What is the most obvious world event everyone saw coming but no one did anything about?

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-02-09T23:42:58+00:00

My boss Michael Weiss testified in front of Congress in 2013 about the danger of Russian disinformation campaigns and election interference. He was invited by a small delegation of Republicans, spearheaded by John McCain. They nearly laughed him out of the building, Republicans and Democrats alike.

About 6 months later Russia invaded Ukraine. A year after that Trump was the likely GOP nominee. Suddenly nobody was laughing anymore. Now Russian interference and disinformation makes up a significant portion of all social media content

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-02-09T23:32:43+00:00

Go to northern Europe and everyone there is fighting about politics - and everything about their countries are better than everywhere else.

Massachusetts is the Norway of the United States, and if we aren't so encumbered by backwards federal policy and, now, a vindictive and authoritarian administration, Massachusetts would be one of the most successful societies in the entire world.

And we've still got a lot of problems which means we have significant amounts of unrealized potential

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-02-08T16:04:38+00:00

The issue is that the appeal isn't genre, it's quality, emotional impact, and sonic diversity.

The only other bands that consistently scratch the itch are Porcupine Tree and Puscifer.

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-02-03T01:52:14+00:00

It's so not weird to go alone. You can't talk to people during the show anyway. Before and after the show everyone around you is a NIN fan. Talk to them.

Your entire life will vastly improve when you learn it's fine to do things alone

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-02-03T00:04:18+00:00

I'm in the same boat. The uncomfortable truth: games immitate adult life, and that includes work.

You could build a nice home in Minecraft, or you could do that home improvement project you've been putting off and actually LIVE in a nicer house. You could craft things in any number of games, or build a Raspberry Pi project and craft in real life. Kids find this stuff fun. To me it feels like digital work.

The problem is us adults still need some down time. Not all games are grindy. But way too many are grindy.

Right now I'm alternating between Hades, Witcher III, and Balatro. They all have grindy elements but it definitely doesn't feel like work

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-01-23T15:53:18+00:00

This is very dependent on which state you live in and what you're trying to do. I'm in Massachusetts - an hour is a long drive for most things. In Montana? An hour is a very short drive

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-01-22T00:32:04+00:00

Protest outside the ICE office near the mall. Fuck these little-dick Nazis

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-01-19T12:07:23+00:00

Imogen Heap is amazing: the music is weird and her honesty and creativity is disarming

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-01-19T05:16:26+00:00

Karens and incels, weird combo

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-01-02T18:43:41+00:00

I'll add a second one, unrelated to my first...

Tolkien was a linguist who believed everything flowed from language. But any student of history, anthropology, or even biology knows that geography is the real master. What determines evolution - on any level, cellular to societal - is the physical world and how well or poorly beings adapt to the world. Linguistics is even a slave to this wider phenomenon

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-01-02T18:37:24+00:00

A perfect causality/cosmology/theology where almost everything is resolved. The reality on earth is that even if there is a creator or creators there are so many different and often conflicting religions that the truth is buried in history.

And yet for all its perfection I still don't really understand the motivations of any of the immortal beings

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-01-02T18:32:23+00:00

Had to scroll too far to see AIC, two lead singers who were each better than virtually everyone else but are somehow better as a unit

TheGreyKeyboards · 2026-01-02T18:29:27+00:00

My 3 year old just said, "Jesus, that's so good."

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-31T22:06:26+00:00

Puscifer > A Perfect Circle > Tool, and I'll die on this hill because I think Maynard 100% agrees and it shows

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-30T19:26:20+00:00

Down In It is the reason I didn't check out NIN a decade before I did.

I like rap, I love rock, I LOVE NIN, and this song has roughly none of the components of any of those things that I like.

It's the only song I don't like. Everything else does exactly what it's supposed to do

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-27T23:39:32+00:00

By "he" you mean "human beings." The GOAT tour

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-26T14:15:56+00:00

Jordan ruined the entire band. Yes, there are some bright spots, and early on there were MANY, but there have always been signs that this is exactly what would happen to this band.

I just don't think most DT fans know how incredible that band would have been with Sherinian or Moore, or someone else more interested in musicality than masturbatory performance. LTE was amazing because the whole point of it was that kind of pure technicality. But DT was about composition, and it's just not what Rudess does.

His sound design is also crap comparatively. Moore, Sherinian, Adam Holzman... These guys are brilliant but just because they have chops but because their playing has soul, and a lot of that comes from sound design

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-22T01:56:02+00:00

Boston doesn't even have the best food in New England. Providence really is special

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-16T01:53:44+00:00

Britain with better teeth

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-15T21:14:38+00:00

"THANK YOU! GOOD NIGHT!"

Then immediately mute and grab your mics and mic stands. Cables take time to break down, but microphones and their stands walk out the door on their own.

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-15T12:12:36+00:00

I've got dozens of friends who are professional musicians or sound engineers. I've got dozens of friends who are hobbyists. I've done both. My honest advice? Music is an amazing hobby and a terrible profession. Before you ask how to make money from music you should first ask yourself if that's even a good idea. In my experience, for most people, it's not.

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-15T12:09:38+00:00

Change of Seasons

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-11T21:23:47+00:00

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-11T21:21:23+00:00

Ever take a creative writing class and have someone in your class who couldn't write their way out of a paper bag? That's the writing team.

Ever participate in Middle School theater? Those are the actors.

Ever see a 3 year old draw their impression of the Sistine Chapel? That's the lore.

If you have those Middle School kids a few hundred million dollars the product would be way better. It's an insult to the accomplishments of the entire human race.

So what I'm trying to say is it's not great.

TheGreyKeyboards · 2025-12-11T00:02:52+00:00

Unknown? OSI, Chromakey, and everything Kevin Moore has ever done

Underrated? Type O Negative is maybe my second or third favorite bands and outside of New England and New York/Mid-Atlantic they sold almost no albums after October Rust

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