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For years now I’ve responded to anybody saying we should “respect our elders” by saying “they just don’t make elders like they used to.”

It was easy to be old and wise when the world only changed on a scale of centuries. Now it’s easy to see large cultural changes every decade or less; the wisdom of somebody who came of age in the 1950s is of no value today if they’ve learned nothing else since.

Not me but my uncle had a meeting scheduled at the WTC on 9/11. Only reason he wasn’t there was because somebody moved the venue across town the night before.

Boston Market still exists.

Back in the day I used to love Kenny Rogers Roasters. Their chicken was beyond next level. But that chain lasted for like five minutes.

Mustard with a side of bigotry.

So a little bit Falconer, a little bit DragonForce?

That’s fuckin’ ridiculous.

I swear I’ve heard of twilight force but for the life of me I can’t remember what they sound like. I’ll have to look them up and get reacquainted.

Goddamn. I thought people saying “Angus McSix” were making some kind of joke about whoever replaced Thomas.

Sucks that his bandmates turned out to be that kind of people, but I’ll definitely look into his new project.

Thanks for the recap!

I entirely missed this. What happened?

Power Metal:
Powerwolf
Gloryhammer
Alestorm
Sabaton
Windrose

Pagan music:
Emerald Rose
Tyr

And then sea shanties, folk music, Irish (rebel and otherwise), labor/protest music, and the occasional bouts of pure randomness.

Right now I cannot get enough of Miracle of Sound. Dude just checks every box there is for me. It’s like if every other kind of music I listen to got gene-spliced into one guy.

In no particular order other stuff:
Blackmore’s Night
Clamavi de Profundis
Omnia
Faun

Teach him early and remind him often about how to vet his sources. Things like making sure you know who’s funding what you’re reading, what the political reputation of the sites you’re reading on are, and so forth.

Honestly, this is probably the single most important internet skill that exists, second only to (maybe) information security / data privacy, and I didn’t get my first serious classroom lesson on this until I was in my Master’s degree program. This is a skill people need from goddamn grade school these days.

Yes, it can be tedious, yes it can be exhausting, but if you want to understand who is, or could be, pulling your strings, you have to understand how to vet your sources. Never learning to do this is the path to Fox News viewership.