Hatred of immigrants and foreigners in general growing all around the world. As an internationalist I am feeling decidedly in the minority these days. We keep going like this and we're going to have a big fucking world war.

And you know if Vladdy Putin is correct and multiculturalism has failed and liberalsm is now "over", as most of the world's powerful nations currently agree, then why don't all the Russians in the UK fuck off back to Russia? Every fucking nationalist is the same: they think "we" should be able to go anywhere but "they" can't come here.Watching people drown in the Mediterranean and refusing to help or destroying water bottles in the desert is really only a technicality away from execution camps. When the government makes it illegal to help, it's a small step indeed.

Maybe I'm late to the party with this, but you know that Chumbawamba song, I get knocked out.... I was thinking that it's not actually about drinking at all, but about struggle and defiance.

A very Boomer-centric setlist being played by what sounds like a live band across the way. I could tolerate it for about four or five songs (even putting up with "Don't Stop Believing"), but had to cut short the cigar break as it became a bit much. To their credit, the band seemed to be hitting most of the notes, but the overall sound was too mild for these ears.It's odd, I mostly enjoy older, kinda "feel-good" music these days -- we just picked up the Deutsche Grammophone boxset of Bach's organ works, after I spent many hours listening to the abridged version on Spotify. But the stuff I like, it has some kind of "edge" or "pull" a lot of the time that I think gets disregarded by many people who like or even play "oldies," as well as detractors who dismiss these sort of things as "wimpy" or unflatteringly dated somehow.It might sound like a silly tangent, but I think being into punk music in my teens and twenties and so on shaped the kind of soul and funk (and even "classical") music I gravitate toward. There's a kind of intensity behind the best of it, where the singers and players are really "going for it," and it has a lot of presence and staying power even if a lot of people think of it as old hat or "soft." Kinda hard to put a finger on, but I know it when I hear it.

andteater wrote:mrcancelled wrote:Spotify seems to think that I only love bands that sound exactly like Pavement.is there a way to turn off a band on there? every time it starts shuffling i get some random Polvo song in the mix that I have to quickly skip before my brain explodes.I'm not sure if there's a way to block a specific band, but that'd be nice. I know there's the "don't like" button that in theory should impact the generated playlists they make for you, but it doesn't seem to work so well.

andteater wrote:mrcancelled wrote:Spotify seems to think that I only love bands that sound exactly like Pavement.is there a way to turn off a band on there? every time it starts shuffling i get some random Polvo song in the mix that I have to quickly skip before my brain explodes.- https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/22/spotify-dont-play-artist-feature-ios-android/Spotify's mobile app lets you block artists you can't standThat anything like what you mean?

kokorodoko wrote:ChumbawambaMajor waffles on this somewhat racist polygonal caricature of a Native American woman.

^ "it's just like OK Smiles"

I literally lose thousands of dollars every year maintaining a painting studio and it's totally fine.

they say the only way to shut up an italian is to hold her hands so she can t speak without them but for me after being whitewashed in school they trained me to raise my hand first and then sit them under my butt before I could talk so I could be normal, so it s harder to shut me up lol they evolved me without realizingso ive said it before and i ll say it again,the only way to shut me up is with a kiss