60% of Lemmy users are that teenager but they’re 35 and still haven’t grown out of it.

So many people here don’t even accept historian consensus that Jesus was a real person

Green Day - Fire, Ready Aim

Monolingual, and yes I envy multilingual people. It’s simply better.

I flunked Spanish and French so I think I just have poor language learning aptitude.

I actually just tested Linux Mint again recently.

Music production holds me back. Didn’t test gaming, but I have faith that it’s more or less the same experience as the Steam Deck, and that would tie into a general sentiment I’ve seen around that gaming is no longer the biggest barrier to Linux adoption.

A. FL Studio runs like shit on WINE for me. Maybe it’s usable on a CPU under ten years old (I’m currently on an FX-8320) because I’ve heard others claim it runs at near-native speeds for them, but on Windows I only have performance issues on a project file that has every reason to be intensive. Even if I switched DAWs to something Linux native I’d still need FL Studio to work so I can open my old project files.

B. Two of my most used VST plugins don’t work, and I didn’t even test all of them so others might not work. One I can’t install because the installer doesn’t work, but the other is a free plugin, and that one’s GUI just doesn’t render (and last time I tested Linux it didn’t render under LMMS either, so it has to be a problem with WineVST.)

It’s just objectively true that a very specific type of person makes up most of Lemmy, which results in the only active communities being either very broad topics, or the handful of interests common to the kind of people who use Lemmy. I don’t fit into any of these.

This you?

Dating apps as a business model are incentivized to not actually be good at matching people so they keep paying the sub fee.

For example, when Match Group (a company that would absolutely be a part of the trust busting wave, might actually be the most blatant monopoly in the US) bought OKCupid, they got rid of a whole host of features that made it easier to find someone who shares interests with you.

And I think Red Pill getting popular is part of the end result of this: they encourage a monolithic view of how humanity and human attraction work.

• Electoral reform. Abolish the electoral college, end first past the post, and make SCOTUS an elected position with term limits, as well as term limiting Congress and instituting universal mail in voting nationwide.

• Top to bottom education reform. Straight up completely change how education works.

• Trust busting wave. Google, EA, Uniliever, Disney, and so many others.

• Crackdowns on elements of social media and dating apps that encourage sensationalism or otherwise harm society. (Dating apps I might go as far as nationalization.)

• Fund third spaces, in a similar manner to how other countries are involved in arts funding.

Subject matter experts would be involved in all of course.

I know there’s like, actual cultural appropriation…but at this point I wish it never entered the cultural conversation at all tbh because I feel like it became weird bioessentialist shit. Like, just actively telling people what they’re allowed to be interested in is based on genetics. Not to mention cases where mixed race people have been assaulted over perceived hair appropriation (the idea that you can tell what race people are by looking at them is monoracist.)

At my most charitable, I think people are forgetting that most people aren’t influencers or public figures?

Hebrew. Notably not a Torah/Old Testament name. It also exists in other Asian languages with different meanings, and is an opposite gender name in most other languages. I’ve never met one personally.

I like the ambiguity it lends me.

Unpopular opinion: y’all call everything you don’t like “reddit” (while the average Lemmy user is a lot of what people who don’t use either dislike about reddit)

180 is the beginning of “fast” to me. But I can say I like a lot of fast music (I’m into J-core and punk)

In terms of how fast is “too fast” for me, my guess would be around 250, but I might’ve heard and liked something that fast without knowing it.

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.