Bender_on_Fire

@Bender_on_Fire@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Greatest Cover Song of All Time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really love “when the levee breaks” by Led Zeppelin, but the original by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy deserves more recognition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Greatest Cover Song of All Time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of a pet peeve of mine, but Tainted Love was originally performed in the 60s by Gloria Jones, a black soul singer. Considering the lyrics of the song, I think it could be interpreted as an interracial love affair, which adds a political dimension to the song that the Soft Cell version seems to lack. I would consider it to be some sort of cultural appropriation even if it’s hard to define. In any case, it doesn’t really sit right with me that Soft Cell and later Marylin Manson had all the artistic and financial success with it while Gloria Jones is mostly forgotten about. Don’t get me wrong, I like all three versions (and there are quite some more even) in a vacuum, but I think it’s worth pointing out this bit of background info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t see the pattern either and had to look it up. Apparently, you can rewrite 1 + 1/(1+2) + 1/(1+2+3)+… as 2(1 - 1/2 + 1/2 - 1/3 +…+1/n - 1/(n + 1)) = 2(1 - 1/(n + 1))

  From there, the limit of 2 is obvious, but I guess you just have to build up intuition with infinite sums to see the reformulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net Ratings by Quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can add the Lakers to that. I guess it’s natural for scoring to distribute over the quarters since being behind incentivizes playing your best players for longer and hustle in general. In addition, if you know your opponents are slow starters for example, part of the game plan might be trying to exploit that which would make it a self enforcing feedback loop.