[-] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 22 hours ago

Don't be bringing brass instruments into this...

So Bruce Springsteen wrote the original version of "Blinded By the Light". But Manfred Mann's version was the one that was a huge hit. And Mann's version does say "wrapped up like a douche" (versus Springsteen saying "revved up like a duce").

I saw an interview with Springsteen where he speculated that was the biggest writing mistake he'd made. If only he'd said "wrapped up like a douche", maybe his version would have sold better.

[-] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Count the Emmys on your wall!

Lay me down and tell me who's the boss!

I'm sure that Angela will never know!

I do have one, yes. I'm not currently using it, but if I recall it is basically vanilla OSMC, yes.

The Vero V isn't too bad: https://osmc.tv/vero/ The hardware is decent, and the remote is surprisingly better than I expected.

[-] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Where does "Good enough" fit on the scale? Asking for a friend...

[-] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 4 months ago

Didn't see any mention yet, so... Useless use of cat!

[-] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 4 months ago

Tangential as well, Mark Bankston was one of the prosecuting attorneys in Alex Jones' TX trial for his slander and libel ('cause he definitely did both) of the families of Sandy Hook victims. So on top of dunking on Musk, he's also a good attorney? Seems like a pretty cool dude.

[-] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A number of people replied about Reagan's work ending state mental institutions, and made a lot of good points. One interesting aspect of that was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation. In the 60s and 70s, mental health professionals were advocating for moving from a institution-based model of care (a la "One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest") to a community-based model (groups like https://www.reachinc.org/ basically follow this model). The basic thrust: ensuring that individuals are a part of a community, and care is tailored to the individual. It's very well-meaning at its core. By the lat 70s, deinstitutionalization had (to some extent) become doctrine with experts working with disabled individuals. And for good reason! A number of early studies showed promising results! So come the 80s and Reagan. Reagan has an easy excuse for closing down institutions: experts in th field even recommend it! There's one really important caveat, though: experts recommended diverting the funding the institutions had received into community-based support (again, see the link above for Reach as an example of how they imagined this funding being dispersed). Reagan...just cut the funding. So really, he did a "No Child Left Behind" 20 years earlier! Which, as I type it out...is even shittier. He gave false hope that he was actually going to do something great for mentally disabled people, and instead threw them on the street. Man. Reagan really sucked.

Side note: there are groups like Reach all over the US and the world, and they all could use help. Volunteers, funding, etc. A quick bit of research and you may meet some incredible people in your local community.

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