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Ok_Yoghurt_3338 t1_jds59de wrote

Reply to comment by Pherllerp in TIL in 1979, in between a double-header, the White Sox exploded a crate filled with disco records to stands of over 50k disco haters. Thousands flocked to the field afterward, which became so destroyed that they forfeit the 2nd game to the Tigers - the last time in AL history. by JackMacWindowsLinux

It was anti gay. I’m not sure how people in urban environments would be anti urban but I don’t think the anti disco movement was led in rural America. This particular event had racists at it because it was in a racist area when racism was prevalent in general, but they also owned the records ahead of time which does create some controversy in saying this was purely driven by racism or hate.

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pichael289 t1_jds58ug wrote

Reply to TIL Jimmy Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the single largest expansion of protected lands in history which more than doubled the size of the National Parks System by Guardax

His administration also removed lead from gasoline, which we know to be neurotoxic and the cause of developmental disabilities.

He also personally saved Canada from nuclear disaster. And his foundation has nearly eradicated the guinea worm, which is a horrifying parasite that plauged Africa. Remember on national geographic how people in villages would have worms sticking out of their legs, being slowly wound around a stick for two weeks? Yeah he said no to that nightmare

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Atharaphelun t1_jds3had wrote

Reply to comment by Dr_Hexagon in TIL That the Hallway (as an architectural feature) was first recorded in 1597 by SalMinellaOnYouTube

Which ones? Even Roman palaces adhere to the layout of a typical domus, in which all rooms open into a central courtyard (or multiple courtyards) rather than having a hallway that connects all of them. You can see this in the Domus Flavia, Domus Augustana, Domus Severiana, Palace of Diocletian, etc.

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jjvbravo t1_jds0lbx wrote

Reply to comment by gsoClarke in TIL in 1979, in between a double-header, the White Sox exploded a crate filled with disco records to stands of over 50k disco haters. Thousands flocked to the field afterward, which became so destroyed that they forfeit the 2nd game to the Tigers - the last time in AL history. by JackMacWindowsLinux

Except that their argument for bat day was, (New York accent) "Everybody gets a bat. It's a fair fight!"

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ZanyDelaney t1_jdryqdd wrote

Reply to TIL in 1979, in between a double-header, the White Sox exploded a crate filled with disco records to stands of over 50k disco haters. Thousands flocked to the field afterward, which became so destroyed that they forfeit the 2nd game to the Tigers - the last time in AL history. by JackMacWindowsLinux

I was an avid reader of Mad Magazine starting around 1980 and in it I often read about 'disco sucks' in the US. I really didn't get it at all. Australia definitely still had discos all through the 1980s. Some were famous and the hottest place to 'rage' *. They were called nightspot or nightclub by the late 1980s as the term disco sounded passe. But yeah, we didn't really seem to have a 'disco sucks' movement here. When I was a teen in the 1980s, the tough cool kids all went to discos. There were the popular 'Blue Light discos' for under 18 year olds. Popular mainstream clubs in Melbourne included The Underground and Inflation in King Street, plus Razor, Lasers, Chasers, Manhattan Stage 1, 21st Century Dance Club. My brothers-in-law were pretty standard Aussie type men. They went to discos and got drunk. That was where the girls were, but they also bopped to their fave tunes and had a blast.

I started going to discos in 1987. They were great. All the different subcultures mixed together and had a blast. Tracks like Blue Monday -- Male Stripper -- Boom Boom -- So Macho were huge. When Blue Monday started, the crowd roared. It was unreal.

One of my fave 1980s disco track was Savin' Myself.

Years later I started playing '1970s disco mixes' that had been uploaded to youtube. Many of the tracks I recalled as still being played in discos in the late 1980s were actually old 70s disco, eg Groove Me. So even in the 80s actual 70s disco was still being played too.

Here is a list of some 1980s club tracks:

* In 1987 ABC started a music video TV series named after our term for what you did at a disco - and in 2023 it is still running.

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JoshuaZ1 t1_jdrvwpy wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL in 1979, in between a double-header, the White Sox exploded a crate filled with disco records to stands of over 50k disco haters. Thousands flocked to the field afterward, which became so destroyed that they forfeit the 2nd game to the Tigers - the last time in AL history. by JackMacWindowsLinux

Disco was scene as affiliated with black people and white gay men. This is discussed in part in the article that OP linked to.

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CaliBigWill t1_jdruxom wrote

Reply to comment by snow_michael in TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public by MoistCoyote

Okay...and? Where are you going with this? Horses were on the North American continent and then went extinct.( this is debated).They were brought by the Spanish in the early 1500's. Probably before is debated as well. Either way what are you trying to say?

Now, new research out of the University of California Santa Cruz’s prestigious Paleogenomics Lab sheds new light on the argument by tying the DNA of the modern-day horse to its ancient ancestry on the North American continent.

https://americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/scientific-research-alert-research-cements-native-ancestry-americas-wild-horses

https://awionline.org/content/wild-horses-native-north-american-wildlife

https://ictnews.org/news/yes-world-there-were-horses-in-native-culture-before-the-settlers-came

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