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Old 06-09-2022, 08:31 PM   #911 (permalink)
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What'd he do? Punch you in the nuts?
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 06-09-2022, 09:30 PM   #912 (permalink)
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What'd he do? Punch you in the nuts?
Yeah, actually he did punch me in the nuts. It's called 4′33
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Old 06-09-2022, 09:45 PM   #913 (permalink)
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I'm not even a Cage stan but I do appreciate that malding over 4'33 is the ultimate litmus test for boomer music fans.
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Old 06-10-2022, 10:06 AM   #914 (permalink)
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I'm not even a Cage stan but I do appreciate that malding over 4'33 is the ultimate litmus test for boomer music fans.
If it's boomer to hate that...piece, then I'm a boomer. It's what a 14 year old thinks is deep.

Anyway, the Environment...

For all the carping about how unions force people to join, then use their dues for political purposes, it seems the utilities have been doing just that to stall renewables.

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The argument that has dominated this discussion so far has been about consumers’ rights. Ratepayers have been “captive” to the industry, the senators wrote in a joint letter to FERC, and the trade associations use their money to “lobby for policies that frequently run counter to ratepayers’ interests.” These policies might include the right to build unnecessary power plants (the costs of which get passed on to ratepayers) and to impose extra charges on customers who use solar panels. This is a timely argument, given that millions of households have fallen behind on their utility bills since the pandemic began, and many face the threat of having their power, water, and gas shut off.
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The biggest thing for me is his repetitiveness but whenever he goes off on the imagery of capital's metamorphoses or sassy takedowns of classical economists, it's good ****.
Yeah that can be amazing once you read long enough to get into that repetitive groove. Hard to sustain, too, when he goes off on a quantifying tangent that you're too bad at math to follow.
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Look, can't you just let me ****ing hate John Cage?
He doesn’t have sufficient substance to hate. Boredom is a more appropriate reaction.
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Old 06-15-2022, 08:52 AM   #917 (permalink)
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Old 06-16-2022, 12:52 AM   #918 (permalink)
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4'33 is the only classical worth bothering with
What are you trying to say? That your attention span is limited to 4 Mins 33 seconds ?

Wonder how you’d cope with an entire weekend which is how long it takes to perform Wagner’s Ring Cycle ?
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Old 06-16-2022, 11:55 AM   #919 (permalink)
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He's a contrarian.
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He helps bring diversity of opinion when it's bad take o'clock.
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