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  1. Comment on Weird Al Yankovic 2026 tour of ninety cities in ~music

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    Artist presale is going on now. If you select one of the signup links for a venue, they'll email a code.

    Artist presale is going on now. If you select one of the signup links for a venue, they'll email a code.

  3. Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown in ~music

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    Tickets already have your name on them when you buy them through TM/AXS. The difference is the venue just checks your ID at the gate and verifies the name matches. They need your ID to give you a...

    Tickets already have your name on them when you buy them through TM/AXS. The difference is the venue just checks your ID at the gate and verifies the name matches.

    They need your ID to give you a wristband for the bar anyway.

    12 votes

  4. Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown in ~music

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    Nice. It seems to work well for Japan, where ticket resale is illegal and typically they check that your ID matches the ticket. A lot of events there use lottery systems, which I'd love to see...

    Nice. It seems to work well for Japan, where ticket resale is illegal and typically they check that your ID matches the ticket.

    A lot of events there use lottery systems, which I'd love to see spread elsewhere: you put your name in and have an equal chance of being offered a ticket, rather than trying to get in during the first few minutes after sales start.

    Two events that come to mind that do this are the Hatsune Miku concerts (unlike their North America tour counterparts, which are subject to TicketMaster and AXS dumpster fires), and the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fests. The latter also requires an active game subscription for the lottery.

    13 votes

  5. Comment on US President Donald Trump rolls back tariffs on dozens of food products in ~society

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    Distraction tactics after driving their health insurance costs way up and trying to kill SNAP (including literally appealing judges' rulings that payments had to continue).

    Distraction tactics after driving their health insurance costs way up and trying to kill SNAP (including literally appealing judges' rulings that payments had to continue).

    4 votes

  6. Comment on New York City Council pushes to legalize bodega cats, giving them ‘purr-fect’ legal status in ~life.pets

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    Now I'm imagining Pizza Rat and Splinter as distant relatives.

    Now I'm imagining Pizza Rat and Splinter as distant relatives.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on New York City Council pushes to legalize bodega cats, giving them ‘purr-fect’ legal status in ~life.pets

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    I had cats growing up that would attempt to chase down woodchucks at full sprint or creep up on turkeys. So deterrent is definitely on the table, at least.

    I had cats growing up that would attempt to chase down woodchucks at full sprint or creep up on turkeys. So deterrent is definitely on the table, at least.

    6 votes

  8. Comment on The death of punctuation in ~humanities.languages

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    I increasingly just ignore messages like that. If they can't be bothered, I can't either.

    I increasingly just ignore messages like that. If they can't be bothered, I can't either.

    13 votes

  9. Comment on New ‘Star Trek’ movie in works at Paramount from Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) in ~movies

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    The film was great, and the Alamo screening I saw it at was basically full. I'm still annoyed by how many balls were dropped with that release, though. Own it. The "we're sorry for making this...

    The film was great, and the Alamo screening I saw it at was basically full. I'm still annoyed by how many balls were dropped with that release, though.

    • Own it. The "we're sorry for making this lame nerd thing, but please go watch the nerd thing" marketing was obnoxious.

    • WotC managing to kick off yet another controversy in the lead up to the release, because they wanted a slice of the Critical Role pie.

    • It's a Forgotten Realms movie. And basically the biggest hit game for the next year, a Forgotten Realms game, dropped shortly after. So why, for fuck's sake, did they not brand it that way? Tell everyone this is part of the Forgotten Realms Universe™️, make sure people know it's related to Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, and plant the setting in the public consciousness. Then you can do more movies and games. (Instead, Hasbro seems completely confused as to how BG3 was popular, pissed off the studio that made it, and thinks what everyone clearly wants is a D&D themed clone of the Jedi Fallen Order games.)

    12 votes

  10. Comment on Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean? in ~finance

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    Most confusing disco lyrics ever.

    Most confusing disco lyrics ever.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search in ~tech

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    This half-assed thinking seems endemic to businesses and AI, and I find it amusing. If you're going to replace your product with output from AI, why would I buy that product when I can just use...

    Stock image sites saw AI as an opportunity to not pay people for their work

    This half-assed thinking seems endemic to businesses and AI, and I find it amusing. If you're going to replace your product with output from AI, why would I buy that product when I can just use the AI? The capitalist ouroboros consumes itself. (At least, until the burning dumpsters of investor money run out, then it'll cost an absurd amount to generate them.)

    Never mind that copyright-eligibility of AI output has already had at least a couple of legal cases against it, hinging on the requirement for sufficient human artistic input to go into a result. That also means the business of selling rights to use the images is suspect, since they're inherently public domain if that precedent stands.

    9 votes

  12. Comment on Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean? in ~finance

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    I go long stretches of time without seeing or handling any physical currency. I probably have $50 in my wallet, for weird edge cases I will complain endlessly about, but that's about it. Merchants...

    I go long stretches of time without seeing or handling any physical currency. I probably have $50 in my wallet, for weird edge cases I will complain endlessly about, but that's about it.

    Merchants figured out, over half a millennium ago, that hauling around money was an invitation to being robbed and an artificial limit to liquidity/flexibility. You just sell items for credit. Why on earth would I go back to having a glorified bag of pirate doubloons?

    5 votes

  13. Comment on An AI-generated country song is topping a Billboard chart, and that should infuriate us all in ~music

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    Case in point: the VTuber Mori Calliope has charted in multiple countries, but I bet you haven't heard her on the radio in the US. (Her new one, Orpheus, is pretty good.) YOASOBI's Idol and Creepy...

    The charts are politics and payola, that is all they have ever been. At no time in history did charts ever cover the 'best' music. They listed whatever was being pushed by the industry at the moment, typically via backroom deals with labels for radio exposure and market trend capitalization.

    Case in point: the VTuber Mori Calliope has charted in multiple countries, but I bet you haven't heard her on the radio in the US. (Her new one, Orpheus, is pretty good.) YOASOBI's Idol and Creepy Nuts' Bling Bang Bang Born were popular enough to be global top songs on YouTube, and YOASOBI even played Coachella, but are ignored by the media gangs in the US. Bad Bunny has been fighting Taylor Swift for the top of streaming plays for years, but people acted like he didn't exist until suddenly this year.

    There's a lot of cool music out there, but the US is extremely insular and transparently cultivates a false selection of "popular" music. The silver lining is, with music and movies in that sphere trending so mediocre, it'll hopefully lessen the US's ability to project pop culture to the rest of the world, and other places will get more of a chance.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Libertarianism is dead in ~humanities

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    You can always look to people who lived through it already and pointed out obvious warning signs. It was hard to not see parallels to many of those in American culture and politics before Trump....

    You can always look to people who lived through it already and pointed out obvious warning signs.

    It was hard to not see parallels to many of those in American culture and politics before Trump. Now it's full on freefall.

    22 votes

  15. Comment on The algorithm failed music in ~tech

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    It's weird to me that people actually use those parts of Spotify. I've been using Spotify since it first opened up in the US, and have never really used them, because they're not good. I've always...

    It's weird to me that people actually use those parts of Spotify. I've been using Spotify since it first opened up in the US, and have never really used them, because they're not good. I've always either found music on YouTube or maybe user-curated playlists on Spotify, then I listen and add music to my own categorical playlists.

    Spotify, for me, is just a better iTunes that has anything most things I want to search for, on-demand, and I shuffle my playlists or open full albums just like I would do back then.

    things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music

    That cart is leading its horse. Guitars, in general, have been on the way out from pop music for decades. We've had over four decades of EDM and hip hop existing, and guitar genres are profoundly old school. (And, speaking from experience, it's now very approachable to learn to arrange music in a DAW, and learning some piano is essential for that, but guitar is very much a detour away from that goal.)

    11 votes

  16. Comment on Microsoft is adding AI facial recognition to OneDrive and users can only turn it off three times a year in ~tech

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    I've been a Mac user since 2008, and had to use windows for the first time in years for a work project...what a trash fire. "Macification" would be a massively good thing. The whole windows...

    I've been a Mac user since 2008, and had to use windows for the first time in years for a work project...what a trash fire.

    "Macification" would be a massively good thing. The whole windows experience is terrible in every way, including just...existing. The comparably priced and specced ThinkPad P series just freezes up (even the trackpad stops clicking) for seconds at a time and blasts its noisy fans. It feels like time travelling back to 2004.

    And that's to say nothing about the disgusting terminal/development situation. No Unix, no want. PowerShell is awful.

    I'm at a loss as to how people tolerate this madness and then somehow still talk shit.

    9 votes

  17. Comment on In 1953, the Ford X-100 concept car had it all in ~transport

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    Interesting. Though I suppose if you keep up with it, the hair will be more minimal too.

    Interesting. Though I suppose if you keep up with it, the hair will be more minimal too.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on In 1953, the Ford X-100 concept car had it all in ~transport

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    What kind of crazy person wants to shave in their car and get hair everywhere?

    What kind of crazy person wants to shave in their car and get hair everywhere?

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Is 67 just brain rot? in ~humanities.languages

  20. Comment on You don't need Anubis in ~comp

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    Anubis will never block a well behaved scraper, and won't even run the proof of wok check in the first place. Any bot that correctly identifies itself in its user agent will entirely bypass the...

    government and educational sites which IMO have no business blocking scrapers

    Anubis will never block a well behaved scraper, and won't even run the proof of wok check in the first place. Any bot that correctly identifies itself in its user agent will entirely bypass the check. By design, it only runs the check against agents with the substring "Mozilla," which is every major browser since Netscape.

    The goal is to be able to differentiate bots from users and rate limit them accordingly, to avoid existential issues from hosting costs going way up under LLM companies' residential botnets that evade throttling.

    11 votes