I mean Japan’s political situation is kind of weird. The LDP has basically been in power forever (with super brief interruptions). It lost power recently though so we’ll see what happens I guess. IIUC tho anti-immigrant sentiment is rising (at least partly fueled by the massive waves of shitty tourists IMO), which prob isn’t a great sign based on what’s been happening in other countries.
Block the main instances/ones publicly recorded somewhere. That would basically cripple it for most people.
Plot twist: the detective is the murderer
I think it’s actually much harder for small artists to succeed now, even with the proliferation of stuff like social media sites and music apps. Most streaming services pay artists practically nothing, and from what I understand, touring is less profitable than it used to be because the artists are getting a smaller cut of the profit than they used to from merchandise.
Stuff like Bandcamp and Patreon help, but those platforms are pretty small compared to something like Spotify. It’s probably easier to get your name out there because of social media/Youtube, but I don’t think it usually makes up for how little money they make from listeners. This is also ignoring piracy.
Regarding Palestine, a number of groups have done stuff on stage or donated money and so on, but there don’t seem to be a ton that have written music specifically about the war. I’m guessing this is partly due to a lot of record labels supporting Israel on top of just so much other horrible shit going on in recent years. You could probably find more stuff if you looked for music by people from the countries directly involved.
Pretty much the same situation for Ukraine I think. Bands like Jinjer are vocally pro-Ukraine.
It’s much easier to find one-off songs about a specific issue than like entire albums right now AFAICT (again probably partially because of how much crap is going on). A lot of groups also seem afraid to really hammer on specific points to avoid alienating fans I think, so it’s sort of just the state of music as well IMO.
Doesn’t have to be the newest device if I understand the chart right. It does need to be relatively up-to-date (IMO it’s kind of silly to use GrapheneOS but not update it).
The Emperor’s New Groove
I’m ngl I saw baby Gronk and immediately thought of a baby version of Kronk instead. I vaguely think this makes more sense anyway, so I’m just gonna pretend that’s what they meant.
These temps don’t really seem “warm” to me. It pretty much looks like it ranges from actually cold to like moderately cool or something.
Block javascript on the page.
Google is such a fucking joke of a company. They release multiple products that do the exact same thing regularly, have apparently no capability for long-term planning, and are just shoving AI into everything even if it makes the end product worse. Why would I purchase a Google product when anything that hasn’t existed for 10+ years is likely going to be axed in a couple years? The cherry on top is the idiot execs giving themselves raises for their shit performance while laying off workers.
The cannibalistic symbolism in Christianity has always been incredibly bizarre to me. It’s even more bizarre that Christians don’t seem to think anything of it.
It makes absolutely zero sense to require someone to pay child support when the sole reason you took their kids away was because they didn’t have enough money for housing.
Mm, sounds about what I’d expect of you.
Just doing my part to provide as little empathy to you as you provide to others.
Compared to other competitive swimmers, yes, he was. 500th ranked in just the USA college system means you’re never getting anywhere close to being a professional swimmer competing at world championships or the olympics. Never. Not even close.
You really love ignoring everything other than the 500 free.
Since you brought up the Olympics, I wonder how many of her competitors (other than obviously Douglass) actually made it.
Incorrect.
Unless you’re talking about pretty much worthless pool records, I am indeed correct. Since you love calling me incorrect, how about you actually provide some numbers other than an unsubstantiated ranking from a letter written by someone supposedly om behalf of anomymous teammates. She did not set NCAA records, USA records, etc., unlike someone else she competed against.
Grow up.
Right back at you, ma’am.
Where?
I literally wrote in the parenthetical which term you used. Are you blind?
Went from a “bad” mens swimmer to the best womens swimmer while swimming basically the same times as pre-transition. There’s nothing to say that even if Lia didn’t “transition” that he would have improved his times.
I think I’m done. You’re just repeating conservative talking points without actually thinking about what you’re writing. Lia Thomas was never a bad swimmer. As mentioned, the improvement in her rankings was within normal bounds for three years. You’ve also curiously avoided noticing how the other rankings were below 1st despite her starting at a higher ranking in men’s competitions. Likewise, none of her times have ever blown away the competition. She didn’t set records. The 1st place finish isn’t even in the top 50 all-time for NCAA.
I feel like I’m talking with my relatives who voted for Trump. Given that you don’t even have the decency to use the correct pronouns, kindly go fuck yourself conservacuck.
It’s more than just mental healthcare. American society is just broken in so many ways.