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Whats your most prized possession? in c/minimalism@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I just mean it's my writing. My words and thoughts engraved in time. That's what I made.

Yeah. Or, alternatively, I hope that what I wrote inspired someone to act.

Whats your most prized possession? in c/minimalism@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have the originals from my childhood. Been stored away in my mom's basement. Nothing of any real value cause the print runs were in the millions then. I could replace them pretty easily. They just happen to be the ones I bought with money from a paper route.

Notebooks are not anything special to look at. Various shapes and sizes, mostly dollar store varieties. I had one stolen back when I lived away. I'm still pissed. If I had the means, I'd offer a bounty on those books.

They've been gone 7 years. I mourn them.

Whats your most prized possession? in c/minimalism@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

There are like 5 Uncanny X-men comic books that I have and and prize above many other possessions. They're among the last links to my childhood.

Beyond that, just my notebooks. I made them; they are signposts of the times in which they were created.

[oc] remember the old gods in c/pics@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Nicely done.

I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein.

The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

These books really helped me to see how and why some of these people go this way.

The 13 Most Misguided Movie Sequels Ever Made in c/movies@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Compared to all of the other ones, Mission: Impossible 2 was the absolute worst of the bunch.

John Woo tried — he really did — but that script was brutal.

Police In Canada Warn Lawyer Over Her Social Media Posts On Israel in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Was that the kettling incident? G20 in Toronto. The only time I've seen a police car set on fire in Canada. And the first use of tear gas in the City of Toronto.

Allegedly, "black bloc" troublemakers, started the property destruction. Whether this was done with tacit approval by police is an open question. Needless to say, police responses to protests on the days of the sunmit were found to be lacking.

Oh, btw, still, fuck John Baird and definitely fuck Tony Clement. My introduction to fuckery in Canada's politics came from watching these two refuse to answer questions in Parliament for months. The one person I saw trying to hold these two Harper cabinet ministers to account was good ol' Charlie Angus.

That said, fuckery is now status quo and Charlie Angus has said he'll not seek re-election.

College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Humanity may be forced into radical openness.

This is, as far as I can tell, tangentially related to this form of dialectical behavioural therapy (RO-DBT).

What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Bought the book. It's the only dictionary I've enjoyed reading.

Recomened me some Japanese movies with English subtitles in c/movies@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Throne of Blood (1957)

It's Macbeth, but in feudal Japan. One of the best films I've ever seen. I'm constantly reminded of it while watching Shōgun.

Recomened me some Japanese movies with English subtitles in c/movies@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Battle Royale inspired Kill Bill Vol. 1. If you've seen one and not the other, it's worth the view.

Also, Battle Royale is basically the Hunger Games, but earlier and grafted onto Japanese economic outlook.

Recomened me some Japanese movies with English subtitles in c/movies@lemmy.world
[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Everyone should see this film.

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Request: An image or animated zoetrope that shows the corpo-media-police industrial complex. (lemmy.world)
 

At the bottom are the couch-dwelling viewers beholden to all above.

I know I've seen this online somewhere, but I can't remember where. It may have been a cut-scene from a video or a standalone .GIF file. I'm not certain.

If anyone in the community has seen this same image, I'd love to know the source.

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Adobe sells these as 4 different designs. (lemmy.world)
 

They're all the same. Rotated 90° for each one. Except for the 'e', they flipped that one.

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1st Family Hurricane. (i.imgur.com)
 

Trelawny, Jamaica. Not sure what's happening on the southern side of the island.

Being at a resort during a hurricane is peak boring dystopia. The staff calmly fed us breakfast and handed out pack lunches — sandwiches, cereal, and bananas. Fresh towels delivered just in advance of the lockdown. Gas-powered generators provide lights, TV, and Internet. The same fuel the earliest Cat-5 hurricane in Atlantic history. We stay in our room, entertaining two kids and exchange messages with friends back home and the family we travel with. The mattress for our king-size bed covers the patio doors. The staff residence we see below has its windows boarded up.

We've used two streaming services to watch movies.

The false alarm two hours ago showed that our go-bags are ready, and we can head to shelter in under 30 s. They ever actually confirmed it as a false alarm.

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So, this, now, needed saying. (lemmy.world)
 

The Secretary General of the legit United Nations, said this.

Are there any adults in the rooms where decisions like "bomb Gaza" are made? Why are so few saying what defeated Jamaal Bowman are saying, "permanent ceasefire now". And remember how Bowman was defeated. $17K/hr.

Also, cute story, Lebanon is the only other country in the world to feature a plant on its flag. The Lebanese are beautiful, Mediterranean people. LEBANON is at the crossroads of empires, and now — as is often the case — Lebanese are victims of outland calamities; Syria, the dock, and econonic collapse.

Hezb. are based there. Lebanon is thus remade like Afghanistan. Isr. reserves the right to "defend".

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Request: Mini truck or van racing toward a concrete pole, but never arrives. (lemmy.world)
 

I've seen this meme before. I have two questions:

  1. What is this meme called?

  2. Is there video of the outcome?

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What's a title that is worth it (to you) to have both the physical copy and the audiobook? (lemmy.world)
 

There are only a few books that I've experienced both ways. I'm wondering if this is an area for exploration.

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Enclosure aesthetic. (lemmy.world)
 

BMO IFL in Toronto. Rumored to be coming to its end.

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"Unless you invade them." (vm.tiktok.com)
 

Democracy dies when any administration can laugh off a 4-word rebuttal of a central plank of the world's most pernicious, deadly conflict(s). Regardless of public opinion, America can't be seen to undermine its own interests.

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20 February 1994. (www.gocomics.com)
 

Almost got it on the day!

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So, what can you tell me about Chillout music in Russia? (lemmy.world)
 

I've been listening to a webradio channel from Surgut on Radio.Garden. There seems to be a lot of music produced in Russia, Estonia, and Latvia that pops up on the channel.

Is Chillout big in Russia? Or, is it basically elevator music that no one intentionally listens to?

If it is regarded as music, what — if any — attendant art, writing, or other performance is there?

Is Russia into chillout the way that Americans were into the Blues, ie. does it simply stave off the awful?

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"The problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology." ~ Edward O. Wilson, 9 September 2009. (lemmy.world)
 
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"We are medicating our existence... by consumption. We consume because we are killing the planet and we are killing the planet because we consume." Terrence McKenna, 1994. (lemmy.world)
 
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