rottingleaf

@rottingleaf@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Greek and ME people sometimes look very light. And face powders too exist.

  So I wouldn’t say there’s anything too weird with her appearance. I suppose portrayal of Americans in North Korean war films is weirder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything between Commodus and Charlemange is especially cursed

  Helmets with horns, yes? And Roman army looking like cabaret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, thanks. I sometimes forget to check myself before forming a sentence in my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh - if you do any academic study of history, that’s what it all starts to look like.

  Even without academic studies - I wanted some context for Tolkien (analogous periods\events), Walter Scott, Dumas, who not. And I wanted some context for R:TW and M2:TW games, so I found mods like Europa Barbarorum. And eventually I’ve read some of Icelandic sagas, and some of medieval poetry translations, and so on. Same with context for fantasy books, some alternatives IRL.

  So, after that, there’s just nothing on screen I can watch.

  Icelandic low-budget movie kinda associated with Beowulf, but making Grendel a neanderthal (yep), looked cool due to seemingly authentic buildings and weapons and clothes and everything. But it wasn’t a very interesting movie.

  I’ve seen a Danish low-budget movie “Eagle’s eye”, some things felt like fine, but again, the story itself just didn’t seem right. Except for the one-eyed guy seeing through the eye of a bird - eh, I dunno why it was an eagle and not a raven, but his relation with the king and with the bishop seemed an interesting allegory on heathenry and christendom.

  Roman empire - just leave me alone.

  like no, the man was not a proto Thomas Jefferson

  The man also, when he found out his wife had a lover, made her a bath filled with his blood. That was in his youth, but.

  At the same time he called her “so meek, so simple-minded, so kind” when thanking gods for her.

  He became very wise by the end of his life, but, eh, not in US founding fathers’ direction. More like Obi-Wan Kenobi made emperor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.

  Cleopatra was by ancestry mostly Greek. So I don’t get what you mean.

  Most of her subjects weren’t quite “black” either.

  Sorry for this interjection, but I hate wrong corrections, especially when they give up cute chains of thought like “queen of (hellenistic, that’s my own addition) Egypt -> Egypt’s in the African continent -> black”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have watched the movie. It shows a European in a role absolutely impossible in upper layers of Japanese society of that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People with Aspergers usually have this kind of pained sense of humor, yes.

  Because, eh, trying to communicate more “normally” leads to some people exhausting you by making you imitate more and more, thinking that’s you getting used to them, until you can’t bear that, and to other people hating you due to something being off and trying to expose you.

  So opening up this way initially feels like a way to alleviate both.

  Especially with relationships. Especially since everyone has preferences and tastes too, just other ways of expressing them. If you can’t play the game they consider subtle, you can’t. Honesty sometimes works, pained humor too, pretense - unsustainable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People deciding on this will have what they have, because it’s other people obeying them first and foremost.

  They also will have physical money when you won’t. At worst it’ll be pieces of gold or brilliants or whatever.

  And you being left to rot in such a collapse is no problem. See how Russia’s regime just threw out dozens of thousands lives of those they consider unimportant, to utilize in a war. Those were mostly uneducated men from poor and depressive areas, for whom the money for that contract was something enormous.

  “The politicians” is not some rotated pool of people in reality, it’s the same mafia layer. Most of them are of the same parts of the societies, there are no random people in power, at least not anymore. Not in the last 20 years, I think.

  So, the answer to your question : then nothing. Your riots are inconsequential, they don’t affect most of power, there are Pareto laws everywhere, so if actually important logistics and information flow don’t stop, there may be riots for years without interruption, not changing anything. You might have read something like this about Iran, riots are a usual event for them, even despite rioters being sometimes murdered by security forces, sometimes even machine gunned. If something like that causes a problem for the elites, you’ll see rioters being machine gunned in Europe.

  The fact that we see this all means that somehow our side of the stakes has lost any leverage and it’s all changing for how it’s better for them. As simple as that. “Cashless society” is about that too - where all your money is controlled centrally and can be, well, momentarily taken from you, being just bytes of data on spinners somewhere, and all you do with your money is surveilled by default.

  OK, this was alarmist, dramatic and soap-opera like. But I do think that, because with the previous steps of that path what I describe has already happened 100%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showing your ID to get online might become a reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s also what we had in early 00s. A bunch of emails, a bunch of ICQ numbers, other such things, but ultimately your only persona to contact with others was your real one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that rural India or something?..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showing your ID to get online might become a reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You will, it’ll be protected and the police will come for you.

  All those “I won’t have a problem” imply you’ll be strong enough, they will be ready for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showing your ID to get online might become a reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t notice there to be less hate in spaces mostly without anonymity, or less false bravery.

  However, being “anonymous”, but identifiable with some work is still better than being identifiable immediately.

  It’s the opposite of security, people create tools to have perfect forward secrecy, ephemeral keys, deniability - all for good reasons, now someone wants put a metaphorical gun to everyone’s heads telling we’ll be safer.

  It’s really better to not say anything approving in that direction. Every word matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Today it’s harder, not more dangerous.

  But also everything is darker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Autism is a modern epidemic"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I meant they are relatives and a lot of D’s are often similar between relatives. RFK Jr’s ideas, but JFK’s sister getting lobotomized for behavior that might come with ASD too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Autism is a modern epidemic"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But I can tell you my uncles and ancestors who were farmers, engineers, etc (extremely conservative men too) - dont like how ASD is a disorder. “Back in our day we called that an engineer.”

  Yes, that’s a bit like my aunts resist putting ASD and my grandpa into one sentence.

  Also they are too somewhat conservative, and the reaction to a single F-word in a good article was textbook autistic. Similarly to how I buy a bottle of some soda, not seeing the “pieces of something” small text (pieces themselves are almost invisible), and then try to drink it and spit it out.

  but given that JFKs sister was lobotomized for being too promiscuous and California had a mass eugenics program until the 50s we won’t know.

  I’ll dare suggest that RFK himself seems autistic a lot. With the absolute idiocy my father believed about ASD, I think RFK’s ideas might be a result of some childhood trauma connected to that diagnosis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what their roots are, that’s the branches that became prevalent in every one mentioned (Judaism least of all, but with the state of Israel existing there are attempts to make Jewish religion suck just as badly as others).

  Say, gnostic sects of Christianity and Judaism had this sometimes inverted, sometimes different from how you describe it. Natural world was considered wonderful, but bigger than our existence, in some, and the way to divine was to take off your mortal existence, like clothes, and embrace it in full. In Judaism it’s almost mainstream that natural sexuality is good and actually sacred when in marriage, and only outside of marriage is it bad, but not on the degree of murder or theft.

  I’m not very knowledgeable on Islam, but I think even Shia Islam is not so cruel on that part, though since Iran is Shia, I guess nobody will believe me. Alawis being massacred right now have a pretty tolerant to life religion, and Druze too, though they have that weird relationship with death similar to Latin American Catholics. Smaller branches like Nizari-Ismaili are very tolerant. It’s just that Islamic mainstream of today is barbaric genocidal Wahhabism or Salafism, and generally Sunni Islam is not nice.

  My point was - restrictive rules correlate somehow with strong organization, so such branches win the struggle for power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think at some point they were on the same level, then something happened and murder became less important, maybe with justification that it’s not shown directly, or that it’s aimed at bad guys somewhere far away, or I dunno. Outright gore like in Total Recall subway shootout scene became what’s equal to pair of tits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially in a country that’s known worldwide for its hyper sexuality

  After all the hentai in the interwebs and some Shaman King and Naruto characters, I’m not sure.

  Where does this prudishness come from?

  Christianity, I’d guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you think that you are always right remember you could actually be stupid and not know it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, except they don’t just disagree, they are extremely pissed. For whatever reason idiots tend to assume superior status to me in particular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Before computing got poisoned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Signal surely isn’t based on works from 80s, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Loses $1 Billion Annually on Apple TV+ | Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, their take on Foundation is most attractive for me via thoughts of what could be done with the same effort and funding and format, except being closer to the source and without glossiness and dizziness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was trying to say causality goes both ways between “being rich” and “living longer”.

  Of course there is a chasm. There are also mass murders of towns and villages on the Syrian coast right now, with the EU having reacted swiftly by condemning the victims, and the US having reacted only in words and proceeding to bomb Yemeni houthis with means more than enough to stop those mass murders.

  There are storms, and there are still times, and there are times of abundance and of hunger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  both can be true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Education (and learning) affects deaths of heart diseases and cancer. Say, my stupid, stupid dad during covid got ill (not with covid likely) and died from heart attack, because he was afraid to get infected by doctors (yes). Education also affects whether you become “poorer” or “richer”.

  Heart diseases and cancer are affected by bad food habits, which are sometimes affected by executive dysfunction and addictive behavior, which also impede people from becoming “rich” directly.

  And the longer you survive, the likelier you are to have successes yielding financial results.

  So - maybe he doesn’t believe that, but I eagerly do, it just makes sense. Correlation is not causation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a logical trick - the longer you live, the likely you get richer.

  I understand everyone’s bias, but not why such pleasant to find moments are left ignored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not trying to choose a side but when did Dems become well wussies? They Have FDR, JFK, OBAMA, Clinton, under their belt. The Reps have Reagan. How come the Dems don't fight fire with fire anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What Obama did should be judged by what he really did, not promised, not described, not was close to do.

  You can say whatever you want if it depends on majority which won’t ever support you, and then claim that was your real intention.

  This is simpler than average intrigue between friends or at workplace, or even of deciding whose turn it is to go for groceries, and politics are not simpler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not trying to choose a side but when did Dems become well wussies? They Have FDR, JFK, OBAMA, Clinton, under their belt. The Reps have Reagan. How come the Dems don't fight fire with fire anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, surely people capable of denying someone popular are soft pussies. It’s the opposite, they impose their will upon the party. Evil, not pussies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the outside it seems that your progressive movements were a pretty good tool to spread thin the effort that could have gone someplace right, and also to weaken movements which were targeted at the real problems (for example, in the small world of FOSS it’s how FSF and GNU were slowly marginalized into something perceived as unreasonable and Stallman specifically pressed out, and no, his logically correct defense of some kinds of pedophilia and him being generally cringe were not the reason).

  Also let’s please remember that everyone flocking to centralized platforms was welcomed by those progressive movements, their activists for whichever reason thought that the scale and the censorship will work in their favor and not those calling to fell the tall trees.

  So - this is the logical outcome of what various movements have been doing. This part should make you optimist. And the feeling that you can’t certainly show at something at say that it will succeed should be liberating, not depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The opposite of hot girl summer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re becoming more like UK it seems. Not in economy.