Juice
@Juice@midwest.social
- Comment on Times sure have changed 3 days ago:
Seriously. Theres no way that television even just weighs barely half as much as people seem to say it almost doesnt
- Comment on Real talk 1 week ago:
Good post
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 1 week ago:
“I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar”
– RFK jr
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 1 week ago:
You seem more invested in criticizing it than trying to enjoy yourself.
I also didn’t say the first season was bad, i liked it. Theres stuff to criticize but SAM quickly became a fav character, as the actress is quite good. The episode where they hyperbolic time-chambered her in order to make her emotionally resilient was quite good, sort of an inverse to the Lal episode in TNG.
There was stuff to criticize and maybe you just really didn’t like it. Thats fair, opinions about a new star trek show are purely subjective and that is OK. But TV just isnt as good as it used to be, in part because of the shorter seasons, and changes to the industry from streaming. And it wasnt actually that long ago, not for me at least. So idk what to tell ya champ. Starfleet academy was a little rough but that doesn’t mean I think a show is allowed to be straight ass for 100 episodes before it gets good. I think star trek shows, the ones we love, weren’t perfect either in their first seasons. Ben Sisko was just straight up weird at first, Picard was a total dick. Lieutenant Yar was not a great actress (she was much better when she came back briefly in s3), Whorf’s make up looked stupid and bad.
Certain things about the production cycles of shows do change over time. A show can get better writers, the actors can get better in their roles, more viewers mean better budgets and pay. Some shows start out good and then quickly decline. I’d rather have 6 seasons of a show that started out rough but got better after 1-2 seasons, than something that starts good but starts to suck after season 1 and gets canceled in 2-3 seasons.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 1 week ago:
A season today is only 8-10 episodes. TNG was legit pretty wonky for the first 20-30 episodes.
Like it wasnt bad, I really like Holly Hunter, and several of the characters were felling really strong in the last few EPs of season 1. But I do worry that the shorter seasons just aren’t really conducive to telling Star Trek stories.
A movie might be cool, but it will never happen. And we will have to see what they do with season 2. The show doesn’t have too much margin to get worse, like bad writing or directing. Some things about the show, like visual effects and sound effects, like there were just a lot of really bad decisions around it. Nothing that couldn’t be fixed tho
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 1 week ago:
What a shame, it was just getting good.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 weeks ago:
That’s an interesting way to put it
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 2 weeks ago:
Juggalos are still identified as a domestic terrorist org, probably for this exact reason
- Comment on 'I was punched in the face for driving at 20mph' 4 weeks ago:
Most chill construction trade subcontractor
- Comment on Anon misses flash 4 weeks ago:
The polycule is a state of mind
- Comment on Anon misses flash 4 weeks ago:
Your “couple” is a whole extended polycule
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 1 month ago:
It is way too common to confuse the abstractions we use to understand reality with reality itself. Like the scientists who work with this stuff are really consistent in keeping the two separated, but the moment a theory gets in the hands of a journalist or god forbid a politician, it starts wreaking havok
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I had a suspicion you weren’t advocating for capitalism. But just in case someone comes along and thinks “yeah make capitalism more efficient,” I like to underline the fact that “efficiency” has a different meaning if someone is a worker than if someone is a capitalist.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Taylorist production has been tried, yielded objectively better results than the old production methods, and they were still scrapped. Workers wouldn’t adapt to more efficient production methods without more pay, and it necessitates worker-managers to train other workers. Since the owners of the factory refuse to pay workers more, so it’s DOA.
Capitalism isn’t rational, and can not become rational. “Increasing efficiency” means firing workers, not improving production. I know you maybe aren’t arguing for more efficient capitalism, just saying it has been tried. Taylorism is the Esperanto of production. “Increasing efficiency,” to the capitalists, means firing people, not making the system more rational.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 1 month ago:
The Filmer is trying to get some Charlie Kirk attention and launch his streaming career or some shit, instead no one knows who that fucking creep is, but we all know the face of who hit him.
The filmer looks like such a punk, tall, acting cool, doing the “I have a right to be a fascist, what are you gonna do about it” bit. the kid who threw the punch is about as unassuming as you can be, probably not super popular, kind of a big guy, when he speaks, there is a waver in his voice from not being the kind of guy who initiates violence that even comes off as sort of meek. He probably got made fun of by people like the Filmer.
But the Filmer captured this brief moment, not the face of a fascist getting punched, but of the righteous anger and imperative to defend the defenseless, coming for your fascist ass. Those who try to get along, who believe in kindness and humanity, unable to be civilized about smug incivility.
I’m making these details up, I dont know anything about these young people personally, but thats the message we received. Smug self interest advocating the destruction of lives, gleefulness in the face of incredible fascist violence; met with the rising tide of popular anger against this acute sickness at the heart of a sick society.
Humanity vs the inhumane, in one still image. A picture that says more than 1000 words, it speaks to a growing sentiment among many. We see him and we see ourselves, or who we think more people aught to be.
- Comment on Anon is all smiles 1 month ago:
If we have learned anything in the last 15 years, it’s that speaking positively about Hitler is okay as long as its just a joke
/s for my homies that can’t easily process sarcasm
- Comment on Anon is all smiles 1 month ago:
Its awe-inspiring that our technological society finally has given humanity the ability to make lasers capable of splitting hairs this thin
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 1 month ago:
Its for the best
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 1 month ago:
sounds just like a grumpy old man yelling at a cloud.
Yeah totally agree with you there. The book is actually pretty funny in that regard, he spends most of what I read talking about Tricky and 90’s Jungle, and really, really hating the arctic monkeys. He spent his last years talking about how leftists were too mean on twitter, so he’s like a spiritual influence on the rights war against “woke”. In response, the twitter left was really mean to him about it. Like there was something to it but he also missed the mark, even though he early on recognized the trend.
But like I said those CCRU people like broke their own brains. Very sad. Except maybe Sadie Plant but she hasn’t published anything in a very long time to my knowledge
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 2 months ago:
Actually he wrote a lot about 90s music in this theory, his main example of a subversive musical genre from the 90s was Jungle/D&B.
I mean I don’t think its complete nonsense, this is definitely something that has always happened regarding the capitalization of popular music, Gramsci wrote about some of the tendencies, in his analysis of italian theatre and how monopolized capital exploited artists and small venues, back in the 1920s. I think the pressures certainly exist, especially because of the examples you mention, like clear channel, but also live nation and ticketmaster. Those pressures to homogenize and commodify music are objectively the result of monopolization of the music industry. Culture and economy are intrinsically bound up in one another.
But also I feel that he sort of over stated his point, like his analysis is sort of warped by chronic depression and like fiercely hating the Arctic Monkeys.
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 2 months ago:
Mark Fisher, the author of Capitalist Realism, in another book called “Exiting the Vampire Castle”, argued that in the history of recorded music, every 20 - 30 years or so there were new genres of music that wouldn’t be recognizable as music to the previous generation. But around the early 2000s this process stopped, and musical categories hardened due to capitalist logic. Record companies just wanted to churn out the same things that they already knew how to market, rather than invest in artists who were cutting edge. He called it “the slow cancellation of the future”.
Granted I think Fisher is kind of overrated as a practical theorist, all those CCRU research people went crazy, and Fisher is a particularly sad example. His vampire castle book is okay, and that generation was like preoccupied with marketing manipulation (a perspective that arguably was being marketed to them/us).
But through that perspective this meme is interesting, because the reason younger generations can connect about musical tastes, is because popular music has stopped being subversive. Chances are the band the younger boy is listening to has a sound that was copped from an older group, which is why the young man recognizes it as good. But to the older generations, music was still subversive, the young rejected the old and proper categories of music, which were themselves subversive in their own time.
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 2 months ago:
I vehemently disagree with many worlds theory. I think its a total mindfuck. However I do think that the future influences the present and the past.
- Comment on I liek tudles 2 months ago:
After Darwin owned the tortoise, it had to be sent away to animal prison. She was too much of a hard case
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 2 months ago:
If later you realize that you did have time, you will have already read and understood it
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 2 months ago:
ChatGPT will fail, Altman will take the fall, Microsoft will get the whole thing, and nothing negative will be avoided.
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 2 months ago:
I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people
- Comment on Great Mug 2 months ago:
Science isn’t an ontology, it’s a method.
God, what no humanities does to a mf
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 2 months ago:
Absolutely massacred this meme
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 3 months ago:
It’s not like his daughter isn’t the VP , and the president is BongBong Marcos, the son of the previous dictator.
