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The west has effectively implemented UBI, it just doesn't look like you thought it would. It looks like this (ongoing 🧵):
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@ModeMonadic That's why this video is 49 seconds long and class is an hour twenty
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@darkmoonbIade @cslfvs Wow yeah sounds like you've really thought it through
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@TheWarKitchen Cute garden! What will you eat to ensure you don't starve to death though?
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@Shayor19 @InternetH0F This is child's play compared to Hitachi: "I'm looking for an absolutely monstrous hydraulic excavator, need to move several thousand tonnes of earth per day" Hitachi: "we got you" "also looking to have the best orgasm of my life" Hitachi: "......right this way"
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@sexyanimeloli_ @TheWarKitchen Yes, I'm familiar with people lying on the internet, that's already why we're here. You ever tried this yourself? Even if every square inch of a 1/4-acre were dedicated to the highest density potatoes possible you'd barely have enough calories to feed a single person.
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@muke10101 @DeleuzeSuletta "it's so weird this vibes-based criticism of our vibes-based ideas on this vibes-based website wasn't actually a pointed and well-reasoned criticism of a specific ideological criterion like what the heck lmao"
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@sexyanimeloli_ @TheWarKitchen Right, on a 1/4-acre that's great to cover 5-10% of your caloric needs, but what about the other 90%?
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@zeta_globin J.R.R. Tolkien and Adolf Hitler fought at the same time on opposing sides of the Battle of the Somme in WWI
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@djrothkopf Since it's similarly illegal for felons to purchase firearms, are you similarly opposed to requiring background checks on firearm purchases?
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@sexyanimeloli_ @TheWarKitchen The best way would be for you to try this yourself, in pretty much any capacity. That would cement it for you. Otherwise, I'm always happy to share photos of my potato patch and all the rest of my crops, if you prefer to appeal to the authority of a farmer.
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@LonnConnor @turrible_tao This is so much better
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@milky_selena @Peet_Pray_Lift Not very important what you "feel like" here
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@vanillaopinions The random uyghur genocide apologia that has suddenly exploded from pro-Palestine "activists" in the last 6 months is how you know 1. Their opinions are given to them by TikTok 2. TikTok's opinions are predetermined by the CCP
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@Howlingmutant0 I don't, I just want to teach physics to young men, but instead they keep forcing me to stare at the hottest tits on earth
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@graybasedtheory @WKCosmo Literally all of them
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@rezierre Unfortunately they're incredibly bad at fighting and fold like wet-noodle lawn chairs at the first show of force, so this karaoke session is not very important
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@Nigel_Hakeem "I'm worried that if we keep going out of our way to get in their faces, they might kill us! We'd better prepare to be violent towards them next time we initiate confrontation with them..."
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@ax_ferg It's cult initiation Once you force people to believe and accept absurdities, they belong to you
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@julius_sky @JustAnkurBagchi @OfficialESC @Object_Zero_ It's also just not different no matter how many abstractions you make. This is like saying it's somehow harder or more intelligent to be able to do 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 than 1 + 1 + 1. The entire thing is isomorphic to repeated application of a successor function. Dumb.
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@Sloyd250741 @TheWarKitchen Okay nice, so not self-sufficiency then—the literal opposite Thanks for clarifying!
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@MohamedKam40019 @KeithWoodsYT All of history is an estimate. Every number you've ever heard about anything in the world is an estimate. You're nitpicking because you're defensive about your favourite ideas looking like shit.
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@LindyTasteful She's literally just not even hot, there's no "too hot" phenomenon happening or anything like that people are just so cucked by Instagram that they see this and think "I know I'm supposed to think that's hot, but I don't, so... ???" and then they settle on "she must be TOO
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@conro @wokeydpronouns Gosh, almost as if it's never been about the morals and it's only ever been about in-group signaling and high school social dynamics
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@MattZeitlin The secret to indigenous success here is that, free of municipal regulatory bloat and zoning hell, they are allowed to succeed
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@franfran2424 @mandhistorian @cheapncheerless Sorry so in this hypothetical, if Ukraine got to keep the nukes, they would have become somehow frozen in time, none of the developments of the last 30 years occur, and then in 2022 Putin invades 1994 Ukraine? This is a fascinating theory, can you please explain how it works?
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@StefanFSchubert @Jeroen_van_Baar I mean, he clearly does, in tone and substance if not explicitly. He also commits non-stop essentialist/teleological fallacies as if "the life you wanted" was some pre-determined entity you were born into knowing. This is patronizing and nihilistic. Not very useful writing.
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@GspdMycroft @TrueSlazac some guys on social medias wanting to balkanize a country isn't similar to state tv talking about nuking entire cities
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@machineiv @JoshElstro @A24 Some people don't spend 80 hours a week on Twitter, so these names are not meaningful to them. He provided stock footage, they paid and credited him for it. The vast majority of the world is not as invested in e-drama as you are.
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@Thinkwert continental multi-track drifting theory
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@FischerKing64 It's not particularly difficult to separate metaphysics from ethics
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@NaziCringe You're so close! That is quite literally the entire point of the Crucifixion--Jesus sacrificed himself so that no human would ever have to do so again.
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@mindofjdpon @kleeposting gosh you must have a mystical sixth sense, so insightful, such mastery of the human condition to know that a guy whose entire online identity is based around consumer fashion is probably not a Marxist really I'm in awe, a mere mortal in the shadow of Great Ones
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@DarkWilbo Whatever you do don't wait another 4 years to address this In theory
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@notchrisvolpe Yes, you're very close -- now, what is the opposite of "rich people"? HINT: if you think it's "black people" you might be a racist
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@DeleuzeSuletta @muke10101 Yeah I agree there's nothing weird, I'm not the one saying that The critique from liberalism is simply "you can't create a better world, and you never could, even before we showed up" Until you contend with that the vibes will never be in your favour and you'll keep puzzling
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@KingBrokenT @Noahpinion Yes, that's called "lying"
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@christinaqi No, it's not a Gen Z thing. It's you. It's a millennial/gen X/boomer thing. You can't expect to be taken seriously when you are engaging them via the same portal through which they consume skibidi toilet. Fly them to your university like you used to if you want them so badly.
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@Retrodesire1 @718Tv Of course not, nothing proves anything to you, unless it's what you already want to believe -- then any old thing will do
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@iavalentein @sexyanimeloli_ @TheWarKitchen 1. Your secret to 100% yield is worth millions—you actually don't need self-sufficiency, you can get rich off whatever it is you've discovered to achieve this 2. You need to space your potatoes or they will starve each other, you can't just pull the full density out of every
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@GeorgeMayer @BenjBenjBenjM @Freds_Mulligans @SignValued @hobie_tweets @powerbottomson1 Lol yeah that other office suite, uhh, uhh, LibreOffice, that's best in class
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@cloverhogan Okay, I imagined it. Turns out, if all of these things were prioritized tomorrow, absolutely nothing about the climate crisis would be changed or solved. These are literally the worst ideas I've ever heard for solving this problem. Utterly useless.
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@perrymetzger @halogen1048576 There's literally no evidence whatsoever that this is how cognition works, and in fact mountains of evidence that it is not. That this is how it ended up working out for neural networks in ML means less than nothing about human cognition. This is like confusing the mathematics
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@clareblackwood That's very courageous and brave of you to mock someone's appearance like a high-schooler and then turn around and play the adult in the room when everyone makes fun of your face in response True wisdom
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@ceorl263946 @HarmlessForce @eigenrobot haha I love all these cat videos on the internet, what could be the harm of going a little deeper
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@Aella_Girl I've had similar thoughts in the past, but the absence of or removal from a psychological narrative is itself a narrative. Might seem like a banal or pedantic observation, but tbh it has more depth than I gave it credit for at first
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@Goldxn_Violin This is apex predator behaviour
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@PortersLodge @ghostmylight1 @getjonwithit @7barzakh7 @pointed_max Yes, he is talking about actually showing something empirically, not philosophizing about it. The fact that people have talked about it before has no bearing on whether or not it is true. As they say, this is what happens when you get all humanities and no STEM.
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@SpiritofHo You can just write "America is my enemy and I want them to lose" You don't have to pretend you know anything Just be honest
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@ShawnaGofABPoli A family making 250k CAD is not rich, lmao You literally hate Canadians. Want us to fail. Hate upward mobility. Bitter, jealous person
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@wrong_shon @Econ_Marshall There's no need for anyone to make a substantive refutation, your failures speak for themselves I too can write things that didn't and don't happen into memes
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@knowclarified @nikitabier Yes, every measure can be gamed, everything on the internet can be faked, you could be a brain in a vat Kind of hard to understand what point you're trying to make here--which metrics would you accept?
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@Harpers @PaulSkallas Thanks, Harper's Magazine
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@existentialcoms This platform is race politics Literally everyone uses this platform for race politics The entire modern instantiation of race politics is due to this website
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@joodalooped Arthritis
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@IsaacKing314 Full agreement, but for a pedantic nitpick: this isn't a variant of Goodhart's Law, it's just a full-throated perfect example of it.
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@Mikefromregina If you don't know what capital gains are, how they are accrued, or who generally realizes them, you're probably not a good person to speak on the topic in any capacity ever. (HINT: that's you @Mikefromregina )
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@JeremiahDJohns Damn, sad to see these two in the semis, this is the real final right here.
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@keysmashbandit love the sentiment but as I think your comments section has converged upon, this was a swing and a miss on the target hilarious meme, and the person in it seems like they're super protective and in love and, just like... daring the lesbians to do something about it
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@bl0rq @ericlaw @davidfowl lol you still don't get it hey He doesn't need you to take him seriously You don't matter That's literally the entire point of the post
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@franfran2424 @mandhistorian @cheapncheerless That's sweet you're able to solve dynamic chaotic behavioural systems with >30-year accuracy! I'm surprised I've never heard of you, since this talent places you so far ahead of all cumulative human achievement that you should essentially have Godlike powers Crazy that the only
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@uberboyo I mean, at minimum we have to also give credit to his photographer(s) The people crafting his image know this will land They are also among us, so it will continue as long as it's received this well (not complaining)
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@Aella_Girl Honestly genius paywall placement You're not getting my money, but still, gotta put some respect on the hustle at least
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@ArrozYUnGandul What spaces are you talking about? Barrier to entry where? Being able to do really good drawings has literally never in history been a reliable path to success or riches, that's like a one in a million chance you'll be able to do anything with it for anyone
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@Emma_Pike_ When people are deterred from violence, there is less violence, and we call that stability Hope this helps
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@InvasiveAmerica @gothgirl_prelaw Indeed, comics automatically suck when viewed on a screen. It's the medium that determines the quality, not the content nor the cynical brain rot of the reader.
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@jawnquincyadams She said all the same shit before she was molested by deviant goblins, you achieved literally nothing as usual
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@a_musingcat It's a decision tree because it's fake. In reality, you have to decipher all of these things from an addled 84-year-old patient who barely speaks English
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@yoursimmo What? What do you mean "fuck biohacking"? You're literally describing biohacking
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@llxmarrrr Weak words from a weak man. Gone too late.
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@alissonws @eyondev @julius_sky @JustAnkurBagchi @OfficialESC @Object_Zero_ I disagree--those details are window dressing. The only actual abstraction occurring is that each person's thoughts are in relation to another person's. The fact that those thoughts may differ qualitatively does not necessitate any additional cognition to perform the abstraction.
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@yumtapwater @ArmandDoma Nice of her to extend such charity to Osama Bin Laden but not America
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@TSczudlo @bryan_johnson Anyone who uses the words "being in nature" as if they mean anything can safely be ignored forever Just utterly meaningless. Sitting in an active volcano is "being in nature" So is running by a Grizzly bear with 40 raw salmon taped to your body Ticks are "in nature"
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@chenweihua @60Minutes LMAO, yeah Hong Kong was so stable in 2019
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@beccalt18 @DuhLjubaCupica @contrerasforca Depends what you mean by "enjoy." If you mean "promoting as true and important," then yes you should be bullied/mocked/ridiculed. Social shame plays an important role in building a healthy society.
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@joodalooped This is only true—barely—in well-established, saturated fields. Chess? Sure, you're right. Theoretical physics? Yeah, probably that too. But what you're saying is obviously false on its face for things like spatial computing, VR gaming, Neuralink-powered centaur chess, etc.
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@a_musingcat I doubt it -- she's Eastern European and hates doctors, lies to them constantly, and refuses to admit when they're right
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@pacino_girl @bobby_on_mars with respect, men kill themselves en masse after divorce that's as monastic as it gets
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@uninterrupted0 @RustySkullgun @royllovians yeah and it's important to clarify because haters are always posting stuff like "ISIS beheaded my mom" and "ISIS blew up my art gallery" and so everyone thinks they're bad guys -- meanwhile that was actually their stepmom and none of the pieces in the gallery were originals
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@nunja1088 @whstancil @LuketheLawyer1 Sorry, wait, you don't think there are any races that are better at marathon running than others?
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@yourhammergirl @greenkerfuffle Of course it's all communication. It's fundamentally interpretive. Literally the only deliverable that is possible in the humanities is "This is what I personally think about X." There's nothing wrong with that, you're just insecure because people in these fields made the
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@LFCt0dd @RioStover @BriannaWu @LordAaron6 In saying "I’m a Marxist, I couldn’t care less about idealist concepts such as morality," you have admitted that you want the world to be a worse place for everyone, including Palestinians - yet you still claim to support them. You hate Palestinians.
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@bccscl @SHostage1135809 @Civilian1A @realchrisrufo @shaunmmaguire @CraigChamberlin You're literally just lying. 9 times out of 10 when people like him take a stand, his life gets ruined and nothing changes. You're the one living in fear that someone else isn't solving your problems for you.
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@josefrichter @tradingMaxiSL @historyinmemes Everything is forgotten eventually. He did this to experience it, not for your admiration.
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@yourhammergirl @greenkerfuffle Math is not interpretive in the same way that logic and language are not interpretive -- they are axiomatic. Science is interpretive, but it's interpretive of nature, not of the interpretations and perspectives of other human beings. Physical theories are testable against the
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@vanillaopinions @sorkincel You should probably stop working at nonprofits -- you don't understand the world, normal people, or how to make their lives better
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@e_j_theta @giantgio *2 millennials kill a bunch of millennials at school* Gen X: is this about us?
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@machineiv @JoshElstro @A24 What you're saying is explicitly contradictory. To create resonant art or meaningful commentary with mass appeal on a zeitgeist requires distance from it, by definition. That's why no one wants to watch obsessively overbuilt niche arthouse film. They both serve their purpose, but
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@Anchovy_Pizza You don't understand war if you think there is any difference between you and "people like this" You are "people like this" Every human being alive is "people like this"
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@C_Kavanagh This is an interesting piece in how it frequently resorts to misinformation and fearmongering to promote its dishonest conclusions. For instance, the author repeatedly says things like: "Then, he goes on to tout ashwagandha supplements as basically a miracle panacea for
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@JoshRainerGold Even his glasses hit the wall
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@HeirofLech @nawaintnothin @0xAlaric Young men today are participating in the least amount of hedonistic degeneracy than at any time in human history. Do you consider today's young men to be the most upstanding, and the most admirable, and the most promising?
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@LiveOverflow recently learned that if a hacker had access to my bank login ID, password, and 2FA, they would be able to withdraw all of my money? Wondering what my legal options are here re: suing my bank for this glaring security flaw?
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@juanrga What? How is this ridiculous? Were you expecting them to propose a bunch of engineering problems from materials science? Kind of baffled at the level of vitriol directed these days towards theoretical physicists because they... aren't interested in structural statics, or
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@techhsiren Totally, my type is billionaire rockstar athlete astronauts Just sort of a quirky thing about me that I like those types
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@utahthemiller Because there is no such thing as the "global community" The internet connected everyone way too early. We are nowhere past even the most basic forms of tribalism.
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@acey_music @IanDigsHummus No, I said high-quality success -- as in your output is regarded, whether widely or narrowly, as remarkable, high-quality, timeless, etc. All the ways we generally describe the best art. Sometimes it's commercially successful too, often not. Either way, Collier produces neither.
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@nekoronogatari @L0m3z Or perhaps they don't spend their lives staring at screens, and so the things you're talking about are barely relevant to their lives and they have no interest in them
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