svcg

@svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally found it. Darmok and Jalad would be proud.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Temba, his arms wide!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK IT UP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One reason why people have historically had trouble suing tobacco companies is that non-smokers also get lung cancer. While we can say for sure that smoking makes it more likely you will get lung cancer, it’s generally impossible to say any one person’s lung cancer was caused by smoking. This is in contrast to say, someone who injures themselves climbing, where it is definitely 100% on them.

  The real answer of course is that you’re paying for it either way. Insured people pay absurdly over the odds to offset the amount of money lost on people who accrue medical debt and can’t afford to pay it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK IT UP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also think insurance shouldn’t cover cancer treatment for smokers. Or diabetes treatment for overweight people. Or broken bones for skiers. Or literally anything for anyone who has ever done anything bad for them. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a certified Java hater, but you’re allowed to like it. If simple and objected oriented is what you want, I can see the attraction, and it has a good and mature ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also think Java is shit, but if you manage to get a NullPointerException while writing a hello world program, maybe anon is just not cut out for computers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the kind of right hand grip that requires years of training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the horsepill⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What constitutes reliable is a matter of opinion I suppose, but the first concrete statement of fact:

  0 emissions

  Wrong, right out of the gate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little dude ATP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bacterial flagella are also rotary motors! I did an optional module in biophysics as part of my physics degree and I would recommend it to anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some frogs ribbit. Other frogs croak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birmingham Travel Guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can tell it’s British by the fact that there are two white vans and not a pick-up truck in sight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beginning of the End⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down. 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is true, you are hurt from your own actions of hurting another person.

  And thus, by putting her face all over a piece of art than fans liked for not having a face, Cynthia’s hurt arises from her own actions of hurting the fans of the original.

  If this is true …

  Congratulations! You detected my sarcasm. But if you’d like me to engage seriously, I’ll bite.

  Cynthia is allowed to be upset. She made some art and people didn’t like it. It hurts to put yourself into something - in her case literally - and have people not like it. But that’s the risk you run when you make art for other people. People are allowed to engage with art how they want.

  What she is not entitled to do is pretend that this is degrading, or in someway offensive. If people were going round scratching out her face from random images, she might have a point. But that isn’t what is happening here. She engaged with the original piece of art by making her own version and putting her face in it. Others engaged with her art by making their own versions and taking some of her face right back out of it in order to make it closer to the original. That’s no more or less wrong than what she did. They’re both perfectly fine. If her feelings are hurt, that’s unfortunate, but it is incidental. And she is entitled to express that her feelings are hurt, but she is not entitled to pretend that that is anything more than incidental.

  I daresay Peter Jackson might be upset when people make fan-edits of The Hobbit trilogy by removing a lot of his artistic vision to edit it down to a single watchable film. But if he came out and said it was personally degrading to him, people would call that ridiculous. If Evangeline Lilly said fans were “erasing women” by cutting out Tauriel, people would call that ridiculous. Everyone has their own visions when it comes to making adaptations of other works, and if people disagree with yours, it’s not a personal attack, even if it feels like one.

  That being said, I have no beef with Cynthia. She is no doubt getting a lot of grief from racist and sexist weirdos mixed in with the more legitimate negative feedback, so while I think that her statement above is ridiculous, I understand her feelings are hurt, and she is “lashing out” in what is ultimately a very small potatoes kind of way. I hope the movie does well.

  As an aside; I’m a fan of musical theatre but an un-fan of the cost of musical theatre tickets, so I was very concerned that no one would attempt to adapt a Broadway/West End musical again after what Tom Hooper did to Cats. I saw Wicked in London and enjoyed it, so I’ll probably watch this film if the reviews are at least halfway good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I think it was offensive of Cynthia to erase the original artist’s vision and it’s shameful of you to defend her.

  Both of you have hurt my feelings, and therefore you are in the wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debian Femboy uwu⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Fedora Trans Girl, I have decided that you are my enemy. (/jk)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So why haven’t you stopped the bombing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latex programming socks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At what point do socks becomes tights, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drinks milk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Half way would be pilk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“It’s sick”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also nasty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Futuristic movies timeline⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a resident of Britain, I feel like we’re pretty on track for V for Vendetta, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they hurt you, didn't they⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once the tradespeople are done, they’re done. But the inhabitants will be struggling to arrange their furniture indefinitely.