Also this is mostly all to say, I don’t understand genres past say release year 2005 😅

Sorry I typed Limp Bizmit but meant Bizkit…

It’s not very intuitive, for sure. It really is about if you were there at the time and probably place (up until, say, 2005) hearing XYZ song/style becoming popular on the radio and mass media. Only then do you pick up the lingo and see how other people referred to it.

Plus, go browse the racks at a music store in another country (preferably where the main language is different from your own). I remember seeing a Tower Records in a major Japanese city have a whole area designated as “Black Music” (not like a seasonal feature/display, but a section/‘genre’) and being baffled, like all soul blues funk R&B early rap gangsta rap and dance pop was all one section (filtered only by skin color)? But then again, is all J-pop or K-pop always the same style, or do English-language listeners lump a lot of things together by overarching basic criteria? (Like just shuffling music off based on country/language of origin etc)

Alternative rock was different to the popular rock from on mainstream stations in the 70s/80s and early 90s. See also “college rock.” But then alternative rock becomes mainstream and fractures into subgenres (for example, compare Limp Bizmit once called “nü rock” and White Stripes “garage rock” — fairly different styles), less mainstream artists continue plugging away in their various “indie” lanes, plus what does “college rock” (like REM of the 80s) mean in the 2010s/2020s anyway? Short answer: big fat nothing; long answer is, first you start doing deep dives in music journalism of yore, browsing the categories/sections at record stores, talk to old music heads and hear their opinions (mostly opinions, right, less ‘facts’), and then you have a better lay of the many various musical landscapes and keep exploring.

Hypothetically, if they are truly professional and in operations rather than being analysts, etc., they would leave work at work but basically be too exhausted to truly helicopter-parent at home. I’m projecting a bit though, because once you become a parent you are exhausted beyond belief (substitute “I” for all those “you”s, heh)

Depends on the generation of the parent too, I think (have they kept up with modern surveillance technologies?). If you haven’t watched the TV show “The Americans” it could be interesting. Set in the 80s but there’s two kid/teen children of agents in it, so secrets kind of start going both ways

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Aren’t you supposed to say “I rest my case” at the end of your argument, not before you start it?

To be honest I hadn’t listened to or seen Charlie Kirk before he was shot dead, because his whole thing was hateful grift which I cannot tolerate any more in my life. But I have dealt with American health and dental insurance companies for more than 20 years. They purport to be civil when, in the system as it is now (with political lobbying) they can ruin lives. Charlie Kirk spewed hate pretty freaking directly, so someone threw it back at him. Insurance companies are insulated behind layers of fake smile, fake concern for consumers’ health, false scarcity — while lobbying politicians and arguing with medical professionals — all ONLY for boardroom profits, all crushing the entire populace if there’s no other prospect for a social safety net. For massively overinflating shit that in other countries (not just “poor”-GDP ones) is like 1% of the cost to the patient. Health for everyone, as a sector/concept in our lives, is more pressing than stupid grifters trying to rile up stupid white people. The effect of grifters riling up stupid white people is obviously awful. But I don’t want to hear any more of stupid white people telling me racist hogwash. I want to be able to get medicine for my kid. Right?

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Waiting to see what others answer because got no actual hobbies since having kids…

Context appreciated.