u/Old_Cucumber_1343

Thank god the EU has some functional bodies that actually get shit done.

17 of my bands songs were stolen to create SUNO and I can't even get ahold of SOCAN

People say it’s parking or it’s construction or it’s safety, but the real problem with downtown is Edmontonians.

I work downtown. I live close to downtown. I workout downtown. I go to dinner downtown. I go out downtown. I go to movies downtown. I go to shows downtown.

But to hear people talk about the core, you’d think that none of this is possible. You’d think that it’s physically impossible to get to, that there’s literally nowhere to park, and that you won’t make it out alive. And that’s the problem. We keep telling ourselves these untruths and making the real problems worse.

Like, Greta didn’t close because of “construction” or “city council”. I’m sorry, but it didn’t. It closed because people stopped going. It closed because we kept saying “there’s nowhere to park” or some other lame excuse.

And then we complain that there’s nothing to do in the core. That it’s failing. That someone else isn’t doing enough to keep it alive.

And we do go downtown. 18,000 of us, forty-one nights a year, plus playoffs. Rogers Place proves every single one of these excuses is a lie. When there’s a game on, we somehow make it work. We somehow make it there and back.

So the excuses aren’t real. They’re a habit. We’ve decided downtown is a hassle, and now we say it out loud so often that it’s become the reason we don’t go, which is the reason there’s less to go to, which is the reason we say it.

If we want downtown to be better, we have to go downtown. That’s it. Not a plan, not a task force, not a report. Go. Eat there. Shop there. Bring your friends there. Complain about it while you’re standing in it.

Because the version of downtown we keep saying we want is the version we stopped showing up for.

Hopefully this will be good news to real artists. I curate some large Spotify playlists. Myself and my team listen to a ton of songs every day and keep our playlists slop free. The Submithub A.I. Checker is about 99.9% accurate now and is improving all the time. I don't work for them btw, my playlisting is with another company.

These threads always get derailed because one guy comes out and says "Yeah but my song is real and they said it wasn't"

1. That was probably a while ago, it's gotten WAY better.
2. I process 1000s of songs from so many genres, and mix music, I see daily how accurate this thing is. I encourage you to go try it with a ton of songs and see for yourself.
3. Some of those people are slop creators trying to muddy the waters and make you think this tech doesn't work yet. This is a big problem, those people always lurk outside of their AI subs and try to fuck with musician's heads even more.

As the tech progresses, so do the detectors. Have a great day real musician friends!

in most sports there are 2 teams that play and 1 wins. assuming things are equal you have a 1/2 chance of winning. so going 1-1 is .500

in story warz there are 5 teams that play and 1 wins. you have a 1/5 chance of winning assuming all things are equal, so going 1-4 is roughly the same as going 1-1 in team sports.

I don't like Chelsea, that's not the point of this. Just weird to see people calling violence over a few jokes justified.

"Matt's wife is not a comedian" - no but she is in a comedy environment, including the green room of a comedy venue. You might get splashed if you walk too close to the Dolphin tank.

you'll never catch me calling for violence over jokes

if you're gonna have redban read the stories you gotta have them on a screen too

bro can't pronounce sentences correctly

10/10 lineup tonight