Yeah but even if he ends daylight savings time, he’ll probably reimplement it a day later anyway.

Just gave one of their tracks a listen to. Definitely big mid / late 2000s vibes and nostalgia for me. The kind of stuff that would’ve been playing on a friday or saturday night along with Slipknot and Drowning Pool and SOAD and all that stuff at the alternative club I used to haunt. I probably actually heard them in those days as well.

I’ve definitely heard of Five Finger Death Punch and I’ve very likely heard their stuff but its not a band that’s ever been in my personal rotation of music. Maybe I should give them a try.

Success: digging out and leveling the whole previously hilly and uneven front section of the house, then weed proofing and filling in with stones, trimmed with bricks and a pathway. And a little corner space for low maintenance plants like a prickly pear tree and aloe types. Also a couple of pots. I guess that’s pretty cool. I like it.

Failure: definitely the bit of roof that I waterproofed. Which then leaked anyway and wrecked the ceiling. Which was then followed with even more waterproofing and the ceiling being repaired. Which leaked again during the next heavy rain. But not enough to completely waste the ceiling this time at least though. And now the roof is like 90% waterproofing materials and the leak seems to finally be actually gone.

Just to add for information’s sake, it works the other way around too. As in, you can use Fennec instead of Firefox Android and still sync with standard Firefox on desktop. Or Librewolf or whatever. I think most forks probably use the same sync functionality and servers as vanilla Firefox.

Hell yeah, that’s pretty awesome. Listened to the first two so far. First one I loved and had me thinking that it’s very Arch Enemy like. And then the second one is a completely different style and vibe, so it sounds like this guy has an interesting variety going on. I’ll definitely keep making my way through these links and probably add some of this to my rotation. Thanks!

On your last point, just a reminder that this ‘culture war’ bullshit is really just a distraction from the real war, the class war. And maybe that’s actually the way to counter the bigots, seeing as there’s no point in arguing with them on their level. Keep the focus on the fact that the rich and powerful, in particular tech bros / social media owners, profit off of and manipulate us on a large scale. And benefit from us fighting each other and stopping to think for a moment.

Edit: love your username

Fair enough lol. Just getting the lay of the land here.

This reminds me of an online thing that I had going with someone that started in my late teens. Even the line about not having empathy was something that I remember, which I never bought. And talking about self harm, suicide, trouble distinguishing dreams from actual events etc. That was a wild ride. I eventually found out, when everything was crashing and burning, that a lot of stories and details of stories were made up too.

Funnily enough, after years of not talking, she’s probably one of my ‘best’ and longest running friends now lol. Someone that I can talk to about anything with (literally the only person I’ve ever discussed gender identity related shit with). I wasn’t born perfect either, and put her through just as much hell, so we’ve both seen and dealt with each other at our worst and lowest, which makes a good kind of shoulder to cry on if you can make it through the other side of that.

And in her case, it was part edginess and part mental health lol. Bipolar and being a teenager that wanted to fit in with the alternative scene and be dark and morbid and shit. Which I actually get to some extent too. When I was young I used to say that I’d be part of club 27 because I thought that a cool thing to say and imagine for myself. Until someone actually pointed out how fucked up it is to go around talking like that.

I’ve used the “miniscule percentage of the population” line before when shouting about the fact that so many people are making trans people’s business their own business. But this is actually a great point that it’s not exactly the best angle to take. It’s hard to decide what angle to take when arguing with bigots though because appealing to their non-existent empathy or telling them to mind their own damn business doesn’t seem to work either.

Lol holy shit. And a few hours later he’s going to deny that he denied the exemption and be like “what are you talking about? I said certain electronics are exempt!”

I’m starting to think that maybe the reason Elon Musk did two blatant nazi salutes in a row was to test what they could do in front of everyone’s eyes while denying it, and to see how many people would just go “ok sure, I didn’t see what I just saw. Whatever you say, dear leader.”

In a vacuum, without any opposing messaging, guys learning this stuff organically or through simple social maturation might be enough in a leftward-shifting society, but there’s an entire developed pipeline to capture young men into right-wing, misogynistic rhetoric, and it’s clearly very successful, and it’s part of a feedback cycle/ political apparatus used to push society rightwards.

Yeah I’m with you there. As someone that lives in a relatively socially conservative country, I can’t think of too many older men I knew growing up that wouldn’t have been / probably have been sucked into this culture war shit. Because none of this is new, it’s a conservative push to restore gender roles and boomer humour and boys will be boys and greasy old film execs getting away with sexual assault.

I don’t think that the answer is necessarily older friends. If it was just a case of needing older male role models to talk to, then this conservative shift would’ve started with the older millennials already. Because every second person I knew came from a divorced, usually fatherless household.

The difference is that we weren’t listening to jackasses whose qualifications are hosting Fear Factor lecture us about gender roles and politics. We didn’t even have the kind of ‘media’ when I was in my early 20s, unless you count greasy TV preachers. So actually what the fuck has happened.

Maybe the answer is to get Guy Fieri doing a leftist podcast because the kids seem to love having reality stars from yesteryear lecture them about politics and social issues. But I dunno, I think the media that we consume in general is part of the issue. Why isn’t Sonic the Hedgehog an anti-authoritarian hero anymore? The kids need punk rock, not podcasts. Not whatever the entertainment industry is offering right now if it’s being beaten by Joe Rogan and a microphone.

Also just want to say, this author talks like going through a woman hating phase is normal for an 18 year old because of not having money and confidence. Which fuck that, it’s not only men that don’t have money and confidence or experience when they’re young. And that wasn’t a ‘normal’ phase for teenage boys to go through when I was that age.

Which after my long rant (sorry, I’m fairly stoned) brings me to what I’m actually agreeing with in the first place. It’s definitely this pipeline, as you said. And lack of a good leftist or progressive pipeline.

Thank you! I like the general vibes here, still need to scroll through everything properly though, which I’ll get to soon. And yeah, not expecting to reach the masses either but I’m good with that. Even if just one person enjoys a track, that’s still a cool connection to make with somebody.

Just a disclaimer. I’m still kinda old school or stuck in my ways and prefer collecting and curating my own mp3 collection. Also I listen to a lot of music from my phone while walking and streaming with mobile data would break the bank. So I don’t actually use Spotify or any of these other services. But Spotify seems like the easiest place to navigate as a free user, so I’m going with that if I post something here.

Back in the day when I was still in my hippie phase with dreds down to my ass, wearing a hand painted t-shirt and some raggedy ass pants, pierced face and bangles and shit all up my arms. In a conservative shit hole town where I was getting dirty looks and was even denied entry to pub not long before because they thought my roll up cigarette was a joint lol.

And I was also going through some pretty bad personal shit so I was feeling especially low and hard done by. And then a little old Indian lady that I walked past stopped and stopped me to especially tell me “you are very beautiful. And don’t let anyone make you think differently.” Getting close to 20 years later now and I’ve never forgotten it or that lady.

Apart from that, one of my favourite things as a pedestrian is having an occasional little moment with someone in their car at a stop street. When you just happen to look at each other and make eye contact and smile. That 5 second little connection that occasionally happens always leaves me smiling for the next 5 minutes.

Finished off my rewatch of Superman the Animated Series into Justice League into Justice League Unlimited.

Then finally checked out Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League. Liked it a lot more than I thought I would. Was just as wild and wacky as the first one but not quite as nonsensical.

Then Wolf Children. The whole I watched that was because of a Stardew Valley meme that uses a screenshot from it. I’ve got kinda mixed feelings on it. Loved a lot of it, not sure I love how everything turned out though.

And finally, I rewatched The Island of Dr. Moreau after the news about Val Kilmer. Still a pretty cool movie.

What’s next, I’m not so sure. I’ve had an anime called Mashle: Magic and Muscles lined up for a little while now. Based entirely on the fact that apparently there’s a non-binary character in it. Otherwise I don’t even know if it’s good or way too pervy / creepy for my tastes like a lot of anime.

And I’ve got the two Dune movies lined up to watch. Which I want to watch but feel reluctant to at the same time for some reason.

Probably going to end up watching She-Ra again actually.

Edit: actually now I’m thinking that Young Justice might be worth a rewatch too.

I’m also thinking of SAC 2045, which I’ve tried to like, I’ve even watched it twice now. And I don’t want to drag it down too much because some people did enjoy it and we’re all allowed to enjoy what we want. But I honestly chalk the fact that it felt kinda dumbed down a bit (compared to the OG Stand Alone Complex, that is) and had the USA crammed into it so much to Netflix’s involvement.

Especially ever since the Witcher debacle where the showrunners mentioned intentionally dumbing it down, or hearing about how Netflix strives to make content for people who are browsing on their phones at the same time, I would never 100% trust them with something like Ghost in the Shell.

Cautiously optimistic about this one. I know everyone is sick of comic book movies but as someone who is more of a DC fan than a Marvel fan, I’m still waiting for my turn for a cool cinematic universe that I enjoy. And I really don’t care if it reaches the same heights as the MCU or not, I don’t give a fuck how much Hollywood suits make out of it, I just want good movies in a genre and universe that I enjoy.

And so far I’m liking everything I’m hearing so far. I like that they’re not going with Superman being the ‘first’ superhero, then all the rest suddenly coming out of the woodwork and these he’s going to be entering a world where superhero shenanigans are already commonplace. The DC universe should be a place where Themiscira and Atlantis and even Gorilla City have been a part of the world’s history for millennia. It should be a place where people like Vandal Savage have been around since literal caveman times. Where Jonah Hex haunted the wild west and the Justice Society fought nazis in WW2.

And James Gunn already seems to excel at putting together worlds where even bystanders act like they live in a world where this is everyday shit. So I’m looking forward to an alive DC universe here that also isn’t scared of showcasing some of the sillier aspects of the comics like Krypto or talking gorillas with technology that far surpasses our own. And Gunn seems like just the person for the job.

Glad to see that it doesn’t look like Netflix is involved.

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