Comfy Office Chair Rotting. It’s hard to be a massive Linux nerd and bedrot at the same time, but I often sleep and rot in my chair.

The costume is pretty gross, too.

That’s okay, eldritch horror, I’m not so into tentacle fingers anyway.

I mean, it’s also the take of someone with a smidgen of education who isn’t deeply impressed by the philosophy or ideas that Maynard Keenan put forth in his lyrics. It doesn’t mean they’re bad, but it does mean they’re somewhat simplistic and not all that interesting, especially as you get older. So people who spend an inordinate amount of time praising it and acting like Maynard is like the coolest person alive for first year philosophy takes just seem like they’re overrating it to me. I know that makes me a bit of an elitist, but I mean, I don’t really care. I think stanning over any kind of celebrity whether it’s an artist or a movie star or movie director or fashion designer or whatever is foolish, and leads to a lot of unhealthy behaviors in our society. It’s a behavior that I can tie to actual negative social consequences, such as continuing to support an artist after it’s clear they are terrible (Chris Brown, for example, still has fans) which can lead groups of fans banning together and attacking innocents (Taylor Swift’s online army famously won’t stand for any criticism of her whatsoever without the critique being labeled “misogynist” by the fans). It can lead to genuine victims being dogpiled and abused by legions of fans. It’s just a behavior that I think leads to these negative outcomes when people put so much emphasis on a piece of art and who made it.

Hardware is the means of production and software leverages that. AI is part of that software suite working in tandem with hardware to be productive.

I would argue computers in general are both the means of production, as well as the radio networks like LoRa that can let them communicate without large infrastructure buildouts, intstead relying on truly neutral mesh connections with no central servers. Thus is covers both production and communication in one device.

So much regulation can sadly be boiled down to the idea “Contempt of Business Model.” Because once that business is entrenched and can afford lobbyists, now it’s time to lobby anything other than their business model as illegal.

To an extent it’s understandable. TOOL fans basically ruined TOOL for me, the fanbase is just fucking insufferable, but that doesn’t mean the band themselves make bad music or something. I personally think it just means for whatever reason it appeals to people who are desperate to find meaning in music, and so things that have obvious surface level “meaning” become things that are easy for that subset of fans to latch onto. So especially for classic rock a lot of the interpretation of meaning has already been done so you’re not having to puzzle it out the way you do an entirely new piece of music and that baseline “meaning” is appealing to some people.

It’s a reference to this.

Of all the places I expected this copypasta, it wasn’t in a comic strip referencing They Live.

I’m one of those odd ducks who never cared all that much for Pink Floyd. I can hear the talent, but I found the music somewhat tedious.

Due to not caring for them much, I’ve run across people who actively hate them, and I heard this joke once:

Person A: Hey, did you hear about how they’re setting all those copies of Dark Side of the Moon on fire in the middle east?

Person B: Oh no! Is it a religious protest or something?

Person A: No, it’s just a shitty album.

The workers must seize the means of production and communication.

Ghostface being the Tony Stark to MF DOOM’s Viktor von Doom was always the sickest shit.

One of my favorite tracks with them together was on The Mouse and The Mask by DangerDOOM.

Aquaman’s pops can’t water check me\ Disrespect me (Yo), indirectly (Yo)\ I seen his feet and they both lefty, he steppin’ half correctly\ As I stroll the globe and terrorize the planet\ With a Bill Clinton mask and them Playskool hammers\ Me and DOOM, always be the best on the landing\ Superheroes for life until our souls vanish

That bolded line is one of my favorite lines ever.

I am gonna be that guy though and point out that it’s Viktor Vaughn (looking at my copy of Vaudeville Villain right now)

and probably the best hip hop album ever produced - Madvilliany

*chefs kiss

EDIT: Hot Guacamole

I’m the oldest millennial possible and it breaks my heart that you aren’t aware of the madvillainy. He got caught sending a body-double to shows, and his defense was “I’m a villain.”

I first heard him on The Herbaliser’s “Something Wicked Yhis Way Comes” on the track “It Ain’t Nuttin’”

Same energy:

Sorry, no solicitors, the lanes are closed for League Doombowling.

*casually lifting weights

Don’t mind me I’m just doomswolling.

“DOOM” music?

So nasty that it’s probably somewhat of a travesty\ Having me, then he told the people, “You can call me Your Majesty”\ Keep your battery charged, you know it won’t stick, yo\ And it’s not his fault you kick slow\ Should’ve let your trick ho chick hold your sick glow\ Plus nobody couldn’t do nothin’ once he let the brick go\ And you know I know that’s a bunch of snow\ The beat is so butter, peep the slow cutter\ As he utter the calm flow (“Your mother—”), don’t talk about my moms, yo\ Sometimes he rhyme quick, sometimes he rhyme slow\ Or vice versa, whip up a slice of nice verse pie\ Hit it on the first try, villain: the worst guy\ Spot hot tracks like spot a pair of fat asses\ Shots of the scotch from out the square shot glasses\ And he won’t stop till he got the masses\ And show 'em what they know not through flows of hot molasses\ Do it like the robot to headspin to boogaloo\ Took a few minutes to convince the average bug-a-boo\ It’s ugly, like look at you, it’s a damn shame\ Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name

-MF DOOM

https://lemmy.ml/post/53619601/28192074

This seems like a pretty good breakdown.