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Def Leppard - Hysteria

I never really liked Def Leppard but I stuck this on the other day and really enjoyed it. Purely as a time capsule of that specific time of slick 80s pop-metal cheese it was a lot of fun.

I still don't like them but that album if decent as you describe it. There's a Motley Crue one like that as well

I still have a Walkman for tunes but I can see how the whole lot is just becoming more of a pain in the hole by the day. Apparently, USB charging ports are next to go after an EU ruling on compatibility. As long as they support wireless charging. All painful but of course we'll all just get used to it

By the sounds of it over here, it will liberate us from having a few bob in the pockets, but I haven't seen any details of anything so far

I wouldn't have seen pronatalism as inherently political, but there's no doubt it will be now. The alternative is a little bleak in places with ageing populations but then of course all those new people will have to eventually get to pension age and the new births enough to support that etc and so on.

Could be a good use for AI, to figure out exactly how many are needed to keep it on a reasonable level, and then offer decent supports for those who do choose to be the baby makers and those who don't, well that's their choice and they won't have to pay for the kids.

Anyway, whatever, watch it being weaponised like everything else lately.

I'm thoroughly impressed with the lad beating the filibuster record. Fair play to him. He should have steamed it on twitch or something

2 episodes I lasted and just didn't like anything about it even though I know many a lad says it's great

Rewatched Adaptation for first time in about 20 years. Quality movie, and def one of Nicolas Cage's best performances.

Leaving Las Vegas is the benchmark for Cage

one of my favorite movies that. For all the stick Gage gets, he can deliver the goods when he wants.

No matter what he's done bad in his time, all is forgiven for that performance in what has to be one of the bleakest things I've ever seen

The birds were singing this morning. Was beautiful

Put me in mind of Thom Yorke's "Dawn Chorus" from that Anima album he did, but the birds were not as melancholy at all thank god

These pleasures are getting less simple as they go!

Great idea. It should also distract them from the evils of constant masturbation 

Rewatched Adaptation for first time in about 20 years. Quality movie, and def one of Nicolas Cage's best performances.

Leaving Las Vegas is the benchmark for Cage

Fair enough.

The DEI is another thing that needed to go tbf but I can see how it was a nice idea and the reactionary element of everything now is just the other extreme. I wonder if there'll ever be equality of opportunity without somebody saying they're in a minority, or somebody being accused of being a diversity hire

Fentanyl is a cog in their propaganda machine: internalize that fact. If you hear them talking about or mentioning fentanyl, they're in propaganda mode. They turned that cog for the Canada and Mexico border tariffs thing too. The tragic fentanyl/opioid crisis is a 100% wealthy white homegrown issue that they are trying to convince US citizens is actually a problem that dirty brown people are bringing in. Eye on the ball.

Ah look, like all drug smuggling, it's the poorest who will be made take the chances and I'm sure the colour of them entirely depends on which border they're crossing. Yes it could be viewed from a racist angle but you'd have to be looking at it that way. Funnily enough, that part didn't occur to me, not even joking.

Would you still think it was as bad if the cartoon was a white lad at the Canadian border? Hypothetically, obviously, because the cartoon wasn't a white lad. They should just do that next and then it's simply drug smugglers living illegally in the country who would be vilified. Doubt most would be as bothered about that, although without drug smugglers I'd have missed a lot of fun times, so I'm fairly ambivalent about them now that I'm thinking about it

I always listened to the nu stuff alongside older DM and Thrash stuff. Basically a distorted guitar was enough for me to chance something but that was very much a buyer beware time as well, where only an odd song could be heard on the Terrorizer or Metal Hammer cds and I'd have to go off that and simply take a chance on things otherwise. During the nu era, I got fuckin roasted multiple times due to the sheer amount of shit thrown at the wall

Ah most of it is shite tbf but some of it is not bad. Again, I'd liken it to most other things in that there's a lot of copycat things that come in the wake of any new sound