Lately, whenever anyone draws the obvious parallels to 1984, posters seem to jump to say that Orwell had unsavoury beliefs and therefore it negates any correct thing he ever said.
It’s such a weird world where we decide someone must be 100% correct by today’s standards or else everything they ever said must be complete bunk.
All of our historical heroes were assholes by today’s standards, and we will be assholes in the eyes of our descendants.
I’m not sure that’s true. In day to day life, I find the majority of people will accept whatever the media tells them to accept.
The normalization of AI in the past couple of years has been rapid. Even my 70 year old aunts are delighting at AI-photoshopping themselves into flowers and revealing outfits. Prospective employees hand in chatbot-created resumes and cover letters, masking the fact that their spelling and grammar is godawful.
The media will tell us to celebrate the end of overpaid actors and influencers, and many people will be pleased to see them knocked down a peg.
I’d say the opposite because Horseshoe falls should be quite a bit larger than the American falls
That’s fascinating - I had no idea it was the same piece of equipment that Vangelis used!
The Paul McCartney song is a perfect example of the old adage “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”
I find his vocals so garbled. For the longest time I though the lyrics to Blinded by the Light were “wake up, take a deuce in the middle of the night”
That song is a blatant copy of Gotye’s song with a little of Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off. I’m stunned it wasn’t in a plagiarism lawsuit
My oldest thought it was named “Happy Cap Alone” when he was little, and now I cannot hear it as anything else
I’ve reached the point where I don’t want to know anything about musical artists. I don’t want to see what they look like, I don’t want to know about their personal lives. Just play me the music and I will judge it on sound alone, because once you learn anything about them non-musically, most of the biggest stars are godawful people.
I feel like he sat down at an electric keyboard and decided to use every single novelty noise it could make
I agree - no redeeming qualities in that song. A bunch of mismatched video game noises with lyrics that are the most hypocritical take on feminism I’ve ever heard.
I’m with you - I’ve never seen it served in Canada, but it sounds like it’s made with flavours that Canadians tend to like, so I’m fine with it. Better than having rotten fish or jello salads attributed to us
My mom was 5 years older than my dad. She was so ashamed of it that she told all her in-laws that her birthday was the same year as his, and therefore she was 6 months older. We celebrated all her milestone birthdays 5 years early with them because she was raised to believe her value was tied to her age.
To this day, her sisters will not tell me their age and I have no clue how old my aunts are. When a culture tells you that getting older makes you irrelevant, it breeds odd behaviour like that.
I haven’t had issues in Paris, but it might help that I often apologize for my French in advance. I’m Canadian and clearly have learned a different accent, but most people I encountered were quite eager to help me practice.
To add to your point, English is an amalgamator of words from many other languages. When another language has a word without a perfect English equivalent, English tends to adopt it, allowing words like shampoo and karaoke to become part of our language too. It’s a good part of the reason that English has more words than most other European languages
English breaks most of its own rules to begin with, and we seem to delight in finding ways to toy with the language even more.
The scary thing is that AI summaries are often inaccurate. I have an open book licensing exam that I am required to write every 5 years. I put one of the questions into a search engine hoping to find a study that would contain relevant information - the search results came up fine, but the answer listed in the AI summary was blatantly wrong.
I see more people on scooters these days - maybe that would be gentler on the knees? Roller blades might also help, but I find every crack and bump on the road a source of terror with those
Longer life means you have to buy more food. That will make a hilarious ad campaign for cars - save money, live shorter
You’re making perfection the enemy of good. Nobody said bikes themselves were free - everything requires some maintenance and parts.
And if we are comparing bike tires to car tires, they are still a lower volume of petroleum based rubber, and cheaper (especially given that you need two rather than four). A new bike tire is generally anywhere between $50-100, so that’s $100-200 to change the pair you are riding. And new car tires are about $150-250 depending on brand and size, so that’s $600-$1000.
I’m here thinking that if I came across a severed finger, I wouldn’t pick it up…
That’s the weirdest part of the whole thing. I’m not shocked she was blowing Trump. But Jesus, I hated telling my dad when I was pregnant even though I was married, because it meant admitting to him that I had sex.