I just gave it a listen today on my bike ride. It’s pretty good - not what I expected but not surprising, either. I’d characterize it as Kate Bush meets Dead Can Dance meets early ‘70s King Crimson, and since I like all three of those acts I like Gibbons’ album as well. I was surprised to see that it’s her first solo album.
Take WWII for instance, being neutral kind of says yeah we are cool with both sides.
Being literally surrounded by the Third Reich meant their choices were neutrality or actually joining up with Hitler, so they really can’t be criticized for choosing neutrality. They can be criticized for their actions during and after the war in helping the Nazi leaders squirrel away the wealth they stole from the Jews, something that was not necessary for a neutral nation to do.
I’d rather rip on Sweden which at least had some possibility of joining the Allies but instead supplied Germany with the high-quality iron ore they absolutely needed to keep their war machine running - the exact same thing they did in WWI. They also supplied Germany with much-needed ball bearings, but at least they sold them to the Allies as well.
In the US at least, the vast majority of people live paycheck-to-paycheck, so as long as wages rise with prices inflation doesn’t affect most people. Wages rise with prices, right? Right?
Martha-Ann Alito, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, complained about the Pride flag, ranted about “feminazis,” and explained a flag design that she has been creating in her head in anticipation of when her husband is “free of this nonsense,” according to undercover audio released by a journalist and...
I used to live in Shreveport LA where weirdly enough they shot a bunch of major motion pictures after production was moved there from New Orleans after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. One day I was walking to work downtown and outside my office building I passed a really scabbishly-dressed and overly made-up prostitute (not a common sight there). I kind of scowled at her and she gave me a what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you look as I passed by and went into the building. When I got to the office everybody was lined up at the windows and they told me that I had apparently walked through a movie set and that had been Demi Moore dressed as a prostitute (it was some movie with Kevin Costner playing a serial killer). They were all kind of outraged that I had interfered with the filming but I had the same attitude towards it that you did with Clooney. Like, why the fuck am I supposed to be happy about a film production interfering with my existence? I didn’t get any money out of the deal, and it wasn’t even a good movie.
I don’t remember if she was still married to Bruce Willis at this point, which was 2006 or thereabouts, but she was hanging out with Ashton Kutcher in Shreveport because I kept encountering the couple at restaurants and bars. Also had dinner with Ted Danson one evening because he was sitting alone at the table next to me and my friends reading a paperback book and looking sad and lonely so we invited him to join us - he’s actually a nice, normal, friendly guy.
As part of an analysis of how U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon, reports from her courtroom show a judge who is both “prickly” and" insecure" and often has trouble understanding what lawyers from both sides try to explain to her....
I keep encountering cyclists riding against traffic, on roads with no shoulder and around blind turns. It’s just about the most insane thing you can do on a bike, second only to sailing through red lights without looking. And it’s people of all ages doing it, not just young people like I would expect.
Actually, the closest I’ve come to colliding with someone doing this shit is when I was riding my bike - on the correct side of the road - and suddenly encountered a cyclist (a mom towing her two kids on a trailer, no less) head-on coming the wrong way around a blind turn. I was barely able to avoid hitting her; if I’d been in a car going 25 mph I almost certainly would have hit her.
It’s just fucking stupid because it’s contrary to other drivers’ (and cyclists’) expectations and gives them virtually no chance of avoiding the situation or reacting correctly, and it also happens to be straight-up illegal.
Bush II even sent special flights around the US (during the no-fly period) to gather up Saudi citizens and transport them safely home. Imagine Roosevelt doing this for Japanese citizens on December 8th 1941.
The best part of that was him claiming it would fix the homelessness problem here. No free carts, no homeless people pushing their belongings around the streets.
Fun fact: in 1987 a young boy was killed and partially eaten by polar bears at a zoo in Brooklyn after he and two other children snuck into the enclosure. Donald Trump offered to pay for his funeral but then reneged.
I started making my own sourdough bread during COVID because for a while there they didn’t have bread or yeast at the grocery stores. I love the fact that the ingredients are just flour, water, salt and starter (which itself is just flour and water and the yeastie beasties). The yeast all dies during cooking and the water is essentially cooked out of it, so sourdough bread is really just flour altered into a really funky form with a bit of salt. I like the added thought that even the flour is just ground-up grass.
What shocked me the most was how much stupider it looked when surrounded by normal vehicles. It looks like a cheap prop from an early '70s sci-fi movie - I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Sean Connery climb out of one wearing a codpiece while shouting “renew!”
He’s like the presidential version of the Nigerian prince scam email. That email contains a bunch of intentional misspellings and grammatical errors because the phishers want to weed out people who can think and reason correctly.
Yeah. Basically, she said finger-up-butt is good for 10 years but poop-in-cup is good for only 3 years, and if they find indications of a problem in the cup-o-poop then you have to go get finger-up-butt anyway. Still worth it in my book.
Back in the '90s you could apparently send a letter to Michael Jordan by just addressing it “Michael Jordan” and nothing else. I think the poop cup works kind of the same.
Note that I am not telling you to mail your poop to Michael Jordan.
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Trump Tells Faith Conference If He Took Off Shirt They’d See ‘a Beautiful Person’ With ‘Wounds All Over’ From Defending Religion (www.mediaite.com)
firestarter rule (lemmy.world)
The Art of the Deal (lemmy.today)
Ape box rule (lemmy.world)
Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
"How much I paid to eat kebab every year", in Turkey with the 4th highest inflation in the world
Honey what’s wrong, you barely touched your Philly Cheesesteak Cheesecake (lemmy.today)
Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (abcnews.go.com)
Samuel Alito’s Wife Goes Full MAGA in Secret Recording (www.thedailybeast.com)
Martha-Ann Alito, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, complained about the Pride flag, ranted about “feminazis,” and explained a flag design that she has been creating in her head in anticipation of when her husband is “free of this nonsense,” according to undercover audio released by a journalist and...
Russia Declares War on ‘Mediocre Actor’ George Clooney (www.thedailybeast.com)
I'm driving I get to control the radio! (lemmy.world)
'Confused' Judge Cannon needed concept explained 'slowly' to her in court by lawyers: NYT (www.rawstory.com)
As part of an analysis of how U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon, reports from her courtroom show a judge who is both “prickly” and" insecure" and often has trouble understanding what lawyers from both sides try to explain to her....
The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133154...
New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity (www.theatlantic.com)
Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive
Tucker Carlson launches show on Russian state TV (www.newsweek.com)
This is not a record to be proud of. (lemmy.world)
Honestly, this is probably how I will end up dieing (sh.itjust.works)
Some Trump-appointed judges keep sneaking Biblical reference into court opinions (www.salon.com)
ohhh (lemmy.world)
So excited for the Cybertruck (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era (lemmy.world)
I bet that rich dumb ass would love this comparison.
What a deal! (lemmy.world)
Comedy World Righteously Roasts Trump Over Gettysburg Gaffe (newrepublic.com)
People can’t stop cracking up over the former president’s bizarre, bumbling speech....
To put life into perspective (lemmy.world)
He's got a point (slrpnk.net)
RIP in pieces (lemmy.world)
I miss vegetables (lemmy.world)
Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow (edition.cnn.com)
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
now imagine a dog with a propeller hat (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* (lemmy.world)