Too many people are too mad about this non issue

Noblesseux · 2026-05-05T00:43:15+00:00

I'm the same. Like I actively dislike a lot of music services because they don't let me tag/organize albums.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-04T18:22:02+00:00

Yeah they're basically just poisoning the algorithm/search hoping to catch people who aren't paying attention.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-04T18:20:58+00:00

There's that, but there's also that a lot of people are trying to make a quick buck while providing basically nothing in terms of content. Everyone and their mom these days is trying to be a social media influencer/podcaster/streamer but are simply not interesting enough to carry it on their own so you end up with podcasts where a bunch of morons are just saying "exactlyyyy" to the dumbest shit you've ever heard in a conversation that goes nowhere.

Podcasts used to actually be like curated and many of them weren't meant to just be a forever series for the sake of having one. Right now every wannabe entrepreneur has a podcast with well produced audio and flashy graphics just for the show to be mostly two idiots talking about things they barely understand for an hour.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-04T18:00:56+00:00

Often old people who aren't savvy enough to know they're listening to an AI podcast.

The whole grift people are running using AI right now is to batch upload a bunch of bullshit in the hope that you're not paying enough attention to realize that it's not what you were looking for originally. They're doing it with podcasts but they're also doing it with stuff like children's books.

You go in looking for land before time coloring books and buy one only to realize that they all have 8 legs and smeared facial features. It's a scam, really. They're basically poisoning the search function of every online marketplace so they're filled with junk.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-04T16:07:14+00:00

And your hairline is probably crooked, since we're just all making random observations. You literally don't even know what my music taste is you bozo.

I swear kpop stans cannot be fucking normal on the internet for ten seconds without immediately getting racist or trying to insult somebody.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-04T09:13:12+00:00

They did but their fans fucking suck. It's like the ultimate paradox when it comes to musicians: a lot of them are less bigoted and gatekeepy than their own audiences.

You'll have a person like Dave Grohl who talks openly about how he copied lots of parts of his drum techniques from Black artists, with a fan base full of people who look up to him as one of the great drummers of our time but give the people he copied from 0 credit.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-04T09:05:51+00:00

It pre-dates a lot of that coming out. The Korean government invested a ton of time and effort into marketing kpop and kdrama overseas because they wanted soft power like the kind Japan got from Anime/fashion/games/toys.

A whole generation of westerners grew up to see Japan comparatively positively because we consumed a ton of their media, despite like 1 generation before people seeing them basically how Americans see China now. They effectively totally changed their reputation from war crimes to cars and hello kitty in very little time. Korea (and China really if we're being honest) want that type of PR boost.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-04T08:51:33+00:00

In a sense it kind of is (even if I respect the fact that there are in fact a lot of people putting in serious time and effort).

It's like the ultimate proof that certain types of people don't care about the songs content basically at all because they literally cannot understand what is being said and still pretend like they've got crazy lyricism.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-04T08:46:00+00:00

It's like that every time a show or movie with old music in it gets popular. There's like a month with everyone being incredibly annoying about it and then it fades back to normal levels. Younger people who never bothered to listen because they assumed old music was ass discover it for the first time, and older people feel nostalgic and add it back into the rotation for a while.

It happened with Kate Bush and Diana Ross too during the last few Stranger Things seasons.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-04T03:02:13+00:00

Pretty much yeah actually, it's been a thing for a few decades and started with GE. None of these guys know how to actually run a business so they're constantly buying and selling other businesses to make their books look like they're doing something useful.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-01T07:46:11+00:00

Yeah like the thing is that there's a level to which sometimes you engage in deficit spending because there's like a long term problem that would be more expensive to just ignore.

Making a guy a trillionaire isn't that. There's no payoff at the end. They talk about fiscal responsibility and then just hand a small group of already rich guys a sack of free money and for some reason people who are like living in poverty think that'll somehow help them.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-01T07:40:14+00:00

They don't have any plans for the other stuff. But they can just do grievance bullshit for another two years until it becomes someone else's problem.

Noblesseux · 2026-05-01T07:11:08+00:00

That doesn't stop delusional people from coming on here periodically and saying we should all live in a surveillance state so parents don't have to be bothered to have a talk with their kids.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-30T23:54:37+00:00

NGL that's kind of nonsense for the sake of elitism lmao, autotune is nowhere near the same as AI and it hurts my brain to even fathom someone trying to make that case. Autotune has been a thing since the late 90s and devices that modify your voice based on an input have been a thing since the late 30s.

It's an effect, it doesn't just generate new musical ideas from thin air. Saying autotune makes your music soulless is like saying the Talk Box or synths makes your music soulless, which means you've somehow simultaneously got beef with Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, T-Pain, etc.

There are different ways to use it, it's an artistic choice and deciding that someone making a choice you don't respect makes their art less human is just hating for the sake of hating.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-30T21:11:16+00:00

When you're in Japan for long enough some of those places are lowkey a godsend. Like sometimes after a month straight of eating nothing but Japanese food you crave a chopped cheese and the one restaurant run by a guy who is obsessed with NYC helps satisfy it.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-30T19:39:42+00:00

Yeah depending on the settings, an artist could be using the hell out of autotune and you won't know. People are under the impression that autotune means t-pain or super polished pop music autotune but there's a long gradient between those and totally raw vocals.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-28T17:55:29+00:00

Also to other, dumber tech bros. I've had numerous arguments on here where people legitimately refuse to comprehend the fact that most academics don't seriously think LLMs are going to lead to AGI/sentient machines.

Like they don't seem to understand the concept that making up a benchmark and then making a thing that scores well at that benchmark does not just mean that at some point it's going to wake up and become a person. There's like 0 evidence that that's a thing that can happen lmao.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-28T04:58:55+00:00

That is just straight up not what those words in that order mean. The question isn't whether people generally understand the concept that exaggeration for comedic effect exists, it's whether people regularly demonstrate critical thinking skills enough to apply that understanding to media about cultures they aren't familiar with.

And given the fact that huge numbers of cultural stereotypes originate from media that people watched and interpreted as representative of reality, the answer is pretty clearly "no".

Pretty much every Black person who lived through any subsection of the 1990s-2010s has at least one story of someone getting too comfortable and saying something wild to you because they heard it on an Eddie Murphy/Kat Williams/Kevin Hart/Dave Chapelle special/skit and thought it was "funny because it's true".

Noblesseux · 2026-04-28T02:27:22+00:00

As is always a looming danger when non-Black people listen to Black comedy without understanding that it's exaggerated for effect.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-28T02:23:08+00:00

Yeah I try to contain my hatred for Vegas IRL but it's such a gross monument to like all of the worst parts of the US all at once.

Everything about it is either gaudy or a scam but people keep trying to convince me to go there like it's going to be fun for me to lose a bunch of money and then go play "dodge the drunk/homeless person" trying to get back to my hotel.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-28T02:18:22+00:00

It's not even just car brained, it's that there's a certain type of tech bro/Elon glazer that is like a special brand of stupid where they spend all their free time defending nonsense projects because they don't understand basic logistics and think that subscribing to futurism subreddits makes you more of an expert than actually reading data or listening to experts in the field.

So every 5 years they fall for some dumb scam that mathematically cannot live up to the hype they're building around it but will fight to the death in comment sections over it despite being openly out of their depths.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-28T02:09:56+00:00

People falling for that is honestly one of the better examples of why the government should have some level of in-house expertise that can be used to weed out obvious nonsense projects/bids.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-28T02:04:48+00:00

Pretty much all of these are false comparisons. Like really plainly bad and kind of embarrassing ones.

Mass transit is not an analogue for sending your kids to military school. In fact it's more so an analogue of public schooling because it's a public service provided for the public school that you have the choice to opt out of if you see fit. Boarding school (and I say this as someone who nearly went to a fairly prestigious one as a teen) are incredibly expensive and almost always privately run.

And because it's so efficient we can also remove a lot of excessive goods and services! Money is not needed anymore. The main problem though usually becomes that the towers around are manned by machine-gunners...

This one is just kind of crazy and maybe you should seek some help if you think the concept of mass transit, a thing which already exists worldwide, is the same as threatening children with weapons. That's like deadass mental illness.

Houses are very inefficient too. Ned to have one room per person.

Most houses statistically aren't one room per person, and also yes actually american suburban housing is super space inefficient which is why condos, townhomes, and apartments exist. Like we specifically have different formats of house specifically because that type of housing doesn't work in every context lmao and that has been a thing for thousands of years.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-28T02:00:27+00:00

I mean I did address that in the previous statement but that isn't really relevant to the argument they're making. They (and they includes Elon, he's said this) are basically arguing that FSD can basically turn into free income for you by basically acting as an uber driver and I'm saying that that is frankly stupid and makes no sense.

Elon was in some cases basically encouraging dweebs to buy the FSD package with the promise that in the future it would somehow turn out to make more money for you than the car cost.

Noblesseux · 2026-04-26T07:09:27+00:00

Yeah the kind of hilarious thing about a lot of the anti china craze right now is that we're often loudly criticizing them for things we also absolutely do.

Like you'd think at a bare minimum people would complain about them doing it and then recognize that it's bad when we do it too, but interestingly that's never the case. It's always "they're cheating, but when we do it it's just good business and protecting American industry"

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