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I miss when i used to go into the woods with my friends as a kid, and build forts, we would dig into the clay, we would make huge Structures out of snow in the winter, and bring a thermos with hot drinks and sit together in our ice castle, there is something so primal about being able to create something just on an impulse, with no concept of a limit other than time in a day, I'm quite certain that if it weren’t for us having to go back to our homes for dinner and to school the next day we could have rebuilt the world.

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Well the discogs vs rym debate is a long one, i just feel that discogs has a better focus on the physical side of music, although you can find just about anything online now, i find that a lot of stuff as far as smaller labels and being able to quickly glance at who has released on them, i just find my flow with the site is a little more fluid, with rym I usually find myself on the charts… actually some fantastic lists on rym … i feel like making lists on discogs is way more tedious so only a few people do it … lots of great reviews on rym, its quite entertaining to read some if the more colourful reviews, whereas on discogs the comments on releases are more focused on the quality of the pressing, mastering etc … i just kinda think that each of these sites provides a different focus, it just helps to have various sources of info if you want a more complete view of things. Admittedly a small part of discogs for me is also the marketplace, i buy a lot of random cheap crap records on a whim and a lot of them i eventually sell online since most record stores dont want to touch any diy or local stuff with a 10ft pole. Ive had cases of releases being on rym but missing from discogs and viceversa …

Oh and as far as general awkwardness and feeling uncomfortable around crowds at venues i feel the same way most of the time … i used to go to a tonne of shows but admittedly I spend a lot of time on the couch in the back of the room, or there was one venue with a good zine collection and I usually spent half my time there reading haha I haven’t been to a show in like 3 years at least …

Its also very rare to find people to talk to about music, but like i knew some people who used to host listening parties, and have a few friends where we often get together and have a few drinks while digging though the records and putting random stuff on.

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Bandcamp is great, its the only place with a more specific geographic organization for music (great for figuring out bands to ask to play with on tour, or groups to see while travelling) … unfortunately a lot of places share names, and there is a lot of bands saying they are from the bigger town next door if theres a more lively scene there …

I check the new releases in my town every once and a while just to keep up to date …

Another hobby i used to have was combine two different genres, a year, and a country on discogs and see what interesting weird music i can find, i used to try and download as much as i could find as much as i could on soulseek, found so much cool music that way.

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Depends a bit on how you view music scenes and categorization. I use discogs a lot, rym occasionally, i spend a fair amount of time at local record stores listening to discount local/diy records, and used to go to at least 2 diy shows a week, and organize the occasional event …

Some scenes are way smaller and more interconnected than you would ever think, As much as I’ve learned so much from cataloging sites, there is so much more in the conversations at the venues, in old tour posters, in who knows who and thanks for letting us crash on your couch in the liner notes that something like discogs or rym doesn’t quite replace yet.

There is no bottom to the well of participatory culture, no boundaries to the influences and strange coincidences that aren’t and in my opinion shouldn’t accept simple cataloging as adequate documentation.

To me music offers a chance to serve as a small refuge from many of the ills of the modern world.

Unfortunately the last few years has really damaged my willingness to take part in my local scene,

But shoutout to all the bands that record in basements, bedrooms, buildings scheduled for demolition, street corners, as prisoners, as patients. Shoutout to my friends who’ve moved twice a year facing constant displacement and gentrification, evictions, floods, housefires, venue closures etc and still manage to get together and write music/songs/recording ls for themselves and for the people they care for.

There is always going to be a lot of nuance and circumstance that is hard to express on paper, the unwritten and unrecorded deeper meaning behind some art that cannot translate to this idea of a universal consumer…

Idk

Its hard to mesure.

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Imagine if instead of making huge life destroying policy though “post ideological neoliberal democracy” we just had everyone flip a coin and admit the truth that people in positions of power don't actually stand for any sort of democratic or meritocratic ideal, and instead are just people who find themselves in a comfortable but fleeting position in a uncaring machine full of interchangeable parts. Im tired of democracy’s appeal to authority.

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Straight up!

Definition of democracy, Its not just “making decisions”

There are so many different biases and drawbacks to every form of “decision process”

There are places for bad actors to manipulate, and groups to unwittingly make actions that violate ethical principles in both majorty based processes and consensus based processes…

Often there is no good way to make a decision, its really funny how democratic function seemingly negates any accountability of action, instead of blaming the individual we get to shrug and say, well it was decided democratically by the group …

This is even more problematic when “democratic” groups make choices that effect non-peers,

Anyone even remotely aware of the social situation of a so called “representational democracy” that has no legs to stand on as far as the accountability that real representation needs to be built upon… there is criticism of this in almost every political sphere. I would say its foundational to anarchism.

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predictions…

There are going to be more hoaxes created using AI than you can count on two hands,

theres going to be an illness that will give a lot of people long term symptoms and will affect young children, but people wont really care.

There will be a few different social media startups that will start that although not popular now will unsettle fb insta etc from their position in 3yrs …

Online advertising will decrease in value.

Elon musk will release a device similar to the peek, a twitter only device and it will flop, several months later twitter will file for bankruptcy.

There will be a major leftist movement that will be a honeypot, a ton of influencers and teens will be arrested… there will be lots of abuse scandals and people will feel like having nothing to do with political movements.

There will be a major standoff between the police and protesters in the states, several people will die.

Eating in public will become illegal in some parts of the states.

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Super inconsequential heartstrings news article …

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Why not just move it back another 100 years, or just like maybe never /s.

Sounds like this isn’t a very big priority, this type of setting dates for important environmental issues and then moving them back decade after decade, while still feigning an interest in the environment for political gain is so tired, theres never going to be a convenient time to tell the factories to stop poluting, so in a sense its now or never. And its time to stop pretending otherwise.

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I really hope this doesn’t come across as me thinking racism is excusable or that there is any room for racism or any other oppressive language in conversation, however there is definitely a line where things are ambiguous. Understanding that in a “society” that accepts people from different backgrounds needs to accept that often there is no fixed context or frame of reference in communication.

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So one user (mod) assumed that an ubuntu mastodon server was the linux os instead of the African philosophy, people said that it was racist for them to assume that and the user told the people who were claiming that they were racist to “kms” and the argument goes to blocking the entire instance because of this…

People are also like looking at the following of this person and doing some guilt by association type stuff.

Honestly being federated is kind of pointless if you want to have this type of heavy handed moderation, like just block other instances…

Theres plenty of edgy people on the internet. If the fediverse is to have any utility to your average person, we cant have entire instances being blocked out because of a mod being tactless in response to an internet brigades dogpiling… this is just another reason not to federate.

Different internet spaces should be allowed to have different cultures, honestly i like how raddle has its own posting culture, and how people talk to eachother with respect instead of assuming ill intent, it makes it way easier to discuss things when there is hurt from miscommunication, as opposed to just labeling people as racist. When people default to invasive gathering of evidence in preparation of an internet trial, instead of sharing experiences and offering insight…

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Being told to do something insignificant on one side of a warehouse then something else on another side, then asked why i’m not in my station, then told to go to another side of the factory, then told i must not be very good at this job because I didn’t meet some quota I wasn’t told about, being told to mop up an area and having someone pushing dust right behind where I'm moping, getting all the supplies for mixing ingredients and filling the soap molds, and having another employee walk up to me and take all my stuff away from me and start using it, and needing to walk across the factory again to get bowls and stuff again. It was a bizarre and maddening experience.

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