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Polydextrous

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  • [30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 18 - An alternative song from the year you were BORN! 👶

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  • Lol well I’d actually argue you were the luckier one. You actually got to experience 1988, I don’t remember any of it

  • [30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 18 - An alternative song from the year you were BORN! 👶

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  • This is actually tough for me. I was born in a stellar year for alternative music: 1988. Do I go with Pixies? The Sugarcubes? My Bloody Valentine? Jane’s Addiction?

    Ultimately, my choice is one of my favorite bands.

    Sonic Youth - The Sprawl

  • Instagram doesn't let me remove like

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  • Because that’s their data. You can’t go deleting it. You’re the product, friend. My baby powder doesn’t get to decide it doesn’t want to go between my buttcheeks

  • Spirit Airlines agrees to $8.25M settlement over ‘gotcha’ bag fees

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  • “Company builds entire business model on tricking consumers and overcharging for basic flight needs”

    Now let’s do every single airline for operating like fucking organized crime and gouging people for using the previously free space built into the fucking plane. The entire industry is out of fucking date and needs to be done away with

  • breathtaking smile

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  • What the fuck that smile is going to haunt my goddamn dreams

  • Apple security updates could be banned by British government

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  • It’s not even clandestine. They’re openly admitting they’re using the vulnerabilities as a way to spy.

  • How many hours a day do you actually work?

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  • Entirely dependent on the job I’m working. I work in film, so sometimes we’re on a prelight and the day is 12hr, I could work anywhere from four to maybe 10. Then some days were on 10hr shoot days, and I could work maybe 30 min. And then there are days like this week, working a documentary on multiple locations, and I worked a collective maybe 40 min/day (with a 9:30 call and me leaving by 2-3 while getting paid for 12hr).

  • New video shows Philadelphia Police officer shot Eddie Irizarry within seconds of getting out of patrol car

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  • “Outlaw,” which is a fucking incredible name for a police commissioner, is really just saying the quiet part out loud. “It’s very difficult when the details of a case change, and change in such a public way.” Like…difficult for who, you fucking monster?

    This murderer is on a paid vacation. Because he murdered someone in cold blood—AND THEY ALL FUCKING LIED ABOUT IT. THEYRE ONLY GETTING CAUGHT BECAUSE THE FAMILY HAD THE RELATIVELY GOOD FORTUNE TO GET A DECENT LAWYER. WHAT THE FUCK.

    This isn’t about the individual murders. Of course it is, but in the larger sense, how the fuck can these fuckers just keep perjuring themselves, and then when they get found out just paint the issue as, “oh, well, we are working to get the details straight.” MOTHERFUCKER, YOU ARE THE ONES OBSCURING THE GODDAMN DETAILS.

    God fuckin dammit this is so incredibly fucked up. This is so, so, SO clearly a fucking system-wide problem. It’s not just the trigger happy cops. It’s the entire policing concept, it’s the entire concept of hierarchy, it’s legally protected murderers and liars and—honestly, just some fuckin assholes. No one should have this power. Yet here we are trying to figure out how to continue the problematic part without the ultra problematic part.

  • Tarantulas rule

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  • Your fiancée is a lizard?

  • Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

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  • But raising taxes for the richest is a small band aid on a massively flawed system. It’d be like getting a second, even smaller bucket to bail water out of the titanic. After it’s broken in half.

    There are so many incredibly serious problems that higher taxes for the wealthy wouldn’t fix. Liberals tend to cling to this option because it worked back in the 20th century. But capitalism has kept getting more and more “streamlined,” fucking over the working class more and more. Because the concept of endless growth has continued through multiple decades of massive changes to the game that only favored the wealthy, changes to the tax code being one that happened so long ago that it’s an entirely different concept at this point. Outsourcing, vertical integration, the explosion of invasive advertising, data mining, the explosion of privatization, the infestation of private money dictating policy, the infestation of private interests writing policy…this is a small list of the most visible things that have become so entrenched that a wealth tax would almost be nothing.

    That money would get funneled right back into their pockets, even if they somehow let a wealth tax bill through—yeah, they LET a bill through. As you said, a massive stumbling block that only goes to show how deep this problem is.

  • Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia (2004)

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  • Yeah, they very much started “using the revolution to sell their band” while masquerading as using their band to sell the revolution. Bush was in office and they literally changed their clothes and their sound to…capitalize on it. They became pop punk, whereas before they had found an organic sound that landed somewhere between punk and more traditional “rock.” I mean, dookie was a masterpiece that entirely captured the landscape—lightning in a bottle. And then everything that came after was still pretty good for a few years. But like a tv writers room that starts to lose the thread and starts writing a show that resembles the show that came before, like a copy of a copy, the quality starts suffering.

    I haven’t listened to any Green Day since Warning. But you can very easily track the progression from their punk roots in (two thousand something) smoothed out slappy hours and kerplunk!, to a slightly more polished (mixed in a little grunge/rock) in dookie, (Slight stumble/“sophomore slump” at insomniac), picked up the thread at nimrod…and then the new millennium brought warning and it was sort of the beginning of the end.

    Now, this is me remembering the band’s trajectory as I experienced it growing up. Dookie was my first tape, the first time I ever said the word “fuck” was because we showed our babysitter the secret song at the end and I didn’t understand, so I repeated it, they were my favorite band since I could have a favorite band. But I grew into adolescence and they…gave up. They tried to stay relevant and their quality took a nosedive. I mean, there was also a story of young kids who made it big, got addicted to drugs, and cleaned their act up as they started families and just became middle aged rich guys. So, a capitalist success story. But a typical punk/art/music failing, in my eyes. But that’s what capitalism does to art. Chews it up and spits it out.

  • Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia (2004)

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  • Was it awesome? I feel like I remember green day falling off sometime around, like, ‘97

  • Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

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  • Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

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  • Exactly. Until we put either the heaviest lid on capitalism (never going to happen) or upend the system entirely, UBI will “drive inflation,” meaning we’ll still make the same (or probably somehow less) at our jobs while the UBI money literally just keeps everything at the same affordability. There is no world in which business doesn’t just go after that money. We saw very recently, with the flimsiest of excuses, capitalists will claim “inflation” while pocketing record profits. They’ll do the exact same if UBI is implemented without some massive changes to capitalism.

    Burn it all down. Anyone that still has hopes for fixes that maintain the capitalist system are fooling themselves. We have no other options at this point. It’s either we do it now, or wait until capitalism and the devastating effects of climate change force our hand. At least if we do it now, at our own discretion, we might be able to throw the emergency-emergency brakes on climate change. Otherwise, companies and the capitalists that run them will absolutely watch us all fry from their self-sustaining pod homes that are built in the upper atmosphere to keep the temperature bearable and to stay above the devastating weather events. And they’ll do it without thinking twice.

  • Research funded by Big Neck Pain

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  • Right? My one pillow is just on the verge of almost too much, but I like few pillows and my neck is fucked up.

  • "For you" isn't - The case against corporate algorithmic feeds

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  • Since changing from Reddit to Lemmy, I’m absolutely pulling out my phone to browse mindlessly far less. And I’m back to reading articles in full.

    I’m not sure even what it is about Reddit that made the app much more addictive. BecauseI was all third party since I was on Reddit, so I didn’t get the “recommended” Bullshit. Maybe it was the really specifically (self) tailored endless feed whereas with Lemmy I’m browsing all instances, a bunch of weird shit pops up that when an article I’m actually interested in comes across, I’m all in.

    But I was also never on social media besides Reddit, so I wasn’t filling a void? I dunno

  • Trump Claims His ‘Seal of Approval’ Will ‘Protect Loyal Donors From Scammers’ — Here’s What It Looks Like

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  • Lol not to mention the “SM” trademark logo down there absolutely will not stop people from just putting this jpeg on their scams lol

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  • Not to mention, Spotify is putting ads in white noise content? Kinda…destroys the entire concept, no?

    There is so much about this story that makes me hate modern society. How is more of this content still being created? Why are there ads? Spotify can destroy peoples livelihood on a whim?

    Although, I did find the part where someone with podcast “didn’t want to call attention to their show” pretty funny.

  • Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead

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  • …what the fuck are you talking about.