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The latest from The Warning. I fear that since they took on “management” their material is becoming more and more forgettable compared to their Teatro Metropolitan and Pepsi Center concert material. Kinda sad. Kerosene had a flashy video as does this one. But that doesn’t make for lines or melodies you remember and hum or sing while in the shower, folding laundry, or preparing a meal.

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jakelafort wrote:

Yes, chimpanzees exhibit culture, defined as behaviors that are socially transmitted rather than genetically inherited or caused solely by ecological factors.

Don’t honeybees tell each other (reporting information) where to find newly-discovered nectar-hunting grounds, which then send other bees (behavior) to exploit them?

Whale pods have cultures. Orcas, for example, can become specialized. Some pods kill whales, some seals, and some sharks. No one believes this behavior is inherited but rather is learned from watching the behavior of their elders and munching on the results of the hunts.

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Don’t they seem to be having a lot of fun, still? It just feels to me like they’re happy with their evolution, so far, not slacking off, and they’re happy to talk about it. Do you think maybe some of it’s not coming from their heart?

PB, being a working band isn’t about simply pleasing yourself, it’s about pleasing your fans. Remember how good they were that way four years ago?

The last time they did anything this good was when they produced Hell You Call A Dream. That was two years ago.

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Well, it turned down the post I just posted. Weird. It had a Youtube link in it, but I see others making posts with videos. I’m starting to feel like a second class citizen here.

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Test to see if I can post again.

 

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A question for you, Pope Beanie: Do you think their songs are getting better at all under the tutelage of a production company, or was their original material (Teatro Metropolitan concert for example) better or even far better on the whole?

 

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I would hope everyone knows who Rick Beato is, but in case you don’t, he’s easily the #1 Youtube expert on music. He’s a genius polymath musician, musicologist, music historian, yada yada yada. He has perfect pitch and plays guitar and keyboards at an expert level. He can listen to and reproduce solos he hears with ease.

He’s also a composer and producer. Yeah, there really is someone like that.

He’s been decrying the damage AI has been doing for years now. Nonexistent artists playing songs invented by the AI and performed “in person” by AI-fabricated individuals. They are earning clicks and making money for whoever is behind them, which could be some 38 year old guy working in his skivies from his home in his mom’s basement using AI tools. OR, it could be just an AI working on its own, having been set in motion several years ago. He thinks earning money as a musician is hard enough using native human talent without having to compete against AI.

In this video, which I’ve set to start where he draws his conclusions, Beato makes predictions about the natural course of AI. Of course, it’s worthwhile to watch the thing from the start to see how he leads up to his conclusions.

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Are we waiting for the Forums to repair themselves? What efforts are being made? When I open Forums, the only one I can see is Sunday School.

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Under our name where? Under our name on the left where it appears with our thumbnail images?

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Sounds like it’s time to go back to the earlier version till they fix the latest one.

Note: In my email I got an AtheistZone notice of PopeBeanie’s post in Small Talk. I was able to read it but I wrote a response that simply failed to get posted. Another clue.

Until this is fixed, I’m a second class member. Does a mere visitor have greater privileges than I do?

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So, it looks right if you have moderator privileges? Could be solved by resetting a toggle somewhere in the behind the scenes.

 

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This is after clearing cache and data for the site in Chrome didn’t change anything and switching to DuckDuckGo after clearing cache and data and clicking on the Forum link on the main page.

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This is what shows up when I click on Small Talk under the Forums heading.

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So, I note that the Forums still aren’t restored. If the data is lost, will it at least be restarted by restoring the topics? I’m particularly missing the “Nobody saw this coming” thread following The Warning’s musical progress.

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TheEncogitationer wrote:

Somehow that word bespoke escaped my attention until a few weeks ago.

“Bespoke” meaning a custom or one-off design is not a “thing” in American colloquial English. It’ll send most of us running to the dictionary.

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