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Alt account of @Cube6392@beehaw.org for looking at stuff Beehaw defederated
- Comment on Uncultured 2 days ago:
aglets in english
- Comment on There Is No ‘Energy Emergency,’ a New Lawsuit Claims | In suit, 15 Dem states called Trump’s declaration illegal & federal agencies are rushing permits for fossil fuel projects under false pretenses 3 days ago:
i’m in favor of nuclear replacing coal. my problem is with leaving the coal in place to build nuclear to power the torment nexus
- Comment on There Is No ‘Energy Emergency,’ a New Lawsuit Claims | In suit, 15 Dem states called Trump’s declaration illegal & federal agencies are rushing permits for fossil fuel projects under false pretenses 3 days ago:
better would be to stop building the torment nexus at all
- Comment on There Is No ‘Energy Emergency,’ a New Lawsuit Claims | In suit, 15 Dem states called Trump’s declaration illegal & federal agencies are rushing permits for fossil fuel projects under false pretenses 3 days ago:
expect nuclear plants in rural areas
- Comment on Pope Joan 4 days ago:
this shit never actually stopped. it just fell into the background but it was always there, influencing and waiting
- Comment on Pope Joan 4 days ago:
- Comment on The onion writers crying 4 days ago:
Article title
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 6 days ago:
Midwesterners are the only people I’ve ever met who don’t think they have an accent. And I’m like “you have a midwest accent.” They’re stunned because to them it’s just a “normal” accent, and they know it must be so because it’s what the TV man talks like. Obviously I know midwesterners who know they have an accent and the TV man is trained to speak that way. But everyone else I meet and know knows their own accent and can recognize variations of it. They’re not so conscious of how they make their accent happen, obviously, since it is their own. But they know they sound different from other people
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 6 days ago:
See. That’s the kinds of things we could did if we had like… A government that worked. 20 years ago our politicians were less worried about our safety and more worried about spying on us
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 6 days ago:
that’s cute. nah tho. the pins are just… out there. ready to kill you
- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 6 days ago:
my problem with certain programs, chrome included, is they tell the os “no, you can’t have this ram back. i’m using it”
i understand the logic of your argument, but it’s never played out in life
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 week ago:
yup, which is legit what rian johnson is saying here. the studios aren’t setting up movies to succeed for their creators because the studios make way more money fror streaming
- Comment on Rest in peace 1 week ago:
it’s like how every so often you have to tell someone referring to the final design for a software project as “the final solution” is probably not the best phrasing
- Comment on Lemmy needs more donations 1 week ago:
i still think lemmy will see more adoption if there comes a hard fork. or, really. piefed and mbin might supplant lemmy as being the backbone of the threadiverse as their development continues.
the other possibility is for neutomic and dessalines to step down as maintainers and hand the project to someone else. i see this as unlikely though as they give the impression that their authoritarian communist politics is the entire point of working on lemmy for them.
i guess we’ll wait and see, but for now there’s no way i could see myself donating money to neutomic and dessalines even if my admin took their software and created something good with it. they are simply too vile and dangerous. the threadiverse is the future of reddit-like discussionboards, but i can’t bring myself to view lemmy as the future of the threadiverse
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 week ago:
I thought about it, but I didn’t see it so I didn’t feel qualified to list it. In a lot of ways we exist in a golden age of weird and interesting movies because we’re all so exhausted of safe movies meant for the lowest common denominator, but the hard part is finding out about those movies as they come out because movie promotion and distribution is so broken. The most common way for a movie to get promotion is a trailer in front of another movie. But we’re not really going to the movies anymore as a society because we’re tired of safe common denominator movies, but since we’re not going to the movies anymore, the studio system is leaning HARDER into safe movies they know will get some return and aren’t spending money promoting the weird shit because they don’t even know if we’ll watch the weird shit.
I’d love a studio to gamble everything on promoting a weird movie on network TV, the radio, and on billboards (the most effective forms of promotion) to reach people who want to see new interesting things but just don’t know what new interesting things are going on. I really think at this point movie execs fundamentally misunderstand the movie landscape in a post Avengers: Endgame world
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 week ago:
It’s that platform juggling that rankles me about this streaming system, and the constant price hikes of the streaming services themselves, as well as the fact that sometimes as part of the juggling something’s just not available on the evening you and your partner want to watch something you liked. It’s the type of shit that has me shopping for a bluray player because WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING AROUND HERE, JUST LET ME OWN AND ENJOY THE MOVIES I LIKE FUCK
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 week ago:
Their union fought extremely hard to get distribution shares from box office runs in the 00s and its still part of their collective contract. It’s an extremely meager share, but it’s still where their financial stability comes from. Yeah there’s more jobs available if more shovel movies in production all the time, but that doesn’t get them more stability, it aligns them closer to day laborers. The IATSE Local 44 (who most of hollywood’s studios’ workers of this variety are represented by) are expected to strike in 2027 because they don’t get as much from streaming films as box office films.
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 week ago:
There’s so many good films that came out in the last 10 years that are to this day hard to find on streaming because they don’t fit into the Netflix, Hulu, or Disney+ model of "shut your brain off and shut the fuck up about the economy"
- Parasite
- I, Tonya
- Get Out
- BlacKkKlansman
- Sorry to Bother You (in bold because this is one of the most important films of the last 10 years, and no one fucking talks about it)
- David Byrne’s American Utopia (yes, I’m putting two Spike Lee joints on my list, IT’S MY LIST)
- Furiosa (WHY DID EVERYONE SLEEP ON THIS ONE!? IT’S ALL THE MAD MAX THINGS WE ALL LIKE AND IT HAS SOMETHING TO SAY I FEEL LIKE I’M GOING CRAZY)
- The Boy and the Heron
- Godzilla Minus One
- The Fabelmans (This one is incredible. All y’all let Steven Spielberg down. This movie has EVERYTHING that he’s all about and it’s a heartfelt introspection into who he is as a director, what his influences are, and why it’s important to make media about how Nazis suck)
- RRR
- Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse & Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
Some of these are very easy to find because they were too popular to be ignored, but some of these I saw in a cinema, and then that was it. I need to either wait for an independent theater to decide they want to rent a reel for a weekend for 2 screenings, or to save up $25 to buy the movie outright because it’s not streaming anywhere.
Honestly putting together this list made me feel like I’m actually going crazy a little bit. There’s been so many masterpieces in the last 10 years. To the extent that I left an entire Mad Max film off my list, and the one I left off is the one everyone likes.
The problem isn’t that no good movies are coming out. The problem is the studio system and the streaming services don’t promote the creative and innovative movies. They don’t fit into the overall system of propaganda that our media landscape is. Particularly any Boots Riley or Spike Lee film is going to be made to be seen by people who already know they’re generational directors because the studios expressly don’t want you to think about how America exploits Black art. If you did that you might do something about it, and that would disrupt the money streams.
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 week ago:
Not trying to insult. Just saying Rian Johnson saying he would like it if his movie production staff were paid, and you telling him to go fuck himself, and you perceive everyone you interact with as rude might be related and indicative that you are abrasive to interact with. I’m willing to be wrong, but take it into consideration. Because Rian Johnson isn’t talking about you. He’s not telling you he need you to go to the cinema. But you sure took it like that, which is odd
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 week ago:
it also benefits the technoligarchs if they strip any connection we have to eachother, culturally. it’s better for them if we get in and out of the theater without discussing what the propaganda meant to us. it helps them create an environment where we all live isolated in a media bubble all our own. there we’re more easily manipulated. the most right wing podcasts like the joe rogan experience being spotify exclusive isn’t a wreckless thing from spotify. it’s planned and on purpose. first they isolate your media pipeline, then they make their pool of content more right wing than anyone else’s, then they ensure the people hooked on the jre can’t go anywhere else for it where they’d encounter other media outside their understanding of the world,
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 week ago:
where the people who made the movie get paid for their labor get paid for their work. he’s not even saying a theater is the only place he wants his film seen. he’s saying he wants his movie in cinemas for as long as it’s viable there. knives out 3 would still come to streaming. you’d just have to wait a couple more weeks to see it. it’s a minor inconvenience for you, but for a second line gaffer, or for a craft services worker, the cinema time might be their entire livelihood for the year.
if you think everyone is rude in a place you go, and this is the amount of effort you’re willing to put in to understanding what’s going on and what people are saying, i think it’s very possible that the reason is because you are abrasive to interact with
- Comment on Found Lily and Mitch 1 week ago:
depends on the year this originated
- Comment on The Cybertruck is all tricks and no truck, a musky Tesla fail 2 weeks ago:
you can tell it’s bad at being a truck by taking one glance at it. all the other companies didn’t arrive at the same design via a process of convergent evolution because they’re a bunch of uncreative sheep thinkers. it’s simply the shape a truck must be in order for it to do the things that trucks do
- Comment on unable to chud 2 weeks ago:
i did, but i’m glad haha. spelling is not my strong suit, so i spelled it a way and then spell check corrected it to what i put and i just said “you know best spell check”
- Comment on unable to chud 2 weeks ago:
being queer and on 4chan is an experience in cognitive dissidence.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
no yeah for sure. i’m just saying that the subset of people who are gungho about the importance of circumcision because of their love for jesus are people you’re unlikely to ever encounter, but do have every conservative politician’s ear
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
Pentecostal holiness denominations are both small and overrepresented in policy making
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
i saw the edit
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
no i know. i’m part of that statistic. my parents weren’t consulted ahead of time. it was simply done “for health reasons”
- Comment on Shazam director swore he'd never do another IP-based movie again after "crazy" backlash from DC fans, but Until Dawn's script was just too good to pass up: "I had to do it" 2 weeks ago:
that sounds like you need to blame the writers and producers more than the director to me