“I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith and I were on the top of a burnin’ building, and we had to fight our way down like five floors of zombies and― Hey, wait a second…I guess that was you guys. Oh, shit, man, I can’t wait to tell Keith about that one!”

I rewatched this recently, and yeah, all the cliches are there (some rather clumsily filmed even by 40s standards) - but fuck me if Bogie still doesn’t blow it out of the water with that performance. I can’t think of a single film noir protagonist that matches what he pulled off in that film. He’s better here than he is in Casablanca by a long shot imho.

In theory they can, but it’s very unlikely, as it requires a 2/3rds majority in both the Assembly and the Senate. One of the things I severely dislike about California politics is that the Governor’s veto power is near absolute in practice. On top of that this state has an entrenched political machine that has invested in Newsom since he ran for Mayor of San Francisco - and many in Sacramento owe their careers to him. There’s no realistic chance any of these vetoes get overridden.

Newsom, we get it - you want to run for president. But don’t fuck up my state to do it.

You’ve done ok in CA when you’ve kept your mouth shut and followed in Brown’s footsteps, but this latest bullshit display of throwing widely popular progressive initiatives (this one passed 66 to 9) under the bus is a slap in the face to all Californians, proving yet again that you’re an empty neo-liberal suit playing progressive to pander to the public.

California is not your billboard for a future presidential run. Do your damn job and stop using your veto pen to try to appeal to voters who aren’t even your constituents yet.

You see, according to Cocteau’s plan I’m the enemy, 'cause I like to think; I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I’m the kind of guy likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? I’ve SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing “I’m an Oscar Meyer Wiener”.

Agreed. I’d also like to add that intelligence != wisdom != experience, and you need all three to achieve real understanding.

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I avoid this by not watching porn that makes me sad. There’s plenty of consensual, happy, joyful sex-positive porn out there.

While your point is valid about this particular situation (which is horrible and criminal on multiple levels), your overbroad generalization of porn and the implied assumption of guilt in the viewers is what’s led folks to react negatively to your statement.

On a larger level, this kind of statement plays into the puritanical doctrines towards sex that paint it as a negative force, and subsequently leads to the twisting of a positive, creative act into a negative expression of power and rape in those that accept those doctrines.

Porn is not at fault here, nor are its viewers. Those at fault in this crime are the producers and publishers, who were well aware of the abuses happening under their watch, and deceived their viewers into believing they were observing consensual performance acts. I hope that these women get every cent and more, and it would be excellent to see a class action suit from Pornhub’s subscribers arise in tandem to and in support of their complaint.

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Came here to say the same. Lieberman is a snake, and has been using his position as the 2000 VP Dem nominee to undermine progressive policy for more than two decades. I have no doubt he’s been bought and paid for by the GOP, I’m guessing right around the time he started rooting for the Iraq war (he was the biggest supporter on the Dem side at the time).

TIL Mozilla has a mastodon server. Have an upvote.

Stop. My face hurts from all the palming.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, Kbin is the Jamaica of the Fediverse, a land of special people where champions grow.

This article stinks of an agenda. The author goes out of their way not to mention the term Fediverse (pluriverse? wtf is that?), and they clearly haven’t done their due diligence on Activity Pub. Either they skimped on the research or this article was heavily edited afterwards to remove any concept of the Fediverse being a viable alternative to centralized platforms. Doesn’t surprise me coming from Business Insider.

That being said, the overall dynamic the article speaks to is valid, as is the discussion it engenders, so have an upvote despite my gripes with the writing.

Cymbals are reversed through most of the intro. Sounds to me like they used the low E on the rhythm guitar (single string note) tuned down to D or E flat and then used knob tuning to bring it up into the full E for that first note. Distortion on the guitar is heavy with weight in the low and mid frequencies.

It doesn’t sound like a bass to me (sound would be rounder with more depth from the thicker strings) - that’s the sound of a long neck guitar, possibly an Ibanez RG series. The low end on them sounds quite close to a light bass.

@PugJesus weren’'t you looking for a spot to perform baptisms?

If the man would rather resign than do his job, he shouldn’t have his job.

A lot of those single tracks you see up on Bandcamp are the musicians trying to raise enough money to finish production on work they play live.

It’s much easier to play live than it is to record. Recording is a major financial stumbling block for a lot of new musicians, on top of the time and work that takes place inside the studio. Properly mixing a track requires a fine ear, advanced technical knowledge, usually takes at least as long to complete as it did to write and record the track. This gets expensive as well - there’s a reason sound production engineers generally make more than musicians.

This is why signing with a label is such a big deal for most bands - having that money up front to complete an album, as well as the label’s connections with recording studios and their engineers, removes the biggest obstacle they have for getting their music out there.

Wish I could upvote you twice. I love Cohen, but hadn’t heard this track. This is so good I had to go find the full lyrics:

Here is your crown
And your seal and rings
Here is your love
For all things
Here is your cart
Your cardboard and piss
And here is your love
For all of this
May everyone live
May everyone die
Hello, my love
And my love, goodbye
(Here It Is)
(Here It Is)
Here is your wine
And your drunken fall
Here is your love
Your love for it all
Here is your sickness
Your bed and your pan
Here is your love
For the woman, the man
May everyone live
May everyone die
Hello, my love
And, my love, goodbye
(Here It Is)
(Here It Is)
And here is the night
The night has begun
And here is your death
In the heart of your son
And here is the dawn
Until death do us part
And here is your death
In your daughter’s heart
May everyone live
And may everyone die
Hello, my love
And, my love, goodbye
(And may everyone live)
(May everyone die)
Hello, my love
And my love, goodbye
(Here It Is)
(Here It Is)
And here you are hurried
And here you are gone
And here is the love
It’s all built upon
Here is your cross
Your nails and your hill
And here is the love
That lists where it will
May everyone live
And may everyone die
Hello, my love
And my love, goodbye
And may everyone live
May everyone die
Hello, my love
And my love, goodbye
(Here It Is)