Say what you want about this classic, but it’s perfect. SIMPLY perfect. Timeless. Infectiously joyous. And the runs … Oh. My. Goodness. And this latest video, well, how can you resist?
@clayrivers@BigAngBlack@BlackMastodon@blackmastodon Amen. All of this. It's not a stretch at all to say Darlene Love, Donny Hathaway, and Mariah Carey are the holy trinity of post-war 20th century Christmas music.
Do you ever think about abandoned tech trees? Like how no one is working to design better drafting compasses or vellum? No one is perfecting vacuum tubes. No one is laser focused on methods to speed paint and accurate portrait by hand to send out for marriage proposals.
Technological leaps make entire areas of research pointless— but
What if just a bit further down the line on the old tech tree there was some bigger breakthrough we’ll never see? I think about this A LOT.
@futurebird Vacuum tubes were pretty amazing when the audio industry switched to solid state. With the exception of a true discrete circuit in recording consoles, it was a step back. Instead of harmonic distortion -- which is musical -- it became clipping -- which is not.
@RickiTarr It's more than disgusting. We bombed the absolute hell out of your people in the not so distant past, and we've been occupying your nation ever since with anything from a sleazy expat bar to a full-scale military base. Please be fascinated by us.
@weslowik@StillIRise1963 The punchline to the joke is that the white supremacists rewarded for war crimes with a job at NASA couldn't get us into orbit.
Three Black women with superior intellect made that happen.
A lot of German restaurants popped up on the Space Coast. That would be their total contribution.
@AnnemarieBridy@genxjamerican Isn't it curious that so many of the historically significant 78 rpm recordings were of Black artists being exploited by new arrivals to the country?
Maybe these folks can slow their roll a little bit. After generations of this stuff, they've earned a breather.
Let's not pretend all the original artists in this collection were properly compensated for their intellectual property.
#Slavery in biblical and ancient societies had many variations. But it’s clear that slavery during those eras was as horrific, just like the 19th-century transatlantic slave trade, according to the historical and archeological evidence.
@TheConversationUS@histodons@blackmastodon If someone is incapable of empathy, and is presented with evidence of a shared experience, do they use it as an excuse for their behavior?