Might not apply to Lemmy, but I’m pretty sure PieFed users can follow from !benjordan@peertube.gravitywell.xyz

Maybe fighting fire with fire and setting the whole board with olive oil now would help at least hide the spot. Beyond that, only time and use helps in my experience.

No! Misinformation! They are very very dangerous! If you see it, run away as fast as you can, in great panic!!

(they might have a heart attack if you don’t, they get really riled up)

I guess this is where the insight that you should judge a society by how it treats its weakest comes from. That’s a problem with OP’s scenario, as you’d be thrown into a completely foreign context without access to the more family and community-based security nets that are essential in poorer parts of the world.

I have travelled to some not very wealthy regions to small communities that can only be accessed by a 4x4, horse, or motorcycle (or by foot, as I prefer), and seen severely handicapped people in such places live what at least appears from the outside to be highly dignified and decent lives as the community works together to take care of them. It’s not at all obvious that they would be happier in a western city. Once anyone needs professional medical care or expensive treatments it of course becomes more clear-cut, and if you’re an outsider (or just unlucky) you’re of course out of luck.

Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder

In the short run, maybe, but sawing off the branch one is sitting on is dangerous business. :)

Yeah, in general if you have a good starting point anywhare not affected by tyranny, war, or genocide you’ll be alright. Behind a veil of ignorance there’s a whole lot of developing countries I’d go to before I’d risk being poor in the United States.

I wonder what people in this thread think the third world is, and what they imagine living there is like.

It’s not like there’s a clear answer. I guess technically Sweden is a third world county, while North Korea and Slovenia are both second world. America is as first world as it gets, and it’s a fucking mess.

If I could choose my own third world country I’d be quite alright. If they sent me to the worst first world country they could find, well, Alabama.

There are people whose concerns it is worth listening to. I’m sure they will show up eventually.

Happy holidays!

I’m probably just not cultivated enough in the refined world of internet memes, but this comes across as “girls are noobs hurr durr”

Learning the language is not a political statement, and you’ll outlive Putin. Besides we’re not solving anything by refusing to communicate with each other. If you want to learn Russian, learn Russian. Just be careful not to fall for the propaganda.

Don’t forget to report, if you have good reason to believe you’re seeing a bot that is not properly marked as such.

Thanks! I was traveling too much while it was in the cinema, but it’s one of the few movies in recent years I’ve been sad to miss. If nothing else it looks like something different. Happy to hear it’s not universally hated!

I think most great artists pursue their art because of a love of the art. Film making is expensive and like everyone else they need to put food on the table, but any artist who is in it for the money is already lost.

I haven’t seen Megalopolis yet, but I think it’s a great example of a film maker having no interest in return of investment. The closing statements of Life of Brian is another great example: “I told him, I said to him, Bernie, I said, they’ll never make their money back.”

As for Fortnite, it might be more similar to Roblox than I thought. ;)

Yeah, and it’s particularly unreliable for new movies. And even when it’s not abused it’s obviously just a measure of popular taste - which is widely known to be pretty shit. So yeah, I agree with your reluctance towards that source.

Nevertheless, checking 10/10 reviews of Tarantino’s short on IMDB, one of the top reviews boast about how “the entire fight scene including the usage of curses like the original films do”—as if hearing a character from their favorite video game swear is such a thrill it justifies a top score. It’s hard to be to optimistic.

I don’t think the haters care much about fortnite, we just don’t like sell-outs. My only feelings towards fortnite is that I’m happy my nephew is finally playing something else than fucking roblox. Tarantino would have been equally wise to team up with either, in my opinion.

(also, I’m not here to tell you how to live your life, but you might hopefully find a slightly less toxic open source community over at !opensource@programming.dev )

Yeah. It’s hard to stomach.

I only hope he got a shit ton of money and raised it to spend it on something more worthwhile. Maybe it’s a way to gain independence from the major studios.

Maybe. But I feel like he just sold out.

Oh well—it’s not worse than the Weinstein company.

Yuki’s Revenge on IMDB, rocking a predictable 5.6 score.

Here’s the trailer on YouTube. I haven’t watched it with sound, but the art style is horrendous. Bloody shame.

I just want a proper, no bullshit live action Kill Bill 3 with Uma Thurman where a now grown up daughter of Copperhead comes back for revenge. Is that really too much to ask.

It’s for Kiddo—I guess they got it messed up.

I guess there’s a justification of sorts in the way Kill Bill itself deals with the animated sequence, having the style of animation change as we progress through time. So in a way this puts it in the present. Which would be easier to justify had Kill Bill been a new movie, but maybe this sequence takes place a few years later.

But even if so… Yeah, I find this hard to accept. Why not cooperate with a real studio. I would have been so excited—now I just don’t care at all.

I think instances with ideological underpinnings is fine, and maybe inevitable. The crucial thing is that they need to be honest about it, so that those not interested can go elsewhere.

The problem with lemmy.ml is that it pretends to be a catch-all instance when it’s in fact very much not, and that it doesn’t tell users up front what it’s all about. Both Hexbear and Lemmygrad are better in that respect—at least they’re honest.

It’s legit. I guess they receive LineageOS updates directly, in which case I don’t think there’s any real disadvantage here.