Display MoreWherever Zelya comes it gets captured.
You surely don't get Putin visits to a frontline in your media.
You mates are fed by one-side propaganda.
Kupyansk my ass.
Looks like you are wrong again. Seems like it's always you who gets the one-sided propaganda media. Because you're always wrong.
All because of billionaires.
Just think - if we lowered taxes, maybe there would be less for the government to waste and give away.
The liberal way is to always increase taxes and get government more involved with everything.
The real problem is billionaires. They did this.
AI will blow over and go away soon. It's already reached it's peak capabilities and will never progress beyond what it is capable of right now.
is there even a contender to the beatles for greatest band?
Short answer: not really—at least not if you’re using all the usual criteria at once.
There are bands that contend in specific categories, but no band matches the Beatles across the full spectrum (innovation, songwriting depth, cultural impact, longevity of influence, and commercial + critical dominance).
Here’s how it usually breaks down.
Most “greatest band” arguments quietly combine five things:
Songwriting quality & range
Innovation (they changed what bands could do)
Cultural impact (fashion, attitudes, youth culture)
Influence on future artists
Commercial & critical success
The Beatles are the only band that ranks #1 or #2 in every category simultaneously.
Closest overall rival
✅ Longevity
✅ Cultural relevance
✅ Iconic catalog
❌ Less innovative musically
❌ Narrower emotional & stylistic range
❌ More “refiners” than “inventors”
Often ranked #2, but generally seen as greatest rock band rather than greatest band, period.
✅ Musicianship
✅ Influence on hard rock & metal
✅ Mythic legacy
❌ Smaller catalog
❌ Less pop/songwriting breadth
❌ Less cross-genre experimentation
Many argue Zeppelin made higher peaks of power, but not the same breadth or cultural reach.
✅ Conceptual ambition
✅ Studio innovation
✅ Album-oriented masterpieces
❌ Weak singles compared to Beatles
❌ Narrower emotional palette
❌ Less influence on songwriting craft
They dominate albums, but not songs in the Beatles sense.
The most serious musical challenger
✅ Brian Wilson rivaled Lennon–McCartney creatively
✅ Studio innovation (Pet Sounds)
❌ Internal collapse cut their run short
❌ Far smaller catalog of consensus classics
❌ Less cultural dominance
If history had gone differently, this might be the closest rival—but it didn’t.
✅ Iconic songs
✅ Freddie Mercury’s singular presence
❌ Less influence on songwriting evolution
❌ More theatrical than revolutionary
Beloved, but not reshapers of the musical landscape in the same way.
When serious polls are done (Rolling Stone, NME, BBC, musicians themselves), the result is remarkably consistent:
#1 Beatles
#2–#4 rotate among Stones, Zeppelin, Floyd
There’s debate below the Beatles—not above them.
…the Beatles aren’t just “a band,” they’re the grammar of modern rock songwriting.
Almost every major act since:
Learned song structure from them
Learned harmony from them
Learned studio thinking from them
Even bands that don’t sound like the Beatles are reacting to them.
There are great bands.
There are bands that rival them in specific lanes.
But there is no band that competes with the Beatles across the entire field.
Anyone feel free to list all of the bands that sit above the Beatles
no other band even comes close to The Beatles.
which major artists have cited beatles influence
The list is huge — across rock, pop, indie, metal, hip-hop, and even electronic music. Below are major, unquestioned artists who have explicitly cited The Beatles as a primary influence, often calling them the reason they started making music.
I’ll group them by era/style so it’s clearer how deep this goes.
These are artists who openly acknowledge the Beatles as foundational:
Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant)
The Rolling Stones (Keith Richards, Mick Jagger)
Pink Floyd (David Gilmour)
Queen (Freddie Mercury, Brian May)
Elton John
David Bowie
Eric Clapton
Tom Petty
Electric Light Orchestra (Jeff Lynne — practically built his career on Beatles DNA)
Aerosmith
Fleetwood Mac
Billy Joel
Bruce Springsteen
👉 Springsteen famously said the Beatles “showed us everything we could be.”
This is where Beatles influence becomes structural, not just sonic:
Radiohead
Oasis (especially Noel Gallagher — borderline obsessed)
Coldplay
U2
The Smiths (Johnny Marr)
R.E.M.
Wilco
The Flaming Lips
The Strokes
Arctic Monkeys
Vampire Weekend
Tame Impala
👉 Radiohead have said Revolver and The White Album shaped their approach to experimentation.
Even “anti-Beatles” scenes were still built on them:
Nirvana (Kurt Cobain cited Lennon constantly)
Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl)
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
Smashing Pumpkins
Green Day
👉 Cobain called John Lennon his hero, not a guilty pleasure.
This is where Beatles influence is inescapable:
Taylor Swift
Harry Styles
Adele
Ed Sheeran
Lady Gaga
Bruno Mars
Billie Eilish
Lana Del Rey
Phoebe Bridgers
👉 McCartney/Lennon songwriting is the template for modern pop storytelling.
Even outside guitar music:
Kanye West (album-as-art mindset)
Jay-Z
Dr. Dre
The Beastie Boys
Daft Punk
Gorillaz
Beck
👉 The idea that an album can be a statement rather than a singles collection comes straight from the Beatles.
Other bands influenced genres.
The Beatles influenced:
How songs are written
Who writes them
What albums are
What studios are for
What bands are allowed to attempt
That’s why artists who sound nothing like The Beatles still cite them.
Just as the Beatles were the greatest band ever.
There's a caveat though, to cast your vote you'll need to take your hands off those dicks and spit the third one out.
You may remain seated.
Most critics, historians, and musicians agree that The Beatles are the greatest band of all time.
Here’s why they’re usually placed at #1 — and why no other band quite matches their overall impact:
Virtually every rock, pop, indie, and alternative band that came after them was influenced by The Beatles in some way.
They reshaped songwriting, studio recording, and the idea of what a band could be
Artists from Led Zeppelin to Nirvana to Radiohead openly cite them
No other band changed the direction of popular music so completely, so fast.
Between 1963–1970, they evolved dramatically:
Early pop-rock (Please Please Me)
Folk-rock and introspection (Rubber Soul)
Studio experimentation (Revolver, Sgt. Pepper)
Hard rock, psychedelia, and orchestral fusion (The White Album, Abbey Road)
Most bands peak once. The Beatles reinvented themselves album after album.
Lennon–McCartney is widely considered the greatest songwriting partnership ever.
Hundreds of enduring songs
Mastery of melody, harmony, lyrics, and emotional range
George Harrison added some of their most spiritual and musically complex work (“Something,” “Here Comes the Sun”)
Very few bands had three elite songwriters in one group.
They helped turn the recording studio into a creative instrument:
Multitracking experimentation
Tape loops, backward recording, ADT
Non-Western instruments (sitar)
Concept albums
Modern recording and production owes them a huge debt.
They weren’t just musicians — they were a global cultural phenomenon:
Changed fashion, hair, attitudes, and youth culture
Broke barriers between “pop” and “serious art”
Their fame and influence still haven’t been equaled
Best-selling band of all time
Dominate “greatest album” and “greatest song” lists
Their catalog is still streamed and studied 60+ years later
While The Beatles usually rank #1, a few bands are often mentioned right behind them:
| Band | Why They’re Close |
|---|---|
| The Rolling Stones | Longevity, raw rock attitude |
| Led Zeppelin | Sheer power, musicianship |
| Pink Floyd | Concept albums, sonic ambition |
| Queen | Vocal and theatrical brilliance |
| The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds rivals Beatles’ best |
But no band combines innovation, influence, songwriting, and cultural impact as completely as The Beatles.
If “greatest” means most influential, artistically important, and enduring, The Beatles remain the clear consensus choice.
If you want, I can also break this down by your personal taste (rock, heavier, psychedelic, Americana, etc.) or compare them directly to bands like Zeppelin, Floyd, or even modern acts.
how far behind are next clostest bands
Short answer: there’s a clear gap — and most historians would say the next-closest bands are noticeably but not astronomically behind The Beatles.
Here’s a realistic way critics usually frame it:
Think of The Beatles as Tier 0
The next bands sit in Tier 1, just below them.
That gap isn’t about talent — it’s about total impact.
If The Beatles are 100:
| Band | Relative Standing | Why They’re Behind |
|---|---|---|
| The Rolling Stones | ~80–85 | Massive longevity, but less innovation |
| Led Zeppelin | ~75–80 | Immense influence, shorter run, fewer stylistic shifts |
| Pink Floyd | ~75 | Conceptual depth, narrower songwriting base |
| Queen | ~70–75 | Iconic peaks, less consistent albums |
| The Beach Boys | ~70 | Pet Sounds era rivals Beatles, but uneven catalog |
The Beatles transformed pop music multiple times in under a decade.
Other bands:
Innovated once or twice
Or stayed mostly within one core sound
The Beatles didn’t just have classics — they had an absurd number of them.
Most rival bands:
Have fewer universally agreed-upon “essential” songs
Rely on standout albums rather than an entire catalog
Many techniques associated with later bands were already pioneered by The Beatles.
Others expanded the vocabulary — they didn’t invent it.
The Beatles weren’t just influential — they were the center of gravity.
Other bands were hugely important within rock; The Beatles shaped youth culture globally.
The Beatles = The invention of the smartphone
Stones / Zeppelin / Floyd = the best phones that followed
Brilliant, essential, but still building on the original leap.
Some listeners value:
Heaviness → Zeppelin
Atmosphere → Floyd
Longevity → Stones
Virtuosity → Queen
So depending on personal taste, the gap can feel smaller.
But in academic music history, critical consensus, and influence, the gap is clear — The Beatles stand alone.
ChatGPT says this - for All Time - any period
Most common placement:
👉 Top 5 movie stars of all time
Often argued as Top 3, and by some as #1 depending on criteria.
Longevity: Major box-office star from 1983 → present (40+ years)
Consistency: No long “off” decades like many classic stars
Global draw: One of the few actors who truly opens films worldwide
Genre dominance: Action, drama, thriller, sci-fi
Cultural impact: Redefined the modern action star and blockbuster realism
Most serious lists look something like this (order varies):
Humphrey Bogart – classic Hollywood archetype
Cary Grant – timeless star charisma
Tom Cruise – modern-era dominance
Marlon Brando – acting influence
Paul Newman – longevity + cool factor
In pure movie-star power, Cruise often ranks higher than Brando and sometimes higher than Grant, because:
Grant and Bogart didn’t carry global franchises
Cruise’s box-office control lasted longer than anyone else’s
Greatest actor ever? No (that’s Brando, Olivier, De Niro territory)
Greatest movie star ever?
🔥 Very strong argument that Tom Cruise is #1
It's pretty much a consensus that Tom Cruise is the greatest living movie star.
Display MoreLast quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.
$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it "digital transformation."
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
I told everyone it would "10x productivity."
That's not a real number.
But it sounds like one.
HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.
I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."
They stopped asking.
Three months later I checked the usage reports.
47 people had opened it.
12 had used it more than once.
One of them was me.
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.
It took 45 seconds.
Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.
But I called it a "pilot success."
Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.
The CFO asked about ROI.
I showed him a graph.
The graph went up and to the right.
It measured "AI enablement."
I made that metric up.
He nodded approvingly.
We're "AI-enabled" now.
I don't know what that means.
But it's in our investor deck.
A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.
I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."
He asked what that meant.
I said "compliance."
He asked which compliance.
I said "all of them."
He looked skeptical.
I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."
He stopped asking questions.
Microsoft sent a case study team.
They wanted to feature us as a success story.
I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."
I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.
They didn't verify it.
They never do.
Now we're on Microsoft's website.
"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."
The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
He got 3,000 likes.
He's never used Copilot.
None of the executives have.
We have an exemption.
"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."
I wrote that policy.
The licenses renew next month.
I'm requesting an expansion.
5,000 more seats.
We haven't used the first 4,000.
But this time we'll "drive adoption."
Adoption means mandatory training.
Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
But completion will be tracked.
Completion is a metric.
Metrics go in dashboards.
Dashboards go in board presentations.
Board presentations get me promoted.
I'll be SVP by Q3.
I still don't know what Copilot does.
But I know what it's for.
It's for showing we're "investing in AI."
Investment means spending.
Spending means commitment.
Commitment means we're serious about the future.
The future is whatever I say it is.
As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
This proves that AI is a bust. It's going to blow over.
I meant those fucking idiots singing that song. Fucking horrible. That's not children shit. It's fucking horrible bullshit.
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No wonder why you're tasting music is so fucked up. What kind of a fucked up childhood show is that? Jesus Christ. That's fucking horrible.
Display MoreThe failures of AI:
A few days ago a neighbor asked me over to help with a drawer slide. Basically all the old rollers had broken off and the drawer was dragging. So I told them what they needed to get: "Get exactly what you have already. Take it to the store to make sure you can match it, or get the equivalent. Any Home Depot or Lowes probably has it."
Today I went over to help install it. They got something that was NOT the same. But I attempted to make it work anyway. But the drawer was too tall to mount in the track and without really cutting the top of the drawer down, it wasn't happening.
Cue 20 minute music montage of the neighbor and her son taking pictures of the old slides, asking AI what slides they were, where to get new slides, what the slides were specifically called... AI dove ***DEEP*** into a rabbit hole about slides, and somehow never really answered the question. It gave responses, but anyone with a triple digit IQ could tell that the answers weren't pertinent. The Son went on a 10 minute AI tangent that they were "german" slides and he'd need to custom order... And this was all in addition to the "research" they did the other night after I left the first time.
Once I got cleaned up having unmounted the new, incompatible slide, I did one search on Amazon for drawer slides. The first result seemed correct, and gave explicit clearances of what it needed to mount. Out comes the tape measure to check. Total time, 30 seconds. Total resources, One Human Brain.
Well, that proves AI is a failure! Lol!
What this tells me is that those people are fucking idiots.
Not sure whatever part they were looking for but all you have to do is take a picture of it and do a Google image search and AI will probably figure out what it is in 2 seconds and tell you where to buy it.
Good thing they have a super genius neighbor like you though.
