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  • Aren't Gen X-ers basically managerial age right now? Like they're the ones making the decision for capital that's owned by the boomers right?

    The generation that came of age in the peak of the "greed is good" era?

  • One of the really interesting things about reading this thread is noticing how these places clearly mean different things to different people.

    Like one person says how "can somebody not want a pub in their neighborhood?" A pub and a bar might not mean the same thing to everyone. To some people a bar might mean something much closer to a night club and a pub something much closer to a restaurant.

    Gas station doesn't mean convenience store to me AT ALL. To me it's only a place for buying gas. I would never go to one unless I was buying gas at the same time.

    Is what I call a green grocer/fruit market what other people call a grocery store?

    The questions abound...

  • Yeah the inconsistencies are interesting.

    Is it because of the "than"? Do we just not like saying "fewer than"? Because it wouldn't offend my ear to hear "we need less than 5 chairs", but "we need less chairs" is outrageous to me, (for less than however many chairs it takes for them to become dequantized) [I did it again there, did you notice?]

    Or maybe it's to do with the minutes being a quantization of something continuous, whereas usually we deal with the transition the other way.

    "couches vs. furniture" couches are discrete, furniture is discrete things as a collective.

    "time vs minutes" time is continuous, minutes are a quantization of it. That is a difference compared to couches/ furniture. How do we talk about other quantizations of continuous?

    Distance: how far is it? Less than 5 miles. Maybe it's an acknowledgement of the fact that we talk about miles but inherently understand that distance isn't countable.

    Oops that used "than" again. Uhhh... "the battery in my electric car is degraded so I get 10 less miles per charge". Hmm I'm not sure if that sounds right....

  • think about all the kids that did not make it to the top, and just had a abusive childhood without anything to show for it.

    (...Except trauma to teach to their kids)

    Exactly!

  • Hey I love this meme everytime I see it, but I want to point out that that point about growing up in "similar circumstances that nurture their skill' is contingent upon working musicians being able to afford to raise children. Children that will also need to work.

    Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think there is a comparable proportion of the population that are working musicians, that earn enough money to support children, but not so much that the children don't have to learn a trade, as there were in "Enlightenment" Europe where if a person wanted to hear music they had to make it themselves, or pay someone to make it, and every rich asshole had a chamber orchestra following him around.

    Also parents don't teach children their trades the way they used to, and they aren't expected to support their parent's businesses the way they used to. (I'm not lamenting this). There used to be a lot of pressure on children to contribute economically. Mozart, and his siblings probably faced what we'd consider child abuse if he didn't practice. He was certainly exploited.

    Michael Jackson is a Mozart of the 20th century. He was put to work at a young age to support his parents and siblings, that were also working musicians.

    As much as I love Weird Al (and I do) I don't think he was groomed and exploited the same way MJ/WM were. Kudos to his parents for that I guess.

  • He shot at the unarmed, and handcuffed suspect he had locked in his car.

    In the video it also looks like there is an officer or bystander down range. Like if you pause the video and forget the context it would not be obvious if he was sitting at the car or pedestrian.