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*lemony snicket voice* police cars say ‘protect and serve’ for the same reason a box of dry, unflavoured rice cakes might say ‘delicious treat’. rice cakes are not a delicious treat, nor are the police there to protect and serve, but if you are unfamiliar with either you’re likely to believe what you’re told.
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In which WTF is the MCU doing to Peter Parker
I mean, I’m pretty hard on Nolan, but this is something he got right in his movies. But as pointed out before, it’s not in Disney’s best interest to explore the moral ethics that come with being labeled a “hero.” I’d say within the last 11 years (the same amount of time between TDK and now) is when we slowly started to see some changes occur with Disney, and more than ever before, they are more likely to subtly and sometimes not so subtly sway positively towards the unethical practices of the people with the most power because they have become those people.
I agree and I see the effects reflected in how people regard Disney and their increasing power. They don’t seem to see it as an issue because they assume Disney will use it ethically and to make films they will like (the fact that they are so desperate for such films they ignore the effects of a monopoly is another discussion). They don’t seem concerned about the effects of Disney buying Fox or other studios because they think they can trust Disney to use the level of power they want them to have responsibly and ethically.
It’s pure corporate manipulation and they are buying into it wholeheartedly.
[transcript:
in 2008′s the dark knight, batman figures out a way to access every single cell phone in gotham, covertly using their microphones to help track down the joker. this technology is deemed so obviously unethical that his gadgets guy, lucius fox, essentially quits on the spot, protesting, “it’s too much power for one person.”
ultimately, though, batman does prove himself worthy of wielding it - not by using it for good, which he does, but by having lucius destroy it immediately after. it is, we understand, the only moral choice.
11 years later, spider-man: far from home entrusts spider-man with a technology that’s a bit like batman’s sonar, in that it allows our hero to surveil every mobile phone in his vicinity, but vastly more invasive and more dangerous. indeed, the first two things spidey does with edith are snoop through his classmates’ phones and call a drone strike on his own bus. accidentally, but still.
yet for spider-man, a character whose entire premise is that with great power comes great responsibility, the question is not whether anyone should get to have edith, but who.
no one wonders if, as lucius once did, edith is simply “too much power for one person.”
peter spends the entirety of far from home grappling with the question of whether he’s worthy of becoming “the next iron man,” and whether he even wants to be. the edith sunglasses are the physical manifestation of that mantle, and in a moment of weakness, peter hands them over to quentin beck, who promptly uses edith to stage a terrorist attack in london.
it should be alarming how easily edith transfers from peter to quentin and back again, how unquestioningly this super-advanced tech follows quentin’s orders to kill. (whether we’d be better off if edith were self-aware, like ultron or vision, is another can of worms entirely.) it should be horrifying that edith doesn’t have more safeguards in place to prevent quentin from slaughtering millions with his drones - or for that matter, peter from issuing a kill order against an underage civilian.
both sides, however, treat edit as a neutral piece of technology, like an egg timer or a bicycle, rather than one whose very power makes her a potential threat, like a social media platform or an atom bomb. quentin’s crimes through edith are portrayed as outgrowths of his own corrupt soul, and peter’s accidents as funny little gags about how in over his head he is.
no one - not peter, not nick fury or maria hill or happy hogan and certainly not anyone on mysterio’s side - ever suggests that the very existence of a technology that allows an individual to know this much, control this much, and do this much with a single voice command, is problematic in and of itself. no one wonders if, as lucius once did, edith is simply “too much power for one person.”
the problem is not that edith is unrealistic. it’s that edith is all too plausible. there are reports every day of tech companies listening in through our smart home devices, of social media networks selling our information, of governments surveilling its people and waging war with drones. and there’s no reason to believe any of it will stop any time soon - and certainly not with anything as quick and definitive as a 40 minute CG battle in the sky.
maybe the best we can hope for, anymore, is that the awesome powers unlocked by technology fall into responsible hands, like those of a teenager who sincerely has no interest in ruling the world or destroying it. maybe that’s what’s changed in the 11 years between the dark knight and spider-man: far from home: that we’ve lived long enough to see what was once an act of villainy reframed as one of heroism.
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One thing to note is that Christopher Nolan’s brother Jonathan was also a writer for The Dark Knight, and went on to become the creator and showrunner on Person of Interest, a program thats core plot features a similar piece of technology (in this case an AI), and the ethics that surround it and the way different people and groups with different agendas would utilise things like this (with special emphasis on how the government should Absolutely Not Have Access). Person of Interest ran from 2011 to 2016, and there are similar issues touched on occasionally by his newest and ongoing project Westworld, so this isn’t just a situation of “what’s changed in the 11 years between the dark knight and spider-man: far from home“, it is a distinct and conscious political agenda on the part of Marvel and Disney.
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funniest thing would be if when Queen Elizabeth dies or steps down and Charles is all ready to assume the throne, here comes King Arthur, Excalibur in hand, sauntering back from Avalon like “oof what a nap! thanks for keeping the chair warm I’m back to be king again”
like, given that “King Arthur isn’t actually dead, he’ll be back to be King again someday” is, like, an actual aspect of the legend and a thing that a lot of people purport to believe, has anyone ever actually tried it? showing up to buckingham palace claiming to be Arthur Pendragon, The Once And Future King, and assume the throne? does the british government have a protocol for checking whether someone claiming to be King Arthur actually is? does parliament have a secret picture of the Real Excalibur kept under lock and key, only viewed if someone claims to be King Arthur, that they can use to confirm or refute the identity of alleged Kings Arthur? if not, how do they deter every jackass with a sward from pretending to be him? does filing a false King Arthur report constitute treason?
The rules are simple. “Arthur” has to show up with a sword. They give the sword to the Lady of the Lake, and if she throws it back to the claimant, he’s legit and gets to be king again.
So the test for King Arthur’s identity falls to the even less officially identifiable Lady of the Lake. No one can even agree on which Lady, or which lake, is the official one, much less how to tell if you’ve got The Lady of The Lake. All of which suggests that all you need to accomplish this is one (1) sword, a willing female acquaintance, and a nearby body of water.
There isn’t even any requirement for “Arthur” to catch the sword, so the Lady can just javelin an epee right at him.
Well when you look at it that way, one might conclude that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Stop drawing dionysus skinny challenge
Bitch is the god of feasts, he's got chub, he's got meat. Aphrodite is the god of romance and love but dionysus is the god of sex and orgies, he is ideal cuddling density, dude HAS a tummy.
Dude has broad shoulders and beefy arms for holding and protecting you and just the fattest most luscious ass and thighs you've ever seen
All I’m imagining is that one bro at the gym who’s extra thick and has a big waste and could be a couch in and of himself but like would totally be able to lift a whole damn cow if you asked.
We all know dionysus looks like this.
I'm pretty sure that's literally a picture of dionysus.
Hey, can you do a look into Doctor Bronners soap? The packaging makes it Immediately seem that it's some sort of ultra christian cult, and I've been wondering what the fuck is going on there for literally a decade and a half.
Emanuel Bronner was a fascinating but tragic figure. He was a German Jewish soapmaker who emigrated to America. Judging by what his kids have said about him, he already had a complicated relationship with his parents and his religion. He later lost both of his parents in the holocaust, and spent some time in a mental institution. All three of his children were baptized Lutheran.
Basically everything you read about him paints a picture of a deeply traumatized, but incredibly passionate man. He loved making soap, and was considered a genius at it.
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I looked it up and I'm relieved to report the mental institution Emanuel Bronner spent time at was not John Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitorium, but rather Elgin Mental Health Center in Elgin, Illinois.
According to Wikipedia he escaped the institution after shock treatment (😬) and lived to 1997 (may his memory be a blessing). His Wikipedia photo is rad as hell:
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(yes, of course I grew up with Dr. Bronner's soap)
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You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?
I just found the greatest thing.
This is a canary resuscitator.
When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.
By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.
Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!
straight guy geologist describing a vertically oriented igneous intrusion to his buddy: it’s a . well. i’m not sure i can reclaim this one just get over here
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This post was made 7 days ago. What do you mean old content?
This post is a fucking week old