Walkin’ on the Sun, by Smashmouth

It’s from '97, but for anyone who wants to know what the end of the twentieth century sounded like, this, imo, is it.

Source?

This is so bleak. I’m constantly trying to stave off doomerism, and focus on what we can do to help, but this article is just a gut punch.

Thanks for sharing that skit! I hadn’t seen that before!

The original '89 Batman is still dope. I’m surprised @DigDoug@lemmy.world didn’t like it.

What was off? Michael Keaton is one of those actors that I think can hold an audience even with weak material, and I didn’t think that was weak material at all. And that’s before we even get into Jack Nicholson’s Joker. Was it bad? Or did it just feel boring or something?

It’s pretty impressive how good the second one is considering what it’s between.

I have an unpopular opinion in that I did not like Batman Begins. The direction is great. There’s a great vibe to it all. The concept is there. But imo, the really high quality of Nolan’s visual directing does so much work distracting people from how lacking the movie is in actual substance.

I don’t know how he hit such gold with the second. It wasn’t just the great performance from Ledger: the overall writing and story are just way, way better than the other two. Good for him, though.

This. Arguing with people online is – with all due respect – a complete waste of time if your goal is to change the world.

Ignore the people who have dumb opinions. It isn’t as though if you win 500 arguments Elon Musk donates all his money to Socialism.

Go join a tenant’s union or a mutual aid society. Go build the alternative world that doesn’t transfer all our money upward.

(Also, though, if you do this long enough there will likely be a revolution. But that part comes after you feed and shelter enough people that it begins to become a threat to capital. It’s downstream. Either way, don’t bother trying to persuade strangers on the internet,)

I think you’re asking the wrong question. The better question is ‘How do I get my screenplay produced?’

I’m not an expert, but my understanding is that movie studios don’t really produce unsolicited screenplays anymore. You really need to produce it yourself, or be a known screenwriter who has prior relationships with producers.

If you don’t already have writing credits and an agent, you likely either need to produce it yourself – which means finding a director and actors and raising the money to pay for things – or you should try to publish it as a novel that becomes groundshakingly popular like The Martian or Dungeon Crawler Carl.

But the good news is that you can rest assured that having it stolen isn’t a risk you need to worry about.

Respectfully, when you talk about other people’s bodies in disgust it gives the impression that you don’t actually care about the people who inhabit those bodies; you’re just another idealogue seeking the affirmation of your own worldview, just like your opponents.

I didn’t impose circumcision on my son because I want every person to be able to modify or maintain their body as they wish. Do you want the same? I’m curious if you support adult circumcision by choice and gender affirming surgery, or if you tell those people that they’re mutilated as well.

Yo I’m a practicing Jew and I didn’t circumcize my kid: We don’t all do that, so please don’t hate the whole faith.

Also: like most Americans, I was circumcized, and while I don’t support the practice I don’t like when people refer to my dick as “mutilated”. That’s not really what being supportive of bodily autonomy looks like.

I can’t confirm a negative, but I can state as a Jew in California I’ve seen a lot of similar claims here in the US that were manufactured and false.

Fwiw, I’m only seeing this through channels I subscribe to in order to track this stuff. I see a lot of it, but not so much when I’m not seeking it out.

So some of this might be an effect of your own feed.

If you wish to share this or any other opinion expressed by an actual Palestinian or person who can speak to their opinion through first hand knowledge, please share.

Otherwise, please recognize that they are not characters in a fictional story for you to write your own opinions onto. They are human beings desperately fighting to be heard and have their agency respected.

I don’t think you can guarantee that.

What’s your point?

First, I think something like this does exist. I’ve heard ads for a service that sounded similar to this this on the Savage Love podcast.

Second, anyone interested in this topic should check out a new docu series on Nebula called Goonworld.

In Goonworld, video essayist FD Signifier explores America’s simultaneous obsession with both enjoying and punishing pornography, sex workers, and the performance of sex.

It’s on episode two, and it’s very good.

I came looking for a comment like this to agree that we need to discuss UBI more in the context of Universal Services.

Personally, I think there’s a strong chance that universal services will emerge before or alongside a UBI. Both are more likely to grow gradually rather than suddenly.

One great thing about universal services is that they don’t require as much top-down oversight to deploy, imo. You can join groups now that collect and distribute free fruit. Anyone with a skill can begin giving it away; if you’re a lawyer, you can give free legal services to immigrants; if you’re a technician, you can join or set up fixit clinics. Every time folks begin giving away labor value, they’re chipping away at the transactional structure that holds people hostage to capitalist labor markets. And as critical mass builds, more and more people are freed to spend less and less time hustling for their daily bread, and can direct more and more time to this Solidarity Economy. And unlike a UBI, you don’t need the government or the rich to buy-in: you can start practicing these things yourself and with neighbors now.

If you want to build this but want something a little less anarchist, public school systems are an existing prototype of this: that’s why a lot of school systems also engage in food distribution and more recently experiments in social housing. You can join advisory committees and help deploy more services using your school district to pilot universal basic services!

Honestly? Good.

I’m glad fascists are increasingly going mask-off.

The polite fictions were getting us nowhere. The US has been a rogue nation for decades, and the faster it loses international influence and legitimacy the better.

Yeah, kind of a crappy omission but the Guardian.

Anyone have a gift link?