anything on the track! Some piano, some strings, and drum and bass of course.
It was a happy surprise to find that it's one of those songs that are carried by the pure energy of the vocalist, which makes it very tricky to cover unless you go a very lateral route and "re-genre" it.
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Hah, one of those coincidences.
Just 2(?) weeks ago Virtual Insanity popped up on stream and I wondered if Jamiroquai are prophets now or the song is just way younger than I remember
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I miss the old internet. Usenet was magic.
Ah, convergence. In retrospect, it seems obvious that the Web would just get extended to do all that stuff. The part that was harder to predict was corporations taking over all the platforms. I guess I just waited to believe that everything would stay democratized.
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TIL "gaff" is UK slang for your house or home.
