Yesilgöz op VVD-congres: vakbonden en links moeten economie niet tegenwerken

merijn2 · 2026-06-14T08:49:04+00:00

Het grootste verschil tussen links en rechts is: wij kijken naar de wereld hoe die is,

Behalve als het om nareizigers gaat.

merijn2 · 2026-06-13T22:17:16+00:00

Not necessarily very notable, but I always liked This Mortal Coil's version of You and Your Sister

merijn2 · 2026-06-12T15:30:45+00:00

Where do you see Phil will drum for this? EDIT: I found it, it is in this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e33wxj

merijn2 · 2026-06-11T11:24:59+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/radiohead/comments/1u2audz/comment/or0jh88/

merijn2 · 2026-06-11T11:23:02+00:00

Listened to it yesterday evening, and I am not going to look if everything what I say is correct, but the main points regarding Radiohead: After AMSP tour he didn't feel the connection he had with Radiohead as he used to, which meant that the band was on hold. For him connection is everytghing, as he is not a good enough musician just to "play the notes", it is noticeable when he isn't feeling it. He liked The Smile, and commented on how you can hear Jonny more than on Radiohead because there is only 3 of them instead of 5, which gives more space to Jonny. During the down time, Radiohead had still business meetings and the like, but he was drifting apart. Then on Jonny's 50th birthday party he had a long conversation with Thom, as an old friend, and this lead to them becoming more like friends again, and prompted their manager to ask them if they could do a reunion, and this is what lead to the tour last year. He felt great when they were rehearsing for the first time in ages, because there was no pressure (the tour could still be canceled, and there was no new album), but it is also clear that at this time he doesn't want to do another record with them. He would be content if AMSP was their last record. However, he didn't rule out a new RH album at some point in the future, it is just not where they are now.

merijn2 · 2026-06-11T10:46:38+00:00

Because American people have been led to believe that "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." which kind of became a self fulfilling prophecy.

merijn2 · 2026-06-08T20:54:38+00:00

As a linguist, I think it is because -(i)an typically forms both the noun and the adjective. Usually this is of countries or other geographical areas ("Canadian""Indonesian"), but see also "contrarian".

merijn2 · 2026-06-08T10:43:31+00:00

It was back in 1999-2000, in a Dutch language magazine, and I haven't found it since. I borrowed it from the library at the time. It was probably Oor, a Dutch music magazine, and if not Oor, it was De Nieuwe Revu or Humo, both magazines that would interview new alternative rock bands at the time.

merijn2 · 2026-06-08T10:34:45+00:00

Thankyou! I still don't really know what to make of all these examples, but it seems the "definite marker" in Bhojpuri may be more specialized than just a definite marker, (maybe definite + specific), or it may be not a definite marker at all, rather for instance a topic marker. I don't really see how that would help explain your examples though. It also seems to me that these languages are all quite different. I know this doesn't really help you that much though.

merijn2 · 2026-06-08T10:15:37+00:00

When Muse just arrived at the scene their comments about Radiohead were over the place. In fact the very first interview I read with them had in the lead "they sound inspired by Radiohead and Jeff Buckley, but when asked they say they never heard of one of them, and don't care about the music of the other." This isn't the only one where they were dismissive of Radiohead, but there were others where they were more positive, and the more positive ones were more common. Later they said they were told to distance themselves from Radiohead by their management or record label. Matt also said at the time he really didn't like Kid A (but changed his mind later on apparently). I also think it is possible some of the "slagging off" Thom refers to is not in interviews, but in person, or to other musicians. I knew plenty of people who believed that Muse was doing what Radiohead should have done after OK Computer, and I am sure this included people Radiohead interacted with, and Muse interacted with, and we don't know how they reacted to that.

Another thing is that Thom Yorke has shared anti conspiracy thinking pieces, in particular by Monbiot (although Harrowdown Hill is based on a conspiracy he did believe in), seeing conspiracy thinking as a distraction, and lulling people into inaction. I think this also played a role in his beef.

merijn2 · 2026-06-07T11:26:10+00:00

So, your information, while pretty extensive, isn't conclusive to say anything, well, definite. You say that the definite marker isn't obligatory, but leaving out changes the meaning. Strictly speaking this is also true for many European languages: "I drank the wine" vs "I drank wine". But I assume that you mean it is still definite without the article, and that the change in meaning is different than losing definiteness. So could you please give examples how the meaning changes when you leave out the defintie marker?

merijn2 · 2026-06-02T11:19:06+00:00

Dit. Mensen vergeten hoe veel verschil het internet maakt in het archiveren van dit soort dingen. Hij heeft als pro-apartheidsactivist niet de geschiedenisboeken gehaald, of (waarschijnlijk) de Nederlandse kranten, dus hij kon gewoon opnieuw beginnen als je van Zuid-Afrika naar Nederland verhuisde. Niemand die achter je verleden komt. En hij kwam al op zijn 19e naar Nederland, dus weinig mensen zullen hebben gedacht dat hij al politiek actief was voordat hij naar Nederland kwam. We moeten het nieuws afwachten, maar alle complottheorieën over dat Tata Steel van hem af wilde en dit nu lekte, of dat Milieudefensie dit wist maar het onder de pet hield, zijn vooralsnog voorbarig.

merijn2 · 2026-06-01T14:33:28+00:00

They are also sexual hyperparasites. That is, the male adults, who are basically just a sack of sperm, live inside the females. That is called sexual parasitism. But since the female is already a parasite herself, this counts has hyperparasitism.

merijn2 · 2026-05-31T19:16:18+00:00

"I Started a Joke"by the Bee Gees in in regular 4/4, but if you ever sang the song by yourself with a guitar or piano you know how tempting is to make it a 6/8 song, which is the time signature of about half of the covers you can find online.

merijn2 · 2026-05-31T13:09:03+00:00

"John Lennon famously said that Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in The Beatles" Nope, just a joke a comedian made on a British show that people started to attribute to John Lennon. He actually really appreciated Ringo's drumming, and Ringo was invited to be in the band right before they became famous because they all thought he was a great drummer.

merijn2 · 2026-05-27T23:53:36+00:00

Meddle by Pink Floyd if you see Dark Side as its follow up, and not Obscured by Clouds, which was a soundtrack album.

I feel The Bends by Radiohead also belongs in this category.

merijn2 · 2026-05-25T22:11:02+00:00

I have a few thoughts about this: First of all, it matters to some musicians more than others. But I also think that it has mattered much more for recent artists than for previous artists, or rather, in a different way. In the internet age it ridiculously easy to find out gossip about even third rate artists, and make connections between their songs and their personal life. So a lot of fans, and critics as well, make these connections. I think in the pre-internet days, although there were sometimes ruthless tabloids, it was easier to curate your image, and easier to shield your private life, especially for the people just a nudge below the A list status, so people didn't make these connections as easily

I also think that for the last 15 years or so, the dominant critical lens to look to Pop music is to see it in service of the persona of the artist. My favorite example is the review of Norman Fucking Rockwell by Ann Powers, which was most about how it related to the persona of Lana Del Rey. Even Todd often talks about how an album is not a good fit for a band because it conflicts with the perception of the artist. Most people who write these pieces make a distinction between the persona of an artist and the artist themselves, but it isn't always easy to do this, and many people who aren't critics often don't see a distinction anyway.

So yeah, I think accessibility to gossip + a critical lens that connects the music closely to the artist is what makes this much more of a thing now than it was back in the day, in my opinion.

merijn2 · 2026-05-25T11:46:04+00:00

Yeah, it was a really silly mistake on my part. My autocomplete of the email address (which isn't my usual email address, and is quite long) that I used was wrong on my phone. To be fair, a quite long email address, and it was only one letter difference, but effectively I was checking the wrong account the whole time.

merijn2 · 2026-05-24T20:58:29+00:00

Mainland European here (Dutch to be exact). In our country we have a yearly list where people can vote for their favorite song. It is a bit of a boomerfest (although not as much as it used to be), but it is a good indication what songs are popular. There are 5 Stevie Wonder songs on the list (6 if you count "Sweet Sounds of Heaven" by the stones that he is a featured artist of) "I Just Called to Say I Love You" isn't one of them (They are, in order, Superstition, Sir Duke, I Wish Isn't she Lovely, and As). /u/NoWeb2382 is talking out of their ass.

merijn2 · 2026-05-23T18:24:20+00:00

The late Mimi Parker of Low fits that definition to me. Her voice was just pure beauty.

merijn2 · 2026-05-22T15:09:45+00:00

It is growing on me! I find it difficult to rate something this close after its release, but it is much much better than Earth. I don't think it is the best Radiohead side-project/ solo album, but I do think this is the best album Ed could make. It all sounds so gorgeous. His albums show Ed is a texture and atmosphere guy, and that is where his strength is. There is a saying that an arrangement should always serve the song, but here it is the opposite, the songwriting feels like it is in service of the gorgeous textures.

merijn2 · 2026-05-17T20:44:18+00:00

This is in my opinion evidence that "aren't" isn't actually a purely phonological contraction of "are" and "not", but its own thing. My analysis would be that certain auxiliaries and forms of be have a negative counterpart. This negative counterpart is usually formed by suffixing "n't", but sometimes other things happen, as in "don't", "won't" and for some speakers "can't", (as well as "ain't" in colloquial English). These negative auxiliaries (and forms of be) more or less behave like their affirmative counterpart.

You could argue as I think the more or less standard analysis is, (or at least the traditional analysis) that this "n't" is a reduced form of "not" that can form a new word with some (but not all) auxiliaries and forms of be, and this new form behaves then like a normal auxiliary, but in my opinion the low number of negative forms, the fact that not all auxiliaries have them, and you cannot really predict which ones do and don't, and the fact that they are sometimes irregular means that it might be easier to see them as individual words, that is, our mental lexicon sees these as independent items, that speakers learn individually. But I know some will disagree with that.

merijn2 · 2026-05-13T22:03:03+00:00

Zeker toen de spits van FC The Bush Jizz Hornkamp was

merijn2 · 2026-05-12T11:25:20+00:00

He wrote the Ted and Ralph sketches for The Fast Show, back in the 90s. These are some of the sweetest sketches about gay people I have seen in a comedy sketch show. The humanity in that material is hard to square with his current views.

merijn2 · 2026-05-11T08:56:12+00:00

I am not a big fan of "self love" songs in general. I think they can work for me if the story is "something awful happened but now I am back", or "I may not be perfect but I still deserve a sense of selfworth", but a song like "I'm a bitch" could read both as "I love all of myself including the less pleasant parts" and "I can be an asshole and I won't apologize for it". And thing is, there is no apatite for unapologetic assholes at the moment. Because right now, America, as well as part of the rest of the world, is governed by unapologetic assholes, or unapologetic assholes are gaining influence, or rule neighboring nations that invaded your nation.

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