Nah, she’s huge across the country. You don’t want to be driving within about fifty miles of one of her shows the day of.
I personally know ten people that have driven to multiple states to see her multiple times as the tour moves. It’s fucking crazy.
And that’s just shows. She isn’t as rich as she is because she lacks dedicated fans.
Hell, I’m a low key fan, just not one that’s automatically into a given song or album just because she makes it. But my best friend’s husband? The only pop star higher in his esteem is Britney. They went to a Swift show last year, year before maybe? Drove into the city so they could catch a plane, then stayed the weekend wherever it was. Thousands of dollars spent just for a concert. And, again, she’s not even his favorite (and my best friend is like me regarding her music).
That’s two middle aged dudes. You don’t wanna know how rabid younger fans can get.
Eh, if by tankie you only mean literal communist tankies, that’s just a single aspect of human nature.
There’s absolutists, extremists, and (frankly) sociopaths in every political/ideological grouping. The more you get towards an extreme, the more you run into militant examples of the group. Tankies are just the communist bloc of the crazies.
But, there’s folks like me that are all for revolution, but draw the line at unlimited killing to achieve it, or the eradication of groups in the name of the cause. I’m an extremist by most peoples’ standards, but they’ve never been exposed to the real crazies of any extremist bloc.
You run into the bonkers adherents of communism, anarchism, nationalism, or religious extremists, and they’re essentially the same mentality because it’s a human failing that some of us are willing to kill indiscriminately for a belief. We’re just lucky that that degree of extremism is split up, keeping them from being a serious, constant threat rather than the intermittent threat that they are.
Seriously, if you ever spend time around people that are working towards a goal like a change towards socialist thought, you’ll run into the batshit ones on the edges. You hang around the wrong places, you’ll run into right wing militants as well. They, none of them, are avoid knowledge, judgement, or reason. They’re zealots, and they’d be the same no matter what ism infected them because it’s about the fire, the anger, not the actual thing they’re using as their obsession.
Fuck, I’ve met a couple of people involved in pacifist movements seriously express the idea that “we” should just rise up and kill until all the warmongers are gone. People, humans, are always going to have zealots like that, no matter what.
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.
Do people really not know that single cup electric makers have been a thing since at least the eighties? Mine is one my dad bought in 85, a black and Decker one.
One scoop of coffee in a washable filter (which, btw is still the original one, no issues), pour water, hit the switch, walk away. Makes a pleasant gurgle when finished.
And it isn’t like there weren’t single cup options before that, they just weren’t necessarily electric. Shit, my grandfather would make single cups with a cloth tea bag and a percolator stuck into some embers when camping, back when he would take us kids out before we drank coffee too.
Got your eye on the Spyderco Para Military 2, but haven’t got $200 burning a hole in your pocket? Or, do you like the Spyderco but really wish it had an Axis lock? Brother, have I got a deal for you....
I mean, they’re both kinda douches, or have been in the past. So I don’t really care about the success of either.
That being said, Mike Tyson is one of the greats inside the ring. That’s the draw, to see him do his thing, even if it’s more pf an exhibition fight than a serious bout.
I predict Mike will knock him the fuck out, barring some kind of fuckery. There’s footage of him working out in the past few years, and he’s still fast enough, and there’s no doubt in my mind he’s improved his skill up make up for any aging.
Why do people make the “smooching” noise when kissing? It seems like it takes at least a little intentional effort to make that noise. Is it weird to make out but not make the noise?
Well, a kiss involves some degree of suction, no matter how small. Otherwise, it’s a peck.
Besides, part of the kind of kiss that smacks is performative. The people involved are using it as a form of social bonding, so the sound is intrinsic to the exchange. You won’t usually find adults making out with closed mouth kisses and making extra noise. It’s really a different thing.
Dude is wearing comfortable shoes that have one functional flaw: they’re rubber and they chafe.
Socks= foot bliss in crocs, assuming the right size.
The tracker is a sign that someone fucked up, yeah. But it means they didn’t fuck up so bad that they need to be away from the rest of us. Everybody fucks up, we just don’t all get caught.
Taylor Swift claims top 14 spots of Billboard's Hot 100 with songs from 'Tortured Poets' (www.usatoday.com)
All 31 songs from Swift’s 11th studio album made the top 100 plus “Cruel Summer” from “Lover,” according to Billboard.
Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy?
Even from people that never lived in a communist state...
Bully, Persona, TF2, Bayonetta, Cuphead, I'm sure you can name many others. (lemmynsfw.com)
Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released! (blogs.kde.org)
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.
Uncle Sam be like (lemmy.ml)
Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills (www.bbc.com)
With Odin On Our Side by Amon Amarth (lemmy.ca)
Keurig's new K-Rounds coffee pods are plastic-free and could finally make single-serve coffee-making sustainable (www.techradar.com)
cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/12988150...
Ganzo G729: The Paramilitary Fighter [Long, Ranty] (lemmy.world)
Got your eye on the Spyderco Para Military 2, but haven’t got $200 burning a hole in your pocket? Or, do you like the Spyderco but really wish it had an Axis lock? Brother, have I got a deal for you....
Who are you rooting for in the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight?
I think I’ll be cheering for Mike.
Why do people make the "smooching" noise when kissing?
Why do people make the “smooching” noise when kissing? It seems like it takes at least a little intentional effort to make that noise. Is it weird to make out but not make the noise?
Dude collected all three strikes below the ankle (sh.itjust.works)
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