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Five @beehaw.org 11mo ago

I checked back on Reddit, and one of the threads was 'best heist movie of all time'

Not a single comment mentioned the GOAT:

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Five @beehaw.org 11mo ago

Queer space pirate polycules or no dice.

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Five @beehaw.org 11mo ago

Gene Rodenberry was a WWII veteran and former cop who was transparent that Star Trek was intended as propaganda. The Galactic Federation is a super-power that represents the role the United States plays as an international super-power. The values of the universe are American liberal democratic humanism, and the hegemony of the United States is while not perfect, is building a better future for everybody. There is an inexplicable fight with a balloon cetacean, and plenty of jarring ai video clips.

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Five @beehaw.org 11mo ago

Socialism isn't just a national system of government. Socialism is a mindset, a set of values, a way of life.

Socialism is already happening in pockets and small groups. Often the less they overtly advertise their socialism, the more socialist they can be - because people love socialism in practice despite being taught to hate it in theory. Doing small scale organizing is reasonable and achievable. Direct action is going to get you places in the short term, because it is local and focused on the goals of you and your comrades. Forming a tenants union, organizing at your workplace, joining a cooperative -- these are all direct actions you can take right now, and not only help you in the short term, but will build a bridge to much bigger things in the future.

If you feel small steps are just a circle jerk, if you are waiting for some large watershed moment where everyone else decides to live under socialism, you're going to have a bad time. You shouldn't expect yourself or anyone else to be able to effect sudden utopian change. But you do have incredible agency in deciding how you live. By participating in the small direct actions, you can see how socialism can improve your life first hand, not just in theory. You can get first-hand experience with leaders and comrades, and build your intuition about whether groups are actually socialist, or just another version of oppression. Changing the world may seem impossible if you focus on the big picture, the secret is focusing on changing yourself to be a better person, someone who will thrive and help others to thrive in a socialist world. I find hope in learning to connect better with others, and learning through my interactions with them what kinds of alternate societies can be possible. Every step in self-improvement, every breakthrough you make in your own journey changes the world in a real, tangible way for the better.

Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

Support. No one wants to hear about the negative stuff about their platform of choice, but it's important to talk about it so it can improve.

Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

The guy you're trying to pass the buck to, money_loo, is from a lemmy instance that only has Chicago sports communities and whose front page is mostly federated meme posts. You're a BeeHaw user. You've presumably read and agreed to the Beehaw community documents.

I expect more than anti-intellectualism from you.

Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

That definitely changes things. Out of curiosity, I looked up what other movies he directed and produced.

He produced and starred in American Sniper, which was incidentally also kind of a political disaster. The nose prosthetic reminds me of the American Sniper fake baby hilarity. Bradley put the blame on the director, but the director makes it sound like it was a monetary and not an artistic choice. That would put the responsibility on the shoulders of the producer.

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Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

So many questions!

Are you suggesting that the political aspects of technology shouldn't be discussed in a technology community?

Are you implying that technology is apolitical? That there are technology subjects to discuss that don't have a political component?

Do discussions of the applications of technology not belong in a technology community?

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Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

Have you tried sokui? If you have leftover asian rice, all you need is a blender. It was historically used in Japan to supplement traditional furniture and housing wood joinery.

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Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

Yikes! They gave Bradley Cooper an even bigger nose than Leonard Bernstein. Is this some kind of antisemitic attack on Jake Gyllenhaal for not taking a pay cut to play the part?

If feel like this is more a studio scandal than a Cooper scandal. They did the casting and approved the prosthetic. I'm disappointed the actor gets the heat and the institution isn't mentioned.

If you want to get angry at Bradley, his relationship with 21 year old Suki Waterhouse was super gross. The studio holds no blame for that mess.

Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

Crack Attack! is a loving parody of addictive tetrislike games that is also an extremely addictive tetrislike game.

Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

Russia is still the world's #2 arms exporter. Using supply domestically means that less can be exported, and more importantly, demonstrably under performing compared to western offering reduces demand.

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Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

There's the real strategic concern that escalating too quickly will have nuclear repercussions. But the deeper reasons are visible if you view most governments as military industrial corporations stacked under a trenchcoat. The true motivator is that the longer the war continues, the more money will flow from their respective tax payers into their pockets. They don't care about Ukrainian lives, they don't care about Russian lives. The popular support for the war and lack of domestic casualties means they get to ply their trade of death, and they come out smelling like roses. Opposing Russian colonialism is a noble cause, but the nobility belongs to those who are dying in the foxholes, not the warmongers who are squeezing this crisis to get more capital.

Western leaders don't want Ukraine to win. They want Russia to lose. A quick cauterized wound is less damaging than a slow bleed out. Total bankruptcy of the Russian war machine is the objective, the economic elimination of their primary trade competitor.

Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

This is not an appropriate post for this community.

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Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

The review was published in 2016 before ND transitioned, I'm old-posting it due to the movie coming out on Netflix recently. Deadnaming is bad, though it's clearly not malicious on the part of the article's author.

Thanks for the note.

Five @beehaw.org 3y ago

Blackheart -> Boldheart, Loinheart -> Goldenloin. It dials down the absurd humor in favor of pathos enough that the ending doesn't feel like tonal whiplash. It also keeps the queerness, maybe dials the transgender elements up a bit. It still works.

I didn't realize there were so many queer-centered stories in cinema that they had become formulaic.