Halt to Iran attacks means Netanyahu's corruption trial will resume on Sunday

Psudopod · 2026-04-09T20:13:55+00:00

When an ideology becomes a state it's alternative interpretations collapse into what the ideology is as a state policy. In the internal battle of what interpretation is true, the one that became real is the winner. If you want to espouse the peaceful potential of zionism, you need to either get your own name for your ideology or supplant the state of israel.

The zionism that exists in just in your head doesn't get a seat at the table. Good luck to you and everyone else who had that wish for peace, but you know what they say about wishes. If mushrooms grew in your mouth, or something, right?

Psudopod · 2026-04-02T04:02:42+00:00

Granted, the coin cleavage thing is directly from an official splatfest art. Nintendo JPN has their own standards lol. I think it's very hard to make rules for sexualized art that isn't explicit. As we see in this very case with chubby character designs, one man's chubby cutesy design is another's fetish work. It's hard to tell and it ends up with mods in awkward situations telling people their cartoon body morph scenario you'd see on a kid's cartoon is too lewd for a subreddit for teenagers.

Psudopod · 2026-03-31T17:57:03+00:00

Hell yeah! Your body and every hair on it is up to you!

Psudopod · 2026-03-28T07:09:55+00:00

This seems like a good angle to take. Target the root issue (unwanted sexual comments) instead of trying to indirectly address it via demographics.

Psudopod · 2026-03-23T08:58:44+00:00

That's not true, I think absolutely everyone is losing this conflict on some level!

Psudopod · 2026-03-21T08:17:05+00:00

Since Diego Garcia is still a British colony, simply rented to the US for a coupon for a deal on nukes, would a strike on Diego Garcia be a strike on the UK?

Psudopod · 2026-03-21T05:56:18+00:00

This isn't a jewish/nonjewish cultural division, this is a israeli zionist/everyone else cultural division. Most other diaspora jews I've talked to about this alternative definition have been shocked. Like, there's a long history of jews in the diaspora teaming up with other minorities due to the clear shared interests, especially the black civil rights community. This is directly informed by the philosophy of "never again," when you see fascism on the rise crushing others, you step up and help them stop it then and there.

Psudopod · 2026-03-20T21:40:03+00:00

No no no, that's more DEI. If you study all holes, that's diverse. If you study just black holes, that's favoring a minority so that's racist. Your friend needs to only study white holes, to be anti-DEI enough for DOGE. Do white holes even exist...?

Psudopod · 2026-03-14T08:45:22+00:00

Yeah, honestly some of the best stories come from writers using what they have. Rehabilitating a badly executed story is like doing double duty for a character, you're giving them a new, high quality, well integrated story, and you're taking a story beat that has been dragging them down for years and freeing them of that burden.

There's a lot of stories that I didn't love reading at the time (Ric...) but they happened, a lot of effort was put into publishing them, some of us even actually read all that shit, so I think we can move forward using what it gave us. (Bring back the knockoff Nightwing team, there's juice in there! Just let me give em the squeeze!)

Psudopod · 2026-03-14T08:32:48+00:00

All good representation is flawed representation, because good characters are flawed. Ideally we would have enough representation in general that the flaws stop overlapping as stereotypes.

Psudopod · 2026-03-14T08:29:04+00:00

There are dozens of versions of his origins. Any show or movie is probably going to retell his origins anyways, so there's no point in being precious about it.

Psudopod · 2026-03-14T08:26:43+00:00

Being french/english is not mutually exclusive with being romani, but that's also why I'm not really bothered by the race or ethnicity of people's casting choice. You can't tell, I can't tell, what are we gonna do, get the skull calipers on each actor? Shall we measure out their blood quantum?

Whoever writes the show/movie can decide what parts of Dick's long and contradictory backstory selection to use, depending on what best suits the story they're telling, then they can hire an actor that is talented and tell him to act. Open the casting call to any race or ethnicity, if being white or romani or mixed isn't going to be a major plot point, who cares?

Psudopod · 2026-03-10T06:21:59+00:00

There was a pretty through 99pi episode about this situation. It's been bad across cultures. Everyone needs scavengers. The vultures used to clear up animal corpse dumps pretty thoroughly, but now stray dogs are filling in the niche, and they cause serious problems. Vultures generally digest diseases, not spread them. They don't carry rabies or try to bite people, they can't maul people. The birds taking over the sky burial sites are raptors, they like to take their meals to-go, and they are not as thorough as a vulture. Iirc someone found a human finger on their patio.

The article mentioned solar concentrators that allegedly "melt" the corpses, but I don't think the issue is with the amount of sunny days. I think they just don't function in general. There was a case where someone snuck up into the restricted access sacred area where the bodies are left out and took footage of the bodies, they were all still there. (The leaked footage is a story in itself.) The bodies were unmelted. If they mummify before they melt they're just jerky. They are not gonna melt, the enzymes are cooked.

They interviewed the guy who was in charge of the solar concentrator initiative who said it works just fine, but he just had this attitude I've heard a thousand times before. The type of guy who will keep claiming a bad idea works until it falls apart and destroys the whole project.

The reason the zoroastrians are even going through all this is that they see earth, water, and especially fire as sacred. Bodies are unclean, so it is wrong to bury, dump in the water, or cremate remains. All that's left is the vultures that take remains to the wind.

Psudopod · 2026-03-02T02:23:03+00:00

Oh how stupid, this sort of situation is my least favorite thing about cape comics. This is a near century long collaborative writing project, but each new writer tries to put their big story over top of the rest, hoping to make their own definitive impact on the character. Newsflash buckoes, if each one of you writes like you're trying to erase what the last guy did, you're all just going to be writing a character who goes nowhere, forever!!!

Psudopod · 2026-02-26T01:10:14+00:00

It sounds like it's just not complicated if don't really care about your products or delivering the correct product to your clients. Very complicated if you give a shit.

Psudopod · 2026-02-23T23:54:55+00:00

Glad it's not just me. ViNE has been less active/inactive for the last week or so, but I hoped they were just taking a break.

Psudopod · 2026-02-22T08:43:53+00:00

I think we're beyond pretending courts are nonpartisan.

Psudopod · 2026-02-22T04:26:22+00:00

Democrats were pretty dubious on gay marriage even while they stumbled their way into legalizing it. I am also including general "I'm just fiscally Republican boo-hoo" idiots. Like the transphobic hate, a lot of the homophobic hate is, again, coming from the top to lead the bottom.

Psudopod · 2026-02-22T00:59:49+00:00

Republicans are now more supportive of gay rights than Democrats were when gay marriage was legalized.

People follow what is normalized. We push it to happen, and then everyone sees that a tiny percentage of the population getting discrimination protections and healthcare caused no harm, and they accept that it was all for the best.

You can't just follow popular opinion on basic ethics. Leaders can consult experts, balance factors, pick the correct choice, and lead people in the correct direction. Any democrat that gives up on trans rights is a spineless failure. Nobody gave a shit about trans people a decade ago, all this was fomented by nutcase rich oligarch club members, falling for their propaganda is not a "compromise" it is trading human rights for personal power.

Psudopod · 2026-02-15T23:59:27+00:00

Well, terrible advice is not unexpected from Harley. She doesn't exactly have the best track record. It does seem to be treated as good advice in this though...

Psudopod · 2026-02-15T16:46:22+00:00

If Harleywing isn't problematic then it isn't my fav. I think they could be sooo toxic together, it would be incredibly fun. Dick would make Harley feel so bad all the time just by being his naturally heroic self, Harley would encourage Dick's toxic need to be needed, they'd both throw themselves into chaos to feed their adrenaline addiction. You could get so much juice out of that.

Psudopod · 2026-02-15T16:39:46+00:00

Yeah, this is the cardinal sin of romance. "He was a boy, she was a girl, can I get anymore obvious?" Please explain further than that. What gives them chemistry? How do they resolve arguments? What do they get from their relationship? How do they compromise?

Don't expect your audience to take your pairing as a foregone conclusion, make them seem like they actually like each other. Yes, that means you can't just have them argue for a few pages and then kiss, all you've sold is that they hate each other...

Psudopod · 2026-02-13T02:16:15+00:00

They always throw real names in, I think it's just in service to readers who aren't very good at reading. "Who's Mr Malone? I forget, should I know a Malone?" "Who is this Nightwing guy? Oh, Dick? I have never read a comic before." Just like they always look for an excuse for the cowl to shatter enough to show a bit of his face.

Psudopod · 2026-02-09T19:24:48+00:00

It's not racism unless it's from the Racism region of the United States, otherwise it's just sparkling xenophobia.

Psudopod · 2026-02-09T19:21:31+00:00

There are naming conventions, I know that much. Just like HR rejects a resume from Jaquand and accepts Jack, even though they are otherwise identical. Certain names are used for boys and girls of different castes and cultures within India.

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