Genuinely what the fuck are we doing as a species?

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Genuinely what the fuck are we doing as a species?

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I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
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Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?
Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate
Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.
In all seriousness, if you live in the US and you aren't familiar with the misogynistic harassment these people in the game industry faced during Gamergate, you need to watch this series right now.
This was the beggining of the current form of the US fascist movement and it underpins the entire thing about it to this day. If you live in the US and Gamergate isn't familiar to you, you're missing critical history to understanding US fascism. I'm not joking even a little bit here, you will understand modern United States fascism so much better if you are familiar with Gamergate.

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I love the music of the Spanish Civil War for many reasons but one is that almost no one is ever singing in their native language and I think that's beautiful
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DISCLAIMER: THIS POST WILL NOT TEACH YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, OR EVEN ABOUT ITS MUSIC.
Well, one famous thing about the Spanish Civil War is the International Brigades: volunteers, largely in highly varied shades of leftism, from all over Europe and the world who showed up to fight the fascists. (Anglophone readers may recall Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.) So alongside the songs in Spanish and Catalan that came out of or get associated with the war, there are many International Brigades songs in English, German (yes, lots of German communists and other anti-fascists in the '30s went off to fight fascism where it seemed vulnerable), Italian (ditto), French, and this collection appears to have at least one each in Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and one that's attributed to "Yugoslavia" but I do not have the South Slavic expertise to tell you what language it is in. Not a song, but I have seen a poster specifically recruiting Esperantist volunteers. Very multilingual environment already.
And then... the Spanish Republic lost. The fascists won. The songs went pretty quiet in Spain. But the international volunteers that survived and went home kept singing them. And so did one of their sympathizers: Pete Seeger, whose recording Songs of the Lincoln Brigade introduced many of them to a broader audience. On that album you can hear Seeger singing songs in both English and Spanish:
Or how about the German communist volunteer and singer Ernst Busch doing the "Song of the United Front" in Spanish, English, French, and German:
(oh gosh my YouTube music recommendations are going to be so communist for a bit. That's all right, they've been quite Jacobite lately so that will balance it out.)
Of course, fascism in Spain didn't last forever, and today many singers and groups in Spain do perform and record the same songs. ... Including the International Brigade ones. (Unfortunately I can't track it down, so this may not be true to any extent at all, but I have read a remark somewhere [possibly in someone's liner notes?] that after the death of Franco, young people in Spain rediscovered these songs specifically through Pete Seeger's recordings...!)
So you can find the Catalan "Quartet Brossa" singing the Italian Bella Ciao:
Or the evidently Spanish-speaking "Coro Popular Jabalón" doing their best American English in the soldiers-complaint song "Quartermaster Store":
On the same album they have a song in Basque:
And so on and so on.
(You may have noticed Spain's minority languages, including Catalan and Basque, making a good showing here: that's no accident, those were evidently quite republican areas, as will not surprise you if you know anything about Franco's language policy.)
Anyway those are the main historical reasons I'm aware of why music from and about Spanish Civil War is so multilingual. Obviously my original claim that "almost nobody is ever singing in their native language" had an element of hyperbole - the Americans do sing songs in English (as do the Irish), the Spanish in Spanish, the Germans in German, and of course the Catalans in Catalan. But if you look for Spanish Civil War music, many of the "standards" you'll find are International Brigades songs, many others are Catalan as well as Spanish, so no matter what your native language is you will have plenty of songs that aren't in it.
And apparently you sing them anyway. Because, at least for the people making these records, it seems it's not about where you're from, or even whether your accent is any good, it's about standing side by side.
And that's why I said it's beautiful.
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So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.
They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.
And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.
Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.
Yoga pants. Hmf.
people in cold climates would have a tide line of white marks around their knees (if they were normal height) in the winter.
From wicking up road salt.
The visceral memory of that time is something that never leaves you. Everyone's jeans were many inches higher in the back than the front because you kept stepping on the hem and ripping it off. Your lower legs were so very cold. Every new pair of jeans literally enveloped your entire foot, they were so so long re: leg-to-waist ratio. Walking on a rainy day was a legitimate workout. You have no idea.
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anyways remember when toni morrison said "sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it's not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."
everyone say thank you toni morrison