Weird. Random. Interesting.

[LittleArmadillo0]

Some artwork by Walter Molino

[Maedhros]

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/world-bank-promises-200-billion-in-climate-action-investment-for-2021-25-1956812

 

You know you're screwed when even the banks find it worthwhile to invest in climate action

[Guard Dog]

Wrong topic

Edited December 3, 2018 by Guard Dog

[Raithe]

[Raithe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV08tEMP8qU

[Guard Dog]

The US Navy is planning on releasing genetically engineered microorganisms into the ocean to become a "living sonar net". https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/12/us-military-genetically-engineering-new-life-forms-detect-enemy-subs/153200/?oref=d-river

 

Of course after a few decades of evolution we'll get:

 

 

The story just writes itself! 

[Maedhros]

https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/01/18/why-33-of-the-50-most-polluted-towns-in-europe-are-in-poland

 

TIL 33 of the 50 most polluted towns in Europe are in Poland.

 

 

[Gfted1]

Well, weather travels West to East in the Northern hemisphere so all that air pollution must be from Spain, France and the UK.

[ShadySands]

Well, good thing modern air is too clean for optimum health 

[Cpl Halsbart]

 

He's here at my place, we're killing beers and playing FIFA.

[Malcador]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-radio-stations-baby-it-s-cold-outside-1.4931867

 

Canadian stations no longer playing 'Baby It's Cold Outside'.  This is good though, less Christmas music is always a good thing.

 

Hm...better start a campaign to get Rush off the airwaves.

[Raithe]

Sojourner Truth Project - Compare the Speeches

 

Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).

 

Accurate Version:

May I say a few words? I want to say a few words about this matter.

 

Compared with Gage's Version:

 

Well, chillen, whar dar’s so much racket dar must be som’ting out o’kilter.

Edited December 4, 2018 by Raithe

[Amentep]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-radio-stations-baby-it-s-cold-outside-1.4931867

 

Canadian stations no longer playing 'Baby It's Cold Outside'.  This is good though, less Christmas music is always a good thing.

 

Hm...better start a campaign to get Rush off the airwaves.

 

I can't help but wonder if this is a case of lost context with respect to this song since most people are familiar with it from countless covers and not the original version in context of the movie it was in, Neptune's Daughter (not a Christmas movie, but it was a hit, as was the song). The movie has two couples singing the song, switching the parts between the men and women, and its clear for both couples the concern is what people will say, not in their not wanting to stay and canoodle.

 

Even more ironic is that "Baby It's Cold Outside" was a substitute song according to Esther Williams.  The Hayes office wouldn't approve "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" (supposedly they interpreted the "get" in a particular way).  When "Baby It's Cold Outside" was nominated for an Oscar, other songwriters protested as Frank Loesser had created the song for him and his wife to sing at parties, but as it'd never been professionally performed, the MPAAS allowed its nomination to continue.

[Malcador]

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-radio-stations-baby-it-s-cold-outside-1.4931867

 

Canadian stations no longer playing 'Baby It's Cold Outside'.  This is good though, less Christmas music is always a good thing.

 

Hm...better start a campaign to get Rush off the airwaves.

 

I can't help but wonder if this is a case of lost context with respect to this song since most people are familiar with it from countless covers and not the original version in context of the movie it was in, Neptune's Daughter (not a Christmas movie, but it was a hit, as was the song). The movie has two couples singing the song, switching the parts between the men and women, and its clear for both couples the concern is what people will say, not in their not wanting to stay and canoodle.

 

Even more ironic is that "Baby It's Cold Outside" was a substitute song according to Esther Williams.  The Hayes office wouldn't approve "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" (supposedly they interpreted the "get" in a particular way).  When "Baby It's Cold Outside" was nominated for an Oscar, other songwriters protested as Frank Loesser had created the song for him and his wife to sing at parties, but as it'd never been professionally performed, the MPAAS allowed its nomination to continue.

 

 

That's the issue, more or less.  I never took the song to have the vibe people upset about it claim it has, always saw it as some elaborate dance.  But oh well, this is Canada, where they had banned Money for Nothing due to one line

[Amentep]

Its not just Canada, US stations have also been dropping the song because of younger people insisting its "rapey".

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-its-cold-outside-backlash-as-more-radio-stations-ban-song-over-lyrics-amid-metoo-movement/

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/12/04/is-baby-its-cold-outside-really-too-offensive-to-play-in-2018/

[Orogun01]

Its not just Canada, US stations have also been dropping the song because of younger people insisting its "rapey".

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-its-cold-outside-backlash-as-more-radio-stations-ban-song-over-lyrics-amid-metoo-movement/

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/12/04/is-baby-its-cold-outside-really-too-offensive-to-play-in-2018/

The more I hear about younger people the more I yearn for WW3...and I don't want to hear any ****ing complaints, like it is too extreme! Look deep inside yourself and ask this: Do I really want a future where these people rule?

WW3; cull these ****.

[Malcador]

And naturally you'll survive, right ?

[Orogun01]

And naturally you'll survive, right ?

Considering hearing their bullcrap makes me want to die, i'm cool with not living through it. Better than being and oldbag being carted around hospitals for exams and treatment, when the only thing left for me to do in life is die.

 

In all seriousness though, if WW3 broke out we would be ****ed if those are the quality of people that we get.

[LittleArmadillo0]

 

And naturally you'll survive, right ?

Considering hearing their bullcrap makes me want to die, i'm cool with not living through it. Better than being and oldbag being carted around hospitals for exams and treatment, when the only thing left for me to do in life is die.

 

In all seriousness though, if WW3 broke out we would be ****ed if those are the quality of people that we get.

 

Perhaps a yearly purge would be a safer option

[Malcador]

 

And naturally you'll survive, right ?

Considering hearing their bullcrap makes me want to die, i'm cool with not living through it. Better than being and oldbag being carted around hospitals for exams and treatment, when the only thing left for me to do in life is die.

 

In all seriousness though, if WW3 broke out we would be ****ed if those are the quality of people that we get.

 

 

First thing in life is to not listen to everything you hear. 

[Orogun01]

 

 

And naturally you'll survive, right ?

Considering hearing their bullcrap makes me want to die, i'm cool with not living through it. Better than being and oldbag being carted around hospitals for exams and treatment, when the only thing left for me to do in life is die.

 

In all seriousness though, if WW3 broke out we would be ****ed if those are the quality of people that we get.

 

Perhaps a yearly purge would be a safer option

 

Nah, I figure that if the majority of people get military training then their requests will have something backing them. It would be hard to go against a population with military training, combat experience and access to guns. WW3 might be the thing we need to force the Fed to lower taxes, ideally we could get it nationalized again.

[Gfted1]

"Believe nothing that you hear, and only one half that you see." - Poe

 

Raising generations believing that they are special and unique and whos opinion on every matter is important came back to haunt us?!?! I cant believe it!

[Orogun01]

 

 

And naturally you'll survive, right ?

Considering hearing their bullcrap makes me want to die, i'm cool with not living through it. Better than being and oldbag being carted around hospitals for exams and treatment, when the only thing left for me to do in life is die.

 

In all seriousness though, if WW3 broke out we would be ****ed if those are the quality of people that we get.

 

 

First thing in life is to not listen to everything you hear. 

 

Its the constant exposure and the kowtowing of media to their nonsense. If you had told me in the 2000's that within 10 years a bunch of special snowflakes and corporations would ruin every form of entertainment I wouldn't had believed it. 

 

****, I had to get a life that how bad its gotten.

[LittleArmadillo0]

 

 

 

And naturally you'll survive, right ?

Considering hearing their bullcrap makes me want to die, i'm cool with not living through it. Better than being and oldbag being carted around hospitals for exams and treatment, when the only thing left for me to do in life is die.

 

In all seriousness though, if WW3 broke out we would be ****ed if those are the quality of people that we get.

 

Perhaps a yearly purge would be a safer option

 

Nah, I figure that if the majority of people get military training then their requests will have something backing them. It would be hard to go against a population with military training, combat experience and access to guns. WW3 might be the thing we need to force the Fed to lower taxes, ideally we could get it nationalized again.

 

True enough. There would be a definite disparity between the haves and have not. How big of an asteroid would we need to wipe out the majority of the population?

[Malcador]

"Believe nothing that you hear, and only one half that you see." - Poe

 

Raising generations believing that they are special and unique and whos opinion on every matter is important came back to haunt us?!?! I cant believe it!

 

Well, had meant it as in not sweating little stuff - but everything is a call to jihad these days.  Even my Youtube feed is getting overrun with some shouty dude (seems to always be a bearded one...) whining about SJWs ruining something or the other  

 

 

 

 

 

And naturally you'll survive, right ?

Considering hearing their bullcrap makes me want to die, i'm cool with not living through it. Better than being and oldbag being carted around hospitals for exams and treatment, when the only thing left for me to do in life is die.

 

In all seriousness though, if WW3 broke out we would be ****ed if those are the quality of people that we get.

 

 

First thing in life is to not listen to everything you hear. 

 

Its the constant exposure and the kowtowing of media to their nonsense. If you had told me in the 2000's that within 10 years a bunch of special snowflakes and corporations would ruin every form of entertainment I wouldn't had believed it. 

 

****, I had to get a life that how bad its gotten.

 

 

Eh, but at least save it for stuff that matters.  I'd definitely believe that my entertainment would be ruined in the 2000s - I saw my favourite genres die or get close to it (RTS, adventure, tactical shooter) and have always expect corporations to ruin everything after reading Neuromancer