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Yeah, I generally assume all wealthy are as corrupt as this, slipping the right people the right amount of money so that they never have to actually pay for their crimes. Trump just does it out in the open because he’s not just your normal corrupt politician, he’s a showboating corrupt politician.

I’m glad I learned that excessive convenience is a bad thing before this became the norm.

I work in construction, and that’s just not the way things work in America. Any government project is required to have a bidding phase with multiple options for nearly every required item so that every company has a fair chance to compete.

I do doors, and even when a government project is calling for some hyper-specific Blast+RF+STC door that only one company can even make, my manager still makes me reach out to a bunch of other companies to get a second number just to have something, even if I then have to qualify that what they’re able to make doesn’t actually fit the specifications.

It’s not uncommon for a large, complex project to spend 4+ years in the bidding phase alone, getting rebid over and over with dozens of addendums and RFI’s working out all the kinks, without even mentioning the time spent in the planning phase beforehand and the lengthy construction phase afterward.

They shouldn’t be able to have dinner

There’d be more conflict for a little while as the people finally come together to overthrow our oppressors, but after that I imagine things would settle down. It wouldn’t be perfect, because there would still be conniving people who do everything they can to take more than their fair share, but a populace with significantly more intelligence than today will be much harder to exploit, even if our oppressors become more intelligent as well.

New AI company on the rise: UK ProfoundBrain

I was lucky to have a mac because I tried opening a lot of yourfile.exe’s

Sounds like you’ve already started using your phone in a less convenient way, sacrificing the ease of streaming, and instead having to collect and manage your own music, but improving your experience in the process. That’s definitely another alternative, if having a completely separate form of listening isn’t your style. Nice!

It’s not something I’d be able to do - if I’m thinking about music on my phone, I can’t help but click the spotify button and leave it at that. I need to get my phone out of the equation, and I assume the author of the article is the same way, but if you’re able to do it all on one machine, good on you!

My point was never about the exact traits of the media itself, it was about the relationship between convenience and experience. With your phone you can get any music you want at any time - essentially 100% convenience. My example was with the inconvenience of vinyl and its subsequent increase in experience because that’s what I’m familiar with, but an ipod is also significantly less convenient than a phone, requiring you to pick only what music it can store, and having to manually and deliberately put it onto the machine. It serves as a sort of middle ground between the two examples I’m familiar with, which is why I said I could understand why it would give a better experience when compared to a phone.

I recently got into vinyl, and what I found was that convenience is antithetical to my music listening experience. The less I have to think about the process of turning on music, the less I think about the music at all, leaving me without any real memories about it. The more deliberate I have to be about my music, the better.

Like, yeah, I can listen to a full album on a streaming site, but I don’t. It just doesn’t happen, and I can’t get myself to change, so I change the medium instead. Might not be the solution for everyone, but I can understand how having a dedicated box for music on the go would be preferable, not just in spite of the inconvenience, but because of it.

To be fair, getting people to coordinate gets exponentially harder the more people you have. We evolved to work in relatively small groups, not millions or billions.

I was looking for a turntable recently and checked Craigslist religiously for several weeks trying to find a deal. All I saw was the same few overpriced antique stores using posts as advertisements, refreshing over and over to stay on top. What real posts I could find were priced at the same point as the antique stores, probably thinking that was the going rate.

I was barely aware of Facebook Marketplace, but a friend recommended I check there too, and it had a bunch of actual fair deals. While Craigslist rarely had a vintage turntable for less than $300, I was immediately able to find 2 for less than $50 each on Facebook. I felt unclean while re-installing the Facebook app after nearly a decade, but I can’t deny that it’s better, at least for what I was looking for.

I’ll poop at the beginning of the shift and “poop” toward the end when I want to chill undisturbed on my phone for a bit.

Yeah, but that might make them less reliant on AI! Just where are your priorities, anyway? One might think you don’t agree that more capital is the only goal worth pursuing…

Eh, I support my local record store. Lady’s just trying to sell good music at fair prices while paying her workers a good wage. I’d hardly call her Petty Bourgeois just because she’s trying to give my community a better option than Amazon for physical media; she’s barely making ends meet at that. Pretty sure I make more money than her just working a normal office job.

It’s certainly the place that needs the message the most, though the chances anyone would listen is virtually zero.

People think “free” means “I can do whatever I want,” but really it usually means “people with more power than me can do whatever they want to me.”

Never been happier to be disabled…

I’ve recently gotten into vinyl, and what I’ve learned is that convenience is often antithetical to experience. When just about every song ever made is immediately available to me at a moment’s notice, I stop caring; I’ll listen to a song I like for a little while then move onto the next one without thinking about it, and I won’t form any lasting memories along the way. When music is something that takes time and effort to enjoy, I have a chance to form a memory about my enjoyment, and when I have to physically find a song in order to listen to it, it gives that song much more meaning than if I spent less than 5 seconds typing the name in on Spotify.

I’d imagine someone who watches something illegal would be judged pretty harshly by their peers even if you can’t deny that they were trying to seek help. Like, if someone were to seek help for homocidal thoughts, and their employer and friends found out, I can’t imagine they’d have a job and many friends left. If there are any influential people who used this app, and were into some unsavory things, I could definitely see there being some blackmail going on.