Nope. Pee on Confederate graves... The few that they've managed to bury properly. They died doing a shitty thing for a shitty reason, and we've had to deal with the aftermath since the election of 1876 was brokered to end Reconstruction.
They fucked everything up. So, yeah, no respect. Pee on them.
I fear, though, that Trump v2 will have everything at his disposal that Bush had, and more. Heritage Foundation is already rigging the scaffolding for reintroducing Schedule F with the next GOP president, and have personnel lists.
I live in SoCal and love it, and do not intend to have kids, but it really seems like you'd be struggling to raise 3 kids around here on less than $150k (2 cars, rent/mortgage, etc).
Obviously many people manage it somehow, but it must be incredibly stressful. I have no idea how most of them do it.
He knows what he's doing. I get the sense that he's naturally authoritarian, but if he though Bernie's politics would get him elected, he adopt Bernie's politics.
He's basically just an empty vessel. A naturally evil empty vessel. Which is perfect for the GOP.
In a vacuum, sure, hydrogen for personal vehicles is great. In reality, though, you're down at about 30% efficiency between the H2 geting extracted from wherever, and you gassing up your car.
Additionally, if more than 5% of that H2 escapes into the atmosphere at any time, it actually does more damage to the planet than fossil fuels, by preoccupying the hydroxyl radicals in the sky that would otherwise be breaking down greenhouse gases.
Add on to that, that if I actually had to pay for hydrogen fuel, it would cost me 6x as much per mile to run my Hyundai Nexo than a Prius. H2 in SoCal is currently $36/kg at the pump, having doubled or nearly tripled in price in the last 18 months. (Somehow, in Korea it's only $2/kg.)
H2 fuel cell tech has its place as a fuel (but not in combustion engines like BMW is trying to do though... that's just a farce). Trucks/long-haul vehicles, planes, ships all would be better off running H2. It fuels up fast, is way lighter than any battery, and is pretty darn energy dense. But for around-town driving, BEVs right now are just a much better option. Their problem is heavy batteries and comparatively longer fueling time than gasoline/hydrogen.
Fossil fuels are just amazingly energy dense, and we're not going to replace them 1:1 any time soon. Every alternative involves massive tradeoffs.
Source: I own a 2022 Hyundai Nexo hydrogen SUV. Love it as a car, but most of the H2 fueling stations are broken down half the time (you need to check an app to see which one, if any, are currently working), and the price of the fuel in the US is no longer viable. When my free fuel card expires in 2025, I'll be getting either a BEV or PHEV. Lucid or Polaris are looking nice.
This was more true when the labels were running everything. Now you can get a lot of the material more-or-less directly from the artists on various platforms. Instead of artists getting 5% of the $$$, they can get 70%+.
Just saying that not everything you listen to is necessarily by a band signed to a label. A lot of newer talents have gotten wise to the scam the labels have been running (for the same reasons you articulated - who would knowingly sign up for that?) and are putting things out themselves instead.
This is what I've done. Not all it's cracked up to be. 24/96 is still my sweet spot for casual listening (as long as the recording/mastering chain was all at least 96khz... Otherwise, whatever the weakest link in the chain was).
For having a career, though, 3 decades of piano ain't a bad way to go.
Then for you it doesn't matter. But it may matter to people you share your music with, and I think higher-quality should proliferate instead of lower-quality.
Also I listened to that A/B test - glitchy mess on my android phone for some reason, but still got 23/25 with my $10 Panasonic earbuds.
I have a religious nutjob in my family now (dad remarried to one).
I've never had a Facebook account, but my wife sees the stuff said RWNJ posts, and finally asked me to comment on the latest hate post.
I'll admit it, I went on a tirade, because what she was posting was actively harmful. So I went back six months and gave all her similar posts a similar treatment.
I won't however, say anything on her posts where she just voices a belief in God or that the end times are coming. That's just trumpeting her stupidity.
She went dark on Facebook for 5 days, then yesterday picked back up, but this time seems to be sticking to just voicing her opinions, and not platforming awful shit. We'll see how w long that lasts...
Let them burn themselves out, then piss on them.