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> You’re gonna miss out on the modern human experience

Oh no, the horror!


> There are permits required to run a lemonade stand and a bike shop.

I get the lemonade stand, but who needs a permit to run a bike shop?


> lies and hateful rhetoric

If Twitter really cared about the "lies and hateful rhetoric" they would have put their money where their mouth is and banned him years ago. It's just a meaningless gesture to drum up more drama, more clicks, more views.


> they're no longer platforms and instead publishers, who can be sued for their content

They could and have been sued all along. Plenty of people file inane lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and Google all the time for content that gets posted on their services. I wouldn't be quick to imply that these lawsuits would result in successful outcomes for the plaintiffs would it not have been for the existence of Section 230.


> Unless you have some hard data, your argument doesn't seem very convincing.

Seeing as plenty of people are earning more with the federal unemployment compensation than they would if they were working full time, I'm not sure what exactly is "unconvincing" about it.


> You can as long the person hasn't encrypted the PDF

I fill out forms in encrypted PDFs all the time with Preview, never had a problem.


> Becoming a rock star is a thing

Not really in 2020.


It's the perception. It might not be "rock" star anymore, but genericised "music superstar", yes.

Like many other things involved in this decision, it's the perception that matters, not facts.


> It might not be "rock" star anymore

That's the point, the "rock" stars aren't making any money in the industry like other pop acts anymore - they're mostly doing their own thing on Patreon and streaming on Twitch.


If they're recording music, they can certainly still use Logic to do it, and Apple wants to give them reasons to keep doing so. It's hard not to notice that Apple has been courting YouTubers really heavily over the last few years.


It's not about whether they make money.

It's about whether the end result is that the brand gets associated with the idea of "cool creative".

It's a common theme in many areas of Apple after Jobs return, including the whole Apple Store design.


Yeah, it's all about that neo-soul, 90's R&B rebirth jazz fusion wave that we're blessed to be riding.


Look at someone like Billie Eilish and her Apple Music-exlusive content. Obviously not literally "rock", but becoming a global star is still very much a thing.


In this Rolling Stone video she and her brother walk through how they made "Bad Guy," I don't know audio software enough to know if this is Logic but I'm sure a Logic users would recognize it in some of the shots if so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpx2-EMfdbg

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correction! rolling stone not nytimes. edit


yeah, Finneas uses Logic Pro


Billie Eilish is our Lennon, Elon Musk is our Tesla and Donald Trump is our JFK.

What a mess we are in culturally.


Lennon, Tesla, and JFK were deeply flawed human beings living in a different time, with far less media coverage than today. I suspect your view of the past may be unfairly rosy due to the effects of time.


Billie Eilish is simply the current incarnation of the "breathy misfit 'poet' girl singer" that comes around over and over and over and over. And then disappears.

I hope she makes an enormous amount of money while she's popular and has a smart enough brain to bank it for when she is not.


This is, of course, the far-too-common "appeal to antiquity" fallacy.


Just wait until January when Elon replaces Trump in the Oval Office.


> we just require housing to be a natural right and we give people that?

Who is "we" in this context?


People who realize housing people is cheaper than jailing them.


How is it in any way cheaper. I mean yes, if you ship people to middle america it will be. But touting a "right" to housing in SF is preposterous, at $1000 / sq ft (and will only go up with more demand).


Jails are more expensive to construct, are staffed, and also take up space like other forms of real estate.


What is stopping the group of people who realize this from housing people?


The fetishization of "law and justice" in the United States and the world?

As a species it seems we enjoy jailing the "undesirables" rather than tolerating them and understanding them.


> if they are mental ill, then get them on the medication they need.

What if they don't want to be on medication?

> if they are on drugs, get them into a program like NA and give them the medication to combat the withdrawl.

What if they have no interest in doing that?


Right now, nothing. If you build enough shelter space, by law, you no longer can make these decisions. If there is enough shelter space to house the homeless population, the choices become go to the shelter or go to jail. This is why we need to build more shelters as soon as possible.


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