Why do we constantly have to have “humans get transported to another world” storylines when it comes to live action adaptations? Why can’t it just be in-media-res? Why can’t the Minecraft movie follow the novelization where a guy randomly awakens in Minecraft with no idea who he is and just needs to learn how to survive… you know… LIKE HOW THE GAME IS. Why do we gotta bring people from outside the game world into Minecraft? Why do they look human but everything else is a CGI nightmare? You couldn’t pull a Detective Pikachu and just set your god damn plot IN Minecraft from the start?
And most importantly …
WHY CAN’T THE WHOLE MOVIE JUST BE ANIMATED? You’re already animating like 95% of the film already, just fucking make an animated film.
I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don’t want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they’re heading to the funeral, but usually they just don’t want to talk about it and that’s fine. But I always treat the flight like it’s a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that’s never enough, that’s whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a “Seriously??” And that’s my in! Now I can say “Why, what’s your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let’s see it.” And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it’s always super funny, so I laugh, and that’s where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I’m like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you’re going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.
Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said “What did the ghost say to the other ghost?” And I said “What?” “Nothing. Ghosts aren’t real.”
I’m literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job
My roommate and his girlfriend got in the shower together and they’re… Talking about politics?
I was expecting to hear “OH GOD, HARDER,” not “George Washington was entirely correct in his prediction of what distinct parties would do to politics as a whole.”
Nope nevermind, there it is, apparently political debate is just their form of foreplay
My roommate and his girlfriend got in the shower together and they’re… Talking about politics?
I was expecting to hear “OH GOD, HARDER,” not “George Washington was entirely correct in his prediction of what distinct parties would do to politics as a whole.”
Nope nevermind, there it is, apparently political debate is just their form of foreplay
I remember a time when dick cheney was considered by many to be the most evil man in the world, maybe with the exception of henry kissinger. Between his role in the invasion of Iraq and the unsubstantiated “weapons of mass destruction” claim, the creation of the patriot act and the expansion of government surveillance power, and the controversy over Halliburton (of which he was the previous CEO of) generating billions of dollars of revenue during the war on terrorism… Idk man I’m just saying I wouldn’t be excited about this guy endorsing my candidate. To say the least.
Everything about the USA will make you feel as if your whole ability to reason and think coherently has just flown away.
I’m thinking right now about a radio advertisement I overheard for Indeed - a theoretical jod search website. The advertisement, however, was directed at companies who were searching for employees. Presumably these companies pay Indeed to serve as a hub for their job postings and applicants. So Indeed wants people signed up, because more accounts shows more potential applicants and they can get more money from companies looking for employees. There’s no money in actually connecting applicants to positions, so you sign up, make the account, discover you signed up for a portal that just sends you to other company’s jobs pages with the same info and spams you with jobs you don’t want, and you leave forever. Money in the bank.
Meanwhile on the hiring side, job postings make a business look good. If you always got job postings, you’re growing. But keeping fresh postings in rotation is time consuming, especially when you’re lean staffed on purpose with investors who demand you show an infinitely growing rate of improvement. So you pay Indeed a monthly fee to upload a bunch of jobs you aren’t hiring for and use that to hook more investors to pay the first group.
And you end up with a company that gets paid to do nothing but generate fake data by other companies paying them to do nothing but post fake information, and the only part we (the ones looking for income to survive) play in this transaction is lending the process just enough legitimacy to make it legal. Money that doesn’t exist cycles around between people doing nothing and as long as none of us can afford groceries or a home, the economy is considered “doing well,” but the second one investor caves and demands to be paid, the economy collapses and suddenly 99% of the population in the USA can afford to eat again.
All you have to do is multiply that by a thousand companies doing it a thousand times a month and that’s the USA baby, except also we supply billions of dollars of weapons killing people around the world.
Part of why this makes my brain turn into a pile of whimsical dinosaur socks is you can say all this to almost any economist in the USA and they’ll agree with all of it except that part where 99% of the population has no money is good and when the bubble collapses and 5 trillion dollars in made up money vanishes, forcing three people to skip a single weekly trip to the top of Mount Everest, while the entire globe gets to put $100 away in savings that year it’s bad because of growth.
One thousand nuclear bombs to the capitol building + pentagon + white house NOW!!!!!
presidential debate between someone claiming that there’s an epidemic of haitian immigrants eating dogs and that doctors are performing transgender surgeries on illegal aliens (?) vs. the moderate progressive who repeatedly affirms her support of fracking and her intent to send infinite weaponry to israel forever… folks can we start burning down buildings
One thousand nuclear bombs to the capitol building + pentagon + white house NOW!!!!!
presidential debate between someone claiming that there’s an epidemic of haitian immigrants eating dogs and that doctors are performing transgender surgeries on illegal aliens (?) vs. the moderate progressive who repeatedly affirms her support of fracking and her intent to send infinite weaponry to israel forever… folks can we start burning down buildings
“Physicians have a history of antagonism to the idea that they themselves might present a health risk to their patients. Famously, when Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis originally proposed handwashing as a measure to reduce purpureal fever, he was met with ridicule and ostracized from the profession.
Physicians were also historically reluctant to adopt new practices to protect not only patients but also physicians themselves against infection in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. In 1985, the CDC presented its guidance on workplace transmission, instructing physicians to provide care, “regardless of whether HCWs [health care workers] or patients are known to be infected with HTLV-III/LAV [human T-lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus] or HBV [hepatitis B virus].”
These CDC guidelines offered universal precautions, common-sense, nonstigmatizing, standardized methods to reduce infection. Yet, some physicians bristled at the idea that they need to take simple, universal public health steps to prevent transmission, even in cases in which infectivity is unknown, and instead advocated for a medicalized approach: testing or masking only in cases when a patient is known to be infected. Such an individualized medicalized approach fails to meet the public health needs of the moment.”
9/11 is great because they tried to turn like one instance of blowback from US Imperialism into an excuse for Forever War, only for the hyperbolic and over-saturated presentation of this “greatest tragedy of all time” to quickly lose any emotional effect on the generations too young to have understood or even witnessed it at the time. So now it’s just a fucking joke to everyone like under the age of 25 (including non USamericans who learned of it through osmosis from the global hegemonic culture) and if anything has served as a jumping off point for people to learn about US imperialism (both as the cause of attacks and as actions 9/11 was used to justify) and come to oppose it. So even among like Liberals, “9/11 is funny” is just the consensus opinion and “9/11 was completely justified” isn’t even that controversial. In conclusion; a merry 9/11 to all and to all a good night
9/11 is great because they tried to turn like one instance of blowback from US Imperialism into an excuse for Forever War, only for the hyperbolic and over-saturated presentation of this “greatest tragedy of all time” to quickly lose any emotional effect on the generations too young to have understood or even witnessed it at the time. So now it’s just a fucking joke to everyone like under the age of 25 (including non USamericans who learned of it through osmosis from the global hegemonic culture) and if anything has served as a jumping off point for people to learn about US imperialism (both as the cause of attacks and as actions 9/11 was used to justify) and come to oppose it. So even among like Liberals, “9/11 is funny” is just the consensus opinion and “9/11 was completely justified” isn’t even that controversial. In conclusion; a merry 9/11 to all and to all a good night
Lost amidst all the sentimental 9/11 tributes, Abu Zubaydah remains, after almost twenty years of unimaginable torture, imprisoned without charge in Guantanamo Bay. Despite having had no involvement in the attacks, the US is committed to keeping Abu Zubaydah trapped there until he simply dies - so important is it that he not be released and risk exposing the full, nightmarish extent of the rendition and torture programmes operated against him and hundreds of others. American comfort and apathy has been purchased with their blood.
Now’s a good time to remind people that because the US government offered cash rewards to people in Pakistan and Afghanistan for snitching on 9/11 plotters, several people ended up in black sites or Guantanamo simply because their neighbor wanted or needed to make a few grand and reported them for something they had literally zero connection to just to collect the reward.
Lost amidst all the sentimental 9/11 tributes, Abu Zubaydah remains, after almost twenty years of unimaginable torture, imprisoned without charge in Guantanamo Bay. Despite having had no involvement in the attacks, the US is committed to keeping Abu Zubaydah trapped there until he simply dies - so important is it that he not be released and risk exposing the full, nightmarish extent of the rendition and torture programmes operated against him and hundreds of others. American comfort and apathy has been purchased with their blood.
Now’s a good time to remind people that because the US government offered cash rewards to people in Pakistan and Afghanistan for snitching on 9/11 plotters, several people ended up in black sites or Guantanamo simply because their neighbor wanted or needed to make a few grand and reported them for something they had literally zero connection to just to collect the reward.
Hey has tumblr heard about the Chase “Infinite Money glitch” debacle from tiktok yet because
I cannot believe
I cannot believe that people actually tried this
And even less can I believe that they’re going full Karen to Chase customer service workers. Like you did check fraud. You did a crime. You don’t get to complain about the consequences.
Wait like some people don’t know
So there was a glitch in Chase’s check deposit system. Usually when you cash a check, only a fraction of the full amount is available to you immediately until the check clears. The glitch made it so you could cash a checks full amount right away no matter how big.
So. People were writing themselves massive checks and immediately withdrawing cash they technically didn’t have and then closing their bank account. They were calling it an “infinite money glitch” like it’s the Sims or something.
But it’s not like a cheat code that was suddenly discovered. It’s just check fraud. It’s just straight up a felony. And a good chunk of them filmed themselves doing it.
So people are waking up finding they’re in the negative however many thousands of dollars they pulled.
What BAFFLES me is that people are calling Chase demanding their accounts be reopened, demanding their money back. Work from home Chase agents have shared the calls they’ve been getting from people angry they’re in the red. Like it’s not your money anymore, love, you STOLE it and they took whatever you had originally to try to pay the balance back!! That’s not yours anymore!
People are being SNIPPY on tiktok when people tell them that they did a CRIME. This one lady was like “you don’t know the law, my lawyer knows the law” and it’s like honey! Your lawyer is going to do his fuckin best but you did a crime and then you FILMED YOURSELF. You’re going to jail! Now is the time to start practicing what my therapist calls radical acceptance!
So that’s the tea on the money glitch. Most banks are giving them 30 days to pay the amount back but some people I’ve heard are already being arrested.
it’s 9/11 which means it’s time for the annual reminder the US imperialism, racism, and islamophobia considers the lives of 3000 usamericans to be more important than over 4.5 million lives that were lost in the war on terror. that number of course does not include the thousands of lives lost to racist and islamophobic hate crimes within usamerica
never forget the lives lost to imperialism, racism, and islamophobia across the globe
it’s 9/11 which means it’s time for the annual reminder the US imperialism, racism, and islamophobia considers the lives of 3000 usamericans to be more important than over 4.5 million lives that were lost in the war on terror. that number of course does not include the thousands of lives lost to racist and islamophobic hate crimes within usamerica
never forget the lives lost to imperialism, racism, and islamophobia across the globe
it’s 9/11 which means it’s time for the annual reminder the US imperialism, racism, and islamophobia considers the lives of 3000 usamericans to be more important than over 4.5 million lives that were lost in the war on terror. that number of course does not include the thousands of lives lost to racist and islamophobic hate crimes within usamerica
never forget the lives lost to imperialism, racism, and islamophobia across the globe
Saying “the McDonalds flag at Guantanamo Bay is flown at half mast in order to honor the anniversary of 9/11” out loud and then immediately dying of a stroke
Saying “the McDonalds flag at Guantanamo Bay is flown at half mast in order to honor the anniversary of 9/11” out loud and then immediately dying of a stroke
Saying “the McDonalds flag at Guantanamo Bay is flown at half mast in order to honor the anniversary of 9/11” out loud and then immediately dying of a stroke
Saying “the McDonalds flag at Guantanamo Bay is flown at half mast in order to honor the anniversary of 9/11” out loud and then immediately dying of a stroke
So apparently King’s Cross Station announced they’d be doing nothing for “back to Hogwarts” Day in July and warned Harry Potter fans to not crowd the station, and announced it again a week ago, but nobody saw that so thousands of adult Harry Potter fans crowded a real ass train station real people use to board real trains and counted down for a celebration that never happened.
I highly recommend seeking out videos of it if you’re some kind of petty person who thinks watching a large group of ardent adult Harry Potter stans being disappointed is funny (I am, I am that petty)
Making fun of adult Harry Potter fans is misogyny now. If you tell someone wasting everyone’s time at a train station to read another book you basically want to strip women of the right to vote, it’s the same thing!
i genuinely don’t think the haitians eating pets lie is something that should be laughed off bc the rhetoric literally rooted in some of the worst acts of colonial violence known to man but i just know liberals are going to try and meme it away. this isn’t a funny haha republicans are so stupid thing this is a hey they are trying to justify a resurgence of specific atrocities against this specific group of people
The attacks that took place on September 11, 2001 left much of the US population more stunned than bellicose. Yet politicians had prepared a flood of new legislation and military interventions in advance for precisely such an opportunity. They initiated a new round of colonial wars and crackdowns on domestic dissent.
More than a million people died as a consequence of the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the resulting turmoil. The rise of the Islamic State and, later, the disorganized withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan showed how little these operations achieved their professed objectives. Yet by creating this disaster, George W. Bush managed to ride the coattails of war to another term as president.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli government has pursued a similar course, taking advantage of the opportunity to destroy Gaza and butcher tens of thousands of Palestinians. This will not make anyone safer in the region—neither Palestinians nor Israelis nor anyone else. It is calculated to create an ongoing crisis that will keep the most chauvinistic Israeli politicians in power at everyone else’s expense.
Today as in 2001, our leaders will not protect us, but they can get us killed. Stop the genocide in Palestine.
yeah okay computer object heads robots with emotes androids humanoid robots are nice. but what about robots with no distinct human-like features. what about robots with no way to showing their emotions. what about robots that can only convey that they like you by the sound of their fans kicking into overdrive. what about robots that only show their liking of you by the fact that they load webpages and pictures faster. what about robots playing crackling songs through their speakers for you. do you see the visiom
