A few months ago local Republicans ran & won on an “[Our town] first!” campaign and everyone on Facebook has been complaining that we’re (seemingly) the last in the region to have power restored after a massive storm.
the editor of the New York Times reacting to a potential Trump second term with “fasten your seatbelts” is so deeply vile i can’t wrap my mind around it. these people have detached themselves so completely from the things they cover that the rise of fascism becomes just something exciting to watch
Alright timeline cleanser time:
What are some bad movies that you unironically love? I don’t mean like MST3K love here. It’s not a good movie, but you enjoy it on its own merits anyway
I am starting with The Accountant
I feel like everybody listens to middle school music permanently now. I dunno how else to describe it. Disney Channel music became the main type of music
there’s something deeply funny about the fact that a platform led by cutting edge technologists, that exists due to their innovation and effort, managed to gather a huge cohort of people who use the decentralized protocol to argue that innovation and technology is bad
Sometimes I think about how in The Last Samurai Edward Zwick copied his own “soldiers emerging through the mist” shot from Glory and I get mad all over again
You say "must be created by a human artist", but a human most definitely did "create" this art in a sense; computers don't just decide to create art by themselves. These humans "cheated", but the distinction between what is considered cheating and what is considered original art is getting blurry.
i think it's cool and not weird at all that for all of its communitarian messaging every star trek character's ultimate dream is seemingly to live in a beautiful and enormous cottage on an otherwise abandoned planet
