Reasonable people don’t give a fuck about party loyalty. Your question is antagonistic propaganda and not worth my fucking time. Go do something that matters.

Because everyone else is too but they have the highest stakes and the least agency so the lazy option is to blame them.

Because of people like you.

I think you’re failing to give anywhere near enough credit to formal music education. Lots of Dunning-Kruger going on here.

Maybe you had bad teachers. However, you don’t know the reasons behind their methods either.

Maybe your clarinet teacher was working to the priorities of that student. Maybe that student SPECIFICALLY struggled with reading notation and the teacher was looking to bridge the gap by using repertoire the student would like. Furthermore, you pay a clarinet teacher for clarinet lessons, not for dictation practice. Maybe that clarinet teacher tutors other students on dictation and is being paid by that student specifically for clarinet.

Did that clarinet student understand intervals? Basic fingering patterns on the clarinet? Half step vs whole steps? Did they have literally any of the foundational knowledge to approach melodic dictation? You don’t know.

You might as well say “Doctors focus on all this extra stuff you don’t need. All you have to have to survive is oxygen flowing to your brain.” Or “LLMs are conscious because they form grammatically correct word salad”… Okay that one hits home a bit hard.

Here’s an exercise for you.

Sit down with your instrument and choose exactly one pitch, and then tell me a story with it. Fill 5 minutes, and don’t bore me.

Now explain to me every choice you made about what you did with that pitch every time you played it and every silence when you didn’t play it.

Now justify every one of those choices by comparing it to a similar choice made by another musician - with citations I can verify. Remember that music is communication. With no frame of reference common to both parties, communication is impossible. Spell out that frame of reference.

Now, justify the form of your composition by aligning it to a historical form. If it doesn’t align, start over. Do that at the composition level, then again at the thematic level, the phrase level, and the motivic level.

Remember, one pitch.

When you have the tools to do that, then you can talk to me about the process of learning to do music. Until then, have some respect for the people who know what they’re doing, because right now you don’t.

1. It’s normal for all social media, particularly anything requiring a camera.

2. Your niece knows and participates in it. So do her friends. So do your brother and his wife.

3. Those aren’t women messaging you.

4. You are a in very, very small minority who don’t just accept this as how life is now. When they think nobody is looking, most people feed this sex addiction with most of their free time.

You don’t need more than 200 miles of range if you are using roads in the United States.

So, 260 advertised.

You just don’t.

Pretty much the conclusion I came to.

EV motorcycles exist. Zero reason to ride a gas one in a neighborhood.

Because fluency in your native language is a basic human skill that should be a minimum for functional adulthood, maybe? Because it’s not my job to congratulate you for existing?

Damn. People want to be coddled on everything these days.

An organization with some structure might be a better fit.

Community theater? They always need stagehands, set builders, etc.

Same for community bands and orchestras. A librarian or personnel manager for a group like that is as good as gold.

Conservancy? Help protect your local wild lands?

Find a cause you care about and an organization that works for its benefit and call them to offer some of your time.

I’m being filmed without my consent by corporations everywhere I go

Track my fat ass, cunts.

You a republican or something?

No.

100% is fair.

They stole every bit of what they used to build this shit sandwich.

All? No.

But they should certainly all be contained. And in general, it’s pretty safe to assume they’re all guilty of a LOT of felonies, so incarceration and asset forfeiture are certainly viable options to explore. And if they manipulate the justice system to continue harming the world and extracting resources from regular people, death may be the only way to save the rest of us.

I’m not a fan of the death penalty as punishment for crimes. I’m more in favor of execution as a means of ending a direct threat against humanity. Hitler objectively deserved to be assassinated, for example.

There certainly are no good billionaires, and likely no redeemable ones. But murdering them isn’t the first option.

Gonna be a long fucking night then.

I’m not really sure why anyone in tech ever expected job security. The pace at which tech has been advancing and its role changing in our lifetimes is way faster than you could just make a cozy career out of.

My god, you poor idiot.

All pro sports are fixed.

Americans will do anything to avoid an EV