Chronicles of Rettek

[lovecrafts-iranon]

Reminder that the "Politics is the Mind-Killer" essay was not saying to not discuss politics, nor was it talking about how to act in political discussions. It was saying to not use political examples when making non-political points because

1. People will inevitably think and debate only about the examples and not the points.

2. If you are making an important (potentially non-partisan) point that should be heeded across party lines, people who disagree with your examples will feel more hostile to your point.

I have yet to see somebody reference the essay who did more than read the title.

[garmbreak1]

"thing I don't like is environmentally bad because it uses electricity which may come from fossil fuel plants"

Build fucking nuclear, then.

[huffylemon]

he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

[boy-and-girl-crazy123456]

no this counts i think

[chroniclesofrettek]

I feel like this symbol should exist for people who reject the obligations their corporate overlords put on them.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-prince-changed-his-name-to-a-symbol/?amp

[ghostpalmtechnique]

It’s somewhat unfortunate that lashing is tainted by its association with slavery, because in addition to being almost certainly less inhumane than the US prison system, it has several distinct advantages over both incarceration and fines:

– It is narrowly targeted at the offender.  Both incarceration and fines also hurt people dependent on the offender, especially any children.

– It hits the wealthy just as hard as the poor, without needing to introduce any special percent-of-wealth calculations a la Scandinavian traffic tickets. 

– A combination of the preceding two factors would make it an excellent tool for deterring corporate crime by C-suite executives who are otherwise hard to punish.

– It does not tend to cause cascades of financial consequences, which is an important advantage given that debtors’ prison is somehow a tolerated thing again in today’s America.

[silver-and-ivory]

caning, however, lacks this association

we should become the tinpot southeast asian dictatorship of our orientalist fantasies!

[feotakahari]

I can get behind the concept of having a person whose job is to keep criminals locked up. I can’t get behind the concept of having a person whose job is specifically to physically brutalize criminals. I mean, what kind of person takes that job?

[millievfence]

I think “what does it do creating a job for this” is an important consideration but having oodles of prison guards turns out to be much worse on this metric. In practice, the people who take the “keep criminals locked up” jobs are much crueler than average, and get worse when put in an environment where their physical safety is constantly threatened but can be marginally improved by acts of cruelty. Even if being Official Caner is worse still (and I’m not convinced it is), we’ll need way fewer of them than we do prison guards.

[notallmensheviks]

please don’t call centuries-old epic poems “franchises”

[notallmensheviks]

update:

[bubobubosibericus]

hell world hell world

[shacklesburst]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Sir Bertilak de Hautdesert? That’s surprising. It’s totally a story Disney+ would tell you.

[chroniclesofrettek]

Just don't read slate or screen rant, they're garbage

[diaryofandnwoman]

#whitewomantears

[millievfence]

we're all clear the problems here are the school officials and possibly the white girl's mother, right? 12 is a little old to be pulling this shit, but not unforgivably so.

Similarly, in the scenario "sincerely but incorrectly afraid person calls the cops, who shoot an innocent person", the primary problem is the cops.

[triviallytrue]

can’t believe there’s actually discourse about the scarjo lawsuit. like who has a take besides “i hope The Mouse suffers”

[not-afraid-of-laplaces-demon]

“Scarjo is already wealthy and got paid a lot”

I have news for you about Disney, my myopic friend.

[triviallytrue]

exactly! people’s understanding of the harm caused by bad individuals (and scarjo isn’t that bad) vs the harm caused by bad corporations (and jesus christ disney is that bad) is so skewed, the corps win by multiple orders of magnitude every time

[korora12]

I don’t know if it counts as discourse, per see; I don’t like Disney, and I’m glad for them to suffer. But I still can’t find the energy to be upset because someone, even a woman, made more money than I will ever see in my life, and decided it wasn’t enough.

Eat the rich. Eat Disney first, but ScarJo’s still on the list

[millievfence]

Do you feel like people are asking you to be upset? I haven’t seen anyone asking anyone to sacrifice anything on behalf of Johansson, just to allow her quiet enjoyment of her lawsuit.

[not-afraid-of-laplaces-demon]

I think it’s reasonable to be upset for 2nd order reasons. Scarjo specifically losing out on money above and beyond her first 20 million doesn’t give me much cause for concern, but I think Disney managing to win the suit would be a set back for contract workers rights in general since Disney’s argument basically boils down to “we weren’t going to make as much money as we thought.”

I haven’t seen anyone offended on her personal behalf, though.

[millievfence]

Yeah, everything I’ve seen has been “hurray, someone is finally pushing back against disney’s systemic fucking over of artists”, not “I am personally excited for Scarlet Johansson to buy a yacht”

[chroniclesofrettek]

I imagine there are people who are rooting for her to make comparable money as RDJ/Chris Hemsworth/etc, although they're not showing up in my social media.

[best-blurst-of-times]

Scarlett Johansson has just shot straight up my shit list.

Yeah, wow...

[morealias]

For what? Suing Disney over breach of contract? (3 pages in on google and that's all that's coming up, so if there's something actually horrid, you'll have to point it out)

[best-blurst-of-times]

Getting mad at a streaming release in the middle of a pandemic.

[kontextmaschine]

There's no "getting mad at" (and any fan who parses this as an anyone vs. anyone fight is a fool), the legal system is how you'd expect Hollywood to adjust when contract terms calculated for one economic environment need to be translated to another

[best-blurst-of-times]

They have to go to court over everything, no matter the circumstances?

What is wrong with hollywood people oh wait I remember nevermind.

[millievfence]

Who's "they"? Sounds like Johansen asked Disney to negotiate and they said "nah" so she's attempting to enforce the contract they agreed to.

[chroniclesofrettek]

Disney was planning on releasing this on streaming for months, reportedly SJ's people have been worried about a streaming release result in them drastically lowering her pay since even before Covid, Disney could have negotiated this months ago but they seem to have a corporate policy of "Make Us" wrt creatives.

[neil-gaiman]

Mr Gaiman, sir, with all due respect (quite a lot)... Why do you support Amazon? It's, to say the least, not a good company to get behind?

Because they make the things that other people wouldn't make. Dirk Maggs and I had been trying to get the Sandman audio to happen since 1991 with the BBC and nobody was even a little bit interested. We were both convinced it would be wonderful, and we wanted someone to share our vision and pay for it. Audible did.

It was important to us that they released it in physical form, to allow people who couldn't use Audible, and library users, to access it and they did.

Terry and I had been trying to get Good Omens onto the screen since 1990 and nobody had been willing to make it, not even when Terry Gilliam wanted to make a movie of it.

With Good Omens, the deal was with the BBC who then went out and looked for a partner to pay for it, as what I'd written was way beyond what the BBC could afford. They found Amazon, so we found ourselves making it with Amazon and the BBC, and Amazon were terrific: supportive and honest and helpful and smart. I've worked with companies and Networks who were not these things.

Red and Endor had been trying to get Anansi Boys made since 2011. They are two of the top production companies in the UK. Nobody was prepared to make it until Amazon understood what we were trying to do, to embrace the idea of diversity in front of an behind the camera, and took it on.

I'm very happy to be working with them on Good Omens 2 (with the BBC), Anansi Boys and the Sandman Audible series, just as I'm very happy to be working with Netflix and WB TV on Sandman for TV.

They were willing to step up when nobody else was on all of these projects. It's fine to grumble about, for example, Sandman Acts 1 & 2 being on Audible, but if it wasn't on Audible it wouldn't exist. Same for Good Omens. Same for Anansi Boys.

[maedaeme]

so today I drove past a traffic sign that said 'hey teens buckling up is totes yeet yo'

i wish i was joking but after we screamed a bit my brother attempted to get a picture as proof, failed, and ended up with this masterpiece that pretty much sums up the whole experience

[thecarvingwitch]

You mean this sign?

[parentheticalreference]

NO IT'S THE OPPOSITE YOU BUCKLE UP SO YOU DON'T YEET

[parentheticalreference]

Well now I want to see signs that are like "buckle up, don't yeet"

[millievfence]

This is just unacceptable in the age of Urban Dictionary.

[felderwin]

This website would be so funny in the death note universe I think some of you guys would be really pro Kira

[felderwin]

Imagining discourse where some people are reminding you not to put your name and face on your blog to stay safe and then other people call you toxic and abusive for that bc it means you’re hiding something if you don’t want Kira to be able to kill you

[hashtagloveloses]

SYMBROCK CONFIRMED

[ahaze]

Update:

[viinria-deactivated20190616]

[egberts]

cis dystopia where gender has been outlawed and everyone is whatever they want to be so radical underground groups aggressively perform and uphold 1950s gender norms to stick it to the person

[mirrorfalls]

[chroniclesofrettek]

So does he fight Judge Dread or what?

[whitepeopletwitter]

[morlock-holmes]

Dear students, if this is true, one of two things is happening:

Your school is a site of constant danger to your life, yet adults force you to be there regardless;

Your school is not as dangerous as the adults say, but they are happy to actively erode your mental health to make themselves look busy.

Gun reform may or may not be worthwhile, but neither of those problems will be solved by gun control.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bisexuallsokka]

why is this so passive aggressive toward sokka i’m crying

[comradekatara]

[voxette-vk]

But Sant says the worst joke in legal history occurred during the first oral argument of Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court. Defending Texas’ abortion restrictions, lawyer Jay Floyd opened with an aside about the two lawyers arguing against him, who were female. “It’s an old joke,” Floyd began, “but when a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they are going to have the last word.” The joke was met with more than three seconds of silence, and Floyd struggled to regain momentum throughout the argument, according to one observer.