I prefer it this way. The point of a new account is to lose the tail.

These are the worst possible wall plugs you could buy. Toss them and get better ones. I only use Fischer DuoPowers myself.

I have no idea what you are you hoping to achieve by coming here trying to insult me other than to advertise to everyone what a mean jerk you are.

I’m sorry that you’re in pain but I’m not the cause for it nor does hurting others make you feel any better.

What are you even saying? You arguing against my subjective experience as if you could possibly know better?

The thing is that there are very few bands that I like. I like individual tracks from multiple bands but rarely I stumble upon one that has more than one good song. If I randomly pick 1000 songs from my playlists there’s probably well over 900 individual artists there.

YouTube does a half decent job at recommending me music I like - much better than Spotify at least, but even then it constantly reguires me to get up and go change a track which is exactly the thing I don’t want to do when I put up music playing in the background while doing something else.

Those black dots are there for a reason too: they even out the heat difference between the black “primer” that the glue sticks to and the clear glass thus preventing cracking due to thermal expansion.

Maribou State, Emancipator, Bonobo, Parov Stelar, Wintergatan, Seven Beats, Nigel Stanford …

There aren’t that many artists that I know more than one good song from. My playlists are filled with individual tracks from artists whose name I can’t even remember. The ones I listed are the exceptions that came to mind.

Your made-up cartoon image of me does.

can you not hear the noise and artifacts in the vocals?

No. Just like I can’t tell the difference between 1080p and 4K. It also has no effect on my enjoyment of the movie.

I do detect the empty vocals but I prefer instrumental anyway. Also, this is the worst it’ll ever be and it’s already this good.

I can recognize something as good even if I don’t personally like it. I’m not claiming that everyone will like all of the AI music in existence - I’m claiming that it has everything going for it that we expect from good music. Pretending that it’s all bad just because it’s made with AI as many people do is disingenuous.

I’m quite careful with my choice of words and that was a deliberate one.

Humans are just as good at detecting AI music as we’re at detecting toupees: the bad ones stand out and the rest go undetected. Most of AI-made music is indistinguishable from organic ones purely based on the sound of it and the claim that a track is shit is often only applied retroactively after people learn it was made with AI. It’s an emotional reaction and thus not an objective one.

there is such an incredibly large pool of great music I haven’t even heard yet

This is also true but it’s a separate point. If someone was able to come up with a tool that could find all that music for me to listen to then I’d be all for it but currently the only way to discover that is what I stated above: sift through a mountain of junk to find the few gems hidden in between. Sometimes I just want to listen to good music instead of just remaining perpetually on the hunt for it.

Right. Well add cynicism to the list of reasons why this place is so depressing.

It’s a bit incoherent to criticize me for both not revealing the platform and advertising it in the same sentence.

That is 100% engagement bait. That user will not change their mind, none ever do.

Maybe, but it’s interesting to see them engaging with the immense pushback they’re getting. They might not change their mind, but it definitely gives me insight into what’s actually going on in the mind of a person like that. Nine times out of ten a post like that immediately devolves into personal attacks and name-calling, and no sane person wants to take part in that. I find this vastly more productive.

In my view, true moral virtue isn’t simply being “nice” or harmless by default. Real virtue lies in recognizing your own capacity for darkness, cruelty, or harm - and then consciously choosing not to act on it. It’s the deliberate decision to be kind, honest, or compassionate even though you could do otherwise.

A person who doesn’t steal because they’re afraid of getting caught isn’t good. Person who thinks they could get away with it but decides against it is.

It’s not about the behaviour itself but about what motivates it. It’s possible to be right for the wrong reasons.