maldusiecle

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by maldusiecle 8d ago
If you seriously dig into literature or film you'll find that many of the stories don't fit into the hero's journey at all--or only fit if you make the "journey" so generic as to be practically tautological. As for
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by maldusiecle 3mo ago
50% of global streaming revenue, you bet it its
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by maldusiecle 3mo ago
In the US, they do.
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by maldusiecle 3mo ago
> long track record of being happy when he moves people even marginally towards his views Most cranks are. Caplan is a radical libertarian bent on annihilating what few functioning social institutions we have left.
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by maldusiecle 5mo ago
In 1979, 13% of US hourly workers were making the federal minimum wage. By 2025, that number had dropped to 1%. Inflation-adjusted wages have been at worst stagnant. Inflation-adjusting prices is necessary for these comparisons to be meanin
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by maldusiecle 5mo ago
Yeah it's really messed up that middle class people can't afford to...rent movies...anymore?
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by maldusiecle 11mo ago
> In matters of bathroom, locker-room, and sports segregation, universities will define sex categories based on reproductive and biological criteria. In other words, trans people can't use the bathrooms matching their gender identit
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by maldusiecle 2y ago
> Your example proves my point. If there are no judges, the government has to let you go free. That happens, you believe?
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by maldusiecle 2y ago
> For example, do all people have a right to health care? No, because, in the extreme, it leads to logical contradictions with other rights. (E.g. Doctors being forced to provide care at gunpoint.) In the same vein, people do not have a
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by maldusiecle 2y ago
Yes, but it's nonsense to equate identity with difficulty. The goth scene originated in a London nightclub, for goodness' sake (the Batcave). There are goths in every big city, and in a lot of cases they move to places _where the
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by maldusiecle 2y ago
Basically an uninteresting conclusion. Of course a "non-expert" reader isn't going to be able to distinguish between AI and Walt Whitman--a "non-expert" reader likely won't even know who Walt Whitman is. "
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by maldusiecle 2y ago
This is a genuinely awful poem, and if you wrote it, you should feel bad.
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by maldusiecle 2y ago
Fine art is a matter of nuance, so in that sense I think it does matter that a lot of the "human art" examples are aggressively cropped (the Basquiat is outright cut in half) and reproduced at very low quality. That Cecily Brown p
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by maldusiecle 2y ago
Which do you think is cheaper to produce, agitprop or deep investigative reporting? If no one pays for news, which do you think will grow in proportion to the other?
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by maldusiecle 2y ago
> My point is that if a musician is good, they will earn money proportional to their success. If the argument that it's the promotion that makes them successful, then the argument is less correct today than ever before - the advent
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by maldusiecle 3y ago
I think his prose quality varies widely from work to work. Typically it's not great. In Atrocity Exhibition it's beyond bland, though--almost bureaucratic in its mechanical periphrases, repetitive, clinical and bizarre. I can&#x27
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by maldusiecle 4y ago
That's an Oberheim, very good demonstration of the distinctive Oberheim sound actually.
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by maldusiecle 4y ago
Surely a serious musician is going to want to create music that rewards attention, not music expressly built for distracted people on shitty speakers they can barely hear.
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by maldusiecle 4y ago
Your position isn't in a good place if your argumentative strategy is to search out bad motivations in those who disagree with you, rather than laying out a positive case for the position itself.
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by maldusiecle 4y ago
I'm sorry you had a bad experience in Vancouver. But in my experience, bad and even extortionate landlords are not limited to cities--they absolutely do exist in suburban and even rural areas.
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by maldusiecle 4y ago
Living in a city isn't going to be much fun if it's a crappy city, sure. You can say it's not a dump area, but I'm sorry, a city with zero museums and only two coffee shops is just not much of a place. I've lived in
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by maldusiecle 4y ago
The degree to which the SAT is coachable is a subject of debate. The biggest studies have suggested that even private tutoring has an effect of less than 40 points.
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by maldusiecle 5y ago
Boomkat is also good, different selection than Bandcamp but comparable in size (they definitely have some Japanese stuff that Bandcamp doesn't, e.g. Tzadik's Japanese music line).
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by maldusiecle 5y ago
That's the wrong way about thinking about it, though. Historical processes don't operate solely based on first principles, they operate according to contingency. Take Western music. Early music is mostly vocal, and early principle
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by maldusiecle 5y ago
Do you really think it's worth reading poetry translated via Google Translate?
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by maldusiecle 5y ago
There's always going to be some kind of gatekeeping at some point in the process--even in a purely digital marketplace, there's limited attention. Small publications like this are pretty much the least limiting form of this: relat
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by maldusiecle 5y ago
The volume is higher, by a lot. More books are being published now, because the barriers are so low. The problem is that the quantity is overwhelming, no one can sift through all of it. Literary magazines were never "gatekeeping"
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by maldusiecle 5y ago
If it was published by economists, in an economics journal, doesn't that suggest you're condemning the wrong field?
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by maldusiecle 5y ago
I think you're a little behind the times here. Most of the major streaming services have features to automatically play something else when your video ends, and they have for some time--it's hardly a differentiator for Netflix. Li
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by maldusiecle 5y ago
I doubt it. A film with a muted color palette doesn't come across the same as a black and white film--even if works well, it doesn't work the same way. And the characteristics that made film noir work so well visually--dramatic, u

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