I mean getting more than a 3rd of the population to watch anything at the same time is pretty much impossible at this point. The Superbowl in the US is the closest thing to a unifying cultural moment but the monoculture still continues to fade.
I grew up in the 90s and 00s so I'm sure I have a very different relationship with the music of the second half of the last century, but I love new wave with devo being one of my favorite bands of all time. I can also certainly enjoy some classic rock. I also love to listen to high quality recordings of classical pieces and especially love folk and the blues. I'm not very familiar with Chinese folk but would love to hear your leaf guy lol.
For me punk and other hardcore genres are a huge part of my taste but I also love Latin music, pop, emo, prog rock, psychedelic, most hip hop genres, and a lot of indie genres that are debatably separate from 'rock' but that kind of splitting hairs.
I agree with you that a lot of country is not so great but I think that has a lot to do with the "kid rock effect" you mentioned where many of those artists create propaganda at the expense of artistry.
But really my main point is there is good to be found in every genre and in the same way you don't need to be Hispanic to enjoy bad bunny you don't need to be a Chinese arborist to enjoy a man playing a leaf.
The most recent of those two was in 2007... There have been plenty of good acts that have played the super bowl since then. I think you might just not like most music.
The main reason EVs are safer in a crash is due to a low center of gravity which makes them extremely unlikely to rollover. Trucks and SUVs only make people feel safer but because of the much higher rollover risk they are actually generally less safe than most cars.
Same. And with my computer not being windows 11 compatible it gave me the push to get rid of my windows partition all together. The tech industry is very good at making their products as unappealing as possible.
I'm not a vegan but it is very annoying how much I still see vegan hate on lemmy. For a place that's generally pretty mature, it's lame to see how many people get mad at the thought of other people not wanting to eat dead animals.
I'm not sure if you're American, but for me as an American Maga impacts my life many times more than china or Russia so maga's evil is far more relevant in my life. But either way you are doing a lot of whataboutism.
conservatives feeling free to be transphobic on lemmy is a bad thing actually