Saw them on their last tour (I sometimes work in music venues) and I gotta say, whatever else is going on with Arcade Fire, hearing the first notes of “Wake Up” live and then the crowd singing along is still one of the best moments you can have at a live music event. Funeral really does hold up.

Bro, Feist was on Sesame Street! 

I know investors like profit for the sake of profit, and the more of it the better. They get angry when a company with growth in mind wants to cut into some margins to plan for the future, or just eat a down cycle. They will never be happy no matter how hard you try.

1st Gear: It’s cool that Tesla reports on record unit sales for the last quarter. Maybe that’s a good thing. But I know that the 22 percent drop in profit is not. And it’s a more painful indicator than Tesla would like to admit.

Funeral was revelatory for its time but everything since has been exponentially diminished returns. I last saw them on the tour for whatever album was before WE (when they were doing shows in the round) and it was actually kind of stunning to hear Funeral/Neon Bible tracks put directly up against the new stuff. They…

Arcade Fire is...fine. They’re fine. Definitely semi-twee “indie” stuff.

Also, not voting in local elections is an avenue for voter-repression organizations to get you purged from the list of registered voters in your district. You gotta vote to show ‘em you’re still alive!

Yeah I thought it was pretty funny that during the 2016 election, our local ballot had two proposals that were literally the opposite and they both lost:

I was just in Seattle. Lots of electric scooters and bikes everywhere. Not a lot of people riding them

Neutral:
Thanks god the shit weather we’ve had in California seems to be ending. I have lived here 23 years and never experienced what happened this winter. Usually its mild/warm and fairly dry. Starting in December we simply got one huge storm after another. The infrastructure is not built to handle it and so the…

1st gear: There goes Sandy Demuro’s analysis of Tesla having the highest profit margin in the business and should be making money on every car sold even at the “discount” back to pre-pandemic pricing lol.

First Gear: Not surprising that the Model S/X are sliding in sales. They are basically a decade old at this point and have tons of very compelling competition now in the same $80-120k price point. 

5th gear:

Eh, I think trash talk is unsportsman like. But if your going to make an issue out of it you can’t just let a white player do it all game and only call fowl when a black player does it.

On the one hand, good for Reese throwing the shit back, full-on ‘reap what you sow’ style. On the other hand, this kind of shit shouldn’t be tolerated, let alone viewed as a normal part of the game. It is clearly poor sportsmanship. In other environments, this behavior is called harassment. It can easily get you…

I answer the similar “how many kids do you have?” question contextually as well.

Agree. I just said something similar to another post.

I’m generally supportive of Megan and her escape from the royal family (and obviously Samantha Markle is a weirdo grifter, as is Megan’s dad), but I’m also understanding of people who are absolutely sick of H&M’s documentaries, books, podcasts etc.

My Mom considers herself an only child even though she also has a much older half-brother from a shared father. Her half-brother was 13-14 when she was born, and he left when she was 3. He never stayed in touch with the family and he is a total stranger to her. I do not believe they ever met again after she was 3…

I think her mom is good. But yeah, everyone else sounds pretty awful.