[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

This was my 2020.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean, being arrested doesn't mean a crime was committed. It means he's accused of a crime. I'll be interested to see if there is actually a conviction in the end.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

There’s a remix that actually has bells

Apparently it's not a remix, it's the original.

https://youtu.be/VGabHGJAHfc

Despite the song's title, no bells can be heard in the album recording. The original version of the song, riddled with bells of various types including a cowbell, is 7 minutes and 11 seconds long and was only released on 12 inch vinyl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_Bells_(song)

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

There’s a remix that actually has bells

Apparently it's not a remix, it's the original.

https://youtu.be/VGabHGJAHfc

Despite the song's title, no bells can be heard in the album recording. The original version of the song, riddled with bells of various types including a cowbell, is 7 minutes and 11 seconds long and was only released on 12 inch vinyl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_Bells_(song)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20031755

My personal entry point to LL Cool J - and I think best song on his best album.

There's a remix that actually has bells, but I thought I should go with the one most will have heard.

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My personal entry point to LL Cool J - and I think best song on his best album.

There's a remix that actually has bells, but I thought I should go with the one most will have heard.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20031449

I have the unpopular opinion that aside from a couple specific songs I've been lukewarm to every LL Cool J album later than Radio (which was such a banger), but this is so eyebrow-raisingly off the path of what I tend to expect from LL Cool J that I had to post here.

I literally came blind to this new album, and just before hitting play I thought - well unfortunately I can predict I'm not going to get any hard social commentary like from dead prez or etc...

30 secs later it felt like that thought had personally offended him. Track 1 no less.

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I have the unpopular opinion that aside from a couple specific songs I've been lukewarm to every LL Cool J album later than Radio (which was such a banger), but this is so eyebrow-raisingly off the path of what I tend to expect from LL Cool J that I had to post here.

I literally came blind to this new album, and just before hitting play I thought - well unfortunately I can predict I'm not going to get any hard social commentary like from dead prez or etc...

30 secs later it felt like that thought had personally offended him. Track 1 no less.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

This only further erodes people’s faith in the system.

It's sure as fuck eroding mine!

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

It looks like Trump is almost certainly going to lose the election and when he does he’s going to jail.

Ankle bracelet at worst, more likely an easy for him to pay fine. Trump is never going to spend a day in prison, mark my words. And if I'm wrong I'll celebrate along with everyone else about it.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

This judge has had a strong bias to not look like he’s impacting the general election

All this time I thought they were there to uphold the law no matter who was on the other end of it, but I know, joke's on me!

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

It's because the Justice system is not whatsoever blind to wealth and power.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

If clear enough, the entire house of cards could come tumbling down.

OR, since we've once again given special legal protections to the rich and powerful, no matter how repugnant, providing another example of how our justice system works so very differently when you aren't one of the little guys, Trump gets elected, then there's the whole "ZOMG but now he's president-elect" pearl clutching and hand wringing that causes further delays, then he's inaugurated, and then I eventually get to die of old age with a dictator in charge while watching my country slowly morph into something like a mix of Gilead and the German-occupied former-US from Man in the High Castle.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That bump in 2020 is kind of interesting. The reason seems obvious, but correlation does not equal causation and all that. It does make me wonder if a big chunk of people claiming to be unaffilated are doing so because they think it's the correct answer to give, not because it's actually true. (My theory being that the pandemic made them decide they better stop denying Jesus for awhile or whatever)

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 days ago

Seems like they coulda used drones (not those drones, these drones) and no one would ever have known - and he wouldn't have been stung.

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JODIE: The reason it has been difficult for the United States to understand the Palestinian side is not only because of the media but because colonialism is in our history. We can’t face the fact that colonialism is wrong and that it steps on a lot of toes and hurts a lot of people.

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“I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences,” Harris said. “And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19444083

If someone asked me what the theme song was for 2020 as I watched videos day after day of cops abusing protesters and bystanders, this is undoubtedly the only choice. Came up on shuffle last night and immediately took me back.

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If someone asked me what the theme song was for 2020 as I watched videos day after day of cops abusing protesters and bystanders, this is undoubtedly the only choice. Came up on shuffle last night and immediately took me back.

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According to the debate, they had their reasons. But still -- when one hundred and eighty six nations say one thing, and two say another, you have to wonder about the two.

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