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In Topic: Crazy guy breaks into home claiming to be Dresden
Today, 09:51 PM
Cause, on 23 April 2026 - 05:09 PM, said:Who hasnt wanted to be Dresden.
Remember Drugs, not even once.
One of the few good things Trump has done is loosen restrictions on marijuana and psychedelics.
Now he just needs to put them in the water supply... "drink of His flesh, feast on His dementia" -
In Topic: Music
Yesterday, 05:54 PM
Abyss, on 22 April 2026 - 05:41 PM, said:Azath Vitr (D, on 22 April 2026 - 04:58 PM, said:...
I was a bit confused at first by "Call in at One Stop"---it turns out that in New Zealand, as in the UK,Spoiler
Not so in the United States (IDK about Canada---AI tells me it's used in Canada but not common)....
ok i'll bite - why did you spoiler block that?
Because part of what I (and many other people, I think---or at least the few I've seen express it) appreciate about her lyrics is the mystery, the elliptical apparent open-endedness. And the way it can evoke and encompass many different interpretations. So I'm reluctant to reduce it to a mundane "right answer"---even though in that particular song she's addressing prosaic life to some extent (in tension with imagination). She refuses to explain her lyrics iirc.
It's like when someone asked T. S. Eliot what he meant by "Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree in the cool of the day…" ---he said: "it means 'Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree in the cool of the day'".
https://archive.nyti...nd-translation/ -
In Topic: Music
Yesterday, 04:58 PM
Two new Aldous Harding songs from her forthcoming album:
"Redrum" from The Shining isSpoilerfor anyone who needs a reminder (I actually did). The Zinnia isSpoiler.
She's hilarious... love the vocals (including the different voices she does) and the lyrics, though I don't love the piano parts...
I was a bit confused at first by "Call in at One Stop"---it turns out that in New Zealand, as in the UK,Spoiler
Not so in the United States (IDK about Canada---AI tells me it's used in Canada but not common). So the image that "Call in at One Stop / Putting my things in a long line" conjured for me on my first few listens was of her literally calling someone to let them know she was coming and then putting her luggage in a long line---like maybe at a security checkpoint or a transit stop. The title of the album is Train on the Island (she actually grew up on both the South Island and the North Island (of NZ) and later moved to Wales, where she recorded all her recent albums, including this one). -
In Topic: Israel and Iran
Yesterday, 12:23 PM
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Trump Completely Loses It After Being Branded a 'Sucker'
The Wall Street Journal's Elliot Kaufman wrote an op-ed on Monday that suggested Tehran was playing the president [...] Kaufman argues that this is by design. Iran's playbook, he writes, is to promise something vague, get a concession from Trump, and then not fully deliver. But Trump disagrees with this assessment, to say the least.
[...] Kaufman argues in the piece that Trump fell for the same old bait-and-switch over the Strait of Hormuz. The "third swindle," as he calls the latest instance of Iran duping Trump, comes in the form of Iran saying it won't reopen the Strait at all unless the U.S. lifts its blockade.
Trump Completely Loses It After Being Branded a 'Sucker' - The Daily Beast
Granted, that's just speculation, and the editorial's assertions that it's not only possible but the most likely reality of the situation seem grounded more in some mixture of antipathy and paranoia than actual evidence. -
In Topic: Israel and Iran
Yesterday, 03:44 AM
Mentalist, on 22 April 2026 - 01:58 AM, said:Look, I hate to be praising the reasonableness of the bloodthirsty theocratic regime that guns down protesters by the thousands, but the straight was actually open as part of the ceasefire, after trump told Netanyahu to stop bombing Lebanon (or at least keep it quiet).
This lasted up to the point when trump said, "actually, YOU will let OTHER ships go through, but WE will keep YOUR ships from going through"
At which point everything broke down again.
So at this point, if you are Iran, why would you make any first moves towards conciliation, when your opponent has a consistent history of acting in bad faith?
Araghchi's initial statement that "the Strait is completely open" was quickly qualified:
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Senior Iranian official says vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz will continue to be required to pay tolls to the IRGC. [...]
[...] #Iran will only allow transit in Hormuz Strait for:
-Commercial ships only with no links to hostile states.
-Vessels using Iran-designated routes.
-Mandatory coordination with Iran forces managing the Strait.
If naval blockade continues, Strait will be closed
If that's accurate, it's not actually a change.
https://nymag.com/in...e-comes-the-but
And iirc in practice it wasn't actually a significant change. The Strait was still effectively just as closed as it was before the announcement.
That said, I do think they intended to "open the Strait"---provided they could continue charging a toll and Trump lifted the blockade.
Iranian state media later that day:
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"It must be emphasized again that the Strait of Hormuz will never return to the pre-war situation. Tweet writing errors [by Iran's foreign minister] on the one hand and Trump's tweeting delusions on the other will not change the situation."
https://nymag.com/in...-made-a-mistake
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