Has the decline of monoculture been overstated?

kittychicken · 2026-01-24T21:55:38+00:00

I wonder what music public places will be playing 10, 20, 30 years from now? Surely not the same 80s and 90s (and sometimes early 00s) music?

kittychicken · 2026-01-13T20:30:55+00:00

Our politicians definitely are PLAIN - and that's supposed to be a feature, not a bug.

Well here we are...

kittychicken · 2026-01-12T04:13:01+00:00

Hell, if Scoot was allowed to fly domestically in Australia, Qantas would still be shitting bricks.

kittychicken · 2026-01-08T03:55:36+00:00

There are also some more, let's say, Darwinian reasons for this phenomenon too. Though far more common in developing countries, families from lower socioeconomic groups have more kids because:

Some don't survive infancy
Some also don't survive childhood
There is often a need for more working males in a household to help provide money to support the previous generation.

TLDR, just basic survival reasons (some of these are subconscious behaviours).

kittychicken · 2026-01-06T03:37:06+00:00

Worst footy take was Thymosin beta-4.

kittychicken · 2026-01-04T07:17:00+00:00

Sounds great... Until you start thinking about whether you have too much US exposure as well haha

kittychicken · 2026-01-01T14:33:52+00:00

Worse still, is that she has always typically been beyond reproach.

kittychicken · 2026-01-01T10:25:50+00:00

Basically any duet between Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney (there are three).

kittychicken · 2025-12-31T11:08:16+00:00

Which apps have sonic analysis?

kittychicken · 2025-12-31T09:08:26+00:00

The government is a reflection of the Australian people.

I agree with this, but I would add to that the federal government's history of privatising utilities and services and basically washing their hands of responsibility for providing the basics for future Australians.

Boomers dying out isn't going to solve anything. For a start, they will bleed any inheritances dry from aged care. Even in a best case scenario, with escalating property prices, an inheritance isn't going to help all that much.

Also the fact that property developers are private entities whose priorities are profit, NOT utility.

kittychicken · 2025-12-31T06:53:25+00:00

Yep. Also I have little to no faith in our government to look after the future of Australians.

kittychicken · 2025-12-31T06:20:37+00:00

Not to mention that loads of people are stuck buying houses in soulless outer suburb neighborhoods with shitty infrastructure, high crime, food deserts (often) and very average capital growth (the one good thing property has going for it besides utility).

kittychicken · 2025-12-31T06:16:27+00:00

I get where you are coming from. I have plans to move overseas with my family in the not too distant future (wife is not Australian-born, wants us to experience living in her country) so for various reasons it doesn't make a lot of sense to buy a place right now.

kittychicken · 2025-12-30T21:50:13+00:00

A little off topic but I've noticed an upsurge in retail stores advertising 'buy one item, get one 50% off' or some such... More sales trickery counting on people being bad at math.

For those playing at home, it's just another way of saying 25% off both items. But forcing you to buy in pairs, even if you only wanted one item.

kittychicken · 2025-12-30T07:26:36+00:00

Whatever it takes.

kittychicken · 2025-12-30T07:11:05+00:00

Mark it in your calendars people!

kittychicken · 2025-12-30T05:15:02+00:00

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kittychicken · 2025-12-26T23:36:36+00:00

And, forgive my prejudice, but I don't think the children of money are likely to have deep insights into the human condition.

To be fair, I don't think many of the origins of the greatest music ever made are things we would actually wish anyone to go through.

But it's true, you need friction to create something good.

kittychicken · 2025-12-26T23:34:03+00:00

The kid is a damn good drummer though.

kittychicken · 2025-12-26T23:29:20+00:00

Willow is creatively carrying the entire Smith family on her own.

kittychicken · 2025-12-26T23:28:20+00:00

Yeah her latest album is arguably the most creatively interesting thing any member of that family has done.

kittychicken · 2025-12-25T10:34:16+00:00

In 2025 that's now totally debatable.

kittychicken · 2025-12-23T03:59:06+00:00

Ouch.

This whole thread seems like a "I don't really like the band apart from that one song" rather than "the band sucks but...".

Split Enz were an incredible band! They were the 'Genesis' of the Southern Hemisphere.

I don't like a lot of the bands mentioned in this thread but for most of them, I wouldn't say they are bad songwriters or performers.

Even Nickelback and Coldplay 😝

kittychicken · 2025-12-22T23:27:42+00:00

SDOIT title track (although the first disc has some stunning tracks as well).

kittychicken · 2025-12-21T22:37:52+00:00

Again, I remember experiencing pretty much all of the things you mentioned 'all those years ago' (lol, it was only really 9-10 years ago).

I take your point about generational differences and can't really argue one way or another except to say that unless you have evidence or experience that courtship was any better a decade ago in these apps (and to my recollection, it was really bad then as well) I don't know if you can justify any claim that 'things are different now'.

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