Depends on the song. Some of their stuff is definitely country-ish, like Desperado.

But then they have songs like Life's Been Good that are more psychedelic rock. Hell, even Hotel California has a strong argument to be called psychedelic given the subject matter, the rich metaphors, and the bitchin guitar solo

The rap/R&B scene today is in the same spot rock was in the 80's during the peak of the hair metal era. 95% of it is low-effort iterative trash just copying and riffing on each other circularly like some sort of shitty music ouroboros.

Just like the Hair Metal era eventually collapsed under its own weight and gave rise to grunge and alt-rock, I wonder what's going to replace the current age of shitty low effort rap?

It's definitely a unique niche. I do IT work on ships, so there's never "just bum in seat" time- if I'm at work, I'm going hard between the physicality of scrambling up and down ladders all day and the mental work of typical IT stuff.

But, my boss is the total opposite of a clock-watcher. If my work is done, I go home. He doesn't give a shit if it's 4PM yet, if I finish at 11AM, I go home at 11AM

all three have had their engines out at one point

TBF, that doesn't necessarily mean the engine is unreliable- part of the problem is just that with a Boxer engine a lot of jobs that can normally be done in the car end up requiring you to remove the engine because of the form factor

I'm salaried, and I would say I spend at least half of every year working 25-30 hours a week. Then during the busy sections I'll work 40, with a couple weeks of 50-55 sprinkled in here and there.

All in all there are less than 6 weeks a year where I work over 40, compared to at least 25 a year where I work way less.

Well, yeah, because the average published film critic is a retard. Journalism has been dead for at least 50 years, what can you expect

Increasing production would require building more plants, which would include more storage. We can't just press a button to run our current ones harder, and it's way more economical to build new plants than to try to upgrade existing ones

Yeah, the book is just as satirical as the movie. The difference is that the book is really subtle about it, whereas the movie is comically overt.

Anyone who unironically thinks Heinlein was a fascist is a moron. His books were some of the first science fiction works to openly paint racism as one of the great evils in our society, and in several stories advocated for the abolition of nation-states. He also wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, which is the most hippy-free-love book ever published.

Pheonix's performance was god-tier, and the set/costume/prop design was amazing. Gotta give it credit for a fantastic job of creating a dingy, depressed, real-feeling Malaise era Gotham.

Everything else was, as you said, meh.

Shawshank Redemption.

It's an absolutely fantastic movie. Great acting, script, cinematography, the works. Easily one of the best movies of the 90s.

But it's not the best movie ever made, which is the general hype around it at this point, so by definition it's overrated.

I'm already 6'4" and I work on ships.

4 more inches and I would be looking for a new job, because fuck being 6'8" on a ship.

I do a lot of eastern european cooking, so probably some goulash or pelmeni or stroganoff or something.

I don't particularly like either of them, but shitty hospitality isn't going to change or improve anything, so I may as well be pleasant and see what some dinner conversation can get me.

Depends on the preference.

Wanting your partner (and eventually/possibly your kids) to look like you and have similar life experiences to you is perfectly normal, nothing racist about that.

Fetishizing another race (IE, a white dude that's only interested in dating asian women) is where it gets racist. Or, the inverse of that, if you say "I'll date anyone except race X", yeah that's racist.

Offshoring was tried before and it failed.

Because if there's one thing corporate upper management is known for, it's learning from their mistakes.

And speaking as someone who's worked from home for a good chunk of their career, I don't think the slide in productivity is caused by lack of mentoring or management. People are stressed out and depressed as shit because they still have to work and pay bills but for a year and a half they haven't been able to do any of the things they enjoy. No shit motivation is gonna slip when most of the country is only able to live the shitty parts of their lives without any of the positive parts.

No, I'm just pointing out that fucking over CSX is functionally not an option, unless you want half the country to starve. So that means we need to build new track and new stations, and then we're right back to fucking over John Q. Homeowner.

Maybe passenger rail is worth building in the US (personally I don't think it makes sense in most of the country because our population centers are 10x as spread out as Europe or Asia's). But there's no magic "if we just did X everything would be great!". There are massive costs and downsides to every solution, and if you rush into a solution without considering them you're going to cause a disaster.

I just want to flip it and have Amtrak own all the rail in the country, prioritize passenger service, and lease the remaining usage to freight companies.

Then how are you going to feed the 90% of the country that relies on efficient rail freight for food, fuel, and consumer goods? You can't just "have our existing system prioritize passenger service", it's already near capacity. And every alternative shipping service is so much less efficient than rail freight that switching would be an ecological disaster. You kill rail freight and all those goods end up on trucks, which are dozens of times less efficient.

We're in a massive labor shortage.

Ehhhhh... not really. There are hundreds of thousands of jobs sitting unfilled, but almost all of them are bullshit minimum wage food and retail jobs no one can make a living on. Those aren't the ones that would be getting shipped to India. The ones we would be losing are the sysadmins, netops, account managers, and positions like that which people can actually use to support a family.

The American middle class is already dying, we can't afford to lose any more of the gateways for people to climb up into it.

A true, full blown cyberpunk arcology. A self-contained city within one massive building. Homes, shops, schools, factories, hospitals, all under one roof with internal transit and infrastructure.

So many of our current day problems are solved by an arcology, because it drastically reduces the need for shipping and transportation.

Surely this is unsustainable in the long run and would lead to its own set of issues.

Not really, actually. A: breeder reactors can reuse spent fuel, and B: even normal reactors don't produce nearly as much fuel as you think they do. The whole "bUt WhAt aBoUt tHe WasTe?!?" concern is mostly coal industry propaganda- most of our nuclear plants have enough on-site storage for the next thousand years.

Because the US environmentalist scene is dominated by hippies, and hippies are easily manipulated drugged out unwashed retards.

Decades of propaganda (paid for by the coal industry naturally) have them completely programmed to hate anything involving nuclear power, no matter how safe.

The problem is that remote work is going to backfire as soon as companies realize that a job that can be done in another state can also be done in India for $2/hour

Yeah, except the rich aren't the ones who get hurt by eminent domain landgrabs. They have the connections to know its coming ahead of time and offload their property that's in the path.

The people you would fuck over are a bunch of middle class working families who saved their whole lives for that house you so gleefully want to bulldoze.

I don't know how well it permeated to the tiny mountain villages, but I know we built several hundred schools, several in every city and decent sized town

No, in most of the West the government is controlled by the media