Posts by Tyler Grant76

Arthur Ruiz2 said:I wouldn't say they lack an education, honestly. They graduated from one of the oldest and best technical universities in Europe... you know, top-tier stuff. Still, I feel like whatever that thing organized just completely messed everything up. Maybe they were just expecting more than what actually happened.

Let's slow down here. What did you actually tell them? Seriously, I'm asking. No jokes.

Norde said:Look, they just overindulged in everything. One of them even divorced his wife to marry a Brazilian woman, and otherwise, they’re all engineers... they're polite enough not to say much about whether they're happy or not, but honestly, they were just bored. They were at the beach, sure, but since they're engineers, they wanted to sightsee... okay, they looked at the Old Town, which is a must. The beach didn't interest them much. I guess they swam, but it wasn't that big of a deal. Maybe because they're such a specific group—engineers—they just wanted to see more architecture.
Or maybe that one American lady organizing the tour talked up way more than Venice can actually offer; she probably hyped everything up so much that they expected more...

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Koka, if these gentlemen engineers from Scandinavia 😬 😂, after three days in Venice, run out of things to look at, then these gentlemen engineers from Scandinavia are simply too uneducated, or maybe just too stupid, or lazy, or perhaps just unmotivated to actually read the architecture. It's not like they don't deal with this stuff in their professional lives 😱 🤣

gentlepuma20 said:It’s lowercase, so s/t means self-titled—named after the band itself. Death disco - Death disco.

Thanks, I didn't quite catch that. 👍
I guess it's still worth giving it some more thought, though.

Nicholas Perez33 said:Maybe there'll be some kind of outcome... I guess. It’s just that we don't exactly have any better ideas than to just let things play out. 🙂

It’s kind of a shame to ruin an album title by shortening it to some internal shorthand. I mean, imagine someone actually trying to go out and buy your record. 🙂So, how would you even pronounce s/t? I mean, if you're stuck for ideas, you really need to come up with something more memorable in your writing. Maybe just... something that actually sticks.

Steven Collins38 said:It’s just weird... I mean, I'd probably do the whole thing for just 1 $0.00!
Don't you think over a million and a half $ is a bit much for a job like that?

Colton recently brought up a suggestion from the design association about setting price standards for different gigs. The rates varied depending on the client, which makes sense, I guess—the value of a single logo is obviously worlds apart for a local mom-and-pop shop versus a giant like Verizon.
The big-name designers end up quoting those massive, five-figure numbers for a logo, while a bunch of kids take on similar work for maybe a couple hundred bucks. Those kids, by being so cheap, I suppose, they end up screwing themselves and their colleagues over.

Verizon’s marketing is just a disaster (I suspect Greyhound is behind it), so they definitely overspent on the logo. I mean, sure, the old logo needed an update, but their entire strategy is a mess. Does anyone actually know who Verizon is even trying to target here? 😛

Tyler Grant76 said:so, can we actually know what kind of elephants they were?
or women?

Well, I guess we can 🙂 😁

But hey, you can just keep guessing 😂 until next time 👋

I wouldn't really go as far as calling those Aristotelian gems discriminatory against women or anything like that. If we're going to nitpick, and if we really want to 😁, even Russell—who passed away in the 70s and was a liberal—had his own moments regarding this topic ☕

I guess I just find it interesting whenever a "great mind" trips over something so trivial. Not even that kind of thing, though... more like when they just can't seem to explain an idea within their own framework.

Around the same era and in much of the same context, someone managed to calculate the circumference of the globe with incredible accuracy. Of course, just before that, another experimental philosopher had already figured out that we live on a round earth.
For a while there, pure speculation started to outpace actual insight. Because of that, treating those Aristotelian conclusions about things he didn't even understand as being just as valid as the idea that the world is a flat plane... well, that happened.
That kind of philosophical shift actually worked out perfectly for defending certain religious dogmas. So, I guess it isn't surprising that through that Aquinas, Aristotelian thought ended up getting woven right into Christian doctrine.

http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/brtexts.html

Here 👍

William Gonzalez3 said:I know some of you might not appreciate what I’m hinting at here, but maybe women back then really did have fewer teeth than men... mostly because their husbands were constantly "counting" them.

Man, I love... intellectual types...

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Bertrand Russell used to write about education, and he’d mention this little anecdote about Aristotle to show how philosophy sometimes just abandons experimentation as a valid method.
Basically, Aristotle claimed women have fewer teeth than men—probably because he just had his wife sitting right there to count them 😁. Then he argued kids would be healthier if conceived during a north wind. He even suggested a horse bite is more dangerous if the mare is pregnant. Oh, and apparently you can cure an elephant's insomnia by rubbing its shoulders with salt, olive oil, and warm water. Stuff like that. 😁

He was still a pretty decent guy, I guess 👍 😁

rustymaker60 said:to be fair, I don't know any artists who actually make a decent living from their work. what a tragedy.

Actually, I do. I know several. It’s funny, though—it seems like the ones making it are usually the ones putting in the actual hours, rather than people spending all day wallowing in self-pity for an audience.

I also know plenty of folks who aren't exactly rolling in cash, but they’re pretty happy just being able to live off what they love doing. And honestly? People like that are pretty rare in the general population.

not to mention how much capital you need to sink into any kind of "business" when there isn't a patron backing you up😢

Then how do you explain the fact that Pips are still around, and still releasing albums?😲 😲 😁

banderas said:Well, there’s actually another interesting point here. Apparently, their plan involves paying upfront copyright fees for blank CDs to prevent potential piracy. But, I guess if I pay that fee and then burn a pirated disc, isn't that disc technically legal since the royalty was already covered? Right? 😁

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Can we just hire an expert to measure exactly how delusional these proposers are?

pet said:Who exactly is this Mario Prizmic?

He's an ex-journalist, used to be an editor over at CNN and Deska.😬 I guess I'm not even sure where he's based now.😁 😁

Maybe give the orthopedic department at the Mayo Clinic a shot. About 15 years ago, I nearly ended up stuck in a wheelchair after a bad fall where I almost herniated a disc in my spine. They really took care of me there; I was in treatment for months, and honestly, I haven’t had any lasting issues since. Surgery would have been such a massive gamble—maybe a 50/50 shot at never walking again—so they're just a wonderful memory to me 🙂
I know they offer specific physical therapy programs for older women, because my grandmother actually went there.
Another route could be a wellness retreat or a spa resort.

The specialists over at Mihanović are great if anyone needs help managing arthritis.

Kesten said:What's even being discussed here?

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Thanks for the heads up 😉 🙂

Clota said:So, regarding modesty—this is how I see it. I’m fine with unbranded clothes. I don't need a luxury car just to prove something. A smaller vehicle works for me. When someone tells me I did a great job on something, I won't spend the next ten minutes bragging about myself; I’ll just say thanks. I know I did well, and honestly, that’s just confidence. I guess that proves confidence and modesty can actually coexist. And I certainly don't feel the need to shout about being smart... there's a practical side to this too—I’m not going to go into massive debt for a flashy car and then struggle to afford basic living expenses. You agree there's some logic in that, right?

To me, choosing not to flaunt status symbols just so I don't end up broke later isn't really modesty; it's just smart financial planning, I suppose.
I don't have a car because I don't need one, but when I eventually do, I want one I actually like. 😁 The price tag or whether people view it as a status symbol doesn't really matter to me. I’m not going to buy a cheap clunker just to perform "modesty" if I can actually afford a nice ride.
Similarly, I won't deny myself something that I can comfortably afford and that brings me joy. There aren't many things like that, by the way. I just don't have a huge drive for ownership.

Compliments about my ideas, my work, or even my look—they make me happy 🙂, but I don't cling to them. And I don't really count them as genuine compliments if they come from someone who, in my opinion, doesn't actually know what I'm talking about. Those feel pro forma and pretty useless.
Also, if I’m proud of something, I’ll tell the people I care about. Seeing my loved ones succeed also makes me happy 🙂. I wouldn't call that vanity; I see it more as an exchange. Someone's work is just a reflection of their thoughts—it's a way to communicate. I don't see why I should hide it, or downplay it, if it happens to be the most exciting thing in my world at the moment.

Here are my quotes and questions for you:

Modesty? I mean, what’s really the point of it?
And why would anyone want to hide or downplay their skills or knowledge? I might have some trait that seems amazing to others, but to me, it’s just... nothing. It's just how I am. So, if I don't react to praise for something that feels like my baseline, people might call that modesty. But it isn't. We just measure things differently, I guess.

Alright, then walk me through it.

You didn't actually answer me: what is the purpose of being modest? What exactly makes it a positive thing?

If you're reading this as an attack, a provocation, or some attempt at manipulation or confrontation, then well, screw it. 🙂 Tyler Grant76 just likes to talk, to have a conversation. 🎉 🎉
I don't really pay attention to how many posts someone has made.

rustyangler68 said:I consider myself a high-quality person. And I'm Confident enough to accept that others might see things differently than I do, without letting it shake my own views. I don't feel the need to over-explain myself, either.

Well, I didn't actually ask you about over-explaining. I was asking how you perceive modesty. So, I guess I don't really get why you'd even bother responding if your take is just, "If you don't see it, explaining it for hours won't change anything, so there's no point wasting my time." We're having a conversation here. I'm interested in hearing from other people. 🙂 And honestly, if I get some meaningful insight that builds on my own perspective, I'm just grateful for it.