"Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up."
imagine if instead of rehashing the tos characters again (sorry snw) trek tried doing something new and weird and risky. What If
I always wanted a Star Trek show but from other perspectives, not always the Starfleet but what about from the Romulans, the Klingons, even the Borg, or just normal people living normal lives within that same universe.
There is a lot to discover and explore in Star Trek, so many races, planetas and cultures like they were doing in the 90s with TNG, DS9 and VOY.
10000000000!!!!! @panic-in-the-space is so right.
I want that SO bad.
The fact that La’an is basically their only new character who has any screen time is really disappointing. She’s great and the show needs more of that. Everyone liked Hemmer too but…yeah.
I'm trying to break out of my art rut. high res under cut.
can we also appreciate ballister nailing this guy in the dick and then using the shield which is still attached to him
who cares about taylor swift have you guys heard You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon song of the summer
They should put “being correct about the consequences of 2016 since day one” in the DSM because there are truly few things that make you feel more like a madman screaming in a straitjacket than having known what would happen if people let Trump get elected really since 2015 and then watching everyone fuck around and find out and have all of this political horror very predictably happen while those same chucklefucks from earlier act like their actions and subsequent outcome of 2016 is irrelevant to our current political situation
I started Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights, but...man. I like the guy and I have defended him before, but this is really a bold presentation of all of his most obnoxious tendencies, all at once.
Like there is something wrong with everything, a little. This feels like something that would have been great in 1996, but now isn't then, and neither was 2005, and you can't get away with a lot of this anymore. Like it is weirdly condescending to the point of insensitivity, and is romanticizing behavior we would be more careful and analytical about.
I get it is a big happy celebration of a neighborhood, but turning that neighborhood into Seasame Street is gross unless your goal is teaching 5 year olds how to count. Even in a musical, you can't do this uncritically anymore. No one would write Rent now, you know? You can't juat steal a 30 year old theater vibe and regurgitate it.
His hyper-articulate rap thing is almost unbearable here. Yes, that is his whole thing, and yes, (white) people like it. But what was new and interesting in Hamilton is now a brick wall of people saying lots of things quickly into a void. It really is a quantity over quality thing. It's time to experiment with a new style or two, Lin. Em and Lil Dicky are no longer the Titans they once were. To put it sarcastically.
Also. There is a real problem here with everyone walking down a street, explaining their emotions to me. That...that isn't how you do this. They are supposed to sing a song, and I listen to it and watch their performance, and gather what they are feeling from the mix of nuances from both. That is what musical theater does. A lady singing "I am sad because I don't fit in at college, I don't want to tell people back home," takes me out of it completely. Which is weird, because you want me to go on a journey with all this. That's why we're here. But I'm not on a journey, I'm watching someone rap exposition. And I'm not remotely interested in that. Not sure who is.
This in particular is a recurring Lin-Manuel Miranda quirk that a lot of people don't appreciate from him. But...he isn't getting better about it. May be worse now that industry people keep lavishing praise and money on him. And that's a shame.
I don't know. I think this is one of those bright stars that may be flaming out rather quickly. He needs to challenge himself more because he's certainly stuck somewhere. And yet another metaphoric cargo ship of words, sung by POC tropes who talk like janitors from a 1970s network sitcom, isn't going to get him moving.
Ick.
i don't think making fun of the people dehydrating and suffocating to death over a period of several days in a tin can under two miles of water gets less ghoulish when they're rich. It would probably be better if the CEO who cut corners was alive to spend the rest of his life in jail for negligent manslaughter.
Like I understand that the richest man in Pakistan has probably done some evil shit but it's not being righteously anticapitalist to laugh over him watching his teenage son dehydrate and slowly turn ever more blue in front of him
an anticapitalist praxis should be compassionate because why the fuck else would you subscribe to it. a few aeronautics CEOs (and a kid not old enough to drink, and an elderly Titanic researcher) dying violently doesn't do anything to advance a greater equality. possible to roll eyes over the stupid things rich people waste money on without being like lololol I'm glad they experienced nonstop hallucinatory fear of a sort that I will be blessed never to comprehend over four endless days they deserved it #guillotine
I don't tend to agree with bloodshed as the means but a lot of you see it as the ends, and that's even worse
"kill the rich!!!!"
just... just tax them. just tax the rich. there are so many ways to resolve this problem without killing people, you can try those first.
See, this is how I show my students that the vengeful motives that Nietzsche claims were behind the invention of Christian morality -- the universalistic, egalitarian morality of (officially) compassion, pacifism, and altruism -- are still psychologically real for the secular adherents of that morality even now. Leftists are outraged by the unnecessary suffering of the poor (not unreasonably), but they don't just want to rearrange things so that the poor can have their needs met and their suffering alleviated; they want to punish the people they see as culpable for that suffering. They may claim to be opposed to all suffering, but it's only the suffering of certain people, those they perceive as innocent victims, that troubles them. They still feel that those who have inflicted suffering -- the rich, or members of other privileged groups -- should suffer, even if it's not necessary to relieve the existing suffering. The main difference between these modern Leftists and the early Christians who fantasized about watching the punishment of their oppressors in Hell is that they believe there is a possibility that they can gain enough power in this world to ensure that the oppressors suffer, so there's no more need to leave vengeance to God.
As versions of the morality of compassion go, the really consistent ones are universal salvationist Christianity and Utilitarianism, which still counts the pain involved in punishment as a negative, and takes it to be permissible only if having a system of punishment increases the amount of pleasure or happiness overall by effectively deterring wrongdoing that would cause more suffering.
Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.
Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.
“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]
amazing
Do you guys think Julian’s parents had a bad relationship, which lead to his negative views on the concept of marriage? Or was he just a professional slut and hater
I think lemurs are just like that
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Reina del Cid is one of my favorite musicians. Her YouTube has some amazing covers.
But this Star Trek engineering rap is just delightful.
René Auberjonois behind the scenes of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine finale.
