It’s such a different experience watching someone who actually knows a lot about music analyze something rather than the invariably-male music snobs who disdain anything made by women.

I’d forgotten Flea and Dave Navarro played on that song. Flea being there explains the great bass; always loved the bass line on that song. Les Claypool is technically more proficient but no one can lay down a groove quite like Flea, then or now.

And of course Morissette’s vocals are absolutely iconic; one of the best vocal performances ever recorded. I’m even more impressed with it after realizing how much of it is a single take — many modern pop songs are literally assembled word by word from 30+ different takes.

Nirvana’s Nevermind was not the best album of the 90s. Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill is far superior and holds up a lot better. It still seems relevant today while Nevermind feels like an antique.

We’re already living in a nascent new epoch, but nearly nearly every person alive (and 99.95%+ of those over 40) is possessed of a mind that is still of the age now departed. These liminal times are very dangerous but also ripe with opportunities.

If you can’t see the growing tension of the younger generations as they start to discover the deck is stacked against them…then your eyes are closed.

— Nathan Eames (@NathanEames1) March 24, 2019

This is forging new minds by the thousands every day. The consequences will be indeterminate but vast.

In the future, by historians and interested amateurs alike, there will be no distinction made between the literal Nazis and the rest of us, due to our non-response to climate change and the likely billions of deaths it will cause.

An historian 1,000 years from now will see Nazism and the resulting mega-deaths as a minor extension and necessary prior condition preceding the cataclysm and resulting wars, slaughter and genocides that capitalism-caused climate change will inevitably spawn.

Nazism, despite its name, was after all just an intensification of capitalism and a result of following it to its natural ends — just as is climate change and its nearly-identical causes.

The rest is evident.

I took this test. Note that this isn’t actually a test of VO2 Max, but just an estimate. However, I answered accurately on all questions so it is probably pretty close.

Not bad. I am about as fit now as I was at 20, but not as fit as I was at 22.

Why are all movies about assassins about “elite assassins” and not ones who are just doing ok and sorta dreading their next assassin performance review?

— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) March 28, 2019

Because in the real world, middle-of-the-road assassins have a very short lifespan. Even “elite” ones don’t live that much longer, generally, though there are some exceptions.

Though there is a show like this already. It’s called Barry, and it wasn’t to my taste but others might find it appealing.

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— Violet Blue® (@violetblue) March 28, 2019

Of the major Western cultures, the US is by very far the most prudish and the most hypocritical about sex. In some ways, it is more hypocritical than more authoritarian and repressive cultures because the values and “progressiveness” claimed is mostly for show and surface-level only. And liberals are some of the worst prudes around because not only are they hypocritical but they believe their “reduction of harm” strategies are anything but what they are, which is an attempt to reduce dating market competition and to enforce assortative mating.