TargaryenTKE
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Personally I don’t care about (or waste time thinking about) how I look when I smoke. I do it because I want to, not as a try hard attempt to look cool
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- Comment on Who is Oprah Winfrey 1 week ago:
Basically the unknowing propulsion system for Mingy and Gary from one of South Park’s lowest ranking episodes. Personally ai don’t hate it at all, but I do see why it’s “the worst of a good thing” in many people’s eyes
- Comment on Can anyone tell me what type of bird this is I keep seeing? 1 week ago:
🤣
- Comment on Supreme Court will review Alaska's bid to seize pilot's plane over 6-pack of beer: "This case isn't just about me" - CBS News 1 week ago:
I mean, TSA does, but they’re searching through thousands of people a day at each major airport. And even though this small island in the middle of nowhere clearly doesn’t have their own TSA checkpoints, I agree with you that it still shouldn’t be the pilot’s responsibility. Ignoring the legality for a minute, let’s say he did choose to check and upon finding (Jesus Christ) a six pack of beer, he decided to refuse service to the passenger. Now they’re both kinda screwed/stranded if the guy doesn’t decide to just throw them away or start chugging
- Comment on Can anyone tell me what type of bird this is I keep seeing? 1 week ago:
I don’t see anything, but if you picked up a black notebook off the ground recently, feel free to throw my name in there. DM for my headshots
- Comment on If the US Military can offer free money for college education..and is part of the government then why does the average Joe have to pay back a small student loan? 1 week ago:
Greed
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 1 week ago:
I know you’re not making those arguments, you’re just relaying what you’ve seen elsewhere, but I sure do hate to see them being made because they’re always in bad faith. On the one hand, they claim to want ‘historical accuracy’ as if the movie was trying to be a documentary or something, while simultaneously ignoring the historical fact that different peoples have been moving around and intermingling with other peoples since the dawn of civilization. They want to have their (racist) cake and eat it too all under the disguise of “just trying to be accurate”. Also, let’s be real here, as much as celebrity culture can be (and is) a problem in some cases, they are all professional actors, this is their job and most of them are pretty good at it. And if Nolan was forced to cast only native Greek people, not only would that create its own discrimination, but far fewer people would see the movie because there simply aren’t as many familiar faces. Sorry for the rant, I know you personally weren’t making any of those points, I just needed to vent
- Comment on Their entire strategy was to win was force a foul and take a penalty kick 1 week ago:
Sadly not everyone agrees with you on that one (though I’m mostly on your side here). I’ve seen plenty of people argue ‘Oh the refs should’ve seen that’ despite being all the way across the field or ‘Oh the judges really should know what the cards do’ in a TCG with literally tens of thousands of cards in print, or ‘the ump should have called that a strike, look it’s catching the corner’ as if they don’t realize that the graphics they see on TV are not actually visible above the plate, or other similarly-ludicrous takes. Honestly it’s a little scary how infallible the ‘deciders’ are meant to be in these situations and I believe that giving them as many tools as they can reasonably use is an overall positive thing (as long as the humans are still the ones making the final decision, I feel like I should point that out). Though yeah, I agree that that one particular offsides call you’re referring to was egregious and the humans in charge should’ve stepped in and ruled it fair; like I said at the beginning, they’re not perfect yet (and probably never will be, but that’s a whole other matter)
- Comment on Their entire strategy was to win was force a foul and take a penalty kick 1 week ago:
Like I said in the beginning, they’re not perfect and there have indeed been some bad calls. But that can be said for the human refs too and taking away one of their most valuable tools is only going to cause more mistakes/bad calls. The specific call you’re talking about? Yeah, that’s a bit extreme, they were clearly following the letter of the law rather than the spirit, but that’s hardly a problem limited to football, or even professional sports in general. At the end of the day, everyone involved here is human and humans are prone to making mistakes, even WITH dozens of multi-thousand-dollar cameras watching from every angle, I’m just simply arguing that we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water
- Comment on Their entire strategy was to win was force a foul and take a penalty kick 1 week ago:
Like I said, I agree that they’re not perfect yet (and probably never will be, but that’s a whole other matter). But I still don’t think you should throw out the baby with the bath water when they can provide a great benefit for the actual refs on the field who simply can’t be everywhere at once. I greatly appreciate you providing some links/examples though where most people (not necessarily in this thread but across the internet) simply rely on the age-old “just trust me bro”. At the end of the day, I still think more cameras are an overall benefit, it’s just a matter of working out how to better integrate them, and by providing examples of how they’re misused we can better figure that out, so thank you 👍
- Comment on Their entire strategy was to win was force a foul and take a penalty kick 1 week ago:
Like I said, I don’t think they’re being used perfectly, no. And I think you’re right that they can indeed be used in a negative/unfair way. But I do still believe that having the multi-cam option is a good thing for a professional sporting event. I don’t know the exact rules on how they’re used in FIFA (so feel free to call me out here), but if I had to guess, I think it’s similar to the use of the review box in American Football: the refs on the field make a call, if it’s disputed or if they need more info then they go to the cameras, but ultimately the human beings on the field have the final say. Obviously I didn’t watch every World Cup match, but I don’t recall ever seeing a moment where the VAR stopped play and made a call on its own that every ref on the field had missed. Sports commentators might have seen/talked about something like that, saying that the refs SHOULD have picked up on something, but at the end of the day it’s still humans making the initial calls and the cameras are just there to provide evidence.
- Comment on Their entire strategy was to win was force a foul and take a penalty kick 1 week ago:
Not claiming VAR is perfect or that FIFA isn’t full of shit weasels, but isn’t having more cameras (in professional sports games) just objectively better? The refs on the field are still extremely important, but they can’t be omnipotent, so if necessary then why deny them access to dozens of different angles to confirm what really happened at any given time?
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 1 week ago:
I’m in a similar boat in I don’t think it was Nolan’s best work (at least, not my favorite of his works), but I don’t see where you’re coming from about the casting. Care to elaborate?
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 2 weeks ago:
Oh my goodness, it’s my best friend in the whole wide thread! I have to apologize to you, I was just commenting on what I thought was someone else being ignorant but no, turns out you’re the source of both! How funny is that? Well, to save us both some time I’ll try to avoid bringing up the same points twice and then maybe throw in a link to the comment I just posted.
1-I’m only triggered in this case because you seem to be one of those people who believe in their own infalliblity above all else. Probably think your own shit smells like roses, etc etc. That attitude disgusts me and that’s all I really care to say about it
2-I see, so not only do you claim to know how the entire world works in your other comment, but also in this one you say you were “around during the whole thing” as if you were physically in the various rooms where this whole story took place. Huh, that’s a neat little detail and all… but how do you know I wasn’t there too? That I was also “around during the whole thing” to the exact same extent as you were?
3-Just because the family didn’t IMMEDIATELY come forward and present their view doesn’t automatically disqualify it. Revising history is actually a healthy part of the process, etc. See link below for a better argument as to why “they could have come forward then but didn’t” is not the strong closing argument you presumably think it is
4-https://lemmy.world/comment/24831324
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 2 weeks ago:
Oh my bad, I wasn’t aware you knew everything about the entire world. You do know that revising history is a legitimate, academic practice and should be done when new information becomes available, right? If we only ever took the first accounting of an event and never went back to scrutinize it, then we would still all believe the US Civil War was fought by the South just wanting to defend themselves from the greedy North, or that that the USSR were the sole instigators/escalators of the Cold War, or that Napoleon was abnormally short. None of these statements are true, and it was only by going back and correcting our previous assumptions that we came to those conclusions.
Oh also, yeah there are a lot of similarities between cults and religions (and militaries for that matter, but let’s not make this even more messy) and I’m not really trying to defend either of them, but at least when I was being dragged to church as a kid, I wasn’t also forced to never speak to a non-believer again, or only eat bread and water for a week because I couldn’t list the 10 Commandments upon request, or something like that. Every Sunday morning sucked but you know what happened Sunday afternoon? I got to go home and live a normal life again without someone constantly checking on me to make sure I wasn’t
breaking the rulesin need of correction. You don’t get that freedom in most cults, especially not Scientology; I got to leave my situation without having to live in fear for the rest of my life, most of them don’t get that luxury - Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 2 weeks ago:
Did you read the same page as I did? Because if you actually read the entire section about his departure, it not only mentions the fact that he had his first stroke right before the episode aired (after which he didn’t really do too much of ANY work at all until his death 2 years later from a second stroke) but also that the decision largely stemmed from his entourage, all ardent Scientologists; a group famous for coercing members into disconnecting from everyone outside of the Church upon joining as well as harassing the shit out of them if they ever get find the strength to leave. One of Hayes’ sons even came forth and said that in all the confusion, nobody really knows who made the decision for him to leave, but it was almost definitely someone from that group.
I mean this is a cult with a long and varied history of doing whatever it takes for good PR, even going so far as to have up to 5,000 individual members get jobs in various branches of the US (and Canadian) government throughout the whole of the 70s for the explicit purpose of covering up/erasing controversial material against Hubbard himself and the Church as a whole (just google Operation Snow White). If they can pull that off and somehow walk away with minimal consequences, I’m sure they could find someone to draft up a “Termination of Emploment” or something and convince/trick/coerce Hayes into signing it.
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 2 weeks ago:
Lol I love how you and I basically made the same arguments against two different people trying to shift blame away from Scientology. It’s almost like nobody listened to Kyle when he said the most important line from that episode aka Matt and Trey talking directly to the audience:
We shouldn’t be mad at Chef. We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 2 weeks ago:
If you call that revisionist history, then what do you call the fact that immediately after his first stroke, his PR team (heavily associated with Scientology) tried to claim that he merely suffered from an episode of “high blood pressure and exhaustion” only for the truth to be revealed 6 months later that it was indeed a stroke?
He gave up his control and that is on him and only him.
Like I said in my initial comment, he did choose to join them on his own free will, so we’re in agreement there. But I also said that his last few years (i.e. everything post-'06 stroke) was controlled by the Scientologists when he was not in a position to tell them to fuck off, even if he wanted to (which admittedly, would be debatable). They saw an opening and ran with it, that was my point; you’re claiming that he willingly gave up all his autonomy and I simply don’t agree with that. Or at least he was not mentally sound enough to be able to do so, just like how putting rohypnol in someone’s drink doesn’t equal “yes means yes”
Blaming a MLM scheme hiding as a religion for a death is pointless since there was nothing that prevented him from breaking away as others have done.
Simply because some have broken ties with the cult doesn’t mean that all members have the same options to break away as the fortunate few. ESPECIALLY if the majority of the people around him, those controlling his perception of the outside world, were actively trying to keep him in. A core fundamental philosophy from Hubbard himself was to draw in as many celebrities as possible for the express purpose of using them to prostelytize his works. Plus, and let’s be frank here, Hayes was not in the prime of his life anymore; he wasn’t so far gone as to be labeled “decrepit” or “on death’s door” at the time of his death, but even if he was living completely alone and didn’t have Church members constantly surrounding/influencing him, it’s hard to say whether or not he would’ve had the opportunity to leave.
I mean, come on man, the Church literally encourages members to “disconnect” with all aspects and people of their former lives who are not themselves members. It’s also pretty common knowledge that anyone who leaves is not only shunned by the organization (which, if the disconnection was effective) had been the basis for their entire lives for a long time by that point; they’re also contantly harassed, stalked, and occasionally threatened directly from still-current members. Even if those actions aren’t technically ordered to be done by the leaders, they still happen regularly without any condemnation or comment from the top brass. And this isn’t even getting into the multiple deaths they are DIRECTLY responsible for, or the fact that Shelly Miscavige (the wife of the current head of rhe Church) has not publicly been seen ANYWHERE by ANYONE since 2007. Or Operation Snow White in the 1970s where up to 5,000 individual members worked to get jobs in various branches of the US (and Canadian) government for the explicit and stated purpose of covering up Hubbard’s and the Church’s more controversial practices. If they can manage to pull all that shit off and still somehow get away without the most minor of consequences, I’m sure they can manage to draft the equivalent of a Termination of Emploment, convince a perpetually confused Isaac into signing it, and then sending it off to the South Park offices.
tl;dr You’re forgetting the most important single line from that episode of South Park:
We shouldn’t be mad at Chef. We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re forgetting two key factors here: one is that he suffered a stroke in 2006 and didn’t really do much of ANY work after that. According to one of his 11 sons (holy shit my dude), Isaac Hayes III:
Isaac Hayes did not quit South Park; someone quit South Park for him. What happened was that in January 2006 my dad had a stroke and lost the ability to speak. He really didn’t have that much comprehension, and he had to relearn to play the piano and a lot of different things. He was in no position to resign under his own knowledge. At the time, everybody around my father was involved in Scientology — his assistants, the core group of people. So someone quit South Park on Isaac Hayes’ behalf. We don’t know who. My father was not that big of a hypocrite to be part of a show that would constantly poke fun at African-American people, Jewish people, gay people — and only quit when it comes to Scientology. He wouldn’t be that hypocritical.
Now whether you choose to believe all that or not is up to you, but the other key factor you forgot to consider is that Scientology IS a cult. From the limited amount of data we’ve been able to gleam from their internal workings, they have a habit of forcing their members to constantly push themselves beyond their limits, regardless of what any medical doctor would advise; because in their warped worldview, all faults or shortcomings, mental and physical, are all just the result of Thetans and can be overcome, regardless of the health of the individual. We have some anecdotes of people who have left with claims that the ‘Chirch’ would use typical cult behaviors that all amounted to increased control over their victims: borderline starvation, massive amounts of physical exercise to promote exhaustion, recontextualizing their worldview to make all this horseshit more acceptable, etc.
Anyway, my point is, Hayes died at the age of 65 after a recurrence of the previously mentioned stroke and was found lying on the floor next to a still-running treadmill. In my (unprofessional) opinion, Scientology killed him, simple as that. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was deliberate, nor that Hayes was ENTIRELY guilt-free (he did still join them initially), but the fact is that the last several years of his life were almost completely controlled for him and the people behind those decisions clearly put the CoS first and Hayes at a very distant second
- Comment on national anthem 2 weeks ago:
The world’s not ALL hatred and intolerance 🙂 (Though that they’re way more prevalent than they should be 😮💨)
- Comment on Is this how you start a satanic panic? 2 weeks ago:
I fucking love that episode
- Comment on ZAMN EUSTACE 🥵🔥 2 weeks ago:
That does it! I’m gettin’ me lotion
- Comment on national anthem 2 weeks ago:
Are you familiar with the idea of parables? Sometimes people just want a way to present their ideas without having to go full-Tolkein and go into WAYYY much more detail than is strictly necessary or believeable. You’re entitled to your opinion, I’m not gonna be offended or anything that you clearly don’t like a show I personally haven’t watched in years, I just think that Black Mirror is (most of the time) clearly more concerned with “what if” rather than “how would”
- Comment on In this thread: GIFs you've been waiting to post but the occasion never arises 3 weeks ago:
Much appreciated, thank you 🙂
- Comment on In this thread: GIFs you've been waiting to post but the occasion never arises 3 weeks ago:
Aight chief, I’m gonna need an explanation on that latter point
- Comment on Fuck yea bro! 4 weeks ago:
WHERE 👏 DO 👏 YOU 👏 KEEP 👏 THE 👏 NETS 👏 THAT 👏 YOU 👏 PUT 👏 ON 👏 THE 👏 BOTTOM 👏 OF 👏 GUYS 👏 BALLS 👏 TO 👏 STOP 👏 THEM 👏 FROM 👏 DUNKING 👏 IN 👏 THE 👏 WATER??? –Carter Pewterschmidt, 2019 (Family Guy, s17e10)
- Comment on That original batch sounds tasty 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of that episode of Fairly Odd Parents where they discover that a dollop of Cosmo’s sweaty socks make lemonade taste amazing… aaand grant the customer’s next wish. It’s also the same episode with that clip of Doug Dimmadome that got memed to Hell and back (his first appearance btw)
- Comment on It's true 5 weeks ago:
Pam Anderson was also unexpectedly good
- Comment on Cosplay creativity never ceases to amaze 1 month ago:
The FEDERAL age of consent is 16. Most states/prefectures have it set around 18 or 19. Though I’m sure they’re related regardless