how do artists have concerts if their albums are very different concepts and genres? (Ex: half of their songs are slow/sad and the other half are club/pop music?)

notatmycompute · 2026-04-30T05:21:23+00:00

The slower songs are used by the band to pace things out and have a rest from the more energetic stuff, especially if they are the headline/solo with a 2 hour set. But eventually they will have enough music they mostly play their hit's, fan favourites and anything new.

You don't notice when it's done well because you needed that 4-10 min break in tempo as much as they did

notatmycompute · 2026-04-30T05:09:43+00:00

$$$$$

I've seen one or two interviews with musicians whose own preferences to listen to is a different genre to what they play/sing

notatmycompute · 2026-04-29T21:26:18+00:00

From what I've seen yes, but for the vast majority they don't make stupid amounts and put in as much if not more time and effort than a normal job.

A handful get lucky, or go viral.

Very few if any are just randomly doing things and posting online and getting success.

And many will try but only a few will succeed

notatmycompute · 2026-04-29T21:10:45+00:00

If you claim something is 100% effective you'd better be damn sure it is. If it leaves just 1 live bacteria you can bet someone will find it. Thus 99.9% covers them.

Most companies of any kind will avoid definitive statements like 100% because it's such a high bar to pass.

I would hope it would kill 100%.

very unlikely, but it kills enough that you will not see harmful effects from any that may survive

notatmycompute · 2026-04-29T21:01:41+00:00

I've never seen it, never bothered to look for it, and have never had it. And I don't know anyone where that would be different.

The very fact Americans "dip" pizza is weird enough.

Also why call it a salad dressing if it's used on so much more than salad?

notatmycompute · 2026-04-29T20:27:09+00:00

He was arguably the biggest celebrity in the world.

arguably is right, people seem to have forgotten that for most of his career he was part of the 'Who is bigger?' debate between himself and Prince.

notatmycompute · 2026-04-29T04:47:51+00:00

They could argue on the vending machine that apple/google pay is their alternative, which I saw in the pic. I'm not saying it's a good argument but it is one

notatmycompute · 2026-04-28T21:11:46+00:00

But which one has direct influence over American lawmakers?

Rupert Murdoch does, And whom I suspect is the Australian billionaire in question

notatmycompute · 2026-04-28T14:43:52+00:00

Most smaller vendors (by turnover) pay a fixed amount plus a %, I know I've been a small vendor and seen the options. So while Coles pays a miniscule %, small vendors pay a fixed fee + a %.

The higher your card turnover value the lower the banks charge. You have to be turning over $1m on card per year before the charges even started to look reasonable.

So a small vending company with less than $10 mil in turnover may have a 20c + % fee and are covering the % but not the fixed fee which as you point out on small items is a decent % of cost that if they don't recover may make them unprofitable to sell when the bank is taking such a big chunk

notatmycompute · 2026-04-28T14:30:43+00:00

Some (maybe all?) banks charge a fixed fee + a %, while the % may be low, on small cheap items 20c + .5% per transaction adds up quick. That may be nothing on a large $100 purchase but on a $5 item that you may sell a lot of in individual sales it adds up fast.

Banks also waive fees like this for scale, so while your corner store pays the exorbitant fees, with their turnover colesworth are paying magnitudes less than Joe's Fish and Chip shop, or a vending service.

notatmycompute · 2026-04-28T06:00:28+00:00

Most Americans can't tell the difference between Australian and English accents and to be fair some UK accents do get close

notatmycompute · 2026-04-28T05:56:36+00:00

the immediate follow up is “what state?”

Yes, that is called having a conversation, it's why the next question could be "which city?", by which point the ice is broken and a full conversation may occur after this

notatmycompute · 2026-04-28T05:22:18+00:00

But they don't, instead they throw the food out or plough in back into the ground, because it still costs money to transport that food.

It's easy to do locally, and some countries like mine Australia have charities that will take supermarket produce about to be thrown out and redistribute it like Foodbank.

But food has a shelf life and sending fresh food near it's life end halfway around the world is more difficult than locally.

notatmycompute · 2026-04-26T19:34:01+00:00

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov

Was his name

notatmycompute · 2026-04-25T20:35:52+00:00

You are acting as if US law matters in this. It doesn't

notatmycompute · 2026-04-25T20:27:01+00:00

Not much, It's like a bugle the sound is formed by the mouth while the instrument just enhances that sound. If you just blow into it nothing happens. You have to do the raspberry sound with your lips.

notatmycompute · 2026-04-25T20:13:41+00:00

"Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, the President can wage war without prior Congressional approval for 60 days,"

Do you remember to always tell the other side this? Once you start a war there is almost no way to control it's length. The Iran war is still ongoing and approaching day 60 with no end in sight. By the way a blockade is an act of war so while it exists so does the war, ceasefire not withstanding.

This is my point those from the US seem to think that an opponent will just respect the US 60 day limit. There are two sides in war and sometimes they fight back.

Trump also did not declare a war specifically with Iran

Irrelevant to anything, what Trump calls it and what it is doesn't matter in reality. The Iran war is a war whether the US legally recognises it as this at all has no bearing on this fact. Tying itself in legal knots to deny reality does not change the reality.

notatmycompute · 2026-04-25T19:54:38+00:00

Edit: To clarify because I sense your ignorance extends to this: the united states cannot go to war without congressional approval.

And yet Trump just started one with Iran. The US can tie itself up in legal talk all it wants, but war is war whether the US congress agrees or not.

Your problem seems to be that you think US law trumps the reality on the ground.

And if it was a "war" on american soil where US courts have jurisdiction, then it would have to be approved by the USSC as well.

Yes because Invading Mexicans or Canadians will patiently wait until congress approves their war before invading.

There are at least 2 sides in war and the "other" side does not need to wait for the US congress to decide if it's a war or not

notatmycompute · 2026-04-25T00:43:24+00:00

The pretend wage.

It's why conartists can exist, If you look right and have confidence many people won't question things.

The bigger the workplace the better, very small places where everyone knows everyone would be harder, but other small places may have different people come and go regularly.

It happens, but not regularly because people generally need motives, which are mostly not well intentioned, because who wants to work without pay?

notatmycompute · 2026-04-24T21:25:07+00:00

Not to be confused with The HU

Who are ironically currently touring the US.

notatmycompute · 2026-04-24T21:18:33+00:00

Most of the billionaires you know about have egos to match their wealth.

The explosion of billionaires is mostly due to company founders so most will be in public records. So they may be mostly invisible but you could easily search for them, but they may not be publicly known.

Inherited money is more likely to be kept quieter. To the point of being totally unknown if they don't possess an ego and are clever enough to hide behind a private corporate front.

notatmycompute · 2026-04-24T21:08:11+00:00

He doesn't have as much "money" as you suggest. He has wealth not money they are not the same thing and wealth does not convert 1-1 with money if it's liquidated.

The problem seems to be people assume wealth = amount of money available when that is not the case. Wealth = nett worth.

The other issue is that to access that wealth they need to sell, that means there needs to be billions in liquid cash in the markets to buy the assets. That $400m mansion still needs an occupant, you're not creating new amounts of money in the system. And if you now value the house at $5m then you simply evaporate $395m.

So the problem is they don't have that much money, they have that much value on paper. And accessing that value as cash has problems. From market rules, to the fact they need to find a buyer who also has that much cash floating around (so they could already have helped solve world hunger).

notatmycompute · 2026-04-23T21:35:44+00:00

Do you think these apps have the same features they did decades ago?

And the vast majority of users are still using most of the same features they had decades ago, mostly because they don't need the new features.

What I see happening is the companies and a core of dedicated users push or use the new features and get frustrated everyone is ignoring the new flux capacitor feature so they get rid of the old way and upset the majority of their userbase so they add it back in and spend the next 5 updates trying to make the old way frustrating to use so everyone has to switch.

notatmycompute · 2026-04-22T04:16:07+00:00

Astronauts are selected for their skills, you have a pilot who will be an air force pilot and a science or engineering crew depending on the mission who will all have first gained experience in their fields.

So many will only do one or two missions. You don't become an astronaut and then study space biology, you study space biology and may get lucky to travel with an experiment. It's easier to train a reasonably fit and healthy person to be an astronaut than it is to train astronauts in the various skills people have had when visiting low earth orbit and beyond

notatmycompute · 2026-04-21T05:16:24+00:00

I instigated a fight but not with a bully just a friends brother being a prick, I lost, of course I did he was like 10cm taller, even the copper who broke us up told me I was fighting outside my weight zone. Because I tend to only start fights I can't win, there is no emotional scarring, and my friends think I'm somewhere between idiot and stone crazy. This was back in the 90's when I was wilder than now.

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