Had a weird alien invasion bodysnatchers nightmare where the human "hosts" were going like Rage virus mode and we had to hole up and defend ourselves with hammers and knives and shit, also posting 0's with some other emoji I can't remember was trending on social media as it all went down
I can't remember if it was the hosts posting as a threat like "0 humans left alive" or people being like "trust no one, purge your group until there are 0 possible hosts"
Heavy day of the rope vibes
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Coal briquette based economy ? 
How do you write a whole article about a child cult leader and only include like 2 sentences with no details about the mom who's obviously pulling the strings
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open for business 
My baby's poops smell like impossible burger 
@FumpyAer@hexbear.net that worked, thank you 
Any one else always get "invalid login" when they try to add their hexbear.net account to the Sync for Lemmy app? 
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when I see medical stuff I just start guessing those little guys in the Caribbean
very cool that it was found in the desert, makes u think 
Guilty, and i was pretty aware of it as I grew older.
Its been less so as my perspective on gender changed over the years. Plus gaining interest in more types of music, and particularly also making music, chopping up vocal samples
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/burial_unedited-transcript
Wire: The people on the album seem like wounded or mutilated angels: angels whose wings have been clipped, or who have been trapped or betrayed.
Burial: Yeah. When you think of some of things people go through, everyday troubles, relationship things, other stuff. Everyone knows those sorts of feelings. I wanted to do songs about that low-key stuff. There are a couple of tunes with the vocal to do with angels on it. Sometimes I’d be hearing a song … I was worrying, I’d made all these dark tunes, and I played ‘em to my mum, and she didn’t like them. I was going to give up, but she was sweet, telling me, ‘just do a tune, fuck everyone off, don’t worry about it.’ My dog died, and I was totally gutted about that. She was just like, ‘make a tune, cheer up, stay up late, make a cup of tea’. And I rang her mobile twenty minutes later and I’d made that ‘Archangel’ tune, and I was like, ‘I’ve made the tune, the tune you told me to make.’ And I heard this vocal and it doesn't say it but it sounds like ‘archangel’. I like pitching down female vocals so they sound male, and pitching up male vocals so they sound like a girl singing. It can sound sexy as fuck.
Wire: That works. When I listen to the record, I can’t work out whether the vocals belong to males or females. And angels aren’t supposed to have no gender.
Burial: Really? Well that works nice with my tunes, kind of half boy half girl, but that can be dark too. Sometimes in a mirror people see the devil's face for a second, that wrong aspect, the eyes, in your own. When you are young you are pushed around by forces that are nothing to do with you. You’re lost, most of the time you don't understand what’s going on with yourself, with anything.
Wire: I’ve read you say that you think it’s Ok for women to like your music, that people shouldn’t be frightened of making tunes that women will like.
Burial: But girls love the dark tunes too. I understand that moody thing, but some dance music is too male. It's dry, Some jungle tunes had a balance, the glow, the moodiness that comes from the presence of both girls and boys in the same tune, there's tension because it’s close, but sometimes perfect together. Men sometimes exist in this place where they don’t have a fucking clue what girls go through and vice versa. I was brought up most by my mum, I’m my mum’s son. I look like her. I am her. I own female dogs. I don't know what I'm trying to say, but with my new album – blokes might be, like, ‘what the fuck is this?’ But hopefully their girlfriends will like it. [page break]
Wire: But I think a lot of men want more than blokey music is giving them.
Yeah? They should listen to some Todd Edwards, his tunes melt anyone. People are different, but the media, the world has made them afraid to create their own space around themselves, when they should just close their eyes and trust in themselves. Sometimes a man needs a break from the darkness, and just needs a dose of chirpy, buzzing tunes.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/norway-dad-hiking-bronze-age-rock-paintings-2325758
> Global consulting giant McKinsey & Co., under the leadership of Dominic Barton, pitched Purdue Pharma (Canada) in 2014 on how it could more aggressively market and boost sales of OxyContin and other highly addictive opioids to Canadians
> McKinsey & Co. is facing a class-action lawsuit from the B.C. government, which Ottawa plans to join, that accuses the firm of engaging in reckless marketing campaigns to boost opioid sales, placing the Liberal government at odds with a company it has relied on for more than $100-million in contract work since 2015. > > Mr. Barton became a pro-bono economic adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when the Liberals formed government in 2015 and was later named Canada’s ambassador to China in 2019. Since 2015, the total value of federal contracts awarded to McKinsey has risen to at least $116.8-million, spanning several federal departments. McKinsey has said in court filings that its contracts with Ottawa make up as much as 10 per cent of its gross revenue in Canada. > > In recent testimony before parliamentary committees examining those contracts, Mr. Barton, who resigned as envoy to Beijing in December, 2021, to become chairman of Rio Tinto, and Robert Palter, managing partner of McKinsey’s Canadian office, stated the consulting firm has done “no opioid sales and marketing in Canada.”
> What the two men did not mention was that McKinsey pitched Purdue Pharma (Canada) to do exactly that on March 18, 2014. A McKinsey memo to Purdue, titled Identifying Growth Opportunities in Canada, states: “We appreciate your interest in driving sales growth and look forward to supporting you.” > > The memo to Purdue Pharma (Canada) president Craig Landau went on to say McKinsey was seeking to identify three to five near-term “revenue acceleration activities” for the 2014-2015 period. > > It described how McKinsey could help Purdue determine whether there are opportunities to “better target and reach high-potential prescribers” and increase the motivation of Purdue’s pharmaceutical sales representatives by analyzing “what opportunities exist to change incentive compensation to better align the sales force goals to company objectives.”
> Alley Adams, head of communications and external relations for McKinsey & Co. Canada, said the company never ended up doing this work for Purdue Pharma (Canada).
> “McKinsey is not a manufacturer or distributor of opioids,” the company responds in the documents. “The plaintiff has not alleged material facts necessary to connect McKinsey to any wrongdoing because there is no meaningful connection between McKinsey and the opioid crisis in Canada. For this reason alone, the entire claim should be struck.” > > A recently amended version of B.C.’s statement of claim against McKinsey accuses the consulting company of causing Canadian deaths through its past marketing advice to pharmaceutical companies.
> B.C. alleges McKinsey consultants designed and implemented plans to market and promote opioid sales in Canada, “despite McKinsey’s knowledge that opioids were addictive and were being aggressively promoted to treat conditions that opioids are not effective in treating.” > > The claim accuses McKinsey of working with opioid manufacturers to target physicians with marketing calls and lobbying pharmacies to increase sales, among other “false, reckless, and deceptive marketing campaigns.”
> Several parliamentary committees have been studying the relationship between the federal government and McKinsey to determine why federal contracting with the consulting firm has increased steadily from nearly zero since the Liberals formed government in 2015. > > In the early years of the Liberal government, Mr. Barton acted as both the head of McKinsey and the chair of former finance minister Bill Morneau’s advisory council on economic growth. The council was supported by McKinsey staff and made several major policy recommendations, many of which were enacted by the government to at least some degree. > > Government and McKinsey officials have generally responded by saying it is part of a broader trend in favour of using consultants. The federal government has recently said it is reviewing its approach to consulting and will be looking to find savings in that area.
woke neoliberal Kkkonsultants: oof ouchie that sounds pretty bad have you considered Oxycontin?
all this taser talk is reminding me of this case
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Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist from Montreal, Quebec. In 2020, Dimitri ran for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada.
