Rolando

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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

That is literally adding insult to injury.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago
[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Agreed that you should have some kind of "service" on your CV, but reviewing is pretty low impact. And if you want to review, you can choose something other than the predatory publishers.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Apparently there's a man in Virginia who will lend you his entire family, but only if it'll help take away their rights.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

His dog, apparently smarter than every Republican voter in Virginia's seventh congressional district, refused to have anything to do with it.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Anyone who reviews for the major publishers is part of the problem.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Boogie Woogie Wu - Insane Clown Posse

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not quite the same, and it sounds kind of hellish, but check out Polyphasic Sleeping.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

"Until the end of time / I'll truly adore you..." -Prince.

 

One of these links should work for you:

Looks like @clark@midwest.social started this a week ago. Examples of and discussions on the classic "The Outbursts of Everett True" 2-panel comics from the early 1900s, in which a portly man objects violently to everyday wrongdoing.

 

... I think learning about Nicholas II really contextualized fascism for me. The tsar was a traditionalist authoritarian rather than a fascist, but he really shows, I think, how ordinary people can hold totalitarian beliefs and still be ‘good people’ (note that I would never call the tsar a good person, but bear with me). Oftentimes people say “X is fascism” but quickly backpedal if real-world comparisons are drawn between family or friends. “They’re a good person!” they object, “Just misguided! Not like the other rubes!”

But Nicholas II shows the face of genuinely conservative authoritarianism. The face of the mediocre man, who puts no deeper thought into his beliefs than to parrot what he was raised with and stubbornly resist all challenge to that. He was not exceptionally cruel in terms of personality. I think probably a significant minority of ‘nice’ people, in Nicholas II’s circumstances, would have turned out just as big a piece of shit as he was. ...

see here for the full comment by @PugJesus: https://lemmy.world/comment/11418466

 

Vocals by Leon Thomas. The entire song is also worth listening to.

virtually all of [Sanders'] recordings as a leader from this late 1960s/early 1970s period contain some kind of African percussion, and other non-western features such as Leon Thomas' distinctive yodelling, apparently learnt from African pygmies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_(Pharoah_Sanders_album)

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