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It's important to note the scene with the Black hitchhiker where Vladek turns really, blatantly, viciously, pointlessly, passive-aggressively racist.
Anyway Netanyahu and those guys have said quite explicitly they're perfectly fine with ethnic cleansing as long as they're the ones deciding who's undesireable. They seem to have convinced themselves they are special little boys who deserve to commit genocide even though it's wrong when other people do it to them.
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watching massive franchises bomb at the box office while Backrooms has made $212 million on a $10 million initial budget has brought me hope for the future of cinema
audiences do NOT want Star Wars slop, audiences want a movie made by a guy who really wanted to make a movie
I'm looking at you specifically here, Star War
Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:
“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”
“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”
Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”
“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”
“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”
“WHY QUESTION???”
To celebrate Erid getting their sun back on track, Grace asks for some alcohol. There's a small amount left from the Hail Mary and Rocky offers to take it to the science Eridians to see if they can synthesise more.
“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”
“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”
“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”
“WHY QUESTION?????”
Grace is like one of those extremely finicky tropical fish who instantly die if not kept in extremely specific conditions.
Only here the fish can talk and keeps asking you to make it vodka.
Just wait till he digs out the kilogram of heroin from Ilyukhina's stuff
One day I'll learn not to respond to comments on comments on tumblr posts. Every time it's some absurd person with a passive-aggressive complaint and when I challenge their point and/or reading comprehension they block me but I keep giving me comment update notifications and since I can't see their comments anymore I have no way to even find the post.
(They said liberals are the ones fighting for human rights actually, and all I said was "when?")
I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
I'll tell you what I learned from Grant Morrison's writing, about 25 years ago. Think of ego as scaffolding for your self. It's a temporary support structure you use for building something to last. It gives easier access for construction, and up to a basic point it may be necessary to keep the structure from blowing over in the wind, but the point comes when the scaffold just closes you off from the world and you have to tear it down before you can open your self for business. And then you find out the scaffold was just setting a limit on your growth - now you're free to make the structure bigger, bolder, more uniquely shaped than you could ever imagine.
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Ants are so crazy as animals, imagine fighting behemoths that are dozens or hundreds or millions of times your size and hauling massive cargo with just your jaws and joining your sisters on the battlefield in massive intercolony wars and. What the fuck
There is a very good reason why many animals mimic ants, you simply don’t mess with ants
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I'm reminded of the world of Human-B-Gone, where kaiju insects and humans in an alien world fight each other over a tragic misunderstanding where neither side understands the others are intelligent. And their common antagonist are the ants who rule over bug society with their unmatched power of communication. They're a real world species called yellow crazy ant (except giant), but they're just called the ants because a) bugs don't see the color yellow, b) no one would dare call them crazy and c) they exterminated or enslaved every other species that organize in colonies.
having a process for people who have done morally horrific things to make amends, rejoin community, and do right going forward is actually fundamentally crucial for the left. having a clear and accessible pathway for people to be socially (if not interpersonally) forgiven is how you get people radicalized against capitalism and imperialism and white supremacy and patriarchy. its how you turn "these people think i am a bad person" into "these people think something and someone coerced or forced me into doing bad things, and these people want to help me do something about that."
if you want more revolutionaries, you must have a system to turn guilty, traumatized, angry bystanders and collaborators into revolutionaries. and I say a system and process because its not "oh the drone operator said they were sorry and felt bad so its all good now :)" there is no shortcut here. but it is absolutely necessary. no revolution is comprised of morally pure people. in many cases, the most devoted revolutionaries are the ones who know exactly what it is like on the other side.
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I think the kitty is indulging you in playing fetch for brief periods in between pets
here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!
try to create a normal (bell curve) distribution
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did you read the block of text at the start of this post? please be honest.
yes, I read that before voting
yes, I read it after voting in the poll but before seeing this second poll
yes, but only because THIS poll pointed me to it
no, I still have not read it
[show results]
Optimistically, we might call this a study in how much people prefer pressing shiny buttons to give their opinion over reading. But I'm still worried about the 13% gap between people who evidently read the instructions and people who evidently felt the need to lie to an anonymous poll about reading the instructions after proving they didn't. Can't imagine how goddamn fragile your ego has to be for that to make sense.
Optimistically, one might speculate that the people who do not read instructions before voting are also disinclined to click "read more" to see that a poll exists to be voted on, skewing the results in favour of people who read
There is that. I probably should have noted the much lower number of votes on poll #2. . .
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“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.
“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”
She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”
After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”
if astrology was real it ought to be affected by anthropogenic space objects. imagine being like yeah this month has sucked for me bc the iss is in sagittarius
Other thought just occurred to me, if astrology was real we'd never have needed to invent telescopes. Why couldn't astrology predict the existence of Ceres? You should be able to say people born on this and that time and date are like this, that means there's a big ass dwarf planet around the asteroid belt. Like the Great Attractor was identified 40 years ago and that's when astrologers started thinking they should figure out what it does, they had absolutely no idea anything was going on.
here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!
try to create a normal (bell curve) distribution
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did you read the block of text at the start of this post? please be honest.
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yes, I read it after voting in the poll but before seeing this second poll
yes, but only because THIS poll pointed me to it
no, I still have not read it
[show results]
Optimistically, we might call this a study in how much people prefer pressing shiny buttons to give their opinion over reading. But I'm still worried about the 13% gap between people who evidently read the instructions and people who evidently felt the need to lie to an anonymous poll about reading the instructions after proving they didn't. Can't imagine how goddamn fragile your ego has to be for that to make sense.
Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?
Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS
I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
So actually if you really wanted to use your analysis skills you'd realize that what people are annoyed about is the implication that there's never a story or creative work they can create that can escape people like you attempting to assign political meaning to it when they just don't want that. That in fact people's presumptions about life are not, in fact, political (at best they are cultural, which is not an inherently facet of politics). And that by you people arrogantly pushing this idea you are intruding on the fact that a lot of people use fiction as escapism from politics and insisting that "urm no actually your favourite cartoon actually has politics cause no human being is 100% unbiased" is in fact, supremely fucking annoying
"Stop having fun wrong, it ruins my fun when you have fun wrong, it's not enough for me to just scroll past the analysis I don't like, if anyone anywhere is saying that the cartoon exists in a political context that's undermining my enjoyment of it!"
That's you. That's what you sound like.
"I'm not doing politics right now" is a political stance. Escapism is a political action. Just cause you yourself don't feel the impact of your opinions or actions doesn't mean they are apolitical; it means you have the privilege of ignorance, the freedom to ignore the people who do feel it. Oh, how supremely fucking annoying to have people tell you that everything you do matters. Imagine being forced to live with that; to not have the option to just stay out of a conversation like this and save yourself from being annoyed any time you like.
It's also acceptable if they use funny units like "four quarter pounders tall" or "bigger than a sandwich press"
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People are just fucking insane now. Can’t imagine living my life like that.
In one of Will Eisner's comics about working class life in New York in the 1940s (I forgot which, there's so many of them) there's a bit with two housewives standing in their apartment doors and gossiping. A newly moved in Black kid runs by, and wife A comments, disapprovingly, "So we're going to have a those people living here now." Wife B immediately retorts "Yes, you'd better stay inside and keep your door closed." I always found that inspiring.
The more colorful the world gets, the less bigots will engage with any of it. Let's make them lock themselves in all day, every day.
There is a pretty significant point here. A strong sign of early dementia is mood changes, specifically getting more angry and mean, because it's frustrating and scary to find yourself not remembering things and not being understood. You might hear "Oh boy, grandma has turned into an asshole, we're going to have to have her checked out." Which would be different from "Grandma has always been an asshole, so she's still an asshole, what's there to worry about?"
Being kind can save your mind.
