stewie3128 @ stewie3128 @lemmy.ml

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I'm glad to hear him break back away from the Dem establishment orthodoxy. He's been mostly toeing the corporatist establishment line since Biden secured the nomination.

Though, maybe that means I need to get defederated now.

This is why I have logins on several instances.

I pay for streaming services where I don't want to see the ads - which is to say, every streaming service I use at any given moment. I hate ads.

If I can't get media ad-free, to the high seas it is.

Website ads, though, can go to hell in my opinion. There's no good way to let a tasteful amount through with negligible impact on pageload speed. I subscribe to a few newspapers, but for everything else there's uBO.

I consider myself lucky to be able to pay my way out of the problem right now. Until I was in my early 30s, I never paid for a single piece of software or media, simply because I couldn't afford it. I did FOSS where I could, but, still...

Now that I can afford to pay for the things I use (and frequently write the expense off to my business), I haven't ventured into international waters for years. Hopefully, "voting with my wallet" and financially supporting the software and media I use can go some distance to preventing more draconian DRM from being imposed.

Although everyone needs to get paid for their work, I'll never begrudge anyone pirating something because they can't afford it. I've been there, and wouldn't have been able to advance in my field without doing so.

The terrorists on the right need to be met - unfailingly - with unwavering resistance. And when they get violent, we have to stop them. That doesn't mean making a press release saying "we condemn in the strongest possible terms blah blah..." That means rounding up the violent actors and locking them away from civilized society.

Conservatives used to say that "tough on crime" should mean "tough on criminals." Well when the GOP are criminals, the law needs to get touch on them.

Currently they aren't scared of anything, because most of the other violent people sympathize with them. If they are going to wreck our Capitol and dismantle our freedoms, it's time for another Sherman's March, and finish the work that we started in Reconstruction.

They speak openly of killing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And anyone else they don't like. They need to be scared of doing that, and we have to beat them to a pulp in order to make that happen - because that's the only language that thugs understand.

So we're going to protest our way around gerrymandering now?

It's gerrymandered because people voted in 6he reps who gerrymandered everything. Things didn't get gerrymandered by the GOP protesting for more gerrymandering.

That town in Alaska had a cat as their mayor for years.

If we could invent something like a Valdosta Canal connecting Mobile to Savannah, I'd be in to that.

Currently my dream is just to get rid of the Confederate states while keeping the port of New Orleans and navigation rights to the Mississippi River. Then merge all of the states in the middle of the country that have more cows than people into a single state.

Then we're be ready to rock.

I think Governor of that fetid swamp is his destiny. They'll love it.

Well for one thing, Gatun Lake is now an entire freshwater ecosystem, and breathing to see because of it's inaccessibility to humans.Turning it brackish would probably have some consequences.

Having traversed the Panama Canal several times in the last 15 years, Pauli's quote “Das is nicht einmal falsch” comes to mind.

Depends. Does it have any oil we could invade?

Even if he loses, he will suffer no significant consequences, nor will the lawless movement that supports him.

He could lose all of these cases tomorrow, and it still wouldn't mean a thing. He could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and there still would be no significant consequences.

The GOP are a lawless terrorist movement, but everyone else wants to "take the high road."

Your parliament just gave a nazi a standing ovation.

Largest protests in history (at least at the time) were against invading Iraq in the lead-up to the war. Democrats protest, but Republicans VOTE. That's why they run everything from a minority position.

Point taken on mistaking Oppenheimer's patently generic score for a Zimmer work. I actually enjoy Nolan films, otherwise I wouldn't go to see them.

Klaus Badelt (who wrote the completely - IMO - non-piratical theme to PotC... seriously, could have been in the Rock and it would have made no difference) and Steve Jablonsky both came out of RC, and both write music that is indiscernible from the atmospheric, non-specific stuff that Zimmer has been making for 25 years. Everyone Zimmer has influenced sounds like they compose by smearing a varnish of LOUD around the film.

I grew up listening to HZ, he has reached incredible heights at times. But right now he owns a music factory that is 99% operated by other people, and puts his name in as composer of primarily others' work. Yeah, it's the contract they signed, but I don't think it makes him a great composer.

Putting Zimmer anywhere near the same league as Williams is grotesque.

Zimmer writes a medley, then has an army of underpaid and under-credited orchestrators write 95% of the film. He couldn't orchestrate his way out of a paper bag.

His primary skill is pushing the "every instrument on every note" button on his Project Sam VI and then adding an additional 6 french horns, 6 trombones, and probably a pipe organ.

Can you recall a single melody from Oppenheimer? It's all just environmental boom and brass shit, with strings that might as well be synth. Can you recall a melody from Inception? Nope, just BWAAAAH.

There's a reason all of his legitimately musical scores in the last 25 years are co-written with another composer. Batman films, The Rock, Gladiator, etc. He musically peaked as a solo composer with Backdraft, imo.

Williams, on the other hand, employees orchestrators solely because he is required by union rules to have an orchestrator. His short-scores (the blueprints that orchestrators work from) are UNBELIEVABLY detailed.

Williams went to Juilliard. Zimmer took two weeks of piano lessons and was in a band.

And no one, NO ONE, has written the number of iconic melodies and scores that Williams has. Star Wars wouldn't be Star Wars without that score... Mark Hammil has said that John Williams is more responsible for the success of Start Wars than anyone other than George Lucas.

Jurassic Park wouldn't be JP without his score.

ET. Superman. Indiana Jones. Harry Potter. You can hear the music to these films in your head right now.

Or, you can listen to Hans Zimmer in your head now too: BWAAAAH.

I'll leave you with one thought: A few months ago, my Uber driver was a former orchestrator for Zimmer at RC. He hated it and quit. Re-read those two sentences.

Dems always wait too long to capitalize on anything, or prevent Republican fuckery

I used TikTok once. Three hours later I didn't realize that it was already midnight. Uninstalled immediately. Never again.

She was always a toady for the NatSec state, always willing to cover up the crimes of entrenched incumbents. Voting for retroactive immunity for the telecom giants in 2008, for example. She was also always an enthusiastic supporter of expanding the surveillance state.

She called for the Justice Department to do more to respond to Colorado and Washington legalizing marijuana.

She's been an authorization conservative all along, and we never needed her type in the Senate.

She only inspired the younger generation by pissing them off to their faces.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/22/dianne-feinstein-sunrise-movement-green-new-deal

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/politics/feinstein-video-sunrise-movement-kids/index.html