No, it happened in the early 80s so bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Budgie, Saxon etc
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The ones where I have filterable control over what I see and who I interact with and who aren't pushing ragebait at me or tracking me. So, fediverse services basically.
You can tell them about The Royal Standard which dates back to 1086 and is in the Doomsday Book or Ye Olde Fighting Cocks which is dated to 793.
As I get older ebooks are simply better. I can adjust font, font size, line height, kerning, leading, margins, backlight warmth on a device that can carry all the thousands of books I have and which weighs ounces.
It's difficult to convey to non Brits just how strong and deep the urge to place all citizens under total surveillance runs in the political classes. Its beyond party politics - all parties want it and have for decades. We have (I think) the largest CCTV system in Europe, possibly the world and the police use facial recognition as a matter of course and encourage private businesses to use facial recognition too.
Sundial by Catriona Ward. No spoilers but its a very dark psychological horror. I'm not far into it but I'm already hooked.
Excession and Player of Games are my two favourite Culture novels.
If you don't want to listen (which is cool, audio isn't for everyone) you can download the transcript - head to the archive/resources page and you can grab the PDF from there :)
It wasn't my first time reading it (its one of my favourite books!) but it was for my two comrades so the discussion was pretty far ranging, on both the surface level of the book and the subtext too.
Hate is too strong a word I think - I nothing them - but they produce the sort of soulless indie/pop ballad that you know will end up in the soundtrack of Hollywood paint-by-numbers romcom that would've gone straight to DVD a decade or so ago. The unending radio play rotation would force the song (and we could be talking about any and all Coldplay songs here) into your brain and then five years later you'd find yourself humming it as you suddenly realised a longe bar version of it is playing in the lift (elevator USians) you're in.
The threadiverse tech is better (Lemmy/Piefed/MBin etc) and it is a great feeling to know I'm not getting tracked and profiled by big tech or inundated by ads, or force fed ragebait via an algorithm I neither want nor need. The users are better, mostly, although I have noticed an uptick over the last 3 or 4 months of reddit-style dickheads being dickheads - but I can just block them.
Niche content will come I think. If the threadiverse can resist the self-defeating drive to 'grow at all costs' and just let it organically grow, more people will come but a lot more slowly. But of course that will bring a change in the user culture too. Its quite nice being somewhere with low to no tolerance for right-wing shit.
As for Reddit, I don't have an account any more. My main of almost Digg migration antiquity was deleted when Spez shit the bed over the API thing but I'd been on Lemmy prior to that anyway off an on. My alt got deleted about 6 months ago when I realised I hadn't used it for months. If I absolutely have to visit a sub I use a front end.
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind - except for Hulk Hogan" - John Donne, probably.