I assume it’s referencing the controversy of Colin Kaepernick kneeling instead of standing for the US national anthem.

Ah so he’s just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

Ah yes, the movie where they cast a French person as Scottish, a Scottish person as Spanish, and an American as a Russian.

Part of Anarchy is understanding and accepting that that is a true for all individual life regardless of any laws or guideline.

I feel like this is the crux that I’ve seen people disregarding too often. They know how to make the perfect society, and it only requires everyone else having the same exact ideology and priorities that they do.

You Keep Me Hanging On is way better than it has any right to be.

Mostly I just really hate people who upload videos to YouTube like:

Artist Name - Song You Want To Listen To - Original…

And then you open the video, hear some Alvin and the Chipmunks bullshit, and get to read the rest of the truncated title:

Artist Name - Song You Want To Listen To - Original Nightcore Version

Hey, some of us are 35-year-old edgelords

Shit. I was about to quip “Your intern is only 8?” before I remembered what year it was.

I will say I don’t like the direction imgur went, but to play devil’s advocate, I don’t think there was any way around it.

The problem is that being an image host used by millions of users is incredibly expensive, and between needing to pay for the infrastructure, content moderators, and (in this case) regulatory compliance, it all adds up.

The only income model they have is ads, which is why they needed to re-tool the UI to hinder users’ ability to direct share images, and converting it to a more social media type of format keeps users on the site so they can cycle in more ads for more revenue.

An ideal internet would not need to rely on ad money to work, but I’m struggling to think of what else could be done at the scale imgur operates, as donation models can barely even keep Lemmy instances above water. If ad money wasn’t a thing, would sites like imgur be able to exist? Maybe they shouldn’t, I don’t know.

New England? There’s an entire Pennsylvania and New York between Ohio and New England.

Gozaimasu

For this one, I think it’s nothing quite as exciting, basically just what you’d expect.

S30.852A - Superficial foreign body of penis, initial encounter

Guessing that column is truncated “Allergies,” though I’m not sure if the exclamation point means that they have a major allergy or maybe their allergy information wasn’t recorded yet.

Hard to tell with chicken. I could imagine biting into that and it still being juicy.

I liked him in Super with Rainn Wilson. It wasn’t a perfect movie but I thought his performance was fine and it was a fitting movie to anticipate the Marvel saturation in the coming years (which director James Gunn would eventually actively participate in).

I also thought he was fine in Inception. Not the standout performance of the movie but I didn’t walk out thinking “ugh, Elliot Page really gunked that up” or anything, and he apparently worked well enough with Christopher Nolan to get brought back in for The Odyssey.

What’s wrong with Elliot Page’s acting? I thought he was fine in previous works I’ve seen him in. Maybe not Oscar-winning but I’ve seen plenty worse.

I feel like there’s still some public, high budget fetish porn being made. Like A Folded Ocean (potentially NSFL, kinky body horror).

I’ve definitely been there. I think it’s like what English teachers say when they see their students reading whatever latest YA drivel has been published (e.g. Twilight):

At least they want to read something.

Encourage their passions, even if you really hate what they’re currently doing with it, and trust that eventually they’ll get a better sense of taste when they learn more about what else is out there.

Take the “lead a horse to water” idiom but add the corollary that the horse definitely will not drink if no one leads it to water in the first place.

Lots of journalists are reporting on this buyout.

But not too deeply.

Some humor is timeless, like this one from 1921: