Sergio

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[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. In a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, George Wallace, the Democratic Governor of Alabama, stood at the door of the auditorium as if to block the way of the two African American students attempting to enter: Vivian Malone and James Hood.[1]

This was before the Southern Strategy, in which the Republicans took over as the preeminent supporters of overt racism.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

CatJesus died for your sins, friend.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I only know this bc of the version by Lard.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Gandalf messed up big time, going to the hobbits. He shoulda gone to the gnomes.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I read that when a cat squints at you, it actually means they trust you, i.e. they don't have to stay alert around you.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I think this illustration is in reference to the following:

The first target of the rebels was the former capital of the Trinovantes, Camulodunum (Colchester), which had been made into a colonia for Roman military veterans. These veterans had been accused of mistreating the locals. A huge temple to the former emperor Claudius had also been erected in the city at great expense to the local population, causing much resentment.[13] The future governor Quintus Petillius Cerialis, then commanding the Legio IX Hispana, attempted to relieve the city, but suffered an overwhelming defeat. The infantry with him were all killed and only the commander and some of his cavalry escaped.[14] The location of this battle is unknown.[15]

The Roman inhabitants sought reinforcements from Catus Decianus, but he sent only two hundred auxiliary troops. Boudica's army attacked the poorly defended city and destroyed it, besieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. Archaeologists have shown that the city was methodically demolished.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudican_revolt#Camulodunum

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

OP is clearly trolling, but this is the most balanced take on the article.

Reflect on yourself first

Agreed. The article mentioned a "Biblical perspective", and I vaguely remember something about Jesus saying if your eye offends you pluck it out. He didn't actually make his disciples pluck out their eyes tho, I think he was saying if there's a problem it's with the viewer, not the observed.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I dunno about them in particular, but in general half a million Germans emigrated to the US between the world wars.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe it's bc I've been doing a lot of proofreading recently, but the first thing I noticed was reference to "the Battle of Dover Straight" instead of Strait.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

The cops raid the place with a similar device and find absolutely nothing.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Awesome, looking forward to it! Thanks for your hard work!

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 56 points 5 days ago

When I was in high school one lunchtime I was sitting there reading sci fi by myself like a total nerd and some other kids were sitting nearby and they started smoking cigarettes, which was against the rules. Anyway a teacher saw them just as the lunch period ended and the teacher said: "all right You, You, You, and You stay behind!" And the teacher pointed at me, because I was nearby. I was like: wow, I haven't been in trouble before! I was writing a lot of short fiction and poetry at the time so I thought it'd be a good experience. So I sat there and listened for a while as the teacher berated the kids. But eventually I realized I'd gotten all I was gonna get from this teacher's unimaginative lecture, so I stood up and was like: I gotta go to class. The teacher glared at me and was gonna go off, but the other kids were cool, they were like nah he wasn't a part of this. The teacher looked at me, looked at my sci fi book, looked at me again, then realized yeah these kids would never have anything to do with this dork. So they let me run off to class.

 

A big thank you to all the Lemmy instance admins. We only really notice them when things go wrong. And every time something goes wrong, that means all the other admins had to perform superhuman feats so that sort of problem didn't happen to them.

 

Now it's time for part 3!!?!

The film involves gutter punks who take the anti-establishment message with extreme seriousness and tune out society completely. Spheeris talks to homeless teenagers living on the street or squatting in abandoned buildings in Los Angeles that go by the names of "Why-Me?", "Hamburger", "Troll", "Eyeball", "Squid", and others. ... Performances by four bands were filmed: Final Conflict, Litmus Green, Naked Aggression, and The Resistance.
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The film premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Freedom of Expression Award. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and the Chicago Underground Film Festival, where it received a jury award. However, it never went into general release and was not available on VHS or DVD until the release in 2015 of a box set containing all three films on DVD and Blu-ray. This was partly due to Spheeris refusing to relinquish the rights to the first two parts of the trilogy in order to enable the third to be released. According to an article by Laura Snapes, "there was little demand to see such a depressing movie, and the few distribution offers that Spheeris got required her to hand over the rights to the first two movies, which she refused to do".[4] Decline III was also released separately via streaming video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_Western_Civilization_Part_III

 

The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, becoming sentient. After being handed full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27456829

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world has been resurrected from the dead!

Frequent posts and a new set of mods, focusing on music of "all things industrial, goth, EBM, and noise."

 

A Town Called Bastard (also known as A Town Called Hell on DVD and Blu-ray) is a 1971 international co-production spaghetti Western. It was shot in Madrid with Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Stella Stevens and Martin Landau.[2][3][4]

It was released on blu-ray on 18 August 2015.[5] The film was retitled A Town Called Hell for US release as the word "bastard" was thought offensive.[6]

Plot

In 1903 Mexico, a small town is presided over by a tyrant who commands a grizzled outlaw and his men. Also in town is a priest with a violent past, who has abandoned his clerical duties. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Town_Called_Bastard

link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9i-T1aV9pI (NOTE: the sound volume is a bit low on the voices)

 

24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British biographical comedy drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival[3] to positive reviews.

It begins with the punk rock era of the late 1970s and moves through the 1980s into the rave and DJ culture and the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan), a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records. The narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the careers of the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column and Happy Mondays.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hour_Party_People

link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQCDjX8zgo

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