I prefer Melon Husk.

It’s the lack of consent that’s the turn-on for them. See: Deshaun Watson.

I always claimed in job interviews to be good at debugging, but there are no certifications for debugging and there’s really no way for an interviewer to verify such a claim. So even though it is an incredibly important skill, companies just do not look for it. There is also the hilariously misguided belief that good coders do not produce bugs so there’s no need for debugging.

One thing I always liked about the various flavors of BASIC was that nobody ever pushed that shit as a religion.

They don’t think that. They don’t have morals.

I have a MAGA coworker who goes on about how immigrants bring diseases because they’re unvaccinated. She’s also anti-vax.

I have bad credit because I’ve never borrowed money. I have lots of savings and (had) a great income, but I always had trouble renting apartments because of my credit score. Now I have a house that I bought for cash, but the very nature of renting via credit scores draws people inexorably into the debt cycle.

Housing as a job benefit is terrible because it ties you even more closely to your employer - same problem as with employer-provided health insurance. Even a housing allowance is shit because it turns money that could be spent on anything into money that can only be spent on one particular thing - same problem as gift cards.

As the owner of a skoolie (used school bus converted into a motorhome) one benefit I’d like to see would be employer-provided parking spots for motorhomes. You wouldn’t lose your house if you quit your job (just your parking spot for it) and you would actually be able to live legally in your motorhome, something that is possible almost nowhere in the US and certainly not in any urban area that people actually want to live in. Some airlines actually allow their flight attendants to park and live in motorhomes on lots at major airports (NYC is one place for this, or at least it was recently), and some rural places provide motorhome parking for traveling nurses who sign contracts to work there for 9 months or however long.

Dude/Dudette, it was just a gag comment. Not only am I not really dismissing a massive body of work just because it uses quantization, as someone who’s spent more than half his life writing software synthesis applications, I’ve literally made a career out of quantization.

That being said, music that is not quantized definitely has a more natural feel to it, although putting that “feel” into sequencing software is surprisingly difficult.

you wouldn’t have heard them, because they, um, teach at a different school

In Canada!

Quarter-notes lol

I mean this is true but not about the '70s as the original post states. Even by the '60s they had sophisticated stereo audio mixers - they just cost hundreds of thousands of dollars instead of running on people’s phones like today.

You mean quantized, snapped-to-the-grid instrumental music? Sigh.

The Birdcage is definitely a romcom. Two for one, in fact!

I imagine he’s worn the fuck out ridiculing Melon Husk’s bullshit.

Bros kept trying to imply it was the first gay movie, or even first gay romcom, but it was the first gay romcom that was created and released by a major studio whose initial release was a “wide” release in more than one country.

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)? The Birdcage (1996)? I don’t know about “more than one country”, but they were major studio movies with wide releases.

If you ever figure out a way to break the system like this, you should never act in a way that draws attention to yourself.

There was a guy who robbed banks and he wasn’t caught for decades because he just lived an ordinary working-class lifestyle. Cheap little apartment, no fancy car etc. etc.

“Finally separated from my abusive husband of almost 14yrs,” she wrote in one LinkedIn comment on a post from December 2022. “Hardest shit I’ve ever done but we’re in good hands.”

Jesus Christ, LinkedIn for shit like this?

I’m not sure I’m willing to participate in experimenting with a US government where due process is wishy washy.

Lol welcome to the laboratory.

Name the parkland shooter, or the Walmart shooter in Texas. I bet you can’t. I know the average American can’t.

The reason we can’t name them is that THERE’S TOO FUCKING MANY OF THEM TO REMEMBER. I can’t even remember the incidents you’re talking about, let alone who did them.