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Mozart Internet Defense Force. DSAMN. Paid for by the CIA (Culinary Institute of America). “Let those I love try to forgive / what I have made.”
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Well I said I'd do a conductor thread so I'll get a start on that. I normally won't post much in the way of an introduction. Good music (and a good performance) tends to speak for itself. Starting with the man in my header:
1. Willem Mengelberg
youtu.be/J18wFaVjbPw
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The whole "we should put bad kids in the military" discourse is hilariously out of date because the military has spent huge resources over the last 50 years screening and keeping them out after learning the hard way that dumb, antisocial teenagers actually make terrible soldiers.
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lol haven't seen a killshot like this for a while
For penning her mea culpa, Hannah-Jones has received a good deal of praise. Well, you can count me out of all that. Her actions were morally indefensible and analytically ignorant, and her supposed metamorphosis remains invisible to the naked eye. nationalreview.com/2026/09/w…
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I DO NOT NEED TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION TO PAY MY ELECTRICITY BILL. LET ANYONE IN THAT MOTHERFUCKER IF THEY WANT TO PAY IT
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LOL
Black Girl Magic!!!
From 2016:
"As I told Faraji my plan, he slowly shook his head no. He wanted to look into parochial schools, or one of the 'good' public schools, or even private schools. So we argued, pleading our cases from the living room, up the steps to our office lined with books on slavery and civil rights, and back down, before we came to an impasse and retreated to our respective corners.... Faraji couldn’t believe that I was asking him to expose our child to the type of education that the two of us had managed to avoid. He worried that we would be hurting Najya if we put her in a high-poverty, all-black school. 'Are we experimenting with our child based on our idealism about public schools?' he asked. “Are we putting her at a disadvantage?'"
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for people who grew up on the internet in the early 2000s this is like meeting God himself
Am I forgetting or does Marlow not encounter a single piece of ivory throughout the entirety of Heart of Darkness?
This important for my “it is a miracle when a man can actually do their job” reading of HoD.
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None of the internet literary scenes even has a particular style to impose. They expect that a "literary revival" must arrive, so they gather their friends together and have each of them write what they were already writing beforehand.
