In my case, in my self-loathing younger days, I answered the question "what do you want to be when you grow up?" with "I want to be a garbage collector."

Now, I'm collecting garbage, but because I want to apply the boy scout principle: leave the place cleaner than when you arrived.

 

I'm happy at where OPM is right now. It's in a much better place than when I originally encountered it. I think a lot of it is because of the artists being able to distribute their work in streaming services without relying on record labels.

  1. I think the CC licensing would help the artist insulate themselves from market pressure and allow them to release songs that are more in line with their identity as artists. In a way, learn from some of what made recent K-Pop relatively less popular to Filipinos recently (trend hunting and catering to a big-spending Western audience, for example). Making the record labels have a lot of say can kill or mute what makes OPM special

  2. Sa tingin ko, yung gatekeeping ng record labels ang malaking dahilan kung bakit nagkaroon ng phase na ang OPM ay associated lang sa ballad covers, birit-artists, and novelty songs. Most people who don't like these genres would gravitate to foreign music. Kaya din sumikat ang K-Pop noong 2000s and 2010, dahil sa production values.

  3. CC licenses would explicitly encourage fan engagement like covers and use in remix culture

I follow F1. No matter how the regulations are changed year after year, teams find a way to exploit loopholes so that they may win the championship.

Corruption is like that. It's a human character flaw. More importantly, it's not unique to Filipinos. It can be restrained.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I'm consciously trying to be done with political discourse and just talk about it to clarify where I stand on things or to learn something new.

    It's either a circlejerk (with your allies) or a five minutes of hate (towards your enemies) online and I have better things to spend my time. There's only so much that I can control. I'd rather focus on that.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    It's no different from Eastern Bloc propaganda imo. Even more annoying in some respects because its the people themselves spreading it and not the government. You think things are in the pits there in 2025? It was way worse before 2005.

    I was a doomer way before the current crop of doomers are active. Moved from the Philippines to the US. On my first visit after moving (almost two years after I left), the improvements are very noticeable. It was a reality check for me to stop dooming about the country.

    The Philippines still has a lot of problems, but we must suck it up and make it better in a slow and sure way. But yes, if you want a chance to get rich quick, you're free to work abroad and/or migrate there.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    AM: DZMM mainly because of its iconic theme

    FM: 96.3 Easy Rock Manila, 96.3 WRocK Cebu, 97.9 Home Radio - I like easy listening stations

    Musopen: Not a Filipino station, but it's public domain classical music. We should promote open music more

    Used to listen to 99.5 Play FM. I don't know what good Top 40 stations are still there after that station stopped the format

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    Have you guys experienced these policies?

    I studied in a school that has this policy. Hot take, I like it in retrospect. I can speak Filipino in Filipino class and outside of school hours. Monolingualism is even worse. We can speak our mother tongues, and at the same time be comfortable in a lingua franca that most countries can understand. Every language has its specific quirk on how its speaker understands the world. Being able to speak 2 (or 3 or more) languages gives you additional valuable perspectives.

    Gets ko ang backlash ay yung mga policies na nagbabawal gumamit ng wika kahit sa araw araw na buhay, gaya ng Kulturkampf noong binawal ng Alemanya ang pagsalita ng Polako sa buhay pampubliko.

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