steeznson
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- Comment on Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of James Bond 10 hours ago:
Bald man in a suit sips cocktail while sunshine glares off his scalp Name’s Bezos, Jeff Bezos.
- Comment on Sean Baker calls for return of 90 day theatrical windows 1 week ago:
Anora was a cracking film. Rooting for it to win best picture.
- Comment on Are people around you still excited about MCU movies? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
I think we’ve both got different perspectives on this that aren’t going to change so let’s agree to disagree.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
I’d argue that attempts to force people to change their beliefs too quickly has led to a conservative reactionary backlash in recent years.
Recent surveys are showing an increase in people, in particular young people, harbouring intolerant views vs even 10 years ago. I think that suggests that the maximalist progressive rhetoric on social media is turning people away from progressive causes.
Creating a more tolerant society is a frustratingly slow process where the general public gradually become acclimatised to new ways of thinking. Forcing it creates a backlash because people need to feel like they arrived at their ideas themselves. There used to be an acknowledgement that it was a mutual process which is missing from the debate today.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
Queer people were oppressed by the social norm of not judging people for their political beliefs?
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
They worked fine in the 90s/00s. Social media and smart phones has just come in and created hyper-polarization since then. Human beings aren’t designed to be able to handle getting news so quickly from such a wide variety of (dubious) sources.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 week ago:
People cast their vote for a variety of complicated reasons, often against their own interests. Someone might be stupid because they voted for a bad ticket but I don’t think they are necessarily immoral.
These old norms like not judging others for their politics used to function fine before social media propagated and the culture wars flared up. I’d be hesitant to throw the old norms away, even in our current circumstances, because after they go there’s no guarantee you’ll ever get them back.
- Comment on Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall 2 weeks ago:
I think the harder question about the NEET crisis in the UK is that the world of entry level jobs or those available to people with little experience is that they are borderline unbearable. They pay badly and in some cases are humiliating/degrading to do (especially if you interact with the general public). I’m never going to forget wiping cum off the walls of a TK Maxx changing room with blue roll during my student summer job there.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino in ‘No Hurry’ to Direct Final Movie 2 weeks ago:
I felt the exact opposite, OUATIH held my attention the whole time while Hateful Eight was a bit of a slog. I think I need to re-watch Hateful Eight though because I’ve been on a bit of a spaghetti western binge recently.
- Comment on Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls 3 weeks ago:
My brother-in-law has a slightly unusual form of epilepsy called absence seizures where he zones out and ceases to function for almost a minute at a time. It’s the exact opposite of what you’d want for a driver.
However he’s been on medication to treat it and hasn’t had an abscence seizure in over 10 years with his current medication. He lives in Cornwall and some of the council houses he is being offered are perfect but have problems like the nearest pharmacy being 20 miles away and buses being every 3 hours. Out of curiousity we checked to see if he could learn to drive and apparently if you’ve not had a seizure for 2 years then you can get rubberstamped for a provisional drivers license.
Ultimately he’s turning down these places due to these issues, it’s not being counted as a wasted bid since the drawbacks of the property are not just him being fussy. Additionally, I’m pretty certain he lacks the gross motor skills to drive even if seizures are no longer a problem. Will need to wait to bid on more suitable properties. People who live in the country really need better amenities and public transport.
At any rate that 2 year figure struck me as being very, uh, optimistic from the DVLA. Potentially any seizure should seriously curtail your ability to gain a provisional/full license.
- Comment on Is there a better sequel than Terminator 2? 3 weeks ago:
Game over, man
- Comment on 'The Brutalist' criticised for its use of AI 4 weeks ago:
I am not a big fan of LLMs but don’t see a problem with this (or the last confected outrage about Late Night With The Devil). Banning AI in movies is going to be like attempting to put a genie back in its bottle since there are so many potential applications. Maybe indie film makers can advetise their movies as Not AI so that people who are bothered by it can seek those out.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 4 weeks ago:
I believe it would have been legal if the driver was an Albanian with a license. The issue is that the car was registered and insured in Albania and then driven by a Brit. Not EU country has approved them for use on the roads but there are weird loopholes.
- Comment on Police investigate after 'Sara Sharif killer attacked in prison' 1 month ago:
I mean, I agree, but this dude is getting medical support for these injuries like his daughter never got to experience. Having his throat cut probably distracts him from the consequences of his actions and allows him to consider himself as a victim. I want him serving every second of his sentence.
- Comment on Police investigate after 'Sara Sharif killer attacked in prison' 1 month ago:
This was entirely predictable. Why was he in gen pop?
I hope he survives so he can see out his sentence in totality.
- Comment on Nick Clegg to leave Meta ahead of Trump's return - BBC News 1 month ago:
I agreed* with Nick
*unfortunately
- Comment on British girls outdrink boys — and most of Europe 1 month ago:
Denmark are still worse though so no need for alarm. Scottish drug deaths meanwhile…
- Comment on Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs 2 months ago:
Aside from statute of limitations the burden of proof is also lower to bring a successful claim. This is a classic he said/she said situation in addition to being historical. I suspect any lawyer would recommend this path regardless of the truth of the allegations.
- Comment on Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs 2 months ago:
I’m not a paedophile (no) I’ve got paedo-files (uh)
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
Would have been hilarious if big dairy brought them into the trial as an “expert witness”.
“Yes, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, I am a real life strawman.”
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
Sadly, they’ll probably call it ‘Nilk’ or something lazy like that
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
It’s weird how much they love UHT milk on the continent. If you get a Starbucks in France (not sure why you would) then it’ll be that UHT shite.
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- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s the so-called slippery slope argument people are making that countries which have legalised assisted dying so far have tended towards making increasingly more people eligible over time.
Conflicted on that tbh. Slippery slope is one of the classic logical fallacies but that doesn’t necessarily mean it can’t happen.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 2 months ago:
Setting the moral discussion aside. I think Starmer will be worried that this will define his first term and absorb his ministers’ bandwidth as it is being implemented. He would have wanted to focus on the economy and his plans for “rebuilding” but that will get less oxygen in the media now.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 2 months ago:
Canada has gone too far in terms of who is eligible for assisted suicide in many people’s opinions. For example people who are mentally ill are able to request assisted suicide from the state.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 2 months ago:
I enjoy how old your picks are for the more modern games too! HoMM3 is a stone cold classic.
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 2 months ago:
I’m a millenial but one of my most conservative friends has parents who are total left wing hippies. Sometimes kids end up rebelling or defining themselves in opposition to certain aspects of their family members.
- Comment on Drake escalates Kendrick beef and accuses record label of firing allies while boosting his rival 2 months ago:
It’s over, Drake. Just take the L and move on.
