FarFarAway

It's almost like you started reading this Time Article but never finished.

Or maybe this sciences times article

While the consensus is out about whether or not or attention spans are really shortening, most sources say whatever is going on, isn't permanent...yet.

We still have the ability to unplug and find something that's truly interesting to us, something that we care about, and focus on it. We just have to find it, and then, actually do it.

This might be a loaded question, lol, sooo...

Traditionally, I like alternative / rock from all eras, although im probably most familiar with the late 90's - 10's. With some typical pop and hip hop-ish stuff sprinkled in.

A few years back i started getting frustrated with, what i percieved, as a lack of everything. Simple beats, dumbed down lyrics, grating voices... i got snobby. It got to the point where everything new comming out, was actually annoying me. I figured if it had to lack substance, at least it could have a good beat. So, i ended up listening to alot of electronic music. I'm pretty up to date with dance and house now.

Really, I'm good with most genres, save country, classical, and jazz. Although, some "country" from the early 00's can be ok. More popular Keith Urban or Kenney Chesney songs are fine, although, i guess i consider that more pop crossover.

I used to be up on all the new music and go to all the shows, but the shows stopped after marrage and my snobby self has fallen behind with the new music, although I recently discovered free vevo and xite with my Samsung TV and I've been impressed enough with some of the newer stuff to want to maybe give it another go.

All I ever get is the damn album cover, offical audio, and some live stuff. I have to scroll a few down to find the actual video, and by then I've ended up on so many stills I give up on thinking there's a video...

Maybe they've been getting back at me all these years for turning off my history. Or maybe my google fu is poor. Oh well.

Edit: that's why I'm happy to have found this community of fine folks.

I don't understand how I've never seen half the videos of some of my favorite songs. I truly didn't think this one even had a video... thanks you tube for giving me crap search results.

And a real thank you to all the people here that open my eyes.

Recently I had a request to post a gif somewhere, and gifhy was the only thing that I knew was mostly legit. I tried directly uploading, but it didn't want to work.

Is there a better place, you'd recommend, to direct people to for gif uploads?

If a good friend or best friend tells you a ridiculous secret, don't under any circumstances, no matter how much time has past, no matter how silly the secret seems, don't tell it to anyone else, ever.

I learned this the hard way...it's usually a test.

Idk, the website doesnt work for me, but...

The state is using Education Savings Accounts, which is essentially tax payer and private funded. We all pay taxes to our school districts, well here in Texas we have this thing called the "Robin Hood" program. They "recapture" money from rich school districts and disburse it to poorer districts. The state then pays out to the schools per child in attendance.

For every child that is taken out of public school, they remove that funding from the public school (since that child is no longer attending) and put it into an Education Saving Account, which is their way of getting around that pesky separation of church and state stuff. (Thanks, Arizona) Instead of that money going directly to the school the child is now attending, they give the money to the parents, so they can ~~buy new flat screen tvs~~ pay the private school of their choice.

And of course you also have all the "donations" from "people who care about the children's education." (See everyone about to make bank from this shiny, new privatized school system)

As it is with all the laws these asshats come up with, these parents are celebrating the idea, but, of course not realizing, in the long run, its actually removing choice, not giving you more. What happened to your boot straps, people?

I suppose, I was referring to places like a driveway or the yard.

After the rash of shootings where people were being shot at for parking at the end of a driveway or ringing the doorbell, all the gun fanatics started thinking they could shoot people indiscriminately, just for being on the property.

Around here, it seems like they never got the memo that, thats not the way it works. I have neighbors here in texas posting on nextdoor about how they've got guns and anyone who opens the gate to the yard or is going door to door, ignoring the no soliciting sign, is gonna get bullet in the bunghole*.

*yes, a bunghole is a part of a wine barrel, or whatever, and not someone's rear.

Hell, where im from, your more likely to get shot if you try this out.

They got guns and they too stupid to know that castle laws don't apply to the property outside the actual castle.

The tactics they used to fight abortion, worked damn well, in their opinion, so on to the next group of people on the list.

After they're done oppressing trans people, they'll move to the next group on the list.

There will always be list. That is how they unite their base of backwards brainfarts.

I'll take it as the lesser of two evils.

Good point.

Just to point out, we're running out of sand to make those windows, as well. They're digging it up from the ocean floor, at this point, which isn't great.

I have no solutions, but I'll sure be quick to point out the problems...