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  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldEssential movies to watch
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    Alien, Aliens, Alien3.

    Rashomon

    Man with a Movie Camera

    Battleship Potemkin

    Metropolis

    The Lost Boys

    The Matrix

    Withnail & I

    Requeim for a Dream

    Synecdoche, New York

    Hero

    Let the Bullets Fly

    Jackie Brown

    Anomalisa

    The Skin I Live in

    Parrallel Mothers

    Martyrs

    Amélie

    Taxi Driver

    Etneral Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    The Lighthouse

    Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

    A New Hope, Empire, RotJ (despecialised, or original cuts

    Bladerunner, Bladerunner 2049.

    The Orphanage

    Watership Down

    Donnie Darko

    American Beauty

    I’m All Right, Jack

    The Great Dictator

    Blow-Up

    City of God


  • Like the others so far have said, if government is to justify its continued existence it needs to be for the good of all the people, not just those with capital.

    It still implies a level of hierarchy and control, which isn’t good and will tend to lead to centralisation and corruption because power tends towards collecting more power.

    But if it could be making life on the ground better for all the people, (food, shelter, education, preventing the environmental destruction that private ownership has bought) not at the expense of people within or without it’s borders (even that one child in the secret basement), them it’d be a damn sight better.





  • I don’t think a stereotype can ever really be constructive, even if “positive” since it limits the space for people that don’t fit it.

    A clear example of this would be that Asian people are good at Maths. Not true, and does a lot of harm to the many Asians who are not exceptionally good at Maths. (For instance that Asian University candidates are often penalised for only having average Maths grades, or just the bullying and social pressure of feeling you’re not living up to a birthright.)


  • I accidentally beat the Mantis Triplets far earlier than I needed to because I couldn’t find the path into the ruined capital city I was meant to take.

    Long route back to fighting the optional boss to enter a far too difficult zone for me. Only after beating them and discovering that that was not where I was meant to go did I backtrack and find the turning I’d missed to actually progress. (I rather liked Hollow Knight despite this, but you don’t and that’s fine. I just think it would be funny (, and a sign of poor map design if you made the same map reading error I did).)





  • You’re right, the bribery talk is the logical extrapolation of the ruling that is laid out in the dissenting opinion. (and also in a minor dissent from one of the 6 judges who made the ruling.)

    Edit: and unfortunately I live in a place where the US supreme Court website does not allow access so I can’t read the conveniently shared link. I have tried to find it online and read as much of it as I can. I would like to read the full thing, maybe you could share the image on a Lemmy instance and link to that? You could do the same with the dissenting opinion, too, for completion’s sake.

    What I can find from the reports and snippets I can find is that the ruling that Roberts wrote talks about not only immunity for official acts, but not using official acts as evidence for prosecuting a US president. This then becomes the talk of bribery as making an appointment is very much an official act, and where that one conservative justice breaks line with the other five, as she maintains that official acts should be eligible as evidence when prosecuting unofficial acts.