Isn’t this one of those sayings that has been reversed over the years? Wasn’t it originally to mean that misery spreads misery? Though maybe I think that because some abuse it as a, “smile more” type of vapid advice.
As someone who has thought similar to this in the past I would say it’s more about no longer worrying about things like how am I going to pay for a place to live, a car or other transportation, or caring for others with no job. I can imagine things may look better to them if someone hit the reset button on the world since they may have more of an opportunity to survive in the new world than in the current one.
No, dolphins and porpoises are separate families. Orcas are with the dolphins. Porpoises are actually closer with other types of whales like belugas and narwhals. At least per the most widely accepted taxonomy.
All of these are classified as cetaceans though (infraoder, above family) and of course have a common ancestor if you go back far enough.
The most harrowing fact that I know is that during the Apollo 11 mission, as they began to enter the moon’s orbit and headed behind it, they were no longer able to communicate with earth. This is indicated on the flight plan* by the note “Broken trajectory lines indicate loss of earth communications.” So here’s the crew, impossibly far from everything any human has ever known, for about an hour unable to hear (or most of that time even see) any sign of the only experience humanity has ever known. It’s just them sandwiched between an unfamiliar moon and the blackness of space.
All of the Apollo missions, actually, including 13. In fact, Apollo 13 marks the farthest distance human beings have ever been from Earth because of the modified trajectory they had to use in order to get back to Earth faster with their damaged spacecraft.
But Apollo 13 also is the only moon mission where there was never a single individual alone in the ship when it went dark behind the moon. (On all other missions, the Command Module Pilot remained in the ship while the other two landed on the surface, so for the duration of that time, they were doing solo orbits that took them through the silent shadow of the moon.
The two of these things aren’t mutually exclusive to be honest. It’s possible to
I very much miss places and experiences which don’t exist any more, or have changed as society has changed.
An example is the way music is consumed. When purchasing physical media it took much more effort, thus you were more invested. You would typically visit a music shop, purchase the album, take it home and listen to it. There would usually be an album liner where you could read the lyrics, see photos of the band (which you’d only otherwise be able to see in magazines) and you felt like you had a direct connection with them.
The purchase of the physical asset connected you in some way to the artist and made for a type of relationship with the music which is much harder to emulate with streaming services, where the music is free and available immediately.
As a result, the way I like to discover music is at odds to the way Spotify wants to provide me music. It wants to provide me more of the same, I want to discover things I haven’t heard before.
That being said, Spotify has given me access to music I didn’t know existed by artists I love but had never heard of till I found them on someone’s random playlist. And it’s perpetually there when I’m driving, exercising and working. It plays for it doesn’t require rhe effort or thought of dubbing tapes or recording from the radio.
But it’s also improved music in general. It used to be possible for an artist to make one or two good tracks for radio play and then create subpar filler for the rest of the album, but now all of the tracks of the album are sold separately so every track has to be of equal quality. Additionally you aren’t bound to just the one song played on the radio when looking for new artists.
Friendly suggestion to anyone reading this that many of your favorite artists are on SoundCloud and other platforms: it costs nothing to send them a message to say you love their music.
Direct platforms like bandcamp also make it feel so good to know most of every dollar is heading their way.
As someone who grew up poor, I never got the record store experience, because if I wanted music, it would either be on the radio, or I’d need to play it myself.
The limited childhood budget would be like $20, which means, you could buy one CD with eight or ten tracks to listen on repeat, or… buy something like SimCity 2000, for possibly hundreds of hours of fun (I had a family friend neighbor who threw out an old PC/donated it to us because they got outdated real fast in the 90s).
Accounting for inflation, that $20 is probably closer to $40-80 now, and a Spotify subscription is definitely a lot less costly than even that, for not one disk, but an endless amount of music.
The value proposition, the cost of entertainment has dropped precipitously, and now as a rich adult and technocrat, artificial intelligence can autonomously create new music, much in the way Spotify can discover tracks that “you like”.
Every night, I’ve got 138-357 MB of brand new music, that no one’s ever heard of, courtesy of my algorithm, recombining chunks of music from everything I’ve ever heard, to create brand new bangers.
If these tracks were released to Spotify, people wouldn’t be able to tell they weren’t made by people. AI is after all, a plagarism machine, built on the hard work of real people and artists.
But between plagiarism and piracy, I feel this new streaming world answers a great need:
The desire for culture, to be free, for any and all, to enjoy.
Friend of ours down in London has apparently been having issues with squirrels sneaking in from his balcony and stealing, very specifically, Toffee Crisps.
Don’t ask me any of the obvious follow-up questions there, I have no idea. But I reckon that squirrel is thriving.
Edit: to clarify, I’m not saying it’s a boomer take because it doesn’t happen. I’m saying it’s a boomer take because the format of the comic is implying “wife bad”.
Oh I didn’t mean this wasn’t a thing, I meant this comic kind of has a “wife bad” undertone.
The original comic was making fun of dogs because they wanted you to throw the Frisbee but they won’t give you the Frisbee, illustrating a cute but kind of stupid behavior of dogs.
By using the same format for his wife I was interpreting this as “haha wife dumb” when this is reasonable behavior for the wife.
I’m a millennial and love my strong, capable wife. But we do this every day (I try to not solutionize, but man, it’s hard to know when “solve the problem” is off the table ahead of time). It’s not limited by gender I assume.
Oh I didn’t mean this wasn’t a thing, I meant this comic kind of has a “wife bad” undertone.
The original comic was making fun of dogs because they wanted you to throw the Frisbee but they won’t give you the Frisbee, illustrating a cute but kind of stupid behavior of dogs.
By using the same format for his wife I was interpreting this as “haha wife dumb” when this is reasonable behavior for the wife.
Men; on average are more conscientious, while women; on average, are more open to new experiences. Best advice I’ve had (and possibly backed by research into the climbing divorce rates) is that we have fundamentally different needs. Rather than applying the Golden Rule we should strive to understand our partners unique needs.
While there are gender differences they’re only significant at a macro level. In a room full of individuals there’s no telling who will be most conscientious or empathetic. The meme checks out tho.
Gay dude here. No, not limited by gender. I have to put great effort into not providing solutions when they aren’t wanted. This most often manifests as me realizing I was doing it and verbally acknowledging I lost the plot and encouraging my spouse to continue.
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