

There has been a concerted push by reactionary media to demonize it.
The same thing happened with issues like the estate tax, lawsuits against corporations, police reform, etc.
Proud anti-fascist & bird-person
There has been a concerted push by reactionary media to demonize it.
The same thing happened with issues like the estate tax, lawsuits against corporations, police reform, etc.
Something I hadn’t know about her:
For her guidance of the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 enslaved people, she is widely credited as the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States.
German chocolate is like a whole other food than the wax that Hershey’s pretends is the real thing.
Reactionary ideology is all about protecting privilege by demonizing marginalized people. They believe in zero-sum rights and privileges: in their view, expansion of rights for another group inherently means a loss of rights for them.
So that begs the question: what is this all about?
Wrecking the economy so billionaires can buy up infrastructure at fire-sale prices?
What kind of music are you into and what do you play?
IMSLP has a ton of stuff.
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
L’homme Arme is such a cool composition. I’d love to hear a more period-accurate version, but this one is pretty great anyway.
I don’t think I’ve gotten to that one yet.
My kid and I are really into Bushido Ball, which is such a cool game.
UFO50 is probably my favorite release of last year.
Wish I’d bought a bunch when they were on clearance.
There’s another user who replied to me who answered much better than I could.
Loading a program from disk on the Commodore 64
LOAD"*",8,1
I haven’t loaded a game on that system since I was probably 10 or so, but I’ll never forget the command.
I memorized it as L-O-A-D shift-2 star shift-2 comma eight comma one.
Should have called it the Nintendo Top.
I live in Texas, and we focused on the glories of “free-market” “laissez faire” capitalism in our American history class.
Not a word about things like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire or the Homestead Strike or the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. I’m frankly shocked that we talked about the civil rights movement at all.
Ok, but is that upright bass single?
Yeah, I’d have left a misogyny warning if I’d remembered that part. Thanks for the note.
Yeah, that’s pretty bad.
I still think it’s an interesting read.
How about HG Wells talking about mini wargaming in 1912? I think it’s fascinating to see proto-nerds inventing the geek stuff that we take for granted a hundred years later.
Little Wars via Project Gutenberg
My favorite is probably Aurora, in which a generation ship makes a voyage to Tau Ceti to set up a colony.
After that, I really enjoyed Galeleo’s Dream, a time-travel story about the famous polymath and a plot to reshape the history of scientific thought.
And Shaman is also great: it’s about the paleolithic people who painted the chauvet cave and their struggle to thrive in an impossibly harsh time.
And finally I also just finished The Years of Rice and Salt recently, and it’s one that I know I’ll have to re-read sometime. It’s an alternate history about how the world would shake out if the population of Europe was wiped out by a plague in the 1400s and follows a set of characters reincarnating over the centuries.
Have you looked into selling to reenactors?
They seem willing to pay for handcrafted stuff.