Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer just branched out into unchartered territory.
We got it wrong. We should make a “non-boycott” list of people who aren’t assholes yet. It would be way shorter, and we would remove people when they become so fucking stupid and arse-licking that they have the idea of reworking the national anthems of shitholes such as saudi arabia.
Don’t sweat it. I love Hans Zimmer but after what he did to my car, I can’t wait to hear the bizarre shits that will be the new anthem.
Zimmer was hired by BMW to make acceleration and engine noises for their “i” line of EVs. What they got was the sound of robots whining and having orgasms. I had to disable the sound on mine.
I love Hans Zimmer but after what he did to my car
I thought this comment was about to go in a very different direction
Hopefully he’s a nicer to cars than Frank Zappa.
Edit: Sadly it appears that videos of Frank “playing a car” on The Monkees are harder to find than I suspected.
I would add Elton John and Tom Hanks, but if I look too deeply they may secretly be British Nazis working for the Queen to overthrow the American government…
https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c
Not exactly. Also recently announced a child from cheating on his wife.
I sincerely doubt that there is a way to determine which behaviours/beliefs are good or bad. I, for example, doubt that I will get a rating of “good” beyond 75% (educated guess).
Honestly, my standards for “good” behavior for corporations are astoundingly low; just don’t be bigoted, don’t actively wreck the planet, and don’t kill people.
And yet most of them can’t even manage that.
I am unconvinced that people / corporations can be neatly sorted into categories “good” or “bad”.
I argue that “good” behaviour is entirely dependent on who is the judge. There are numerous edge cases, for example, “don’t kill people”: one could argue that a company that promotes abstinence is reinforcing sexual shame, which could lead to suicide. Then another can argue that they are promoting degrowth (through abstinence), or even voluntary extinction.
Lastly I want to remind that breaking the notion that sorting people into categories like gender and sex is a similarly bad idea.
I remember when in 2018 there was an uproar against Trump using that language
President Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators
The U.N. human rights office said the comments, if confirmed, were “shocking and shameful” and “racist,”
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I’m not surprised to see Lemmy embrace and adopt Trump’s language, so long as it’s aimed at countries y’all dislike, and so long as it fits y’all’s agenda
Trump didn’t invent this expression. Also any country that still cut heads is a shithole. Have a nice day.
No it’s a dictatorship. The people suffering under that US-armed and US-backed dictatorship don’t need the insults.
Racism and bigotry towards: Arabs, Chinese and Russians is still acceptable. They get to decide who is okay and not-okay.
“One of those things is not like the other; one of those things is just not the same”
Russians are not a race. They are a nationality. There are many ethnic and racial groups in Russia. The anti-Russian sentiments are almost never anti-slavic/Turkic et al but are rather directed at the nation itself and the polity vs the sinophobia and antisemitism which tend to be at least partly aimed at the peoples.
