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    Brexit :(

    in General Banter

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    I doubt any movie can reach the absurdity that this shitshow has already reached, even if you'd put David Lynch to direct it.

     

    Every time there's some news piece on Brexit it's just  :cerious:  :facepalm:  Like the recent one about Theresa May getting locked in the car or the one about the premature parliamentary ejaculation.

    Brexit :(

    in General Banter

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    The old revolutionaries become the new system. It's the same as always.

     

    Power and money (which in essence is interchangeable with power) have a way of piling up to a few and is not really dependent on the system, but can be mitigated to some degree by creating some kind of accountability to whoever is in charge. This is maybe the problem with the super rich that they wield a huge amount of power but are not really accountable for how they use it and they can all work in the background without having to expose themselves to public scrutiny.

     

    But to get real, there is maybe a lack of willingness to address the wealth disparity because on the global scale and in the globalized world all westerners, including the so called poor or working class, are rich compared to the majority of the world's population. If wealth was distributed evenly around the whole world almost everybody in the EU and US would be worse off.

     

    Let's say you make 500e per month or 6000e per year. You are still on the top 22% richest people by income in the world. Check here: http://www.globalrichlist.com/

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

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    This reminds me of the super snobby guy from US I happened to have to listen to back in Africa. He was chatting with two Belgian girls who said they love to go to Starbucks and he said "I don't know why you Europeans love Starbucks so much. Nobody goes to Starbucks anymore in the US." Sure.. I guess that's why there are so few Starbucks places in US. Jesus..

     

    Disclaimer: I haven't been to Starbucks ever in my life so I have no idea how it differs from any of the other coffeeshop chains like Costa.

    Automated Ambient Patterns

    in Your Latest Creations

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    I just played these from 6 to 1 while studying. Just what I needed, they all worked on the right level as to be soothing for studying, with the exception of Pattern 1, which still good but a little more active imo.

     

    Looking forward to hearing the next one.

     

    Cheers  :beer:

    Yeah, they don't work so well on active listening but better as a background music.

    Korn and Limp Bizkit

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    Yeah there was a lot of really mediocre pop music in the late 90s.. but then again that's true of every era. The difference is that (seemingly) a lot of us lived through it.. but still, the fact that I even got to see Metallica and Prodigy clips on mainstream TV was pretty amazing. Just those two alone informed a lot of my future musical tastes.

    I heard both Autechre and Aphex Twin first time on MTV Europe but this was about mid-90s.

     

    The late 80s to mid-90s period was a kind of the golden era of electronic music for me. Lots of major genres were formed during that time. Acid house, ambient house/dub, triphop, idm, breaks, jungle, dnb, trance, psy/goa trance, minimal techno, etc, etc. And in Europe it wasn't that underground. FSOL, AFX and the Orb were on the top selling lists.

    Korn and Limp Bizkit

    in Music Discussion

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    Anybody who complains about how bad modern pop/top40 music is should go live back to the musical wasteland that was late 90s - early 2000s. And I don't mean just nu-metal. All the horrid watered down R&B, teen stars, super bland rock, etc.

     

    There was of course great music coming out also, but it got nowhere near the top lists that were being force fed everywhere.

    stupid first world achievements and successes

    in General Banter

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    Google Maps should have an option when navigating on foot that it would not take you through areas where you're likely to get murdered. F.e. it's not particularly nice to realize after dark that it's taking you through a maze of dark alleys, with dilapidated semi-abandoned housing, no street lights and fucking bonfires burning on the streets.

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