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RE: What are you listening to? - Danster - 10-25-2023
(10-24-2023, 09:47 PM)General Ceel Wrote: Around here (Northeastern Pennsylvania and New York State) there was certainly an Irish, Welsh and English immigrant impact in the 1800's. If you look at the headstones in the old cemeteries, they came to coal mine, logging and digging canals. But Eastern and Sothern European culture, which came much later, are more noticeable in the food and music my my immediate area. There is a "Sons of Italy" group just down the street, and a Ukrainian Catholic Church nearby. Polish influences are still pretty evident within a few hours drive. Polka and Polish food are still a thing, especially with the older set.
Where I live is actually pretty bland culturally. In terms of ethnicity, the county I live is in 94.7% white. There are pockets of the county that have a high density of a specific nationality, a town in the west of the county has a very high Polish community and a town in the south has a significant number of Portugese. However, the majority of the place is white British. To be honest, we're often the butt of the inbred jokes, similar to your swampland areas. I'm lucky in that both my parents were born outside of the county and moved here prior to having a family, so I can duck the six-fingered, your sister-is-your-mother taunts!
RE: What are you listening to? - General Ceel - 10-26-2023
Don't get me wrong, the county where I live is 93 percent white/Europeans descent. Way too many Trump flags flying around here for my comfort. Any obvious "diversity" we've got in this rural county is associated with industry: Chinese restaurants, Indian/Pakistani in the hospital, Hispanics in the natural gas industry. Those European influences I just mentioned -long since completely "Americanized" (whatever the hell that means) for the most part. But you've got a lot of people who've never been to Ireland or Italy with flags and stickers on their houses and cars pretending to be from those places because their grandparents were or because they have names that sound foreign. I find it quite annoying actually. My mother researched our family tree extensively over twenty years ago. I know when my ancestors got here and where they came from. But I don't understand the compulsion people have to define themselves in that way. When I was a kid in school they taught us that the Unite States is a "melting pot." I'm not asking / expecting people people who were BORN here to deny the heritage of their ancestors. But I resist the need/desire to divide everyone up into smaller groups. All of those groups... together they are America. To say that you are American is the same thing as saying your grandparents were from Poland, or Italy or wherever.
RE: What are you listening to? - General Ceel - 10-28-2023
Rebel Force Radio
RE: What are you listening to? - General Ceel - 10-31-2023
MASH Matters Podcast: https://youtu.be/UR7dHzhXyFI?si=5X9INR5IJs30vTbH
RE: What are you listening to? - General Ceel - 12-09-2023
Carthage - Empire of the Phoenicians: https://youtu.be/6dbdVhVSat8?si=FaCnzsVRMOXrfeHi
I listen to a lot of youtube in the background while I do other things. Sometimes its entertainment podcasts, but I also like history and science stuff as well.
RE: What are you listening to? - General Ceel - 12-12-2023
I started building a sizeable CD collection when I was a kid in the early 90's. These days all the discs are in CD bingers and in recent months I've been trying to listen to them all. As I only listen to CDs in my truck, and drive only a few miles per day, Its a been a long process. Most recently I've found myself listening to all of my old Metallica albums. Metallica was a "gateway" band for this young metal fan. My tastes long ago moved on to better things, but its been interesting and nostalgic to revisit those old discs. Once upon a time these songs seemed so hard, heavy and technical. I find them rather simple now. lol.
RE: What are you listening to? - General Ceel - 01-11-2024
Upcoming 2024 Movies Preview Jan-December with Sean Chandler! | The Big Thing
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RE: What are you listening to? - General Ceel - 02-03-2024
Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness: https://youtu.be/2kaQ51KFjis?si=4oIQIq630TjtBWf7
RE: What are you listening to? - General Ceel - 02-06-2024
Einstein and the Quantum: Entanglement and Emergence
https://youtu.be/ntxC5KMC4y0?si=ka0GPD3V6MokaJqb
With his General Theory of Relativity, Einstein illuminated the grand expanse of the cosmos, but he was also instrumental in developing quantum mechanics for describing the microworld. In Einstein’s day, these advances were considered unrelated but recent insights suggest that they may be secretly connected–significantly advancing our understanding of quantum threads that may stitch the fabric of spacetime. Leonard Susskind, Ana Alonso-Serrano and Mark Van Raamsdonk join Brian Greene to examine this newfound link and explore its implications for uniting the laws of the large and those of the small.
This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
Participants
Leonard Susskind
Ana Alonso-Serrano
Mark Van Raamsdonk
Moderator
Brian Greene
RE: What are you listening to? - General Ceel - 02-23-2024
Judas Priest: The Serpent and the King: https://youtu.be/5dqi19sOyNE?si=atkf0XlCvKJpBsMB
Brand new material from Priest, and after 55 years they're as great as ever!