I think this is the best fact of 2024.

Comments like _that_ make it all worthwhile! Cheers!

The back catalogue is just as amazing. Plus Hallucinogen In Dub too

I've been sitting on this for a while now, waiting for a suitable occasion.

Well Merry Christmas everyone

fuck 😞

Apparently in 2007, Jaz Coleman was composer in residence at the Prague Symphony Orchestra!

He composed and performed his favourite Killing Joke tracks with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jaz Coleman - You'll Never Get To Me

Killing Joke - You'll Never Get To Me

Of course true fans have always know this but for me... 🤯

I sneaky linked them last time and co-incidentally read someone saying Pandemonium was disappointing. shaking-my-head emoji.

Kiiling Joke Millennium

Kiiling Joke Communion

Checked out their first release too (according to discogs) because... compulsory.

Killing joke Nervious System

"Time is freaky" fans. That was released closer to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge than today. 45 Y.E.A.R.S.

Fall of Because Sadness; sorry folks not that one - tho hallow to it.

Grind

Ecstacy of Hate

Merciless

Always happy for recommendations, thanks.

Globular - An Ode To Iain Freezy

lol, misread the title as "An ode to Jain Frenzy."

I missed this when it came out in 2023, Pixvae - Oi Vé.

A sample - Pixvae - Vengo

- The full playlist

Not sure exactly what dominance means here?

China seems to be ahead on battery production but

Between 2009 and 2021, the Chinese government poured more than $130 billion worth of subsidies into the EV market

Those subsidies go to companies buying EV cars to boost govt sales figures. Instead of actually using the cars to grow the market in rent/share EV, they're left abandoned and the companies return to their angel investors for more funds without any return - by far the largest being the CCP to reach their goal of EV dominance.

Surprise, surprise the sales are dodgy as fuck and manipulated by the government.

You're right to be mad.

Despite widespread homophobia and discrimination still, I do believe it has reduced and there are now laws being created e.g. to be legally married.

I absolutely know it still isn't rosy or that progress isn't quick enough or good enough but I do feel there is progress and I think it will continue and I hope it accelerates too. There will always be prejudice though.

I hope the same will happen for the trans community too and that it's faster but who knows.

Christopher Mellon, who spent nearly twenty years in the U.S. Intelligence Community [...] However, it is a delicate matter getting this potentially explosive information into the right hands for validation. This is made harder by the fact that, rightly or wrongly, a number of potential sources do not trust the leadership of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office established by Congress.

So the spook-of-20 years can't validate the claims he and someone else have seen in some secret government document(s)?

Jonathan Grey is a generational officer of the United States Intelligence Community with a Top-Secret Clearance [...] The non-human intelligence phenomenon is real. We are not alone [...] Retrievals of this kind are not limited to the United States. This is a global phenomenon, and yet a global solution continues to elude us.

So another spook this time with "top secret clearance" claims (with no proof or evidence) that alien craft are spread globally, although no other country has mentioned these before nor claimed to have "partial and up to full alien craft" in their possession.

Grusch has served as an Intelligence Officer for over fourteen years [...] he has numerous awards and decorations for his participation in covert and clandestine operations to advance American security.

But obviously not disinformation because ... err...

It's not like anyone would lie to Congress and get away with it?

Or a government agency would spread misinformation and conspiracy theories to expand their budget and cover-up their own advanced tech research that may have accidentally been detected.

Probably juuuuust co-incidence this is brought up after Chinese spy balloons (that the USAF already knew about and were tracking but didn't bother to acknowledge until they were spotted from the ground by civilians) were shot down.

Just discovered Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet. Post rock feels like a really uncool genre so here's a taster from each of their albums.

Avsked - from Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet

Ovisshet - from II

Eter - from III

Can only find the full album on youtube but Eter starts at 38:18 ...

They're both primed to discuss how& when if science and religion are able to able to coexist.

I might be overestimating the depth, but I'm massively impressed you're able to have conversations like that with your kids about a movie/TV show. I find it hard enough with adults (from my side and theirs).

I'm slipping a bit on these recommendations, but I'm considering (re-watching) Parasite with my daughter on our next movie.