Then the printing press fragmented and diluted the power of the elites. For example, I believe that it’s no coincidence that Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation came very soon after Gutenberg; in fact, I believe it was inevitable.
EDIT: well what do you know… it was Martin Luther himself who translated the famous Gutenberg Bible. Talk about one degree of Kevin Bacon.
Isn’t this place where David Lynch got a massive migraine? He was in consideration to direct Jedi on the merit on The Elephant Man, but took himself out on the day of that visit to Lucasfilm.
Inexplicably by that standard, then he signed on to direct Dune for Dino De Laurentis, and has regretted that decision to this day, refuses to speak of his experience.
Covid is real and dangerous when they feel like justifying their racism.
Yet Covid “is no big deal” or even “is not real” like you say, as they threw one lazy selfish tantrum after another, refusing to mask up, abusing essential workers.
If that idiotic and corrosive Brexit campaign had been defeated, the headline might be screaming how scheming EU nations drag the UK into their expensive transport plans.
Also the same mindless parrots on their tellys and newspapers would be mindlessly arguing the point, tossing out word salads, exactly as they would with the EU making their plans and keeping the UK out of them.
Meanwhile, non-voters who could have made a difference will be just as idiotic on polling day: “Politics is for wankers/both parties are the same. Shall we go for drinks?”
Man… I love this description so much, like a glimpse into the intellectual processes that go into the acting on screen, in best case scenarios like this one - top actors surrounded by sock puppets - there are crucial and consistent choices to be made.
It’s like what they say about dogs and cats.
Dogs see themselves as fellow humans.
Cats see humans as fellow cats.
The Almighty, All-Powerful, All-Knowing needs MONEEH! To grease the palms of politicians! It’s the only way!
So remember, all you little old ladies out there, at least once a week to take out your pocketbook and make out that check to me, The Almighty Himself, through one of His authorized agents on the radio and the teevee.
And get this latest round pro-gun, pro-oil legislation to go through! Oh… anti-gay, anti-minority, anti-evolution, I meant to say. That’s what’s important, right? That’s what y’all want. It’s a common cause for extreme alarm that y’all share with me, The Almighty Himself, through my authorized regional executives, as seen on Faux News and iHeartMedia on your AM radio dial.
Inspired by a post that popped on lemmy world today about Weird Al it got me thinking. I listed out a bunch of names but the one that I think fits the most would probably be Surfan Stevens. Who do you all think?
When you put it that way, the list of candidates thins out and the one figure I see still standing is John Coltrane, who in his day was running circles around fellow jazz musicians, they couldn’t wrap their heads around how Coltrane’s chord progressions and jumping between keys from note to note made any sense… yet it did, and beautifully.
Back in the late 70s and early 80s, when I got to stay home from school, I remember that around 11am the local PBS channel would air short videos from regional public service stations around the country, or low-budget cartoon shorts with an experimental vibe to them, who knows where they were made or by whom.
One example was of a short fella who sang the same “Ey yey-yey-yey” refrain over and over again, those around him got increasingly annoyed but he wouldn’t stop. At the end, a mob slowly converges around the character, encircling him… and he just keeps on cluelessly singing the “Ey yey-yey-yey” refrain.
The mob covers the guy, there’s a quick collective roar, then it recedes to show a tombstone. The last shot is of the “Ey yey-yey-yey” echoing as we see the image of the grave, frozen on the screen.
Another one, which I vaguely remember was filmed by a North Carolina public television station, a live action short of a kid that gets bullied at school, at the end the bully or bullies have some sort of accident in the woods, the kid is witness to this, and the shot freezes on the kid looking straight at the camera, with a voiceover along the lines of “What would YOU do in this situation?”… and it ends, right there, not with a resolution but with a cliffhanger and a moral question.
the first actor in Star Wars that actually knew how to fight IRL
That also goes for Liam Neeson, who had already had a badass sword fight, check out his climactic duel versus Tim Roth in “Rob Roy”. In fact, I believe that scene was key in his being considered for the part of Qui-Gon, I remember it being said at the time.
“A stable environment”.
But then there’s that surprise duster catastrophe every few months… unless it’s a bachelor’s apartment, then it can stay there nearly forever.
Obama FEMA Boncentration Bamps!
He’s coming for yer gunz!
They repeat the same lie over and over and over again, and these one-dimensional simpletons swallow the entire thing, time after time after time.
The problem is, these one-dimensional simpletons vote.
And you know who doesn’t vote? The other type of simpleton who swallows that other cherry-picking lie, over and over and over again: bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe.
To help describe the different particle configurations as you go into deeper and deeper layers of neutron stars - the way intense gravity plus pressure clumps the particles together - physicists have started referring to them as Gnocchi, Spaghetti and Lasagna.
Gnocchi are lumps of neutrons bunched together.
Spaghetti are strands of these Gnocchi.
Lasagna are sheets of these Spaghetti.
I’m not lazy, it’s society that’s manically hyperactive.
You know… I meant that as a sort of joke, but it actually isn’t too far from the truth. Some manic-obsessive individuals set the tone, and some places are worse than others, South Korea being most famous for it.
We must record everything (lemmy.world)
Via Poorly Drawn Lines
Spices too (lemm.ee)
George Lucas standing among Return Of The Jedi props (lemmy.world)
Damn freeloaders takin' all the jobs! (startrek.website)
life hacks (lemmy.world)
No escape (lemmy.world)
Banned books (lemmy.world)
He is technically right! (lemmy.world)
Judgement (lemmy.world)
"Kids these days" by Extra Fabulous Comics (lemmy.world)
www.extrafabulouscomics.com...
How could the EU do this?? (lemmy.world)
“I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.” (lemmy.ca)
A question to God (lemmy.world)
Source: SMBC Comics IG.
Who in your opinion is the modern day equivalent to Mozart? (lemmy.world)
Inspired by a post that popped on lemmy world today about Weird Al it got me thinking. I listed out a bunch of names but the one that I think fits the most would probably be Surfan Stevens. Who do you all think?
What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of? (kbin.social)
It could even be a youtube video or movie that you don't think anyone reading this has heard of besides you.
Lifehack for naive schoolchildren (i.imgflip.com)
help (mander.xyz)
As you know, our blockade is perfectly legal (dmv.social)
Hell yeah (startrek.website)
Gotta spend money to make money, I suppose. (startrek.website)
But it's just a Galaxy (telegra.ph)
Funny how it became bathroom use and imaginary things drag queens do... (lemmy.ca)
What companies have made your blacklist?
What companies will you never give another dollar to?...
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