defining the economy is capitalist propaganda, as is measuring it with graphs. also, the economy is bad and used to be better and everyone knows it.

The original novel doesn't pass the bechdel test, no. But the del Toro film makes overtures towards feminism, makes Elizabeth into a sardonic firebrand, and then fridges her anyway, under different circumstances, to make Victor more monstrous and the Creature more sympathetic. It's... interesting.

vince gilligan shaved his moustache and i can tell you right now it would take me like ten years to figure out clark kent is superman. who the fuck is that

I know that language is fluid and beating back the tide is useless and makes me sound like an old fart, but "costed" and "casted" drive me nuts! "Cost" and "cast" are already the past tense forms!

I'm not gonna say that Japanese talent agencies are MORE evil than the rest of the entertainment industry but they are incredibly evil institutions

This is a stolen Onion joke being passed around as news. I fell for it, but you shouldn't.

hold on there's still some space dust

here is the secret code that unlocks everything ok im only going to give it out once (ok thats a lie i will keep saying it forever) the moral panic about what strangers might do to your kids is ALWAYS about the usurpation of the parents' divine right to do exactly that thing to them, with impunity.

If you agree to the premise that left-wing socioeconomic policies have provably superior outcomes and are therefore desirable And you insist on the premise that people vote chiefly based on their material needs Then in theory, far-left parties would sweep constantly. But they demonstrably don't!

I have a hard time with this train of thought because we, you know, literally just had elections.

Sailors' Wisdom

The thing about 6-7 is that it does have a sign, they just don't know it. Drill rap filtered through suburban sports TikTok filtered through shibboleths - it's a signifier of group membership, and that group is "incurious, obnoxious 9 year olds". Fortunately, these things don't last.

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quite literally there is no entertainment industry in the world that isn't racist or that adequately protects young talent and while yes it's always worth to point it out it's very annoying to see the "heinous thing vs heinous thing, [non-western country]" pop up as it always does

Something really sad about the Maya Imamori situation is you can't even write it off as an idol/japan specific issue, it's worldwide. The entertainment industries of the entire planet will toss talented, young, vulnerable women to the dogs the instant some gutter rag makes a fake stink

ID is short for "Identification" by the way, I was using slang.

Hasbro on Solus Prime: "So it was the late 2000s and lots of people were getting worked up about a fictional trope called 'fridging.' Well, we looked that up and we thought 'Hey, this is pretty neat. This is really resonating with people.' So we worked in as many versions of it as we could."

When I was in Chicago I worked on a lawsuit about a cop who would pull people over outside gay bars, give them a test with a tampered breathalyzer, arrest them for DUI,and attend every single hearing & sleep in the back billing overtime. He was making three times his actual salary

every clip people post about northernlion is him saying some "you need to touch grass. engage in earthly virtues, the pleasures of the spirit and the mind. reject dopamine. seek transcendence" while he plays 'Subway Surfers But It Makes You Addicted to Slot Machines' in the background

I've sent my top man for the job

actually it's not a mere battle shonen. If anything it's a josei with slice of life mecha elements. A hint of seinen and jidaigeki. With just the right amount of pinku eiga and eroguro nansensu. And a touch of inspiration from tokusatsu and yuri manga

Kamen Rider ZO

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This is true of public service in general. One reason regulators are often a bit clueless is that, in any field involving technical knowledge or expertise, working for the government is a *massive* pay cut. I made about the maximum here as a brand new college grad ten years ago

The note is pretty good evidence that the sandwich guy jurors carefully evaluated the legal merits of the DOJ’s case and weren’t collectively engaged in a nullification exercise.

Sonic Adventure 2 has all your favorite musical styles!

The replies here are a really bad aspect of culture On Here. A reporter corrects a detail that was widely being misreported and a bunch of scold appear to tell him it wasn't an important detail and he's missing the point. I think accurate reporting is hard and important and should be lauded.

Internet sleuths identified the wrong man. The misinformation has been amplified by multiple high profile accounts.

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

it's not a pet peeve or anything but i need more people to know that this kind of thing was pioneered and invented by the original "You Don't Know Jack" trivia games in the 90's. Their Dis Or Dat questions were the first popular version of this and nobody remembers it and it KILLS ME

This is a fabricated story designed to appeal to your prior assumptions. It has no sources and no citations. It is a lie.

setting my Rude filter to SHOW. setting my Unruly filter to WARN. setting my Vulgar filter to HIDE. setting my Churlish filter to SHOW BADGE. setting my Impudent filter to TSK STERNLY. setting my Callow filter to FROWN. setting my Naughty filter to... hmmm... DEPLOY OPERA GLASSES FOR FURTIVE PEEPING

Apologies to people who followed me for my good posts and not for the board game Root destroying my brain. I swear these are killing it in the board game group chat. (Love playing otters though)

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This quite good thread also thinking about this excellent Tumblr post from decepti-thots about Prowl in the IDW Transformers comics. It's about how fandom increasingly demands narratives that service characters, rather than the other way around. www.tumblr.com/decepti-thot...

Trans folks reading this: don't panic too much, the supreme court thing is about injunctions pending a larger court case Cis folks reading this: Try to understand how terrifying it is to be a minority the government openly hates, and they start fucking with your ability to *leave the country*

Is there any evidence that the staff is "revolting" or is this just something people are going to say like it's true?

Maybe the reason I've been a devil's advocate for *some* of the Bluesky team's changes is because I relate to them as a tabletop game designer. Designing an interface or set of rules people *like* is really, really hard even when you have a small base of allied voices giving you advice.

The rude label is a damned if you do damned if you don't situation. Defaulting to really aggressive rude-pruning He's going to irritate people who are labeled (justly or unjustly) as "rude". It can also obscure patterns of dangerous behavior. But if you don't filter anything people complain too!