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totalitarian dictatorial authoritarian states, yes

it means signal might possibly be one of the last services on earth that respects your mfing freedom.

i never understood why window managers were so hard to get right. i’d love for this to be successful and help keep System 76 profitable.

not commenting on the content, this is some excellent writing.

19 actually

it’s a joke

for all of apples issues, i really respect their continued commitment to a personal assistant that doesn’t collect all of your data. as opposed to Am & Alph.

it’s tiresome to you because you are a liar fighting a tide of truth. if google pays your bills i can’t say that you should definitely be ashamed of yourself, but otherwise you should definitely be ashamed of yourself for trying to mislead people and be as duplicitous as possible at the top of your lungs. i find cultists really tiring.

i’m hoping adobe has yet to fully optimize for the new architecture, and i’m also hoping they care to do so

i actually like jazz, i play a lot of jazz, i bought an amazing guitar 25 years ago that has been recorded, not by me, on 17 jazz records that i find to be pretty amazing. so like, i get what you persons are saying, but like unmusical music is something you’d be exposed to in a well run music 101 class in college/university

16/512gb on my m1 mini is a great computer, but it’s not as ‘snappy’ as i thought it would be from all of the reviews. i run a lot of adobe.

did the person/persons who designed the juciero design anything else that would maybe support your contention?

i get the point that you’re trying to make, and I appreciate that the juciero is a great example of a bs product, but I don’t take your point because I don’t think our arguments are comparable.

that’s because no one downvoting me understands what i’m saying. musicality is a property of music. i am not saying it’s not music, i’m saying it’s often not musical, especially to some. that’s a fact of the universe that you can either accept or continue to be ignorant. i feel like i’ve made a good faith effort to explain myself and expand the understanding of those on here who may care. moving on.

i mean, that may sound flippant, but i think it’s a reasonable response to

> i am more aware how bs the "right to their opinions" is

also before all you culture warriors jump all over me for liking shakespeare, i’m talking about the version of tots as portrayed on moonlighting with bruce willis and cybil shepherd

>what you are doing is picking up a copy of hamlet in a language you cant read, looking at it for 30 seconds, and then declaring

I don’t like this elizabethan bullshit, i find it unpleasant, and rather than waste my time on something that I feel doesn’t deserve my time, I’m gonna read some michael crighton. or maybe some dean koontz, stephen king or heck, tom clancy. it’s my life and I like what I like, and I encourage everyone to like what they like personally, and not allow themselves to be goaded into reading taming of the shrew, even if that is the best thing ole billy boy ever wrote.

picassos paintings are like a 3 yr olds drawings. that’s why they’re so special. the wonder of a child with the experience of a man. breathtaking artist.

Also, your two bar theory is utter bs in my experience.

Just to be clear, you’re pro allowing people to have their own opinions? Or anti?

yes, but i won’t

try listening to einstein on the beach. there’s a lot of bullshit non musicality going on in there, specifically to contrast with the more lyrical elements. that’s one of the greatest pieces of music of all time in my opinion.

rtsil - i also very much agree with your first paragraph there.

scoot didn’t say it wasn’t music, and i’d rip him a new one, metaphorically, if he did. he said it wasn’t musical. many people say that to mean it doesn’t have a melody they like or can attach themselves to. i also think he may have meant to say use the word ‘lyrical’ which some use in the same way. i get you though.

so, funny enough i always thought this as well. i have since stopped condescending to others about what they should or shouldn’t like.

;,)

if you understand music the way you claim to you’re not a mediocre player, although you could be transitioning from ‘mediocre’ to ‘pretty good’

jazz is a personality thing. there are many great musicians who can’t stand jazz and don’t respect jazz players. i’m not saying that’s correct, i’m just saying that is. A range of opinions exist at all levels of the art, and since it’s art, the artists are right to have their opinions.

all that being said, i’m with scoot

hr is like the police. they are the servants of the upperclass, and their job is to do whatever the board wants, while keeping it legal and keeping the company immune from lawsuits as much as possible

google is so big nobody can get anyone else’s attention. so making a public stink, while very questionable otherwise, may get someone’s attention who’s able to fix this mess

i’ve been in high stress situations, and angry, where I made a bunch of correct decisions, and a bunch of mistakes. in this case, especially since I’m not the one who is in the crosshairs, i understand her pain

this lady is not going to have a problem finding employment. google is losing an asset, possibly a major one, for whatever reasons they have to do so