Pink Floyd is stoner music.

That’s why it got so big.

When I was in high school ('78 - '82), everyone that smoked pot also listened to Floyd. (drugs were kind of the by-line for the entire “progressive” rock genre, if I’m gonna be honest about it…)

Me going to see the movie The Wall with a few friends. Yeah. at a 70 millimeter cineplex in East Hartford, Ct., and we all dropped acid right before we went in to see it.

It was absolutely over the top. …and amazing.

…i cant stand pink floyd and fleetwood mac and don’t understand why their albums are constantly lauded…

I can answer part of that. For Pink Floyd, it was as their musicianship was unparalleled and at the time, given the recording technology, they had phenomenal sound engineers that really did make near perfect recordings. Moreso that it was done on analog tape, decades before digital. The audio fidelity and sonic qualities of Pink Floyd’s recordings were ahead of their time.

Get a proper stereo system with a turntable and listen to the LP of Animals, by Pink Floyd. You will hear what is basically a representative of the apex of the art of analog recording.

As to Fleetwood Mac - they started out as a blues band and then went pop in the mid-70’s and were just wildly popular.

From a 2025 perspective, it’s solid pop music, they wrote songs with the right hook that could catch listeners. The best pop songs have easy melodies and can be sung along to. That’s the basic formula of the genre. It’s never changed in almost 100 years. Which when you start to see how the recording industry works - there’s a reason the 70’s pop resonates today. It’s aimed at demographics of age, and everyone is in the target demographic at one point in their life.

The industry rolls on 25-30 year cycles. Now the heavy metal/pop sound made by bands like Sleep Token is swinging back around. Last time the loud and angry sound hit big was with the 90’s grunge that supplanted the heavy rock hair bands of the late 80’s.

Oh yeah, I really like this!

Thanks, gonna do a dive into the rest of the band’s stuff.

Heheheh… I too have apple hardware… running unsupported installs (am currently on Mojave as I require 32-bit support for old peripherals and software), so when Apple tells me to upgrade, it lasts until the System Update checks the hardware then promptly fucks off never to bother me again.

I think am going to ignore Microsoft just like I do Apple and leave the gaming PC with Win10 Pro until I get a second drive for it to run Bazzite on.

Hm.

Well, Microsoft can tell me to upgrade my PC and like with Apple saying the same thing about my Macintoshes - ad nauseam - I can ignore it all. And will.

My PC is for gaming and nothing else anyhow…

Forgot how good this song is! Thanks for the reminder.

This makes me SO glad I do not use Amazon.

Oh shit… Mom lays on the burn! LOL!

Oh sweet Jesus! LOL! This is me, though not with Linux, but trying to use Macports to get some damn program running and failing miserably because I couldn’t get the permissions set on the dependencies correctly.

Rake right to the face. FML.

Lol! Jesus fuck, you just made me choke in laughter on my breakfast!!

Nicely done and thanks for the morning laugh.

… they dont want thier back/body to be broken by the time they are 30s or 40s…

Tell me you don’t understand the Trades, w/o telling me you don’t understand the trades.

I’m 60 this year, went through menopause over 15 years ago and have no arthritis or back issues whatsoever. This isn’t 1850.

In 45 years of being in the Trades, the heaviest thing I’ve had to lift has been 5 gallon buckets of paint.

In the Trades, one doesn’t have to worry about lifing a person out of a bed either. I’ve known nurses that have fucked their backs doing just that.

Anyone can be in the Trades, and the risk of AI building a house is far less than it is for AI to design some new molecule… and given that President Stephen Miller is chasing the undocumented construction labor out of the country, it’s a field ripe for women to enter into and make great coin, and have almost limitless work.

Ask me how I know.

I think as his dementia takes hold more and more, he’s going to become more erratic and it will be cunts like Steven Miller who step up to push for things. My suspicion is that the GOP is staying silent because there are many senior legislators and connected friends that ran with Epstein and why Trump isn’t releasing those files is because it’s “compromat” that he can leverage tons of people with. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing Roy Cohn would have taught him to do.

I fear what the results form a survey in the US would find…

I think most are designed to create a more compliant employee.

Thus is exactly it. The diploma is proof that you’re willing to play the game and become a debtor and can be squeezed - HARD - because of it.

Or, as a friend found out the reality of the situation… often employers don’t give a shit about the degree if you can do what you say you can.

Have an acquaintance that started clerking in the northeast for a small company that maintained it’s own mail server. One Windows update later, the mail server collapsed and no one could sort it. Acquaintance managed to fix it in a handful of hours and became the company IT guy.

A decade later he moves to California and finds a job running a mail server for a company doing battlefield simulations for the DOD during Desert Storm.

No degree needed, just can you keep the mail servers up and secure? Sure. No problem. Used that experience to eventually land even better jobs in IT.

Its the skill sets that matter most often. The people that focus on degrees are focusing on the leveraged nature of the fresh faced kids coming out of schools - they can be run like tops while they’re still paying off the loans. And they are.

You’re not paying for the education, you are paying teachers and university buildings/materials.

Bingo. When my mom went to the University of New Hampshire in 1962, they had one cafeteria in the Student Untion Building and the athletics was run out of a “field house” built in the 40’s and the students in dorms slept on WWII surplus cots in a room with 4 others. The amenities were sparse, to say the least.

60+ years later, it’s all spiffy amenities, a huge arena with the bells and whistles for the athletics department and shared rooms with washer/dryer hookups and a Memorial Union building that contains the restaurant/cafeterias “dining halls” now… and the cost soared once the flashy stuff was added in.

Thing is, it’s been a self-feeding spiral as schools raised prices, parents demanded more luxuries for their little darlings, so the schools went into a upgrade game with each other that took on the tint of a competition and it just furthered the pressure on the price to rise.

The education - the actual purpose of the schools - seems to have gotten lost in the game of chasing after the money.

This is part of why I’ve been telling my friends kids to aim for a trade school with an apprenticeship or journeymen’s program tied to it. Done right, the kids can come out of the school go right into paid training and be debt-free and working by the time they’re 20.

And honestly, given how shit the quality of housing built in the last few decades has been, it’s gong to be a guarantee that repair and maintenance is the wave of the future.

Sause: Have been in the Trades since 1980…

"…in a more careful tech sector, wouldn’t the system have launched with better guardrails, instead of relying on random users and journalists to flag the issue?..

Well, yeah… but Reddit has become such an algorithm-driven, profit-oriented hot mess now that shit like this slips through. The inevitable consequence of growth and hitting the level where an IPO can be launched.

OMG, yes… Poor Roman Brady on Days of Our Lives… He was made and remade - though granted, Drake Hogestyn did a bang-up job as Roman/John Black.

Good. Trump and his administration deserve to be litigated into the dirt.

Roy Cohn the clown show.

Get pictures when they arrive!