I prefer expressive playing with unique chord voicings versus "shredding". Technical ability combined with expressiveness is the zenith, but I much prefer "boomer" bends versus Polyphia-esque "Shreddy-Kreuger" guitar-neck masturbating, if it's one or the other.
To me, it's the equivalent of someone who brags about typing at 200 wpm, but makes no points, arguments, or revelations of new ideas in their content.
Brevity is the soul of wit, as they say, or even better: write tight.
If that's a generic "boomer" take, then I suppose I should yell at my fellow xennials for eating Avocado toast and clown on the young Broccoli-haircuts for getting anxiety at answering a phone call or some other dumb shit.
Have you served or been involved in armed conflict before? Ever conducted or been involved with combat operations in any theater of asymmetrical warfare?
Edit: @WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca that was an earnest question. If it was you, I take it that down-vote means "no". However, I suppose there's nothing stopping you from saying "yes", and just lying about it.
This past early autumn, I was just in the Idaho/Montana/Wyoming region visiting Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons before the government shut down.
What a gorgeous area. I really wish I was wealthy enough to keep a residence there. I've only been there once before as a child. The pictures don't really do it justice.
Everyone (at least in the West) seems to know about tank man, but there's another story that's not as widely known and I never understood why. It shines a whole new light on this and explains why the Chinese government is so heavy handed when it comes to this subject. It was more than just another autocratic crackdown on protestors, which, while terrible, are par for the course.
A good chunk of military units sent in to squash the protestors refused to carry out their orders, refused to brutalize and kill their countrymen. Some actively joined in on the protests, then units sent in to put a stop it joined in as well. This terrified the Chinese leadership so they sent in the 27th army group, largely comprised of illiterate peasant farmers with no connection to Beijing or its people, headed by a politically reliable officer. The 27th army group then proceeded to massacre everyone, not 'just' students and protestors, but their own comrades in arms, other PLA soldiers.
Read the British embassy report and tell me it doesn't completely change your perspective. The CCP wants everyone to think this was just another protest, no big deal. It wasn't, it was the time they almost lost control, and they know it. It's why they're so fearful.
Scientism is the belief that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.
While the term was defined originally to mean "methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to natural scientists", some scholars, as well as political and religious leaders, have also adopted it as a pejorative term with the meaning "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities)".
Every country on Earth has a version of "immigration police". The catch is that some governments aren't quite as malicious the current US administration. Some are even more than the US.
“Whatever else we may be as creatures that go to and fro on the earth and walk up and down upon it, we are meat.”
“Why should generations unborn be spared entry into the human thresher?”
“…nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone.”
“Every one of us, having been stolen from nonexistence, opens his eyes on the world and looks down the road at a few convulsions and a final obliteration.”
“…this new Adam and Eve are only being readied for the meat grinder of existence…”
“…non-coital existence… the surest path to redemption for the sin of being congregants of this world.”
Since you so clearly speak for the planet, I’ll remind my fellow citizens that we’re hated because we, average people, apparently told people in other countries to “start a revolution, crowdfunded, and sent them guns”, in your words.
Not that many millions of people would ever remember wanting or doing that, but in your enlightened wisdom, clearly, we should all get fucked. I’ll be sure to tell my family and fellow citizens. They’ll love this compassionate sentiment from a reasonable and balanced international perspective.
In the average Lemmy twat's view, try to overthrow the government at the cost of your life and possibly your family's while they pontificate on the internet about Americans not doing enough.
I prefer expressive playing with unique chord voicings versus "shredding". Technical ability combined with expressiveness is the zenith, but I much prefer "boomer" bends versus Polyphia-esque "Shreddy-Kreuger" guitar-neck masturbating, if it's one or the other.
To me, it's the equivalent of someone who brags about typing at 200 wpm, but makes no points, arguments, or revelations of new ideas in their content.
Brevity is the soul of wit, as they say, or even better: write tight.
If that's a generic "boomer" take, then I suppose I should yell at my fellow xennials for eating Avocado toast and clown on the young Broccoli-haircuts for getting anxiety at answering a phone call or some other dumb shit.