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  • kronisk @lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYeee yee
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    6 months ago

    How did it come from the left? The “vaccines cause autism” wasn’t connected to any political side as far as I’m aware. Just because you’re a hippie doesn’t mean you’re left-wing, or politically conscious at all even.


  • Give Kagi a try if you haven’t already. It’ll cost you a little but you can try it for free (100 searches I think) and see how you like it. The advantage of paying for search is of course that you’re no longer the product, so no more selling your data to ad companies every time you search something, plus it’s actually in the providers’ interest to make searching a better experience for you. Just the fact that I never have to see Quora in my search results ever again (I can just block their site) would be worth the price for me. It’s just a little thing that made a huge difference for me since I search the web so many times daily, and for a long time now the results has been mostly useless.




  • Psalm 137

    By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

    There on the poplars we hung our harps,

    for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

    How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?

    If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.

    May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

    Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell.

    “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”

    Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

    For context, the book of Psalms is a collection of jewish hymns. Psalm 137 is written from the viewpoint of defeated jews in Babylonian exile; the last verse may well be read as a defiant answer to the line “sing us one of the songs of zion!”. The god of the bible is not speaking directly here nor is he being addressed.

    As additional context, Boney M’s disco version is actually a cover version of The Melodians “Rivers of Babylon” (featured on the soundtrack of the film The Harder They Come) and tactfully omits the verse about dashing Babylonian infants against rocks.