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"features are optional" buds i am not gonna be able to teach normies how to dig around in about:config

Global News is treacherous- they are bought and paid for by Western Canadian business interest and their coverage is right wing copaganda garbage but they did release this in lieu of trying to find a replacement and that's likely because they're cheap & running a skeleton crew this time of the year

this plus the shitpost license are the two greatest innovations in achieving real "copyleft" since like 1990

also, the most insidious thing, for a long time (it's a bit different now with everything-is-CGI, possibly): costumes aren't one-off things, a lot of them get shared and reused one thing with big productions that can afford to make their own stuff from scratch? if they chose badly it would echo…

In the ancient world, the richest and most powerful people wore clothing and armor alive with color and richly decorated. why not take advantage of that? It is boring

You don’t have to put them in the tin can bronze armor. But ffs take inspiration from Late Mycenaean / Minoan / new kingdom Egyptian / Assyrian / etc art and aesthetics! Show us something novel and beautiful - and /colorful/!

To Me I don’t want historical fiction pieces to be 100% historically accurate. I don’t care. But I’d like them to try and capture the /vibe/. The late Bronze Age and the Roman Empire were very aesthetically different; why is art attempting to depict the former resembling our idea of the latter?

83) Before you ask me to separate the artist from the art, make sure there’s at least one of those

"I'm open to critique" / after the critique is given

like horned helmets were invented by wagner. vikings never wore them. I'd forgive a movie for using them if they committed to the bit and made it look cool though. this doesn't look cool

correct opinion!!!

the only movies I feel are actually historically accurate are pasolini's adaptations of classical literature, because they still feel fundamentally weird and alien

It’s very clear who knows a trans person in their life and who only knows of them as a political issue

"the reasonable middle ground? hm yeah I think it's the policy where trans kids get subjected to a decade or more of state mandated body horror and psychological torture"

the average cis person's opinion on trans people seems to be "they shouldnt be allowed to transition until a decade after puberty, also i prefer them when they pass. no i dont know how any of this works and i wont listen if you try to explain"

yeah, this is the bigger problem: most people's "historically accurate" is some version of "turbo racist" (either really attached to the turbo racism or just assuming that was the only normal)

"is this historically accurate?" is often the wrong question to ask (and, in most people's hands, i'd argue it's actually really realy wrong) however, all of the people yelling "it's a fictional story with magic guys in it, dumbass!!" are wrong, too: …

The degree to which my NW DC neighbors obsess about this is insane. i have heard multiple people talk/complain at length about *hypothetical* acts of porch piracy.

Plainly a sop to the exact class of anxious suburbanite that Gottheimer sees himself as the avatar of

the modern history of the criminal legal system makes it very clear that "just make this thing illegal" or "just give the feds jurisdiction over it" does not accomplish very much.

I see some quote posts noting that the local police in their community are unwilling to investigate porch piracy. obviously. but being *unwilling* to do something is not the same as *unable* and does not justify making something a federal crime. if the local cops don't care, you think the FBI will?

"porch piracy" is theft. it's illegal in every single state. in states with expansive statutes, this could even be burglary. there is no evidence that local police or prosecutors are unable to handle this. and existing federal law on interstate transportation of stolen property can handle big cases.

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight

I remember like a year and a half ago, maybe two, people were so fucking ready to go in on memberships here in order to beat Twitter and keep ads off and then the people running it decided Singal dick slapping them was preferable.

finally about to beat the shit out of mavis beacon after all these years

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY NOT?!!!? THE FUCK?!?!! THE JUDGE LET A FUCKING MAGIC EIGHT BALL SPEAK FOR A DEAD MAN?????

fwiw i do think it was just a goof, but still. fuck this take.

remember they will always label our solidarity treachery

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

all the burning questions nerds try to lean on AI and other tescreal crap for would be answered to their satisfaction if they had the ability and inclination to crack the spine on a single philosophy book

knowing the great seal of solomon is hard. convincing people with more money than sense you know the great seal of solomon is easy. and this is what we need to turn the oceans to acid for?

eliza taught technology cultists that if it's too hard to create life via mere acts of language, like a medieval sorceror trying to summon a prince of hell, you can instead use those acts of language to make people too stupid to know better

like in early 2015 alex jones was being more honest about trump than anyone in the DNC who were trying to help him win the primaries to give hillary an easy win

it's funny because that and his mob ties were more openly talked about by the far right of the republican party before they decided to embrace him than the democrats in like 2015. because he was friends with the clintons and other big new york dems

It's wild to me as someone who grew up around Atlantic City. My aunt worked at one of his casinos and always told us about how creepy he was around kids. Did that stop her and my dad voting for him decades later? Apparently not.

but there's *still* a significant chance that next year rings in a whole lot of "well that's in the past and we didn't elect him to be a moral paragon"

there was an entire court case where he was found to have committed sexual abuse! that happened already! didn't change a damn thing! he's losing political usefulness and Epstein is a particular bugaboo of conspiracy enthusiasts so this time around might be different

Oskar Schindler paying off the most fervent Nazis to get them to stop killing Jewish people under the guise of continuing the production of duds at his munition factory is a pretty good example of how corrupt, stupid, and evil go together quite well

my "(rich|white|cishet) people populate the upper echelons of power with the most useless and repellent fuck-ups who ever lived precisely to reassure themselves that they still can" theory stays winning

Oh, so, suddenly it's a CRIME to fly on a PRIVATE JET with the world's most famous PEDOPHILE and a bunch of UNDERAGE GIRLS who were SEX TRAFFICKED and then FIRE everyone at the FBI who INVESTIGATED YOU and replace them with LACKEYS whose only job is to COVER FOR YOU while you STEAL MONEY from TAX PA

I mean

Corrupt, wicked AND incompetent?!? I tell ya, hoss… that dog just won’t hunt

one of the three criteria necessary to unlock me being willing to date you is to sit with me through a full screening of A Knights Tale and convincingly look like you're enjoying yourself the whole time

what does he know

Dumbass Motherfucker Foundation staffers quit and join Stupidass Bitch Foundation

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

Stern: “In the freezer? You actually put them in the freezer?” Dahmer, smirking: “Ha… yeah.” Robin: “Whaat? Nooo.”

Imagine if Dahmer chucklingly confessed live on air to an audience of millions, several times a year, for a decade, to his crimes and then finally 25 years later people are like "damn how did this stay a secret for so long. Who else knew?"