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Genius tried to do the same, allowing you to use a browser extension to add annotations to any website text. Their extension was banned (for "interfering" with content?). As Gab expects, they will be banned as well.

I hit the city and I lost my band
I watched the lozenge take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done

Sorry. That just doesn't ring for me like the original.

Is it Fruitcake or Fruit Cage? Learn your memes!

https://genius.com/Peter-gabri...

https://genius.com/Isaac-asimo... An example of why you shouldn't skimp on thinking out your programming.

and our wealthy and ruling class are no longer terrified of the Russians.

I don't think you've been paying attention to the corporate media recently. At least not for the last two years.

Massive public works projects and good government pay for them further increased wages. And a massive tech boom driven largely by discoveries made at Public Universities helped too (Internet anyone?).

Yeah that's not how it's seen by the proletariat.

https://genius.com/Gil-scott-h...

googling on four words from a lyric

like this one?

By far the worst is the hamburger lady

If being #1 all the time is so important, feel free to race to the bottom and self-destruct.
This kind of situation is not exclusive to Youtubers.

The caste of coffee-achievers didn't perform like they planned
The morning rush-hour traffic is our play of false elan
So run around your frantic track and lay you down to sleep
Tomorrow's the redemption
We strive for that exception

And, in a labor camp, you don't get a choice....I"ve yet to see any area of work in the US where they hold a gun to your head, and force you to stay as an employee against your will and not allowing you to quit and seek out alternative employment.

Being poor is effectively illegal. If you don't have money, you wind up having to do illegal things to exist. Some of these things are only mildly illegal, but they can lead in various ways to loss of possessions. Penalties for a lot of typical homeless behavior include fines... against people who don't have money. If you get into enough of this trouble long enough, they'll lock you up for long intervals — either in a prison rape factory, or an insanity-inducing facility for the criminally insane.

It's better than a literal labor camp, but there's definitely a similar mechanism at work. As it turns out, people work harder if they think they're getting a good deal. Most people are pretty easy to fool, so you fool 'em. The remainder you either lock up as a warning to others, or scare into working (by locking up that middle group.) Of course, it's a lot more complicated than that; there are various shades of tricked and scared. Foundation of society, anxiety, suppress it if you can.

Or, have I missed something these past few decades?

If you have a roof over your head and know where your next paycheck is coming from, you are one of the 8%... worldwide. The rates are much better here; The current U-6 unemployment rate is 7.8%, but even that fails to account for at least 7.5 additional million workers who are unemployed. The U-2 is based on a claim of 6,346,000 unemployed workers, and it is little more than half of the U-6; This puts the total actual number of unemployed at somewhere in the vicinity of twenty million, with a rate of around 10 or 11 percent.

So uh, congrats on being part of the 90%, I guess. But that percentage is headed downwards. Young people are choosing to stay in school longer; I know for my part, when I did that it was because I didn't know what else I was going to do with myself, and there was grant and loan money available to me as a student. Others are no doubt working on more advanced degrees, in the hope that will differentiate them from other applicants, and it will; but in this economy, most of them are taking on massive student loan debt for that purpose which may never pay off.

It's principles that really count, the good news being that most of us share far, far more principles than we differ on.

Todd Rundgren has an EXCELLENT song addressing that exact point (that we are all more alike than different, regardless of politics, religion, etc). The Title is "Family Values", on his solo album from 1995, "The Individualist".

Definitely worth a listen! Here ya go:

https://genius.com/Todd-rundgr...

It was an "Enhanced" CD, with an (interactive!) video animation to go with each song. I can't find the one for "Family Values"; but here's a version of the song that is VERY close to the one on the album. Sounds just like a slight remix, but close enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Enjoy!

Back in 1996 Bill Nye was saying, correctly, that sex is determined by chromosomes

http://thefederalist.com/2017/...

By 2017 he was teaming up with Rachel Bloom for this masterpiece about gender fluidity

https://genius.com/Rachel-bloo...

The 1996 chromosomes was removed from the version of the show on Netflix, who claim it was delivered that way by Buena Vista. Basically it wasn't politically incorrect to say that sex is determined by chromosomes then, but it is now.

http://freebeacon.com/culture/...

A segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender on an episode of the educational children's show "Bill Nye the Science guy," is cut out on the Netflix version.

Netflix did not edit Bill Nye The Science Guy. The series was delivered that way by Buena Vista TV, according to a Netflix spokesperson.

In the original episode, titled "Probability," a young woman told viewers, "I'm a girl. Could have just as easily been a boy, though, because the probability of becoming a girl is always 1 in 2."

"See, inside each of our cells are these things called chromosomes, and they control whether we become a boy or a girl, " the young woman continued. "See, there are only two possibilities: XX, a girl, or XY, a boy."

But in the version of the episode uploaded to Netflix, the segment has been cut entirely. While noncontroversial at the time, the 1996 segment appears to contradict Netflix's new series "Bill Nye Saves the World."

The new show endorses a socially liberal understanding of gender, under which gender is defined by self-identification rather than genetics and there are more than just the two traditional genders.

Other science that liberals want removed from TV and the Internet includes race differences in mean IQ or indeed anything, or anything that casts doubt on the catastrophist view of global warming.

Yes, yet another weapon of 'math' destruction of a creative art form. It's about time I go home and play my guitar and compose a song about the death of creativity.

I get the angle Ed Newton-Rex is coming at here; it would be a really nice plug-in addition to maybe some high-end studio engineering software, but to say we're going to completely deface human creativity in song writing? Bullshit, I say, sir. The best stuff comes from love, pain, suffering, hard times (and good times), and everything else --- I think I almost quoted an Alice in Chains tune there, but case in point that a living for musical creativity is a lifetime of milking scars to some, and entertainment, motivation, inspiration and fidelity to the rest of us.

I've posted this before, on Slashdot, but I can't find it now. I very much want to see a standard digital album format. Something simple and open, like a zip file with a standard folder structure and files easy to find within it.

I want high-resolution images of the album art, the original liner notes in both EPUB and PDF format, lyrics (ideally with optional time marks so that the lyrics can be displayed properly as the song plays) and room for extras. Like, I once saw a GIF of the cover of Wish You Were Here with an animation so the flames looked like they were burning... what the heck, let's have the album art optionally moving.

If I have a home entertainment system hooked up to a large screen in my living room, the album art can show while the music plays.

The old beautiful album art? I want to see it bigger than ever and in digital quality. I'd love to look at the details in the cover of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

I figured Apple would have done this by now, and it would be patented and locked down and only work right on an AppleTV. But nobody has done it.

Heck, if this was done properly, I might be willing to buy again some albums I bought on CD and ripped, just because I can afford it and the extras would be nice.

And it would be interesting to see new albums designed from the start to be in this format, doing things I'm not clever enough to dream about yet.

Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

There are tools like Genius that allow web pages to be annotated beyond the control of the publisher (attaching comments to highlighted text), allowing lies to be challenged in-situ, before their sharing reaches critical mass.

But for this to make a difference, you'd have to ensure that the annotations are widely seen. An annotation system should come with the default install of web browsers (including the Facebook internal one), and if not enabled by default, the user should be asked whether they want it enabled.

But this wouldn't fix the problem of fake articles being popular simply because they tell people something shocking that panders to what they want to hear. Readers sometimes don't care about the truth. They want the entertainment, smugness, and social bonding of an interesting and validating lie. The National Enquirer problem. So it's acceptable if annotations just damp the problem down, rather than eliminate it.

Well I don't even have a smartphone, so that makes me TEN TIMES as humble as you!

Think you're really righteous?
Think you're pure in heart?
Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!
I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like...

I couldn't even make it through this absolute nonsense. It was just a random series of words without any sort of logic or "red line". In other words: exactly what you can expect from the pathetic joke they call "AI".

>>The dialogue seems like it could have been written by a schizophrenic. It made me wonder: have AI programs such as ELIZA been used to diagnose/treat/study schizophrenia? I am genuinely curious.

Then get to it.

Do no such thing. Do not create dystopia's where the genius of Beckett and Joyce is called a mental illness. Where you find such dystopia's, deconstruct them and reassemble them in utopian forms.

Even if it did, no foul play is allowed:

http://genius.com/Frank-zappa-...

Speak to me
Oh no
The golden shower must have shorted out
His master circuit
He's, he's, oh my God
I must have plooked him
Hey
To death
Hey

Central Scrutinizer:

This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER
You have just destroyed one model XQJ-37 Nuclear Powered Pan-Sexual Roto-Plooker
And you're gonna have to pay for it!
So give up, you haven't got a chance

Joe:

But I
I, I, I, I, I
I can't pay
I gave all my money
To some kinda groovy religious guy
Two songs ago

Central Scrutinizer:

Come on out son
Between the two of us
We'll find a way to
Work it out

Procrastination is my sin, it brings me naught but sorrow, I know that I should stop it, in fact I will tomorrow.

"They say tomorrow is always a day away..." http://genius.com/1981516/Migu... Tim S.

Like Snagglepuss I'll step to the left

>Let's say the politically revised figures are correct. That means in 30 years (2045 being only 30 years away now) sea level rise will have been 3.6 *inches*.

You got many things plainly wrong..

First, the sea level grows at a non-linear rate. The formula level(time)=time*actual_rate is plain wrong. The rate is accelerating.

>Which airport is that going to put "underwater"? Please explain.

Second, the sea-level is an average. What about the variance? Higher tides, higher waves, ...

>You warming alarmists are worse than the anti-vaccers in terms of just chucking reality out the window, even when you get to make up your own rules!

Third, you are relying on ad hominen fallacious argument.

Oh did I share this: http://rap.genius.com/P-blackk... Can't be India, Nah!!! Gotta be Pakistan or Syria. You have a lot of fun for the few hours you're left with.