Well, looks like it flew right over my head
Mo5560
joined 1 year ago
Maybe you can't but I definitely can, flawlessly. Only thing is once I close a game I have to restart the scream.
Brendan Eich
Looks like Brendan Eichmann is a wrestling coach from Minnesota
You are asking an infinitely difficult question of why she is so incredibly popular, I don't think I can tell you why she's more popular than, say, Beyoncé. Except maybe that she is more consistent. That said, I'll give you my perspective on why I like Taylor Swift.
I'm a dude and my music taste is pretty diverse but I mostly grew up listening to metal and punk. That said, when I left my ex (for the second time). It felt really good to listen to We are never ever getting back together on repeat. Most breakups I've had, had songs that have helped me through and leaving a toxic relationship... It just felt really good to repeatedly sing those words over and over.
I don't know if it's actually true but I'm a guitarist and I've heard the phrase "Taylor Swift is the Beatles of the 21st century" meaning her music releases currently have the largest impact on guitar sales and popularity. If for nothing else, I respect her a lot for performing live with a guitar. She doesn't do anything crazy but you don't have to have crazy guitar skills to make good music. I personally enjoy learning her songs every now and then because a) they are relatively straightforward to learn but still encompass nice playful elements, b) I am mostly interested in becoming a better singer nowadays and her songs are definitely challenging for me to sing.
- Both folklore and evermore are really nice albums imo. Very nice and tasteful music. Last year I had a phase where I was having trouble finding music. I was sick of extreme metal, I was sick of hardcore techno, and I listened to so much leftist folk and folk punk that I grew sick of it. All the music I listened to was always fast, intense and challenging. I just wanted nice songs that I can sing along to with real instrumentation. I realised I don't mind pop music but I like real instruments because they feel more real to me (fwiw lol, please don't take this as hatred for electronics, I also love techno as stated above). Well folklore and evermore offer just that for me. Nice songs with real instruments and beautiful instrumentation. I prefer folklore for being darker but evermore uses more guitar which I also like. My fav songs out of the 2 albums:
Folklore
- cardigan
- mirrorball
- this is me trying
- invisible string
Evermore
- willow
- champagne problems
- 'tis the damn season
I still want to express that I don't always like her lyric writing. She uses brand names a bunch and I also feel like there are often references to American things which I just don't know about.
Also, while I like folklore and evermore, I find them borderline impossible to listen to all the way through. All the songs basically strike the same mood, it's nice relaxing music, but there's not a big emotional arc throughout the albums for me. I tend to stop listening to evermore once I reach "no body, no crime"... God that song is awful lol.
Als ob es nicht schlimm genug wäre dass diese 14 jährigen Kinder mir Klassen voraus sind.
Den Schnee auf dem wir alle talwärts fahren, kennt heute jedes Kind!
I hate Spotify (I have to preface with this sentence)
But plenty of artists these days don't bother releasing CDs and MP3s and you can legitimately only stream their songs.
I know small artists who were unable to send me the files of their own songs when I asked them. They just sent me a YouTube link and told me to listen there.
Sorry for awkward sentences
Don't be sorry, you're communicating quite clearly.
And, just for the record, I do agree that the term "organic" is daft when referring to food. The term is entirely arbitrary and I wish we had a food certificate that was actually based on scientific factors (like impact on environment etc.)...
They need to have orbital hybridization
This one is often cited as a factor (because it excludes carbides like e.g. WC, TiC, TaC) but afaik it's not true. Carbon in graphite is sp2 hybridised, in diamond it's sp3 hybridised, both are explicitly excluded from the definition of organic.
Side note: I am unsure whether graphene falls under the definition of organic. Depending on how you look at it, it's just a huge aromatic molecule. Don't get me started on nanoribbons which are synthesized from organic precursors...
But I know people doing research on graphene, and I don't think they would care about that definition. It simply doesn't matter.
Side note^2: While CO_2 is also explicitly excluded from being organic, it can be used as an educt in organic reactions (e.g. Preparing Phenylacetic Acid from Benzyl chloride and CO_2)
MSc in chemistry here
Just because chemistry utilizes words and defines them with specific criteria it doesn't mean these words can not be used in other contexts with different meanings (e.g. vinyl)
Oh and you probably know, but diamond, graphite, CO~2~ and all sorts of carbonates are excluded from being organic.
The amount of times I heard about Babylon without actually learning anything about Babylon is completely wild to me.
For anyone curious:
- The Babylonian empire was located between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris in today's Iraq.
- It looks they may have invented law.
- Their writing looked quite spiky
- The hanging gardens of Babylon probably never existed (despite being one of the 7 ancient world wonders)
- Nebuchadnezzar was apparently one noteworthy ruler
- mostly tho, the city of Babylon had nice architecture and was overall quite rich.
Feel free to correct me on anything, and go as far into detail as you want.
I know people don't really value it these days, but to me there is great value in (stupidly) simple technology.
The more complicated a system is, the more prone it is to breakage. We have lots of areas in our life where we already rely on complicated circuits. I don't need to add headphones to that list.
I can't speak for everyone but I used to say "I can't drop windows because I need XYZ programs all the time".
Well turns out I don't, and turns out it's surprisingly easy to tell my employer (well my professor really, I am a PhD student) "Sorry I can't run that program, I don't have windows". If they don't accept it, they can supply me with a windows PC.