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- DaveO18
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Really getting back into dance music. Fucking love it.
I started going to Nowadays in Queens on Sunday mornings for the early sessions. I get up at 6am, in the club by 7am, a little smoke, a little weirdness for a few hours and back home.
I'm 43 and really am comfortable being the older guy in the club – more than i thought. Its funny how even after 30 years of going to raves, it still has the same appeal. Nowadays has a no phone policy which is amazing and actually makes the place feel timeless. The BPMs are faster than they used to be, and there are more trans folks around than there were in the north of England in the late 90s but on the whole, its comforting to know that people are still dancing in dark rooms to pounding dance music.
- https://www.youtube.…pango
- 6am getting up to dance... Woah!!OBBTKN
- https://nowadays.nyc… ?
Sweet.
You go girl / boy.ideaist - Respect._me_
- *high five*Akagiyama
- My daughter has started going to raves (doofs now) and is really into EDM. The stuff they listen to is pretty dope, producers like Restricted and Schrotthagen.slappy
- love thiscanoe
- This actually makes me want to try going to a club at 7am.fattymcgrizzle
- Are you going sober? Or wake and bake and shake?_niko
- That's great. There's been a big daytime rave / over 30s rave thing here in Ireland for the last couple of years.mort_
- Back to the old skool with no phones in the air, just dancing and enjoying the music.microkorg
- The DJ HELL and Sandwell District morning sets at Nowadays a few months back were absolutely epic!moogchild
- daytime dancing? shit yeah! go git 'embezoar
- I've got friends that go to day raves. Specifically targetted at the old skool crowdmicrokorg
- Old people day rave sounds awesome! Party before sunset, and still in bed by 9pm? Fuck yeah.Akagiyama
- Straight edge partying intrigues me...ideaist
- that little smoke takes off the edge...or gives u the edge...neverscared
- as long as u stay in the groove both works...neverscared
- Wake and bake and then zero alcohol athletic beers! Enough to be 'in the spirit', not too much to feel it for days afterwards.DaveO
- I must stress that this is not a 'brunch rave' or 'sober clubbing' – its just a 24 hour venue where I go in the morning! Like Panorama or Berghain in essenceDaveO
- true u have to stress.... day raves are not the edge...neverscared
- everything about this post is amazing, you've even rumbled some alts.garbage
- Heard people still get mad out of it at day raves lol.mort_
- autoflavour10
Romania calling
yo, Grafician, you know you can just make longer posts right? your 13 notes to yourself in your previous post were a tad excessive..
- mg334
Elon Musk
I've probably posted this before, but Musk's derision of legacy media is what I can't stand the most. I realize there are issues of valid concern with major media these days, whether it's cable news or newspapers / magazines, but I truly think it all boils down to Republicans anger over established media outlets actually getting things right most of the time, but it just happens to paint them in a bad light. Trump really got the ball rolling on this during his first campaign and presidency, but Musk has really taken it to the next level with his pro citizen journalism stance and how he enables it and empowers it on Twitter.
Even with its problems, "legacy media" will always, I think, operate with far more dignity, objectivity, fact-focus, due-diligence, and good intentions WHEN SIMPLY REPORTING NEWS. I emphasize that last part to acknowledge that reporting news is not, and has not, been the emphasis of cable news media in particular for years as we've seen them shift towards narrative construction and opinion / panel discussion based dissection of topics.
I was interested in and exposed to the news from a young age when I'd be at my grandparents house as a kid and they'd watch NBC Nightly News. At best, the only opinion / editorial time they'd have over the years was Tom Brokaw's "Fleecing of America" segment that skewed a bit outside the fact-focused norm. But I always liked that I could watch that, and even local news, and it be totally devoid of opinion. That was the 80s and 90s.
Elon's push for, and praise of, "citizen journalism" is aimed squarely at the portion of the population who has bought into Trump, and MAGA, and Elon's derision of mainstream news. Musk / X empowers absolute nobodies with zero journalistic background to shill whatever bias-affirming opinion they have as fact to those who don't trust legacy media anymore. It gives a platform to John Q Nobody in Kansas to totally make up, or to twist a thought into something purely conspiratorial or nonsensical just because they dream it up, and the rest of the crowd that's inclined to believe it will absolutely believe it. Nevermind that John Q Nobody isn't a journalist, has never learned how to properly research anything, has no credentials of any kind, didn't do any due-diligence on the topic, and is probably just regurgitating and amplifying someone else's dumb opinion. Then, X amplifies it, it bounces around their echo chamber, and the opinion(s) become fact by virtue of the frequency and volume of posts on it. It's still total BS, but it's all they're seeing, it's not being presented by major news media that they distrust, and it just goes on and on.
It's such a dangerous construct, and I don't know if we will ever recover from that. It really illustrates what our new "class battle" is, IMO, which is between one group who can think critically and rationally, discern fact from fiction, can seek information and retain new knowledge, and the other group who can't or won't do those things, and instead fall victim to everything that aligns with their bias and their feelz.
- For example: "when a right-wing page on X called Western Decline alleged that... [LI co-founder funded Tesla protests."mg33
- https://www.rawstory…mg33
- The last straw.palimpsest
- your description of JohnQNobody aligns pretty well with the quality of reportage coming from newsrooms these days. Last paragraph could describe either side.monNom
- The projection of “journalists” as unimpeachable purveyors of honesty is silly. They are as fallible as anyone. their job relies on having the ‘right’ opinion.monNom
- And the ‘right opinion’ is unlikely to misalign with the goals of the 5 or 6 giant corporations who control the vast majority of all media.monNom
- It’s forever been a trope to take what you read in the papers with a grain of salt. Still good advice. All that’s changed is a democratization of speach.monNom
- 'The projection of “journalists” as unimpeachable purveyors of honesty is silly.' <— it's not about the journalists, as such, it's about the institution ...Continuity
- ... the Fourth Estate. Without it — and the _professional_ journalists that constitute it — democracy no longer functions. Or even exists.Continuity
- @mg33: since the rise of the Fourth Estate, "narrative construction and opinion" has always been a part of it. It's nothing to speak of.Continuity
- It's nothing NEW to speak of, rather. And it can be traced as far back as the 18th century, with British papers of the day reporting and opinionating ...Continuity
- on the day-to-day business of the House of Commons. It's just that, as pointed out, now we have more outlets for stupid people to express opinions.Continuity
- @cont This. We talk about the Fourth Estate, but ignore that it is being railroaded by the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh Ad Infinitum Estate of Firehose Bullshit.garbage
- @continuity - the 'institution' is a group of businesses --unaccountable. The same 'institution' of media also exists in the most corrupt places on earth.monNom
- The Russians reading pravda thought what pravda told them to think, because there were no alternative narratives to be found.monNom
- I agree that the ideal of an independent media as guardian of democracy is a nice thought, but there is nothing that guarantees it is so.monNom
- in the absence of such a guarantee, the best alternative is that everyone has a voice, and a megaphone, and the people choose.monNom
- That's the true 4th estate and the true defender of democracy. It's not a newspaper. It's the ability of anyone to speak and be heard.monNom
- concerningKrassy
- prophetone6
Signs your getting old?
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was released on May 21, 1980... 45 years ago
- I was in the theater for that. It also was my first day of employment. My first job was at Burger King.CyBrainX
- hans_glib2
- The cLashPhanLo
- Black Rebel Motorcycle ClubMorning_star
- The OutsidersKrassy
- John, Paul, George and Timmy the dog.mort_
- The Rutlesprophetone
- The WhoContinuity
- The Prefab Four, plus the mysterious fifth Rutlerzu-rzu
- The cheap summer bandOBBTKN
- All our dads when they were young and cooli_monk
- ^ totally i_monkmort_
- HJGO HAA: HANNOVERGabriel
- PhanLo2
- looks like some ridiculous fun shot and acted really wellprophetone
- Aronofsky meets classic Guy Ritchie, eh?ideaist
- A fun Aronofsky film??? Huh, didn't expect that!Akagiyama
- Arse Hole, lolcanoe
- OBBTKN33
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I'm 53 today. No "big plans" maybe a few beers with friends, but I'll be home soon. I have a special dinner with my daughters and my wife, my treasures ;)
Take care of the people you love, guys and girls, love and peace!
- All the best!grafician
- Thanks graf <3OBBTKN
- feliz cumple!maquito
- felix cumple! ;Pmaquito
- I'll be raising my glass to you later this evening, Felix <3 ...here's to another 53+ years :)PonyBoy
- Here's to more laps 'round the sun!stoplying
- HBOBBTKNmort_
- Congrats you old fuck :)utopian
- congrats dude :) I celebrated 53 earlier in the month in almost the exact same way :) dinner out with my wife and the kids :)exador1
- Happy birthday!Akagiyama
- happy b daymilfhunter
- 1/2 way to 106 boy!!!
XOideaist - old fogeybezoar
- wholesome ! HBD!Krassy
- Felicidades Félix!!! Zorionak!Miesfan
- Congrats and no plans are the best plans.Longcopylover
- what's a special dinner?robthelad
- A dap and a hug! A congrats and a cheers too!canoe
- Can we get to 53 upvotes people!?canoe
- Thanks all!.. We're not 53 active canoe :)OBBTKN
- Congrats. I'll be 50 this year :-)Calderone2000
- PonyBoy14
- Rip :(OBBTKN
- NORM!fooler
- Oh, that sucks.CyBrainX
- :-(PhanLo
- Hopefully coach is welcoming him with a seat saved at the bar and an ice cold beer. :(Akagiyama
- I still don't know his name.utopian
- George WendtCyBrainX
- Bill FerrellAQUTE
- What really blows my mind is that THIS was what an overweight guy looked like in the 80's; how far we've come, eh?!ideaist
- dude passed 32 years to the day of the finale episode of Cheers :(PonyBoy
- Norm-core. Used to watch Cheers with my family. Great writing and actingstoplying
- RIPChuckJones
- RIPWallaWalla
- neverscared1
Elon Musk
i watched 20min... its interresting...hes going full trumpo loco in rhetoric and style ... also drifing away like trump... talking about biden when asked a total different question as in a.i regulations..
- far out that gates should his mouth because of epstein...neverscared
- when he gets upset u realise he is lying like no other...neverscared
- 26:30sted
- who would have thought that the wall street journal is an anti-capitalistic magazine... .. insightful times...neverscared
- it isn't capitalist enough ehsted
- left wing woke wall street veganneverscared
- His demeanor is nauseating. Such a smug, entitled child.mg33
- So he just conveniently forgets that Trump was also friends with Epstein?mg33
- sure, same way he now says companny is kool because stock is high while back some time he said tesla stock is overrated ...neverscared
- its a way of handling things that ends up in jan.6 sort of events...... or cybetruckneverscared
- the thing with the ceo and the product is also puny.... if Satya Nadella or Cook make a fascist salute ... backlash would be bold too...neverscared
- "you are trapped in the npc dialogue tree of a traditional journalist, so its very hard to talk to, because its like someone trapped in a computer" - 28.50Nutter
- as soon as he gets a little push back. Fire him into the sun.Nutter
- flol 12:55--. Lays bare EVERYTHING this cunt's been playing for the past yearNairn
- sarahfailin12
- Positive energy zones.
:)palimpsest - kick-ass blazer!Akagiyama
- for the treesgarbage
- "City of trees" is badass.palimpsest
- Thanks y'all! Come to Sacramento's Mardi Gras sometime.sarahfailin
- Looking and smelling fresh like a pine forest.mort_
- 'Ol Pine Ballsmisterhow
- Willy Wonka Vibesutopian
- Positive energy zones.
- i_monk13
QBN Suggestion Box
Put graf and canoe on a time-out, JFC.
- I come here to post about work or something funny and always get distracted. Won't let it happen again.canoe
- It's hard to tell which one's worse at this stage.Nairn
- Fair, will chillgrafician
- +1mort_
- +1 = −2palimpsest
- +1 = −2 / 3 = -0.667utopian
- wooooshpalimpsest
- You can't tell the difference between someone who gets pure joy out of the Trump-led moral destruction of my country and the other one telling him to piss off?canoe
- He goes to the America is Fucked thread, not out of concern or shock, but out of enjoyment. I'm irie, his whole energy is straight wicked Babylon. Wake up Nairncanoe
- Shit puts me to sleep, yo.Nairn
- Is it still hard to tell which one is worse Narin? jfccanoe
- OBBTKN11
- neverscared2
Climate Change
The world is on track for 2.5C-2.9C of global heating, which would almost certainly be beyond tipping points for the collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets. The melting of those ice sheets would lead to a “really dire” 12 metres of sea level rise.
Today, about 230 million people live within 1 metre above current sea level, and 1 billion live within 10 metres above sea level. Even just 20cm of sea level rise by 2050 would lead to global flood damages of at least $1tn a year for the world’s 136 largest coastal cities and huge impacts on people’s lives and livelihoods.
- #redmeatneverscared
- Buy more yachts!grafician
- privatize water sources!rzu-rzu
- Buy beach front property in the Alps.utopian
- hodl spartansneverscared
- Learn to swim - TOOLstoplying
- Sell all the property to Aqua ManPhanLo
- bioengineer gills already...neverscared
- The hillbillys have itmort_
- lalalalalapseud
- Longcopylover5
Signs your getting old?
Youtube Shorts.
I just don't like them and don't click them. Because they are mostly shaky rubbish clips.I don't get it why YT wants me to watch them even on my laptop.
- palimpsest14
- veganneverscared
- ^
lolApeRobot - or red meat.... who is the cancer driver ...neverscared
- and who is not... lets ask science...neverscared
- +1canoe
- Know thyself.ideaist
- v.apt ;)fadein11
- out here ruining my forest bathegarbage
- ;-)palimpsest
- -0.667utopian
- elahon7
Jokes in poor taste...
We just found out my grandfather is addicted to Viagra.
No one's taking it harder than me.
- Akagiyama2
Signs your getting old?
Was supposed to go to EDC last year with one of my best friends, but he got sick and passed away.
Went this year for his memory, and to finally cross it off my bucket list.
Day 1: Felt so old and out of place, but warmed up to it and had a good time. Really enjoyed Alok, Alesso and Dom Dolla as I parked myself at Kinetic Field. Didn't explore much.
Day 2: Still felt "I'm too old for this!" but knew what to expect, and had an even better time. Explored WAY more.
Day 3: Took a friend/co-worker and took a 15mg rosin belt (5mg edibles are usually more than enough), had even more fun, saw more acts, but by day three my 51 year old fat ass was like "OK, I'm done".
Said to myself yesterday that it was great, but I won't go back, but today I signed up to get a notification when next years tickets go on sale. So, signs I'm getting old, but not dead yet? Anyway...
- I never heard of EDC or any of these musiciansbainbridge
- This is real? Looks like a scene from Zoolander: https://www.youtube.…bainbridge
- It's pretty surreal being in the middle of it. The drone lighting was pretty awesome.
https://www.youtube.…Akagiyama - is that you at 33:30?Krassy
- I went to the first couple EDCs ever.monospaced
- I've been into the music forever, but only started going to shows a few years ago. A big part of that was having the wisdom to not give a fuck anymore.noneck
- So now my wife and I go to shows all the time. We're older than average but don't give a fuck anymore. We go, dance, and have fun.noneck
- Congrats! Go find more shows to see.noneck
