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Quite a lot of studies that we stop seeking out new music in late 20's https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/05/03/music-paralysis-as-we-age/#:~:text=Other%20studies%20suggest%20that%20music,than%20it%20does%20for%20adolescents. Think Phillip ball wrote a book on it or a chapter in a book anyway.

My own take is that while streaming music algorithms will bring up some new stuff that I give a blast on, it needs to be really good as otherwise I will actively seek out material I already know.

 

I might be an exception, depending on how it all gets parsed.  I like some new music when I hear it (some of Kneecap's better ones, and a fair few of the first two albums from Fontaines are absolute bangers, for example).  Going back a bit further, Jape's "floating" is hardly new anymore, but I was in my 40s when I first heard it, and I loved it straight away.

But, this is just stuff that's in the ether. I no longer make any effort to actively seek out new music (whereas from about 14 to 40, I couldn't wait to find new stuff).  Once you have a job and a nipper, you just don't have the time to focus on that.

[Not a patch on Lost.]

I have a problem where I can't give up on a show once I start. From is one I would love to though, same shit every season.

Not a patch on Lost.

Not really saying much.

Lost was brilliant.

I enjoyed most of Lost. 

But god I hated those bits in the later seasons from the parallel universe where the lead male and lead female were living together in US suburbia.  Complete f**king soap opera. 

To make matters worse, somehow my missus always managed to walk by when, and only when, those bits were on, and she would look at me like, 'what the f**k are you watching?'

Almost all US govt aid disbursement ordered to stop (I bet you can't guess which recipient country is an exception. Hint: not Ukraine).   "Contracting officers and grant officers needed to "immediately issue stop-work orders."

https://www.ft.com/content/45fc5347-7f2c-4a99-9d4e-e561eb5a9285

So, that'd be a No on Ukraine, Eamon.

Yeah, let's go with that.

It's by the guys who made Lost.  So I wouldn't expect a satisfying narrative arc.

Really enjoyed the first season. Bailed after 3 episodes of season 2, didn't seem to be going anywhere.

Doubt I'd know 3 of his songs.

So, you think he's a felon, or you don't?

Very simple question.

It doesn't matter what I think....He has 34 felony convictions so yes, that (technically) makes him a felon.

BUT the case was a bunch of complete and utter nonsense-he got completely railroaded by a partisan Democratic prosecutor and a corrupt judge in a trial that was held in a city where 86.7 % of voters voted for his opponent

It's an internet forum. To the extent that anything we discuss matters, it actually does matter what you think.

If I have it correct, you think Trump is (technically) a felon, but shouldn't be.  Is that right?

So, you think he's a felon, or you don't?

Very simple question.

Any chance you could answer the question?

If your definition of him being a criminal is the verdict in the NY case-my answer is no

That case was a steaming heap of horse manure that should never have been taken never mind prosecuted

Do I think he committed other criminal acts-yes I do (but this cringey and cutesy "convicted felon" nonsense repeated by the Democrats during the campaign actually hurt them imho)

Any chance you could answer the question?

If your definition of him being a criminal is the verdict in the NY case-my answer is no

That case was a steaming heap of horse manure that should never have been taken never mind prosecuted

Do I think he committed other criminal acts-yes I do (but this cringey and cutesy "convicted felon" nonsense repeated by the Democrats during the campaign actually hurt them imho)

So, you think he is (or should be) a felon,but it's "cutesy" to say that he is. 

OK.

Off to see the Knicks for the nippers birthday in just over two weeks. Glad they're good again. Would've been child abuse in the '00s.

Any chance you could answer the question?

FFS, it's abundantly clear that Trump broke the law.  It's not like he's not done it before (just ask any of his unpaid contractors), but this time he was convicted.  He's a felon, plain and simple. Democratic prosecutor or no, is irrelevant to the legal issue.

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/make-no-mistake-the-trump-case-was-an-unprecedented-application-of-the-law/amp/

It was joke from stat to finish and probably cost the Democrats the election

77 M people who voted for him obviously see it differently to you

The f**k would anyone care whether Trump voters think he broke the law?  He said himself he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and no-one would care.

Do you think Trump isn't a criminal?

FFS, it's abundantly clear that Trump broke the law.  It's not like he's not done it before (just ask any of his unpaid contractors), but this time he was convicted.  He's a felon, plain and simple. Democratic prosecutor or no, is irrelevant to the legal issue.

Politician politicises political position.