Just watch video footage from 9/11 while the song is playing.

I was so happy I could get my cat off of Purina.

It’s a lot easier for me to scoop 1/2 teaspoon of two spices, one tablespoon of another, and 2 teaspoons of a fourth than to measure 1.8 grams of one, 2.2 grams of one, 5.2 grams of one, and 3.8 grams of a fourth. The scoops I can put in the container and level off the top using the same container. The other way, I have to gently sprinkle or slowly scoop and sprinkle so it doesn’t go over the required amount.

Way faster for me to scoop, level, dump.

You just take your shoes off at the door and put them back on when you leave.

Or they died.

Both my and my husband’s US cars already have all of the items listed as physical buttons. I don’t know that it’ll really change much.

People stopped bookmarking?

To me, it’s not the AI data that’s the issue. It’s reddit, effectively, turning off all of the API, then selling the data they aren’t producing themselves. I think if any instance owner told their users they were going to start selling things that were posted to their instance, their users would find other places in the fediverse to set up shop.

At least we didn’t call it Whitewatergate.

From Michigan, it’s about 50/50. I don’t really think twice about it.

Well, NPR did an entire article of 20 protest songs that came out in 2020. Looks like they might have made a Spotify playlist of them at one point too.

Here are 30 protest albums that came out in the first half of 2022

Here are 50 protest songs from 2023.

These are just results from pretty simple Google searches. ‘protest songs year’.

You act like ‘children should be seen and not heard’ was in the distant past.

While education helped sure, the real killer was changing smoking from being cool to being a stigma and laws stopping smoking from most public places.

Smoking was changed from being cool to being gross. It makes you smell, it makes kissing you gross, etc etc. Vapes seem to have taken away some of those issues that really pushed the social stigma.

Add to it that nicotine free vapes exist and people use those, so it’s not the same singular target as tobacco. What you don’t want is something that can be easily debunked making it seem like it’s not that bad. (See the many stories of folks trying harder drugs because the DARE programs told them marijuana would be the same as LSD, only it’s not).

Why weren’t you getting an eye exam every year as a standard?

I’m in the US and once a year is pretty standard. Why would you only go to the eye doctor twice in 15 years? Do you not have regular eye exams as the norm?

Reminds me of the parents who left their baby with the grandparents and the grandparents gave the baby ivermectin to ‘protect’ them from COVID.

Hospital couldn’t save the poor kid.

I figured that came through in the “I’ve been following kpop for the better part of a decade” comment that you originally replied to, but since it wasn’t clear enough, yes, I’m a fan of kpop and know many fans of kpop who aren’t 4chan people at all, and many who don’t care about idol lives or the papparazzi pictures. (Yes, obviously there are 4chan folks who like kpop, like you can find 4chan folks who like any genre of music).

Kpop, like the majority of pop, is typically marketed to young women because women spend money on products or tend to have more decision making power over where money is spent (obviously varies by person or household). 4chan is usually not a haven for young women, or any women for that matter.

Like the majority of music genres, the fans are diverse and are interested in it for a variety of different reasons. If the only people that you’re finding who listen to kpop are 4chan folks, I think that says more about the folks that you associate with or the places that you frequent than it does about kpop fans.

Yeah, as I said, you have a very limited view on that genre of music and you’re really proving that now. Like any type of music, people are into it for a number of reasons.

That’s a very limited view on a genre of music.

I’ve been following kpop for the better part of a decade. This isn’t the first celebrity I know of with a drug scandal that pushes them to suicide or attempted suicide. I’m sure it won’t be the last either. It’s basically career suicide, even if it’s just weed.

I mean, indulgences were a large part about why Martin Luther split from the church to begin with.