JoMiran
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml
- Comment on ```curl -u "lab_tech:olympic_medalist" https://usa-curling.org/podium``` 4 hours ago:
Oh, I see. We are talking about different things. I am talking about the US funding sports programs that develop talent and allow amateur athletes pursue sports for a living. You are talking about sports entertainment.
If you are a youth or an amateur athlete, you are all on your own in the American system. Even gold medalists often have to scrape by between Olympics.
- Comment on ```curl -u "lab_tech:olympic_medalist" https://usa-curling.org/podium``` 5 hours ago:
We don’t fund sports for shit. The only thing we fund is the military. We fund the Olympic team because that’s just PR and marketing, but outside of that,you’re on your own.
- Comment on hot midi trax 5 hours ago:
Get that tracker ready cause we about to make some dope ass chiptune bangers!
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 1 day ago:
Just deport them to Israel. They seem to be quite enamored with it anyway.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 1 day ago:
The Renesmee/Jacob bonding was certainly a choice.
- Comment on Tune a fish 2 days ago:
Tuna fish is truncated “tuna fish sandwich”. So, a “fish sandwich” made with Tuna.
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- Comment on Classic movie made into a Valentine's card 4 days ago:
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 6 days ago:
It’s a weird hill you’ve chosen to die on, but ok. You do you.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 6 days ago:
Lolita is meant to be disturbing. A horror story told from the perspective of a very unreliable narrator. Intellectually, I appreciate it, but I too could not get through it.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 6 days ago:
I haven’t seen the movie, only read synopsis and reviews…
The main actresses were of age (17 & 18 at time of filming) but the movie was about a girls camp. Most of the other girls were much younger. Cynthia Nixon was 13 and looking younger. My issue is more with the portrayal than the plot. For a few years in the 70’s and early 80’s there was a trend to make jaiobait movies for the pleasure of adults. Little Darlings wasn’t the worst, but it is still problematic. The plot of Tatum O’Neil’s character flirting and trying to bed a man in his late twenties or thirties was included for no other reason other than to feed the fantasies of the adult males in the Audience.
Manhattan is another disturbing is example. She was 16 and the plot was of a man in his forties in a sexual relationship with a high school girl.
The Fog. Jamie Lee Curtis plays a teen hitchhiker than promptly fucks the rando trucker that gives her a lift.
Examples seem endless and they all point to the same obsession that generation of men have with young teen girls. Woody Allen, Trump, Epstein, Ted Nugent, etc. They all demonstrated the same issue.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 6 days ago:
It, and other movies of the seventies and early eighties opted to sexualize young actresses, primarily for the enjoyment of adults and not to help young people feel seen and represented.
You bring up American Pie, a movie about teens trying to get laid. Not a single one of those actors being sexualized was a minor or presented as a minor. That’s what I have a problem with.
I do not have a problem acknowledging young teen sexuality. I have a problem with the sexualization and exploitation of young teens by movie makers at the time.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 6 days ago:
Read my comment again. In the edits I clarified that my memory jammed Personal Best and Little Darlings together.
Yes, I am younger than a boomer, but I am still in my fifties.
I’m bisexual and have been dealing with homophobic bullshit for over forty years, so please kindly fuck off with your insinuations of homophobia.
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 6 days ago:
Imagine what they’ll do to rogue piñatas.
- Comment on Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city. 6 days ago:
When I say that I want younto give me “the D”, this is also what I mean.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 6 days ago:
One thing rarely touched on is how her image and movies were used to groom other children for sexual abuse.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 6 days ago:
I was a bit young so I don’t remember well, but wasn’t there a mainstream movie about a girls sports team that was essentially just teen (13+ not 18+) softcore lesbian porn? I think one of the Hemmingway sisters was in it.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 6 days ago:
Pretty Baby is a 1978 film where she portrays a child prostitute. There’s a scene where her virginity is auctioned off and a main plot point is that a grown man falls in love with her and wants to marry her. I watched it as a young teen (~12) and I was horrified.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 1 week ago:
The dairy industry is losing market share at an accelerated rate. I’m sure this will fix it.
So stupid.
- Comment on Everyone who has a dog does this 1 week ago:
- Comment on But bro please 1 week ago:
Irony
- Comment on BASED? 1 week ago:
You can’t pay me to use that shit. Always confidently incorrect.
- Comment on But bro please 1 week ago:
COPY/PASTA
In the US we have the Second Amendment. The fascists have been the ones screaming and yelling about the Second Amendment, but the truth is that all Americans have the right.
Owning a gun isn’t enough. Driving to Cabela’s and picking up a vermin killing .22 rifle is not enough. You should buy a proper rifle, a pistol, and a knife or baton. (Bonus points for a shotgun) Then you need to train with said rifle, pistol and knife/baton. Go to a range and shoot. Look for local self defense/hand to hand combat with a weapon classes and train.
I am not advocating for violence…far from it. But I am advocating for knowledge because owning a weapon and not knowing how to use it is a recipe for disaster.
PS: If you can afford it, buy suppressors and/or active hearing protection. Especially for your rifles. Suppression for the common citizen isn’t about stealth like in the movies, it is about protecting your hearing. Guns are LOUD. Much louder than you expect. Suppressors might be out of reach for most but quality active and passive hearing protection is not.
- Comment on BASED? 1 week ago:
For those wondering what typically defines the cyberpunk literary genre, its key elements include:
High-tech, low-life scenarios: Advanced technology, such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, is prevalent, but it exists alongside widespread societal breakdown and poverty.
Dystopian future:
The settings are typically bleak and oppressive, often dominated by powerful corporations or decentralized, corrupt power structures.Impact of technology on humanity:
Cyberpunk explores how technology shapes society, culture, and individual identity .Antiheroes and rebellion:
Characters are often morally ambiguous rebels fighting against oppressive systems. - Comment on BASED? 1 week ago:
The reappropriation of the Buc-ees beaver is similar to the reappropriation of Mickey Mouse by punks in the 70’s.
Nothing says 'Muricah more than Buc-ees (and maybe us flag bathing shorts). It is a mecca for meat, oversized sodas and snacks, petrol consumption, and nice toilets to shit all the garbage you’ve consumed.
An .ml account in the Fediverse sporting the ultimate symbol of American consumerism is exactly what I’m going for.
- Comment on BASED? 1 week ago:
Men make money to survive a cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.
Women make money to survive a cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 1 week ago:
Ocasio is Bad Bunny’s last name. 64 might be the year of his dad’s birth, but that’s a guess.
- Comment on Hrmmm 1 week ago:
Easiest way to put it is this way.
Rifle - Long distance shots. Semiautomatic rifles like AR-15 types put out a lot of bullets with precision and are a good way to protect a perimeter.
Pistol - Medium distance. Kill or wound in situations where you can see the white of their eyes.
Shotgun - Short distance (indoors) and highly versatile. You can even load it with “less lethal” ammo.
Knife/baton - Hand to hand combat.
I am not a hardcore gun aficionado so please, I encourage further feedback.
- Comment on Hrmmm 1 week ago:
don’t suppressors not work for the first shit?
I can’t say. I’ve never fired mine from the toilet.
- Comment on Hrmmm 1 week ago:
COPY/PASTA
In the US we have the Second Amendment. The fascists have been the ones screaming and yelling about the Second Amendment, but the truth is that all Americans have the right.
Owning a gun isn’t enough. Driving to Cabela’s and picking up a vermin killing .22 rifle is not enough. You should buy a proper rifle, a pistol, and a knife or baton. (Bonus points for a shotgun) Then you need to train with said rifle, pistol and knife/baton. Go to a range and shoot. Look for local self defense/hand to hand combat with a weapon classes and train.
I am not advocating for violence…far from it. But I am advocating for knowledge because owning a weapon and not knowing how to use it is a recipe for disaster.
PS: If you can afford it, buy suppressors and/or active hearing protection. Especially for your rifles. Suppression for the common citizen isn’t about stealth like in the movies, it is about protecting your hearing. Guns are LOUD. Much louder than you expect. Suppressors might be out of reach for most but quality active hearing protection is not.
