Capitalism isn't a democracy. Spending money isn't voting. Every time we repeat this, we forget where we actually derive power: not by being a naughty little consumer who won't consume, but by getting loud, speaking out, direct action, and making the people who stand to benefit miserable.
anyway it is darkly funny to see How To Be A Man become big business on one end and books by women shouting I Need My Partner Present on the other. Heteronormativity is a terrible treadmill meant to keep you from thinking about others as complete people
I think none of these phenomena/social dynamics are new (emotional labor, burnout, mental load) but I am always curious about how they become trendy and are deployed in popular contexts
You know, it really rang a bell, I guess I am wondering why it is the subject of many books and trend pieces right now!
is mental load the new millennial burnout, where do these terms come from
I like the roguelike, very cool array of modifiers, brainy in a way the game suggests but rarely commits to. Give it a whirl!
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we are continuing our unit, on:
Scott Adkins
with:
Ninja 2: Shadow of a Tear
Starring:
Scott Adkins
This is an interesting thread to tug at
RAYLAN! RAYLAN IT SAYS I NEED AN UN-STABLE DI-ODE!
reality show where we go to industry conventions and release a truck full of minions so we can take notes on who they decide to serve
Ok fine
In response to some bullshit going around:
Can we please fucking destigmatize men being nice to / caring about / engaging with kids? These are normal adult mammal instincts; what's fucked up is that we beat them out of people based on gender and/or assume they're inherently predatory.
But beyond these, and the offense taken by Memphians, James’s words reflect a broader pivot. Pro athletes have retreated from politics. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, the economic woes of a Black city might have inspired lamentations from players or, better yet, calls for deeper investment. Today, it is easier to just leave Memphis behind. Such is the ethos that governs our current political culture. Wealth is being redistributed upward at a dizzying clip, and social mores have retrenched such that confronting inequality is not just passé but subject to punishment. Gone is the pretense that “shithole” areas — countries, cities — deserve more than their plight. Just fix the Grizzlies by sending them to a white place. The admonition to “shut up and dribble,” famously proffered by Fox News host Laura Ingraham, was once seen as a challenge to athletes like James — a way to prove they weren’t afraid to engage in politics. Today, an explosion of player-hosted podcasts mean that pro players are talking more, and to more people, than ever before — only to apparently have nothing to say about mass deportations, or our national turn toward autocracy, or war. Data suggests that NBA players are among the most left-leaning athletes in men’s professional sports. Yet American culture has turned so sharply rightward that it seems to be no longer worth it for them to say so.
Every major sports league goes through crises of confidence. The NFL did with CTE and bounced back. MLB did with steroids and now seems ascendant. Each managed to recuperate by implementing rules that, at least superficially, aimed to address its most glaring problems. Yet there’s something more profoundly amiss with the NBA. Its doldrums may not be tied directly to the fall of Black Lives Matter. But they do seem to be wrapped up in a knottier string of crises ensnaring Black America. The NBA is the Blackest major men’s sports league, and its players are some of the richest and most famous Black people in the U.S. The summer of 2020 found many of them anguishing over their obligations to the Black disadvantaged. Then things started to change. A wave of backlash against DEI and “wokeness” sought to recast those disadvantages in iron. Many of the same players now seem to have settled for fulfilling their obligations to themselves. They got a taste of what it meant to stick their necks out for a cause. They decided — as many Americans have in the last six years — that it wasn’t worth the trouble.
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Check out a first look at Disney’s ASL re-animated songs from 'Encanto,' 'Frozen 2,' and 'Moana 2,' coming to Disney+ next week. The studio reworks key musical sequences using performance-driven signing.
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Honestly both nyc airports are better than their reps, the problems stem from timing/congestion
This is so nice!
(I think MSP is my fave domestic airport)
hmm let me think
No order here but:
MCO (sentimental, not so nice with modern security)
MSP
SFO
TPA (mostly because it is less traveled )
And honestly LAX now that all the terminals are connected.
Not counting those abroad because lol that’s not fair
oh hell yeah we’re arguing about airports! Listen up, perverts:
I like them.
I think this might be bigger for you than the born again persona 2 faq post
Huge!
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Congrats Reb! I hear Ethan has something called “the Joshua threshold” where he can’t sleep a wink until a new hire sticks around for more than 9 months
Maybe! I think, if self-seriousness is a matter of tone (which I believe it is) then you are more or less indicating the kind of conversation you want to have, and with whom. I think one can’t really levy that claim without placing the work in context.
Fair re: an IGN piece, less so on Jake’s blog
Oh of course but a colloquialism clumsily wielded alienates more than it communicates. And sometimes we have to recognize when a term has been diluted.
I’m mostly with you on the latter half, as someone deeply in love with stupid jokes and forever flailing at weird linguistic tics
The thing is, we have language for that! We have a whole school of postmodernist thought, an internet rich in metatext, etc you know?
Yeah the only thing you learn from them is that the writer has played a lot of video games and assumes you have too!
Agree! Would also say that “video-gamey” to me would denote an abundance of systems, a hilariously complex attempt to pass for depth, in vain. Now it just seems to mean “here is a mechanic uninterested in verisimilitude, how neat!”
lol yes this descriptor is also whack, and equally meaningless now
