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I don’t know what demographic you think these people were. They were by and large African immigrants. It’s weird that you’ve created this boogeyman version of them in your head though

They would make stuff like jollof rice and share it with everyone. Super nice people. The only politics they ever brought up was one guy I got to know well would talk a lot about how the elections in the Congo at the time (2010ish) were rigged and the leader at the time was concentrating his power; that war was inevitable if someone did not intervene. He apparently was right because the m23 has been going off there, though admittedly I don’t know the full scale of the situation

I want a lightgun that works like those big chunky ones you’d see on arcade machines back in the day that weighed like 4 lbs and had servos to give it real clacky recoil. I know people make these and you can buy them (or even just pull ones off an old arcade cabinet and interface them with the hardware) but they’re way to expensive for me to actually buy though.

If it was like a $50-100 project maybe but I’m pretty sure it’s like $600+ and that’s just an obscene amount of money for this. But it would be fun

I still offer to meet and stuff, I don’t just say “is it available” with no other text

Based on a small handful of replies I do get it appears that many sellers don’t know how to delete their ads

Indie wiki buddy to redirect the cancerous fandom wikis to the infinitely better breezewiki

Can libredirect do this? Interesting will have to investigate further

Why would you care about people seeing how you vote? Have courage in your convictions

This is a good line but the best skit overall in this entire show is the intervention one imo

The best line in the series might be the final line the professor does at the dinner when he houses the burger

Or Patti Harrison who is fucking hilarious, the tables or the one with the printer

Now I’m gonna rewatch the whole series

I’m trying to buy something from Craigslist rn and the amount of times ive reached out with this to only be either ghosted, told its sold, or told someone else is coming but I can have it if they flake is probably like 12 or 13?

So yeah gonna continue starting with this line

I mean in defense of these staff: many of them were not amazingly well educated and were pulling 80-96 hour weeks pretty regularly to earn a livable wage. When were they supposed to do this research?

加爾基 精液 栗ノ花 /Chlorine, Semen, Chestnut Flower by 椎名 裕美子/Shiina Ringo

Pretty influential j pop that is lesser known in the west but is baroque/chamber pop with strong jazz and electronica elements, not the typical sailor uniform stuff (not that that’s inherently bad, but it gets old fast imo).

Layered production (which she did herself for her the first time) with a wide degree of instrumentation including guitar, bass, drums, strings, koto, pipe organ, prepared piano, erhu (a Chinese stringed instrument), mellotron, a conch (like the actual seashell), didgeridoo, her brother’s wife’s vacuum cleaner (actually), etc

There are influences of bjork in her music. There’s some beach boys style production in here. this is, in my opinion, her best work.

The lyrics are filled with tension and provocation, discussing life, purity, and mortality

The albums name was apparently because she overheard some guys in the studio arguing about whether cum smells more like chlorine or chestnut flowers. It was originally supposed to be called something else and this created tension with the label. But anyway some interesting notes if you don’t speak the runes:

The romaji for the album name is karuki zamen kuri no hana

加爾基 - karuki (calcium) this is what gets translated to chlorine. However, these kanji are kind of old school. More typically calcium/karuki could be written with hiragana thuslyカルキ or more typically with katakana カルシウム because it’s a loan word. This was likely a very deliberate choice because these kanji mean things tho:

加 (ka) - add/increase 爾 (ru) - a old super formal you used here for sound 基 (ki) - base/foundation

精液 - this just means semen

栗ノ花 - kuri no hana - a subtle euphemism for basically “cum smell”. Quick backstory here: in Japan it’s pretty common knowledge that chestnut flowers smell like jizz. I had no idea. Perhaps you didn’t either? Now you do.

So you basically have this title that plays into the themes of the album (purity, foundation, reproduction) and has this interesting contrast between a very deliberate almost poetic interpretation of one word to include thematic elements, a very standard delivery of the next, and the final is delivered in a standard way as well but it comes as essentially a double entendre of the second.

Highly recommend

So you were administering systems or something similar? Then sure, I am sure for you and your team it brought you together (and maybe some tension at times). Glad it went well. But society as a whole? Eh

That’s the challenge though. On a micro level it’s easy. I work in mental health and I have similar stories from my days working in hospitals (I do outpatient work now) where our unit staff have banded together for challenges. Covid was like that at the beginning. Then it fell apart because everything became politicized thanks to our dogshit leadership at the time

But finding something that can (for the most part) unite all of society? Even limiting it to just the US that’s a talllllll order. Especially if you also don’t want it to fall apart after a month like the Covid thing

I went to one of their branches to pick up an order for some stuff that was obscenely expensive to ship because it was only like 45m away from me at the time (I’ve since moved, unfortunately). The building was basically just like a desk and then you could see all the logistics going on behind it. Like I don’t think people typically come pick stuff up. It was wild, so much shit going on at once, and gigantic

Were you in an industry affected or are you just reminiscing on being in society

Because being in society for y2k was utterly meaningless. We did nothing. We did not come together, we did not work hard. A small handful of dweebs noticed the issue and fixed it.

The USA, with its burgeoning 24 hour news cycle and coming off such hits as oj, princess di, and columbine, recognized they could blow that shit up. So then America wasted 40 billion dollars and a shitload of fear mongering when basically every other country spent almost nothing for essentially the same outcome. Because the outcome was contingent on patches to windows and the Linux kernel, which were obviously going to happen long before 1/1/2000 and regardless of the government because it was a glaring bug that was found

I do ultimately agree with your sentiment though. A common enemy is not necessary and we absolutely can be unified around a cause. The space race obviously had Russia as a villain. The new deal is something that on paper could unify but in practice saw conservative opposition and liberal criticism that it didn’t go far enough. I still think it’s possible though, even if an example is a challenge to think up