I dislike the line that JK Rowling could have just kept her mouth shut and kept on being a beloved and revered author, because, like, even if she wasn't transphobic at some point we would have had to talk about all the other stuff too
Like letting the most popular children's book franchise in the world just exist filled with racism and antisemitism unchallenged is not a better scenario
I see your point and yeah the joyful slavery and goblins would still be in there but it would have been "okay you know what I think she just genuinely didn't think about the implications at the time and the books came out a long time ago. It's bad and we should acknowledge that but it's silly to drag someone for something that long ago"
But *now?*
Literally signing off on the "jewish stereotypes are kidnapping our kids to wipe out the wizard race" game? Really? Quadrupling down? There's no way that wasn't intentional and malicious. This lady just hates Jewish people. There's no plausible deniability anymore
Here's a jolly fun video by a fun and smart man on Jowling Kowling Rowling's various writing deficiencies! It's not just the racism and antisemitism, but so much more!
Wind and solar are doing great. Hydro is hurt due to drought caused by fossil fuel climate crisis.
if you took away the prospect of massive student loans, there would be fewer young people who choose to risk their lives in order to afford college. a good cartoon.
At a conveyer belt sushi restaurant.
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The appropriate response.
This might sound dystopian but this is actually really cool cremations are really bad for the environment so if we can make them eco friendly we’ll be able to do a lot of good
Plus it’s renewable because well people die every day
It's not 'throw another granny in the heat turbine to sell the electricity'
It's 'it takes 1,000-3,000°c / 1,830 - 2,370°f to cremate a person. We're using a lot of energy to get up and maintain those temperatures', this is recouping that energy
Woman, you can’t hide the best part in the tags:
An adorable desert fox walking against the wind in Morocco.
It fuckin deserdy
#it’s fuken samdy
IT’S FUCKEN SAMDY
Oh god, I just aged several years in a single second, a friend of mine sent me a snippet from a fic that read someone put a VHS into a VCR and took so long getting back to it to press play that the menu screen had looped multiple times
every time I think maybe I am putting too much effort into researching the details of technological advances I lived through, something like this crosses my dash
For the young whippersnappers who don’t understand the issue, VHS tapes don’t have menu screens. That is not technologically possible on a tape.
A magnetic tape works because information has been magnetically encoded on the tape. The tape is very long, and is wound around two little spools, one at the end, one at the beginning. In the middle is a part where it is flat and there is a thing called a ‘head’ and it reads the magnetic encoding on the bit of the tape next to it and converting it into sound and/or images. When the tape plays, the little spools wind/unwind so that new sections of tape are constantly being run past the head. Every single thing a VCR can do is a function of controlling which part of the tape is next to the head.
You put the tape in the machine and press play on the machine, and it plays. You press stop and it stops. You press play again and it starts playing right where it left off, because while it’s stopped the tape is not moving past the head. You can pause it instead of stop it, which will leave the frame you paused on on the TV (in contrast to stopping, when the screen goes dark). You can fast forward, and it will wind the tape forward towards the end. You can rewind and it will wind the tape back to the beginning.
in my experience it usually played automatically on being fed a tape, and you had to pause or stop it to prevent this, which was awkward sometimes when the tv volume turned out to be set way too high
unless of course the tape hadn't been rewound before being taken out last time. then, unless auto-rewind was a feature of the VCR in question, you had to push that button first to get back to the start so the movie was watchable.
also if you wanted it to rewind quickly instead of playing the entire film backwards, silently, at maybe double speed, you pushed 'stop' first and it lifted the tape away from the reader to respool at speed.
Now that I have processed this somewhat, here's some other tidbits:
Tapes had no mandatory ads at the front. Oh, sure, there often were ads at the front, but there was no way to prevent just fast forwarding through them.
For the busy among us who wanted to watch a film while another was rewinding, separate tape rewinding devices were sold.
Tape rental places would ask you to "please be kind, rewind!" and some places charged a rewinding fee if you didn't.
Music was affected by the jump from tapes to disc, too! I remember it blowing my mind that CDs could replay a track instantly, instead of me having to memorize how long it took to rewind a tape to play back a tune.
Both VCRs and music tape players would occasionally break and "eat" the tape, which meant an unspooled, destroyed tape and having to take the player apart to free the tape from it. Sometimes the player could be fixed afterwards, and sometimes it couldn't.
Sometimes if you played the same portion of a tape over and over, it would lead to tape degradation: distorted video and audio, or even the tape snapping and having to get a new one. (I did this to at least one Disney movie - don't remember which - and one soundtrack.)
Adjusting the tracking! I don't remember how this physically works but if the video is jumping around, sometimes you would have to adjust it so the VCR reads the tape correctly. Looks like there's some how-to guides out there on the Internet on how to do this. Usually there was a button on the remote to do this.
Some VCRs were extra fancy and had digital clocks built into them. After a power outage, they would reset to 12:00 and flash. Adjusting the clock was a strange and mysterious process that a lot of folks never got the hang of, so their VCRs just had 12:00 flashing on them at all times.
I think I just aged 10,000 years from this post
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He really went in w those last two tweets
Bruh I felt this with every fiber of my being
Anonymous asked:
Apparently Kiwi Farms was shut down! Fuck that transphobic, bigoted mess of a site! I am going to dance on it’s fucking grave
Apparently they found a new host, though. 🥲
Update again. The Russian server has dropped Kiwi Farms too, and the owner of the site, has basically admitted defeat, as he really is out of options for hosting now.
there’s only 4 hours of labor day left and absolutely nobody on my dash posted todaybor day is labor day. fucking unbelievable. i have to do everything around here
it’s that time of year again lads
good morning americans
Anonymous asked:
Why don’t people like CinemaSins?
Short Answer: They're bad at movie criticism.
Long Answer: Their premise and branding has forced them to become bad at movie criticism in order to continue their livelihood.
CinemaSins began as a channel talking about bad movies, pointing out their flaws, and counting it up as a sort of ranking.
The problem is that it became popular, and because it became popular it became monetisable.
All of their problems really stem from the fact that they earn a livelihood from it.
The Youtube Algorithm started focusing on longer videos, so the videos had to become longer, which meant more sins. But even the worst movies have so many flaws, and you can only make the "joke" sins so many times. So the criticisms started getting... looser. Sinning things that get explained moments later. Sinning things that aren't explained, but are obvious without explanation. Sinning things that are completely subjective.
At the same time, there's only so many popular bad movies. Plenty of completely obscure ones, but nobody's gonna click on a video for a movie they've never heard of. So they started sinning good movies, which left them less to legitimately criticize, while still needing longer videos with more sins. Worsening the problem.
And then the selection becomes more limited when you start chasing what's popular. There's a sequel coming out, got to make a video on the previous film, soak up some of those searches. Doesn't matter if the last movie was a masterpiece of cinema, gotta sin it.
And because the channel was popular, it's word was parroted. It gave a platform for some worst aspects of film criticism: the focus on "plot holes"; the conflation of the two definitions of "critical"; the constant "why didn't the characters do x? lol dumb movie" spiels... all existed before CinemaSins, still exist even in those who profess their hate for the channel, but they became the loudest voice making these points.
They're not the first to fall into this trap. The wave of Caustic Critics spawned by the Angry Videogame Nerd suffered this as well. You cannot monetise negativity forever, there is only so many genuinely bad works of media that are interestingly bad, or praised as good and are actually bad, or bad in a way nobody's discussed before.
If you keep telling people "X is Garbage and Here's Why", you're gonna run out of garbage and start having to manufacture it, no matter what the actual facts are.
Other creators adapted. Found other ways to make their content interesting besides anger and negativity.
But CinemaSins can't. It's in the name.
TL;DR: Once you're financially incentivised to arrive at a certain conclusion (in this case, negativity), you will always find a way to arrive at that conclusion, facts be damned, and this can poison the discussion of the subject.
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you fools
don’t do this
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"My aching cam-sphere" is a line that always stuck with me. I do lightly miss how early MST would play up the robots being, well, robots.
