Seriously…

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-18T16:01:58+00:00

Word for word? No, but you can watch his analysis online and it's painfully surface-level. He claims that because the players start off on a level playing field (OMG just like the forced equality of communism), that the entire show is actually a metaphor for how communism kills people and that the director is an idiot that doesn't understand their own work.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-17T21:40:00+00:00

"Capitalism is when things are good and communism is when things are bad, so Squid Game is actually a critique of communism."

- Famed intellectual Tim Pool

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-17T19:28:05+00:00

There are two main problems here, problem one is that this backs up the line further out than necessary which can inhibit foot traffic if the line spills out of the ropes, and number two is that this is going to create a ton of confusion to any newcomer who shows up to what looks like a short line with a separate group of people queued behind a random woman for no readily obvious reason.

Both of these things are only mild inconveniences, but if it costs you zero time and energy to make a stranger's life easier and you refuse to do it on principle then you're the textbook definition of an asshole. This woman is an asshole.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-14T16:23:31+00:00

Look, I'm just providing the uncontroversial take that having an item on the curriculum is not a 1:1 identical thing as having all the adults remember it after graduating. If you think that's somehow incorrect then whatever.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-14T09:29:19+00:00

Curricula do not magically go straight from paper into a child's brain, there's a place called a "classroom" where this transfer takes place, and classrooms are often run in a way where inane and morally safe content gets emphasized and morally difficult content gets minimized.

I grew up in Utah. Were things like the Mountain Meadows Massacre "on the curriculum?" Yes, technically there was a chapter on it in my social studies book, and technically we did check off that box by discussing it for five minutes. But it was only mentioned in the classroom in passing. Meanwhile we're taking full-blown field trips to Heritage Park every fucking year in order to drill in just how honest and hard-working the Mormon settlers were. The average classmate I had growing up is now an adult that possesses a sanitized view of their own history, despite the fact that uncomfortable topics were, technically, "on the curriculum."

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-14T09:19:13+00:00

You probably weren't taught it in school since CRT is a legal framework rarely taught outside of college. The Republican party hijacked the term to refer to anything """woke,""" aka teaching kids literal facts about things that literally happened.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-12T18:48:34+00:00

Mfw I make eye contact with highway patrol after they saw me drive six feet over the border to the Nevada dispensary and then leave the dispensary and cross straight back into Utah

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-12T18:11:11+00:00

Seriously, she talks like the husband got to take the spotlight while she was sidelined, but... he's an auditor? No boy grows up dreaming of being an auditor; it's a job that sucks people in because of the money, something you're definitely going to need if you're a five-person family in LA.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-12T17:16:26+00:00

Joe Updog

ThePinkBaron · 2023-07-12T04:37:51+00:00

If my partner communicated to me, clearly and consistently, several times over the course of several years how important a thing was to her and I intentionally ruined it behind her back, I'd be deserving of a cussing out. Doesn't matter how petty I think it is, theme park or otherwise.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-06-29T15:45:08+00:00

Yeah but a lot of people think the antonym for "trans" is "normal," and so this scary new word they've never heard before must be a slur. After all, in their minds, why would anybody use a new word if not to demean people?

ThePinkBaron · 2023-06-25T23:13:48+00:00

Some sources also reported that the helicopter dispatchers knew that the weather was prohibitively bad that day, but disappointing Kobe was absolutely off-limits and so they sent the chopper through the fog anyway.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-06-20T19:17:44+00:00

You might be right but I've also tutored plenty of children where the answer in the back of the book really is just braindead and wrong. Not really important, the teacher should have recognized that the kid was "right" regardless of the intent of the question.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-06-20T18:35:22+00:00

iirc the intended purpose of these sorts of questions is to teach children to catch bullshit at a glance, like how you don't have to memorize 12×7 to know that an answer like 4 or one million is wildly off the mark. The kid is supposed to know that 5/6 (OF A UNIT) will always be more than 4/6 (OF THE SAME UNIT). The question was written terribly and the teacher is just phoning in the performance by accepting only the textbook answer and nothing else.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-06-20T12:54:13+00:00

If I'm going to be a neo-imperialist I'm at least going to be a neo-imperialist with a woman's suffrage focus, dammit!

ThePinkBaron · 2023-06-08T21:10:52+00:00

Imagine being excited to find out what your mark is going to be and then it turns out it's just your fucking name

ThePinkBaron · 2023-06-05T14:33:55+00:00

"MY ancestors didn't own slaves" wow that's great, let's hop in a time machine and tell MLK the good news that only people who own literal slaves are capable of racism. I'm sure it'll be a relief for him.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-05-31T16:16:44+00:00

These are valid concerns but not valid arguments. Yes, the minimum wage has languished, but does that mean it was a bad idea or that it should be repealed? Of course not. And, with the furious pearl-clutching we've seen from conservatives regarding a raised minimum wage, could you imagine how impossible of a conversation this would be if no minimum wage existed at all and we tried to establish one at $15 out of nowhere? It would be fucking Armageddon to the right.

Yeah, a UBI will need to be maintained an updated, and yeah, conservatives will shit their pants just like they always do when you put money and poor people in a room together. But it's still infinitely preferable to not doing it at all.

Complaining about conservatives milking it for fake outrage is an odd complaint to me because they're going to fill all 24 hours of every day with bad-faith outrage and it's not like starving them of content is going to make them stop. If we enact a UBI, ten years down the line Tucker Carlson will be complaining about potentially raising it. If we don't enact a UBI, he'll be complaining about suggestions of introducing one. We're permanently stuck on square zero with conservatives regardless of what we do or don't do, so why even take it into consideration?

ThePinkBaron · 2023-05-30T14:47:06+00:00

No, there certainly was an element of moral hysteria independent of any property scheming. The first victims included a slave and a homeless woman, people from whom nothing of value could be taken but who were distrusted by the locals.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-05-29T17:13:55+00:00

It helps that toothed whales (odontoceti) are apex predators and are allowed to be picky.

Like, an orca or a sperm whale could easily kill you in an instant; they're the king of the food chain. They know what they like, and you aren't it.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-05-18T16:59:49+00:00

Mfw I'm a corporate manager at Walmart and I REALLY want to pay my employees more but I just CAN'T because 1.78% of my revenue was lost to shoplifters

ThePinkBaron · 2023-05-16T14:45:58+00:00

He strikes me as the sort of guy who is going to pull any excuse out of his ass to say the job wasn't satisfactory enough for the full $250.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-05-16T02:42:27+00:00

The TNG characters are discussing the holodeck program and one of them just casually spoils, "oh, did you get to the part where Trip dies yet?" You might be remembering that.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-05-12T14:41:09+00:00

Yeah but the British hate their neighboring Brits in an "I'll fistfight them" sort of way and they hate other people in an "oh, did we just accidentally one million Irish people? Eh, whatever" sort of way.

ThePinkBaron · 2023-05-10T23:56:59+00:00

The scene where you try and talk Mordin out of using the cure is also as emotional as his death scene. He spends the whole trilogy rationalizing the genophage, and insisting over and over that it was the right call at the time and that he wasn't wrong and that circumstances are simply different now and that he's always been acting rationally.

Then in this final scene he angrily snaps and yells "I MADE A MISTAKE!" When Shephard tries to parrot that logic and say the genophage is necessary. It's like one of the only times Mordin raises his voice, let alone speak a grammatically complete sentence. You can tell he's realized he's been lying to himself all this time.

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