Random Thoughts XIV: Pizza, Pomegranate Juice, and Shreddies

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Why would he want that?
 
No. It's a deliberate choice.
 
Okay, now I'm confused. If you have a cell phone, that means you're lonely? Or do you stop being lonely if you get a cell phone? :confused:

I also don't have one.
 
Birdjaguar said:

The 45-Second Tool to Change Your Life​

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has made it his mission to cure our loneliness, and he’s got a prescription you can try at home.


www.politico.com

The 45-Second Tool to Change Your Life

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has made it his mission to cure our loneliness, and he’s got a prescription you can try at home.
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This is genuinely insane. What an incredible joke.

Anyway, read up on third places: https://www.today.com/life/inspiration/third-place-meaning-rcna94279


5pm rolls around and you’re done with work for the day. Where are you headed? Home, the gym, somewhere else? Your answer might be more important for your well-being than you think.

If you find yourself commuting between work and home with rare stops along the way, your life might be lacking a key ingredient to happiness: a “third place.”

But what's the meaning of a "third place?" So, your first place is where you live, your second place is where you work or go to school, and your third place can be virtually any location that doesn’t fall into the first two categories. Coffee shops, parks, bookstores, churches, and community centers can all function as third places. The only real requirement is that nobody is forcing you to show up.

Your third place — or places — should be somewhere that you go to regularly and if you think you may not have one, you’re not alone.

[...]

Third places play an important role in helping us build individual and collective identities outside the home and the workplace. Lee calls them “our social hubs” and says they are “closely tied to social wellbeing,” particularly because we are living in an “increasingly lonely society.”

Even if you aren’t always an active social force in a third place, just showing up matters. “It’s crucial for people to escape from a sense of loneliness and build a sense of community. Some people go to third places to be surrounded by other people, watch them and rest while just enjoying the ambience and white noise,” Lee says.
 
Valka D'Ur said:
Okay, now I'm confused. If you have a cell phone, that means you're lonely?
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The US Surgeon General has declared loneliness an epidemic and health risk. So he goes to colleges to give a presentation, and at a certain point, he tells everyone in the audience to spend 45 seconds sending a text message to someone to whom they are grateful. By not having a cell phone, I (and you) can't avail myself of his remedy for loneliness.
 
Synobun said:
This is genuinely insane. What an incredible joke.

Anyway, read up on third places: https://www.today.com/life/inspiration/third-place-meaning-rcna94279


5pm rolls around and you’re done with work for the day. Where are you headed? Home, the gym, somewhere else? Your answer might be more important for your well-being than you think.

If you find yourself commuting between work and home with rare stops along the way, your life might be lacking a key ingredient to happiness: a “third place.”

But what's the meaning of a "third place?" So, your first place is where you live, your second place is where you work or go to school, and your third place can be virtually any location that doesn’t fall into the first two categories. Coffee shops, parks, bookstores, churches, and community centers can all function as third places. The only real requirement is that nobody is forcing you to show up.

Your third place — or places — should be somewhere that you go to regularly and if you think you may not have one, you’re not alone.

[...]

Third places play an important role in helping us build individual and collective identities outside the home and the workplace. Lee calls them “our social hubs” and says they are “closely tied to social wellbeing,” particularly because we are living in an “increasingly lonely society.”

Even if you aren’t always an active social force in a third place, just showing up matters. “It’s crucial for people to escape from a sense of loneliness and build a sense of community. Some people go to third places to be surrounded by other people, watch them and rest while just enjoying the ambience and white noise,” Lee says.
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My "third place" tends to be online these days. Going to the mall isn't something I do much anymore. Spending 3 years at home due to covid has made me even more crowd-sensitive than I used to be. Not to mention that covid isn't gone. There's been another outbreak, people in the hospital, some have died... I really should go get that booster that's on offer.
 
Taylor Swift's fandom has been a cult for a while now. Obviously it's not due to her trash music, but media around her presenting a symbol. Still, not a good phenomenon.
 
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Yeah, for over a decade she has written her own songs and performed them; built a worldwide following, defied the industry standards by taking control of her music; performs 3 hour concerts rain or shine; become a positive symbol for millions of young women and your response is that her "trash music" is being promoted by the media to make her a cult. She is talented, hardworking, smart and attractive; and in the process she has made herself rich. I guess that is a combination you find disquieting. I guess you prefer the Putin type of "manly" power.

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is the first tour to gross over $1 billion, Pollstar says​


LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is the first tour to cross the billion-dollar mark, according to Pollstar’s 2023 year-end charts.
Not only was Swift’s landmark Eras Tour the No. 1 tour both worldwide and in North America, but she also brought in a whopping $1.04 billion with 4.35 million tickets sold across 60 tour dates, the concert trade publication found.

Pollstar data is pulled from box office reports, venue capacity estimates, historical Pollstar venue ticket sales data, and other undefined research, collected from Nov. 17, 2022 to Nov. 15, 2023.
Representatives for the publication did not immediately clarify if they adjusted past tour data to match 2023 inflation in naming Swift the first to break the billion-dollar threshold.

Pollstar also found that Swift brought in approximately $200 million in merch sales and her blockbuster film adaptation of the tour, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” has reportedly earned approximately $250 million in sales, making it the highest-grossing concert film of all time.

According to their estimates, Pollstar predicts a big 2024 for Swift as well. The magazine projects the Eras Tour will once again reach $1 billion within their eligibility window, meaning Swift is likely to bring in over $2 billion over the span of the tour.
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Worldwide, Swift’s tour was followed by Beyoncé in second, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in third, Coldplay in fourth, Harry Styles in fifth, and Morgan Wallen, Ed Sheeran, Pink, The Weeknd and Drake.

In North America, there was a similar top 10: Swift, followed by Beyoncé, Morgan Wallen, Drake, P!nk, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Ed Sheeran, George Strait, Karol G, and RBD. Beyond the Swift of it all, 2023 was a landmark year for concert sales: worldwide, the top 100 tours of the year saw a 46% jump from last year, bringing in $9.17 billion compared to 2022’s $6.28 billion.

In North America, that number jumped from $4.77 billion last year to $6.63 billion.
Earlier this week, Swift was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Last month, Apple Music named her its artist of the year; Spotify revealed she was 2023’s most-streamed artist globally, raking in more than 26.1 billion streams since Jan. 1 and beating Bad Bunny’s three-year record.
 
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Taylor Swift is not a cult leader. She is a very successful entertainer. Talented, hardworking, smart women should be praised even if they are attractive. Clearly she offers the world much more than you or I.
 
Bro, you can have your view, just be a bit self-conscious and not attack others as if one has to care about you before they post about frigging Taylor Swift.

:rotfl:
 
^ It's particularly hilarious that one is supposed to care about someone because they are "manly". I don't view that as a positive trait, instead like somatic beauty ^^

 
I don't think I've ever heard a Taylor Swift song. Will give her a listen some day. It's not like I have a rarefied taste in music, and may even end up liking her stuff
 
Jamari is just another guy with a YouTube video hustle trying to earn a living. There is nothing special about his opinion over anyone else's. To keep his subscribers and ad revenue he needs to be edgy and appeal to his demographic. Have you bought one of his hoodies yet?

 
Birdjaguar said:
Yeah, for over a decade she has written her own songs and performed them; built a worldwide following, defied the industry standards by taking control of her music; performs 3 hour concerts rain or shine; become a positive symbol for millions of young women and your response is that her "trash music" is being promoted by the media to make her a cult. She is talented, hardworking, smart and attractive; and in the process she has made herself rich. I guess that is a combination you find disquieting. I guess you prefer the Putin type of "manly" power.
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Y'know, it's a bit creepy to see a moderator lay down an opinion in quasi-modtext.

Even though the girl's talented, yes, her fans are a cult-like phenomenon.
 
Takhisis said:
Y'know, it's a bit creepy to see a moderator lay down an opinion in quasi-modtext.

Even though the girl's talented, yes, her fans are a cult-like phenomenon.
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The text is bold because it inherited the bold markdown from the article title copy-paste.
 
Synobun said:
The text is bold because it inherited the bold markdown from the article title copy-paste.
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Which only requires a tiny bit of proof-reading to spot. Need I quote Peter Parker here?
Broken_Erika said:
First thing that comes to mind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatlemania
Some artists just have that sort of effect.
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Yes, it's a bit like that, I suspect. She has a lot of things in her favour: great looks, a good voice, good PR.
Her music is a bit too soft/generic for my taste for the most part, but I can get why other people like it.
 
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