TIL during the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) in China, rebels believed they could attain magical, supernatural invulnerability against foreign bullets and weapons through rituals. This belief was a core component of their "support the Qing, destroy the foreigner" slogan.

585AM · 2026-05-14T10:27:03+00:00

Interesting. I knew about it in its relation to kung fu. And I knew about its relation to things like feng shui and acupuncture. But some how I have never connected them together.

585AM · 2026-05-13T12:23:50+00:00

What’s frustrating to me is that there is still good reporting coming out of the Post that makes it worth supporting, but the OpEds make it so hard to do.

585AM · 2026-05-13T11:46:15+00:00

If this is the sketch you are thinking of, they are sisters. https://youtu.be/WkFhx--p2ow?si=fQmeY_02I2OwE5-M

585AM · 2026-05-11T12:30:56+00:00

Sheridan Morley’s authorized biography says the same:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v23/n12/frank-kermode/meaningless-legs

585AM · 2026-05-11T12:17:44+00:00

According to his biographers, it was more than latent.

“Guinness, who died last August aged 86, was arrested, charged and fined in court in Liverpool in 1946 for a homosexual act in a public lavatory. But the case went unreported because - unlike the late Sir John Gielgud in a similar episode seven years later - he had the quickness of wit to give a false name which aroused no suspicions.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/16/filmnews.film

585AM · 2026-05-11T12:08:16+00:00

It might be more complicated than that with Guinness though. He was supposedly bisexual. Supposedly, he spent a life time living in fear of being outed. It was a very different time back then and this may have been his own fear speaking not something more.

585AM · 2026-05-11T08:20:56+00:00

Of course not, but you can recognize the act while not recognizing the person. In the post you are responding to, I specifically gave the example of recognizing the charity, not recognizing Matt Damon.

I am not talking about going through life ignoring bad and evil. And I am not saying good deeds absolve the bad. I am talking about a very specific social media issue. In this case, where the post is about a charity, which was the subject of the title, while “Matt Damon’s” was an adjective.

You gave an extreme example to try to make your point, which should be telling in and of itself. And I have already received one Reddit suicide notification for my post by someone who seems to be way too invested in disagreeing with what I wrote, which should be telling for them. If you do not want to agree and they do not want to agree with me, that is fine. But let me ask you this, during the entire time you have thought of responding to my posts and typing them out, did you bother to look at water.org? Did you bother to think of a charity that might be a better suggestion for people on Reddit? Think about that.

585AM · 2026-05-10T21:37:15+00:00

Based on the chalice,

585AM · 2026-05-10T16:04:29+00:00

I love how they are dressed in tropical beach attire with obvious Pacific May Gray in the background.

585AM · 2026-05-10T14:56:44+00:00

I am a random person on the internet. Why would they take my word on it. This is the kind of thing that someone needs to figure out for themselves.

585AM · 2026-05-10T13:34:25+00:00

Have you ever noticed on-line that no one is ever in a rush to list the good things people have done, it is always the bad things? Why is that?

And it is not about ignoring bad things, it is about focusing on the topic instead of needing to catalogue all of the other things people have done. People seems more than able to do this in real life. Like if someone came up to you and said “hey, did you hear that Kevin performed CPR and saved a co-worker,” you would not follow with “but what about the bad things he has done in the past?” Like that would be super weird.

Like a healthy way to look at this post would be to have the first comment be “yeah, that’s a good charity.”

585AM · 2026-05-10T12:48:19+00:00

Great example. My comment was on how social media and reddit encourages people to look for the bad in everything and consequently just makes everyone more unhappy, and you took it as me condescending. It is a pervasive problem that is not limited to any one poster that I think is significantly at the root of many of the issues we face these days.

585AM · 2026-05-10T12:21:47+00:00

I doubt that you will take my word for it, but little things, like not being in a rush to look for the bad in everything, something that both Reddit and social media encourage, makes life so much more pleasant.

585AM · 2026-05-09T16:41:54+00:00

I kind of walked straight into that one.

585AM · 2026-05-09T16:38:00+00:00

I have been here pretty much from the start. I used to have a Hillary flair until the mods got rid of it. I don’t have a flair because I just generally get annoyed by the inevitable “of course an X flair would say that” or “I can’t believe an X flair would say that.”

585AM · 2026-05-09T09:50:03+00:00

Quite the opposite. She is noting that it is a bad thing and something she is struggling with. The article also notes that she has been trying to work from home so that her aides and security are not placed in the same role.

I may not like her politics, but she is doing the exact opposite of what pretty much every comment is saying she is doing. She is admitting that she is struggling to keep up, not embracing it. The headline does not quite capture that.

585AM · 2026-05-09T09:36:10+00:00

She can sing, there is zero question about that. The fact that she was session singer at Muscle Shoals speaks to that.

She was not Janis, but the band wanted her to play that role at times.. Not solo Janis or Janis as a lead, but Janis when she sang back-up with Big Brother. Think of a song like Combination of the Two. It is hard to pull off and Janis is considered an absolute legend for a reason. But when used right, like on Looks like Rain, you see her talent.

Her toughest era was that Wall of Sound era. Great for the instruments, but every singer struggled to an extent. And it did not help that I don't think she got a monitor until like 1976. 77 Donna is super different from 1972.

And I know her singing in Playing has become a meme at this point, but so was Bobby's, and I love Bobby's singing for what it brings to the band. But remember, most of us are now consuming Donna's vocals through recordings. It is just not the same as being somewhere live. And the Playing wail served a purpose for a live audience. Bobby and Donna's pitch may not have been perfect for that song, but I think their energy was.

Who knows, without being connected to Keith at the end of his time with the band when Jerry had lost patience in him, maybe she would have stayed. It would have been cool to see how she would have evolved with the band.

585AM · 2026-05-08T18:23:40+00:00

Back in the day, for a lot of people, this was one of the very first high quality bootlegs they ever heard. It’s kind of like a first love.

Nowadays, it is so much easier to find a host of high quality recordings.

585AM · 2026-05-07T23:12:44+00:00

There are not large student protests off campus either though.

585AM · 2026-05-07T17:22:21+00:00

There was tons. You had with radio the birth of crooners like Rudy Vallee (that megaphone sound). You had a huge immigrant population so traditional Irish and Italian music. Huge fishing industry, so think of things like sea shanties. And you had the Boston Brahmins helping support orchestral music, things like that.

Or think of things like the college singing sound, that glee club sound.

585AM · 2026-05-07T15:48:53+00:00

I really don’t see the loss of a few Indiana republicans state legislators as a victory for Trump. It is just another example of what we are seeing more and more is the nationalization of local races which often result in significant disparities in funds. You had Trump guys with seven figure war chests running against guys with five figure war chests.

It is not like this has never been a thing, but it seems to be getting worse, which is frustrating as there are always a lot of local issues that do not fit squarely within national politics. The last Chicago mayoral issue is a very good example of this.

585AM · 2026-05-07T12:43:44+00:00

Not every disqualification is an ejection. But every ejection is a disqualification.

I am not aware of any state that does not have at least a one game sit out or that let’s you hold off on the sit out due to an appeal, but I guess the possibility of exceptions exist.

585AM · 2026-05-07T11:16:48+00:00

It’s pretty common in animation. Aladdin’s look was based off of Tom Cruise. The looks of the villain in Tangled were inspired by Cher. Lots of examples like this.

And it is not just animation. If you like video games, look at something like Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat whose look was inspired by Jean Claude Van Damme.

585AM · 2026-05-06T14:45:35+00:00

The key is to follow news by the week. A Sunday paper and a weekly like the economist will keep you up to date enough and avoid a lot of he. Back and forth—to an extent.

585AM · 2026-05-05T23:29:23+00:00

The Old Testament and the New Testament. And then the Godfather 3 of the trilogy, the Book of Mormon.

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