ETA: Upon rereading, this feels pretty weasely and I don't stand by it, so I'd like to add this was my bad & I'm sorry for being overly literal. Ultimately it's as much my responsibility to understand the sarcasm as it is other people to make it clear to me. I feel this way when I'm misunderstood despite being fairly clear, so it's only fair that I apologize and accept responsibility when I am the one to misunderstand.
Looking deeper I see you're likely correct, but honestly I disclaim responsibility for misunderstandings caused by Poe's law when I'm on this end. I see this trip people up all the time, so I know it's not just me. I see the sincere version of this statement made, defended, and doubled down on regularly, so no, I can't reliably tell the difference without a sarcasm marker (/s). I admit this is a weakness on my part, but I don't really feel responsible for it.
Just Intonation and everything from https://en.xen.wiki/ and related, maybe some of the YouTube stuff from "Hear Between the Lines" is a good start for new accessible stuff.
Music cognition such as Sweet Anticipation by David Huron and everything like that… especially note Music and Memory by Bob Snyder which expresses everything except harmony in a style that avoids traditional notation, and Sounds of Music: Perception and Notation (out of print) by Gerald Eskalin who also wrote Lies My Music Teacher Told Me
For the most part, "music theory" amounts to music-notation-and-style-grammar because very little of it is actual theory (i.e. explanation) until you add real science which means music psychology (because notation patterns and physics patterns are not music, music is a mental experience).
There's also the more widespread phenomenon of profitable-enough local businesses blaming Walmart for putting them out of business. How do we evaluate which analogy is appropriate?
Maybe you misread or misunderstood (although maybe it makes no difference to you), but the specific issue is: the FSF won't link to the bug tracker (not can't) because of proprietary Javascript. The FSF has no absolute rejection of JS, they just are purist about the JS being free software.
And it wasn't a personal post by an "FSF guy", it's the stance of the whole FSF organization.
Yes, the battle is lost. Fighting an effectively lost battle isn't necessarily nuts, but criticizing it is quite understandable.
> Most Americans actually like things that way and can't really imagine living any other way.
If people cannot imagine anything but one way of living, then it isn't really reasonable to describe whether they like it or at least to use the supposed liking as evidence of anything.
Having people imagine alternatives is a prerequisite to evaluating anything meaningful about what people like.
There are alternatives, right in America. Americans aren't completely clueless about places where cars aren't necessary to live. NYC is the poster child for that inside America, and other big cities have downtown areas where some people live car-free: Chicago, DC, etc.
The vast majority of Americans don't want to live in those places. They complain that they can't park their cars, that it's too dense, too expensive, etc. They deride these places and the people who live in them as latte and avocado toast eaters, while they make their huge monthly payments on their $50k-$100k SUV or pickup truck.
I don't know AntennaPod but the reason that I use Overcast is that it has three important features:
1) Adjustable playback speed. Probably other apps have this but my default is 1.75X So an hour podcast is cut down to more like 40 minutes.
2) Smart Speed. Takes out silences.
3) Skip intros, outros, etc. on a per-podcast basis.
Another great feature is skipping ahead 30 seconds for two clicks (fast forward) on my AirPods Pro.
I do find that I have to listen on AirPods Pro because the speed of the conversations is too fast for regular speakers, meaning I have to focus a fair amount on the podcast. Maybe other people don't have that problem.
One great feature is it has server-side crawling, but it is a good internet citizen and isn't trying to abandon the RSS feed podcast standard, and make podcasts proprietary to one particular platform like many other podcast apps.
I understand that there's a weird critical mass issue with adblocking. If everyone blocked ads, they'd do more to either paywall everything or fight harder against the blockers. That said, in a harmful world, we should be taking defensive action. Nobody should be using YouTube or anything else on the internet without adblocking.
Of course it would never happen to you. You grew up in OR, so you never tried to pump your own gas. That situation only happens to people from out of state who come to OR and start pumping their own gas, not knowing the law against it.
You don't live in isolation as is, your car and roads and the rest of your context didn't come to be through others leaving you alone.