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Hope all those celebrating had a pleasant Easter

Typhoon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:53 am A bit belated Nowruz to all who celebrate.

ditto

I continue on in the hope that lewisaaron_1989's tastes are more singular and personal and don't have the pulse of the general viewing audience in mind. Leap of faith and all of that.

The guy who does the "What Makes This Song Stink" (RHCP episode) had a point about ripoffs (starting around 14:45) . Parker Jr. totally ripped off Huey Lewis but he added that bridge. --------------- I'm going for some stolen valor here. My whinge is at least there is some vague, shadowy A...

We went to a family matinee screening of "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" What can be affirmed is that it is indeed a movie product. I've seen worse, and left the theater relieved that it wasn't atrocious, but its less a movie than a series of vignettes off of a checklist of what the film nee...

MLB season started this morning (for America). The Dodgers beat the Padres 5-2; the game was played in Seoul.

Crisis averted. Several doctors have examined the elbow of Garrett Cole and none of them have found structural damage to the elbow or its ligaments.) The consensus sees it as a case of edema and that the muscle sits on the arm in a way that is irritating a nerve.* Edema is common for 34 year old pit...

noddy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:02 am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7lNtFnrHMA

the kills are kinda fun

They are. I'm a little burnt out on the female singer fronted rock band.

Les Haricots Sont Pas Sale https://youtu.be/NSRcxdTqNiM?si=0iDyJMFdWW-es1Qs Zydeco is a cajunism for haricots. “Hip et Taiaut” are standard Cajun dog names - like Fido and Bowser in English - and the nonsense lyrics are put to many white and black melodies. Alan Lomax was the ethnologist who tied H...

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/when-did-popular-music-become-standardized another article (with stats) on the enshittification of music, This is one of the few things the attitudinal "late-stage capitalism" tags can be applied. It's a top-down affair that the conglomerates have brought...

. American Conservative NATO Can Have Ukraine or the USA — Not Both https://www.newsweek.com/maga-senator-mike-lee-draws-red-line-withdrawing-us-nato-1877569 "If Ukraine is in NATO, the United States should be out, plain and simple. We must draw a redline with NATO: You can have Ukraine or the...

I was the jinx. Day after posting the meme, the best pitcher in baseball, Gerrit Cole, was shut down and sent for testing on his elbow. After testing and a series of consultations, no doctor found an actual tear or damage in the elbow but he will be shut down for 1 to 2 months and is scheduled to ha...

Both also legalized or 'officialized' over-arm motions at roughly the same time and have been tweaking around the edges of that decision since.

the problem with AI is its going to be good enough even though its pretty lavender. thats why its so scary to ponder all the aspects of society it will soon control and guide, with its inhuman levels of pattern matching and "correlation means causation" approach to data. with billions of ...

That's a cool article.

The full lunging body motion still throws me off.

or the subsequent tweet:

"Hangin' Ten!" b/w "Locked Inside My Sad Closet"

it was very regimented and graded for me - certain amount of scales, techniques and standard tunes which must be played and sight read for every level, and then when you hit the right level you can get an offer to leave the school band and instead join the school orchestra, oohh allal. handel and h...

I'd say, "you'd have to laugh," if the intent wasn't so malicious. 8 years ago, these votes were conceptually (and conventionally) thought of as solid Democratic voters. That forgotten distant past of 2015-2016, they supposedly turned into the biggest monsters the earth has ever seen. In t...

It's iron age economics-- arranging of households. The Achaemenids encouraged long-term economic development and stability by investing in a lot of public works [to put it as an anachronism] and introducing the satrapy model which encouraged long term cities, working towards nationhood, a centralize...

For some, this may be a Freudian slip: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH31q8OWAAAYAQy?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH31q8PXUAAKwHv?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH31q8MW0AAL2Bp?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH31q8NXoAAguXC?format=...

Yes, noble is a possibility; some argue that it is closer to peer or companion, or maybe even free-man.