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Hard same.

UNPOSSIBLE, I know.

They’re not even good shoes. They’re orthopedic, maybe. But $145 isn’t a lot for a pair of good men’s shoes. And they look hideous.

Speaking of Massive Attack, I would also include Everything But the Girl, especially "Temperamental".

That's a quality list right there.

Turns out the answer to that was: antiques.

Hanging on the wall of my home office is an antique (1850) pistol with a wooden barrel and a spring-loaded bayonet that I bought in New Orleans after saying to my wife "I'm about to lean heavily into my Old Man Hobby." Her answer: "you already smoke all the meats, what else is left?"

One can never know too much about The Art of Noise.

Also, Seattle has Charbonnet when he gets healthy and before that there's Tory Horton.

Okay, that might be the greatest website anyone has ever linked for me.

Some, but it's mostly in their own playlists, not the ones they generate for you.

Giants' Nest - Must Have Forgotten YouTube video by Epidemic Electronic

See eg: Giants Nest.

It's exceptionally niche but: yes.

Used the cap space to keep Shaheed.

I went through a phase in law school where all I listened to was Art of Noise.

John Hurt: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Art of Noise".

And then bam! Here comes Spotify off the top rope with an old classic, Art of Noise!

Not sure I would put it in that bucket.

Great line.

I figure Pacheco's agent saw KC sign Walker yesterday and said okay, let's get out while you can still get paid somewhere.

I had an amusing one recently where one artist for whom I must be something like 50% of their monthly streams added a Seattle show date, but I was out of town. I can just see their manager: "come on, there's this one fucking guy and he'll definitely be there..."

I guess I should expand that a bit. I also listen to a bunch of Nu-Disco when I want something more upbeat.

That's a much more nuanced position than mine. I usually just know what their opinion is about immigration, because they are usually right on the cusp of flipping to full MAGA.

I respect the way Spotify has so thoroughly identified my musical niche that it is now serving me up tracks by artists who have exactly one single in their discography. When all you listen to is downtempo house, pickings are slim...

I think this person and Dr Agro are making a more subtle point than at least this person knows how: that the time savings effected by automation will inevitably be offset by rising costs of living, and so they won't manifest as what we have traditionally understood to be leisure time.

But you don't get it. This person *knows people*! Also, they are completely incapable of realizing that what other people *who they don't know so don't exist* have as spare time is time that they and/or the people they know use for a second job.

I recall one year I was in these conversations when they said things like "well that person has a spouse with cancer and this person had an organ transplant" and I remember thinking "I should never know these things about a coworker, the incentives this gives to fire sick people are unacceptable".

It's a blend of 1 and 3, is my guess.

Unless your business Japanese is flawless you're very unlikely to get a job in Japan. Sorry.

"We've researched". Speaking as someone who ran in-house Legal departments: big if true.

This is one of the bigger risks I've foreseen in the kids products space. Properly-manufactured kids products go through very extensive product safety testing. Counterfeits are usually unsafe.