Bullshit.

Hilary Clinton divorced Bill

*Hillary. And that never happened.

Your whole “both parties equally complicit” is such a load of horseshit, too. Russian asset much…?

Oh fucken gag me with a spoon

You GO, Valley Girl! :D

But yeah, I get your point, there. I used to be casual friends with someone who sounds like your roommate, with a massive collection of live performances. I would listen to a bit of Dead with him, but would NOT have been able to spend endless hangout times listening to nothing but their concerts. And just for me, personally-- I have a certain revulsion for obsessive behavior like that.

I’d say the Dead are a very fine band in the ways I first described, but… yes, could definitely be overrated in the ways you just described. There’s just too much fascinating music from around the world to make the Dead anything more than a passing obsession, at least for me.

Best thing you can do is make your own communities for topics that we haven’t already got one for.

Plenty of people did just that, then came to realise that it’s usually quite the job to keep their sublemmys running and build them up over time. Bot posts don’t work very well, either. Hence all the dead communities across the FV.

A related issue is that the FV strongly needs people with more community-minded spirit than the typical Reddit user. IMO it’s important to ‘be the change,’ and to try to help each other out as individuals, and help communities we appreciate. Being more of a ‘lazy Reddit asshole who clutters threads with lame DudeBro jokes’ isn’t ideal at this point.

It’s still kinda mind-blowing to me seeing someone who could be seem so clever, cutting-edge and worldly in his comics project turn out to be such a massive, selfish, hateful imbecile across so many other areas.

Altho maybe it should be pointed out that he was about as bare-boned as it could be as a cartooning talent, and evidently solicited and used scores of ideas from his readership. So, maybe not as clever and cutting-edge as I first thought when I enjoyed his comics, centuries ago.

Btw, “Behind the Bastards” did a two-parter on him, for those who like podcasts:

• https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/behind-the-bastards/d9c015b0-255d-0136-c266-7d73a919276a/part-one-how-the-dilbert-guy-lost-his-mind/c734cb5d-dd70-4c8d-aa3a-a74c0c8d4d44

• https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/behind-the-bastards/d9c015b0-255d-0136-c266-7d73a919276a/part-two-how-the-dilbert-guy-lost-his-mind/f1c2a740-fa73-4434-baf1-12ba7d6838a1

Somewhat related: artist Tyler Miles Lockett has been doing an incredible series of reinterpretations of ancient motifs, including a Greek gods series. Some samples here:

https://thecollectibles.tumblr.com/post/742334797740933120/greek-goddesses-by-tyler-miles-lockett

I was just going to comment on that!

Actually I love it, and find it a perfect fit, i.e. man being the monkey that frequently thinks of himself as being a lot more advanced and important than other animals, who still betrays his nature at every possible turn. Or something like that.

But man being a great ape, and great apes being a subset of monkeys, does indeed mean that man is also a monkey.

Christ are they overrated.

Overrated in what respect, though? What are critics / fans saying about them that you feel is over the top? For me, they were a significant folk rock band and cultural experience that formed a kind of haven from the world at large. They had plenty of groovin’, pleasant songs & jams that I could sincerely recommend, but I’m not really sure in what way they might be “overrated.”

False to the rich when inconvenient, yes, even as they wrap themselves in the mantle of it for public appearance.

TL;DR?

“Oh, DRAGONS!”
(not just an expression, but a reality!)

https://piefed.social/search?q=dragon&community=1313

I’ve read a couple of Goodall’s books (one of my personal heroes), but I’m curious what the idea is here, exactly?

I’m reading a brilliant but grim BD (graphics novel) continuation of the Animal Farm story, and this fits in almost perfectly. My original review was lost in an instance move, but I’ll have to do an update one of these days.

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-60691-BD-Chateau-des-Animaux.html

See what you think about this-- I thought TNG’s aesthetics and scripts could be rather bland sometimes, but in terms of acting talent, I found Spiner, Dorn and Stewart’s acting work to be generally superb. Frakes and Burton were also strong (pick your poison of course).

The reason I’m mentioning the above is that I found it almost shocking how mediocre, and almost unlikable most of DS9’s and VOY’s cast were, outside of standouts like Ryan, Picardo and Russ, and to a lesser extent perhaps Auberjonois, Brooks, Shimerman and Mulgrew.

And at the same time, DS9 and VOY had some far more ambitious and arc-type scripts than TNG ever did. Evidently, TNG had the chance to do so with the parasites from “Conspiracy,” but instead shifted them in to being the Borg. Sure, a classic set of villains without question, but also the horror motif of the parasites was mostly lost. A real white-washing in order to maintain a more family-friendly version of the show, I would think, but… well, that’s enough for one comment.

@lunchbox2287@lemmy.world

Interesting. Kinda looks like TexMex lasagna.

So lap it up, fuzzball.

You mean, humanity’s single-biggest cancer cell…?

How DARE you! 😠

Incidentally nominating himself as the Dumbest Husband Ever.

had a strong grasp on English

I don’t know if I’d go quite so far, but yes, Alex the African Grey knew an impressive amount of words and could directly demonstrate that knowledge via familiar objects. Koko the gorilla was also something of a contemporary IIRC, who could form simple English sentences.

RIP, Alex and Koko.

The advantage with filtering keywords, Snot, is that you don’t have to waste any time at all curating communities.

Sorry, I can only upvote you with head-thumping enthusiasm.