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A lot of people this week have simply given up on their industry careers, seeing years of their life’s work just vanish into a corporate vault overnight. Being able to point to your work on a streaming service had apparently even become a pretty critical part of the portfolios they now rely on to get new jobs.

Another week, another revelation that Warner Bros. Discovery is taking a sharp and bloody implement to its HBO Max content library—and especially the animated and kids’ programming in the streaming service’s catalogue. This is per Deadline, which reports that 37 more titles are being stripped from the service, most of them either animated shows or reality TV (…) including shows that are reportedly still in production, and were expected to broadcast new episodes next year.

Take, for instance, the case of Summer Camp Island, which was previously supposed to release its already-completed final season a few weeks ago, before suddenly getting hit with an order delaying it until 2023. Now, like a number of shows that originated on Cartoon Network before migrating to HBO Max to bulk out its content over the last few years, the series is on the list of shows being pulled from the service outright this week—leaving a massive question mark about where these 20 finished-but-never-released episodes of TV will air, if anywhere. Series creator Julia Pott expressed her dismay at the move (which she apparently learned about from the Deadline piece!) on Twitter today.

This election drew 800,000.

These guys are considering leaving because they hate Elon Musk

Now people are rabidly arguing that supposed "men" (trans women) have inherent insurmountable biological advantages in literally every single possible activity and cis women are too weak and dainty and unskilled to ever compete and must be protected, and then they try to call themselves feminists who are being silenced as if that's not just the mainstream sexist patriarchal opinion

“anyone else remember when everyone understood that the correct feminist position about sports was that women should be allowed to compete with men because they’re just as capable?“

No. I really, honestly do not remember this. Because it’s just... outrageous? Like, I don’t know if I ever heard this idea expressed before a year ago, outside of something like chess.

“When it was a trope in media to have the mysterious star athlete who just blew everyone else out of the water to take off her helmet and reveal that she was a woman the whole time?“

That trope is fun exactly because men generally have such an obvious advantage over women in the majority of sports - definitely any that are based on “explosive” muscle use or upper-body strength. That fact is well understood by almost everyone on this planet. The trope is a power fantasy and an underdog-thing.

Like, I need you guys to understand that the position: “there is no sex difference in physical abilities” is a bafflingly inaccurate, galaxy-brained position. It just is not correct. It’s incredible that this is now just an actual debate. Like, this as a general idea and not just certain nuances of it.

If we accepted this view, we’d also need to completely rethink the issue of violence against women. Are you guys literally, honestly, for-real saying that, as a society, we should stop considering gender-based physical power imbalance in e.g. domestic violence?

“Now people are rabidly arguing that supposed “men” (trans women) have inherent insurmountable biological advantages in literally every single possible activity“

I think my views on this are pretty popular among even left-leaning people, but rapidly getting less so, it seems:

(1) In sports, it actually matters whether or not being trans has inherent significant physical advantages. (2) It should be determined for each individual sport whether being trans gives athletes a significant advantage beyond the normal cis variance. (3) In situations that are inevitably going to be unfair, it is more fair to be unfair to a small minority than the vast majority. (4) Depending on the trans advantage-evaluation, segregated divisions should or should not be formed. (5) The idea of a “trans division” may not be inherently different from the idea of “disabled divisions” or the Paralympics. The ideas in the post, of completely unsegregated sports, are a threat to many disabled athletes.

“Anyway, desegregate sports“

None of the Writers or the Director of Fury Road "Grew up" with Star Wars; George Miller was born in 1945, I couldn't immediately find Brendan McCarthy's age but his first paid comics work was in '77. I also can't find Nick Lathouris' bio but he's credited on the original Mad Max in '79. James Cameron was born in '54.

So a more proper list might be, "The people who grew up watching Star Wars created Pacific Rim, John Wick, Interstellar and Inception" and honestly it kind of feels like cheating to include 2 Christopher Nolan movies.

The way people talk about the film industry drives me nuts because there's been huge changes in the film industry but there's this bizarre push to simply pretend that there haven't been. To include Fury Road on a list of films made by people who "grew up with Star Wars" because even though the directors and writers were contemporaries of George Lucas probably somebody in the props department is younger and grew up with those movies.

Right now, holding up a sign in St. Petersburg condemning this war is the textbook definition of “neither safe nor careful.”

Imagine, just for a moment, that you’ve grown up being told that the things that happened in Maus could happen to you at any time. Any. Time. From the time you could understand being told about the atrocities. This book is a sliver of the trauma that lives between Jewish generations. Then imagine it being taken away because it makes people sad.