Steyer rope is good stuff.

Maybe we should compromise and count three-fifths of their districts.

My son's best friend speaks English as a second language.

I communicate with the child's mother through Google translate.

I think what would make being friends harder, is referring to her and her child as "foreigners." rather than "neighbors" and "classmates"

Black cloaked ghouls. Unelected and unaccountable. They're big mad because they want to keep their conspiracy secret.

Seeing Like a State -James C Scott

The Guns of August -Barbra W. Tuchman

The One Hundreds' Year War on Palestine -Rashid Khalidi

I Who Have Never Known Men -Jacqueline Harpman

Cahokia Jazz -Francis Spufford

Jealous. Union leadership is Democratic but members seem committed to voting for their guns and penises and being unable to distinguish between them.

Glaring at you from a building trade membership meeting.

Picture of candidate Bill Clinton, in a TV advertisement for his presidential campaign. The words written over Bill's image read, "End Welfare As We Kno It"

Democratic leaders have a tradition of attempting to distinguish themselves from previous Democrats. Sometimes from a social democratic distinction, and sometimes by leaning into the Republican/chamber of commerce coalition.

How is he, as a mayor, even going to end welfare as we know it?

Incredible sequel. Edge of my seat!

Putting an AI gun to the head of the state demanding resources and ideological hegemony.

They're essentially saying that without their particular species of parasite the state is vulnerable to their particular species of parasite.

These are rationalizations for claims made by private people against state resources.

I work in a pretty conservative industry. If a middle or upper level executive wrote something like this that person would be done in the company. This is the kind of crazy talk only c-level fucksticks engage in.

Going cross eyed looking at that

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Moral degenerates all.

Every country can afford some level of UBI. That's a give. The only question is how much we can afford.

CUNO - “Fuck does Cuno care?” The boy turns to you. (He doesn't care.)

Crossroad Blues (Robert Johnson Cover) - Rob Europe YouTube video by Robert Europe

On a second listen i notice there's zero low end. He would have had his thumb plucking out the suggestion of a walking base line. So no generative sound

Example showing what's missing: youtu.be/WOAvd5RM8qw?...

I'm familiar with his other recordings.

It could be AI but it doesn't sound like it to me. It still sounds muddy and tinny and has a lot of high end and clipping from the ancient mic on vocals so you miss some of the character of his voice.

It's a relatively accurate master of a bad recording.

Covering their crimes with the flag as per usual.

I loved, I Am Legend. 😍

I'm not sure they're going to find someone willing to pay that kind of money to live in an empty sams club. But if they do I hope they let them.

I was really disappointed this was torpedoed for environmental reasons and delighted to find out it's part of a ufcw strategy.

Pope Leo in Bamenda: “Woe to those who bend religions and the very name of God to their own military, economic, and political objectives, dragging what is holy into what is most filthy and dark.”

Today Massive Attack is sharing their collaboration with Tom Waits, "Boots on the Ground." And sadly for all, their song is never more urgent and timely. The song chronicles the madness and rabid abandonment of mankind to the commands of " The Masters of War”, as Dylan put it. It marks Massive Attack's first new music since 2020 and Waits’s first new recording since the 2011 album ‘Bad As Me’. The song is available today on streaming platforms and will be followed by a 12" vinyl release. The 12” edition features "Boots on the Ground" on Side A, with an exclusively Waits B-side titled "The Fly” - a track featuring Waits’s trademark droll and sardonic spoken word. Listen to “Boots on the Ground”: https://tomwaits.ffm.to/bootsontheground When asked about the collaboration, Waits said: "One day many years ago, I accepted an invitation from Massive Attack to collaborate. Their long release delay never worried me. Today, as in all of mankind's yesterdays, guarantees this type of song will never go out of style. Man's folly of fiascos is a feast for the flies. Hence, the B side of Massive Attack’s upcoming 12 inch "The Fly" features my appreciation for the winged nuisance." Massive Attack is embracing an eco-conscious vinyl pressing and packaging process for this record to leave a smaller carbon footprint. This ‘EcoSonic’ edition will be 180g vinyl in colors, red, white and blue and are packed at random. Pre-order it HERE.

The press release from Anti- records. tomwaits.ffm.to/bootsonthegr...

Well, something goes tink when the cartridge is spent
Where do you think all your cartilage went?
Boots on the ground, boots on the
ground
Now who the hell are these federal pricks?
Hiding in the Senate like a bloated-ass tick
Air-conditioned fuckstick loafers
Sittin' in a room full of army posters

I remember when beef was less expensive and so do you. However this isn't the sign capitalism oppressing the working class, it probably has a lot more to do with environmental limits and a billion Chinese escaping poverty.

We call them bouncy castles here in the UK. Bounce house sounds like a brothel.