There’s a pragmatic reason too. Power lines and transformers need constant maintenance. When the line fails somewhere, it’s easier to access when you don’t have to dig, and also less disruptive.

Also, they’re up high because people in general are dumb af and will fuck with them if they’re within reach.

They’re reminding you to please not pollute.

Trying to think if I know anyone who’d get this joke right away…

Could it be this?

Internet person here. Can confirm.

I spent a couple decades as a professional musician, and so I learned my way around a lot of instruments. I’d say bass is my best though - it’s absolutely my favorite. I’m not Thundercat but I’ll lay down rock grooves for you all week long.

That the thing I’ve been after my entire life but couldn’t identify or articulate was, in fact, autonomy.

This, after growing up in a house full of overbearing, hypercritical family members, willingly entering into a marriage with someone who treated me like property, being micromanaged, and taught that the key to happiness lies in pleasing others, and living in quiet desperation and letting it build and build until I finally imploded and ended up institutionalized.

In the process of rebuilding my life I made a few mistakes, namely going back to a few of those relationships and trying to make new relationships fit that mold. At least this time I had a little self awareness though. I decided to end all of those relationships and start living on my own terms. And that was when the epiphany hit that this was the autonomy I’ve been craving - and had been denied - my whole life.

I’m way happier now.

Letting her know I like her by launching my eyeballs out of their sockets and dropping my tongue completely to the floor.

edit: Forgot the old-timey car horn sound.

arOOOOgah!

I am a nondescript thing that moves through time and space without attracting attention.

Lived in a little shit town where everyone was in your business, coupled with a nanny ass school principal who felt is was his duty to society to parent every kid in the school himself.

Me and another kid got detention for fighting.

At my house.

On a Saturday.

I heard on AM radio that opening doors is woke now so I just repeatedly crash into them until someone else opens it, and then I shove my way past and say, “thanks libtard.”

The short answer is, yes, you can accept an arguments logic and reject it as a rebuttal for said argument. In doing so, however, it’s good practice to critically think about how the logic is applied for both the argument and the counterargument.

With this particular example, I see the parallels being drawn as faulty. The way AI constructs music is not the same method used by DJ’s, and both arguments are oversimplified and show a lack of understanding how either works.

“DJ’s sample and rip off other artists.”

DJing was an established practice for decades as a means of broadcasting music, and artists were (and still are) compensated for those broadcasts through royalties collected by PRO’s. There are laws in place that protect the artist and spell out instances of “fair use” in sampling. DJ’s in the 70’s and 80’s began to elevate the practice to a performance art, which led to the evolution of several new musical genres, but they all still function within that legal framework. So maybe people did in fact say this to disparage what DJ’s do, but it’s incorrect.

“AI music samples and rips off other artists.”

It would be a stretch to say that the way in which data is fed to an AI/LLM qualifies as “sampling” in its commonly understood sense. However, given that the music being used to train AI’s is used without the consent of the artist, without compensation, with the aim of copying or mimicking the style or brand of an artist, sometimes even down to a single musician’s timbre and/or mannerisms, there are serious legal issues that must be addressed. So while I can take issue with some of the semantics of the statement, I can agree with its spirit.

So I’d say this: maybe instead of thinking of it a “drawing a line,” think of it as ensuring that both arguments are being supported by statements grounded in reality.

Rose

IYKYK

I feel like you just described those Nerds gummies.

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I will buy more pasta sauce.

2029

When I worked nights at my current job I could go into any of the back offices and get in a good 2-3 hours of sleep each night if I wanted. At one point I got a talking to for not being “on camera” for too long but they could never prove what I was doing so it was just a warning and not a write-up.

I work day shift now so I can’t do that anymore, but I’m also getting better sleep so I don’t really have to.

The short answer is no. But if I were to die today, I wouldn’t be afraid. I’d be angry.

In my mid 50’s I’ve just started living my best life after decades of being pushed around and doing what I thought I “should” do to be happy and make everyone else happy. So I want to enjoy this. And I also have a young son and I want to make sure I get to see him grow up and be able to impart a little wisdom to him before I go.

That being said, death doesn’t scare me. My body is aging, slowing down, getting more high-maintenance and I can see a point in the future where I’m going to get sick of it and want out of it. I think that’s natural and right. A death at the end of a full, well-lived life is not tragic. It’s beautiful and good. Death is tragic when it comes too soon and deprives you of realizing your full potential.

I am currently realizing my full potential and having fun for once. I’d like to bask in this for a little while longer if that’s okay with the universe.