amadeus2490

amadeus2490 t1_j4hgy6w wrote

Like A Surgeon reportedly came from Madonna, herself: Weird Al called her up to ask for permission to do a parody of her song, and she laughed and asked "What is it called, 'Like A Surgeon?'".

He thought the idea was actually a lot better than what he had come up with on his own, so he scrapped it and wrote an entire parody based off her idea!

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amadeus2490 t1_j1n3r69 wrote

Controversial view: A major reason so many people have anxiety, depression, ADHD, etc. anymore is because the vast majority of us spend too much time inside. We simply aren't exercising our muscles and walking, or stimulating our brains enough. We weren't meant to live this way.

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amadeus2490 t1_j19thx3 wrote

The X-men were made by Jewish men, during the height of a very tumultuous civil rights movement that was going on in America at the time.

It was meant to be a very deliberate, and direct allegory to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X but it was explained in a way that kids could understand. Magneto was a Jew, and an actual survivor of the camps in Germany.

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amadeus2490 t1_iy8xpkg wrote

Michael Jackson personally paid for the music videos to Weird Al's Eat It and Fat. He even let Al use his photographer, camera guy and make-up and hair team. The deal was that Michael wanted to be officially credited as a co-writer for the parodies, so they would be splitting the royalties.

Al has admitted that he had to hire lawyers just to handle those two songs, and that Michael's estate is still receiving annual royalties from them today.

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amadeus2490 t1_ixrht01 wrote

Founding members of Facebook held public lectures on it, saying that they noted people wanted to argue in the comments so they wound up rigging the whole site to rile people up.... and indirectly manipulated news websites to make more inflammatory headlines and op-ed pieces, too.

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amadeus2490 t1_itwrizi wrote

Yes, but this research is showing us that a lot of them arent getting their RDA there anyways.

Life has also evolved - in the past couple of years especially - for everyone to be indoors, nearly 24/7. Reddit is full of people saying they haven't had to leave the house at all for weeks, because of working and studying at home, and getting food and supplies from Doordash and amazon.

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amadeus2490 t1_itw6jeh wrote

> one in three Australian adults still suffer from mild, moderate or severe vitamin D deficiency.

Which is probably because Australians are, for the most part, genetically English and they're fair skinned. They can't handle a lot of direct sun light, so they're covering up and wearing sun screen.

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