Treating Congress with the degree of respect it deserves was cool.

He seemed to have progressive politics right up until he received the tiniest papercut.

Eew. A story about how evil and cruel America is doing a collab with a story justifying all of america’s evil and cruelty.

This is absolutely omnicidal insanity. The American regime is signing a writ of execution for humanity. Wet bulb events that can potentially cause mass casualty events, death at a level inconceivable even after Covid, are a reality right now and they’re doing trade protectionism to stop more efficient power generation. Madness. Unbelievable, inhuman madness.

Stop letting Neil Degrasse-Tyson write food articles.

I’ve made mashed sweet potatoes before. Idk anything about starches and sugars but it was good. May have been yams, though.

What the fuck is that?

I like that analysis, thank you.

You love to see it. It’s wild how outright piracy has become a normal tool of international diplomacy.

It’s not not cyberpunk.

It’s close enough and shares enough of the same things to be analyzed as part of the genre.

I do think that to a large extent the big evil bowling ball of doom is supposed to abstractly represent capital or something adjacent.

Things like the depiction of the indigenous resistance movement as unsophisticated dupes and terrorists merits analysis; why did the French director depict them this way? How can this be a reflection of French colonial history? Same with the depiction of the white Archeologists and the presumably middle easter kid subjected to colonialism in the beggining though I think there’s less there.

Leelu can be analyzed through the “born sexy yesterday” trope and there’s a lot of questions to ask from a Feminist slant.

The movie actually acknowledges some of the harms and contradictions of capitalism, while underplaying others. Showing the relationship between Corben as a cabby working for Zorg and ultimately being one of the people who thwarts Zorg is nice.

The decision to never have the protagonists and the antagonists directly interact is a neat one and opens up some very good questions about narrative norms - turns out the hero doesn’t actually need to confront the villain!

It does have a lot of cyberpunk themes; mighty and powerful corporations and governments can’t save themselves so they need a working class guy and his weird buddies to save the world. The upper classes are depicted as a gaggle of decadent idiots who have no idea what’s happening, while the corporate leader is a hyper-competent bastard who completely understands all the harm his sytem causes and loves it.

And it’s also just a silly adventure film with lots of style and cool visuals and a sappy power of love resolution.

Ahhahahahahahahahahahahhahaahahhaha PERISH

Fucking collapsing under the weight of it’s own grotesque hunger.

How do you fucking escape scandanavia to an infinitely more fertile land and then somehow make the food WORSE!?

What if we stole the infinite bounty of north america in a centuries long campaing f terror and blood then ate nothing but wet, unseasoned carbohydrates?

The universe is an unending garden of horrors, each unique in color, shape, and smell.

They can not. They get pelagra and die. Happened at some point during slavery or jim crow, I forget exactly, but the Slavers observed that local people ate a whole hell of a lot of corn, so they started feeding enslaved people corn meal, because it was the cheapest thing with calories. Well, the local people knew that if you eat nothing but corn you die and had been doing something called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization Yeah nixtamilsomething. It’s a mesoAmerican word I’m not good with those. But it changes the chemical structure of the corn, makes some nutrients bioavailable, and important means you don’t get pellagra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra

I just realized this joke had nothing to do with not nixtamilizationing your corn. I have too much horrible knowledge in my brain and I am having issues with that given the current situation in the world.

The Midwest has the most disgusting food culture I have ever encountered.

*salutes at beaitfied ikon of Ned on the wall*

We won’t fuck it up this time, Mr. Ludd. This time we’ll break his arms just like you showed us!

More children’s cartoons should end with a truth and reconciliation commitee where they kindly old wisdom guy has to go through a public process where all his crimes and investigated and explained in detail as a form of social healing as part of the conditions of the peace process.

The only good thing about climate chnage ~~global warming ~~ planetary incineration is i’m starting to learn celcious from comparing how fucked the weather is with friends in real :amierkka countries.

Parrying builds are the long jezza of Dark Souls

It seriously freaks me out how there’s nothing left of the internet. It’s just a few news agregators churning the same content in to grey pulp. Idk if the internet changed or i changed or both or i’m just old and don’t know where the cool shit is, but something has changed. I can’t even read wikipedia articles about obscure birds for hours anymore.