• kamenLady.@lemmy.world
            7·
            2 months ago

            Bonus Facts

            Manuella “Ya Kid K” Komosi was the lead vocalist on Pump up the Jam and most other Technotronic songs, but she was not in the video or on the album cover, which instead featured Zairean-born fashion model Felly lip-synching the lyrics. Felly had nothing to do with recording the song, and didn’t speak English. Bogaert used her to establish an image for the group, even if it meant some awkward miming in the video. Around the same time, C&C Music factory did something similar when they had a model pretend to sing the parts of Martha Wash on hits like “Gonna Make You Sweat.” Snap! also used a fake singer in their video for “The Power.” When Technotronic toured with DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Felly didn’t come along - they were fronted by their real vocalists Ya Kid K and MC Eric.

    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Belgian? I guess I was always caught up on that thick new York accent…

      Or did the Belgians just decide that was their shit.

      • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        Ya Kid K’s Congolese accent definitely has some of that marbles-in-the-mouth Staten Island sound. I was also surprised to learn she wasn’t from the Burroughs.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    2 months ago

    Eh, I dunno, I think philosophy can be pretty cool.

    • Logic and epistemology give us the tools to create proofs and algorithms, and it’s basically the foundation of modern mathematics.
    • Having the tools to communicate and understand concepts in ethics makes society more secular (because ethics aren’t just handed down from on high) and hopefully more humane.
    • Metaphysics I feel again moves us more toward secularism because it gives us ways to reason about the universe other than just “some big powerful boi did it (and he conveniently thinks you should give me money)”.
    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      Philosophy at it’s core can be cool, informative, and even critical.

      Most philosophy is fancy bullshit.

      Just like anything else creative with a low barrier to entry, 90% is crap. The rest may be corn

    • affiliate@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      the math/philosophy overlap in set theory/logic makes me uneasy. the closer you get to it, the more the idea that “math is objective” starts to fade away. also pretty surreal to be learning philosophy/taking things as given in a math class. especially because you spend a lot of time proving that certain things are true, but you don’t ever say what it means for something to be true.

      • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Math and science all have a philosophical core, it’s just that most of the time you don’t need to question it, so it’s easy to forget about it. Which is fine

    • yesman@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Logic and epistemology give us the tools to create proofs and algorithms, and it’s basically the foundation of modern mathematics.

      Not that I disagree, but logic and mathematics have a rocky relationship. We thought we could marry them forever with set theory, but when they asked if anyone objected, Bertrand Russel stood up.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    We literally spend most of our lives fighting over fancy pieces of paper we’re deluded into valuing more than one another, talk about a waste of time.

    The unexamined life is not worth living. In the US at least, we are discouraged from asking the questions that can provide us some semblance of meaning based on what we actually value during our brief existence, because considering the big questions about the nature of being distract us from collecting more fancy pieces of paper for the master’s next penis shaped space rocket.

    IMHO, the ability to ask and really feel the importance of why is precisely what makes our existence more meaningful than an ant’s. Rejecting philosophical inquiry and living a life of mindless acquisition and gluttony makes one about as sapient as said ant. You’re just following someone else’s script, and that someone usually has an agenda of maximizing your productivity and consumption with that script, so your life is more their life to spend than yours to experience at that point.