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  • It's not plagiarism. The songs themselves are obviously completely different. Making an engine noise was one in a pretty standard set of whammy bar tricks that was pretty ubiquitous when guitars with Floyd Rose tremolo systems became popular in the 1980s. So many people discovered this trick independent of each other that nobody can credibly claim to have invented it. It was so common at the time as to be generic and kind of hacky.

    In other words, it's a piece of guitar technique and not an element that can be copyrighted. Which is good because music would become insufferably boring very quickly if musicians weren't allowed to learn and iterate on each other's technique.

  • One element to a good sense of humor that most of the other posts failed to mention is the ability to laugh at yourself.

    Lots of people with bad senses of humor think they have a good one because they have a favorite comedian who makes them laugh, or think they have a good sense of humor because they're quick to laugh at someone else when they do something silly or stupid. But when they're the person being laughed at for doing something dumb, they'll become furious and storm off, and maybe hold grudges against people who laughed at them.

    Someone with a good sense of humor will be able to see what's funny about what they did and be able to laugh along with everyone else, even if they feel kind of embarrassed.

  • Just keeping people away from the windows could potentially prevent hundreds of thousands of injuries from burns and flying glass in the survivable area of the blast radius. It'd be really hard to overstate what a massive difference that could make when it comes to allocating medical resources in the aftermath.

  • GWAR in the '90s was definitely something to behold.

  • Probably showing my age here, but OK Soda. That stuff was great.

    Close runner up was Josta, which was briefly the official drink of GWAR (at least according to GWAR).

  • Also pump-action weapons. I'm pretty sure if semi-auto weapons disappeared tomorrow everyone would still have ARs, they'd just replace the gas tube with a push rod and convert it to pump action.

  • Yes. It means that the gun is only capable of firing one bullet per single action of the trigger, and automatically re-cocks itself for you after you fire.

    Fully automatic means a firearm that can shoot multiple rounds per single action of the trigger -- i.e. a gun that keeps firing as long as you hold the trigger down. This is also the legal definition of what a "machine gun" is.

    Also, a "sub-machine gun," in case you ever wondered, is a machine gun that shoots pistol caliber bullets rather than rifle caliber.

  • It's always a grift with these people.

    It's not even surprising anymore. Oh... wow... the Scooby Doo villain's mask came off again... crazy... who ever could have seen that coming... crazy...

    It's just tedious.

  • I was so disappointed when Kamala came out strong for Medicare For All and then pretty much immediately caved and walked it back.

    I have a strong suspicion that there is enormous pressure from the business world to keep the healthcare system the way it is. I'd bet almost anything that the instant healthcare is no longer tied to employment there is going to be a mass exodus of people from their jobs, and an absolute explosion of people starting their own businesses. I mean, I've had about half a dozen good scalable business ideas waiting and ready to go for years now, and the only reason I haven't pursued them is because it would probably mean giving up my health insurance. I can't possibly be alone in that.

    And I bet if we got socialized health care, a lot of the problems we have right now with suppressed wages and poor working conditions would suddenly have a way of working themselves out.

  • I went back and replayed some of the OG Metroid games (Metroid, Super Metroid, Fusion, and Zero Mission), and I'm happy to report that they are still rad a/f.

  • They fucking better, because he's definitely going to.

  • Bezos: "Hey Donald, I stopped my Washington Post editors from endorsing Kamala for you. Didn't I do good, daddy?"

    Trump: "Fuck you! Lawsuit! Fuck you!"

  • And also objecting to Tom Morello making a political statement as if he wasn't an honors graduate in Political Science from Harvard University.

  • In the Wizard of Oz, Glenda the "Good" Witch is actually a ruthless drug kingpin.

    She used her magic powers to summon a tornado and then merks the Wicked Witch of the East with Dorothy's house. She then puts WWotE's shoes on Dorothy in order to make her a target for WWotE's sister, the Wicked Witch of the West. Glenda then uses Dorothy as a stooge to bump off WWotW, thereby putting herself in control of Oz's vast fields of opium poppies, and cornering the entire opium trade.

    It doesn't make sense any other way. Glenda could have told Dorothy to use the ruby slippers to get home at literally any point, but instead sends her on a wild goose chase, and uses her as a blunt instrument to take out the only other bases of power remaining in Oz: the WWotW, and the Wizard, who Dorothy exposes as a fraud. Only then does she tell Dorothy to click her heels, and poof: everything is all wrapped up with a bow, and Glenda's hands are clean. Her two main rivals are dead, and the Wizard is fleeing Oz in disgrace.

    It's some fucking Kaiser Söze level shit.

  • According to the caption under the picture, it's Emily Blunt..

  • I keep getting served some supremely mediocre eastern European hip-hop in Release Radar and other Spotify-generated playlists because of some guy who performs as Devo. Same with guys performing as Slayer, Poe, etc.

    A lot of the time they're listed on the track along with two or three other people, so I go to the pages of those associated acts and tap the "don't play this artist" option in the three dots menu, and that usually cuts down on how much I see them in my feeds. At least until they do a new collab.

  • And while we're on the subject, if Spotify could also stop lumping several artists of the same name together on the same profile, that'd be great. There's an old surf-rock band called the Astronauts that I listen to sometimes, and at one point there were albums from at least four different bands included on their discography page. There's still at least two.

  • They criticize everything the Democrats do. Literally everything. They double down on anything that catches traction. The more traction it gets, the harder they push it.

  • That's my recollection as well.

  • I really hope the Denver one doesn't pass. It's basically targeting one small employee-owned meat processor (the one local chefs go to for higher quality meat products), trying to force them to close. And that will shunt all their business to the huge industrial slaughterhouse up north in Greely.

    City Cast Denver interviewed the supposed whistle blower that the campaign to shut the place down are holding up as an example of how awful the place is supposed to be, and it turns out the parts which aren't untrue are wildly exaggerated. The whole thing feels kind of sleezy, in bad faith, and a gift to the giant corporate meat packers. I hope people see through it.