Oh, now that's *very* musical!

Bought it on Bandcamp after listening once, which is rare for me :-)

{chomp! chomp!}
... and the world carries on without a pair of nonce bastards.

I think AI probably has a place as the uninhibited person in a brainstorming session where "there is no such thing as a stupid question or idea".

I still remember when it was -14°C in Cumbria, getting into a diesel Peugeot so efficient that it took 20 minutes to warm up the engine.

It wasn't actually painful grabbing the steering wheel, but it was close :-)

Bizarre. I mean their business model seems to involve taking card payments, so I'd expect them to make that bit easy :-)

"The art of the possible" ;-)

They're too busy solving "I want a refrigerator that spies on us, shows the family adverts in our own kitchen, and will probably fail when a cloud server goes down".

That's been a sales ploy, ever since nobody asked "Could we have razors we have to throw away?" and nobody asked "Can we have bottles with metal tops that can never be put back on?"

Yes. With a nod to Taxman, not the finest song but a proper poke at 1960s UK taking 95% tax on high earnings!

I bought it on CD (original version, not remastered) without knowing all the tracks, because I wanted to hear Tomorrow Never Knows as it was back in the day.

I heard covers by Phil Collins, Steve Marcus and Monsoon with Sheila Chandra before I heard the original!

So foreign peops are scared of a finger wagging from our OSA?

Oh dear, oh dear...

Mullvad :-)

Have you read Doctorow's Enshittification?
For decades, USA has been dismantling protection against corporate monopolies and the damage they can do.

Now, surprise! USA has monopolies so powerful they distort politics, the law, and even people's ability to see what is happening around them.

Some of the best people I know have USA passports. And some of the worst.

Distillation is a good metaphor, because it separates fractions of the mix.

This isn't 'left' vs 'right' to me. The cooperative fraction, the kind that actually built the modern USA, are ignored, and vandals rule :-(

Maybe not the usual, but Zeppelins had engines...

Alt txt: Autobahn by Kraftwerk. Painted motorway leading off into the distance, with a Mercedes going one way and a classic BW Beetle going the other.

I was going to say something similar--we brainfucked ourselves, while China quietly got on with getting better at producing useful stuff.

For me, the jury is still out on whether AI can do even one quarter of what is promised by the guys riding the AI money-go-round, but I have my doubts.