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Oh there are definitely others that are lifting the entire Canon in D. A quick google gives me a long-ass spotify playlist; a bunch of them are not really lifts, but e.g. "Graduation" (by Vitamin C) and "C U When U Get There" (by Coolio) very clearly are. (And make it even clearer by including actua...

Eric the .5b wrote: ↑27 Feb 2021, 14:47 Certainly a lot of three-chord songs. I forget who, but a member of REM once said that a friend of his said the band only used three of the four rock chords, but they used the Hell out of those three.

The significance isn't just the chords, but the order. It's really hard to write music in a major key without using I, IV, V, and vi. But the four-chord progression is a specific arrangement of those. The iii is less common, though I'm sure you can find examples of it being used. But the specific Pa...

I'm probably missing something here but basically Pachelbel's Canon in D is the following chord progression: D A Bm F#m G D G A D, the chords in the key of D are D, E min, F# min, G, A, B min and C# dim and the chord progressions in, well, everything in D major are D G A variations, plus on the gui...

lshap wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021, 18:07 Pachelbel Canon in D
Pet Shop Boys Go West
Blues Traveler Hook

Whaaaa? How did I never notice this before?

In "Hook" that's like half the joke, right?

But also:

A discussion of money in ancient Mesopotamia. At 9:10 they say that 8 grams of silver could buy 300 liters of barley. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/20-xiaoli-ouyang-silver-in-sumer-money-in-mesopotamia/id1534428319?i=1000508489727 Nowadays 8 grams of silver is about $7. A bushel of barley (...

We can probably safely close (clothes?) this thread down. The battle is over, pajamas won. I've been converted. It was already going anyway but COVID killed more fashion sense than people by a mile. I refuse to wear pajamas out of the house. I mean to take out the trash, sure, as long as it's after...

Have found a drink I'm really happy with: 4 oz cold brew rooibos chai 2 oz unsweetened cranberry juice 1 oz caramel syrup or golden syrup Shake with two ice cubes, strain into glass. It comes out super smooth and really nicely balanced. (Though one of the weird things about getting a perfectly balan...

My friend/mutual bambamramfan on tumblr had a good if not exactly uplifting take on this today. In the case of all these cancel-firings, the actual reason the person is fired is because they are creating an external and internal relations wildfire that no one wants to deal with anymore. The hassle t...

You can't ostracize people for believing things that over 30% of the country believes. (This isn't a moral argument. I'm not saying you shouldn't. You can't .) Right now they're trying to step on these beliefs hard, before they reach that level of fixation. Yeah, I guess I'm just used to not being ...

You can't ostracize people for believing things that over 30% of the country believes.

(This isn't a moral argument. I'm not saying you shouldn't. You can't.)

Right now they're trying to step on these beliefs hard, before they reach that level of fixation.

The moral argument is all "ZOMG! No job should pay less than a living wage!" "OK, we'll get machines to do these menial jobs." "ZOMG, machines are taking all the jobs!" How many of us remember seeing an elevator operator? (I did, in the Woodward's store in Edmonton, ca 1960.) I've seen an elevator ...

The moral argument is all "ZOMG! No job should pay less than a living wage!" "OK, we'll get machines to do these menial jobs." "ZOMG, machines are taking all the jobs!" How many of us remember seeing an elevator operator? (I did, in the Woodward's store in Edmonton, ca 1960.) I've seen an elevator ...

I figured they called it a 'stimulus" because calling it anything like "relief" or "assistance" would piss off the Bootstrap Brigade. Also would suggest a $75k cutoff is stupid high for "relief". Which it was. As is demonstrated by the desperate need to buy garbage stocks. Um ... are you saying the...

You know, I was just ranting about the Oxford comma on Tumblr

(which I assume is what you're referring to)

But there is no way that introducing a comma there would change the way anyone parses that sentence.

If you think it's bad that the government can do things/make decisions, the filibuster is nice as another way of the government failing to do things or make decisions. If you think it's important for the government to be able to act, then the filibuster is a giant middle finger with no real principl...

Law twitter is very informative about the Dominion lawsuits. Is there more to them than "they're bullshit that are doomed to fail"? I though we were talking about the suits where Dominion is suing a bunch of people for defamation, which are way more plausible than the typical defamation suits over ...

Everyone I follow was up in arms over the Austin nomination for exactly this reason.

A lot of them decided not to pick a fight over it after the capitol riot, though, basically on the grounds that we need to have someone in the role.

Ah, please keep sharing your findings! In my drinking days I was never a cocktails person, I just wanted to chug it down as fast as possible, but now that I'm sober I wish I had something "fancy" to drink sometimes (especially on nights where it feels like everyone on my social media is posting pic...

So I absolutely love cocktails, but I'm also a tremendous lightweight who doesn't like the feeling of being drunk and has alcohol as a mild migraine trigger. So I've been experimenting with cocktail-like things that don't have any alcohol. Today I made one I'm pretty happy with! Seven ounces of over...

Justice Department Filing Says “Strong Evidence” Capitol Rioters Intended to “Capture and Assassinate” Lawmakers Which TBF does imply that Trump didn't immediately incite that part of the crowd, but may've triggered enough of the rest of the crowd that they had cover that they otherwise might not h...

Justice Department Filing Says “Strong Evidence” Capitol Rioters Intended to “Capture and Assassinate” Lawmakers Which TBF does imply that Trump didn't immediately incite that part of the crowd, but may've triggered enough of the rest of the crowd that they had cover that they otherwise might not h...

What happens if you get the first shot of the covid vaccine, then get exposed to/infected with the virus before your second shot -- do you still get some protective benefit, compared to someone who ever got any vaccine at all? Almost definitely yes, starting something like 14 days after the first s...

It's a really neat idea, but at least some of them (the ones I checked) are wrong. It doesn't help that that they're inconsistent about names and meanings (for instance, the "United States of America" vs. just "Mexico", or "Land of the Angles" vs. "Land of the People"), but some are just simply wro...

I would say that Pandemic Economy is a unique outlier. Like nationwide aerial bombing. It's going to take a while to assess the damage. The real question is, how will the economy respond once the COVID restrictions are lifted. No doubt there will be a surge in economic activity. But long term, I th...