Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

Re:Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylo... by Pet_Ant on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:19PM (#40445057)

The entertainment may be superfluous but the emotional effect it has on her fans is not. I mean compare this to the carbon footprint of people driving to church. Not a fan personally, but a concert it a meaningful experience for her diehard fans.

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Re:Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylo... by ipaddr on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:31PM (#40445252)

Going to church which is usually local doesn't compare to the entertainment industry's waste from touring, production nevermind the collective gas usage.

We shouldn't be promoting emotional effects that are massed produced like facebook feeds that trigger real emotional responses to fake simulants

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Re:Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylo... by childofzombie on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:40PM (#40445370)

I think churches were a lot like spoken word venues with performers who try to copy the best, occasional traveling stars, and the most usable advice being memes that predate Christianity.

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Re:Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylo... by ipaddr on Thursday May 23, 2024 @12:24PM (#40456665)

There are no performers. At it's basic level it's people getting together in a home where they read a bit of a book. More like a book club.

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Re:Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylo... by readyman on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:28PM (#40445214)

Meaning is not value, economically speaking. I don't think Musk creates much value if any, but can sympathize with their point.

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