Her style is a super stripped-down one with almost all instrumentation just being her voice through a vocoder. This cover includes a bit more traditional instrumentation than usual for her work, but it’s still quite stark next to the original. It comes across as very pensive, which I think works nicely with the lyrics
This article was presumably written by someone that holds a deep personal grudge with Ian Betteridge
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the UK is quite similar to Canada in this regard. There’s also a convention known as “purdah” during the period beginning six weeks before the election and ending upon the formation of the new government. Under it, civil servants are expected to maintain public political neutrality and governments (national and subnational) are not to take or announce more policies/decisions than necessary
Don’t give insider trading a pass on the basis of the people doing it already being very rich. They’re specifically only in a position to do the insider trading because of how rich they are
I’m going with $50. I did some attempts at estimating the volume and assumed the average value of a coin in there is 5c
Honestly some straight up hymns are amazing. The Icelandic Hear Me Smith of Heaven and Russian Do Not Reject Me In My Old Age are my favourites
Including the space is fairly common here in the UK. I assume it must be in Australia too
That video was painful to watch. I am a little dsappointed in the presenter for not pointing out that the islands in question are part of Australia and therefore already covered, she seemed like she was ready to pin him down
Traditionally it means jobs which could be done by most people with only a minimum of training, rather than anything about formal education. Trades generally do not fall under this because they require significant training, whereas a general labourer who assists a tradesperson with moving materials and cleaning and such would be “unskilled” in this sense. Working the checkouts at a supermarket, doing data entry, or most positions in a fast food place would be unskilled. Any position in which the employer wouldn’t be requiring qualifications or experience if they were hiring your replacement.
Of course they’re all still 100% real jobs and should be respected as such, so I wouldn’t be against figuring out a term that feels a bit less dismissive of them
They showed up because of a witness report and did not attempt to convict her. A “remember not to do this for this reason” is an appropriate response to the (circumstantial) evidence
This feels wildly overblown. “Police visit person to tell them not to do the thing they seemed like they were doing, person agrees not to”
It really upset him when we built a wind farm within sight of his other one here, we should just blanket them in turbines
I am personally a big fan of Voices of the Past and Fall of Civilisations.
Voices is very specific in what it does. It doesn’t actually give you a historian’s perspective, it’s strictly primary sources translated into English and then read out as-is. Since it makes absolutely no attempt to account for material evidence or the biases of the authors it is much more about the perspective of individuals from the time than recounting accurate history, but I think that’s very interesting
As its name suggests, Fall focusses on the end of civilisations, ranging from the Greenland Norse and Rapa Nui to Han China and Byzantium.
It doesn’t hurt that the speakers in both have very pleasant voices