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Libertarians are just dumb white guys refusing to accept they are not the brightest.

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AND DON´T USE AI.

This movie is currently a huge meme in china. It came out of nowhere and inexplicably got a theatrical release, looks like ass, was animated completely by the director and his mother, and took several years to make. "Niu Lai" translates roughly to "The bull is coming" and apparently the film has several other allusions to stock market puns. The Chinese stock market coincidentally had an uptick the day of its release which added further fuel to the meme fire. After going viral Niu Lai began to actually turn profit at the box office, theatres unprepared for Niu Lai mania (the creators did not distribute any promotional material) had to improvise DIY posters:

it reminds me of reading The Decameron in college, even though The Decameron was set more or less in what was modern day for its time (unlike The Three Musketeers which is more a historical action/adventure novel). because like the stories are told within a narrative frame of these young nobles fleeing the Black Plague together, but gasp! the nobles are young men and women traveling together with no chaperon!

so there's a whole author's note from Giovanni Boccaccio explaining that you must understand, morals were loosened because everyone was more worried about dying from the plague than what the young people were doing! he's not condoning this sort of behavior! it's just that sometimes this happened because of the plague and should not be taken as a commentary on his own views!

...which sadly makes me think of how authors today are assumed to be condoning morally questionable things that happen in their books unless they pause the whole narrative to say to the reader, "I don't condone this, though"

but the POINT is

I don't actually know what my point is, I just find it very funny. maybe precisely because it's sadly relatable lol

I think what it is is that Boccaccio wrote a whole author's note, whereas Dumas keeps throwing it into the narrative but like SO briefly. it almost feels like an editor was like "alexandre please, I enjoy what you're doing here but you KNOW readers are not going to think your heroes are so heroic when they're constantly making love to married women! please, you must address this!" so Dumas would just throw in half a sentence like "remember, this was totally fine according to the morals of the time. anyway,"

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

She thinks I'm joking