@sim I'm speaking from a US perspective, as she is from there and that's where the discourse is.
She is rooted in country music, but is mixing it up with a different modern genre on each album.
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 20:55:46 EST
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In particular, she is the kind of capitalist that W-era "compassionate" neocons wanted to idolize, the "look, we don't need unions or the state to step in, because people with money are generous" philanthropy type of conservatism. -
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@sim Because she is a successful business person and embodies the American Dream.
She doesn't even cause much of a stir apart from being a successful woman with mainstream American values rather than minority frumpy puritan values.
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 20:19:36 EST
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I think the analysis of my music diet is "clearly an old man living in the past, but not entirely isolated from what played this side of the millennium". π -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 20:15:51 EST
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What is "omg yes" music to me? Queen, Mike Oldfield, Daft Punk, Madonna, The Shamen, Lady Gaga, ABBA, in roughly that order.
Except for Lady Gaga, I've put my money where my mouth is and bought albums from these artists.
In my playlists I also have Ava Max, Alan Walker, 2 Unlimited, The KLF, Doktor Kosmos, Massive Attack, Enigma, Beastie Boys, The Offspring, Sash!, Vengaboys, Pandora and Die Γrtzte. That's all feel-good or feel-moved music to me.
EDIT: And Rage Against the Machine. Obviously.
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 20:07:53 EST
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Taylor Swift: "You Need To Calm Down"
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 20:06:30 EST
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She is a billionaire and she does fly her jet too much, but she's not the first person I'd criticize for it when there's a thousand people who do it worse and don't contribute anything to humanity, culture and individual humans the way she does. -
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I really like what she did in "You Need To Calm Down", the song and the video, giving an extended middle finger to bigots everywhere while also settling the beef between her and Katy Perry in the best way, dancing together and hugging in silly costumes. -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 20:05:20 EST
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As a role model for women and men, and a threat to entrenched self-aggrandizing men, she is way up there with Dolly Parton, Madonna, Cher, Beyonce and Lady Gaga and I love her for it. She had a good start in life with a supportive family, but she built her way from there to here with talent, smarts, integrity, good choices, hard work and kindness. Conservatives should love her if they believed in their own ideals. -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 20:04:05 EST
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Taylor Swift's music is not "omg yes" to me, but it is good stuff, clearly it is "omg yes" to many people, and I like hearing her music when it pops up in places. She is a hyper-competent writer, composer, singer, producer and business genius and has *taken* space in the man's world of music publishing, while at the same time lifting up women and men around her. -
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@Kermode I mean for aluminium/aluminum specifically. -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 06:43:31 EST
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Today as a cleanser I thought I'd watch some Orville after work, and I ran straight into the horror episode, woah! That's S1E10 "Firestorm", and it's very good.
The beginning of the episode hit me right in the gut. When The Orville hits hard, it hits really hard, even when there are jokes strewn in, because the acting is more naturalistic compared to any Trek, which is more stylized and easier to distance yourself from.
I'll have one more Orville after dinner, hope it's a cleanser. π
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 06:23:41 EST
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I had a look at the "USS Callister" episode of Black Mirror and I thought it would just be a fun Star Trek parody, but it was ... indeed a Black Mirror episode, haha.
I thought it didn't make sense how this would be turned into a mini-series, but by the end of the episode it did make sense. π
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:38:54 EST
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@SustainOSS What I mean is, it's really difficult to find people in this intersection of interests, and any people I've heard of, I heard of on the show or they've been on the show already. -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:35:47 EST
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@Paul Kid had forgotten most of it, so it was a real joy to see him experience it again. π -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:19:01 EST
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@SustainOSS Sorry, you're my input on this, not the other way around. π
I'm a UX baby and don't have insights to contribute at this stage. π
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:16:16 EST
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@Hypolite Petovan No, they're just a corporation, pro-money. I'm not aware of any history of activism.
I don't think this was a statement, just unawareness of international sensitivities. If they knew this would happen when they made the game, they probably would have checked more carefully how international teams represent themselves.
Now I'm slightly curious how closely other Konami sports products have followed issues like "FYROM", "Chinese Taipei", teams using the olympic flag for team flag, etc. But not curious enough to look it up.
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:06:29 EST
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@Elena ``of Valhalla'' Yes! That's exactly what I implied. π
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:05:23 EST
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@Kermode It's always complicated. "Simplified Chinese" and "Traditional Chinese" aren't languages, they're just spellings. In practice, they can become more, by proxy. I don't know how the BC health department treats them. π -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 01:57:58 EST
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The ambivalent country:
- Aluminium Association aluminium.ca/
- National environmental department canada.ca/en/environment-climaβ¦vs
- National heritage department (by extension) thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/β¦
- Aluminium Association (!) aluminium.ca/en/the-associatioβ¦It would seem that the international spelling is considered a historical remnant and the US spelling is the one promoted.
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