ExLisper
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- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 3 hours ago:
This article only quotes District Attorney spokeswoman saying that he still fugitive. It doesn’t mention anyone actually opposing the award. According to the article even the victim didn’t oppose it. Saying that this placed Hollywood under microscope and lead to MeToo a decade later is pure fabrication on your part.
There’s really nothing to discuss here further. You’re convinced that Polanski could have been one of the greatest directors in Hollywood but because of the rape he’s only a great director. In you’re opinion that means he was punished.
I believe that the fact that he had a very successful career at all shows that he was mostly forgiven by the industry and the public.
It’s a matter of perspective, we’re not going to agree here.
- Comment on Example of bi-eraser on reddit the title said soul mate dont mean lover. Like bloody fucking hell they were indeed lovers. Freddie Mercury was Bisexual 4 hours ago:
This is my favorite comment today. You win 5 lemmy dollars. Where should I make the transfer?
- Comment on Example of bi-eraser on reddit the title said soul mate dont mean lover. Like bloody fucking hell they were indeed lovers. Freddie Mercury was Bisexual 10 hours ago:
Actually, he was Zoroastrian.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 1 day ago:
Me Too movement started after Harvey Weinstein scandal, over a decade after Polanski got his Oscar. I don’t remember any controversies around The Pianist. The wiki doesn’t mention anything. It got great reviews and got a lot of awards: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_accolades_received_by_…
You’re either making stuff up now or just misremembering it. Polanski is an admitted rapist. Of course he didn’t have same career as Spielberg or Scorsese but he wasn’t a pariah either. He worked all his life and was well respected in the industry. I don’t know, maybe you just want to believe that Polanski faced some consequences. He didn’t. He wasn’t punished. There was no justice there. He raped a child and lived a happy life after that.
- Comment on Title 1 day ago:
I think it’s not a foul if you’re using your whole body. So you just need really big guys to slowly push the wall. And if you can’t bribe a referee what are you even doing playing football?
- Comment on Title 1 day ago:
What if one guy just bounced the ball on his head constantly while the other 10 players surround him tightly?
- Comment on You definitely won't regret doubling the mass of our atmosphere! 1 day ago:
Since it’s not clear what will happen let’s just try. What could go wrong?
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 2 days ago:
I’m just saying that many directors would kill to have a career like him and he admitted to rape. Could he achieve more if he didn’t rape a child and was allowed entry into US? Maybe but it’s really hard to argue he was punished by the industry.
Both him and Woddy simply show that some people can get away with things others can’t. Depends on the factors I mentioned.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 2 days ago:
He managed to have a decent career
Dude, he won an Oscar in 2003. Best Director. Calling this “decent” career is extremely disingenuous. He worked with Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Ewan McGregor and Johnny Depp. All at the top of their careers and very much able to decide who they want to work with and they worked with him. He still well respected in Poland and France and many different governments protected him from prosecution. When US tried to detain him Polish government ignored the laws to shield him.
With Woody Allen I’m taking about him marrying his step daughter, not the unconfirmed allegations.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 2 days ago:
Polanski admitted raping a child and still worked without any issues for decades. Top actors didn’t see any issues in working with him and he even won an Oscar. Why? I have no idea.
People totally ignored all the creepy thing Micheal Jackson did because his songs were so good.
Woody Allen didn’t had to do some explaining but wasn’t canceled.
Chris Brown is still getting to the top of Billboards 200.
It’s not a simple “guilty/not-guilty” issue. It’s a mix of how much money you have, how much money you can still make (how loyal is your fan base and what do they care about) and how good PR team do you have.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 2 days ago:
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 days ago:
I’ve read other articles about it the consensus is that the lights are not actually brighter:
www.theguardian.com/…/headlights-too-bright
“”“Although headlights feel significantly brighter than they used to, Brannon notes that the maximum standards for light output set by the US transportation department’s NHTSA haven’t changed in decades.
Part of the issue, he says, is that the temperature of the light in headlight bulbs has changed.
Experts point out that more drivers are buying bigger cars. Because these cars are taller, their headlights are more likely to shine in the eyes of drivers of smaller cars.
Additionally, many vehicles on the road have misaligned headlights. Over time, the regular wear and tear of driving can jostle headlights out of alignment, meaning the brightest part of the light ends up illuminating areas it’s not supposed to – say, right into an oncoming driver’s eyes.”“”
And this is also my experience. I see a lot of cars with LED lights but few cars in on the roads blind me and when they do they are clearly shining right in my eyes. In Europe huge cars are still not that popular so I’m guessing it’s mostly misalignment, people driving with long beams on or some custom lights that are way brighter than the norm. I have no idea if most people don’t know that they are blinding others or if they don’t care.
Some people are are more sensitive to sharper LED lights and they have bigger problems when driving at night now. In that case properly aligned LED lights are better (and safer) for some, and worst for others.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 4 days ago:
No one said loud exhausts or LED lights* cause crashes. They are just annoying to other people. So I would say they are exactly the same.
*we’re not talking about all LED lights here. We’re talking about misaligned and excessively bright LED lights. I’m sure new, modern lights let drivers see better (that’s why they are put in the new cars) but they don’t have to blind other drivers to do that.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 4 days ago:
Same reason we just accepted increasingly loud exhausts. Too many selfish idiots on the roads to enforce it effectively.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 4 days ago:
If the issue is identifiability why not just change it to another, more common family name? Fix the misspelling so it’s not as rare or change to your mother’s maiden name. Or some of your grandparents.
- Comment on t-shirt to wear on your last day of work 5 days ago:
Makes sense. The "why are you wearing such a nice shirt to work?” threw me off.
- Comment on t-shirt to wear on your last day of work 6 days ago:
Let me guess, you’re a stripper?
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 1 week ago:
It really depends where.
I’m fairly optimistic about most of EU. Last time we had energy crisis they put windfall taxes on energy and banking sectors to stop price gauging. They are already talking about doing the same thing which will slow down inflation. Spain, where I live, invested heavily into renewables in the last couple of years so the current fossil fuel increases don’t have almost any effect on electricity prices. There’s continuing push for public transport and most people can survive with minimal driving. My guess is food prices will go up, unemployment will go up, growth will slow down in many sectors but it will be manageable.
In US though… Inflation will skyrocket (both because of food and energy), people won’t be able to go anywhere, the completely inept government will not be able to handle the crisis and probably will just continue to ignore it. I expect widespread hunger and misery.
- Comment on lol 1 week ago:
lol?
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
Technical impact != cultural impact.
What you’re describing is not cultural impact. You’re just confirming it didn’t have any cultural impact, only technical one.
- Comment on Similar but different 1 week ago:
Ok, I run some simulations and it does make sense but they are not going in opposite directions. One is driving in front of the other:
- Comment on Similar but different 1 week ago:
I don’t get this meme template. Shouldn’t one of them be driving the other way?
Still doesn’t really work. He’s sitting in passenger seat so they are facing the same way. She would drive past him, coming from behind so they wouldn’t really see each other unless one of them looked back.
It should be like this, right?
Now they are driving in the opposite directions and it makes sense.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
So you’re saying Avatar had cultural impact because it made it to front page of lemmy this one time? Great point.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
But that’s the whole point. The highest-grossing movie of all time was a popcorn flick with zero cultural impact. That’s exactly what this meme is saying. How are people misunderstanding this?
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense. I always suspected it’s parallel dimension gravity.
- Comment on That's some anxiety 3 weeks ago:
Because what she was telling [them] was [that she had] an episode of coughing some days ago that had disappeared, and what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness.
Yes, even the woman herself thought it was anxiety. So fucked up that she reporter anxiety and the doctor said it’s probably just anxiety. On top of that, they sent her to a hospital. They should have just assumed it’s the virus and kept her on the ship.
- Comment on 4 rules of firearm safety 3 weeks ago:
Better, thanks.
- Comment on The Cock-of-the-rock is one of the most difficult Brazilian birds to find in the world. 3 weeks ago:
I see!
- Comment on The Cock-of-the-rock is one of the most difficult Brazilian birds to find in the world. 3 weeks ago:
🤷
- Comment on The Cock-of-the-rock is one of the most difficult Brazilian birds to find in the world. 3 weeks ago:
Where beak?
