RIP Candystand.

Fuck dude even on LEMMY of all places people still need internet trophy points.

entire education system seems to be based around teaching people technical skills instead of musicality

Right, because what’s considered “musical” is highly subjective and would be useless without the theoretical knowledge to analyze and describe others’ playing and apply it to your own. Good luck playing jazz without knowing what a II-V-I or major scale is. I’ve taught guitar part time and most of my students were 12 year olds who wanted to play like Kirk Hammet but didn’t want to learn theory, guess what? They sucked and had no idea what to play that wasn’t memorized tabs. Once I convinced them to just learn A minor on the low E string after a few lessons they could thrash improvise riffs as well as anyone, some of them even discovered modes (mostly phrygian) all on their own by just fooling around at home! Creativity comes with experience, experience comes with a base level of knowledge about what you’re doing.

coworker’s nerdy interests are, then do some light research

Not saying this is bad advice, but it can feel disappointing and invalidating when they don’t reciprocate. “Yeah that’s cool I guess, anyways…” stings a bit when it’s finally your turn to share.

I’m not a basement dweller because I can’t afford one.

We understand that investors who pushed for enshittification don’t care about ex-redditors being angry about our website being ruined, that’s exactly why we’re happy they’re making less money off it.

I don’t think it’s even that, this is a generation where without concent their lives have been recorded online since before they were even born (parents posting baby names or gender hopes on facebook, etc). They are forced by social and economic pressures to merge their online life with real life, and are constantly monitored attacked by adults and other students for literally anything. Being a dumb edgelord on facebook when you’re 12 can now lose you future college or job opportunities. I think the whole generation has panopticon PTSD where the only way to ensure your archived past wont haunt you is to avoid anything perceived as cringe or controversial, and in turn enforce those rigid social norms on others.

Papers have an abstract and summary sections SPECIFICALLY for this reason and usually aren’t more than a paragraph; there’s no excuse to use LLM.