Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer just branched out into unchartered territory.

  • @[email protected]
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    1223 days ago

    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.

    • Jo Miran
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      863 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        1053 days ago

        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

        • konalt
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          253 days ago

          Never letting Hans borrow my car after he used it as an instrument in an orchestral arrangement of Yankee Doodle Dandy

        • @MothmanDelorian
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          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.

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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        83 days ago

        Zimmer was hired by BMW to make acceleration and engine noises

        Huh, I guess Brian Eno wasn’t available.

    • @Toldry
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      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,”

      [source]

      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

      • @[email protected]
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        83 days ago

        Trump didn’t invent this expression. Also any country that still cut heads is a shithole. Have a nice day.

        • @SulaymanF
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          03 days ago

          No it’s a dictatorship. The people suffering under that US-armed and US-backed dictatorship don’t need the insults.

          • @MothmanDelorian
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            12 days ago

            It’s a monarchy and the people generally seem to be okay with it on a certain level. I have been told by associates that is mostly because Islam inherently backs a caliphate and thus monarchy is not seen as undesirable.

            • @SulaymanF
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              11 day ago

              Completely false. It’s a dictatorship that jails anyone who publicly disagrees with the government. MBS even locked up his own mother for criticizing his jailing of relatives. The people are NOT okay with it, thats like saying it seems like Saddam Hussein is popular because nobody wants to risk their lives speaking out.

              And no, there is nothing at all in Islam that supports a king. A caliph is elected.

              • @MothmanDelorian
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                01 day ago

                Please provide a valid source that backs your claim. Please find any evidence for widespread support for a non-monarchal state.

                • @SulaymanF
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                  021 hours ago

                  You’re asking me to prove a negative.

                  If it’s literally a capital offense to call for a different government, do you think people will freely admit to a pollster that they dislike the monarchy? Stop assuming that the dictator is actually popular.

      • @MothmanDelorian
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        52 days ago

        I have never been to KSA so I’ll refuse to take a position on the nation but Trump is hardly the originator of that phrase. He’s just the classless idiot who used it on mic. If you are actually fluent in English it would be really weird to think this is “Trump’s language”

      • مهما طال الليل
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        -42 days ago

        Racism and bigotry towards: Arabs, Chinese and Russians is still acceptable. They get to decide who is okay and not-okay.

        • @MothmanDelorian
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          42 days ago

          “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.

    • LongLive
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      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).

      • @[email protected]
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        233 days ago

        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.

        • @littlewonder
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          What about don’t steal billions from labor?

          • @[email protected]
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            121 hours ago

            If I refused to patronize every business that did that, I’d likely starve to death. Which is incredibly sad.

            I do try to avoid the worst offenders, though.

        • LongLive
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          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.