DirkMcCallahan @ DirkMcCallahan @lemmy.world

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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle was a cheap cash-in thrown together with various outtakes, oddities, and such...and yet it's as punk as it gets. On a meta level, it brilliantly deconstructs the music industry, rock & roll itself, and a few other things as well.

It's fun, too.

Honestly, no. I actually prefer a bit of background noise.

If you treat minorities (or really, people in general) with respect, then you should have no qualms about learning about how they've been poorly treated in the past.

Sadly, conservatives never treat minorities with respect, and so they don't want to learn about how history judges bigots like them.

Maybe the next generation of Rickrolling should involve providing a link to a real video but disguising it to look like the Rickroll link?

It's not just Trump and Musk. Remember, there are two supposedly co-equal branches of government that could step in here.

The entire Republican party is complicit in this.

Pity.

It's worrying that this isn't as high on Lemmy (or Reddit) as it should be. We all knew this was going to happen, but still, isn't this more important than articles about Trump's humiliation?

I mean, I get it, there's some serious schadenfreude there, but as with last time around, Trump's clown antics are distracting from the serious damage that's going on directly behind him.

Wasn't that part of the point?

Yeah, if I hadn't been so committed to Rexit, I doubt I would have stuck around long enough to find a UX that I liked. Just to name one, it'd be nice if MLMYM were a default skin.

Not sure why anyone is surprised...they're all bootlicking corporations that don't want the mob boss to fuck with their mergers and/or investigate them for their various crimes.

She is very concerned.

I can't wait for every vehicle to introduce this, thus leading to a perverse incentive whereby drivers go out of their way to avoid stopping as much as possible. How could it go wrong?

The most pissing thing is that the Microsoft "support" forum is always the top search result. Sometimes it occupies 5 or more of the top search results.

...but I haven't had to deal with that since I switched to Linux last year, so...yay!

Yeah, every time I think about getting Doordash, they sucker me in with promises of $1 delivery fees, etc. Then I take the time to find out what I want, put it in my cart, get excited, and...then I see the final price.

That's when I close out of my browser and go preheat my oven so that I can put in a frozen pizza.

We're overdue for Rexit, round 2.

You mean to tell me that I DON'T need an AI-powered faucet?

And I suspect that the number of shows/films they have in their library is inversely proportional to the cost.

Source: Former Netflix member who cut the cord in 2022.

"The system needs to function better," says the figurehead of a completely unnecessary middleman.

"Make America Great Leap Forward Again"

And it won't just affect NC:

The race has national significance because Riggs’ victory would give Democrats a shot at retaking the court’s majority after 2028. That would allow them to oversee the state’s redistricting process in 2031. That is particularly consequential because the current majority on the court upheld heavily gerrymandered maps drawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature that allowed Republicans to pick up three US House seats in November—just enough to maintain control of the chamber and ensure one-party rule in DC.