MolotovHalfEmpty

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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember to drink plenty of water!

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or to put it in Hexbear (condensed):

projection

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

Lenin probably never even saw that particular car, never mind rode it it. Although he (along with others) did have use of a similar early Rolls Royce's over the years. It was less about luxury and more about the fact that Rolls Royce has an engineering firm had a global reputation for reliability - especially in extreme weather - compare to other car manufacturers because of their experience making aeroplane engines and components.

If people are interested, the Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society put out a three part article tacing its provenance and clearing up some of the myths on the internet about it. That link starts on Part 3, which is the bit explicitly about that model and the cars Lenin did use, but it's all interesting (if you're a massive transport or history nerd). There's a few minor, smug asides from the author, but the work is good and it contains some amusing details, like finding doucments showing that one car had to be returned to Moscow for repair because someone joyrode it and almost crashed into some cows.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but...

Alex Garland has made multiple films with A24. Warfare, Civil War, Men, Annihilation, & Ex Machina (in order of newest to oldest).

This comment thread was talking about how poor Civil War was.

I was also pointing out that he'd previously made a far superior film with similar themes and structure when he made Annihilation, which really demonstrates just how poor Civil War is even by comparison to his own work on similar ideas.

(Also, in regard to your other comment, I have no idea what it is exactly that you "called")

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is well deconstructed @rom and I would put money on the fact that the phone itself is bullshit, with software added and then placed in the hands of friendly (read: paid for) hacks to report on.

To add two points on the bullshit 'secret screenshotting':

  • This is what Microsoft's Co-Pilot integration does via its 'Recall' feature (except MS does it every few seconds or more). Since it's initial rollout it's been widely criticised with multiple national privacy and security watchdogs getting involved. Microsoft (which its worth remembering again is an asset of the US military & intelligence state) has responded by merely mking it slightly less difficult to ask to opt out. The feature remains in place.
  • Also, if the phone was screenshotting and saving it on a folder every five minutes as described a 32gb phone would have its entire memory full of nothing but those screenshots in 3-4 months. So obviously people would notice or North Korean citizens would be going through multiple phones a year (can't delete the files if they're in a hidden folder you can't access).

Used to be a proper country.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

BRB, gonna do a little anti-fascist praxis as a treat.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So after a quick glance at LinkedIn, this guy seems to have done a video game podcast for years with Jonah Falcon, a weirdo who spent years trying to get famous by lying about having the biggest penis in the world.

And even that weirdo's professional recommendation of him isn't great:

"Jordan has been the co-host of the TD Gaming Podcast for years now, and has been fairly reliable and engaging."

He also seems to have worked in tech for the private healthcare industry.

Jim Henson really phoned in the creativity with the puppet designs towards the end, huh?

Already done, but it's good that you posted this here. Same goes for the recent Big Issue articles on disability benefits and this governments attack on disabled people more broadly.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No problem.

Arguably it had something to do with Britain's class system being so heavily dominated by the aristocratic class. That created space for even some reasonably wealthy, middle-class and beyond people (particularly scholars, writers, educators, doctors, occassionally clergy etc rather than industrialists for example) to recognise a top down society that they also viewed as repressive to them at some level. Similar overlapping interests helped it gain solidarity with the suffragette movement for example, which included committed communists and anarchists, but nonetheless also had its fair share of liberals and even fascists.

It's also probably worth keeping in mind that the early and argueably most directly influential years of the Fabian society and movement predated even the October revolution in 1917, never mind the Chinese communist revolution in '27, so there was a lot of 'socialism in theory' going on. By the '30s Fabians were leaving (or being pushed out) right and left for their support of Stalin in particular, but also AES states in general.

 

Look, we all get lost sometimes.

No more so that the pseuds who decided to debate whether this was actually as song about an alien or not for years.

Desert highways all look the same.

 

Perhaps the best indie rock tune about about the UFO conspiracy ever recorded. They put it in a (really good) episode of the X Files to throw us off the scent.

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You can't put a cover on the sky

Remember the 90s? Remember when people rightly identified MIC projects? But then also built a weird (but rad) secular ideology around it.

Music was better when aliens existed.

 

Unfortunately American / British rock and roll influnence in (bad) Korea did help produce a few bangers inlcuding this fuzz soaked bit of psychadelic pop rock perfection.

Shin Joong-Hyun wasn't exactly a radical, but after the General's coup he was comissioned to write a song about the the glory of General Park Chung Hee. Instead he wrote a tune about the glory of Korea's natural beauty. He was arrested and had all his equipment confiscated.

Later he was impisoned again for selling weed, tortured, and sent to a 'psychiactic facility' where he remained imprisoned for years and banned for performing in (bad) Korea.

Unfortunately I've never known much apart from some other credits from liner notes about Lee Jung Hwa, who provides the song-making vocal.

 

A bunch of people stole a SWAT vehicle and were riding it around a parking lot. Someone add the Teriyaki Boyz track from Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift.

It's important I find it to prove my word, because what else do we have?

 

Because it's chefs-kiss

It makes me dare to dream. bloomer

 

I'm about 80% of the way through it and it's been not just a welcome distraction from a stressful couple of weeks, but one of my favourite things I've played in a long time.

Pretty chill, but still with some challenge on higher difficulties. Wonderful art style and satisfying fold-in on themselves level design. The writing is good and succinct with what could be just another cozy game unfolding into something more varied in tone and having genuine things to say about regional identity, tourism, and commerce at the expense of locals.

What really (pleasantly) surprised me was what a love letter it was to all sorts of great past video games. Sometimes via a specific mechanic, sometimes a themed level or ability. Persona, Mario Galaxy, Zelda, Ico, SSX Tricky, Fez, classic RPGs, you name it.

Anyway, I think it's pretty neat.

 

If a harcore band sings in mostly German, old fucks are wearing black and red pins by the bar, and I tell you (in English) at the bar that you're likely to get your arse kicked as American tourists, you probably shouldn't jump in with the regulars and then be all surprised-pika-messed-up when you catch a stray to the shouldershoulder to the chest.

 

"The threat of nuclear confrontation in South Africa escalated today when the ruling white military government of that besieged city-state unveiled a French-made neutron bomb and affirmed its willingness to use the three-megaton device as the city's last line of defense."

This is the news report in the actual first minute of RoboCop. Apartheid had fallen, the last retreat of capital is considering nuclear annihilation with the help of Europe. Reminder, RoboCop was made in '87, written before. If anyone has read some of the shadier history of apartheid SA at the time (bio-weapons, UK/western involvement etc) this is more of an oversimplification than something actually far-fetched.

Paul Verhoeven gets a lot of praise for big, bold, anti-capitalist and anti-fash themes. He should get more praise for the details.

 

Christmas in July.

 

My local was flooded with ecstatic out of town removed earlier than scheduled. So this went on repeat as I left until the prebooked band was ready. Election day is a fucking nightmare.

Also, it's an all time depressive banger. A great late cynical era Bruce Springsteen song perfected into a dark pop dance ballad by the Pet Shop Boys.

 

I'm going to the pub to watch the England match again (for some reason) so here's a warm-up tune.

It's laser focused satire of a particular kind of English footy bloke.

And for non-Brits here I imagine it'll be like trying to understand something between a magic eye and iceburg of British lad culture.

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