brutallyhonestcritic
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- Comment on 1 month ago:
The only expressly illegal crypto technologies are mixers like Tornado cash.
Also, the law doesn’t define morality. Illegality just means that it threatens the parties in power (in this case, the Fed) enough that they have made laws against it.
A list from Suckfeed of things that are illegal but arguably not immoral:
- Ringing up two bananas instead of four to six at the grocery self-checkout. Produce is already inflated.
- Smoking pot outdoors. I use it for pain control and to help me walk. I have to carry it out and about, or I collapse.
- Riding your bike on the sidewalk.
- In at least 68 different countries, it is illegal to be gay.
- leaving your ID at home. POC have been killed for not having ID.
- In New York state, there are laws against ‘fortune tellers’ that are still on the books. I remember going through my penal code book in school and asking, ‘WTF?!’ It’s just one of those old things that state legislature doesn’t have time or incentive to change and goes back culturally to the racial stigma of ‘gypsy’ scam artists.
- Permits or anything that is punishable by fine just means it’s legal for the rich."
- In my country, it’s illegal to feed stray animals, which are mostly very friendly. On the other hand, it’s perfectly legal, and I see it hundreds of times a day, to litter everywhere you want. Trash, plastic, cigarette butts are everywhere, the air is polluted and so is the water. Anyone can take down a tree or row of trees and destroy a forest, but you can’t feed stray puppies and kittens? Seriously?
- Loitering, aka vagrancy, was criminalized as a way to arrest Black people, especially Black men.
- Any sort of consensual crime. Drugs, prostitution, gambling, weird sex. If everyone is consenting, I think it being legal makes it more regulated and much safer.
- what The Adjuster did last year.
- Sex work! It’s a consensual transfer of money for services. The only reason it became illegal is because it gave women independence, and the only reason it is dangerous now is because it’s illegal. Legalize it, regulate it, and make people in the industry feel safe to report crimes and abuse.
- Assisted death. Terminally ill people should absolutely have the right to die with dignity on their own terms, instead of drawn-out, painful, oftentimes expensive, slow deaths.
- Downloading college ebooks for free instead of spending $400 on the latest version. Usually, all they did was change the spelling of a few words and called it v87.12458281648391846 of the book, and then they required it for your college class.
- Pirating media that isn’t available for purchase in your area. You weren’t going to get my money either way.
- Loitering in a park. I’ve always wondered why this is illegal in some places. The point of a park is to loiter.
- There’s a stoplight on my commute where I need to turn left. The light is a hard red/not on a timer. It’s not motion-detected. So even at 5:30 a.m., when there is zero traffic in the lanes ahead or behind me, I must wait for the timer or risk a photo-triggered ticket. The left turn lane should be a blinking yellow arrow at all times, TBH.
- Jaywalking and crossing the street on a red light, as a pedestrian, when there are no cars around.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 1 month ago:
Fair point: in the (IMO rare) rare case of a terrorist attack in an anarchist (maybe more like an anarcho-syndicalist) society, it would be handled locally like it was for a thousand years before organized governments were formed.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 1 month ago:
There would be FAR less terrorism because terrorism is just the violent reaction to injustices perpetrated BY THE STATE by people that feel they’ve been wronged by the state.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Doh me negative detected.
Personally, I don’t never gain weight. I really should lose weight.
- Comment on Women Directed Just 16% of 2024's Top 250 Grossing Movies 3 months ago:
flaming
I’m just speaking my mind. The headline is clearly alluding to an inadequacy in the amount of women hired to direct major motion pictures and TV.
Otherwise, why would it even be mentioned?
Watching Wicked, I thought to myself “this looks like shit! Why is this the case?” Then, I looked up who shot it and looked at her other projects and saw that she was obviously chosen based on her gender. Nothing more. She was also inducted into the ASC after only 10 years of shooting low budget projects. Clearly, she isn’t being promoted based on her skill or experience level. It is ALL artificial. I’m tired of it. By all means, have Ellen Kuras shoot it or some other incredibly talented female DoP, but having Alice Brooks shoot it STINKS of gender nepotism.
Whether you want to shoot the messenger or not, I’m speaking my mind.
- Comment on Women Directed Just 16% of 2024's Top 250 Grossing Movies 3 months ago:
My thought hadn’t fully materialized to make much sense.
Here’s another stab at it: What I mean is, entry level jobs are fine. But even in the world of engineering, artificially making choices based on ethnicity or gender for the top tier job can have very real consequences. I’m all for giving minorities more opportunities but I think putting them in charge or in the main role solely because of their gender, sexuality, or ethnicity can be a recipe for disaster.
Minorities should obviously be considered with the same weight as white men but IMO that choice (especially at the top) should be made based on SKILL and qualifications. IMO, it’s fine to artificially inflate roles that aren’t the department head but department heads need to be decided on an OBJECTIVE BASIS.
- Comment on Women Directed Just 16% of 2024's Top 250 Grossing Movies 3 months ago:
Yeah! Let’s double down on nepotism and not picking the best person for the job!
“I know he’s a famous, incredibly skilled, multiple Oscar winning auteur that produces nothing but box office hits, but does he HAVE A VAGINA?!?” /s
To go further, I find it suspicious that less than 50% of all directors aren’t transsexual.
Next year: “Even though only 2% of all filmmakers are transsexual, we really need to artificially inflate those numbers to 50%. The quality of their work be damned!”
Dunno about anyone else here but I’d rather just see good movies. I don’t give a flying fuck what the genitals or ethnicity of the people who make it are. I care about the QUALITY OF THE PROJECT. How many bad films and tv shows get made nowadays just because they decided to go with a female director despite lack of experience or passion for the project.
I hate that hiring choices aren’t being made considering skill. They are being made by skin color and gender.
I obviously want these minorities to have opportunities but I also don’t think it makes much sense in the art world where the product is a direct result of the talent of the director. By all means, artificially inflate the number of women that work in an office or some other white collar job but studios should stay the fuck away from this kind of thing when it comes to the film industry.
- Comment on Wicked Becomes Biggest Stage Musical Adaptation Ever At Global Box Office 3 months ago:
99% of the time, they work their way up. There are hundreds of better female DoP’s out there.
Also, most DoP’s don’t usually go from $10 million to 150 million pictures in the space of one project unless there’s some massive nepotism afoot. She already is in the ASC. Do you know how hard it is to get into the ASC?
- Comment on Wicked Becomes Biggest Stage Musical Adaptation Ever At Global Box Office 3 months ago:
As others have mentioned, this movie looked like dogshit.
This is what happens when you give an inexperienced, low-budget DoP a 100 million project because of little more than gender.
Listen to her squirm: youtu.be/ZRL8NSOgOj8
- Comment on Zoe Saldaña Hopes ‘Special Ops: Lioness’ Is a Spiritual Successor to ‘Sicario’ 1 year ago:
If you MUST know, internet neckbeard, I met her when I worked on Infinitely Polar Bear and she was an absolute stuck up cunt to everyone on the crew.
- Comment on Zoe Saldaña Hopes ‘Special Ops: Lioness’ Is a Spiritual Successor to ‘Sicario’ 1 year ago:
Does she hope to become a good person too? She’s a fucking asshole in real life.