tangentism

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I forgot Awards existed (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

I just got this email from Reddit, and I just realized it’s been a year now since I swapped over here, and I haven’t thought about awards once. I always thought they were gimmicky and a way for people to throw away money. It’s just really nice not worrying about them....

tangentism,

Do a “site:reddit.com your username” search & you’ll find that all your comments are still there.

tangentism,

Lately I’ve found myself info dumping on people about some tangentially related subjects that I’ve been reading about over the last decade:

  • Loss of the 'third place’
  • Privatisation of public space.
  • Decimation of the high street & how removing, not increasing parking spaces will be instrumental in reviving it
  • How out of town retail shopping parks contributed to the obesity epidemic.
  • Why the UK has seemingly unique weather compared to it’s neighbours
tangentism,

This is the shortsightedness of US politics:

On the one hand you have a spoilt rapey trust fund brat that’s too stupid but will implement fascism in behalf of those whispering in his ear verses a near dead self proclaimed zionist actively taking part in the genocide of the Palestinian people and in doing so has side stepped Congress multiple times to carry out that participation and promises to do stuff if you vote him in but despite having control of all 3 branches of govt, does fuck all.

So who do you vote for?

It’s either eat the shit in some fake consensual choice and fucking smile about it or get force fed it whether you like it or not, and you all do this every 4 years but never stop to ask why you’re all eating shit

tangentism,

The video shows the ship losing power & all it’s lights going out prior to hitting the bridge.

Apparently, it’s not the first time it’s collided with something though.

tangentism,

“Hey! That thing you do every four years is actually a sham and always had been but don’t let that stop you participating because you know, we really need you to vote this time to preserve the illusion of democracy”

Stop huffing jenkum and most of all, stop encouraging others to take up huffing with you

tangentism,

And the other is actively engaging in a genocide with supplying intelligence, weapons and boots on the ground and has bypassed Congress multiple times to do so.

How do you deal with suicidal thoughts?

I’ve 🐝 bee-n fighting for two years now. I have this « job » that I’ve been stuck with forever now. My inability to enjoy the little things of life is just another indication of my dereliction: hating the bitter man I’m becoming, seeing myself in people I despise, being unable to think, speak, create....

tangentism,

Suicide is also a bad idea and you are going to regret it if you find you’ve put yourself in an unstoppable position. This is evidenced by people who miraculously survive their attempts.

Also, no matter how little you think you mean to anyone, it’s going to hurt them.

My friend killed himself back in 1991 and 33 years later, I still think about him at least once a week.

We used to share music so new stuff I hear, I think if he would have liked it. He was an incredible intelligent and astute person so I think about all the insights he might have shared with me.

Most of all, I’ve still no idea why he did it. The ‘daily’ issues he had going on were not insurmountable and despite conversations we had ranging all manner of subjects, there was no indication of him being troubled by deeper issues.

He got a lift into town with his stepdad to collect his bike, went to the top of a car park and jumped off.

No note. No indication. Nothing.

tangentism,

That article is horrible, not for it’s content but their insistence of underlining words and phrases in sentences as links but it creates false emphasis and makes it unreadable!

They need to learn to develop some subtlety with their word cloud link nonsense

tangentism,

You could summit Everest in a matter of minutes with the leaps youre making there.

tangentism,

In a democratic one state solution jews would be in the minority in Israel so it would no longer be a safe haven for them, Israel would effectively no longer exist.

Jews lived peacefully in Palestine alongside everyone else prior to 1948 for centuries.

Does any nation have the right to exist when its creation was based on ethnically cleansing those who lived there?

tangentism,

And when evidence later emerges that they were killed by the Israeli military (for example)… theyll just shrug their shoulders

tangentism,

It’s not a compo face article. That was pulled from her social media as she was murdered.

tangentism,

This is one of the main issues with all new builds in London.

There’s plenty of places going up but they’re all being sold to overseas investors as buy to let and do it keeps making rents exorbitant for locals.

tangentism,

A friend who is into ultra endurance cycling competed in the TransCon last year.

He rides a Brompton in sandals!

He’s also completed the PanCeltic Race multiple times as well as the Trans Atlantic Way

A confused Dianne Feinstein tried to give a speech in the middle of a Senate hearing vote and was told to 'just say aye' instead (www.businessinsider.com)

Senator Dianne Feinstein appeared confused during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday. When asked to vote on a proposal, Feinstein began giving a lengthy speech instead of simply saying “aye” or “nay” as requested. The committee chair, Senator Patty Murray, had to repeatedly tell Feinstein “just say...

tangentism,

I don’t think she has enough consistent cognitive functionality to know wtf is going on really.

She’s being propped up by Pelosi rather than being allowed to decompose horizontally with dignity.

It’s indicative of just how corrupt the political class is in every western country

tangentism,
tangentism, (edited )

One that I was surprised to learn that I like to share is Grace Jones ‘Private Life’ was originally by The Pretenders.

Hynde is quoted as saying: Like all the other London punks, I wanted to do reggae, and I wrote “Private Life”. When I first heard Grace’s version I thought ‘Now that’s how it’s supposed to sound!’ In fact it was one of the highpoints of my career - what with Sly and Robbie being the masters, and Grace Jones with her scorching delivery.

Not really a cover but it used such a huge chunk that it pretty much is…

Beyonce “Crazy In Love” is basically The Chi-lites “Are You My Woman”

tangentism, (edited )

Little bit of pop trivia for you…

The version that was covered by Tight Fit that was an 80s one hit wonder in the UK, was produced by Tim Friese-Greene.

He also produced “She Blinded Me With Science” by Thomas Dolby and was also a co-writer, producer and player on Talk Talk’s final three albums!

tangentism,

Unless Apple drops the price of their devices by at least a third, it’s not really going to happen.

Another thing to consider is that Jamf will certainly not be dominating the Apple MDM management solution arena in a decade either.

Companies with a mostly win estate with win infra, aren’t happy with paying another $40 per user, per year for Jamf and Intune will be making up a lot of ground for a one shop solution, even if management is not as featured or complex as what Jamf offers.

ajsadauskas, to twitter
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

Called it. Elon's doing exactly what I thought he would do: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/109979152813584947

Twitter is dead.

There is no point in trying to hold on to what Twitter used to be. What Twitter used to be no longer exists.

It died the moment Elon walked in the building.

Anything posted there since then has been free content on his everything app and potential crypto scam, X: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/23/twitter-elon-musk-says-he-wants-to-change-companys-bird-logo

@technology

tangentism,

The thing Elon fails to understand is that someone didn’t just write Twitter on one go and gift it on to the world.

He did actually say at once point about scraping all the code base & starting from scratch!

tangentism,

The vast majority of his wealth is wrapped up in stock of a massively overvalued car company and the loans he needed to buy twitter have huge interest payments and he doesn’t have the cash to pay them

tangentism,

Artists United Against Apartheid didn’t play gigs in South African to protest the situation there.

If they had, it would have been a degree of complicity with the regime.

TBH, every major artist should loudly express that they are deliberately skipping playing in Malaysia for specific reasons.

tangentism,

and the blue guy is a lot less likely to try that shit on me or the people i love.

So it’s only “a lot less likely” not a definitive won’t ever?

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