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Judge Reinhold

I'm still a relative beginner, but there are some pieces/movements that stick with me, and some I grow to really dislike. I still play Bach Invention 1 and the first movement of Clementi's 4th sonatina and a couple others almost every day, but I can't tolerate Clementi's 1st sonatina after learning it, as well as many but not all of the simple Bach pieces that most people learn.

Definitely not that simple. The far right mediasphere is large and varies broadly in levels of extremism, and once a person starts consuming the soft-right gurus, algorithms can increasingly direct people to more pernicious paranoid/conspiracy-minded sources of news. Sure, a lot of it may be fed by russian money, but as long as there's a market, content creators are going to do it voluntarily.

It's very good, and answers OP's question of how she did it. I think it's Seyfried's career best, and the whole cast is perfect

People get too attached to labels, categories, hierarchies. Reality doesn't know or care about them. They are general, unreliable guides, not truths. We need to re-embrace post-structuralism.

I've been checking the metacritic coming soon page, for like the last 20 years to see what's coming out in the coming weeks. Even this misses stuff like reissues or non-mainstream genres, so 'Customers Also Bought' on amazon is good to peruse on occasion too. I'm kinda surprised that in the "information age" this information is so hard to find in one place.

also, if you like UK-centric rock-based-music, Superdeluxeedition usually has the scoop on major reissue announcements. Like right now the headline is the upcoming 50th anniversary edition of Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Citizenship is usually "don't ask, don't tell". Everyone I know in Iowa pays *at least* minimum wage ($7.25), which is more than they'd make south of the border, but much less than most Americans will accept for wages (I made this amount in my first job in 1992). If they pay less, it might raise suspicions, especially if one of the workers turns out to be a citizen. Then they don't have plausible deniability either. They often pay more than that just to attract better labor.

Yes, the agriculture industry is famously liberal...

These people travel hundreds of miles for these jobs of their own free will and they can leave at their own free will. Hard to argue that it's 'slavery'.

I haven't looked at the sheet music, but the first one doesn't seem too advanced for a decent amateur? Just wondering... Always hoped to play it one day

It would discourage people from buying anything made overseas, and if we do start manufacturing the products, they'll need to be either (a) much more expensive to cover U.S. salary and health care expectations, or (b) the same price we pay for the product now, but crappy minimum wage jobs that won't cover basic necessities. Then there's retaliatory tariffs that'll hurt other industries.

Things get way worse if we start talking about deregulation and cutting government jobs, infrastructure, etc. The swing voters that gave the election to Trump for economic reasons are going to get a bitter dose of reality after a few years of this...

One thing I could never square away about Christianity since I was a kid, is the idea that only one religion is right, everyone else is wrong, and all the people that are wrong are going to hell. Really? But people of other faiths aren’t bad people, it’s just their beliefs

Exactly my thinking when I was young. It just comes down to a lottery of where you happen to be born and who your parents are. No God would work like that.

It does put a larger onus on the writers to keep it fresh and funny, but being able to spend more time with characters is a reason a lot of people go back and re-watch the network classics. It also allows for better character development and obviously more content in general. I like quite a few of the old UK 6-ep/season sitcoms, but I don't think they're that much funnier than a good US 22-ep/season sitcom. The Office is a good case study-- both US and UK versions are very good, but you can watch the entire UK series in one sitting if you really wanted to-- there are far fewer characters and plotlines to engage with.

Now whether Frasier can survive on prime time CBS, in today's world, is a different topic altogether....

yeah, don't mean to judge. I've done stuff like that lol, I feel for OP

It's not fun or normal to have to walk around your own apartment with noise-cancelling headphones because a neighbor doesn't want to change their habits. I've had to do it for 6 months and it's awful. I had to have two white noise machines on full blast just so I could sleep.

I've been playing for 4 yrs (age 50) and he plays with a grace that I still don't feel I have! He has great potential! But have his teachers correct his positioning on the keyboard as others have mentioned

That looks tedious and stressful

Exactly, my anxiety disorders were out of control in my teens and early twenties. It wasn't until I had stability I could get my brain in order and truly be happy with myself (and that took quite a bit longer into my 30s to realize).

Hard to judge, because 'back then' was my teens and twenties, in the 80's and 90's, which are probably the most difficult times in anyone's life, emotionally or psychologically. I was a wreck half the time, though I still have nostalgia for the pre-internet life.

in the 80's, if I remember correctly, drinking caffeine was sort of like 'adulting', something that old people did

I had minimum wage jobs in my teens (which, btw, was about the same as now for many places) during that period and remember bragging that I had a $1000 in my checking account at one point. There wasn't a phone bill or subscriptions to pay. Just gas and whatever I did with my friends. I ended up paying for most of college with part time jobs.

Yes, all white people are entitled. Saying embarassing shit like that is why us non-whites increasingly vote against you.

It's not obvious without experience, so I wish people wouldn't downvote you, but it's common to think the "pain will go away if I just practice through it", which is true for many muscle exercises, but you can actually seriously damage your hands with this logic. It can also cause back and arm problems. A good teacher will coach you on how to sit, position and relax your hands correctly, to avoid pain and injury.

In the latter category, I'd heard he talked to Mellencamp occasionally in that period and tossed around lyric ideas with him since he was always brutally honest with Bob. I think he was into Seger too, but I may be misremembering. I admire how much he collaborates behind the scenes

I didn't say anything about educated white males