I mean yeah fuck the way the world going. On the other hand Guns Akimbo is so worth a watch as well as Swiss Army Man. They're both such fever dreams and I very much appreciate Radcliffe going from that terf's garbage to doing what I would call (hesitantly) real art.
It pisses me off so bad that JK Rowling had to be a fucking transphobic racist piece of shit. This is me off to an extreme extent because she is a fucking genius author when it comes to one thing. She chose one generation and then wrote a story specifically for that generation, having the writing style get older with the generation. And then she wasted it by being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit and filling the story with the same type of garbage. Like credit where credit is due. That one thing that she did is fucking genius. But she had to ruin it by being herself. Goddammit.
For the record, I'm not saying she's the only one to have done this or anything, but doing that and capturing that type of magic for a child will easily become an important part of that person's life. She could have told so many amazing stories and morals to help people be a better person as they grew up and she didn't. Fucking colonoscopy of a human.
If it makes you feel any better there tons of video essays tearing the series apart. It's not particularly genius, very little if any of what she did was original and from the very beginning it was chocked full of racism, antisemitism, fatphobia and ablelism.
Also that's an insult to colonoscopies, as they're important and save lives.
I'm not saying the books are genius, I'm saying the move to write the books for a specific generation is genius. Like most books in a series will be written all in the same style. The HP books were written to 'grow up' along with the people who were reading them. That idea and tactic was genius. Literally nothing else.
Makes a lot of sense. 1-4 are great, fun, whimsical magical mystery books. 5 is painfully annoying. Couldn't get through 6 and 7. As a kid I skipped through them only reading the most important section.
I have since tried to read the 6th book, listen to the audiobook version or watch the movie multiple times and couldn't manage to get through it even once. It just sucks.
I grew up reading the books as they came out, and where I had read (or had my mom read to me when I was too young to read them myself) the first 3 books repeatedly, I definitely aged out by the time 6&7 were released. I think I read 6 once and I couldn't even finish 7.
I also noped out of the films after the spider in 2 (holy crap I was way too young to be seeing that film btw!)
Yeah, Radcliffe is in the uniquely special circumstance, where he has more money than God but he also wants to keep making movies. The result is that he only does the movies that he wants to do. He doesn’t attach himself to movies just for clout or money, because he doesn’t need either of those.
I may be an optimist in some ways, but I honestly expect civilization will persist through "all this". Though of course, that isn't really much comfort considering that doesn't mean that it won't absolutely suck for the people within it all.
The great thing now is that we are currently ending the world, so there won't be anywhere for that civilization to be.
Dont say space.²
If you want a future, kill your masters.
If you want to kill yourself and everyone else, get yourself some weed and eggs Benedict, and just keep doing what you're doing¹.
¹assuming you're not spectacularly cool. If you're spectacularly cool a change in behavior may be required.
²Nobody who says that has ever allowed a serious expert into the same room as them. It may not be theoretically possible, we certainly aren't within a century of unsupported space settlement. We haven't even sent a person out of orbit yet.
Moon orbits what? Doesn't count as leaving. Might be technically out, but kind of only supports my point.
Also I don't think we still have capacity to do that as a species, but am not sure where the Chinese space program is focused on so can't say for sure.
I'm saying it might technically be outside earth's orbit, but it is orbiting earth pretty close. So maybe technically but having to reach for a 'technically' supports my point.
And also I dont think we could get a person to the moon and back right now.
Civilization is doing pretty well outside the US. If the US disappeared tomorrow, the rest of the world would do significantly better. I don't know how the world will deal with climate change, but without the US it would be easier to make progress. The tech firms blowing up the AI bubble, and invading our privacy are nearly all American. A lot of the private equity firms destroying the world are also American. If the US could hurry up and finish collapsing, the rest of the world's civilization could just move on.
I put a lot of US's problems as interfence from Russia and China to empower the far-right so that Russia has a customer base for oil, and China can race ahead in the green markets.
I think a world without the US would just mean that Europe and South America are targeted in the same way
The dysfunction in the US has always existed, but it never spilled over into politics quite to this degree.
Russia was found to be sponsoring the NRA, and the rise of evangelicals as a voting group seems to be a co-ordinated world-wide phenomenon.
Whilst one can blame the techbros and robber barons for exacerbating this, I'd argue that those same elites thrived more under stable economic growth than an unstable one
but it never spilled over into politics quite to this degree.
Sure. But, look at the media environment. From the founding of the US to the invention of radio, there were newspapers. Sure, there was a strong element of yellow journalism, but to print a newspaper you still needed a printing press so it wasn't a free-for-all. Then with radio, and then TV in the 50s there were only a handful of sources of information for everybody to follow. It's only really since the 2010s that the media environment has been a free-for-all with anybody able to put up their own podcast, or put up videos on YouTube, or have their own blog, or post on Twitter, or whatever.
Politicians used to be able to do backroom deals. Those used to get a bad name, but to a certain extent it was a good thing, because at least they were dealing, instead of causing things to come to a deadlock. Now, if anybody dares to talk to someone on "the other team", they get raked over the coals.
Russia was found to be sponsoring the NRA
Sure, they spent some money, and had some success. But, they hardly needed to push. The NRA's goals were already aligned with Russia's. The NRA has over 5 million members, and they were hardly upset with the direction Russia was pushing.
the rise of evangelicals as a voting group seems to be a co-ordinated world-wide phenomenon.
Not to me. There doesn't seem to be much coordination there. There are just grifters seeing an opportunity.
I'd argue that those same elites thrived more under stable economic growth than an unstable one
It's hardly the first time that an elite and powerful group tried to use a movement or a politician to further their interests and then found out that they couldn't control what they'd unleashed.
I’m job shopping and the effort feels futile. I am fortunate to have one already, although it is quite stressful and the pay is low enough that I must work a part time job as well. I worry about those who depend on medicaid to stay alive and will have the added stress of finding 80 hours of work per month in a depressed market come January.
Story of life. I started college in the wake of the dotcom bubble, I finished college when the housing market was heating up... but I had to go back to college again and graduated when the 2008 crisis was still ongoing.
I got a decent job now (decent compared to what I had before) but the AI bubble bursting is... going to be terrifying.
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hansolo@lemmy.today · 90 pts · 278d
Hey. My Mom voted for Trump to accelerate the Second Coming of Jesus.
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Makeitstop@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 278d
Unfortunately, Jesus is now in an ICE detention center awaiting deportation to El Salvador.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 278d
And so when Jesus makes his way back to El Norte, my Mom goes to heaven.
What a silly religion.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 278d
Only the apocalypse is important. After that we can hand him over to the Zionists for their rape and torture prison.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 6 pts · 278d
Didn't they just try that Rapture thing and it failed?
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 278d
Just means they hadn't ruined the world enough. They'll try again.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 276d
lucky.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 5 pts · 276d
Jesus being sent to "The Savior" would be divine comedy
rami@ani.social · 51 pts · 278d
I mean yeah fuck the way the world going. On the other hand Guns Akimbo is so worth a watch as well as Swiss Army Man. They're both such fever dreams and I very much appreciate Radcliffe going from that terf's garbage to doing what I would call (hesitantly) real art.
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 278d
It pisses me off so bad that JK Rowling had to be a fucking transphobic racist piece of shit. This is me off to an extreme extent because she is a fucking genius author when it comes to one thing. She chose one generation and then wrote a story specifically for that generation, having the writing style get older with the generation. And then she wasted it by being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit and filling the story with the same type of garbage. Like credit where credit is due. That one thing that she did is fucking genius. But she had to ruin it by being herself. Goddammit.
For the record, I'm not saying she's the only one to have done this or anything, but doing that and capturing that type of magic for a child will easily become an important part of that person's life. She could have told so many amazing stories and morals to help people be a better person as they grew up and she didn't. Fucking colonoscopy of a human.
rami@ani.social · 14 pts · 278d
If it makes you feel any better there tons of video essays tearing the series apart. It's not particularly genius, very little if any of what she did was original and from the very beginning it was chocked full of racism, antisemitism, fatphobia and ablelism.
Also that's an insult to colonoscopies, as they're important and save lives.
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 278d
I'm not saying the books are genius, I'm saying the move to write the books for a specific generation is genius. Like most books in a series will be written all in the same style. The HP books were written to 'grow up' along with the people who were reading them. That idea and tactic was genius. Literally nothing else.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 276d
animorphs....
I feel her genius is the same as the beatles: good timing, great publicity, rabid fanbase
Taleya@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 277d
Eh, she spoke to a bunch of people hungry for mid fantasy. She's not very good at it, just lucked out on timing.
Get some Pratchett in ya, now THERE is a writer who put good into the world
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 277d
Her editor was very good. As the books went on and JK got veto power over her editor, the books got worse and more problematic.
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
Makes a lot of sense. 1-4 are great, fun, whimsical magical mystery books. 5 is painfully annoying. Couldn't get through 6 and 7. As a kid I skipped through them only reading the most important section.
I have since tried to read the 6th book, listen to the audiobook version or watch the movie multiple times and couldn't manage to get through it even once. It just sucks.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 276d
I grew up reading the books as they came out, and where I had read (or had my mom read to me when I was too young to read them myself) the first 3 books repeatedly, I definitely aged out by the time 6&7 were released. I think I read 6 once and I couldn't even finish 7.
I also noped out of the films after the spider in 2 (holy crap I was way too young to be seeing that film btw!)
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 276d
oh weird, I liked the darker tones of 567
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
I think the main issue for me is the genre switch between 1-4 and 5-7.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 276d
for me that coincided right about when my voice dropped and I started wearing darker clothes, so that shift was on point for me
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 278d
Man, I feel exactly the same about loving wrap dresses. Bitch who popularized them was nearly as bad as Rowling.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 278d
Yeah, Radcliffe is in the uniquely special circumstance, where he has more money than God but he also wants to keep making movies. The result is that he only does the movies that he wants to do. He doesn’t attach himself to movies just for clout or money, because he doesn’t need either of those.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 278d
'Swiss army man' is absolutely real art. It's just weird and hard to watch and includes dirty jokes. Don't be a dick. Haven't seen the other.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 278d
I am delighted that when I think of Radcliffe, these are the first things that come to mind. Harry Potter is second.
Emma Watson is still Hermione, but Radcliffe, that crazy twat...
Zoot@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 277d
Thank you for the guns akimbo call out, always been curious where that meme came from and it's freaking hilarious
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 278d
Swiss Army Man is so good. Not as funny or action packed as Akimbo but so many feelings
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 43 pts · 278d
I may be an optimist in some ways, but I honestly expect civilization will persist through "all this". Though of course, that isn't really much comfort considering that doesn't mean that it won't absolutely suck for the people within it all.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 40 pts · 278d
Depends on how you define civilization.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 278d
And how you define “all this”
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 276d
*gestures at genitals*
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 278d
Hey, the NCR came after the Great War, right?
Although I hope that's not the bar we're shooting for.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 278d
I'd put down a bet that Iceland is gonna be okay.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 278d
That makes them suspicious if you ask me.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 278d
The great thing now is that we are currently ending the world, so there won't be anywhere for that civilization to be.
Dont say space.²
If you want a future, kill your masters.
If you want to kill yourself and everyone else, get yourself some weed and eggs Benedict, and just keep doing what you're doing¹.
¹assuming you're not spectacularly cool. If you're spectacularly cool a change in behavior may be required.
²Nobody who says that has ever allowed a serious expert into the same room as them. It may not be theoretically possible, we certainly aren't within a century of unsupported space settlement. We haven't even sent a person out of orbit yet.
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d
Agree with your sentiment internet friend, but might want to drop that last sentence. We, uh, did go to the moon, right? Right?
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 278d
Moon orbits what? Doesn't count as leaving. Might be technically out, but kind of only supports my point.
Also I don't think we still have capacity to do that as a species, but am not sure where the Chinese space program is focused on so can't say for sure.
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d
Ok then we have different definitions of "orbit" and "leaving."
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 278d
I'm saying it might technically be outside earth's orbit, but it is orbiting earth pretty close. So maybe technically but having to reach for a 'technically' supports my point.
And also I dont think we could get a person to the moon and back right now.
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d
Probably could not get a person to the moon and back, alive. Agree.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 277d
Civilization is doing pretty well outside the US. If the US disappeared tomorrow, the rest of the world would do significantly better. I don't know how the world will deal with climate change, but without the US it would be easier to make progress. The tech firms blowing up the AI bubble, and invading our privacy are nearly all American. A lot of the private equity firms destroying the world are also American. If the US could hurry up and finish collapsing, the rest of the world's civilization could just move on.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 276d
I put a lot of US's problems as interfence from Russia and China to empower the far-right so that Russia has a customer base for oil, and China can race ahead in the green markets.
I think a world without the US would just mean that Europe and South America are targeted in the same way
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 276d
I think the ultimate cause for most of the world's problems is Russia and its decrepit fascism.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 276d
I think also people forget how good the US was in being a stable pillar of free and open collaboration in the sciences worldwide.
What is happening now is a major shift in that stability
merc@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 276d
I think you're overestimating the influence of Russia and China and underestimating the dysfunction in the US.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 276d
The dysfunction in the US has always existed, but it never spilled over into politics quite to this degree.
Russia was found to be sponsoring the NRA, and the rise of evangelicals as a voting group seems to be a co-ordinated world-wide phenomenon.
Whilst one can blame the techbros and robber barons for exacerbating this, I'd argue that those same elites thrived more under stable economic growth than an unstable one
merc@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 275d
Sure. But, look at the media environment. From the founding of the US to the invention of radio, there were newspapers. Sure, there was a strong element of yellow journalism, but to print a newspaper you still needed a printing press so it wasn't a free-for-all. Then with radio, and then TV in the 50s there were only a handful of sources of information for everybody to follow. It's only really since the 2010s that the media environment has been a free-for-all with anybody able to put up their own podcast, or put up videos on YouTube, or have their own blog, or post on Twitter, or whatever.
Politicians used to be able to do backroom deals. Those used to get a bad name, but to a certain extent it was a good thing, because at least they were dealing, instead of causing things to come to a deadlock. Now, if anybody dares to talk to someone on "the other team", they get raked over the coals.
Sure, they spent some money, and had some success. But, they hardly needed to push. The NRA's goals were already aligned with Russia's. The NRA has over 5 million members, and they were hardly upset with the direction Russia was pushing.
Not to me. There doesn't seem to be much coordination there. There are just grifters seeing an opportunity.
It's hardly the first time that an elite and powerful group tried to use a movement or a politician to further their interests and then found out that they couldn't control what they'd unleashed.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 275d
You've got some interesting perspectives, thanks for this
Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 278d
I’m job shopping and the effort feels futile. I am fortunate to have one already, although it is quite stressful and the pay is low enough that I must work a part time job as well. I worry about those who depend on medicaid to stay alive and will have the added stress of finding 80 hours of work per month in a depressed market come January.
BilSabab@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 276d
this one hurts
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 276d
Y u sad tho?
Born to Excel, forced to tend the fields in a new post-capitalistic (prob warlord for a few decades) society? :D
(Friendly joking tone!)
HalfBakedChef@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 278d
Come wash dishes w me bro
OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 278d
Surely there are jobs that pay better... r-r-right?
stinky@redlemmy.com · 5 pts · 278d
I am sorry to have laughed
You are more than an employee
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 5 pts · 276d
Story of life. I started college in the wake of the dotcom bubble, I finished college when the housing market was heating up... but I had to go back to college again and graduated when the 2008 crisis was still ongoing.
I got a decent job now (decent compared to what I had before) but the AI bubble bursting is... going to be terrifying.
Num10ck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d
might as well start your own business.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 276d
yea.... this hits
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 276d
Civilization isnt actually truly degrading yet, and when that starts, it'll still be a decade before anything serious actually starts to change.