It’s still Black History Month, so I wanted to share this older video from SMN. MLK was a black christian socialist, and this video covers how and why Martin Luther King JR has been whitewashed of his radical messaging.
I think you’re a victim of availability bias. You’re thinking of all the women who sing songs about relationships and forgetting all the men who sing songs about relationships. You’re remembering all the men who sing about not-relationships and forgetting all the women who do the same.
Tik Tok, Royals, I Love Rock and Roll, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Tom’s Diner, All I Wanna Do, Anti-Hero, 9 to 5, the list can go on indefinitely.
And that goes doubly for comedians.
Mitch Hedberg did jokes about relationships. “I don’t have a girlfriend, but I do know a woman who would be mad at me for saying that.”
There are dozens of currently active women who do comedy that isn’t just about relationships. Most probably include jokes about relationships, but comedy is about shared experiences, and relationships are fertile ground for material.
At least one of the search warrants for Thursday’s raid seen by the Guardian authorized the FBI to confiscate dozens of items from the raided homes – including laptops, cellphones, “Defend the Atlanta Forest” stickers and posters and personal journals.
So, like, no bombs? No guns? Not even knives? How about nunchaku?
Not really seeing why these bastard cops had to do SWAT style raids. Unless, of course, they’re terrorists…
Harry Potter Fandoms will be a part of the Fediverse one way or the other. It’s better to shape this development rather than being overwhelmed by it....
Divorcing the author from the work is rather challenging when that author is a living billionaire who makes money whenever you buy any kind of merchandise of their work. While pirating their trademarks without paying is in principle harmless, the moment you cross over into, say, paying money for Harry Potter Lego or Harry Potter Fortnite skins, you are then immediately funding the author’s hate campaigns
The instance name is clever, but I think you will find the concept embarrassing in hindsight. I would recommend not doubling down on the cognitive dissonance
These conservative pieces of shit going after fucking children. They claim to care about kids when they force raped women to give birth or when they rail against gender-affirming care. But if a girl doesn’t look sufficiently girly, let’s just throw her to the wolves....
the bible is basically a horror story with god as the villain, so it tracks that some people that follow it so closely are just terrible, terrible humans.
I have a lemmy.ml account and i didn’t know that they were bad . I created this account after seeing that post .( I am not into politics as you can see if you visited the account i have put in my bio ) so is that true ?...
I moved from kbin over to Lemmy when kbin was having some uptime issues a few months back. But I can confirm wholeheartedly that Ernest is a super genuine and nice guy, at least as far as any content he’s ever posted to the internet.
I don’t get it. Her music is sometimes catchy but otherwise unremarkable, from the songs I’ve heard. How does she break all these records and accumulate so much fame and wealth?...
I used to dislike Taylor Swift along with all other contemporary pop stars. Maybe even a little bit more, because she had the audacity to call herself Country: Spitting in the face of personal heroes like Kristofferson, Nelson, and Cash.
Then I stopped being an edgy teenager, Swift released Shake it Off, and I had to recognize it was a fun song to dance to. In an ironic kind of way of course, but nevertheless.
And then, in 2015, Ryan Adams released his cover album of Swift's 1989, playing every single song on the album in a folksy way. I dug it. And with it, I had to appreciate that Taylor Swift is one hell of a songwriter: I loved the songs, I just don't love the sound of pop music all that much. That's personal taste, not everything I dislike is bad.
Fast forward to 2020, and Taylor Swift dabbles with music I can actually enjoy listening to with her album folklore. Pretty cool. I actually got my expectations up for her next album, evermore, low-key hoping that it would be musically inspired by the Battle of Evermore. Sadly I was wrong, but again, it's a matter of personal preferences.
What matters more is the fact that she's reinventing herself from album to album - she's successful in one formula, and she just ditches it and moves on to something different. And every time she does it, she seems to be even more successful than the last time. Her growth as an artist is astonishing.
Finally, she's just cool. Fuck the labels - she'll just casually re-records her entire discography in order to take back control of her songs. She's caught up in all kinds of stupid celebrity drama, but it tends to be the rest of the industry falling over like toddlers trying to drag her into shit for PR while she acts like the only adult in the room. She also scores points for casually hanging out with Billy Bragg and encouraging people to vote and shit.
One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they’re no longer required....
Well that really sucks because it was often the only way to actually find the content on the page that the Google results “promised”. For numerous reasons - sometimes the content simply changes, gets deleted or is made inaccessible because of geo-fencing or the site is straight up broken and so on.
Yes, there’s archive.org but believe it or not, not everything is there.
This month, I managed to wrap up many overdue matters. It seems to me that I responded to the majority of lingering emails, and a few issues turned out to be so important that they took a few extra days. I also dealt with [a certain aspect related to the project, about which I'll be able to share more in a few weeks....
The Whitewashing Of Martin Luther King - SOME MORE NEWS (www.youtube.com)
It’s still Black History Month, so I wanted to share this older video from SMN. MLK was a black christian socialist, and this video covers how and why Martin Luther King JR has been whitewashed of his radical messaging.
Baldur's Gate 3 Passes Half a Million Reviews on Steam and 96% Are Positive (techraptor.net)
Female singers only want to sing about love, relationships, or breakups. They need to sing more about Godzilla, Vikings, The Grim Reaper, or making a bet with the Devil for a golden fiddle.
At this point in history there’s been a billion songs from female singers about relationships. Nearly every song revolves around that topic....
Faced with ‘Cop City’ Referendum Push, Atlanta Changes Up Its Election Rules (boltsmag.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/cop-city-referendum-signature-m…
QUIK, a fork from QKSMS, made by @octoshrimpy@sh.itjust.works , receives new update (github.com)
You can see here - github.com/octoshrimpy/quik/releases
Outside an Ohio drag story hour, LGBTQ+ supporters just outnumbered Proud Boys. By a lot. (thebuckeyeflame.com)
Georgia police and FBI conduct Swat-style raids on ‘Cop City’ activists’ homes (www.theguardian.com)
Hearing people talk about their passions is one of the best things in life (startrek.website)
Diagon Lemmy - A Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out)
Harry Potter Fandoms will be a part of the Fediverse one way or the other. It’s better to shape this development rather than being overwhelmed by it....
Utah teen athlete faces threats after state official posted photos questioning her gender (www.axios.com)
These conservative pieces of shit going after fucking children. They claim to care about kids when they force raped women to give birth or when they rail against gender-affirming care. But if a girl doesn’t look sufficiently girly, let’s just throw her to the wolves....
Oh Jesus (lemmy.world)
It's very important to protect your ruler. (startrek.website)
Just thought I’d take this opportunity to double-check, but how do you feel about chess memes/comics/etc in this community @jalda?
I just found an old post from reddit of a guy who suggested people to come here in another post saying he was wrong about lemmy and the lemmy devs are bad ?
I have a lemmy.ml account and i didn’t know that they were bad . I created this account after seeing that post .( I am not into politics as you can see if you visited the account i have put in my bio ) so is that true ?...
More stats =/= better (ttrpg.network)
I’m dumber faster
Can someone explain to me what makes Taylor Swift so popular?
I don’t get it. Her music is sometimes catchy but otherwise unremarkable, from the songs I’ve heard. How does she break all these records and accumulate so much fame and wealth?...
Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they’re no longer required....
RTR#52 Busy month
This month, I managed to wrap up many overdue matters. It seems to me that I responded to the majority of lingering emails, and a few issues turned out to be so important that they took a few extra days. I also dealt with [a certain aspect related to the project, about which I'll be able to share more in a few weeks....
Poll Finds Gen Z Voters Are More Likely to Identify as LGBTQ Than Republican (truthout.org)
Gen Z adults are more progressive, less religious and more open-minded about their sexuality than other generations....
Interstellar testers needed (kbin.earth)
Hello everyone,...
‘The Marvels’ Lands on Disney+ on February 7th (www.marvel.com)
A Gen Z advocacy group is trying to dissuade young voters from backing Trump and Haley (www.nbcnews.com)
Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities (phys.org)
‘Gaslit by doctors’: UK women with endometriosis told it is ‘all in their head’ (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/ltSmo...