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    What's something you miss/ are glad about nowadays?

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    Glad about: the internet is completely awesome, the list of things it has democratized is endless. It's given a voice to a lot of people you'd have never ever heard from even 25 years ago, so I feel like it must have accelerated a lot of societal change.

    And I wish I'd had Wikipedia, YouTube, peer-to-peer networking,..., everything on demand in my childhood, this was the stuff of dreams back then. I'll take the internet over flying cars and self-lacing Nikes any day. Imagine sitting around waiting for a song to come on the radio so you could tape it to listen to (or at least the 2 minutes of it they'd have played, lol) at your convenience.

    So much of the world seemed almost mythical back then. Like you would hear or read about stuff and never get to experience it, because you were completely dependent on what was on radio and tv or in (reasonably) local stores and libraries. Or worse, never hear or read about it in the first place, because it never made it into your small world, and you weren't the outgoing and adventurous type who made an interesting new friend every other day.

    Last year I started playing guitar again after a 15 year break and it made me properly realize how much of a struggle learning was back then compared to now. For every lame-ass influencer or glorified gear demo channel there is another providing genuine help and insight. It's a far cry from sitting in my bedroom trying to decipher photocopied Hal Leonard books.

    Miss: Journalism has really gone downhill. Bias has always existed, but news used to be delivered in a much more matter-of-fact, impartial way here. News anchors didn't make the appropriate faces to show you how to feel back then, lol. Watch an old news bulletin from the 90s and compared to today's news it feels like a well-researched, verified in-depth documentary narrated by a speech synth. These days it's a 24 hour cycle of emotions, opinions and sound bites that does more bad than good. It is spectacularly shit and seems unsustainable, really.

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    Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans (may 2020)

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted · Edited by manmower

    On 1/28/2020 at 8:37 PM, manmower said:

    Going to go against the grain here and say this latest track is my favorite thing he's done in the last couple of years.

    Actually Teenage Birdsong is up there too, not sure about the video but I liked the tune better than Only Human, Dreamer, or some of those weird Wingdings tracks (although there was a really good one in there, the one with the vaporwavey window artwork).

    So I guess that makes me kind of hopeful for this album.

    I knew I'd heard Parallel 2 before. Also boy, was I ever a dick back in January.

    https://00000ooooo.bandcamp.com/track/--6
     

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