None of that is novel or unique to Spotify or streaming. The push for radio hit singles was killing the “listen-through album” well before the internet meant individual tracks could be easily purchased (or pirated).

Pop music is always mostly bland, that’s how it gets mainstream appeal. The good ones stand out and are remembered while the rest fade from cultural memory.

Aichteeteepee, colon slash slash, doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou dot…

Sometimes I like to think about what the world would look like if Columbus sank in the Atlantic. How long until another European sailed West?

Timbuk2 isn’t as good as they used to be. If you can find a used one it’s worth it, I’ve had mine for like twenty years, but I wouldn’t gamble on one made in the last five years. (They closed all their physical stores and cut costs on manufacturing by moving offshore)

Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.

Good thing it’s extremely preventable thanks to modern medicine. We should all be so lucky that our greatest fear is 100% avoidable through easy life choices.

Frankly the production started going downhill when they took the robot voice out of the intro.

youtube was a stepping stone for him

This has been clear from the beginning. Dude wanted to make movies and fell into gaming.

Depends on what exactly you’re looking for. Technology Connections, Steve Mould, ElectroBOOM, Practical Engineering, Hank Green’s various enterprises, Cody’s Lab, and the various “mad scientist” types like StyroPyro, NileRed, and the various people William Osman hangs out with.

I really hope that garage space doesn’t blow up in their faces…

Yeah I feel like he should dial back the vibe and side gags and put that effort into analysis.

Losing Jason was a huge blow to Modern Rogue. Content comes and goes but personality is really hard to replace, so is writing talent.

Streaming is a much more predictable, and often more lucrative, income with less effort (generally). Hard to blame the creators that change focus.

Plastic is pretty much never going to be a greener alternative than a renewable, biodegradable plant. Especially if they can be grown nearby.

The real trees are purpose-grown and biodegradable, like carving pumpkins or floral bouquets. Killing a plant for ceremony and decoration feels way less wasteful to me than making more permanent garbage.

Yeah but real trees are a renewable resource, fake trees are an easy plastic luxury to avoid.

Depends on your collection service. If they don’t specify bagged waste you can just hose the bin out as needed. A tiny bit of extra work to avoid needless plastic in the environment.

And it’s different from all the times other directors have an actress take her top off?

Other than that it’s work that junior coders could be doing, to develop the next generation of actual good developers.