Oh Lord, stuck in ol Lodi again.

It is in his nature. He is greedy. He is cheap. He is crap.

It has always been about money for the labels, but they at least used to take risks, and find new talented bands, develop them, and promote them. But it’s riskier and takes a lot more work. An artist needs a minimum of about 10,000 hours of experience before they’re studio ready, and the whole band needs to be at that level. If they find someone new and unique at that level, they still need to develop them as performers, and get them prepared to play big gigs, tour, work together in a studio, etc… It’s much easier for them to find someone attractive who knows some dance moves, and have them perform studio written songs based on proven profitable beats.

The point is that you don’t need to think you’re special, or have some unique arrogance to think that you don’t drain people’s batteries. Younger extroverts have no awareness that there are people who get drained through human interactions.

Because there’s more money in it, and everything is all about money now.

He didn’t play music of the era at the dance. He would go back to 1994 and play something from today. But music hasn’t really evolved since then, so nobody would be shocked. He’d end up doing some dance number while lip-syncing a studio written pop song.

Edit: ah you’re talking about when he first starts playing Chuck Berry with the band. I was thinking about the end of the performance when he slips into playing heavy metal and freaks everyone out.

I remember thinking that I wasn’t happy everyone was comparing him to Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, saying he joined the 27 club. The fact that he killed himself felt like an exclusionary detail.

Not everyone feels drained by talking to people. I’d say most people don’t. Some people, a lot of people actually, get energized talking with people.

You can’t get groceries delivered in California?

But then you forget to put that back in the trunk too.

Yeah it’s really dumb. They got rid of the thin bags, and replaced them with bags that use 20x more plastic. I guess people are supposed to reuse those, but very few people do. Their big brain idea was to use 20x more plastic to stop all the plastic waste.

Eh, it’s not so great trying to dispose of all the boxes, plus all the excess packaging from Costco trips. My recycling bin is completely full after a Costco trip, and it takes forever to break everything down and dispose of it.

In my experience, it’s resulting in bags that use much more plastic being disposed of, instead of the thin plastic bags they used to use.

I’m old enough to remember when plastic bags became available in grocery stores. People didn’t trust them, so they had displays at the entrances showing the bags holding heavy things, like several two liter soda bottles. They pushed so hard for plastic, saying that it would save the environment, and now they’re pushing even harder saying it’ll destroy the environment.

Cells, within cells, within cells.

I have gigabit internet. It doesn’t suck for anything except Teams.

I never had any issues with Zoom or Slack. They do what they’re supposed to do. Jira is fine too, but I’m not a PM, so I don’t have to deal with anything other than the Kanban board.

Edit: I guess it’s relevant that I’m on a MacBook Pro, and not a Windows machine.

Teams is the worst product Microsoft has released since IE.