funkless

most executions are surprisingly brutal and painful. it probably was worse than being stabbed in the neck

…until there are no cars without DLC

“I’ll just buy a used car”

They’ll just find a way to add DLC to used cars once all the new cars are fully monetized

SFDC itself is written in Java but uses Javascript-esque APEX for whitelabel development?

it’ll become its own capsule of meaning. Like how a shrug can mean anything in context. Just sending a Donny Mug whenever something excretious happens

460,000 children go missing each year in the USA.

on the other hand, I self ID’d as straight for 35 years until I felt safe not to do so. So it looked like I just appeared in the early 2020s

I always assumed it was a sexual reference

in that case crafty is probably more vital to a movie happening than the DP.

I recognize that both movies (Barbie and Oppenheimer) have some self-depreciating self-criticism of their own meta-apparatus. Oppenheimer’s story - if we keep the narrow focus to just JRO - is a story about a scientist who gains political power through the usefulness of his theories only to lose that political power due to political influences and return being “merely” a scientist with his own tropical getaway, publishing deals, tenure at a university, worldwide fame and recognition and a host of baubles and awards from across the globe, including the USA just 9 years later.

I think it does read pro-USA, especially to this foreigner who lives and works in the USA. It does not cover the political and medical implications of the New Mexico testing grounds, it does not cover the impact on Japanese civilians from the war (indeed the only victim we see is imaginary in Oppenheimer’s mind). It’s not a particularly interesting story, and its characters barely suffer (in comparison to the suffering they caused).

I’d argue that it’s propaganda to make it seem like bombing civilian targets in Japan was necessary, worthwhile and agonized over by heroic people. Which you may believe is true, but doesn’t stop the movie from being pro-USA. I’d even argue it’s depiction of McCarthy-ism is self-serving as it seems to suggest, subjectively to me at least, that “look at how far we’ve come.”

back in my day the police murdered us for not working, or not working enough, or working too much, or wanting to work, for relaxing, not relaxing, relaxing too much, not relaxing enough, sleeping, not sleeping, sleeping too much, not sleeping enough and walking around existing and we liked it that way

I did the Barbenheimer double bill. The one that felt like a.commercial was the “YU ESS EH” nature of promoting American War interests.

realllll fucking funny to use the words “ontological” and “real” next to each other

the car replaced the horse, the plane replaced the ship, we still drive, we still travel.

My prediction is that AI will replace the PC like it replaced the typewriter, like it replaced the quill.

People will still write and act, but it will be a faster process.

Banshees of Inisherin? The Whale? Everything Everywhere All At Once? Succession? The Bear?

There’s loads of great acting out there. Maybe the issue is you’re buying tickets to Chris Pratt instead of other things?

as a Brit in the us I’ve come to understand its all nostalgia.

I would absolutely demolish a Wimpy for nostalgia’s sake back home, despite it being mid fast food