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The right Russian with a half-life 2 airboat can make all the difference in the world war and kill a nazi

The beauty of nature is that it’s already beautiful and touching would diminish that. God/Universe/The Matrix's Architect is like a zillion times better at beauty than man, you can't improve it, leave it alone.

It’s okay to witness the marvel of the Earth and not tamper with. I have never understood why katz need to be touching stuff. I think it’s more than meaningful to take in the wonder of nature through senses and leave it at that. We can capture it’s magic through art and technology but just leave it alone.

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“I catch the Prince of England slipping, he gon' run me the jewels”

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I really got the into Lovecraft and the adjacent genre “weird horror” genre over the COVID-19 lockdown. I like to think that H.P. was both a product of his time, and also uniquely racist. I wonder how his works would have changed had he not died as he began to realize the error of his ways later in life. I wonder him getting over his fears of just about everything would have impacted his storytelling

Also lmao this comic tho :data-laughing:

Idiocracy always had a weird eugenics undertone to me. That undesirable people will out procreate desirable ones. I feel people misunderstand the message of the film. They come away thinking the idea we need to fix people, not systems that which people find themselves. I know it's all for laughs, but I think a lot of people who watched that and just thought the problem was individual acting “poorly” rather that the MEGACORPs/Systems that control everything. These systems limit individuals' agility to act (let alone act “well”). Worse yet, these systems can even reward “dumb” behavior or whatever. I felt its critique was of “dumb people” not of the systems that create and refuse to take care of those “dumb people” and also create cultures around them. It made fun of consumers rather than consumerism. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it seemed ill-spirited, or at least misguided. The lack of structural critique makes it feel a bit icky.

The idea that Assange is a "bad guy" for doing what journalist are supposed to do is what gets me heated. He didn't do anything other than report the facts. Sure he is kinda weird and has some iffy past choices (wasn't he a creepo to some women at or something, I don't recall) but the point of him doing nothing other than getting important information out to the masses is somehow "bad" is just bonkers. Worst still, I find it so saddening that entire "media class" and most "popular journalists" just utterly left him out in the cold when they usually circle the wagons to "protect their own".