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5 votes
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Erra - Snowblood (2020)
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/snowblood/1525855907?i=1525855910 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/393HU6oEXQybzous3p0NC5 YouTube -...
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/snowblood/1525855907?i=1525855910
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/393HU6oEXQybzous3p0NC5
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruGgo1MkUj8New track from one of the pioneers of progressive metalcore, Erra. The band is known for its crunching hardcore riffs combined with singer/songwriter Jesse Cash's technically impressive lead guitar work that feels more like traditional metal. The band has been often praised for great live performances and song writing, but many feel they haven't had the best engineering and mixing in their recordings.
Snowblood is their first album with new label UNFD and it seems to have unlocked the last piece of the puzzle, in my opinion. This track feels grand and open in a way Erra hasn't yet in studio. Drums feel like they are failing from the sky, JT Carvey's snarling unclean vox punch through the insanely busy guitar and bass lines. Cash's vocals still feel a little thin, in my opinion, but they seem free of over digitization, which is an OK trade off.
5 votes -
NBA players stage playoff strike days after police shoot Jacob Blake
20 votes -
Heartless Bastards - Revolution (2020)
5 votes -
Just how bad is Trump's 2020 pitch?
Not submitting a link. Last thing that scumbag needs is web traffic. But...let's suppose every one of this items actually came to pass in a reasonable form. There is some stuff there even I would...
Not submitting a link. Last thing that scumbag needs is web traffic.
But...let's suppose every one of this items actually came to pass in a reasonable form. There is some stuff there even I would legitimately want. So let's see the good/bad of Trump's lies, and discuss.
I'm bolding things that are (IMHO) obviously very, very bad. Italicizing ones that might be good, but are likely just lies. Striking out anything that is blatant pandering that the president has 0 ability to act on.
The purpose of this mental exercise is to see how people who don't keep up with politics might fall for the rhetoric. Know your enemy and all of that.
JOBS
Create 10 Million New Jobs in 10 MonthsCreate 1 Million New Small Businesses- Cut Taxes to Boost Take-Home Pay and Keep Jobs in America
- Enact Fair Trade Deals that Protect American Jobs
- "Made in America" Tax Credits
- I like the idea of trying to locally source stuff. Tax Credits are not how to do it.
- Expand Opportunity Zones
- Eh, sounds good on paper...but will likely just be another loophole.
- Continue Deregulatory Agenda for Energy Independence
ERADICATE COVID-19
Develop a Vaccine by The End Of 2020Return to Normal in 2021- Maybe if we actually did what we needed to do. I don't have my hopes up.
- Make All Critical Medicines and Supplies for Healthcare Workers in The United States
- Refill Stockpiles and Prepare for Future Pandemics
- Yay for fixing your fuck-up way too late?
END OUR RELIANCE ON CHINA
Bring Back 1 Million Manufacturing Jobs from China- Tax Credits for Companies that Bring Back Jobs from China
- Allow 100% Expensing Deductions for Essential Industries like Pharmaceuticals and Robotics who Bring Back their Manufacturing to the United States
- No Federal Contracts for Companies who Outsource to China
- Outsourcing bad. But China isn't the only place.
- Hold China Fully Accountable for Allowing the Virus to Spread around the World
- God. Damn. It. I have no words.
HEALTHCARE
- Cut Prescription Drug Prices
- Put Patients and Doctors Back in Charge of our Healthcare System
- Lower Healthcare Insurance Premiums
- End Surprise Billing
- Cover All Pre-Existing Conditions
- Wait, didn't ACA do that?
- Protect Social Security and Medicare
- They obviously mean by increasing age to collect, privatizing, and actually trying to dismantle it. But you know...would be good if they did the opposite of what they've tried to do the last 2+ decades.
- Protect Our Veterans and Provide World-Class Healthcare and Services
- How about for everybody else too?
EDUCATION
- Provide School Choice to Every Child in America
- Yea, let's do away with church/state separation and also enable crippling debt from kindergarten. /s
- Teach American Exceptionalism
- I have no words. This is basically the worst thing ever.
DRAIN THE SWAMP
- Pass Congressional Term Limits
- End Bureaucratic Government Bullying of U.S. Citizens and Small Businesses
- Nice soundbite...but 'End Bureaucratic Government' is code for "Let's stop regulating to prevent discrimination and other things that are generally good ideas"
- Expose Washington’s Money Trail and Delegate Powers Back to People and States
- Drain the Globalist Swamp by Taking on International Organizations That Hurt American Citizens
- Yea...cause the USA is the bastion of all that is good and does no wrong /s
DEFEND OUR POLICE
- Fully Fund and Hire More Police and Law Enforcement Officers
- Increase Criminal Penalties for Assaults on Law Enforcement Officers
- Prosecute Drive-By Shootings as Acts of Domestic Terrorism
- Bring Violent Extremist Groups Like ANTIFA to Justice
- Somehow I think the actual Nazis won't be targeted by this.
- End Cashless Bail and Keep Dangerous Criminals Locked Up until Trial
- End monetary Bail. Anything else: bad.
END ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND PROTECT AMERICAN WORKERS
- Block Illegal Immigrants from Becoming Eligible for Taxpayer-Funded Welfare, Healthcare, and Free College Tuition
- Mandatory Deportation for Non-Citizen Gang Members
- Dismantle Human Trafficking Networks
- End Sanctuary Cities to Restore our Neighborhoods and Protect our Families
- I can't bold this one hard enough
- Prohibit American Companies from Replacing United States Citizens with Lower-Cost Foreign Workers
- Nice soundbite, but give Unions power again and those kinds of problems will resolve themselves.
- Require New Immigrants to Be Able to Support Themselves Financially
INNOVATE FOR THE FUTURE
- Launch Space Force, Establish Permanent Manned Presence on The Moon and Send the First Manned Mission to Mars
- Build the World’s Greatest Infrastructure System
- Win the Race to 5G and Establish a National High-Speed Wireless Internet Network
- Not sure who you're 'winning' against, but whatever.
- Continue to Lead the World in Access to the Cleanest Drinking Water and Cleanest Air
- Um....yea.... how about everybody gets those things?
- Partner with Other Nations to Clean Up our Planet’s Oceans
AMERICA FIRST FOREIGN POLICY
- Stop Endless Wars and Bring Our Troops Home
- Get Allies to Pay their Fair Share
- Maintain and Expand America’s Unrivaled Military Strength
- Wipe Out Global Terrorists Who Threaten to Harm Americans
- That sounds a lot like 'Continue with Endless Wars'
- Build a Great Cybersecurity Defense System and Missile Defense System
- Maybe, just maybe, if we stopped bombing everybody else this wouldn't be needed.
Sorry, couldn't resist adding my additional commentary. So yea, looking over it again...very, very bad. But enough gems in there that the uninformed that only hears about those might fall for it.
27 votes -
National Hurricane Center nailed track forecast for Laura within a mile and three days in advance
9 votes -
More than half of San Francisco storefronts closed due to pandemic
8 votes -
The truth about voting by mail and election fraud | Real Law Review
5 votes -
‘Freedom’ means something different to liberals and conservatives
12 votes -
Fox News urged to fire Tucker Carlson for defending Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
18 votes -
Spreadsheet of all confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in United States schools
13 votes -
Cacola - Amy Rose (2019)
3 votes -
One year later, has the Huawei ban been effective?
5 votes -
Six former eBay executives and employees charged with aggressive cyberstalking campaign targeting a couple who published an online newsletter critical of the company
23 votes -
Major shakeup for the Dow Jones Industrial Average index in the US: three new stocks join
11 votes -
Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito throws MLB's first no-hitter of 2020 season
6 votes -
The Oh Hellos - Boreas (2020)
4 votes -
The Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, was the first COVID hot spot in the US. Forty-six people associated with the nursing home died, exposing how ill-prepared we were for the pandemic
5 votes -
Why one expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be "America's Chernobyl"
8 votes -
How societies turn cruel featuring Sargon of Akkad
10 votes -
A math problem stumped experts for fifty years. This grad student from Maine solved it in days
19 votes -
The 2020 Democratic National Convention has concluded. What are your thoughts on it?
Share your thoughts and feelings on how the convention went, and what you think it means for the remainder of the race. Did it change how you plan on voting or participating in the election? Who...
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33 votes -
Bill Wurtz - Outside (2017)
6 votes -
For election administrators in the US, death threats have become part of the job
10 votes -
Two feet from Clearwater's past, father's funny legacy leaves a deep impression
5 votes -
Getting from November to January: Wargaming shows that, short of a landslide victory for Joe Biden in the upcoming elections, we may be headed for a severe constitutional crisis
22 votes -
San Fermin - Jackrabbit (2015)
6 votes -
Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 17
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
13 votes -
How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
24 votes -
Progressive groups are getting more selective in targeting incumbents. Is it working?
9 votes -
Why and where you should plant your flag
12 votes -
Record heat, unprecedented lightning fire siege in Northern California; more dry lightning to come
11 votes -
Loving the alien - How UFO culture took over America
5 votes -
Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
7 votes -
Magnus Carlsen fought back from the verge of defeat as the world champion clinched his seven-day, 38-game match against Hikaru Nakamura by four sets to three
9 votes -
The bombing and the breakthrough: How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a US cover-up - and a new cancer treatment
11 votes -
Michigan reaches preliminary settlement to pay $600 million to Flint Water Crisis victims
9 votes -
One IT guy’s spreadsheet-fueled race to restore voting rights
15 votes -
Appeals court grants a stay on injunction, after Lyft announces rideshare operations would be suspended in California at 11:59 PM tonight
13 votes -
Uber and Lyft both threaten to suspend their services in California unless the ruling requiring them to classify drivers as employees is overturned
18 votes -
The US Supreme Court justices are misusing the ‘shadow docket’
8 votes -
Inside the Boogaloo: America’s extremely online extremists
14 votes -
Vanguard is outsourcing recordkeeping work, along with 1,300 of its workforce, to Infosys
11 votes -
Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
10 votes -
US universities seek ways to protect students and faculty from being prosecuted by Chinese authorities
7 votes -
How men’s rights groups helped rewrite regulations on campus rape
6 votes -
Apple becomes first US company to reach a $2 trillion market cap
12 votes -
Voices from the pandemic: Tusdae Barr, on being evicted from her home during the coronavirus crisis
8 votes -
University of North Carolina researchers were potentially exposed to lab-created coronaviruses in several incidents since 2015, highlighting the risks even in respected research facilities
8 votes -
An interview with Playboy magazine nearly torpedoed Jimmy Carter's Presidential campaign: The pious Georgia Democrat spoke earnestly of his views on sex, a bridge too far for conservative Christians
6 votes