I don’t have a great scientific answer. But if you follow the advice from the guy in your profile picture, training your own mind and acting skillfully would on average have the best chance to inspire others to do the same

I agree. But the cool thing about it is that you can change it (on an individual level) if you pay attention. It’s just kind of hard. But I guess it is not something to expect on a broad scale, given the course of humanity

Even radar would not cause cancer. At least not that I know of

I know them only from a feature with Soft Lipa but never really checked them out separately. Gotta do that!

Thanks a lot :) I do know Giraffes? Giraffes! a bit, and I’m also a great fan of math rock. This is also something my friends don’t understand haha. I think all of your recommendations are awesome after checking them out! I will definitely put some of those in my music library. I liked Peela a lot, feels almost like a more modern blend of T-Square and Casiopea.

Absolutely! These are the obvious ones, maybe you already know them:

• T-Square
  • “TRUTH” is an absolute classic, just like “サーキットの放浪者”, and “Travellers”
• Casiopea
  • I think “Be” is my favourite Album, but all are solid
• Masayoshi Takanaka
  • the rainbow goblin album is my favourite, I think
  • I watch this one when I’m sad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDK5Bluh5A

And then also some that are maybe lesser known (no particular order):

• Katsumi Horii Project
  • They have quite a lot of songs. “Way to morning” or “Flashback” are good examples. I also like “Jungle of Heaven”
• Trix
  • “ECCENTRIX” is really nice, just like “An Index”
• Dimension
• Himiko Kikuchi
• Naniwa Express
• Yuji Toriyama
• Chikara Ueda & The Power Station
• Toshiki Kadomatsu
• The Gran Turismo soundtrack also has some hidden Gems here and there

I think what I like about this genre is that it combines very catchy melodies/riffs and chord progressions with really creative jazzy solos. I have not really found much recent stuff (>2010), though. But I can recommend SOIL & Pimp Sessions. They are more recent and more traditional-jazz-oriented.

Bonus if you like light prog/math rock: Check out Elephant Gym. Spring Rain (春雨) is one of my favourite songs.

I really love Japanese jazz fusion. None of my friends understand my excitement about the EWI solos, they just say it sounds like Mario Kart music lol. I’m also into Buddhism, but dont have anyone else with this interest.

At work, I have a very knowledgeable colleague who is quite the Linux nerd. I have been moved into their department and I feel like they never had the chance to share all of their accumulated knowledge with someone, so they kinda dump it onto me and every little question has the chance to become a lecture. I am very thankful for it though, because I get learn a ton but sometimes you just wanna get a bool, without learning kernel internals that are absolutely not related to the question

Using NixOS at home and I swear I’m not a furry! At work, I use CachyOS (Arch). My wife is sad that there was no mention of Solus…