Chetzemoka

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Rational. Objective. What on earth makes you think bigotry has ever been rational? You know that only 60 years ago in the US there were people openly opposed to the idea of black people sitting next to them on a bus, right? There was never anything objective or rational about it, just pure ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The Marvels was poorly paced and I don't know if that's more the fault of the editing or the directing. But holy shit the individual pieces were so. good.

The interactions between the leads, the evolution of the fight scenes to integrate the problem and turn it into an advantage. Princesses and kittens are not my kind of deal, but they were absolutely perfect in this movie and I was thrilled to see them. Kamala Khan being a superhero with a normal, well-adjusted, loving family is one of my favorite things about her character.

My frustration and disappointment with this and with The Eternals is this had all the pieces to be a great Marvel movie, but the pieces didn't get assembled properly somehow. I don't know what changed about their production process, but if they can fix it, they still have good content to build great movies on. Haters bedamned.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stamets, I'm so sorry. I hadn't heard. I've lost people under bad circumstances. It's not fair. The world should stop, everything should stop moving and everyone should stop what they're doing and acknowledge the depth of loss and the void left where they used to be. But it doesn't stop moving and that's not fucking right and it's not fucking fair.

Please do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself. Just do what's next. Your only obligation in the world right now is to wake up and breathe. Everything else is bonus points. We'll be here whenever you're ready or even if you never want to talk to any of us again.

I'm so sorry that a good person is gone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The original r/196 subreddit had a rule that if you visited the sub, you were required to post a meme before you left. A lot of people tried to follow the rule, but weren't able to come up with a good post title on such short notice, and started just naming their post after that rule. After some time it became a meme in and of itself to include the word "rule" in your post title somehow

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty liberal with the upvotes. I like to encourage people to participate and an upvote feels like saying "hey I see you and thanks for sharing." I regularly upvote things I don't like or don't agree with, if they are shared in good faith and contribute to the conversation.

Downvotes are for bigots and misinformation/disinformation/lies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think overpopulation is a non-issue because I prefer to follow the data over my own intuition. And the data shows that population is already slowing and will peak without intervention.

And I think it's extraordinarily important to reiterate that point because of the extreme dangers of any attempt at population control to devolve into outright eugenics and genocide.

https://www.pop.org/overpopulation-myth/

The most effective and the only ethical means of population control is a combination of increasing the availability of birth control, providing family planning education, and reducing child mortality. Yes this needs to be part of our climate change solutions, we're doing this, and it's already working.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, the project there referring to is run by 23andme. My whole family participates in the same research because so many of us have Crohn's disease.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is how I feel. I don't hate Google. But I do want to see them broken up and regulated much more than they currently are.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

free speech and government oversight

That's not what I read into this at all, but something far more sinister that I see happening in the world right now. Certain power players using "government oversight" as a disingenuous excuse to attack the means for regular people around the world to speak directly to one another without the filters that favor narratives that the power players prefer, and for regular people to coordinate with one another.

The Arab Spring and BLM protests scared some people and it's showing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's just mockingbirds though. Lol

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