MolotovHalfEmpty

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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

From the live news feed:

The model was launched 14 years ago and just six weeks ago the US planemaker lauded the fact the model, also known as the Dreamliner, has reached the milestone of carrying 1 billion passengers. To mark that occasion the company said the global 787 fleet of more than 1,175 airplanes has flown nearly 5 million flights covering more than 30 million flight hours.

I'd like a grand. Could they put on a shitshow more local to me?

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

jesus-christ

Absolute carnage. The plane was barely off the ground before what looks like a total, sudden failure.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

The comments pictured really just demonstrate that they don't understand power dynamics and cannot imagine themselves not in the position of the more dominant superpower.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

doubt I'll take my chances.

How exactly do you type a response like this and not realise you're a crank? This would be over the top rhetoric as the fascist villain in a terrible B-movie.

The Israeli government is already actively involved in policing operations and court cases against activists here in the UK, despite it being very illegal and a clear conflict. And according to the accounts of some of the activists and journalists who were detained under terror charges in black bag raids, they suspect that members of the anti-terror police who hid their identities and ran their interrogations were likely Israeli, rather than British anti-terror police

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SciFi with Damien Walters take or whatever is almost as bad, smuglord whether you think Gilroy is hiding his power to skate under Disney's radar or not, the tweet is bullshit liberal grandstanding with zero use or deeper understanding.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

"Abandon"

In recent years and under Der Sturmer's government the closest the UK has ever come to recognising a Palestinian state is the cabinet saying that they would acknowledge a two-party state (bingo for outdated bullshit!) but even then ONLY if Israel approved it first. In other words... no reginition, ever, plus just straight up admitting policy is made by Israel.

The UK is starting from the point of being an active and enthisiastic participant in genocide. Not in terms of the shameful political and legal support or interference that would already be a crime. But direct military and financial support. Targeting flights. Intelligence that helps Israel kill journalists and aid workers, some of them British citizens. SAS on the ground. Sheepdipped British forces. We even passed laughably, awfully bullshit arms restrictions and then just lied and broke them anyway. We charge journalists and activists with terror charges, seemingly based on Israel's direction, and then deny their right to fair trial or (few) rights under British law by sharing their information, case progress, and legally protected details with Israel. And that's just the shit that's openly out there, mostly ignored but occassionally acknowledged by mainstream media.

The idea that you can do any of this, never mind all of it, and even pretend to support a Palestinian state is an unhinged fucking lie and everyone telling it in order to distance themselves from the very things they've spent almost two years (or far far more) supporting deserves whatever comes their way and should beg for a jury in the Hague as far more than they deserve.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 65 points 1 week ago

Yeah, no shit.

Musk has a dozen other Epstein connections and there's detailed, grim accounts of him being at Esptein 'Diddy' syle parties. He can say he left earlier or only hist dipshit bro actually did the 'orgies' or was 'never on the plane' all he wats but the Q crowd are never gonna buy it, esecially when they've already built in a narrative about Trump being a white hat.

A few weirdo reply guys might flip, but Musk doesn't realise that even before this he was the weird nerd most people (inlcuding his 'fans') didn't like. If you've lost the weird pretend rationalist guys on Twitter then you've got nothing in terms of juice.

Even if he hadn't, what's the move here? You're the exact guy trump is on this issue, except you can't help but talk and tweet, and he has an intelligence service on his side (assuming he doesn't just make something up).

This feels like hangover 'clarity', read as 'minimisation'.

None of us are famous enough to be the target of this meme. Otherwise it's perfect ancom-heart

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago

Imagine hooking what's left of your pathetic little curated echo-chamber to an (admittedly mostly unhinged) actual movement big enough to win multiple elections, repeatedly eat shit as a result, and still have a cult of personality, and then backing off to be like 'call your congressman'.

Spectacularly pathetic.

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

Remember to drink plenty of water!

 

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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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net
 

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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