And that’s the answer. The social milieu changed completely. The last gasp of rock was in the late 1990s and early 2000s; rock died with Nickelback and Creed. To be clear, they were not responsible for its death, but rather were avatars of its last bare wisp of vitality, a withered plant in a desert of culture.
Rock-like forms continued, and some other good genres and sub-genres emerged, but rock qua rock was dead by 2005.
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
GPS Glitched Across The US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists Have Never Seen This Before.
Ozempic and Other GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections—Including TB.
Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage and Russia is the chief suspect.
How to Stop a Lab Leak From Starting the Next Pandemic.
The price of diesel hits a record high.
Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO.
Ukraine’s Next Goal Is to Shut Down Russia’s Commercial Airspace.
Should We Accept Degrowth as a Serious Academic Concept?
Please, for the love of all things, stop bringing your parents to job interviews.
AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop.
After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury.
I’m boyfriend now.
Send money.
Here’s the reason:
And yes, 95% of that increase is due to “asylum seekers.” (Really, people who arrive so they can rape and pillage; should be machine-gunning and missile-striking those people until they stop attempting to invade.)
I’ve been to that area. It’s a lot junkier and uglier except in a few places than that photo indicates. Its peak was in the 14th Century, and it shows. I’m glad I visited but it did not at all look like this, except a few Potemkin Village-type locations.
I had a friend who didn’t believe in the ability to just know things. He thought that if you couldn’t prove it mathematically it did not exist. In his universe, there was zero room for intuition.
A good example is being able to distinguish songs in a major and minor key. Like most people with musical training and interest, I can determine if a song is in a major or minor key in 2-3 bars. It’s not even hard. It is in fact ridiculously easy.
But he claimed I could not do it because I could not definitively say and then prove on paper which actual key a piece was in most of the time.
Now anyone who knows anything about music knows that these two things are related, but knowing a piece of music is in B♭ major or F minor has nothing to do with the fact that you can just listen to it and tell that it’s performed in a major or minor key.
And the same for him with anything else. Even though I had a better understanding of relativity as it actually works in this universe, he claimed I did not know anything about it because I could not work out quickly every equation to do with it. Yet he consistently got most answers wrong that required actually thinking about how relativity worked.
To him, “knowledge” wasn’t actual understanding — it was something a lot more mechanistic and constrained. Because he did not actually understand any of the equations he could work out at all or what they might mean for the world.
I think this is fairly common among STEM types, by the way. Which is why I bring it up. Such an oddball way to view the universe and what knowing something means.
In a Big Win, Google Avoids a Breakup of Its Ad Tech Business.
Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them.
A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32.
Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’.
The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain.
Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Is A Bad Deal For Teens And All Social Media Users.
Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world.
Chinese Warships Are Cruising Too Close for Comfort Off Japan’s Shores.
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop.
This is what a supercar was like a century ago.
Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants.
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale.
Trump Lies That Medicare for All Would Cost ‘Entire Budget of the Whole Country’.
This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops.
Florida’s housing market goes into meltdown.
A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready.
Washington’s Absence Is Inviting the War Europe Fears Most.
I cannot believe — perhaps I just do not want to — how comfortable the idiot left is with having milions of women raped, when it could be all prevented. And that’d be by simply not importing hordes of feral third world rapists and sending all the resident ones right on back.
Seams easy. But no.
What the fuck happened to #MeToo, you fucking clowns? I hate you all so so much.
I’ve had such a fantastic life!
Who could’ve imagined, growing up like I did with all those years of absolute hell. Then I made my own fate. It also helped finding the best partner in the known universe.
I think that this is the scariest part of the upcoming AI era.
‘Idiocracy’ Predicted All of This.
Ceuta spirals into chaos as Spain’s Sánchez struggles to regain control. Evacuate Spaniards; bomb what’s left.
Germany blames Russia for drone incursion, announces retaliatory measures.
Navy Sounds Like It Now Wants The Air Combat Drone It Notoriously Passed Over A Decade Ago.
Chinese Cargo Ships Clandestinely Gather Signals Intelligence: Report.
Germany Formally Accuses Russia Of Attempted Drone Strike On Ukrainian An-124 Cargo Jet.
America is still poised for a data center boom.
Monitor Makers Start Pummeling Owners With Annoying Ads, ‘Smart’ Spyware.
List of proposed etymologies of OK.
For three friends, an eagerly anticipated dream adventure to the Grand Canyon becomes a nightmare.
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It? Fuck no.
Using High-Energy Laser, US Shoots Down Drones Near Mexico Border.
Record baby boom brings world’s heaviest parrot back from the brink.
BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all.
Scams in the US are at a record high. Yet most victims get no help and some end up losing even more.
Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design.
US Drugmakers Are Dependent on Chinese Supply Chains.
What Warsh Referred to with “the Relatively Low Turnover in Today’s Labor Market…”.
Brother, I drove across the entirety of Egypt in 1996 with no cellphone, barely any directions, and a broken fuel gauge. In a big-ass white van.
Is that crazy? Yes. Was it amazing? Also yes.
I don’t mind being called a “Nazi” by the very worst people in the world if it preserves civilization and keeps millions of women from being assaulted and raped.
Sure, I’ll be that “Nazi” any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Graphics Card Prices Are Rising Fast (Again), and GeForce Is Taking the Biggest Hit.
El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds.
Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex.
It turns out that Orion’s much-maligned heat shield performed really well.
California’s beaches are being eaten away. El Niño could redraw the coast as we know it.
My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac mini.
“Mental load” is 90% neurotic bullshit and 10% real.
That said, yes to the comment I screenshotted. In a past relationship I took care of all car maintenance, yard maintenance, most household stuff (even though I am terrible at it), etc. But I was told none of that counted as a contribution because I “enjoyed doing that stuff” and “all men find that fun” even after I was very clear and very vociferous as to the fact that I did not in fact find any of that enjoyable, but was just doing it out of necessity.
It was merely a way for her to still have me do 50% of the other housework, too. In reality, I did something like 80% of the actual household work, while she thought she was doing most of it — because to her my contributions didn’t count because they were “fun.” This is incredibly common with women, from what I hear and have experienced (luckily not at all with my current partner). And after the woman I am talking about found out I didn’t mind washing dishes, those also didn’t count toward my contribution because I found them “fun” (in her mind).
So this is how you get to bogus numbers about men not doing their fair share. The vast majority are. Our labor is just not counted.
Those clowns would lie about anything and destroy any other area of science just to avoid admitting the possibility that it might be worth studying if there are any differences between races — not even that there are, but just the possibility of considering it at all.
That’s also, by the way, why you see utter insanity like, “The Dark Ages didn’t exist. People just forgot how to make pottery and bake bread because that was, like, their culture and stuff.” As seen above, it does lead these types to do hilariously idiotic things like looking at data where there are extremely obviously and strongly statistically-supported differences and say, “This all is exactly the same!”
I’m not sure how you can live so intellectually dishonestly, but I don’t think a lot of them even realize they are doing so — which makes it worse, to be clear, not better.