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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Honestly not relatable for me, I don’t know if it’s because I’ve always been into finding new music, but 80-90% of what I listened to in school (2-3 decades ago) is still fire

    There’s the odd bit of cringe in there (maybe some of the stuff from my nu metal era), but I can’t really knock my diet of Massive Attack, NIN, Chemical Brothers, The Smiths, Franz Ferdinand and Gatecrasher compilations. I’d still listen to any of it today


  • Any chance of AI being a benefit for the majority involves removing it from the hands of private interests and operating it for the public good.

    It also requires having a post work-or-die economic system unlike the one we currently operate in.

    Essentially the bare minimum is going to need a lot of nationalisation, moving to a predominantly socialist economy, and abolition of (at the very least) corporate capitalism. Basically any other path leads to the bad end.




  • Oh hey this is exactly what happened in the UK with the socialist wing of the labour party between 2017 and 2020, a report was leaked detailing how the Blairites (right wing of labour) repeatedly and systematically sabotaged the left when the left had the party leadership and were gaining momentum (heh). Given the right leaning British media was more than happy to amplify anything against the left, the writing was pretty much on the wall from the second they decided to sabotage.

    They are a part of the reason we had 5 more years of Tories after 2019





  • Depends where you draw the line on something being designer a bit, but if we’re including luxury brands in general, then essentially yes in most cases.

    If someone cares about their appearance and they have enough wealth to not need to worry about economising, they will be wearing something close to the best versions of a given item of clothing that they (or their stylist) can get their hands on.

    It doesn’t have to be flashy (and increasingly the goal is to not be flashy), you can spend hundreds, even thousands on a plain black t-shirt. If someone wealthy wants a black tee, it’s almost certainly gonna be one of those and not one from a supermarket.

    Is the difference in value equivalent to the difference in quality? No of course not, the prerequisite is not needing to worry about the cost. There’s no value to them in shopping around for a deal and/or compromising due to cost, they just want the best available, and that’s it.

    Now there’s the demographic of wealthy people who genuinely don’t give a shit what they look like, and instead dress like eccentric geography teachers, but even then, I don’t think they’re getting their clobber from a Walmart.

    Edit: typo