Deacon @ deacon @lemmy.world

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Is this a story that needs telling?

JACO

You can tell because of how doughy they are. I’m also master race in that sense.

Wait until you hear Christian Emo Music.

Which I can confirm exists, and in similar strata to the mainstream too. Eg, Dear Ephesus would be closer to the 2nd wave like SDRE whereas the Juliana Theory is closer to the pop emo of Jimmy Eat World or even The Getup Kids, and then I’m sure the third wave (glam emo that bled into scene kids à la MCR) is represented too but I’d peaced out by then.

I would binge watch this.

This is interesting and I’m glad to see this. I’ve always been an avid reader and until recently, I could read words on a page for hours on end but really could not sustain my attention to an audiobook for more than a few minutes, and always felt like my retention was very poor when I tried listening to books. But that was always a me thing.

My brother and wife have both been avid audiobook readers for a number of years and I always picked up on them feeling mildly insecure about it, as if they weren’t “really” reading when it was an audiobook.

Oddest of all, in the past year or so, my brain has completely flipped and now I mainly read via audiobook and text on a page can’t hold my attention for long.

I'm convinced that many of the people calling for violence from the left in response to the administration's behavior are the same ones that pushed the right into extremism over the past 30 years.

Do you believe you have good reasons for thinking so?

I would be interested in seeing you lay out what convinced you. It seems to me that the only thing these calls for violence have in common is just that: they are calls to violence. How can you possibly draw any parallels beyond that without completely minimizing how unprecedented a situation it is we find ourselves in?

Sure, but go from that thought…

To trump.

That must have been awesome. 25 years ago I had a huge crush on Miho Hatori. Still do I suppose.

You got to know your chicken!

I’m a lefty who made it almost half a century on this earth without realizing I could just go out and buy left handed scissors, so don’t feel too bad.

I wore that CD out on my way to and from work when it first came out!

I saw them live a few months ago and the majority of the show was them playing The Sophtware Slump in its entirety, but they also played Stray Dog and The Chocolate Shake and let me tell you, the whole place felt like it was pulsing during the big synth walks. It was incredible.

Jesus was a really good dude whose corpse was almost certainly eaten by wilds dogs.

Or we have to believe a Roman governor who had a history of being nasty to the Jews allowed an insurrectionist to have a decent burial when generally the point of crucifixion was humiliation, and corpses were often left to rot on the cross for some time, conspicuously warning others who might be having ideas.

But then we also have to believe that a member of the same Jewish Sanhedrin who unanimously agreed to arrest Jesus was also secretly a follower but not so secretly that he didn’t petition that same Roman governor to let him bury the guy he’d just demanded be executed.

So his body probably got eaten by them dogs.

Oh bravo.

There is a certain wink at the camera implied in most dad jokes (at least in this dad’s) that I think is replaced with seeming earnestness in this example and in the vein that I’m thinking, but maybe I’m quibbling because I don’t want to have just “reinvented” dad jokes in my comment.

In my expert opinion, it is a science meme.

I don’t really have much to add but feel compelled to say that I really enjoy this type of comedy. Maybe there is already a name for it but I think of it as observational absurdism, or Incorrect Shower Thoughts.

I rarely laugh out loud at it, but it makes me smile extra big to consider it.

I love the idea of someone making a remark based on an absurdly incorrect observation or premise, and as a bonus, this type of comedy rarely has a “target”: it isn’t punch down or up. It’s punching itself if anything.

Anyway, just saying.

What a rancid turd of a person.

Precisely as erudite as you would expect from him.

Perhaps my 11 years there were actually shitposting the seeds of AI’s eventually demise.