Agree strongly. If I want to introduce someone to the Clash, it's London Calling.

I didn't say I didn't like Combat Rock, because I do. I saw the tour for it at the time, and I still listen to it at times.

However, Sandinista! is a much stronger album IMHO.

No, it is a reference to a catch phrase.

I relistened to Combat Rock and I had to say that by any other band, it'd be a masterpiece.

I just don't like "Rock The Casbah" is my big issue with that.

No, this was a slogan from the time, "The only band that matters".

I hope I would have come to the same place anyway, but for me, the Clash completely revolutionized my understanding of politics.

Combat Rock is also pretty weird, and nowhere near as good.

Sandinista! is an epic journey, and if you removed the less "important" songs it would be too intense. A mature, large scale work needs to "breathe": not everything has to be overamped at all times.

If I had the choice, I wouldn't remove one second from Sandinista!, not even the jokes.

> never heard anything they’ve done.

Oh, boy. London Calling is only the Clash's second best album, and Train in Vain is an average song from it!

I might add that when the album came out, this song was "hidden" - it didn't appear on the credits or the spindle.

Sandinista! is a unique album. I was confused by pretty well all of it when I first heard it, but it stayed the same and I grew up.

You use communism like a three-year-old uses the word "poo-poo" except that three-year-old actually understands the meanings of the word she is using.

It is impossible ever to have any sort of adult conversation about these matters when giggling and deliberately ignorant simpletons spent all their time screaming lies and insanity.

"HTML-to-Markdown converter that adaptively preserve HTML when needed (eg. when center-aligning, or resizing images)"

should be "preserves". :-)

Looks very promising, I starred it!

> Think "shave and a haircut two bits".

NO! That's not the Bo Diddley beat!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_and_a_Haircut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley_beat

Have an upvote though, he was a great musician.

I suggest you work on your reading comprehension, because PP made no such claim that the animals were killed in that room: "You’re literally standing in a room of once living creatures that were killed against their will."

Oh, what a surprise, you're a climate denier too! https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/zshqkb/iconic_berlin_christmas_tree_decapitated_by/j18e0af/

User name fits.

Question for you - what do you call a person who gets pleasure out of making other people miserable?

Right! The word is "sociopath".

Now look in the mirror.

> No reddit would save a lot more than Ethereum's remaining energy usage,

It would be nice to occasionally get a citation for some of these claims made by cryptopeople...

> Most people are below average, that's how averages tend to distribute.

Mathematician here. No, this is not how averages work.

It depends entirely on the shape of the distribution. In a perfect normal curve, half the population is below and half above the average, otherwise it depends on which direction the distribution is skewed.

> The chances of this happening are relatively small,

Can we see the math?

> and the damage being much less impactful than the impact of having an operational space elevator.

Having a 35,000km structure collapse onto the Earth sounds pretty darn "impactful".

Your argument by authority isn't a good one.

Neither you nor the original article did the math, so I will.

The tallest structure of any type ever built is less than 1km tall.

But a space elevator would be 35,000km tall.

Historically, the height of the tallest structure has grown by less than 3% a year, on average, so we should expect a space elevator in about 400 years.

The idea that we are going to build in our lifetimes some structure that is over 35,000 times taller than any structure built by man and which requires building materials that don't even exist today(*) - this idea is completely unrealistic.

Given that we as a society are obsessed by unreachable goals like this, but seem completely uninterested in the much more modest and much more critical goal of not destroying our ecosystem and our climate almost entirely, I doubt this will ever be accomplished.

You call me when we have built a structure that is even 10 km tall and then we can talk again.

(* - spider silk exists, but it is not a human building material, and not one building has been built with it.)

> Space elevators are largely a matter of engineering nowadays.

We are talking about a structure that is over 35,000km tall.

The tallest structure to date is less than 1km tall.

In the last 200 years, the tallest structure height has increased by less than 3% per year, on average, so we would expect to be able to build a 35,000km structure in about 400 years.

EDIT: I was wrong - the center of gravity of the structure has to be 35,000km tall. That means that the structure has to be higher than that.

> Don’t let members of the DSA bully you

See a therapist for your clinical paranoia.