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harrys_balzac , to memes in Choices choices.

But “Sweet Caroline” is problematic in a different way. From Wikipedia - “Diamond has provided different explanations for the song’s origins. In a 2007 interview, he stated the inspiration for the song was John F. Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline, who was 11 years old at the time it was released. Diamond sang the song for her at her 50th birthday celebration in 2007. On December 21, 2011, in an interview on CBS’s The Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of Caroline as a young child on a horse with her parents created an image in his mind, and the rest of the song came together about five years after seeing the picture. However, in 2014, Diamond said the song was about his then-wife Marcia, but he needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody.”

He wrote lyrics about touching each other a few years after seeing her in a photo as a young child?

harrys_balzac , to memes in Choices choices.

Ich war geknebelt. Ich konnte nicht mal schreien. Oh, Sweet Sweet Gwendoline!

harrys_balzac , to memes in Choices choices.

Warren Zebon FTW!

harrys_balzac , to memes in Choices choices.

As a white person, I choose “sweet release of death.”

harrys_balzac , to nostupidquestions in As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?

It depends on which algo/service. Pandora and I have never meshed so I just avoid that one. YouTube occasionally tosses a good one in my feed. Spotify does well enough that I pay. SoundCloud is probably my favorite.

Aside from that, I’m subscribed to a few music communities here. That has widened my net. Same with imgur - 99% of the time I’m there for the memes but occasionally someone will post something that helps me find a new band.

I’ve gotten back into going to concerts. I go by myself and end up meeting bunches of new people and we all end up talking about music, sharing the names of our favorite tracks and bands.

You’re going to have to blaze your own trail. There’s so much new music being made every day that it’s very much a “needle in a haystack” thing.

Plus, don’t automatically rule out a band because they’re not new. That is, Alien Ant Farm was never on my radar until last year. Their cover of “Smooth Criminal” hit my SoundCloud recommendations. It’s from before MJ died…anyway, I’ve listened to some of their stuff and added some to my playlists.

Keep your ears and mind open.

harrys_balzac , to nottheonion in GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza.

So, since they’re not-so-subtlely trying to murder these students, then they are saying that political violence is okie-dokie?

harrys_balzac , to patientgamers in Patient gamers, what are your favourite city builders?

I can’t believe I forgot Caesar and Pharaoh. I played the f out of those when I was a PC only player. I sucked at them but loved them.

harrys_balzac , to steam in Sony does not remove purchase restrictions from Helldivers 2 on steam and also adds them to Ghost of Tsushima

This is how you encourage piracy. Just let capitalists be capitalists.

harrys_balzac , to technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

Mostly “this has been answered in another thread” and “why don’t you Google it” comments in my experience.

harrys_balzac , to nottheonion in 'Real men wear diapers': Trump supporters wear nappies

I’m not trolling.

The minute you allow intolerance to exist, you have lost.

Karl Popper framed it incorrectly. He makes it sound like a moral imperative and the hateful have seized on that.

If tolerance is a moral issue there is little that can be done about those who choose to be intolerant. Being moral is an individual choice.

It IS a social contract, howevet. If I want my lifestyle to be tolerated then I need to tolerate that of others, unless my (or their) lifestyle imposes unnecessary restrictions on the other.

For example, all the Christians whining about Christianity not being tolerated. They’re getting it wrong - nobody is saying don’t be Christian. They break the contract by imposing their specific values on everyone else by force.

There is a baseline on which the vast majority agree concerning appropriate behavior in society. Murder, for example, is generally considered wrong. We don’t tolerate it.

Breaking a contract has consequences.

harrys_balzac , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit argues with a cop, doesn't go well for sovcit.

Obviously we should be encouraging this person to refuse the papers.

By accepting the papers the private person is passively entering into a contract with the Marshalls of Mathers allowing the judge to impose sanctions because You’ve accepted their authority even if you didn’t vomit mom’s spaghetti on your sweater so the only recourse is to reject the papers and produce your writ of nonincorporation and decorporation to reinforce through habeas mentam stulta that you were clearly traveling not driving because operating a motor vehicle isn’t the same as driving obviously as driving means using a golf club and operating uses a scalpel and as you were using neither, you were traveling.

harrys_balzac , to news in RNC chief counsel resigns after two months

Pretty much. The RNC belongs to Herr von Shitzenpantz.

harrys_balzac , to nottheonion in 'Real men wear diapers': Trump supporters wear nappies

The paradox of tolerance does not exist. Tolerance is a social contract, not a moral imperative.

Acceptance of false paradox is what the intolerant and authoritarian want.

By rejecting it as false, it lays bare that the intolerant have rejected polite society and have made themselves open to be rightfully marginalized and ostracized.

harrys_balzac , to programmer_humor in That Nim Flashbacks

I didn’t have to program this, thankfully. The code was used as an example of recursion but the explanation was lacking so I ended up writing out each frame by end until I understood it. Took a few pages and a couple of hours.

I am grateful that I learned what I did going through it but I’d rather not do it again.

harrys_balzac , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit is mad he was called a sovcit by the judge.

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