Ah, yes, Lolita in Melbourne. My favorite novel.

BOO

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I don’t know, I think that makes sense personally. I think a good portion of them are actually struggling with feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness, or at least did at some point. When you’re feeling like that, and you have no skills or intellect, you’ll take any lifeboat out, even if the only thing making you different is your skin color. At that point, the only thing I have, my skin color, makes me better than everyone else.

Department of Defense.

Wow, heart warming. Turns out the real terrorists were the Israelis we met along the way ❤

Children taking photos with your car isn’t the flex you think it is.

Coincidentally, and also anecdotally, I saw someone pee on a cyber truck the other day.

I felt so betrayed the other day when I looked at my San Pellegrino and saw it was a Nestlé company.

Assuming you’re asking in good faith, the difference would be helping someone through this hell-hole that’s already here, and was disadvantaged at the start. As opposed to bringing someone in.

Ain’t that the truth

That sounds like hell.

Then there’s the IT support team I have to design systems for in my org that are COMPLETELY useless. They can’t be bothered to do their job, and escalate tickets randomly to Tier 3 without any triage, documentation, or careI wish their management would put even a semblance of accountability on them.

I think a middle ground would be fantastic for everyone.

THE LAST THING YOU’D EXPECT IN YOUR BURGER KING BURGER IS SOMEONE’S FOOT FUNGUS

Maybe not nuked because the invasion of Iraq was a far cry from Unit 731 alone, but America certainly fucked around and found out with 9/11. The government very much cry over the screams of those affected by 9/11 as well.

It has to do with them in that their government would only listen to the sound of their screams. That was the only way to stop them.

No, but they stopped more from occuring.

I will say nukes are bad, though.

Look up the Rape of Nanking. Studying that alone made me believe the bombs were warranted. That’s not even including Unit 731, and the fact that the Japanese government still will not acknowledge their attrocities.

The bombs were a sad necessity to stop the monstrosities.

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First of all, the fact that you attributed what I said to misogyny hints at your victim complex immediately.

I’m not even going to respond to the rest of your cherry picking. But, I will say you should do something more productive with your time then simp for a billionaire like a Musk fanboy. Like damn. 🗿

Edit: Lol, you can’t make this up. Apparently, she’s doing the same exact thing that Musk was doing, threatening a normal person with legal action for tracking her private jet. So go, stan! The female Elon Musk needs you to defend her more on Lemmy!

Co-writing means nothing at the mega-pop industry level, and starts having little meaning far before that. But, if you are genuinely under the impression that it has meaning, I have a bridge to sell you.

No, she really only started to write with “Lover”. Prior to that, it was Antonoff, and prior to that it was a lot of different writers/ghost writers.

I also don’t think she’s just a figure head. I appreciate everything she’s done to get artists paid more, I think she’s a good role model for girls/women, etc. But, I do not think she’s a talented song writer. She’s not a multi-instrumentalist. And, she is a billionaire, hoarding wealth like all the others.

She’s just lately a decent songwriter. For most of her career, her songs were written for her by the heavy hitters behind virtually every top 100 hit. Her producer/mixer/writer Jack Antonoff still does most of the heavy lifting.

I am tired of seeing the sentiment that she’s some brilliant songwriter–she really only kind of plays the guitar. The reality is that if anyone is made to be a billionaire, and work with one of the best musical minds of our time (Antonoff), and collaborate with the other top song writers/ghost writers, of course, a decade later, they’ll be able to write songs. It was never some innate talent of hers, or else the songs she truly did write early in her career would have been the hits, instead of the mutually agreed upon worst on the album.