Alcohol is bad, but smoking is worse.
Smoking is both way more addictive and it is a bigger health risk.
It’s rare to be a moderate smoker, generally you either don’t smoke at all, or if you do you are a smoker, with numerous health risks.
With alcohol moderate use is the norm, and only excessive use will make you an alcoholic, resulting in numerous health risks.

AFAIK it has only lately become known that even moderate alcohol use is still a health risk. AFAIK mostly causing intestine cancer.
So instead we have campaigns warning against drinking to much, which was also how it started with cigarettes.

I’m stupid, I always mistake Meddle for being named Echoes, I think it’s because the Echoes number is the entire side 2, and because the ear with the rings in the water seems to me to illustrate echoes. So to me the proper name of the album should be “Echoes”. 😋
But yes Fearless is a great number too, Climb your hills your own way. My guess is this is somewhat inspired by Syd Baretts situation at the time. There is this sadness mixed with hope. This was also a major part of The Dark Side of the Moon.

Absolutely all great albums, I also had kind of an Echoes period. A Saucerful of Secrets with Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun is amazing too.
But Dark Side of the Moon somehow contains the essence of everything else Pink Floyd had made at the time, and somehow packs it more perfectly.
Not that I was aware of that when I first heard Dark Side of the Moon, but looking back, that album is their peak achievement.
And after Wish You Were here it changed and became something different, it is still good, but it doesn’t have quite the same magic.

Obviously all subjective, you can put in IMO basically at the end of every line. 😋

Amazing album, I can’t think of another album that has been an equal musical influence on me.
I was a kid when it came out, and I used to put it on lying on my back and listening to it with headphones when I went to bed.

Maybe similar flavor, but they can’t possibly be as bad, because much of what FOX does would be illegal.

Yes, which is really stupid, some people seem to think that freedom of expression means that sites have to allow their stupidity. Which is far from the case.

I guess my mind was elsewhere, it’s not that the thought is completely alien to me.

Yes you are right.

I agree, and It’s all because of the distorted form of freedom of speech they have in USA, we generally don’t have that problem in European democracies.
For instance FOX News is simply illegal by European standards, because they lie and distort reality.

Ah she’s a lesbian then? I didn’t consider that.

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Confirmation bias.

Yes I saw the unpacking of such a box. Looked pretty nice actually. But you’d have to be pretty stupid to fall for it. So IDK if it had any effect.

IDK why, but that’s actually funny. 👍 🤣

I was very unsure that Orban hadn’t rigged the election, and Hungary would become like Belarus.
I am so relieved to see that democracy worked in Hungary, despite Orban controlling most of the media.

If true we wouldn’t have free will, but god does not exist, anymore than Harry Potter exists.

Also the concept of an all powerful god is moronic.
Can god create a rock so heavy even he can’t lift it?
So theologians have changed it to god is the maximum powerful implicating: That is possible.
But clearly that means there are things god can’t do, because there is a limit to his power.

EDIT PS:
That also means that god can’t know the future with free will existing at the same time. Because that is impossible.
And although free will is debated philosophically, and we don’t know exactly how it can exist, after 40 years of pondering the concept, I have reached the conclusion that we actually do have free will. Because our consciousness build on abstractions that are more than the sum of the parts of the physical brain.

Evil is a subjective perception, that is only possible because we have consciousness and free will.

My gosh, it’s so rare I have a chance to use my printer, thanks for sharing. 🤣

OK I read it as Linux won’t cut it if we are forced to use Microsoft.
Microsoft will of course do everything possible to create that situation, as they’ve been doing very successfully since the 80’s.

How the fuck is Linux a trap compared to the shenanigans of Microsoft?
Microsoft and other proprietary vendors are the trap, and Linux is the way to avoid it.