arken
@arken@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do not trust it. Do not follow it. 3 weeks ago:
He is obviously inflated, she has to hold him down or else he’ll float to the ceiling.
- Comment on Do not trust it. Do not follow it. 3 weeks ago:
Well, I for one want to hear more about your racist dog?
- Comment on "Let me in right now or I swear..." 3 weeks ago:
“It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.”
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
I like this idea more and more. All computers off, noone is allowed to work, just a big new years party for everyone.
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
Plus forum search so you never have to add “reddit” or “lemmy” to your search phrase again.
- Comment on Oh no, Murray! 5 weeks ago:
Thank you “caitas cooing” for pointing out the most obvious thing you could have.
- Comment on Don't forget! 5 weeks ago:
They were deleted by their creator.
- Comment on Last one but it’s a hell of a book 1 month ago:
There definitely should have been an 12" extended dance mix with the complete lyrics included.
- Comment on Last one but it’s a hell of a book 1 month ago:
Psalm 137
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!” Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
For context, the book of Psalms is a collection of jewish hymns. Psalm 137 is written from the viewpoint of defeated jews in Babylonian exile; the last verse may well be read as a defiant answer to the line “sing us one of the songs of zion!”. The god of the bible is not speaking directly here nor is he being addressed.
As additional context, Boney M’s disco version is actually a cover version of The Melodians “Rivers of Babylon” (featured on the soundtrack of the film The Harder They Come) and tactfully omits the verse about dashing Babylonian infants against rocks.
- Comment on the sensory biology of plants 2 months ago:
There’s a theory that allergies are getting worse due to an imbalance of gender selection when planting trees in urban environments. Here is some additional context.
- Comment on the sensory biology of plants 2 months ago:
Thank you for taking the time to comment in this thread.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
Works anywhere where there’s snow.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
Snow chains?
Studded tires for bikes are quite common where I live.
- Comment on Squidward 5 months ago:
So you’ve added the criteria per capita; I still think you’d find that the gang milieus that gangsta rap (in its various forms) is closely associated with vastly overshadows any isolated cases of Nödtveidt or Varg-wannabes there still might be out there. Black Metal is also one of the most popular subgenres of metal nowadays, so the per capita argument doesn’t really apply.
RAC/White Power-music perhaps, but then only because the fanbase of this music is so embarrassingly small.
- Comment on Squidward 5 months ago:
I actually grew up around people just like that. Point is, the music they listened to never mentioned violence in any shape or form yet they would happily beat up anyone they could get their hands on for any made up reason they could think of - like being a metalhead or just wearing the wrong color pants.
- Comment on Squidward 5 months ago:
Gangsta rap beats all genres mentioned here in terms of associated violence and death.
- Comment on 1.1 History 5 months ago:
Surely that’s “heavy stuff”?
- Comment on AI will change the way we do everything. All jobs will be replaced. 6 months ago:
The history of chatbots for support purposes show us that jobs will be replaced not when they can be done as good, but good enough, and what “enough” means is going to be a race to the bottom kind of situation over time.
- Comment on On the morning train 6 months ago:
Or that late.