True. Mad Men is not centered around physical violence.

Hard to be sure he’s interested without an app. /s

One problem everyone is facing–from music to TV to movies to books to videogames–is people have accessto the full history of awesome media. Who is going to watch a new TV show these days when they could be watching The Wire, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, ALF, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc. for the first time?

I’d say it’s here that sitcoms have a real chance to shine, because, as you’ve said, most sitcoms have not aged well–the aforementioned ALF being a notable example–and even an ephemeral modern sitcom can compete in that space.

• AI music can only exist because artists exist, SE we need to keep paying artists enough to keep working

You’re wrong about that. Plenty of people do music as a hobby. There will always be more content to scrape. Expecting the system to crash because nobody plays music anymore is unrealistic.

Be warned that all styles of music are getting AI inserted into them.

Your method works as long as you never use an algorithm to mix your playlist, but as soon as you do, you’re likely to get an AI track inserted into your ears, even if it’s 70s classic rock.

Have you done it? Let’s make a Lemmy on it. I’m explicitly thinking of doing this as a project at an open mic night.

The problem with cities is exactly the reason I’d want to move there: cars. I don’t want to be tied to cars, car payments, car traffic, car repairs. The only way to get out of that is to move to the city, where I can walk, ride, or take public transit.

Problem: I’m always constantly less than 5 feet away from a fucking road and fucking cars in a city, I hear them when I’m awake and when I’m asleep–there is no escaping cars in a city.

Reality: I’d rather be in a car than next to one if those are my only two options.

We need to get cars the fuck out of cities and give people real choices.

If you have a lot of friends to pick from, you can probably have someone return your call in a pretty short amount of time… that’s nice because you never feel like a burden to anyone. But why should reaching out to a friend feel like a risky proposition that you have to manage?

Yeah, I really wonder about the mentality of people that would read that article and not wonder “what’s actually going on.” Like shit just kinda happens and we measure it when it does?

Total lack of social/ecoomic context as I’d expect from PM.

BTW - This was the comment I found most helpful in this thread. Thank you.

Middle-aged with middle-aged friends. I’ve definitely had friction with friends who get married and only want to hang out with married friends and then, later, childed friends who only want to hang out with other childed couples.

But I think everything you’re talking about falls under the “friend group of convenience”. I’m talking about a real connection with an individual person that transcends that.

We’re supposed to have evolved to have maybe 100 relationships max in our entire lives. I think now that we are surrounded by a sea of people with nothing particular tying us to any of them, nobody is worth putting the effort into because they could just easily drift away–change jobs, get married, move, find another group of friends, etc.

Online dating is the perfect embodiment of this. Nobody wants to commit because of this itch that there’s someone better out there.

I’m a deep & dark type; it’s hard to find people who want to go there–that’s why Oprah is so hugely popular.

I agree that a real friendship is not about mutual convenience…

I don’t find that a particulary satisfying definition, and doubt an up-to-date Alan Turing would either.

“Can machines think?" and at this point, the clear answer is yes they can.

To paraphrase Jordan Peterson, “define think.”

You think Law & Order (all of them) are networks “taking a chance”?

No need to argue the obvious.

Or just take over a sub and ban your enemies, but keep a token few for your mob to bury in downvotes so they look crazy.