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What are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a "30,000 year old technology"

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Hallelujah" has an overt reference to the story of David & Bathsheba in the Bible, which is a story about a king watching a woman bathe and then sending her husband into an unwinnable battle so he could steal her from him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Mixed with references to Samson and Delilah

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

But wait! There's more!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song)#%3A%7E%3Atext=11+External+links-%2CHistory%2Cversions+of+the+same+line.

Cohen is reputed to have written between 80[7] and 180[8] draft verses for "Hallelujah"—a number affected by having many versions of the same line.[9] He claimed 150 draft verses, substantiated by his notebooks containing manifold revisions and additions, and by contemporary interviews.[10] In a writing session in New York's Royalton Hotel, Cohen is famously said to have been reduced to sitting on the floor in his underwear, filling notebooks, banging his head on the floor.

I know this because I love that song and was obsessed with it for a year or two.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, which was its own level of toxic, but maybe doesn't have the super gross power imbalance?