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Certainly in the UK, the 80s was the decade of Thatcherism, greed, self and excess. And I struggle to remember much of any real value coming out of it.
But on 13th July 1985, (35 years ago today), something truly amazing happened:
Live Aid - Wikipedia[^]
This raised over £50 million for the starving in Ethiopia. A famine which saw over one million people die of starvation. What a disgrace. If that fact doesn't bring a tear to your eye, watch this video:
The Cars - Drive[^]
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"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Another . Loads of good music came from the eighties! It was the decade of synth mastery! And a lot of poof-hair bands were actually good! And even non-poof hair! Adding to your list, Billy Idol, A-Ha, Duran Duran, The Cars, Gary Numan...
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Dare I say, Inxs.
Some people call them hacks, but I liked their album Kick.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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They had a few good songs! And a couple really great ones!
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5teveH wrote: the 80s was the decade of Thatcherism, greed, self and excess.
This is verging on Soapbox material, but I would not agree that Thatcherism was all bad - it saved the UK from the trade unions.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I didn't say "Thatcherism was all bad". But I do think she was responsible for promoting and stimulating a 'Gordon Gekko' mindset (i.e. "Greed is good") in the UK.
However, I wasn't aiming to make a political point. The message that I hoped would come across, is that: ONE MILLION ETHIOPIANS DIED OF STARVATION in a decade when greed, self and excess was at it's height - and Live Aid was a stand-out moment, (of real good) in that decade.
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When you mention these things in the same list, that's how it gets interpreted. Greed exists on all sides of the political spectrum, particularly among segments that call people greedy for wanting to keep want they've earned instead of allowing it to be extorted.
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Same with Reaganomics here. Definitely a turn for the worse. And we've continued downward ever since.
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5teveH wrote: Certainly in the UK, the 80s was the decade of Thatcherism, greed, self and excess. And I struggle to remember much of any real value coming out of it.
Lots of good stuff happened (first space shuttle takes off, end of the Cold War, fall of the Berlin wall, first IBM PC was released, I was born), you just choose to focus on the negative.
Your glass is obviously half empty.
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I think we may not share the same definition of "good"!
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Sander Rossel wrote: I was born
5teveH wrote: I think we may not share the same definition of "good"!
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Sander Rossel wrote: I was born
Oops. OK, two good things came out of the decade. 
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I think there were lots of things of real and lasting value, many of which have benefited the generations since then. But I don't intend to start a political debate, so I'll leave it at that.
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5teveH wrote:
Live Aid - Wikipedia[^]
Ahhh Queen - Live at Wembley - One of the best live performance ever.
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5teveH wrote: This raised over £50 million for the starving in Ethiopia.
That was the aim, the reality was slightly less pallatable. The famine having been in part due to the war, not much of the money went to the starving.
Live Aid: The Terrible Truth | SPIN[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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'Xactly. Simply the first-world stroking itself.
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It's really horrible but it's sometimes better to have access to the horrible truth than be deceived.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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As I recall, even soon after the concert the word was out that the aid ships weren't being allowed to dock and the food was rotting in the bay or that it was going to the wealthy.
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5teveH wrote: A famine which saw over one million people die of starvation. What a disgrace.
Very true. And there is still a lot of needless suffering out there if people would stop whining about things that don't matter and get to work.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Watch Dogs 2 - Wikipedia[^]
Direct from Ubisoft, if you have a Ubisoft account: Register for reward[^] and it'll be added to your library.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Looks nice.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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From a job posting that appeared in my email:
Quote: Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies.
That is just a flat-out waste of text space. They're not driving very many efficiencies.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The answer is:
NO. 
We don't wanna. you do it.
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