But the claim that you have to whip people and chain them up to synthesize European folk melodies with African base rhythms seems at once absurd and sadistic.
Cool, I never made that claim. They probably needed to immigrate to a western country to invent it and popularize it, that they went there as slaves is a different matter.
There’s little chance that immigration wouldn’t have been involved somehow in your scenario(s). But true, maybe we could have gotten blues and jazz from a thriving, industrialized Congo, Nigeria etc.
Hell, maybe it would have come from middle class American Natives in the Mississippi Delta. Or Chinese rice farmers in a country not ravaged by opium. Or Iranians not ground under by the Shah’s dictatorship. Or Austro-Hungarians who weren’t cannibalized to fight the Napoleonic Wars or the 30 Years War that caused the Caucasian Exodus across the Atlantic.
They might have invented interesting musical genres that merge mainstream european music with their own more rhythm-focused music styles, but I really doubt any of them would have invented something that closely resembles early black music. Maybe one of them could have invented techno, but blues, jazz, soul, and blues-derived rock music as we know it? Very improbable. Music genres don’t spawn out of thin air.
The world would be a lot poorer without the music genres that spawned from the USA and UK, too. And most of those were only possible because people from Africa were (forcefully) brought to the USA.
As I said, “it might be different if you catch a good sale”. Also, I assumed you were buying a new CPU instead of using the one you already have, but that seems to have been a misunderstanding.
You’re not going to get crashes or anything like that, it’s just usually a waste of money if you’re optimizing for gaming (though it might be different if you catch a good sale). Also, upgrading your CPU is usually harder - you often need to buy a new mainboard and RAM as well, and you’ll have an easier time selling a GPU than a CPU on the secondhand market.
Smell it … if you dare.
Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer (or year round for the tropics, or winter for south africa). And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it’s kind of an issue for infrastructure development.
Yes, I thought it made more sense this way. Bit of a bad habit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ‘edited’ indicator on Lemmy.
Are you Australian or just that freaky?
I mean, it’s winter sometimes.
The graphic includes long pants as an option - when it’s cold enough to wear long pants, it’s definitely cold enough for long sleeves.
You people sleep in tshirts instead of longsleeves?
I got a device from a competitor (the original company’s devices are >20€ nowadays). Worked great, too, but its longevity sucked - the next year, the ceramic plate didn’t get hot enough anymore, even with fresh batteries. Yet another example of “buy cheap, buy twice”.
One of those cocktail stirring spoons with a long, round handle. Makes stirring a glass full of ice extremely easier compared to normal spoon handles. In contrast, I found mixing glasses and cocktail shakers fairly optional (and those tend to be more expensive than $20 anyway if they’re decent quality).
Most land animals are crustaceans (insects, spiders etc.), actually. Unless you define crustaceans as fish, too, which stretches the word ‘fish’ even more than including all land animals but isn’t completely without logic, either. ‘fish’ is a really imprecise category.
The issue is that the yoghurt cup is only a tiny sacrifice, but it’s also only a tiny gain (as long as the alternative isn’t ‘just dump it in the river’). I suppose regular people don’t have a lot of opportunities to do a small sacrifice that will actually have a big impact compared to the effort, once they took the hurdle of not being a complete asshole.
Yes, that’s bad - so why not use that as an example? It’s about as equivalent as we’re going to get when comparing regular people to billionaires, and it’s still literally 50 times worse (or whatever the actually value is, it’s probably even worse considering that normal people usually share the plane with hundreds of unrelated people while on Bezos’ plane, it’s 100% just him, his “friends” and people who work for him).
Man that’s fucking dystopian.
I agree. Which is why the yoghurt cup example is so bad - it’s hardly a personal sacrifice and it’s very obviously low impact compared to vacation planerides. The issue is that things like plane vacations and other polluting consumer goods are actively promoted, and made even worse for the environment just to shave off tenths of percents in profits, by the ultra rich.
I did write that they came as slaves, but that’s not the necessary part. I’m starting to think that you just really want me to be racist, facts be damned.
Yeah, because american rock music already existed, and USA and UK have a long shared history. Inventing rock music without close personal proximity is much less likely, and inventing a style is one thing but popularizing it is quite another. It wouldn’t have gotten as popular in the USA and Europe if all the early blues and jazz musicians were in Africa.