Hobyrim
USMC Vet and dad. Sarcastic with a side of sweet and sour sauce.
Joined Nov 2017
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I have met a few old warriors.
Not many young ones.
Old warriors, have eyes that are deep pools of compassion.
They have the patience of trees.
They talk little, but can move quickly.
The tools they use, they know like the back of their hands.
They are quick to smile, and never get angry.
For they know the warriors code.
Never use force, unless it is needed, and then use it overwhelmingly.
Never bluff, nor threaten.
Commit totally.
Be guided only by great feelings of love.
~ me
Also to note:
Celebrity endorsements don't really matter anymore.
It's YouTube channels, it's micro influencers, it's targeting hyper specific messages using accounts with 300 or so followers that win you trust and votes in the misinformation age.
They do it far better and they all stay on the same message.
They close ranks and protect their propaganda.
We allow them in thinking we are being tolerant, and they use that to poison our message.
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#FUNFACT All your Twitter data including DM's are Trump and Elon's property to use as they see fit now.
@BlueStateBabe the perceived problems with the economy. Lots of people are being laid off. Inflation has people hurting.
And all they hear is a guy saying (filtered through all of his proxy voices - influencers, Elon Musk, think tanks, etc) I'm the only one who can fix this.
And they believe him because they are desperate.
And also because a lot of people will absolutely never vote for a woman.
I mentioned this a few years ago, but now that it's likely that Democrats lost the popular vote as well:
Y'all gotta realize that you aren't fighting ideals or values anymore. You are fighting algorithms. You are fighting YouTube radicalization. You are fighting sensational content.
The Andrew Tates and the Joe Rogans and the FaZe clans are more influential than any debate or policy decision right now.
You don't have the firepower or the strategy to fight back.
@catlynne333 both.
And you forgot greed.
How much does it suck to be spy or informant and know that you got 3 months to get off grid before the dumbest mutherfucker alive gets you tortured and killed by his stupidity.
Remember for when you start doing all the resist hashtags and stuff that it's going to be even worse this time since Elon has the reigns of Twitter.
Everything will be misinformation.
Plan accordingly.
Don't have anything to offer today other than counter programming for the election.
Enjoy a classic tune in the world of electronic music.
Hybrid - Symphony
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@rpardee If you use corporate tools, made by corporate tools, they'll turn you into a tool.
The internet used to be full of _everyone's_ personal sites, hobby sites, forums. People connected to each other and subcommunities connected with each other.
We don't have to leave the internet to leave Corporate Tool-Hell. We just have to stop using their tools.
Western New York is nicer than everyone tells you. Other than the high taxes it's absolutely gorgeous.
I don't mind letting the secret out.
I enjoy how Tom Brady talks like he's a crappy text to voice program from the mid 90s that occasionally gets stuck trying to find the right word.
Hey you, election voter.
Do you know what the prop votes mean on your ballot this fall?
Do you understand what you are doing when you vote yes or no on the weaselly worded item on your ballot?
Especially if you don't live in a swing state, these propositions and amendments are something your vote has a tremendous effect on.
Find out what is on the ballot, and make sure you are making the decision, not someone who is tricking you by the way they word something.
^^ Last thing on this, don't believe me. Go back and play On Bended Knee which is close to the same level of corny lyrics wise.
The person playing keys doesn't sell it as much. It's too confident so the words and melodies sound the same but it doesn't reach the same level of yearing, the same levels of authenticity.
^^Especially with everything being so much less sincere here 30 years later. We're too online, no one can let it all hang out there anymore without being judged on social media anymore.
The level of vulnerability on this song is out control but even 30 years later, the sincerity doesn't work without that keyboard player selling it.
If he or she doesn't put every heartache, every disappointment, every...thing into each of those first 10 or so minor chords this song flops.
It's such genius.
You ever sit and listen to how overly dramatic the electric piano is on Boyz II Men's - End of the Road (1992) and how it really helps make the song?
Like the lyrics are so over the top if you don't have anything other than that super electrically synth piano bearing the weight of an entire god damn song, then this song is unintentionally the funniest song ever.
But that electric piano just is 
I can't think of a producer who deserves more credit than Robert "Shep" Pettibone who was writer, producer, and mixer on Madonna's Vogue.
The way Madonna's voice is mixed to where it sounds like she's walking sultry towards you just by the way she's pronouncing her words to the way every set of vocals hits and expands like a lightning bolt... 😍😍
Pop music sometimes becomes popular because it's actually good.
Dub step / whatever style you call this fell out of being popular so long ago.
But for this to have been from a mid name band that happened to steal the show from a much bigger name DJ back in the day is criminal.
The moment I saw hear this song mixed with the visuals in stage I knew it'd never be another moment like it.
Take a chance on this if you like electronic music. There's something special here.
M Machine - Locked out of Heaven remix - 2013
Did you ever sit and realize that the reason we don't have as many televangelists as we used to 30 years ago, is because now we call them streamers?
This is from an article in the Guardian but, I am... Honestly I don't know.
One paragraph shouldn't elicit so many different emotions.
Hurricane Milton is gonna be awful y'all.
Hobyrim
USMC Vet and dad. Sarcastic with a side of sweet and sour sauce.
Joined Nov 2017