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The Facts by Trap Them gets hot hips moving, especially the chorus

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I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Some recordings do feel pretty natural when slower down, but they would have had to do the exact same process for all his recordings on primitive technology despite him being an itinerant musician, or his voice would be in a completely different register from one recording to the next.

Robert Johnson records have been available and popular long before the 1990s. The debate you're referencing is about if the original recordings from back in the 1930s were sped up to make him sound more impressive. My understanding is that it was technologically possible but improbable.

The defunct Bay-Area stoner doom band Giant Squid?

I've been hearing a rockin' version in my head for years that I need to commit to tape on my own time some day for my sanity.

Incredible song

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

If they can make it work long term that's great for them. It's disingenuous to pretend Belgrade being fare free for the past 16 months means that other large cities are fools or for charging $2-3 for their metro systems.

Belgrade has unusually low-quality public transit for a city its size in Europe. There is no proper metro system. The buses and trams have been free since January 2025.

Very frustrating when people only imagine upper class white transplants being inconvenienced by train smokers. POC have higher rates of asthma!

So your new claim is that the populous swing states are not ready for a woman president but the rest of the country generally is?

Legendary Japanese screamo band Envy headlined. They were fine. Their 3 openers Trash Talk, Touche Amore, and And So I Watch You From Afar all crushed the room and broke my mind open.

Oat or coconut are the best by a mile for sweet applications, imo.

I was unclear in my phrasing - not old people in general, but older rural Native Americans usually call themselves "Indian". Younger and more urban people favor "native", at least in my neck of the Midwest. Best of all is being specific about the nation you mean as in Lakota, Cheyenne, etc.

I'm not going to tell our friend in the comments here what to be offended by but I would avoid saying it yourself if you're not either kind of Indian. My Desi friends would not be amused, at least.

"First Nations" is specifically a Canadian concept and political designation. I don't think it would readily translate to a U.S. context or there would already be movement toward it but I'd like to be wrong about that.

I feel like the shift has gotta happen, at least for the PNW which I'm guessing has the largest overlap of indigenous Americans and descendents from the Indian subcontinent. Seems unsustainable to use the same word for Coast Salish and Punjabis.

Fwiw most of the older folks still say "Indian". It's mostly younger urban activists who don't like it. (That cohort are the native people I know personally, but I also know they're not a clear majority in the community.)

Yes, that's the term still and probably forever just like how we're still saying "habeas corpus" centuries past Latin being an active language of scholarship. I don't see the NAACP changing their name either.

Gorsuch might be the only true-believer originalist out there. Alito drops that schtick the moment it doesn't help with his performatively cruel Rush Limbaugh conservatism.

If people don't know, it's well known that Gorsuch takes Indian law, treaties, and Native American sovereignty in general extremely seriously. Afaik he has always voted with the liberals on the court on matters pertaining to Indian law.

Nah - this is a comedian doing a bit

Tallinn is a city of about 400k. Not big. If they were triple the size, I doubt the math would still work out for free tram fares to be worth it. The intercity trains still cost money for residents, btw.

So Tallinn loses money from fares, but they gain some of it back from the national government by getting more people to register as a resident. That's a special series of coincidences that aren't readily replicable in other countries/cities with different tax systems.

Cities in Estonia get funds based on how many people are registered residents. Many people moving to Tallinn from smaller towns didn't update their official residency to reflect their move. Tallinn offers free fare *for residents*, encouraging more people to register.

They do take that into account. The efficiency and personal costs are only greater than fares taken in for very small systems in cities you probably haven't heard of. The largest fare-free city, Tallin, has a tax loophole asterisk for why they're fare-free that doesn't apply to peer systems.

Dense cities are environmentally friendly. Sprawl is not.

Existing codes promote endless sprawl into wilderness rather than building tall where there's already a city. For example, right now it's legal by-right to demolish a 3-flat to build a SFH, but the reverse requires a zoning variance.

"If you want the country to be the country, you need to let the city be the city."

If you value wilderness, urban density is your friend and suburban sprawl is your enemy. I'm a city boy - please make it easy for me to live in a densely packed concrete jungle inside existing city boundaries instead of ripping up more Great Plains for endlessly sprawling McMansion hell.