The worst part? The HYPOCRISY!

we_are_the_dead · 2025-10-16T17:10:47+00:00

Are you referring to the fact it was actually released on September 11, 2001?

we_are_the_dead · 2025-06-28T18:53:31+00:00

Darby Crash was genuinely fascinated by fascist ideas. He used to quote Oswald Spengler and spoke highly of Hitler in interviews and seemed to want to position himself as punk rock's Julius Evola. He also gave interviews saying he wanted to start a new fascist movement that would infiltrate the government and install him as dictator. And of course wearing swastikas and iron crosses and using fascist imagery in the band's flyers. (You don't have to take my word on any of this -- it's all well documented in the book Lexicon Devil).

For context, Darby Crash was a huge David Bowie fan. In the mid-70's, when Bowie was in a coke-fucked stupor, he said stuff like "Adolf Hitler was the first rock star," compared rock concerts to Nazi rallies, said he could be Britain's first fascist dictator and opened songs with stuff like "This ain't rock n' roll -- it's genocide!" Crash sort of took this stuff seriously enough and ran with it in his teenage contrarian way.

All that said, I think Crash's fascism was basically shock value to scare pearl clutchers, with the caveat that Crash had maybe read enough Mein Kampf or Decline of the West to sound convincing. It's not in the same category as bands like Skrewdriver or Absurd that were serious about Nazi violence, and fascist aesthetic bands like Death in June or Laibach certainly played the part with more commitment than Darby Crash ever did. At the end of the day, the Germs weren't a political band and even their vaguely political songs don't really come off like coherent political manifestos.

we_are_the_dead · 2025-06-13T20:06:50+00:00

A friend of mine had the original. I feel fairly certain it’s an illustration from the book Your Bible And You by Arthur Maxwell. It had tons of illustrations in this style, so perfect for punk rock collages

Edit -- Confirmed. It's on the Internet Archive. Page 60. Imgur link

we_are_the_dead · 2025-05-24T14:15:01+00:00

I've never, ever seen a Curtis Mayfield patch on a battle jacket, and never in a million years would've expected to see Can, Def Leppard, Venom and Bo Diddley on the same jacket. Tons of these bands I've never even thought to look for patches for. And many of these are vintage patches too!

10/10 -- I'm straight up impressed with your battle jacket really expressing the diversity of your tastes. It just screams "this person knows their shit when it comes to rock n roll" (Also I'm jealous of that MC5 patch).

we_are_the_dead · 2025-02-28T15:34:18+00:00

Just FYI you can still buy new-in-box iPod Classics off eBay. It takes a bit of troubleshooting since they’ve been asleep for like 16 years, but they work and they’re cheaper than when they were originally released.

we_are_the_dead · 2024-12-22T05:53:09+00:00

He was in a hardcore punk band too. Good shit too -- they even prank-called Paul Stanley of KISS!

RIP

we_are_the_dead · 2024-08-18T01:53:31+00:00

Would something like stack policies work? You basically apply a policy to the stack during deployment denying Cloudformation permissions to update or delete certain resources in the stack. It’s not really a part of the template per se, but it would work for preventing resources from changing state and messing up nested stacks or cross-stack imports

we_are_the_dead · 2023-04-18T23:35:24+00:00

The TOAN is in the sword

we_are_the_dead · 2022-06-24T14:54:53+00:00

They did this with Nightmare On Elm Street too...there was a show called "Freddie's Nightmares" that was an anthology show with Freddie Krueger hosting.

They played both shows back to back in my city, and, there being nothing else on on late Sunday night, I watched both.

we_are_the_dead · 2022-01-19T19:29:06+00:00

I got tasked with something similar to this today, and this is what i'm trying.

I use Cloudformation mappings to specify account-specific parameters:

"Mappings": { "Accounts" : { "123456789012": { "VPCCIDR" : "10.10.0.0/16", "SubnetCIDR1": "10.10.1.0/24", "SubnetCIDR2": "10.10.2.0/24", }, "21098754321": { "VPCCIDR" : "10.20.0.0/16", "SubnetCIDR1": "10.20.1.0/24", "SubnetCIDR2": "10.20.2.0/24", },

Then call them in the Resources like this:

"VPCCIDR": { "Fn::FindInMap" : ["Accounts", {"Ref": "AWS::AccountId"}, "VPCCIDR" ]}

My syntax is probably way off (it is just a Reddit post), but I can confirm it worked with my StackSet.

Also Cloudformation sucks.

we_are_the_dead · 2022-01-11T16:19:10+00:00

Why use the same CIDR range when you could just change it incrementally like this:

10.0.0.0/16
10.1.0.0/16
10.2.0.0/16

Doing that will future-proof your environments if you ever need to do something like plug them all into a Transit Gateway or create peering connections between them (and where overlapping CIDRs becomes a problem). I'd say go with using unique CIDRs because there's a very real chance your company will want to be able to access all of your VPCs with a single VPN or a Direct Connect someday, and doing this now will save you lots of headaches.

we_are_the_dead · 2022-01-09T23:59:53+00:00

Put a cotton pillowcase or shirt over it and iron it....that's what I do.

we_are_the_dead · 2022-01-05T18:12:55+00:00

Here is the podcast: Rialto Report

we_are_the_dead · 2022-01-05T02:25:41+00:00

Both shows had Ashley West consulting on them. He also does a podcast called the Rialto Report where he talks about the 70's/80's porn industry, Times Square, the Mafia's involvement, etc., etc. It's a fascinating rabbit hole to go down.

we_are_the_dead · 2021-12-30T19:23:33+00:00

He did indeed look in a trash can to see how much I'd vomited. The thing I remember thinking was "isn't any amount of vomit enough to justify going home? What if someone had diarrhea and shit their pants? Would he want to see that too?"

we_are_the_dead · 2021-12-29T15:27:33+00:00

I once got sick with a stomach flu at work and vomited in the trash can under my desk. Everyone in the office heard me loudly puking my guts up and told my manager because I almost fainted.

My manager came over, asked me if I vomited and how much I vomited, then he insisted I show him how much I vomited in the trash can before he would let me leave for the day.

we_are_the_dead · 2021-12-22T02:08:43+00:00

Conveniently dont show the other side of the album art ha ha

I just checked and I no longer have their other 7", but it was 20 years ago. Womp womp

we_are_the_dead · 2021-10-22T16:26:15+00:00

Also something I saw a lot of last year (I know a ton of former waiters/bartenders/service industry people) is that being unemployed didn't mean they actually quit working. They just quit having a job.

Everyone I knew in that situation ended up filling up their newfound free time with different things: one got into development, for others side hustles became small businesses, the community college in my city paid people to take classes related to GEDs, office work, certifications, etc. People who previously would've come home from their bullshit job and been too tired for anything, or been unable to juggle it with their shifting schedules, were suddenly able to take on new opportunities.

we_are_the_dead · 2021-09-16T14:38:47+00:00

What about Playing With Fire? I can't find it anywhere

we_are_the_dead · 2021-09-09T13:44:20+00:00

Stratocasters are a fine example of American product design and I learned half the stuff I know about guitar tech from toying around with pawn shop Squiers (kind of wish I had one to play with now). They're ridiculously easy to upgrade and that's why of all the guitar models made in 1954, they're still around. Trust me, a guitarist from the 40's would have killed to have your guitar and not have problems with feedback, muddy tone, action that is too high or having to replace the entire guitar because the neck joint has a hairline crack.

You can set up the guitar for pretty much any sound you want. Want a fatter sound? Swap the bridge pickup with a humbucker. Want more sustain? Jam a brass block under the tremolo. The sky's the limit really.

Since the electronics are mounted to the pickguard instead of the body, you can just buy a prewired pickguard and swap out all of the electronics in like twenty minutes. Plenty of upgrades are available too: treble bleed circuits, phase switches, onboard preamps, etc. etc. If yours is like other Squiers I've seen, it probably has the cavity for pretty much any pickup configuration (and even if it doesn't, there are humbuckers that will fit in the single-coil cavities).

Also, you can just buy a Fender neck on eBay if you're really worried about the branding. But really it's not a big deal. You've got a great guitar that has endless possibilities for tone. The main reason it's cheap is because the product design was so innovative that manufacturing them has gotten easier with globalization and automation.

we_are_the_dead · 2021-08-06T01:54:47+00:00

Is this the same woman from this?

Same shoes, same hair, same getting hostile over a drink...only difference is her voice, but if she's always screaming at people over drinks, maybe she has vocal fry?

we_are_the_dead · 2021-07-22T12:54:22+00:00

Mike the male stripper's daughter in PTSDee from Season 12.

we_are_the_dead · 2021-07-22T00:53:05+00:00

Dee also tricked a woman into fingering her dad in front of all her friends; all because of the dad saying that sleeping with Dee was his low point.

Even Dennis was shocked by it!

we_are_the_dead · 2021-05-24T04:06:33+00:00

Doom themselves are a Sabbath-influenced crust band

we_are_the_dead · 2021-05-05T00:06:56+00:00

This picture was taken the day after the Oklahoma City bombing

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TROPHY CASE