From now on, whenever I see “AI”, I will parse the text as referring to Actual Indians

Go right ahead, provided you also refer to the Whitehouse construction project as the Epstein Ballroom

One can hope

Epstein Fury*

I refuse to call it by any other name.

Any era where music is released as part of albums, I guess.

I wanted to mention rush, but I couldn’t narrow it down to one album.

On a related note, I got tickets to see Rush next year, as I figured it’ll be my last chance.
I decided to treat myself:

That’s as close to the stage as I could justify with my paycheck. Closer is ridiculously priced, even by ticketmonster standards.

I’d argue that you got the band and the reason right, but with the wrong album. Chaosphere. Not as djenty as their later albums, but the seeds and saplings are clearly there.

Plus every metal drummer I knew back then tried to learn New Millennium Cyanide Christ.

Seconding Rubber Soul. In the same way Pantera managed to separate metal from the glam, Beatles separated pop/rock from the campiness of earlier and contemporary bands.

Yeah, percussive is a better word. And not in a typical funk-style slap bass either.

My guess was that it started the east coast rap scene with the kind of sound I later would recognized from some other artists.

While I can guess why, I’m not experienced enough with rap, hip, hop, or any combination of the three to be an authority on this, so could explain what makes the album hugely important?

I’d say for the same reason I posted Hendrix earlier: Primus deserves to be on the list because nobody had played a bass like that before.

While nobody else has (to my knowledge) gone full Claypool, using the bass partly as a rythm instrument has left its mark on many other basists.

My suggestions:

• Boston (self titled) pretty much transformed how music was produced, using the studio as an instrument.
• Jimi Hendrix - “Are you Experienced”. Because a guitar had never been played like that before.
• Nirvana - “Nevermind”. Arguably not the first grunge album, but it pretty much put the final nail in the coffin of 80’s music.

Honorable mention: Pantera - “Cowboys from Hell” finally moved metal beyond fluffy hair and leather pants that had saturated the genre for too long, and effectively ended the glam era.

Excluding the IT aspect of my job, I am unable to walk past a ship without thoroughly examining its mast to see which antennae it has and determine the capabilities.

Some tidbits I’ve noticed:

• A HF radio is popular, despite the ship otherwise not being rated for areas where HF radios are required.
• Older EPIRBs are indestructible provided that the battery and the hydrostatic release units are changed on schedule. I still see models around that are decades old.
• Starlink is seeing more and more offshore use, but nobody is getting rid of their VSAT.
• Iridium is starting to make a dent in the amount of Inmarsat-C installations after Iridium became approved for GMDDS.
• Fleet77 is gone. Haven’t seen it in ages.

I instance hopped for a while, just to test things out, really. Feddit.nl is alright, except people kept assuming I was dutch (although, I’ve been called worse things)

Well, it was simple, as my previous user, neidu2, had a long history of posts/comments, most of which I believe aren’t that trashy. Or maybe the perfect level of trashy for SJW, idk.

After reaching out and proving I was human, the admins agreed to activate my account manually so I didn’t have to enter a valid email address.

I’m using paid Kagi subscription, and it makes searching for stuff feel like it used to before Big Tech broke the internet. I can actually find what I’m looking for again.

The “SlopStop” feature is worth it alone, but I love how I can choose what types of results and sources to prioritize.

10/10 Highly recommended.

This is gonna leave a Guinness World Record level of a power vacuum if the higher-ups continue to die at this rate. I wouldn’t gamble on any named successor still being alive, since this seems like a decapitation strike.

I’m getting word that the people celebrating his killing are being shot by Iranian military in the street, not sure how credible it is.

I’d say it’s pretty credible, considering they’ve already been shot at for weeks.