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Re:Apple Music Classical on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:50AM (#35341051)
I get your point but rap was a bad example. Rappers don't "cover" songs and artists who cover rap songs are usually bedroom artists posting on YouTube.
Re:Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @02:15PM (#32486616)
Being that Arch is maintained with arch users in mind[0], building an installer for that user base would have to entail a wide range of option for unique use cases because that's whats expected of their users[1]. There isn't a "cop-out" or "plea" to users outside of the community because it was never a goal to appease them.

[0]https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux#User_centrality

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux#Versatility

Re:Ask HN: Do You Use RSS? on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:47AM (#31862865)
I keep up with a few Patreon podcasts through Feedly. I don't have much good say about it. Sometimes the audio cuts off after about 15 minutes of play while inside my pocket. It keeps the timestamp, though! Id love a recommendation of an android app that does not do that
Re:Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:28PM (#31730481)
Things might have changed since I was forced to unsub due not being able to comment because I refused to prove to a few subreddit mods that i am indeed a person of color.

Around that time, many if not all of the threads ended up being closed due to the the dramatic arguments that formed when users posted political/racial commentary to the sub; which is to be expected. I believe the real problem was when comments from users who portrayed themselves as POC felt their voices were less pronounced due to the downvotes and negative replies. Understandable

So they decided to lock the sub down for anyone except those who accepts a segregated bubble and willingness to prove their "blackness" in order to post an opinion

"why is this on the front page?"

because someone found and read this wiki and decided to share it with others who also found it interesting so they upvoted it. now here we are

Being that there are farmlands, trailers, "boonies", smallish towns all over the US, it would be safe to say that rednecks are an American phenomena rather than a southern one.
United States of America.
Re:David Zucker reflects on "Airplane!" in 2021 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:52AM (#28915815)
If a joke indirectly offending someone is bullying, how do you feel when comedians do "crowd work"?
Re:Remembering Huxley's “Brave New World” on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:39PM (#28790457)
>>As for myself, I've always felt like an alien on earth. As a kid, I truly did not understand why people did what they did. I saw people forming all these social connections, but I couldn't understand why they did it: what were they looking for in others? I've always lived in a world of my own. Patterns, structures, associations, have always interested me more than material things and socialization. If I did not have my inner creative world, then maybe I would have been like the others around me...but I was otherwise occupied and so I became an outsider -- an outworlder.

This is directly on target with how I felt as a kid to late teens. Is this something you talked with others about or maybe read somewhere? I have never came to grips on why it took me longer to understand people. My siblings close my age did well socializing where I felt out of touch.

Re:Mozilla says Chrome’s latest feature enables surveillance on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:31PM (#28638008)
Disord's idle/away seems to be working for me in FF.
Re:Norm Macdonald has died on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:56PM (#28530187)
Yes it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMRd-n_s4c8

From his special: Me Doing Standup

Re:KolibriOS on Saturday May 22, 2021 @07:19PM (#27251108)
This also happens in fedora when applying updates through the gnome-software-center.
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:52PM (#26162092)
Texan here. This is great advice and have been constantly reminding myself of it the past couple of days
Would you mind sharing those subreddits with constructive political discussions?
The photography and cinematography in Samara were far beyond what Koyaanisqatsi accomplished. I can easily conjure up the images from Samsara in my mind only have watched it twice.
Re:Ask HN: Learning about philosophy on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:51PM (#25318205)
This pdf source is missing the first chapter, "Marxism and Existentialism".

Here's another source in html: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/crit...

Re:What happened to all the non-programmers? (2015) on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:24PM (#24500511)
Adults usually don't strap on gear and tackle each other at your local park. When I played, we most ran routes, which is passing plays, if we weren't playing a pick up game. When I read this part of OP, I guessed he or she didn't do too much research on recreational sports.
Re:I won’t buy ebooks anymore on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:11PM (#23315249)
Google Play Music is still holding my collection.
Re:Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness? on Sunday April 19, 2020 @09:30PM (#22920328)
I don't relate but this is extremely interesting to me.
Re:Lambda School’s Misleading Promises on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:03AM (#22375099)
"" Computer Science" is the equivalent of math 100 years ago..."

Would mind expanding on that?

Re:The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism” on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:40PM (#22314883)
Woah