My favorite version is the gene-edited cats and accompanying folk song.

I know this is mostly a joke but it’s also exactly why that shit happens in the first place. Shibboleths to signal group identity.

Assuming an equation with no context is anything but standard mathematics is peak “well, technically”

Fast fashion and synthetic textiles are going to bury us all.

“Nitrate free! *except for that found naturally in the shitload of powdered celery we put in there”

Just pointing out that some people may have mayors that are more symbolic than anything so it’s not unreasonable to assume the mayor of NYC is similar. I’m not disagreeing per se.

A numerical increase is potentially worrying, but for urban/rural comparison you need to look at per capita statistics. (You should also keep in mind that these are reported, recognized crimes and there may be confounding factors)

Depends on how trim and tidy it is.

What a mayor does varies rather a lot between cities.

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.

The Tea Party gave Repubs the courage to be the racist Christofascists they already were, the left side of American politics is far less homogeneous.

Working conditions and payment disputes are not “meta drama” and more than a “community” it’s an industry of freelancers. You may not care for it but independent entertainment is a huge part of our culture right now, in terms of hours watched per day and revenue generation. It’s a parallel arm of the gig economy, uncontracted workers entirely at the mercy of huge media companies and the fickle public.

I’m prepared to endure hardship if it means the racists of the world have less power.

They’re working class in the entertainment industry, their complaints are as valid as any other laborer.

Fuck my “compatriots”, nations are made up and the geopolitical lines do not matter to me. I do not care more for someone because they are born or reside in the same country as me. The country as an entity can also get fucked, it’s too big and built on death and greed.

The ACTUAL failure was not switching to a nationalized single-payer system.

That one should be for writers. Poets and authors and literature enthusiasts. Feign ignorance if anyone comments on the name.

We’re all humans of Earth too but I can only work on my little pocket of it. I’m no more responsible for what happens in Senegal than I am for Texas or Florida or Pennsylvania.

Respect your employee more, let them have a decent night’s sleep.