hesusingthespiritbomb

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[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This article almost feels like gaslighting.

Disney has put out a ton of content that follows the same power. It generally can be summarized as "put out overpriced mediocre garbage, hamfist some culture war stuff in there, and then imply anyone who doesn't like it is some sort of deplorable.

This movie:

  • Had a budget of at least 270 million, meaning that it would have to make like 700 million to be considered a success
  • Looks mediocre as all hell regardless
  • The Dwarves are CGI monstrosities that feel more at home in a horror movie. This is because Disney kept pivoting to dumber decisions based off petty internet drama.
  • The decision to cast a Latina in a movie where the actress is explicitly white is on some level a deliberate decision to start culture war drama. Disney has had multiple WoC as princesses for over twenty years now, so it's not like they didn't have other movies they could have adapted
  • They made Zegler look a lot less attractive than she is IRL via poor wardrobe choices, while managing to capture Gadot's beauty.
  • Israel aside, I have zero idea why Gadot is cast in this. She's like the female version of the rock in that she's only really good in stupid action movies that take absolutely minimal acting abilities
  • I understand Lemmy is super pro-Palestinian. However the general viewing public is a lot more divided, and many people simply don't want modern politics in a movie they take their small children too. This is the kind of shit you say at a premier of a small budget film, not something that has to gross hundreds of millions of dollars
  • Zegler also harassed Gadot on set, despite the fact that she was trying very hard to not bring politics into the workplace. Again I understand Lemmy might think that's amazing, but most working people recognize that as the kind of shit they put in an HR training video
  • Zegler also seemed to go out of her way to insult hardcore fans of the show. This is especially egregious because hardcore fans are the type of people to see an IP no matter how bad this is.
  • Unlike Joker where you can just dodge criticism by calling fans of the original incels, hardcore fans of Snow White tend to be gay men and white women. The end result was a lot of the outrage came in the form of gossip influencers throwing shade, which the Disney PR machine was not prepared to counter.

The most ridiculous part of this is the trailer for Lilo and Stich, a movie that is a million times more minority forward than the Snow White remake, dropped to largely positive reception. 2024 is going to be simultaneous "Snow White failed because of bigotry" and a movie centered around two woman of color, and unconventional definition of family, and Hawaiian culture prints money hand over fist.

Honestly it wouldn't have been allowed back then except for the fact that an openly gay man who could pass as straight was still a novel and funny idea.

As a sidenote Neil Patrick Harris is a million times worse in Harold and Kumar, but that somehow aged better on account of everything in those movies being comically offensive.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"Millionaires row" could also describe any collection of homes on Long Island above 2000sqft at this point.

No. However if you're the type of person to ask in this question, you should be invested in a target date fund. As part of the way they attempt to hedge for retirement, the include exposure to international funds and bonds.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

How I met your mother aged extremely poorly. The ending rightfully gets a lot of flak, but the characters are just massive toxic assholes in a way that isn't really funny.

Also I'm like 90 percent some of the ways Barney convinced women to sleep with him could be classified as rape. I get the joke that Neil Patrick Harris was gay, but it's still uncomfortable to watch. Oddly enough I don't get the same feeling when I was Neil in Harold and Kumar.

On the flip side Scrubs aged surprisingly well. It has problematic moments that you'd think would get ridiculed in the modern era, but hits the emotional beats hard enough that it manages to still remain watchable. Also the joke about clowns and whores is still fucking hilarious.

I feel like they need to break this down by age a lot more than they do.

In today's day and age, it's perfectly normal for a parent to offer significant financial support to their 20 year old child. While adulthood technically begins at 18, society is structured in a way that encourages some form of education/training through the rest of our teens and early twenties. A lot of this time adults in that situation will be setting themselves up for success, but not in a position where they currently have meaningful income. Parents helping out enables them to lay the groundwork for being independent later on in life.

On the flipside a 30 year old receiving relying on their parents is a wtf moment 9/10.

Another consideration is independent adults moving in with their parents for the purpose of acting as a caregiver. While that's a problem for society, it's a completely different problem than adults needing parental contributions to survive.

That's actually exactly what I mean. Eight years ago is "almost a decade". Since his defeat in the 2016 democratic primaries:

  • Bernie sanders was named a member of the Senate democratic leadership
  • Members of Bernie's 2016 run were incorporated into the demo
  • Bernie sanders was runner up in the 2020 democratic primaries, winning a several states and beating out more establishment candidates.
  • Joe Biden agreed to adopt several progressive policies as recongnition to the movements power within the party
  • Bernie Sanders endorsed Biden, and acted as a campaign surrogate in a way he was never asked for for Hillary
  • Bernie Sanders declined to endorse or encourage a challenger in the 2024 democratic primaries
  • Bernie Sanders took the establishment position of backing up Biden after his absolutely disastrous debate.

Dude has had massive political and social pull for a long time now, and has very little to show for it.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

God if this doesn't summarize Bernie's career in a nutshell; A viral empowering moment that feels amazing on first glance, but in reality it's just a virtue signal. Absolutely nothing of consequence was accomplished, and absolutely nothing meaningful changes.

This man has been in Congress for longer than I have been alive. He's had serious pull in the democratic party for almost a full decade now. At some point platitudes don't cut it.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There's absolutely no way he's adding enough value compared to Joe MBA to justify that compensation.

Dude should have just added comments indicating that the code was part of some security test but was unfinished and extremely dangerous.

Change a few file names, add a comment how it will never run under normal circumstances, and you've got plausible deniability.

Honestly I have a lot of sympathy for these people.

It's one thing to invest in some moonshot crypto. It's another to invest in something claiming to be FDIC insured. There's also not a good way of verifying that information to the extent the victims would have needed to know something was amiss.

It seems like the FDIC was asleep at the wheel, and didn't really know or give a shit that someone was leveraging them to mislead consumers. Instead of actually fixing the problem, they just washed their hands of it.

You can call Trump the devil all you want, but the system was broken long before he came on the scene.

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