[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

Measure the time needed to earn the money to pay for a meal.

LGTM econony

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[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 92 points 1 year ago

Musk solidarity Gaetz abolishing Amber Alerts

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago

nobody likes Putin, we just know that the United States isn't in the business of solving our problems

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This was a comment somewhere else, I wanted to make my own thread on it. One of these spoiler tags has a long rant.

I think Stranger Things S1 is pretty good. After S1, you can stop at any time you're no longer feeling it and not be missing out on anything.

S2 spoilersmost people didn't like S2 but I thought it was awesome, and agree there was a tiny drop of quality.

S3 spoilersIMO S3 is where a serious quality drop starts. In addition to a general quality dip, the monster from S2 comes back but there is at least a twist so it's not as bad of a rehash as Star Wars episode 7 felt like. Also the Soviets built a secret military lab under a mall, they should have hired some people to rework that part of the plot.

S4 spoilersS4 has a lot of cool stuff going on it, but it's all over the place in very silly ways. It has a lot of quality issues.

The lore was ambiguous about what the Mind Flayer (S2) was. The absolutely worst part is when the lore in S4 established that the Mind Flayer was not in fact, some cool mysterious eldritch god (you know, something strange), but actually just some 40 year old asshole LARPing as a spider using magic dust who also has super powers for literally no fucking reason at all. If you can ignore the lore downgrade, the season's big bad (Vecna) is 50% okay and 50% wtf when did this become a Marvel movie?. The only thing they had to do to unfuck the lore was say "Vecna (some random asshole who has powers for no reason) and the Mind Flayer (eldritch shadow god thing) are working together (for literally any reason who cares)". FFS who cares about some random asshole LARPing as a spider? That's the fucking stupidest shit ever!!! First they're like "As a child, Vecna was obsessed with spiders." Then you're like oh okay, that explains why he's working with this shadow monster who definitely does not look like a spider but close enough for someone whose weirdly obsessed with spiders to be interested. Because if someone was that obsessed with actual spiders, they'd LARP as something that looks a lot more like an actual fucking spider.

Then everything is good to go, until they quickly pull a fast one on you, like they forgot at the last second that someone was going to ask "yeah that's cool and all, BTW what does all this Vecna stuff have to do with S2/S3?" and then they do a quick lame exposition dump explaining that the upside down was just Vecna thinking about darkness and shit found some magic dust and used it to LARP as a spider (WHICH DOES NOT ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE A SPIDER HOLY RETCON BATMAN), and it's extremely obvious this is a desperate attempt to retcon away the "sry kid, we were making it up as we go because netflix demanded with make more than one season" with "wow it was Vecna the whole time!!!"

Then everybody gaslights you that this was planned from the beginning despite originally the show was planned to be an anthology (and S1 plays well as a complete self-contained show).

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago

China reserves the right to intervene if the situation in the UK does not improve.

timmy-pray

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 85 points 1 year ago

Is it just me or could you swap those pictures with any water park in the US and nobody could tell the difference?

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 64 points 2 years ago

I wonder if in a few years there will be a regret story, like "millionaires move back to China because the US made them feel just middle-class" or "everyone thinks I'm a spy/covid-carrier".

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago

There’s no space for abstract phrasing or timing that’s overly complicated , says Alexandra Leonzini, a Cambridge University scholar who researches North Korean music. / Melodies have to be simple, accessible, something people can easily pick up. / Tunes also need to be pitched at a vocal range where they can be sung by most people. The masses can’t keep up with vocal gymnastics, so forget about multi-octave riffs. / the songbook also rarely contains any tracks with real emotion

all this nonsensically critical technobable and it's like some regular-ass song

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 75 points 2 years ago

that sounds like the seeds for a good onion headline. Something like Despite Biden accomplishing all the goals of fascism, conservatives yearn for Trump to bring back the aesthetics.

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago

better not ask J.K.Rowling how many ex-Schutzstaffels were given high ranked positions in Hogwarts and in the Deutsches Ministerium für Magie late 1945.

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 80 points 2 years ago

I think we could all agree that cheating on your person of spouse is bad. However, this type of technology is spreading to more aspects of our daily lives, and eventually most new cars will have some version of it, and will probably be used by reactionary parents to make sure their children aren't going to places like Not Church.

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago

And KKKlandice Owens

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 72 points 2 years ago

People who've never seen a pond in their rear view mirror don't understand the struggle obama-sad

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