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Original quote may have been the following by Steven Jay Gould in his book, The Panda's Thumb:

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops

That's a Stephen Jay Gould quote.

As Stephen Jay Gould wrote in The Panda's Thumb: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

A successful fail child? Priceless.

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Yeah I would have expected it to take a million at least

Her parents practically grew her in a lab, it was way more than 300k that did it. Alexander Avila just put out a video that went over her life and rise as part of its analysis on the greater theme of the video

One of my partners friends almost went to jail over a fight at a Taylor Swift concert

Only got away with it because she smashed in the side of her new Jeep getting away

When she told me this, it took me completely by surprise because this lady is a therapist

But you dont understannnnnd! Taylor is such a genuine good person and her music ... its like it was written just for me, me a young woman between the ages of 18 and 36! You just hate her because she is a successful woman in a male dominated industry! Her music is objectively moving and real.

In other news, someone please uh forcefully upload to the brains of all Swifitie stans or whatever 'Cult of Personality' on infinite repeat.

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

I know /so many/ self proclaimed liberals and leftists who just get seething with rage angry when you mention that Taylor Swift's music is basically cookie cutter pop rock, and that she comes from an obscenely wealthy family of bank executives.

My favorite people in her cult are the ones convinced she's queer and leaving them hints in her music

I can't explain it completely, but I can say she gives way more convoluted and involved biographical information in her songs than most musicians and encourages her followers to be parasocial, and seemingly this interest in The Lore has lead her more obsessive fans to spread interpretations of her songs that are absolutely ridiculous.

I thought the point of the comm was silly memeing and critical support for Taylor's status as an iconic lightning rod for chud anger - does this (not new) information obviate the need the community is fulfilling?

Its not possible for Taylor swift music to be bad. Hundred's of talented people work on its production. Not liking slop from because it came from a giant slop machine is a perfectly valid response.

I love eating tastycakes. I am also revolted by tastycakes.

Half of the people are 40+ whose entire personality is “not understanding the youth.” The other half are 18+ whose entire personality is “I hate when girls scream and get excited. They are icky”

The eldest zoomers would have been starting middle school in 2008, there's probably a substantial amount of people here that were young and not as online when the info started circulating, and spreading the info fell off as it becomes old news.

Most current and former twitter users probably still do not understand that Musk was actually sued into buying Twitter after he tried to back out of his decision to buy it something like 72 hours prior.

I basically have a theory that your brain just molds itself to the format of the social media website you use the most, so by that, we have a lot of Twitter users (former, more so than current, at this point) who more or less forgot how to have or hear an idea that takes more than about 5 seconds to think about.

Correct. Actual talented musicians struggle their entire lives and often die very early from the stress related to working like a normal person and also being out late playing in clubs. Wes Montgomery was a welder throughout his entire career, he died at 45. Wes had more talent in his right thumb than t swift has all over.