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- Comment on Cannes: ‘Furiosa’ World Premiere Greeted With 7-Minute Standing Ovation 3 days ago:
I mean if it was gonna happen anywhere, a film festival probably makes the most sense
- Comment on Bottoms up! 3 days ago:
🤢
- Comment on Cursed Milk 3 days ago:
Your life sounds like a dream
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 4 days ago:
Oh man, I’d completely forgotten about that
Actual nutjobs
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 4 days ago:
Okay buckle up, this is a bit of a crazy ride.
I’d say a big event that kicked up a load of the racism we’ve got today was 9/11.
Right wingers went on a big public islamophobic tirade against anyone who they thought looked slightly Muslim for nearly a decade. This is where they got used to being confidently racist. This actually happened all over the western world, but I’m gonna focus on the American events after this.
Then Obama got elected, and relatively quickly a vast number of them had expanded their confident racism to include him, because they could hide it behind the flimsy excuse of criticising the opposing politicians. Then you had people banging on about the Kenya thing, which was just more emboldening.
This is also when we saw a lot of these “free thinker” talking head fuckos show up, and they start filling gullible viewers heads with lies and a tiny bit of racism sprinkled in.
One of the guys behind huge amounts of that, Steve Bannon, expressly targeted “angry young men” as a specific demographic he saw as easy to manipulate. Believe it or not GamerGate was one of the sources of angry guys he specifically manipulated to great success. So all these podcasts start getting funding and certain kinds of guests, and before you know it we have the manosphere, MAGA and an openly racist, criminal president.
Then of course COVID comes along which gives another angle for them to be racist through sinophobia, and also a new hook to pull people in and then get their brain warped slowly by the other cryptofascist topics that get dripfed from people talking about it.
Basically, the original event showed some Machiavellian right-wingers that a big enough enemy can be used to brainwash people towards racism, once there they’re incredibly easy to manipulate. They then used Obama becoming president to test the theory and got the results they wanted. Next was to get the presidency in the hands of this new right-wing, and finally the January 6th coup was supposed to be the final touch.
That failed so they’re back in recruitment mode, and now they’ve got it down to an almost industrial process whenever some celebrity/influencer espouses a right wing view, a podcast set appears around them and suddenly all the funding they need to make the pod full-time, just as long as they get some certain guests on or discuss some topics in particular.
- Comment on i hate this meme 4 days ago:
I kinda like that’s is a new line art meme format that’s not based on wojack, it’s nice to have variety
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
You could also get a big sword-shaped ice cube mold, a chest freezer and probably not even a whole enemy.
You would have to do battle in freezing climates too though in order for it to remain physically effective
Though I imagine the psychological effectiveness might persist a bit longer
- Comment on Cursed Milk 4 days ago:
Sparkling yoghurt
- Comment on How faith drives bidder for Telegraph who wields growing influence on Tories 4 days ago:
Oh cool, so we have our own home-grown chimera of Scientology and the Westboro Baptist Church
fuck’s sake…
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 5 days ago:
So no more timed exclusives ever then?
- Comment on Are trailers revealing too much again nowadays? 5 days ago:
Always have been.
If you already know you’re going to watch/play a piece of media, avoid all the marketing. The only thing you gain is a risk of spoilers.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 6 days ago:
Coward
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
where is micro plastic coming from?
Literally everywhere
And what would be a good lever to reduce that?
Many, many, many individual pieces of legislation
Bottle caps are not the answer for any of that.
If you’ve read what I’ve written, you would know I’m not saying that
So the result is barely any change in the amount of plastic introduced in the environment
Where it ends up is the most important thing
but people (like you) become complacent, because we added those cap straps after all!
Again, read. I, or anyone else reasonable in support of this, are not saying this is the silver bullet. It’s one of the thousands of points of iterative improvement we need to make.
but it’s far from being free
In terms of green legislation, this is literally as cheap as it gets
this exact bullshit makes people ignore the real problem. Your view is far too myopic.
You have clearly not comprehended my previous comments remotely correctly.
- Comment on British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float 6 days ago:
Raspberry Bye
This was a company with a positive goal around education
That’s incompatible with capitalist shareholders
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
Yes I completely understand the lobbying the fossil fuel industry does and the tactics they use.
This is not the only policy from the EU regarding climate change however. If it was, I’d be with you that it’s absolutely not good enough.
No one is sat thinking we’ve solved climate change by making plastic bottle lids slightly differently, and given this thread it clearly carries a negative sentiment. So it’s a pretty bad symbolic gesture.
We currently have a problem with microplastics.
I fail to see how this change will not increase the rates at which the lids are recycled.
This change was basically free, so even if it only moves the needle slightly, it was a change worth making.
There’s no silver bullet for fixing the problem, pretty much everything has to change, and this is just one of those many changes.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
I can’t see how attaching them wouldn’t increase the rates at which they’re recycled.
You can believe this was never a problem perhaps, but then you’ve got to wonder why the change was made—no one is gonna profit from the design of bottle caps changing, so what’s the motive for the change if it’s not a problem? Contrary to the somewhat common belief, politicians tend to try and not waste time on useless legislation.
A refund system costs money, this change basically doesn’t.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
I guess because I’ve got used to it now and it’s entirely a non-issue in my life, I wouldn’t say it scratches my cheek at all.
If it means less microplastic in the sea, I’m all for it
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
Rotate the bottle 90 degrees so the cap goes to the side of your face rather than mashing it into your nose.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
Tbh this, when you actually just leave it properly attached it’s not much different from a water bottle lid at that point
- Comment on hot dog 1 week ago:
I don’t like where his life seems to have taken him
- Comment on hot dog 1 week ago:
Is that Alvin?
- Comment on Extinctions 1 week ago:
Ah, meme memetics
- Comment on That one band... 1 week ago:
Damn that was a blind spot. I was under the impression it was only the past half a decade or so that he’d gotten that shitty
- Comment on That one band... 1 week ago:
Give The Smiths a go if you’re intrigued. It’s the band that he broke out of, and personally I prefer more of that compared to his solo stuff (though he does have a few bangers)
- Comment on That one band... 1 week ago:
He’s also become a bit of a nut job in recent years unfortunately
- Comment on Amazing 1 week ago:
Moses clearly owned a liquor still
- Comment on Wednesday, my dudes. 1 week ago:
No, let’s skip to Thursday
- Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 1 week ago:
Honestly it’s gotta be something they’re considering after looking at sony branching out to PC and making some cash
I reckon it won’t be as abrupt as Sega, we’ll probably see them do a slow pivot,
- Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 1 week ago:
I’m not a religious man, but this would clearly coincide with some kind of rapture
- Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 1 week ago:
The key thing here is Nintendo now needs to compete with Valve
Valve don’t have to give a shit about Nintendo though as the steam deck is not essential to their main product
This is an interesting shift in the dynamic where Nintendo often are the ones that don’t need to compete with anyone