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They've already reduced their punishment to entertainment several times now, so this seems mild on that front. Hmm... punishment as entertainment: I'm thinking that might be a bit closer to the decadence of Rome than "woke" 

We won't be having any learning something new every day, thank you very much: too high a risk of illegal ideas.

Pure cult*:
https://x.com/yashar/status/1910040560103989626

That's cult, not kvlt

Mr. Bungle "Disco Volante"

I literally flipped a coin for mine and this was the other side

You lost 

Still thinking about mine. Some picks above I could agree with, others I'd be more likely to pick different albums by same band (Painkiller rather than Defenders, MoP rather than RtL, ITP rather than Human). Also I'm tempted to say Rust In Peace just in reaction to nonsense being spouted in another thread 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/billionaires-score-best-ever-day-as-tariff-pause-jolts-market

Billionaire wealth jumped $304 billion in one day, Musk alone by $36 billion.

Further deregulation of crypto, in an atmosphere where Trump is essentially accepting crypto bribes for private meets:

The DOJ ordered the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit to stop cryptocurrency enforcement and to instead focus on immigration and procurement frauds.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5238617-trump-disband-crypto-enforcement-unit/

I see htere's something about Musk and one of Trumps other guys having a public spat on social media. Has the wheels started to come off now..?

Musk and the supposed "mastermind" behind the particulars of the tariff scheme, Peter Navarro. 

The two most disastrous decisions taken by world leaders over the last few years are Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Trump's tariffs.

Toxic masculinity works as a framework for understanding fantasies of both conquest and factory jobs.

Feminists may have been on to something.

Richard Hanania seems to be coming to a realization that the alt-right red pill was in fact just the blue pill but with red food colouring:
https://x.com/richardhanania/status/1909269005866811696

Watched The Doors last night, as herself had never seen it. Again, Kilmer is just great, but apart from that it's a film that strikes me as requiring an altered psychic state simply to be fully enjoyed (rather than enhanced, to paraphrase Otto).

Sounds like Porcupine Tree to me, and grand but not particularly exciting at that. Is this similar to what their most recent albums are like? I think Fall of Hearts is the last one I listened to, but I don't really recall it.

Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Primordial - How It Ends
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Maiden - Piece of Mind
Maiden - SSOAS

I hadn't even noticed that.

Okay, it is the Mike White I had a hunch it was then, although I've not seen any of those films.

More juvenile encouragement to be cruel straight from the White House:
https://www.firstpost.com/world/na-na-hey-hey-goodbye-white-house-faces-backlash-for-dehumanising-deportation-video-13877693.html