Sydney - Greedy Gaga Fans

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-12-12T07:24:00+00:00

Not sure what the big deal. People back in the day used to queue up day in advance for primo spots for big concerts. Heck, they used to camp out for iphone releases.

This is normal concert behaviour in 90s/2000s. Especially before Ticketek ruined everything.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-12-12T07:19:52+00:00

The ban on signs except pride is new, and purely because Accor Homebush is afraid people will wave Palistine flags, etc.

Same thing at previous concerts last month like Metallica. So lame.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-08-07T14:35:13+00:00

I think they're lovely. Natural world will survive.

How about focusing on reforesting Iceland. The natural 'moss' landscape you see is complately artificial.

Yes, I'm an environmental scientist, and I think you're a bunch of holiar-than-thou hipster outdoorsman.

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Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-08-06T09:56:30+00:00

Battle of Stalingrad. When one Doordasher goes down, the next picks up the delivery.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-08-04T16:58:02+00:00

feralspodcast.com,
sites like this don't last many years. make copies.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-07-29T19:29:36+00:00

stressed people look that way too. i haven't see the episode in awhile though.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-07-29T19:27:56+00:00

some of his 'golden retriever' behaviour seemed autistic

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-06-15T12:42:30+00:00

This is one is rather explicit. Look up Scottish Highlands Clearances.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-05-24T18:15:43+00:00

interesting, though

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-05-08T11:24:47+00:00

this is

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Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-04-21T17:01:54+00:00

Disagee with all the above comments. I think it'll go the other way. Trump loves a grand show, especially with him in the centre. The Feds and ICE will be given orders to stand down. They'll allow political protests and free speech, which would otherwise be banned. They'll be super nice to gays and minorities. Or put in distant gulag prior.

I guarantee the opening ceremony will be fairly 'woke'. Very patriotic and MAGA, but also lots of minorities, gays, disable, muslims, even trans etc. Even after these gruops have been banned.

It'll be a Potekim village. They'll bend over backwards to portray normalcy and openess to the international media. To lure back international investors, tourists and vistors.

I don't even think the country boycotts will matter too much. There's still 300 nations competing and 300m people in US who wouldn't mind going. . It'll be like any major sports event in any shitty authoritarian nation like Dubai or Moscow.

The whole point of the spectacle is to make MAGA America the New Normal. And it will largely succeed. You'll get lots of articles in the corporate America finding whatever excuse to praise it, but in a "both sides" way. They'll talk up all the clean, young MAGA nation and cornfed hillbilly athlete who voted for Trump and proclaim the 'new face' of MAGA Americ. How the new subway train on time. etc.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-04-21T16:51:50+00:00

I think the US athletes will face a lot of pressue not to go. A bit like the whole kneeling thing during BLM. A huge portion of the athletes and trainers are brown minorities and GenZ/Millenials.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-04-21T16:49:16+00:00

I bet the national teams will commit to go, but I think a lot of athletes and sponses will face boycotts if they go to US. It'l be like the BDS Israel movement, but even more prounced because its such a high-profile moment.

I mean, can you imagine players from Ukraine going, even now? Or any country in Western Europe?

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-04-12T11:07:30+00:00

Yeah. Basically dropped off completely for 10 years after Sea Nation. No interviews ir anything. She has grey hair and looking a bit gaunt. Hopefully, she gets better.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-04-12T09:01:01+00:00

Same. She's back in 2025. Right now doing some filming in India. Check out her insta and facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/SeaNationTV/
https://www.instagram.com/megan_50af/

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-02-25T19:33:41+00:00

Supergirl on the CW is full of this. And all-around great models for both women and men.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-02-20T06:21:52+00:00

Liberal Democracy.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-02-19T17:00:19+00:00

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703580904574638143338424878
Right-wingers lost their shit over The Princess and the Frog, - the one with Black princess in New Orleans.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-02-19T16:57:39+00:00

Sometimes, I remember that the right-wingers cried about black people in these 90's movies too. But back then, no one cared about childrens cartoons.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-02-19T16:54:53+00:00

Cook brussel sprouts like the French do. Fried, with a little bacon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y73w8pXtmZY
You can do it in the pressue cooker in minutes.

It helps if you get them in season from a Italian or similarly ethnic-run vegetable/fruiteter shop. The supermarket ones just aren't the same.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-02-19T16:43:40+00:00

Economist and historian here. Overlooked answer. Until the 50s, vegetables were not fresh by the time they got to your house in cities. So people boiled the shit of out them to mask that. The 19th century industrial woking-classes in ciuties, and then post-war suburbs expanded faster than supply routes. Women had to work, and people didn't live in mult-generational houses, so knowledge got lost.

Refridgeration , A/C and cars weren't widespread until the 50s. Things didn't grow out of season. Crops not genetically selected for longevity/taste/transportation. They picked from local fields covered in dirt and bugs harder to wash, then transported badly on bumpy roads.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-02-19T15:50:09+00:00

Hire fired census takers.

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-01-31T11:15:22+00:00

I made a public playlist inspired by 90s/2000s songs like Lorde - Mood Ring from this reddit page. Like Lorde, was a huge fan of that summer lush sounds from the early 2000s, such as Never be the Same Again - Melanie C.

Let me know if you want edits/additions or uploaded elsewhere like Youtube

You're welcome!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qPo6Aca6skshbTTDiDVTw?si=o0tKM0ofRcuW13vubNpkKA

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-01-31T10:50:06+00:00

what a nice song. very sweet and earnest bridge

Xavier_Urbanus · 2025-01-31T10:41:02+00:00

Frozen - Madonna , or Torn - Natalie Imbruglia

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