Kaputnik

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[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look you can see the exact moment their hearts broke!

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's no jokes...

THERE'S NO JOKES WHY IS THE LAUGH TRACK LAUGHING

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Today I have learned sodium lauryl sulfate can cause skin irritation after the top layer of skin in my mouth has sloughed off an hour after using mouthwash

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Setting up following this guide: https://mullvad.net/en/help/shadowsocks-android

And I have everything in OpenVPN and Shadowsocks set up like they say, but when I try to connect to the Shadowsocks server I get the error "Failed to detect internet connection: connection closed". The upload/download shows I can upload at ~30 kbps but no download.

I'm on MIUI 14 which may be the problem because I know it has some issues with...everything really... But I turned off power saver so it should be allowed to run in the background

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We've made it big, my work has officially blocked Hexbear as "other adult materials"

At the same time they've also started deep packet inspection so my Mullvad TCP port doesn't work now lea-sad

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Do it, watch it, so I'm not alone. Maybe you'll like it more

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

dean-frown

Cis but not the het

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I literally have no clue lol, I don't think it's referencing anything in the movie

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I was surprised to see her here because it doesn't really seem like other movies she has done. She was good, no complaints about her, but she's only in it for like 10 minutes

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Post Script: Reading the Letterboxd reviews for this are making me mad because everynoe is saying the Academic Nazi is hot, I'm losing my mind desolate

 

And not in a good way.

The movie is written by Nick Pinkerton, who I've never heard of before but is apparently associated with the Red Scare Pod in some way. The movie is a mumblecore surrealist comedy loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, where the main character travels through different parts of the United States and meets different characters. It's got some funny parts and it held together well enough in the beginning but it starts to drag by the second vignette and really starts to broadcast where it leans politically.

The main character essentially acts listlessly throughout the entire movie and calls things and people ableist slurs. While other characters are supposed to...I guess represent different political positions in the US? I don't really know what the point was meant to be, but the vibe is "caring about things is dumb". There's four main vignettes which boil down to the following:

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  1. A group of anarchists that never actually profess any political beliefs besides not working and eating food from the garbage. The main anarchist character is immediately shown to b a sex pest and the group then goes out to a field to fight Nazis that aren't there. (This is the only representation of the political left in the movie)

  2. An academic Nazi who takes in our main character and lets her live in his house. He is given ample time to espouse his ideas and does not attempt to sleep with the main character which is shown to be a big deal. She lives with him as a tradwife for some time, and is like happy with it I think? But eventually runs away

  3. Two New York film makers who are making a period piece. Sorry I really don't know what this one was trying to say it just felt random, but the film shoot ends when Nazis shoot everyone.

  4. An Arabic guy who saves the main character from the shooting, but oh no! It turns out he's locking her away to be his wife and also he lives in a terrorist training camp.

And then finally the writer of the movie shows up as a Catholic monk to save the main character and talk about miracles for some reason.


Maybe I don't get it because I don't really vibe with this kind of art. But genuinely this movie was pretty boring and it feels gross when you know the politics behind it. I will give them credit though, I was anticipating a TERFy joke the entire movie and I didn't catch one.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The others like Disco Elysium and Signals have been said so I'll add Tunic! I love the artstyle and the puzzles in this game are insane, definitely not everyone's cup of tea but one of my favourites.

spoilerdecoding the Trunic language was one of the most accomplished moments I've had in gaming, along with solving the golden path. And then learning there's an entirely different hidden language in the music of the game is a whole other level of insanity


[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Acute Lyme disease is 100% unarguably real, the issue is chronic Lyme disease which is based on pseudoscience. The people are most likely suffering from some other idiopathic disease and are being taken advantage of for profit

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They're running a shareholder vote to pay Elon something crazy like 52 Billion dollars. The pay package was initially struck down in a court case after it was approved by the board of directors so now it has to be voted on by shareholders. Many institutional shareholders are voting no because it would tank the value of Tesla's stock while the insane retail investor cultists are voting yes to transfer their own money to Elon Musk

 

Went to see Challengers last night (good movie btw) and before the movie they played the most unhinged ad I've ever seen. It was AI generated children talking about being victims of the holocaust. It straight up looked like one of those ai tiktok slop stories that bot farms make. Something about a giant image of a child talking about gas chambers while their eyes shifted unnaturally and gazed into nothingness really made me uncomfortable.

Apparently it was to encourage Holocaust education?? Just absolutely terrible execution

I haven't been able to find the ad online yet but if anyone does feel free to share with the class

 

If you're into the idea of a John Wick esque action movie where Dev Patel fights the BJP and RSS then I really recommend this.

It doesn't outright name the BJP but it's pretty obvious. It's also got some good commentary on land seizures, along with the treatment of indigenous and Muslim communities in India. Also some good representation of the Hijra community which I haven't seen mentioned in much Western media

 

I know I know kill yr heroes and all that

 
 

I was laughing super hard throughout this movie and I think it'd go over well here, it has a similar sense of humour to a lot of we post. It's also great to see something unapologetically queer that's not just a sad or serious movie

 

I'm treating this like adult Pokemon and my friends aren't getting my excitement when I find a new bird.

Also I've been checking in on some juvenile Bald Eagles near me here's a picture I could get of one:

 

This is some tumblrinaction level humour

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