Most people who you think are smart, they got that way through hard work.

They did what their teachers told them and they learned how to learn. They learned how to work hard.

They apply skills and that manifests as creativity.

Intelligence is not always innate

I saw a commercial for something and it said FDIC insured and all I could think was

yeah how long is that gonna last?

Trump creates task force for 2028 Los Angeles Olympics President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to create a task force to oversee the LA Olympics, and he's putting himself in charge of it.

BOYCOTT

1. They’re gonna test every female athlete to make sure they are not transgender.
2. He is going to use the National Guard for security.
3. He will use this as an opportunity to significantly impact the foundation of our sanctuary city.

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Keep calm all is well.

It’s the equivalent of singing as you walk to your execution

Please just boycott the Olympics

I do think that we need to set a meme

Trump
Jump

I love that moment when people are confronted with the reality that I am transgender

Because they realize I am not at all stereotype

I am beautiful and I am fierce and I am strong

I am a punk rock bitch

I am trans

People often think that Van Halen is a metal band.

But they weren’t really

They were a combination of punk and metal that hit so hard in a time when music was changing.

I was the first kid on my block literally to own a Van Halen album.

Van Halen 1 was a wrecking ball

Fun fact. The title was inspired when Dave saw a news story about a man threatening to jump off a roof.

Sing it loud, people

Sing it outside the White House

Single Stories: Van Halen, “Jump” | Rhino 35 years ago this week, Van Halen made their debut on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single that remains the band’s top-selling effort of all time.

Until Sammy Hagar came along, Jump was by far the weakest Van Halen song.

It had been in development for a while, and Dave hated it.

It’s cute and it’s catchy, but it doesn’t SAY a damn thing.

Not when compared to, “Ain’t talking ‘bout love”

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YouTube video by Van Halen Van Halen - Jump (Official Music Video) [HD]

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YouTube video by Van Halen Van Halen - Jump (Official Music Video) [HD]

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The hidden cost is that persons will not seek to improve their lives through education, which is the most proven Democratic way to do so.

Public schools and institutions of higher learning are being harmed by this in a big way.

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I did learn something from this guy

For me, I don’t want to sacrifice my music to make it popular or to fit.

I am not a perfect reproduction from a mold. I molded myself.

But if I can use this tool to help me … create the drum sound … then change it so that it is me. Possible starting point?

I do not know how to program drums into my DAW. I am absolutely not going to trust AI to come up with drum beats that fit my music.

I need to struggle to create

Just pushing a button, not creation, no inspiration it’s manipulation.

If you want to teach me how to use AI to facilitate my music hmu

Your comment about Spotify making it easier for people to make music is telling. And I disagree with your thesis that implies most people who are trying to make music are out to make money.

Music is about passion. It’s not about a bottom line.

You’re very articulate and very self congratulatory on your participation in this program. Congratulations.

Meta and Google = sleaze. I don’t trust them with my data and I’m certainly not going to offer myself up as a sacrifice so they can develop an AI / anything

Good. Both are Meta products.

Of course it is more active. They are farming YOU to train their AI.

AI is mundane and geared towards the average person

It is sad that anyone with something to say would consider themselves average

I’ve been in one of those “this bitch thinks too much” moods.

I have two problems with AI. First, it is biased and second it is not often correct

It focuses on the middle of the road and what is popular and acceptable to most people, especially creatively. It is quite literally boring.

It is quite literally the hit maker software. Reducing music to an equation of what people would like.

I write my own music.
I like it.
I hope other people like it.
I’m not going to prostitute the integrity of my music just to be popular.

Corporate rock still sucks

Terminator (it is a perfect movie)
Kingsman (the 1st one)
Die Hard aka The Christmas special
Captain America, the first Avenger
T2

Are we all gonna have to go to Canada to get a vaccine?

Hellfire on Earth: Operation MEETINGHOUSE The first B-29s over Tokyo were pathfinders. Coming in over the target from opposite directions, the pathfinders dropped their payload, which immediately burst into flames. The pathfinder's job now do...

This is not Hiroshima.
This is Tokyo
110,000 dead
1 million homeless
16 mi.² razed
250k buildings destroyed
March 1945
American casualties under 100

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Hellfire on Earth: Operation MEETINGHOUSE The first B-29s over Tokyo were pathfinders. Coming in over the target from opposite directions, the pathfinders dropped their payload, which immediately burst into flames. The pathfinder's job now do...

The Hiroshima attack was not an anomaly in the scale of civilian deaths in Japan.

In March 1945, (5 months prior to Hiroshima), 110,000 were killed in operation Meetinghouse, fire bombing Tokyo

The simple calculus:
1 plane, 1 bomb, 1 city

There was no way to fight back against that.

Hellfire on Earth: Operation MEETINGHOUSE The first B-29s over Tokyo were pathfinders. Coming in over the target from opposite directions, the pathfinders dropped their payload, which immediately burst into flames. The pathfinder's job now do...

Over 100,000 civilians died in 1 raid of Tokyo

Much of the Japanese population believed the atrocities they would face at the hands of the Americans made death a preferable option.

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Japan marks 80th anniversary of atomic bombing in Hiroshima As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.

80 years ago on this day
The bomb code named “Little Boy” was dropped from the Enola Gay.

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He is counting on her being too afraid of his reaction to go to the police.

Sue him in small claims court change the locks and start looking for a new place to live

I think that perhaps there should be a worldwide boycott of the Olympics

I think it would be lovely to hold the Olympics in Canada or Scotland

Oh my God, I was just thinking the same thing.

Clearly, her body doesn’t produce enough progesterone

You don’t negotiate with terrorists

And the GOP is using terror