|
hifi posted:incredibly cool thing that last.fm has done for like ten years now Is that like...spotify for old people?
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 00:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 10, 2024 03:52 |
|
|
AIM is going away next week and I'm sad about it
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 00:48
|
|
|
hifi posted:incredibly cool thing that last.fm has done for like ten years now it's cool also how last.fm can play almost every song in history whenever I want
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 00:52
|
|
|
1) I want to let rg3 back into the chat thread for this story. 2) the worst part about buying a vehicle is waiting for the checkout guy for loving ever.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 00:52
|
|
|
weird Asian candy posted:Is that like...spotify for old people? it used to be something called audioscrobbler with a winamp plugin that used your plays to generate stats and music reccomendations, then it became a streaming service and is now apparently a spotify plugin again to generate recommendations?
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 00:54
|
|
|
a neat cape posted:AIM is going away next week and I'm sad about it  the end of an era
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 00:57
|
|
|
AIM never got me laid so I say good riddance
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 00:59
|
|
|
y'all post your AIM away messages
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:00
|
|
|
Speaking of AIMs, August Ames killed herself.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:03
|
|
|
swickles posted:I know a little bit about why its not a good thing, but can anybody summarize the implications of Trump saying Jerusalem is the capital and moving the Embassy there? Middle East politics isn't really my forte. Oh man can I! Alright so about 2700 years ago the successor state to the kingdom of Israel, Judea, was sorta subsumed into the assyrian empire. Jerusalem was in the middle of loving nowhere, and existed primarily as an overgrown trading post. The various people that conquered it just let it live as a vassal state, because it wasn't seen as something worth dealing with. The ancient Jews really kinda freaked the ancient world out. They worshipped this book, and they didn't really drink all that much. Alexander came through there and hated the place. There's also a really hilarious account of an arab trader getting his balls shaved in jerusalem but I can't find it. Apparently the upper crust of jewish society really liked to go hairless. Anyway, eventually the Roman empire started creeping their way east, and they loving despised Judea. Legislatively, it was a career dead end. Anyone appointed governor there A.) wasn't going to get promoted and B.) couldn't even loot the place, since there was no industry. In the words of one roman historian, the only thing to come from Judea were "refuges and slaves." The series Rome of course put it into perfect context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP2q7YiLjRQ As far as conquered vassal states went, Judea had it pretty sweet. They didn't even have to bow to the emperor, as they claimed "we only bow to our one god." Up until Hadrian, the Roman emperors just said "yeah sure whatever." As far as the Romans were concerned, as long as traders were able to move through there and get to Egypt, they didn't care what dumb bullshit those plebs believed. Unfortunately, part of their beliefs were that a military leader would arise from their ranks and lead them to salvation. Once a generation they tried this, and every single time they got their asses handed to them. The first was kinda a civil war between the jews themselves that kinda spilled out against the Romans, but the second and third were definitely kill every roman in sight. Part of the reason the hammer would fall down on them so hard on them was because of the barbarity of their violence. Even by ancient standards the israelites were loving brutal. After the diaspora a century later, they'd murder 200,000 civilians in north africa, for example. Unfortunately they had one of their revolts under Hadrian, and he was sick to death of it. Yes Hadrian, of the giant loving wall in england because he was tired of dealing with the northern tribes. The jews actually had their own state for like 2 years their revolt was so successful. But Hadrian had already withdrawn from Trajan's conquests in Persia because he rightly considered it impossible to defend. He wasn't going to lose another territory at the rear end end of the empire. Hadrian sent six loving legions into Judea and put them to the drat sword. Every man of military age they could find had his throat slit. Every child was sold into slavery. They killed like 600,000 jews all told, and the ones that weren't killed were scattered to the wind in the great Jewish Diaspora. Judea ceased to be, and the name of the province was changed to Palestine. They took their capital as Jerusalem. And people went along their way. This city would then thrive is for about a thousand years. Jews, Arabs, and eventually Muslims lived in relative peace and harmony. As Christianity spread, Jerusalem became a major pilgrimage site. As islam spread, Jerusalem became....a major pilgrimage site. Then in 1095 some rear end in a top hat pope was pissed off that the Byzantines had a slightly different form of Catholicism that recognized their Emperor as the head of the church. After a routine call for assistance for some regional conflict bullshit, this pope ordered an army be formed to go retake the holy land. Smelly french and germans from all over western europe pulled themselves from their mud farms and started marched south east. The funniest part about this was the horror of the incredibly cosmopolitan byzantians at the site of this filthy army. At the time something like 60% of the world's wealth was in constantinople, and they weren't about to let the monsters all into the city gates. But the soldiers really wanted to get drunk and get their dicks wet before they maybe went and died in the desert, so komnenos let them in in small, escorted groups to get drunk, get laid, then thrown out of the gates for the next group. Whatever, everyone knows those dumb fuckers were going to get slaughtered by the arabs. To everyone's horror, they weren't slaughtered. As a matter of fact, they killed everyone, jews included, while Jerusalem. The city would be an outpost in the muslim world for the next century for various popes to play chess with. A century later, saladin came and hosed up everyone, liberated the city (lets be real) and let whomever wanted to worship there worship there. There were a number of crusades following that, but none were successful. One was hilariously led by a blind greek deposed king who convinced them to sack Constantinople instead. Anyway fast forward to 1916. It was understood the allies were going to win world war 1, and that the ottoman empire would fall. So france and england arbitrarily drew a line on a map cutting up the middle east. Literally, just, drew a line. Britain ended up with Jerusalem. At this point, there were nascent zionist movements occurring all throughout Europe and the Americas. The british for their part were very wary of what would happen if they just carved out a peace of MOSLEM territory for the Jews. They thought it would just be a nightmare. Not only that, outside of like Syria, what would become Israel was pretty much the choicest piece of land in the region. In addition, they'd have to kick a lot of people out to create this jewish state. Regardless, in 1917 they released the Balfour Declaration, which said "yeah sure whatever we can make them a state....eventually." The late 30s/early 40s were...rough for the jews, and in 1947 as a token of apology for ignoring the holocaust, the powers that be granted israel its own country. This sparked a civil war that had been brewing in the region, and the local leaders had been amassing arms in preparation of. Eventually they were invaded by the rest of the region (excluding jordan), but eventually won out after displacing something like 400,000 palestinians. The UN was kinda horrified, but as a sort of fig leaf to the muslim world, they said Jerusalem would basically be an everyone city. Tel Aviv would be the capital of Israel, anyone could go into Jersualem, and that would be that. After all, this state was the Jews right. You know. 1800 years after Hadrian cast them out. In 1967, America was fully supporting Nasser in Egypt. Nasser saw himself as a modern day Attaturk, and he wanted to drag Egypt (and the rest of the arab world) into modernity kicking and screaming if he had to. Unfortunately, Nasser also had to deal with a very belligerent Israel, who was receiving french and soviet weapons. Nasser's main goal was to unite the Arab world. After a bullshit conflict between Jordan and Syria, Nasser mobilized some troops in Israel's direction to send a message or something.Israel In 1973 Egypt kicked the poo poo out of them and they ran to UN as fast as they could. Nixon by this point kinda absorbed Israel into the American orbit, and armed them well enough to survive. In 1978, Carter negotiated the Camp David accords, and basically locked in Israeli borders. But, they still had the palestinians living within the country. What then began was a gradual and very effective squeezing out of Palestinian territory. Part of this territory included the west bank, and eventually Israel just occupied it, setting off the first intifada, which was horrifying and led to the Oslo accords. The second Intifada was again caused by israeli's being assholes. Their president Ariel Sharon went to the second holiest site in islam to send a message, and poo poo jumped off for five years. Also it was when the IDF started sending people to post in D&D in support of Israel. All this time, the United States has served as an unbiased mediator in the conflict. Israel is very gradually wiping out the Palestinians. For evidence of this..  It's become substantially worse since then. Bush 2 basically didn't give a poo poo and let Ariel Sharon work his way into Palestine and take as much of it as he wanted. Obama loving Benjamin Netanyahu, but didn't want to poke the hornets nest, and Israel continued to demolish palestinian buildings FOR SECURITY REASONS moments before israeli settlers would put a tent down and get IDF protection. But during all of this, Jersusalem was not considered their capital. Crazy jewish settlers claimed it, but the United States did not. What trump has done is basically the biggest slap in the face he could do to the Arab/Muslim world. Our biggest ally in the region Jordan has a massive palestinian population that will of course be up in arms. Turkey, the most heavily armed Muslim country in the world (and a member of nato) is furious. Hamas, the government of the Gaza strip, just said Trump opened the gates of hell. Hizbollah has been itching for a fight ever since they beat the hell out of the IDF in 2006, and here's their reason. On top of this, Saudi Arabia is currently committing a genocide in Yemen, and has openly called for military cooperation against Iran, which Israel enthusiastically agreed to. This is all being organized by Jared Kushner, who has given a Saudi Prince the green light to murder all his cousins and consolidate power and start a false war against Qatar for various reasons. Basically this is the worst loving possible thing Trump could have done at the worst loving possible time. Oh yeah Israel has nukes too. FizFashizzle fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Dec 7, 2017 |
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:11
|
|
|
Ehud posted:y'all post your AIM away messages Cryptic messages hoping the girl I had a crush on in English would message me and probably a Linkin park quote in Raiders silver and black colors gently caress
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:12
|
|
|
Shimrra Jamaane posted:Speaking of AIMs, August Ames killed herself. uh her husband is a goon.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:12
|
|
|
FizFashizzle posted:uh her husband is a goon. Yeah he was the guy who did the porn threads in ASK/Tell
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:16
|
|
|
FizFashizzle posted:Oh man can I! this is a really long away message
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:16
|
|
|
Should have made the ruins of Nazi Germany the Jewish homeland.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:20
|
|
|
Shangri-Law School posted:Should have made the ruins of Nazi Germany the Jewish homeland. Fun fact! Demented Stalin offered to let all the Jews move to soviet russia and claim their homeland in siberia! The jews were like, "nah, thanks though fam."
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:23
|
|
|
Should've given them Utah or Oregon.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:28
|
|
|
I am surprised you didn't mention the Maccabees, the platonic ideal of failing upwards
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:32
|
|
|
FizFashizzle posted:uh her husband is a goon. I had to google, and to my amazement learned that a pornstar killed herself over twitter bullying. What a time to be alive
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:36
|
|
|
She killed herself because people hated that she didn't want to work with someone who'd done gay porn. Huh Don't gay porn stars have a significantly higher rate of STDs because of hilarious lack of giving a gently caress about safety by the producers?
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:38
|
|
|
CharlestheHammer posted:I am surprised you didn't mention the Maccabees, the platonic ideal of failing upwards lol yeah no poo poo
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:43
|
|
|
You can tell the country is getting worse because the satire is getting so much better.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:44
|
|
|
Kalli posted:Should've given them Utah or Oregon. As for Israel you should also bring up the point that the GOP is so gung ho for supporting them because their death cult evangelical believes in the heretical belief that giving Israel Jerusalem will trigger the loving apocalypse. I think back on why America is the way it is culturally and its really all because this country was founded by the most batshit insane Protestants with their bullshit work ethic. Its no surprise it took a ton of Catholics immigrating to this country to get the ball moving on the labor movement.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:51
|
|
|
I've been seeing this pop up a lot again lately https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kKkY5EpVpY
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:52
|
|
|
achillesforever6 posted:Utah has suffered enough with batshit insane people who like to ride into delicate desert environments in ATVs and deface ancient petroglyphs with bullets. I really think the whole evangelical "start armageddon" thing is massively overblown and even as I've lived among the dumbest of the religious right I've never met a person that I would believe knows that story. but yes catholics are far better than protestants
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:52
|
|
|
FizFashizzle posted:I really think the whole evangelical "start armageddon" thing is massively overblown and even as I've lived among the dumbest of the religious right I've never met a person that I would believe knows that story. My mother in law I'm catholic married to a lutheran, she made me take the kids to the 500th anniversary of reformation because she had other stuff to do and BOY HOWDY WAS THAT FUN AS A CATHOLIC I also had to miss the first three innings of game 5 of the world series and the pastor was just milking it, constantly making references to it Thankfully i got home in time for when all the fun chaos ball started happening
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 01:54
|
|
|
Protestant Churches are all stark and boring and I don't know how anyone can go to mass when Catholic church is a attack on the senses with all the gold and marble and Latin songs and then afterwards we might eat fried fish or have kielbasa. If only the church wasn't so god awful about women's and LGBT rights.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:00
|
|
|
Just found out we're three weeks away from season 4 of Black Mirror This is my giddy dance  achillesforever6 posted:Protestant Churches are all stark and boring and I don't know how anyone can go to mass when Catholic church is a attack on the senses with all the gold and marble and Latin songs and then afterwards we might eat fried fish or have kielbasa. Not the lutheran church I went to. Oh no, it was the platonic ideal of the excess that protestants separated from the catholic church over Now the baptist church that she goes to after the lutheran mass is over (I know I know, wtf) is as barebones as it gets
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:00
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/alexqarbuckle/status/938572703405092869
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:01
|
|
|
CharlestheHammer posted:I am surprised you didn't mention the Maccabees, the platonic ideal of failing upwards I know about the Maccabees because of an episode of Rugrats
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:06
|
|
|
.png)
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:10
|
|
|
Intruder posted:She killed herself because people hated that she didn't want to work with someone who'd done gay porn. Huh I think its a old stereotype that the gay porn community has (had?) a significantly higher rate of HIV and it was a thing for a while that if you had ever done gay porn you were black balled from the hetero industry. (All of this knowledge is from the book Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk so take it with a grain of salt.)
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:11
|
|
|
OxySnake posted:I think its a old stereotype that the gay porn community has (had?) a significantly higher rate of HIV and it was a thing for a while that if you had ever done gay porn you were black balled from the hetero industry. I remember from one of her husband's A&T threads that the gay porn industry does not have the same safety and testing regulations that are in straight porn. And I don't think it was a straight up blacklisting (well, it probably was up until a few years ago), but it was more difficult to get work and you had to show negative tests for several months after the last gay scene.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:16
|
|
|
MY NIGGA D-LINK posted:I had to google, and to my amazement learned that a pornstar killed herself over twitter bullying. What a time to be alive her last words https://twitter.com/AugustAmesxxx/status/937834002768990208 lol
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:18
|
|
|
Jota posted:her last words 
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:22
|
|
|
Maybe it's just my dumb, simple mind but... just get off twitter, right? Like if every time I posted something y'all told me to gently caress off I'd go away, but maybe that's what separates most of us from the RG3s of the world.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:35
|
|
|
Reading the before, during, and after stories of a pornstars career is incredibly depressing. Which is why I try to mostly avoid the stuff now.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:35
|
|
|
The Big Jesus posted:Maybe it's just my dumb, simple mind but... just get off twitter, right? Like if every time I posted something y'all told me to gently caress off I'd go away, but maybe that's what separates most of us from the RG3s of the world. Well there's a famous tweet on that very subject https://twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/285670822264307712 However I'm sure networking through twitter was a huge part of her professional obligations
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:38
|
|
|
The Big Jesus posted:Maybe it's just my dumb, simple mind but... just get off twitter, right? Like if every time I posted something y'all told me to gently caress off I'd go away, but maybe that's what separates most of us from the RG3s of the world. Although there is something to be said about moderating your social media intake, and the effect it has on the brain, the issue with what you're stating is that it's the victim's fault that they got bullied. I shouldn't have to go onto social media and deal with a bunch of assholes, and the response to that should be "well I should just log off."
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:40
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 10, 2024 03:52 |
|
|
https://twitter.com/AP/status/938524696353607680 Sweet
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2017 02:40
|
|