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  1. dcom
    If you haven't seen this Estonian contender from 2013 you've seen nothing. (They didn't make the cut.)
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    Ukraine, although the collective bar wasn't that high. Nothing stood out, none really popped for me.
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    I've watched this since I was a toddler, I've never cared who wins. Lordi winning in 2006 was extremely weird for us Finns, it being our first win ever and with historically the most points. I'm the same age as the guy who is Lordi (born 1974). He's released seven albums after the win, and his next one will consist of ANOTHER SEVEN albums released at once. But I digress, Eurovision's awesome, the amount of work and dedication to produce and perform a veritable cornucopia of cheese is staggering and worth nothing but respect.
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    I really don't care who wins, the stage managers, visual artists, pyrotechnicians, set engineers, dramaturgists, choreographers etc. are insanely great, they're the cream of the crop even if the actual performers aren't - let alone the music.
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    Skateboarding

    dcom replied to gmanyo's topic in General Banter

    That's a pretty impressive run.
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    UFO'S

    dcom replied to pyramidpanes's topic in General Banter

    What if Humans are weird? - A collection of posts about humans interacting with aliens, where humans aren't completely overrated. Humans Are Space Orcs - What if humans are the aliens? (Music and Sonic Weaponry.) (Bonus round: The United Federation of "hold my beer, I got this")
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    The millions, maybe billions of people who want to get vaccinated and get rid of the disease are selfish? The ones who are putting their money where their mouth is by not whining about minor inconveniences or transient side-effects? Those trusting the whole of humanity to pull their weight so we can get back to (relative) normalcy? The health-care workers who have toiled tirelessly caring for people who do not "believe" in COVID-19, patients gasping for breath and dying in agony, alone, while a vaccine is available? The people who volunteered en masse - in numbers many times more than was needed - for the first human trial stages of each vaccine, putting their life on the line for the vaccines to be validated as safe? I don't think you have a grasp of what selfish - let alone unselfish - means.
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    Stalked the first episode last night, will watch through.
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    Eurovision Song Contest = IDM (It Doesn't Matter™). The event is the enjoyment.
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    I think we're witnessing the rise of many strongman-controlled, winner-take-all societies.
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    Thank you for that, will check it out; altruism vs. egoism (and egoistic altruism), empathy vs. apathy are always interesting discussion topics - e.g. the bystander effect - and the inflation and deflation of the individual/self/ego in Western and Eastern societies.
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    Humans have existed for about 200,000 years, and they've had to cooperate - even if only inside their own collective - all the time just to survive, to keep themselves and each other alive. Human collectives or individuals within the collectives actively not cooperating to keep themselves and each other alive is a relatively recent phenomenon, and sadly it's fueled by us being able to confabulate things out of thin air, and others supplying the fuel for whatever reasons. The wetware processing power we have has been hijacked by all kinds of unnecessary, needless and even harmful things like religion, superstition, conspiracy theories, and disinformation. A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
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    John Oliver on ‘stand your ground’ laws: ‘Rosetta Stone for justified homicides’ (The Guardian)
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    This is why I get vaccinated: I really don't care that much about myself, which means that I'm prepared to take whatever side-effects - if any, adverse or mild - so I can protect the people around me, known and unknown. Not getting vaccinated against respiratory infections is not an option for me, as my significant other has asthma - I'm primarily protecting her, but I get the rest of humanity as a bonus. The Finnish vaccination program is awesome - like me, our son got his first jabs at around two months, and has received more and boosters after that. You can always decline, but it's a statistically insignificant fraction of parents who don't participate in the program - so there's herd immunity for a lot of nasty things here by default (check the list from the link above) - and it's free. COVID-19 is currently a special case, so it's not in the program, but if boosters are going to be needed, it will be matter-of-factly added to the program, perhaps even included in the annual influenza jabs. I think the COVID-19 (and other infectious disease) deniers and anti-vaxxers are a more acute danger to humanity as solipsist infection vectors than the minuscule amount of adverse side-effects from the vaccinations - real or imaginary, present or future. Whether you understand this or not, you need to get vaccinated.
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    I'm almost a bit jealous of this, happens less and less often nowadays but when it does, it's awesome.
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    Uh oh, I'm starting to slip, perhaps posting new releases is starting to be a young bucks' game... @Extralife - you've got a typo in the artist name, that's why my search didn't find it.
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    Yes. Recommended. As is the previous Trichome.
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    My brain parsed that as Electro-Soma I and III, and the thought of a third full album of previously unreleased outtakes was real for some fractions of a second, I got a flush of adrenaline and then... no.
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    The Top Surveillance Cities Worldwide (this is the most recent-seeming one I could quickly find). Thank you for making me update my legacy knowledge, should look into things more often to keep fresh. This is the actual data.
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    The clear vinyl version is already gone from Bandcamp, but there will be more - on Bleep. You know what to do.
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    Drexciya

    dcom replied to essines's topic in Music Discussion

    Melody Maker, January 1995. (Just sourcing it, nothing else.)
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    Drexciya

    dcom replied to essines's topic in Music Discussion

    Comics probably, but it's in reference to the whole article, I think.
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    Drexciya

    dcom replied to essines's topic in Music Discussion

    Open letter to fans and listeners of Drexciya from Andrea Clementson-Stinson (Drexciya Research Lab) In reference to this:
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    Finally, of course customs snagged the package and I had to clear it, delaying delivery over the weekend, but here it is.
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