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"What's with all the surgery Cathy? Lord! You've been stitched up thousands of times but you're still sad to look at ... You're like the AIDS-quilt!"

Kind of reminds me of this beautiful poem:

"...And I will leave. but the birds will stay, singing:

and my garden will stay, with its green tree,

and its white water well...

Many afternoons the skies will be calm and blue,

and the bells in the belfry will chime,

like they're chiming this very afternoon.

The people who have loved me will die,

and the town will burst anew every year.

And in the corner of my green, flowering whitewashed garden,

my spirit will wander nostalgic from tree to well.

And I will leave,

and I'll be lonely, without a home,

without a green tree, without a white water well,

without calm and blue skies...

And the birds will stay, singing."

-"El viaje definitivo", Juan Ramón Jiménez

Going through the comments, it's mostly Trump being an agent of China, of the Saudis, the Israelis, and mostly a Russian agent.

I unfortunately don't think there's a way out of this for the US population unless people start to accept that Trump is a very distinctly American character, the culmination of what the right wing in the US has been working towards forever. And that the problem the US has is an internal one. Trump is an inevitable consequence of the US political environment, and he or someone like him would've come to power sooner or later, even if Russia didn't exist as an external factor. Unless people accept that, I don't think there's any coming back from this for the US population. It's just going to get worse. And it unfortunately will also bring chunks of the rest of World down with it in the process.

Your first reply to me was "shut the fuck up you smug fuck head", while I still haven't called you any name, and you're calling for the moderators to permaban me? That's.... pathetic. Grow a spine, that might make the comment section more intelligible

Your an Aussie, calling yourself a European. That's how your society is different. Other people generally consider themselves to belong to the countries they inhabit, not be from another continent entirely. But the anglo settler colonial nations still call themselves European.

Wow, an American backing up the Aussie's settler colonial understanding of national identity. What a shock that a member of the other major anglo settler colonial entity that hates the indigenous people of its land would feel this way. You are the anomaly, the rest of the world doesn't distance itself from the history of the people who have lived there over the years. Understandable that you can't relate though, your whole society has been based on the extermination of those people. So it'd be difficult to claim their history as your own or even feel a positive connection to it. That's not the case for much of the rest of the world though.

I know it's sometimes hard for Aussies to imagine history beyond 300 years back as being relevant to your national identity. But that's just because it'd make you face the fact that your nation is built upon the ruins of a civilisation you feel zero connection to, because of you know, you being colonial settlers and them being the indigenous people you tried (and still try) to eradicate. In Egypt, and indeed in Italy, Greece, Iran, China, India and so on, people don't viscerally hate what came before them wanting to just forget them. They do often feel as the inheritors of those ancient civilizations, and have incorporated them into their own national identity. So yes, Italians do feel like the inheritors to the ancient Romans, just ask an Italian.

That's a very particular and odd view of what a civilisation is. By this logic, there are no inheritors to ancient Egypt at all since even the current inhabitants speak Arabic and not ancient Egyptian. In fact, Ancient Egyptian had already developed into Demotic Egyptian by the time of Cleopatra, and Demotic in itself was heavily influenced by Aramaic and, you guessed it, Greek. It's fairly common for language to develop and change throughout the history of old civilisations, and in that process, be influenced by the major civilisations of the time. Cleopatra speaking Greek doesn't make her not Egyptian, it just means that the Greeks were the dominant civilisation in her region during her lifetime. A thousad years later she'd be speaking Arabic, which still wouldn't make her not Egyptian.

Don't know if it's still what's recommended, but I use foobar2000 for ripping CDs to FLAC.

Go through a list of the biggest festivals worldwide and check out all artists in their line up each year. The best festivals tend to have a solid and varied list of artists with current releases worth checking out. If you're into a particular genre, there are reputable festivals for specific genres to check out.

But don't forget that a lot of music is not new but new to you. I listen to a lot of stuff that's new to me, but very little of it has been released more recently than the early eighties :⁠-⁠)

I DNA tested my adopted dog, and it turned out that one of his grandparents was a chihuahua-husky mix. That's one larger than life chihuahua.

That is my all time favorite too. It just fits my hand perfectly, and I can't live without the programmable buttons anymore. So I bought two brand new ones on the used market when I found out they'd been discontinued. Still haven't found anything comparable on the market. The Razer Naga Pro comes close though.