thisbenzingring

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[–] thisbenzingring 2 points 46 minutes ago

poppin tags

[–] thisbenzingring 9 points 5 hours ago

knowledge is power

learn from the mistakes of others :)

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submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by thisbenzingring to c/music@lemmy.world
 

Ken Andrews is a great musical talent. The band Failure is amazing. This Year of the Rabbit was a side project during the time Failure was basically over. Ken was dealing with a heroin addiction, as the lyrics probably tell. Long story short, Ken kicked the smack and got his shit together but YotR didn't pan out. He later reformed Failure and the produced the best music records of their bands career (IMO) and are still making more. Plus Ken has had his part in so many big hits over the years. He is a true inspirational type of guy.

Still a fucking rockin tune and I just recently got a copy on vinyl and it sounds soooooooo good. I remember seeing YotR at a small venue in Seattle, seriously maybe 80 people in the crowd. They were so good. I chatted with the band outside after the show. It is a great memory.

this song gets stuck in my head all the time, the ending is so good. Its the last song on side A, which makes that last part even more epic

[–] thisbenzingring 27 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

this reminds me of the advice for people who win the lottery

make an anonymous LLC company to accept your win, so you can stay incognito

pay a lawyer and an accountant so you can continue to stay incognito and only tell your trusted friends and family about your good fortune

so crazy assholes don't come for you or them

I guess this now applies to making it big in crypto money

[–] thisbenzingring 7 points 6 hours ago

Dallas

the ending ruined its legacy

[–] thisbenzingring 11 points 17 hours ago

and i think I just read that Ukraine drone bombed the single factory that produces fiber optic cables

hahaha

[–] thisbenzingring 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

having lived near the Port of Seattle, it's not unheard of to have it empty of ships. Sometimes all the containers are gone too.

I won't read a Newsweek link, but the headline is dumb

[–] thisbenzingring 11 points 22 hours ago

how disgusting

[–] thisbenzingring 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

well now I know where the band Low Hums got an album name

https://lowhums.bandcamp.com/album/zzyzx

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I guess I know what I am doing this weekend!

[–] thisbenzingring 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I watched the new Count of Monte Cristo on my flight to Europe recently. Good movie, my only problem is that they didn't treat Mercedes' final encounter with the Edmond right. Honestly that part made me so angry, they did everything else so right but the ~~main~~ greatest lesson that Edmond and the reader must learn and they let him get away with it... (some things cannot be forgiven) Oh well. The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my all time favorites, so I am probably a little more critical then I should be.

So that is only a 3 hour movie and the flight was 10 hours... at about the 5 hour mark, I notice someone in front of me just start the movie... I watched it again on their screen.

Then I watched some other movie on someone elses screen. I have no idea what it was but it was actually a good experience.

So long story short, I understand that appeal and I might watch other peoples screens more often on long flights. Its not bad at all. Especially when they turn on subtitles

[–] thisbenzingring 11 points 1 day ago

I have read a few and commented on a couple, usually when its a young person clearly ignorant of something potentially dangerous to them.

But most of the shit on there is so stupid. Like I get it! being in your early 20s or late teens and having those first relationships is a hard thing and your friends arent always good sources of advice. And you might want to your parents or other adults to be proud of you so you might not ask them the right questions.

But if the post starts to get more then a couple hundred upvotes or comments, it turns into a shit show

 

I can dream up schemes when I'm sitting in my seat
I don't see any flaws 'til I get to my feet
I wish I never woke up this morning
Life was easy when it was boring

I could make a mark, it weren't so dark
I could be replaced by any bright spark
But darkness makes me fumble
For a key to a door that's wide open

Instead of worrying about my clothes
I could be someone that nobody knows
I wish I never woke up this morning
Life was easy when it was boring

I can dream up schemes when I'm sitting in my seat
I don't see any flaws 'til I get to my feet
I wish I never woke up this morning
Life was easy when it was boring

I wish I never woke up this morning
Life was easy when it was boring

 

2 More Years! w0ot

 

I got one in flight, it was a great shot

those silly birds, I loved them all

 

so cute 🥹

 

The Comfort of False Equivalence
There’s a seductive kind of cowardice masquerading as wisdom in modern discourse: the insistence that all extremes are created equal. It’s what allows the centrist to shrug and say, “Well, both sides are dangerous,” as though morality and method exist on a balanced scale, and history is simply a record of shared mistakes. For MAGA, this rhetorical laziness isn’t just useful. It’s strategic.

 

I love the picture of the customer service lady

 

this song just rocks me, i have loved it since the first listen

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oh dear (lemmy.sdf.org)
 
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Snowdrops in my yard (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 2 months ago by thisbenzingring to c/photography
 

Snowdrop flowers that are the first plants to wake up at the end of winter. Picture taken this morning

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submitted 2 months ago by thisbenzingring to c/retronet
 
 
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