Sure. There’s risk factors for becoming a criminal, and there are groups in society that have a lot of them. It’s just that ethnicity isn’t actually one of them, it’s a correlation.
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We need to one hand help people get their lives in order and be compassionate to people who truly seek a better life, but also be tougher to the inveterate troublemakers.
I think the feeling that you have to be “tougher on” troublemakers is very understandable, but it’s not the way to success. Research has shown little effect in tougher laws warning people away from committing crimes, and prison is not good at getting people back on the right track. The desire to punish is completely human, but it’s not productive.
When you’re looking at the problem of gangs with immigrant backgrounds, research has shown that those come into being when you have large groups of people who have no option of participating in mainstream society. Who are stuck for years and even decades in a country that doesn’t allow them to find a job, to get an education, to support themselves and their families. This is when people turn to crime, when they have no stake in society. And that doesn’t just go for migrants, this goes for everybody, it’s just that migrants find themselves more often in this situation. Ironically, right-wing extremists often have similar origins; in Germany, the worst violent nazi gangs usually from in the most desperate areas in East Germany.
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First three of King’s Wonder Woman are on amazon unlimited now, so I’m reading them.
They’re pretty damn great.
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The demographics crisis is easy to solve. We all just need more migration.
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There’s a doc about Lars Eidinger, who is playing Brainiac in Man of Tomorrow, by the way. He must be brilliant on stage.
Oh, and a few years back, on of the best German bands (/art projects), Deichkind, shot a series of music videos with the guy. This is him dancing in the song “Keine Party”.
He’s been turning himself into a bit of a national treasure.
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I think the big problem that’s crushing us is that there’s a secret class war going on. Seriously. Our democracies are failing in part because the public institutions are all chronically under-financed, and the reason for that is that about half of the wealth belongs to a handful of people who have managed to make sure that nobody will ever ask them to contribute. And because they can’t be touched, you have to blame the financial problems on the welfare state, on the lazy bumfucks and migrants, and take our social systems further and further apart. Ensuring more radicalisation on all sides. And there seem to be only a very few politicians in our countries that seem to be willing to take this problem on, mostly because the side of the money is the easier side to be on.
I do believe we need governance that is in certain ways more forceful, but that also maintains basic human freedoms and dignity…I hope that is possible within the paradigm of liberal democracy
I think it is. We need to push back hard against the idea that only a weak state that interferes as little as possible with the markets is a good state. Capitalist democracy works best when you have a strong state regulating it, but it’s hard to get that back once you’ve abandoned it.
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I don’t know, Orban’s gone, the nature of the far right when in power is becoming more obvious as they piss people off, as they’re incapable of stopping. Farage and co are getting some scrutiny and don’t like it. Trump and Putin are going to die, and you can bet neither have any succession plans.
You just wait until Farage is Prime Minister and he’s shaking hand with President LePen.
Orban’s gone, but who knows if that will hold. Kaczyński is gone in Poland, but they’ve now already elected an extremist President who is ensuring that Tusk can’t do any meaningful reforms. Similar things may happen in Hungary. I am not yet optimistic about this. The good thing is that the new government will get a meaningful inflow of money from the EU, so hopefully that boost to the economy will make a difference. In the end, authoritarian governments fall when the economy has turned to shit. That’s why Hungary happened, really.
This won’t get better until the Left – in all our countries – gets its shit together and we’ve done something about social inequality. So, good luck with that.
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I finally saw 28 Years Later, and it was really great, I felt. Once again, what starts as a pretty typical post-apocalyptic zombie movie turns into something entirely different at some point (while still being that, of course). This movie was far more loving and tender than I expected it to be.
Very much looking forward to The Bone Temple.
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Usually the content is old enough that anybody who wants to buy it at a more standard price has already done so. For digital comics as opposed to physical, sales are basically pure profit, so if you can reach a new audience for older material by setting an ultra-low price – an audience that wouldn’t have bought the book under any other circumstances – then it makes sense to do so, because you’re still extracting a little bit more turnover out of the books without incurring any additional costs.
Yeah, but under that logic, why don’t they sell oder books in digital at a far lower cost than they do? Most books still cost pretty close what the print version do. So weird that they do this, but only in the context of the Humble Bundle. Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
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I actually really like the twists in the Absolute books (Bruce isn’t rich, Kal El came as a teen and works underground). Wonder Woman is the least traditional though, leans a lot into the mythology aspect and I think is my favourite because of that.
I’ve only read the first trade of Absolute Bats, Supes, and WW, but judging from that, I’d also say that Wonder Woman is simply the best written book of those.
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Yeah, it’d be pretty cool if they established a cinematic Wildstorm universe, like, 10 years down the line.
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“The script wasn’t quite there but more importantly it didn’t work in terms of the larger DCU both in terms of the story and practical concerns,” Gunn wrote in a post on Threads. “Maybe some day. Not soon.”
Well, that’s what everbody thought when they announced it, wasn’t it? Glad Gunn caught up.
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He. Love how they had him go full Cage at the end there.
This does look fun. Still a very weird project to me, but why the fuck not.
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Yeah, that’s something right-wing governments always seem to do – cutting money for the basic necessities for the refugees as well as for integration measures. Both makes the situation massively worse, allowing them to further blame the refugees themselves. I mean, I get it when you have an outright fascist government, but it’s funny that the centre-right conservative parties always fall into this trap by wanting to appear tough on migration, not realising they’re just pushing more and more of their own voters towards the radical right-wing parties.
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I saw the first two episodes and this season is a great lot of fun.
One thing that stands out watching it though is that it’s weird how a lot of what is happening in this show doesn’t feel like the over-the-top satire that it used to be anymore. Current events have kind of caught up with this world.
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Our billionaire* background-in-financial-trading chancellor has just told us that we shouldn’t expect to be able to live off pensions when we’re retired but that those will at most be a small part of what we will need. He didn’t mention where people should get the rest of the money for their old age from. I truly think he just doesn’t understand why everybody doesn’t do what he does, just buy stocks for a few thousand Euros a month for yourself and for your kids to make sure your future is secure.
*Okay, so is only a millionaire.
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Wait, that’s a thing that’s happening? Seriously? Well, that’s annoying.
I mean, I’d probably rewatch Infinity War at the theatres again with an extra five minutes, but Endgame wasn’t even that great of a movie.
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That show is criminally underrated, I love how it’d jump from just standard sitcom to demented and back
Yeah, that show was great. Too bad there wasn’t more of it.
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One of the things that drives me most crazy is that all Western countries know that we do need immigration, but none of them are acting to fix the actual problems of it and instead just focus on shutting immigration down. Which would be a bigger problem than the ones we have now.
Sigh.
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Hegseth … unbelievable
It’s so fucking hard to take these people seriously, because they are such fucking idiots. But so were the nazis, of course (with a few exceptions).
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Still couldn’t care less.
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Oh yeah, I saw him on the Daily Show, he seemed pretty cool.
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Criticizing Israel is one thing, but people should never generalize, saying the faults of Israel prove that Jews are simply bad people. Of course the same is true for all ethnic groups. For instance I think you can criticize certain things about Islamic countries and the religion of Islam, but don’t generalize about all Muslims.
Yeah, right now it’s really important to protect Jews in other countries from anti-semitism. While also calling out Israel’s genocide and further war crimes.
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Yep, and they are royally pissed at Trump. While many people broke from him at different points for different reasons, the attack on Iran seems to be crossing the Rubicon for many of them. He promised “no more wars” and always said that the Democrats would be the ones to start a war with Iran and he wouldn’t. They are losing their shit over this. Fuck, even Alex Jones is calling for Trump’s removal!
You have to imagine that all truly professional proper ex-military people are completely disgusted with what Hegseth has been doing, anyway. It’s so obviously a shit-show, and a loudmouth nonsense show at that by somebody who actually doesn’t really understand what he’s talking about.
Not to mention that he actively, desperately wants to commit war crimes and is a religious fanatic.
I am sure there are some people, military and ex-military who love that kind of shit, too. But I very much doubt this kind of extremist macho bullshit appeals to a majority even of military culture.
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Well, if not as justification, at least it does serve a purpose as analyis, I think. Partisanship has always been a big issue in the US, but with social media, this has been exacarbated to an extent where it’s not even possible to see any kind of common cause with the other side. So the question becomes, how do you reach people for whom the rejection of your politics has been drilled into their nature to such an extent?
I think there is a connection with modernity and capitalism. People seem to be losing, I dunno, nuance. Everything is about short term gratification of desires. Getting a quick dopamine hit. Concern for others, for mutual benefit, the building of societal trust and the overall good, are dropped to some extent. It blunts the skills we use for such things. We function more on primal emotions.
The loss of nuance is one aspect, the other is the deliberate rejection of empathy. This is where libertarianism has led; it’s an ideology that rejects the idea of the common good and even of any kind of empathy with people who aren’t your direct family completely. And now this has become acceptable in mainstream politics, it’s what Trump and his ilk as well as Musk and the tech bros preach, and it’s – besides misogyny – at the root of the whole manosphere and transphobia thing. Once again, Orwell got it right – if Trump announced Two Minutes of Hate every day, led by himself, that’s be a huge hit with his followers.
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I’m interested in this IQ drop issue, so I’ve had Perplexity give me a quick overview
::sideways look at camera::
I ALREADY WAS AWARE OF THE IRONY, THAT’S WHY I WROTE THAT COMMENT IN PARENTHESIS!!!!
But it will be interesting to see the effects of AI on those IQ points, not to mention other test scores.
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Oh, I finished the first season of The Silo, and I’m kind of stuck in a trap here. It’s not a great show (in spite of having both Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins, and a good premise), but it’s not bad enough to actively drive me away, and I am interested in the resolution. So I’ll keep watching, but it’s very annoying because I know I could spend my time watching some way better shows – not to mention movies – that I haven’t caught up on. Sigh.
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These rules may read like an over-reaction; but a month ago my wife almost got run down as she turned a corner by a kid speeding down the sidewalk on a motorized bike. Luckily he squeezed on his brake and swerved at the last second, otherwise she would have been seriously injured. As far as I’m concerned, a motorized vehicle should be on the road, not the sidewalk, whether it is a scooter, a bicycle, or an 18-wheel tractor-trailer; sidewalks are for pedestrians and for manually propelled vehicles.
Over here, the sideways are only for pedestrians and that’s it. Bikes go on the road or in special bike lanes, where those are available. Same goes for scooters. The only exception are children under, like, ten or so I think.
But I think once you have that, the thing that’s a bit much is the driver’s licence (and the over 15 thing).
I think there’s a lot of 13-15 years old these days for whom e-bikes provide a form of mobility that we never knew at that age, and that’s pretty cool.
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I love Sean’s stream of consciousness posts!
But regarding AI – I’ve been told that there’s a huge difference already between the free and the pro models. Altman wasn’t kidding, apparently, when he talked about a model where we buy intelligence on a meter, like we buy electric power and shit like that. Seems like we’re already there. One of the reasons why AI seems to incredibly dumb a lot of the time is, we’re only using the dumb models.
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That new Israeli death penalty that only goes for Palestinians is just one more horror on the genocide heap.
In more fun news, Trump firing Bondi for not being able to actually put his enemies in jail is hilarious. It’s impossible to have your head further up anyone’s arse than hers was in Trump’s, but that doesn’t matter one bit of course. And then there’s the funny bit with Noemi’s husband. The clown troupe is really going for it this week.
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Well, okay, it may not be completely fool-proof.
But just like many other important institutions (including my field), publicly run is still preferable to private companies, to my mind. Yes, some government may manage to take more influence than should be possible, but with a private TV station, newspaper or whatever, the experience is that if some mad billionaire takes over, it’ll just become a propaganda machine immediately and without any means of resistance.
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I don’t think Israel or the Saudis counted on Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz. But it’s probably correct that SA wasn’t averse to this war happening. There is very old bad blood between SA and Iran.
That being said, who knows what the actual dynamics here were and are, and I think we all pretty much agree on the overall picture.
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Yeah, absolutely. I think that makes a big difference in re-reading it now, to me.
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Also Israel has in the past attacked Qatar, who is also supposedly a friend of the US.
And that’s when Trump put a stop to Israel’s attack. Fuck, he forced Netanyahu to humiliate himself by calling the Qataris from the Oval Office to apologise.
The US will go a long way in their support of Israel, and they certainly don’t give a fuck about a genocide against the Palestinians. But you fuck with their oil money, and that support will be gone in the blink of an eye, that’s for sure.
Also, don’t forget the Saudis let him touch their magic ball.
(Kidding, really. This isn’t even about Trump. Like I said, the US have never been quicker to start a war than when Saddam annexed Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia.)
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Saudi Arabia
They will never get any part of Saudi Arabia.
If they tried, Israel would be hit by terrorist attacks that would put Hamas to shame.
More importantly, the US would stop them from doing anything crazy to Saudi Arabia. These are Trump’s oil friends. These are the states the US goes to war for when necessary.
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Huh. There’s going to be a Punisher TV movie special, “Punisher: One Last Kill.” Strike the iron while he’s hot off Spider-Man, I suppose.
No Lightfoot involved, sadly, but Reinaldo Marcus Green is an interesting choice for this. It’s co-written by him and Bernthal.
Looks cool and all, but you have to wonder when Disney+ is finally going to take a page out of Rogen’s and Kripke’s book and just adapt the Garth Ennis Punisher arcs directly. They’ve got some of the best material there is, might as well put it to use.
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I think that’s what made the Netflix Daredevil show so good, at it height. Everybody involved clearly understood that they were creating something special, and gave it their all. There was a real ambition in creating fight scenes that would blow people’s minds, in giving the Kingpin a weird subletly as well as a crazy physicality, giving Cox the room to really develop the character… it all came together, for a while, at least.
Haven’t started on the new season yet, but I hope it can get there.
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Could be a positive sign of the rats leaving the sinking ship. But it’ll still stay afloat for another three years no matter what, so what’s the use.
Trump’s approval rating are at a new low, which, you know, good, but it’s incredible that they’re still at 36%. Over a third of Americans are clearly fucking rabidly insane.
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Nicholas Brendon (Xander from Buffy) has died.
This actually makes me quite sad. I always like Xander.
Seems like Brendon wasn’t in great shape in the last years.
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There’s an interesting case in Germany that’s caused a lot of discussion. A popular TV comedian/presenter (He’s had shows where he’s basically doing a Sasha Baron Cohen thing) and his celebrity wife have turned out to have… well, she’s been talking for a while about experiencing something terrible when fake accounts and deepfake pronography of her showed up on the net, as well as people being contacted by those fake accounts and thinking they had had cybersex with her. All pretty terrible. And this month, she’s made public that it was her husband, Christian Ulmen, who had been doing all this.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9xvrxz8jo
Now, this has already sparked a lot of discussion, especially of changing laws to make it easier to punish this kind of sexual cyber-crime.
And now our fantastically xenophobic chancellor Merz has finally said something about the whole thing and he managed to, in like five sentences or so, blame migration for men sexually attacking women. While talking about a case in which the perpetrator is called Christian Ulmen, which is about as German a name as you can have.
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The good thing about the modern age is that you don’t have to watch any SNL at all apart from the good stuff that’ll be fed to your social media feed.
What I’m saying is, the Ryan Gosling Papyrus sketch is fucking awesome. And that’s all I know about SNL.
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Very In-Bruge-ey dynamic, that one. Not that that’s a bad thing, and after Three Billboards and Banshees, nobody can accuse MacDonagh of too much of the same thing, I’d say.
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So that’s why it takes so long for him to write an issue of Saga!!!
Seriously though, I am happy for him. Great to be a part of this, I am sure.
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Well, fuck. Good to see nobody was injured, at least.
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Yeah, she probably wasn’t a great choice for this.
I’m kind of relieved. I’d rather this isn’t made than it’s made and it’s shit.
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Welll we’ve at least gone from “it never happens” to “it happens sometimes, but it’s one of many forms of child abuse”.
With still no actual examples of satanistic ritual abuse.
Not that there probably aren’t a few out there. People will do any kind of shit.
Honestly lot of child abuse allegations are not taken seriously by police. Look at the catholic abuse cases, or the grooming scandal in the UK for instance. I think there is a similar thing with these types of ritualistic child abuse. I don’t exactly know why, but it looks like children’s accusations are just not taken seriously.
The difference being, there have been decades of the authorities taking satanic abuse very seriously indeed that almost always turned out to be fake (ruining lives, in the Satanic Panic and similar cases) or not connected to satanism.
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So, Neil Sedaka has died and all the American news channels are acknowledging his contribution to American pop music. But where is the love for one of my favorite horror/science fiction writers, Dan Simmons?? His book “The Terror” was adapted as a thrilling TV mini-series a few years back, and his novel “Hyperion” is considered one of the best science fiction books ever written.
Oh man, sorry to hear about this, I loved the Hyperion novels. And the Terror TV show was incredible, even if I never read the novel.
I think he remember him going off the deep end a bit with anti-muslim sentiment in some later novels?
Either way, Hyperion was great, and I need to reread those books some day.
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This is an interesting shift, they always denied that satanic child abuse was a real thing.
I had followed the case they mention in Scotland. Not a lot of news about it, but it was reported a few times that there was a satanic element in the allegations. In the verdict obviously satanism wasn’t mentioned, because satanism isn’t a crime, but it was also omited from news reports about the verdict.
Well, “they” usually deny it because in all the big cases in which there was supposed to have been satanistic abuse, it all turned out to be nonsense. While at the same time everybody believed it and started to bully kids playing D&D because of it.
In this article, it says:
involving ritualistic elements – sometimes inspired by satanism, fascism or esoteric religious beliefs – to control victims.
So basically, we’re talking about any religious cult here, not to mention fascist groups and whatever. And I will bet that there are a LOT of child abuse causes like that. Hell, not giving your kid a blood transfusion when they need it probably counts as abuse, and that’s the official stance of Jehova’s Witnesses still, I believe.
The article puts satanism in the title because it’s sexy and clicks. The article itself has nothing to do with satanism, apart from that one case in Scotland. And even that one, looking at a few reports, it seems that mainly the rapist gang just told the kids they’re wizards to scare them and because everybody knows wizards from fucking Harry Potter.
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Yeah, Trump’s a racist who loves playing the big man. He’s probably got the biggest erection he’s had in 40 years when he thinks about how many brown children he’s had killed.
Hopefully that won’t get in the way of him making an AI-generated video of him flying a bomber that’s spraying them all with shit, or whatever he’s planning next
Turns out I wasn’t that far off.
Jesus fucking fuck. Country’s run by a couple of fucking teenage boys. It’d be embarrassing for you guys if it wasn’t so fucking dangerous.
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I passed by a friend’s house and she was watching the JFK Jr. story on Netflix. Looking back at that time, he gave a speech at the Dem National Convention and got noticed by everyone as “all grown up”. He was followed by media and was practically a prince of NYC. But it was 27 year ago, 1999. Makes me wonder if he would have been a Dem candidate about now had they never got on that plane.
If things had gone differently, there might have been a number of Kennedy presidents by this times. That family had ambitions.
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Not sure if he’s a moron/idiot, but I can’t imagine Angela Merkel ever sucking up to Trump the way Merz did this week. Where’s Justin Trudeau when we need him?
It’s worse, I think Merz actually agrees with the attacks on Iran. Last year he said something along the lines of we should be thankful for Israel and the US doing “our dirty work” for us.
Fun fact about Merz: When Merz pushed him out of politics the first time, he went to work as a lobbyist for BlackRock. Made his millions in the world of financial trading. Which tells you a lot about his world-view.
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Well, the first one was quite good. Couldn’t stand the second one, didn’t bother to watch the third.
Either way, even if you liked all of them, that was over 20 years ago.
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Yeah, it does look pretty good. Not sure whether it’ll manage to be quite as special as they wanted it to be – they’re going for a noir, True Detective kind of vibe, but the dialogue has a lot of rather chliché lines so I don’t know how successfully they are in reaching their goals there. But either way, I’m here for this.
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Going out with a bang, eh? I do hope there’ll be time for some light fun between all the heavy-action plot that seems to be in there. But I’m definitely looking forward to this last season of The Boys. It was a fun ride.
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Bombing raids have never been a good way to actually defeat a country. ‘s a good way to kill a shitload of civlians, mind you.
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One bit I saw about Epstein which I did like, argued that people like him are just, very simply, the consequence of a system that doesn’t hold the rich and powerful responsible for their actions. Eventually bad people do bad stuff, if the inequality of wealth and power is so large.
While I think that is true, I still think it is important to get some clarity about who did what.
Yeah, both of that is true. There has to be clarity as well as accountability – if a shitload of people don’t go to prison over this, it’ll show that there is no justice and no actual rule of law in the US.
On the other hand, yes, I think it’s inevitable that this is what happens when you allow people to become unimagineably rich to the extent that we do. And it doesn’t seem like they’re going to stand for reform where that is concerned, but will rather exacerbate things to the point where we get out the guilloutines.
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I wonder if this is on purpose, if the media have been instructed not to dig too deeply. Not sure. But I think it’s weird. Even the Guardian has been very sparse in the information they gave about the files and their meaning. For instance, if you compare it to the abuse scandal in the Catholic church, there were articles I think, that described how the church protected the abusers. I don’t think we’ve seen such an explanation regarding Epstein. He just “got away with it”.
I think it’s going to just take a bit longer, because everybody is overwhelmed with the amount of files and the chaos of the way they were released. Which was of course the point. But they’ll figure it out, it’s just going to take some time.
As far as getting away with it is concerned though… with the current state of the US justice system, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of hope.
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So Lorcan is suggesting that an anime featuring teenagers hunting demons might for some reason be seen as potentially popular these days? What a strange notion!
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I always liked Douglas Adams’ turnaround of this in The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (or Dirk Gentley’s Detective Agency, I don’t remember which). The logic was that the improbable meant that you know this is wrong; the impossible just means that there’s something you don’t know.
Man, I’ve got to reread those books one of these days.
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I just read the entire Image 2010s Prophet series by Brandon Graham and others. I’d bought the first two trades or so back when they come out, but lost track, so this was a welcome part of a Humble Bundle. Just awesome far-out space opera sci-fi, great stuff.
I don’t think many people have read this, which is a shame.
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I’m not either. And I think this is maybe the biggest problem the movie has to overcome.
Disney+ has trained us to wait for streaming so effectively that it’s cannibalised its own theatrical movie business.
Well, that’s part of it, but it’s also a Mandalorian issue. If they were releasing a Tony Gilroy/Andor movie (I know, I know, there already is one and that story is now entirely complete, but for the sake of the argument if they somehow put out another one somehow), I’d be the first in line.
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Yeah, okay, that does look fun. War criminals and the Hutts aren’t a bad choice for villains, either. And I do know my kid is going to love that that headhunter guy is in there. But I am still not going to watch this in the theatre.
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Isn’t that what mental health coaches and the like are for?
It’s really interesting that a whole industry has evolved in the last two decades or so that is basically people doing what actual mental health professionals (so, psychotherapists) also do, but with less qualification to do it.
I’m being a bit facetious here, I think there’s a lot to be said for this – in German, this job is just called a “coach” (I don’t know what you’d call it in English – I suppose “mental health coach” can be used like I did above, or something like life skills trainer, but there are probably more in-use and better expressions for the job?) and it’s not properly protected by official diplomas and training, so basically anyone who has done some courses can do it and demand a lot of money for it because there’s demand.
But… there simply aren’t enough psychotherapists and it’s probably a good thing that there’s now a lot of people who know about techniques and strategies to help people with the problems and stresses they run into in life.
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I did know about some of those, and none of them surprise me as much as there having been a Hawkman cartoon.
Well, I already knew about Aquaman. That would’ve been a surprising character to build a show around otherwise, too.
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At this point Emerald Fennel is three for three in making mediocre movies.
I did like Promising Young Woman. It wasn’t quite sure enough whether to go for satire or drama, but it still was worth watching and stayed with me for a bit.
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James Van Der Beek Dies: ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star Was 48
Ah fuck.
I never saw Dawson’s Creek, but I thought he was great in Don’t Trust the Bitch in Appartment 23.
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