It’s a great meme!

My hot take, though, is that although the rule-followers and the radicals both dismiss the others as ineffective and dangerous, both of these groups are unwittingly depending on each other to achieve an overthrow of fascism.

I think Eternals will be viewed much more kindly in 10 years. I loved it.

Thanks for sharing that skit! I hadn’t seen that before!

The original '89 Batman is still dope. I’m surprised @DigDoug@lemmy.world didn’t like it.

What was off? Michael Keaton is one of those actors that I think can hold an audience even with weak material, and I didn’t think that was weak material at all. And that’s before we even get into Jack Nicholson’s Joker. Was it bad? Or did it just feel boring or something?

It’s pretty impressive how good the second one is considering what it’s between.

I have an unpopular opinion in that I did not like Batman Begins. The direction is great. There’s a great vibe to it all. The concept is there. But imo, the really high quality of Nolan’s visual directing does so much work distracting people from how lacking the movie is in actual substance.

I don’t know how he hit such gold with the second. It wasn’t just the great performance from Ledger: the overall writing and story are just way, way better than the other two. Good for him, though.

This. Arguing with people online is – with all due respect – a complete waste of time if your goal is to change the world.

Ignore the people who have dumb opinions. It isn’t as though if you win 500 arguments Elon Musk donates all his money to Socialism.

Go join a tenant’s union or a mutual aid society. Go build the alternative world that doesn’t transfer all our money upward.

(Also, though, if you do this long enough there will likely be a revolution. But that part comes after you feed and shelter enough people that it begins to become a threat to capital. It’s downstream. Either way, don’t bother trying to persuade strangers on the internet,)

I think you’re asking the wrong question. The better question is ‘How do I get my screenplay produced?’

I’m not an expert, but my understanding is that movie studios don’t really produce unsolicited screenplays anymore. You really need to produce it yourself, or be a known screenwriter who has prior relationships with producers.

If you don’t already have writing credits and an agent, you likely either need to produce it yourself – which means finding a director and actors and raising the money to pay for things – or you should try to publish it as a novel that becomes groundshakingly popular like The Martian or Dungeon Crawler Carl.

But the good news is that you can rest assured that having it stolen isn’t a risk you need to worry about.

But it’s not called that, and it’s not the official name.

Naming shit isn’t a presidential power. His declaration has no more weight than if he announced that from now on your legal name was Vicky.

It’s silly and stupid, but also genuinely dangerous when groups with as much power as Google has declare that they’re willing to let a madman dictate how they describe reality.

I’ve thought about this too. I once heard a theory that road rage is a result of the fact that cars prevent people from observing the subtle facial and body signals we use to communicate contrition or distress that are visible when you annoy someone under routine circumstances.

If you accidentally cut a line in a buffet or turn a corner and almost run into someone while walking, they can see you as a person and identify that you feel embarrassed. But without that, you just see a big truck or a fancy sedan and you write a whole narrative in your head about the worst fucking person in the whole world going around being an unapologetic asshole.

Personally, I’d rather just get people out of cars more than develop new technologies, but I’ve often wished I had a megaphone so I could tell someone I was sorry for driving badly.

Respectfully, when you talk about other people’s bodies in disgust it gives the impression that you don’t actually care about the people who inhabit those bodies; you’re just another idealogue seeking the affirmation of your own worldview, just like your opponents.

I didn’t impose circumcision on my son because I want every person to be able to modify or maintain their body as they wish. Do you want the same? I’m curious if you support adult circumcision by choice and gender affirming surgery, or if you tell those people that they’re mutilated as well.

Yo I’m a practicing Jew and I didn’t circumcize my kid: We don’t all do that, so please don’t hate the whole faith.

Also: like most Americans, I was circumcized, and while I don’t support the practice I don’t like when people refer to my dick as “mutilated”. That’s not really what being supportive of bodily autonomy looks like.

I can’t confirm a negative, but I can state as a Jew in California I’ve seen a lot of similar claims here in the US that were manufactured and false.

Fwiw, I’m only seeing this through channels I subscribe to in order to track this stuff. I see a lot of it, but not so much when I’m not seeking it out.

So some of this might be an effect of your own feed.

I don’t think you can guarantee that.

First, I think something like this does exist. I’ve heard ads for a service that sounded similar to this this on the Savage Love podcast.

Second, anyone interested in this topic should check out a new docu series on Nebula called Goonworld.

In Goonworld, video essayist FD Signifier explores America’s simultaneous obsession with both enjoying and punishing pornography, sex workers, and the performance of sex.

It’s on episode two, and it’s very good.

I came looking for a comment like this to agree that we need to discuss UBI more in the context of Universal Services.

Personally, I think there’s a strong chance that universal services will emerge before or alongside a UBI. Both are more likely to grow gradually rather than suddenly.

One great thing about universal services is that they don’t require as much top-down oversight to deploy, imo. You can join groups now that collect and distribute free fruit. Anyone with a skill can begin giving it away; if you’re a lawyer, you can give free legal services to immigrants; if you’re a technician, you can join or set up fixit clinics. Every time folks begin giving away labor value, they’re chipping away at the transactional structure that holds people hostage to capitalist labor markets. And as critical mass builds, more and more people are freed to spend less and less time hustling for their daily bread, and can direct more and more time to this Solidarity Economy. And unlike a UBI, you don’t need the government or the rich to buy-in: you can start practicing these things yourself and with neighbors now.

If you want to build this but want something a little less anarchist, public school systems are an existing prototype of this: that’s why a lot of school systems also engage in food distribution and more recently experiments in social housing. You can join advisory committees and help deploy more services using your school district to pilot universal basic services!

I totally hear you. But the reason I disagree is that I think writers have a choice in how a death is supposed to strike the audience, and Dinniman is like a D&D GM who acts a lot tougher than he is.

George R.R. Martin is the real deal: he’s a ruthless writer of huge stakes: Ned Stark’s death is designed to be as distressing as possible. It’s intended to leave the reader with the devestated feeling that the world is highly unjust; that the more honorable the character, the more danger they’re in; that the reader should be in a constant state of concern that the characters they care about could at any moment not only die, but – more importantly for fiction imo – be rendered meaningless. He is disgraced in death, and it’s deeply painful for the reader.

Conversely, Matt Dinniman is, imo, basically a softy. When good characters die, they leave a mark. Their friends mourn; they are honored and avenged; their lives leave indelible marks on the trajectory of the story. It’s sad, but it’s very sweet sorrow.

That might change in the later books, but so far, Dinniman has been very gentle on readers when it counts.

I’m on five and it’s mostly stayed constant. I haven’t seen it get better or worse.

The cat goes in to the dungeon with him and is gifted with sentience immediately, becoming the protagonist’s sassy partner. It’s cheesey fun.

As others have pointed out, the book has a lot of over the top violence and death, so you might want to stay away. On the other hand, though, the author is far more into gore and comic book ultra violence than cruelty. Many people find Princess Donut – the cat annoying – but by book five no great harm has befallen her or any of the other protagonists.

Anyone have a gift link?