music is so hard because u are supposed to add things to the song but i put something in like this and then im entertained for the next 4 hours listening to it on loop
nah it's probably that the producers/mixing/mastering engineers get writing credits so that they can get income from the composition rather than just the master recording
learned today that macklemore has a song on his new album called 1984. it makes no reference to the book at all. it’s like it doesn’t even exist. the song is just about dancing at a club . that’s so fucking choice.
i disagree with the premise & my reasons have been pretty well covered by others in the reblogs but i do think it's fine to cheat in school, mostly for the reason that school is a coercive system that you can't really viably opt out of. so, like, cheating becomes resistance against an oppressive involuntary system which is kind of swag and cool
like you as a student have no obligation to follow the moral code of the oppressors (the people in charge of exam boards etc etc). i am against grading as a concept anyways
It's fine to cheat in school for the same reason it's fine not to vote or fine to eat meat (as long as you personally aren't the one killing the animal, and it's not being done at your request). The effects of actions are not summative. "But if everyone acted that way!" <- assuming a false antecedent. The free rider problem is a problem for systems; you personally being a free rider is fine, because the effect size of your actions is small.
I think this is my most controversial belief, but it's just like... obviously, physically true. All the arguments against my position are bad. I mean you can dispute the individual examples I gave if you claim the effects of individual action are different, like you could change my mind on these that way. But the general principle here is clearly correct.