The comments legit made me laugh out loud. I can’t tell if those people were serious but if they were, hoo lawd I’m afraid for it country if they vote in elections or have children.
It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves....
Matrix stack would be the 21st century equivalent. Discord is just another Skype - entirely a proprietary product that you don’t operate yourself. Fine for corporate use where people don’t care about longevity because it’s not their problem or interest, but trash for everything else.
It’s an entirely closed source, proprietary codebase, run by a for-profit company where you have little control over anything. These corporations don’t care about actual users and they will leave you high and dry. There is a reason people still use IRC - it’s open, easy to connect to and has been around for literal decades. Remember CompuServe? AOL? AIM? ICQ? Google Chat shutting it’s doors to xmpp? If so, you understand the pattern. It’s about walled gardens and blocking interoperability. The industry doesn’t need more of that. We are chatting on an open source link aggregation site because bean counters at Reddit decided to shut off APIs to existing apps arbitrarily.
The matrix stack solves most of those problems by providing an open source codebase and protocol, easy to connect to solution that is akin to Slack. I am fortunate enough to not have to use discord much beyond checking on a class schedule and downloading some sheet music, so I will never be a discord power user. Maybe some there is crazy awesome feature that discord provides that no open source platform does, but I have some serious doubts about that.
Garage, Inc, yeah. This and Breadfan were recorded during the preparation for recording AJFA and the original mixing was kind of terrible, you can hear a constant clipping of the cymbals throughout. This convinced LU and JH to fire their producer and go with someone else (Fleming Rasmussen?) for the album.
The AJFA remaster released a few years ago changed that up considerably. My intro to Metallica was AJFA and was astonished to learn this even existed when a friend of mine showed me his Japanese import AJFA in the mid 90s. I’m convinced this was Metallica’s peak performance and solidified then as the 80s best cover band.
Interesting tidbit: they pa(y)id royalties to Diamond Head (and other bands) for the songs they cover. For as much shit as they got for the napster thing, they did those bands a huge solid by getting them paid, finding their lost recordings and pretty much putting them on the map for others to hear and learn about. Those bands inspired thrash metal in general and Metallica were showing their gratitude.
Hmm, kind of confusing. I thought I recall this song and Breadfan from earlier than 1998, and never bought Garage Inc.
Indeed, they were on AJFA imports and B sides to AJFA singles. They didn’t appear on a US album release until Garage, Inc. The post I responded to suggested that The Prince was on Garage Days, I was just clarifying that.
Edit: randomly, someone owed me some money in the mid 90s and gave me their Metallica “box set” of vinyl because they knew I liked Metallica. I have it downstairs otherwise I’d take a picture. Here it is on eBay:
I didn’t have a record player back then but it was great to have the early & Pushead artwork in big vinyl print. It has the Harvester of Sorrow single with The Prince as a B side.
Because the electorate is doing little to nothing at the local scale to change voting methodology. Until that happens in a broad fashion, the two parties will continue to be a problem.
Edit: you can downvote all you want, it doesn’t change reality.
In the follow-up to their 2018 bestseller “How Democracies Die,” authors Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky write about three rules that political parties must follow: accept the results of fair elections, reject the use of violence to gain power and break ties to extremists....
President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power....
That’s because NPR is too pussy, and all the other outlets are super far right. Overton Window is a B.
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I’m tempted to buy argument space in the upcoming election booklet and attack my Republican representative and drop “Trump Crime Family” repeatedly. Maybe a super sarcastic one in support and then a more serious one against.
A Connecticut woman who pushed for expanded access to Vermont’s law that allows people who are terminally ill to receive lethal medication to end their lives died in Vermont on Thursday, an event her husband called “comfortable and peaceful,” just like she wanted....
We do it for animals but we hesitate for humans. Truly pathetic.
Watched my mom die from terminal cancer of the liver and she suffered terribly. Looked like she was ready to give birth when her heart finally stopped. My sibling is a hardcore Christian and when my mom asked about assisted suicide, sibling expressed her uselessly ignorant point of view, explaining that she wouldn’t be able to be there to “inject” her. Needless to say, that’s not how it happens.
People shouldn’t be made to suffer, and fuck religious people that push that horseshit dogma on others. Had to hear my mom cry, questioning her faith that if God existed, why would he make people suffer like this. It was terrible.
That goes for some oncologists, too. My mother’s liver was completely destroyed (that they somehow didn’t notice while she was in chemo for her breast cancer) and the oncologist wanted to continue treating her. Another doctor, who broke the news to us and showed us the images of her liver, came to our defense and tore that oncologist a new one. That was already after the first round of chemo had started and Mom was basically incoherent. I had watched her handle chemo the first time around like a champion. This time, it practically killed her. Had she kept doing chemo, she would have died much faster and it would have been terrible.
I don’t know what else to say. Fuck cancer, fuck religious dogma and fuck physicians that don’t keep the patients best interests at heart.
Let’s say I’ve got 100 episodes of NOVA. I’ve added one episode to a playlist about a certain subject, and there’s a bunch of other videos in that playlist about that subject....
So secretly record the proceedings. If shit goes sideways, dump the recording on TPB/PeerTube, just somewhere it can’t ever go away. He might get into trouble, but the public at least knows what transpired.
In a letter published Wednesday on Medium, an anonymous group of Biden's campaign staffers demanded the president call for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing concerns that not shifting his policy on the issue could hurt his 2024 chances....
Roger Stone Spoke With Cop Pal About Assassinating Eric Swalwell and Jerry Nadler (www.mediaite.com)
Sony Vegas "expert" finds brainwashing "ELF" in torrented movie (www.instagram.com)
The comments legit made me laugh out loud. I can’t tell if those people were serious but if they were, hoo lawd I’m afraid for it country if they vote in elections or have children.
bash.org is gone
It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves....
Metallica - The Prince (1988) (original by Diamond Head) (youtu.be)
Diamond Head -The Prince (1980 - remastered 2021) (youtu.be)
Sepultura - The Hunt (1993) (original by New Model Army) (youtu.be)
The man supposed to stop Donald Trump is an unpopular 81-year-old with a net approval rating at minus 16 points (www.economist.com)
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg (1981) (youtu.be)
On Jan. 6 many Republicans blamed Trump for the Capitol riot. Now they endorse his presidential bid (apnews.com)
In the follow-up to their 2018 bestseller “How Democracies Die,” authors Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky write about three rules that political parties must follow: accept the results of fair elections, reject the use of violence to gain power and break ties to extremists....
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Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power....
Terminally ill Connecticut woman ends her life on her own terms, in Vermont (apnews.com)
A Connecticut woman who pushed for expanded access to Vermont’s law that allows people who are terminally ill to receive lethal medication to end their lives died in Vermont on Thursday, an event her husband called “comfortable and peaceful,” just like she wanted....
how do playlists work?
Let’s say I’ve got 100 episodes of NOVA. I’ve added one episode to a playlist about a certain subject, and there’s a bunch of other videos in that playlist about that subject....
The remains of a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missile warhead somewhere in the Kyiv region. (files.catbox.moe)
https://files.catbox.moe/p0au49.jpg...
House prepares contempt of Congress resolution for Hunter Biden (thehill.com)
Joe Biden campaign volunteers are quitting in "droves" (www.newsweek.com)
In a letter published Wednesday on Medium, an anonymous group of Biden's campaign staffers demanded the president call for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing concerns that not shifting his policy on the issue could hurt his 2024 chances....