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more like "have you tried resetting your brain and rewiring the way it was wired during your cognitive development" (as I just blamed "a big part of it" on early development - not on your own will)

All scenarios look like AI slop now... they better go back to building actual scenarios and models like it's the 70s

parents giving kids no discipline, no responsibility, not teaching delayed gratification, and just letting them grow up doing whatever they want instead of forming good habits is a big part of this mess... I know because I suffer from this and it's too damn easy to blame "neurodivergence"(it's probably worse for the current generation since they grew up on infinite scroll brainrot as well)

Brazil: Canivetes (pocket knives)

a progressive writer when she doesn't like to be called "people who menstruate"

"A built-in store" ... but, eh, isn't it "your DRM-free games"?Isn't it just a lobby for social features and an overlay for your list installers/installed games?

"Felker is married with a young child." English is such a weird language...

What I don't buy is that it was for ideological reasons, else the Comintern wouldn't have told the communists to sit still while their countries were being taken by the nazis... if it wasn't for Barbarossa, do you think USSR would have "saved Europe from German fascist takeover"? They had already agreed in dividing Eastern Europe, and the USSR didn't have to tell the communist parties to not join the resistance in their countries, but they did, and even after being invaded Stalin delayed the response because he trusted more his deal with Hitler than his own officials (he was more eager to fight Finland than he was to fight the nazis)...In the end, the first assessment was right, it was just an imperialist conflict, USSR being just another imperialist country and all these grandeur slogans are just propaganda, the USSR didn't fight to destroy fascism or "save Europe from fascism", their literal guideline was to not fight fascism, they only changed it when they were attacked

I see it changed from "saved Europe from fascism" to "saved Europe from Germans"

Have you seen Sound & Fury by Sturgill Simpson? Craziest thing is that the guy was originally a country singer.

lol, I can [name Chumbawamba songs], but only their 80s stuff when they were an anarchopunk band - quite a shock when, years later, I discovered they were the ones singing that radio song. I knew them like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWLHpuLrpyk

Honestly, it's very hit or miss, and it's way more miss than hit for big artists... there are albums that are even conceptualized as a full art piece, but in reality the majority have lots of songs that are there because the record company said there had to be an x amount of songs, a new album every x amount of time, and sometimes would even force them to record covers... The Shape Of Punk To Come is among my earliest acquisitions and is a great album, but among my earliest acquisitions there's also Recipe for Hate, and that joke about buying an album because of one song (in this case, American Jesus) and the rest of the album sucking is true :P

I was thinking about this recently, because artists releasing music exclusively in digital formats they rarely release full albums nowadays, just tons of singles, and platforms like Discogs are having a hard time cataloguing new artists, but I guess not having to release x amount of songs together gave them more artistic freedom and they can focus on releasing what they really like and not just pushing records because of contractual clauses.

That being said, never let an algorithm pick music for you.

woah almost 5h, all the topics look very interesting, but woah almost 5h lol

the brit invasion was the best thing that happened to american super hero comics

lol is that why I didn't get downvoted to oblivion?I meant to say I hate breakdown :P(the bands referenced should hint that)

No, I believe you know the context of all of it (Pravda against the withdraw [Stalin was one], Germany sponsors Lenin and put him on a sealed train to go back to Russia and he immediately starts saying Germany is too strong and can't be defeated therefore they must give a whole country, containing a huge percent of their mineral riches, to Germany [I wonder, from everyone accused of being a German spy, why Lenin wasn't ever one, no one helped Germany more than him... the subtle suggestion of the section is that giving them Ukraine was the condition of the travel] - As part of the treaty, resistance in Ukraine was discouraged and every organization linked to Bolsheviks stood down - non-Bolshevik communists in urbanized areas as well as anarchists in rural areas formed a resistance and started fighting the Germans while still fighting the White army, and let neither take the country - Ultimately the Red Army, like an imperialist power, and completely disregarding the right of nations to self-determination [bet you know who wrote this one], came and arrested/killed their leaders, disbanded those groups, and took the Ukraine - which I expanded to a commentary about Spain, which also all non-Bolshevik socialist groups were outlawed during the Civil War and their leaders were arrested, killed, and the resistance disbanded - then I joked about bogus accusation of one anarchist leader being a spy, because they also accused half of the Bolshevik leaders of being spies, and then they accused the guy that led the Great Purge of being spy as well, and then they accused the guy that was put on his place of being a spy as well, and, not surprisingly, they did it again with the next guy, and it just baffles me how people eat up that brainwashing propaganda without a second thought and believe everything the party says - I came back to Pact, this thing of saying they only came in two weeks after when there was no more government to make it sound like they were just taking territories that were lost without direction is BULLSHIT, the division was agreed before the invasion, it doesn't matter if they didn't invade together, and then pointed out that the narrative of Russia wanting a united-front against fascism blah blah blah is also BULLSHIT because the Comintern literally told communists to not get involved in the war against Germany, and every Bolshevik puppet-party repeated the exact same words, that this was just an imperialist war, and most notable examples would probably be the PCF and KKE, who actively disavowed resistance against the Axis repeating the Comintern dogma even when they were literally occupied by nazis and only AFTER Barbarossa they changed it to "we must all unite against fascism", up until that point it was just an imperialist war and communists were actively told to not fight the nazis, but the rewritten history want us to believe the opposite - the last part is just about eating up all the party says, even when it's openly blatantly contradicting itself and all conveniently serves political gains.)

Oh, I also love the "saved Europe from fascism" narrative, that despite the original order being "don't get involved in the war against fascism", Europe wasn't saved at all, unless you believe Portugal, Spain and Greece weren't part of Europe because 30 years later they were still under fascist regimes - Greece is one particularly funny case. USSR refused to back the KKE on the Civil War so Yugoslavia backed then, and when Tito and Stalin had their fallout the KKE decided to reject Yugoslavia because their party was expelled from the Comintern CULT, and the KKE was defeated a year later because Stalin still refused to help them lol

But all history must be rewritten to make the party look good, who's in the cult won't question it anyway.

São Paulo, "locomotiva do Brasil", é a mesma coisa haha

I mean, in the context of 100 years ago, up and down weren't directions considered in the political spectrum