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given recent events, an important reminder

[ Video ID: A YTP of a training video for grocery store employees. A man in a grey suit and blue tie speaks to the camera, but his words have been edited in post: "If you suspect a customer of shoplifting, do not take action. Do not tell your manager for any reason. Your manager will take it too far. The key point to remember is, don't become a snitch. Any type of "snitchuation" affects your community negatively. We understand that many people are in financially detrimental types of situations. Do them a favor and don't get involved. Just let them steal from your store's enormous amount of extra profits because after all, everyone should be able to eat and that's common sense. Well, take care and stay fresh!" End ID. ]

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.

There’s a giant billboard for The Mandalorian and Grogu near my house and every time I see it it pisses me the FUCK off because I Hate Baby Yoda. I hate that thing. Not only do I personally dislike it, I think it is the ultimate encapsulation of this sinister trend in modern children’s and adult-babies’ media to commodify cuteness and refuse to even portray, let alone engage with, ugliness onscreen (outside of the horror genre and the ontologically evil alien/monster race). Baby Yoda is everything that’s wrong with pop culture. If we were a society capable of making Baby Yoda busted I genuinely believe we’d be sub-5 years away from achieving the solarpunk utopia in that one Chobani commercial. I hate it here.

It is not interesting to make a movie where the entire point is how scary and unlovable a creature is and then make that creature objectively cute! Of course audiences are going to love Stitch or that little monkey thing from the Legend of Ochi movie no one saw, they’re designed to automatically trigger the empathy response that we experience when looking at human babies! Boooooo! Boring! Get back to me when someone finally has the balls to make one of these E.T.-formula movies (scary creature appears out of nowhere; the child protagonist is the only one who loves it and wants to protect it from harm) with a creature that is even uglier than E.T. I want to see a creature that is not recognizably any animal or humanoid. I want to see a creature that execs would think is un-merchable. I want to see a creature that is hard to love! This total refusal to show ugly little freaks onscreen is borne of the same impulse that makes it really hard to, say, get people to care about insects. It is CRAZY how people, progressive people, talk about insects in comparison to dogs or like charismatic megafauna. What’s more important to human survival, tigers or spiders? But it’s completely socially acceptable to kill any and all insects on sight, even if they’re harmless, even if you’re in their house, because we all generally agree bugs are ugly and scary and gross. I don’t like how it looks, kill it. I don’t recognize myself in it, kill it. Btw do not tell me “yeah and it’s so wrong bc bugs ARE cute!” I don’t care if you think bugs are cute. I want you to care about bugs even though they’re ugly! Beauty is not a virtue and ugliness is not a sin! “Oh my god, that movie is so good. It’s about a girl finding an objectively adorable monkey and saving it from the adults who want to smash it with hammers.” Fuck off. It is so completely uninteresting to bravely empathize with a cute baby animal. Congrats, you gave it big eyes and now everyone loves it. For your next trick what about growing a spine and making a stupid CGI therapy-speak movie about a girl who loves the ugliest little fucking freak you’ve ever seen. Miyazaki did this, minus the stupid part, with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and it was fucking awesome. Whichever corporate drones ordered the design principles of Baby Yoda out of what I have to assume was a grab-bag of body parts from the sickeningly huge-eyed Frozen sisters I hope you get visited in your sleep by the ghosts of three of the most disgusting bugs. And I hope Baby Yoda dies.

so i put my hands up theyre playing my song the evil skull flies away

imagine you have a movie with oscar isaac and john boyega and people fixate on adam driver instead. this actually happened

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