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antonim

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  • What are some Ship of Theseus bands, where all original members have been replaced by someone new?

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  • That makes sense, I suppose the bootleg song Heavy Metal Kids was also from that proto-Neu period? Because as great as it is it's such a different aesthetic...

    Btw what are your thoughts on early Kraftwerk/Organisation in general? Do you enjoy those albums? I found them wildly varying in quality, ranging from incredible to unlistenable...

  • What are some Ship of Theseus bands, where all original members have been replaced by someone new?

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  • Kraftwerk has at one point or another not had each of its core members. The only original member now is Hütter, but he left the band briefly in the early 70s (when they were still doing psychedelic rock) so nobody has been in the band continuously. And even though they typically have 4 members, a total of 21 musicians has rotated through the group.

    Idk if that quite counts, but it's close at least.

    They did sing "wir sind die Roboter", and robots are replaceable, so I guess it's an appropriate band history. But, the output has still declined...

  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

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  • Well, for accessing paywalled articles .org is no replacement for .ph/.today, sadly. But it's advisable to use it as little as possible, it seems using visitors for DDoS'ing the blog is still going on.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

  • Facebook is absolutely cooked

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  • OTOH you may have missed the communication even if you were on Facebook. These days your feed is just 1/3 the groups you're in and pages you've liked, 1/3 is the "recommended for you" random garbage, and 1/3 is ads. I've missed many notifications for events that interested me, they'd pop up a few days after the event actually took place.

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Shortparis Frontman Nikolai Komyagin Has Died

    www.clashmusic.com /news/shortparis-frontman-nikolai-komyagin-has-died/

  • lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy

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  • Maybe you shouldn’t even have had your account on the largest server to begin with?

    Maybe I didn't have my crystal ball nearby when I was creating my Lemmy account.

    Maybe many users will have an account on the largest server, because by definition it's the largest server, with the most users. 🙄

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • I live in a country with a relatively similar political climate as Poland (highly religious, post-communist, wannabe central Europe). And I used to use the same argument when I was surrounded by more conservative people. The argument is IMO frequently invoked not by people who are truly worried about children (which I'll write about below), but by conservatives who need a civilised, "agnostic" argument for their homophobic stances. But ofc it's better to assume good intentions, at least if you don't know anything about the person using the argument (as e.g. here).

    The biggest problem with the argument is that it's purely reactive and, under the hood, disingenuous. Children bully each other horribly already for a million stupid reasons - their shoe brand, their phone brand, their behaviour, etc. or just so, for no detectable reason at all. They also bully their teachers and professors. What is done against all this? Absolutely nothing, as far as I see (and I've seen and heard plenty while I was growing up). It is never brought up as a problem in public discourse, nobody seems to care too much. Bullying somehow becomes a big problem and relevant for the lawmaking only when gay parents are a possibility.

    In general, from what I've seen, bullies will find just about any reason to target a kid. Adding one more to the roster seems borderline trivial. E.g. a lot of existing bullying is class-based - my younger sister was mildly ostracised in the primary school for a while because she wore the clothes my mother sewed for her, without a brand or anything, suggesting we don't have the money to buy "proper" clothes. Should we, then, try to separate poor kids from the rich kids, so the poor don't get bullied? Or just forbid poor kids from going to school?

    Thus, instead of doing anything against the actual problem – that is, bullying as such – the laws of the state, the fundamental right of a child to a family, etc. should all buckle down before some child bullying? A child should be denied growing up with a potentially good and loving family with LGBT parents, and instead be adopted by a potentially inferior heterosexual family (assuming the adoption centres have some sort of system to judge the adopters in advance), or stay without a family at all indefinitely, because someone could/will bully them based on their most intimate and safe space, that is their family? Just as it would be monstrous to forbid poor kids from going to school to "protect" them from bullying, it is monstrous to propose "to protect some kids from bullying, we'll deny them from having a family". The whole argument is actually (or should be) an argument for aggressively rethinking and reworking your educational system , parenting and culture in general.

    because why should these children be victims of war that is not even theirs to fight

    Under the current system they're also victims and involved in this same war - a part of their potential adopters is denied by default, and they stay without a family for longer. Are they not victims here? (Not to get into the issue of measuring potential benefits of having a family against the potential negatives of bullying, it's purely arbitrary and depends on the given culture too.)

    On the other hand, I do think the whole discussion has been derailed by overly focusing on this as an LGBT issue rather than an issue of children without families. So there's some merit at least in the general approach of the argument you present (the children are those whose well-being is most important here), but it leads to the wrong conclusion, usually because it's invoked by people who really just want to get to that conclusion one way or another, rather than helping the kids.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Ruled Away (2001)

  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced (in absence) to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine

    www.pcgamer.com /metro-2033-author-dmitry-glukhovsky-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison-for-criticizing-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/
  • internet funeral @lemmy.world
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    poster

  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    12 reasons to stop using Goodreads - selected by Goodreads staff

    help.goodreads.com /s/announcements/a031H00000QxZ5SQAV/known-issues-july-2023-includes-language-search-and-sort-issues-731