The other commenters seem to have not realized OP said “deaths” not “killings,” and “public figures” not “politicians.”

I don’t think there’s anything unique that explains the increase in celebrity deaths though. 20th century celebs be old.

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As soon as you get out of Pennsylvania you see a marijuana store. Regardless of which state you’re going into.

Northeastern Americans specifically are.

Rising above. That’s the part that’s unique to humans (maybe not entirely but acutely so)

US:

• Loud

• Blunt (this one’s regional, northeast)

• Thinks with my heart

• Leans individualistic in my own affairs (hyperindividualist political culture needs to die, but no amount of whinging will make me like multigenerational living as someone in that situation with no end in sight)

• I lean on things

• Meat-heavy diet

A significant portion of religious extremism disguises greed extremism, so I’d get rid of greed extremism.

You seem to have a bias where the only music that matters to you is Intelligent Dance Music and maybe classical.

I listened to a bit of Ulrich Schnauss while typing this (Blumenthal which played into Clear Day) and…it was aight. I don’t usually listen to dance music, so there’s probably something I’m missing, but the way you talked it up as the only modern music that matters, I was expecting some crazy composition techniques that you’d never hear in anything even remotely pop-adjacent.

notice how Weird Al parodies have more staying power than the songs he’s parodying

I can name one song where I think this is true (Ridin’ Dirty > White and Nerdy.) Seriously I have no idea where this comes from.

Notice how Elvis, the ‘king of rock’ has no staying power?

But what about the Beatles? They have a lot more longevity and aren’t that much younger. Elvis was the king of an embryonic form of Rock and Roll, and in general I don’t think the earliest versions of genres age well. The earliest forms of hip hop are generally seen as being cheesy and having extremely simple flows, and if you try to throw back to them today, you’re seen as making a shallow parody of hip hop, but when you get to the styles that came to prominence in the 90s, the songs are still widely listened to and beloved. Anecdotally I have trouble seeing pre-bebop jazz as jazz. Bebop is what brought in so much of the complexity that we associate with jazz today.

These are “I don’t want to live there” reasons. The hate for California that right-wingers have is “this place shouldn’t exist” type hate.

The suite on Wish You Were Here (album) is called Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

At this point I think the women using it got psyopped

If you believe in the Marxist critique of art for art’s sake, congratulations, you are a religious evangelist.

(I do however, believe in Nietzsche’s critique of art for art’s sake, which is that it fundamentally does not exist)

As a Gen Zer who’s into 90s adult animation, I don’t think B&B needs a particular episode. It’s a pretty simple show when it comes down to it, it’s a bunch of gags about stupid people being stupid.

I don’t know any “real” gamers who would answer a Mario game as their favorite game. Hell they likely wouldn’t be naming a platform game period

2008 is over, it’s socially acceptable to like games that aren’t military shooters now

The people who argue that forums aren’t social media are people who want to be better than everyone else

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Youre better off asking why women overall are more likely to read.

I think people above a certain age won’t believe me, but I swear when I was growing up (born in 2001,) being smart and having hobbies associated with smartness was made out to be unmasculine. I don’t even know how that happened, but from a young age we all thought of reading as a women’s hobby. I think there weren’t many male characters in children’s media of that era that were smart and not made out to be uncool, but I might be misremembering.

Elitism and exclusion are how we got to the mess we find ourselves in.

And that’s why I would not let Lemmy users run society. The userbase here is people who like the idea of left-populism, but hate the population.

It’s popular in the Northeast and I’d assume the PNW as well.

So basically the states that you can actually play ice hockey in

Political ideology: depends greatly on how big a role the internet played in raising Bernie Sanders’ profile. I think it did a lot, so I’d probably be less left but still too left to vote Republican.

Religion: Without Internet I’m probably a nominal Christian like my mom. As in, identifies as Christian but it doesn’t affect my life like, at all.

Overall worldview: It’s probably in the same ballpark, but not as developed. I don’t think I’ve ever done a total 180 on my values, but the application of those values has changed a lot.