Hmm… I actually can explain why certain things were better in the past compared to today. It comes down to market research, consumerism/saturation of capitalism.

Take modern music, for example. The 60s and 70s was a time where the music industry hadn’t flattened out in any way. The labels and publishers were trying to work out what people responded to. And people were responding to all kinds of stuff. It was just a mishmash of tastes and people liked what stoked their imagination.

And with regards to the artists and musicians, they were mainly just making whatever the hell sounded good and felt good. No one quite had any idea what they were doing.

Almost everything was really original for the above reasons.

You had bands who released albums, containing what you could vaguely call rock but with many other influences, containing three tracks, one of which was 20 mins long and the other two being 10 mins each. And such a band would go on tour selling out stadiums and selling millions of copies of said album.

Of course, there was bad music then. But the sheer proportion of amazing music was insane.

And it was because we hadn’t yet been market researched into oblivion. It was like the wild west; anything goes.

I’ll give another example… car design. Market research has managed to narrow car design down to a very generic form that is not the most beautiful but the least offensive and somewhat pleasant to the most amount of people, to guarantee sales.

Back before such deep market research, designers were artists who would take a risk and design something in their vision. Not everyone would like it. Perhaps the design would be divisive. Ok, some bad ugly cars would come out but there would be some incredible designs. Now, almost every car looks like a generic blob.

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I feel like FIFA should have been in the list

Right in time for all the IOF soldiers to go there for treatment.

👏 I wanna know the response to this from the person you replied

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I’ll let you in on a secret. The BBC doesn’t need to explicitly be out and out propaganda itself because the whole of “western civilisation” and its ideals are the great propaganda. The BBC is merely a tiny part of an enormous propaganda fever dream that grips the world as it destroys the world.

A loneliness epidemic is literally the most obvious effect of capitalism/consumerism/individualism I would expect. But very few of the ‘male loneliness epidemic’ clan has anything to say about capitalism being the problem.

Not sure anyone asked you yet… tell us your story. Where you living and what’s the sitch?

I’m sorry we couldn’t find a BBC source for you :'(

You know, when I saw the Greens doing well in the polls and Reform ahead like a year ago, I knew it was a matter of time before Reform would scandal themselves out before any general election. Now the British public have to wake up out if this nightmare and stop voting Tory or Labour.

Not that I actually believe in electoral politics at this point…

Because AI was never really meant to be for us. The version for us was just part if the cover.

I quite often have this fantasy where somehow the population of the world is eradicated by a disease that I’m immune to. And so, I immediately go and collect apex predators from zoos here in the UK and release them into areas with deer and other pray, releasing all cows, etc. And I open up all fields and fenced land around, etc. And then just allow natural ecostsytems to redevelop.

With the US footing the bill, I’m guessing.

Don’t worry, civilisation will be gone before Pixel 10 stops being supported.

I’d rather my door be visible than tell google where I live.