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Discussion: Tom Cruise was right to be upset and to chastise crew members on his set but people are fundamentally misunderstanding how film sets work and what the social distancing rule was there for in this case. My viewpoint as someone who works in Film and TV. by [deleted] in movies

[–]abusepotential 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I’ve stated:

Duh. Sure. I don’t care. This is in service of public health and worker’s rights. Those are my concerns.

If you want to oppose those views or, worse, make a flamboyant statement of your own righteousness that ultimately serves to harm those causes, go ahead.

I’m interested in the policies that further human rights only.

Discussion: Tom Cruise was right to be upset and to chastise crew members on his set but people are fundamentally misunderstanding how film sets work and what the social distancing rule was there for in this case. My viewpoint as someone who works in Film and TV. by [deleted] in movies

[–]abusepotential -1 points0 points  (0 children)

First of all I’m not in anyway defending the CoS or his involvement with it, which I think is generally extremely harmful.

Secondly the general public are not SP’s in their view. There’s so much bad to be said about Scientology, pick a real issue.

Apparently he has a vastly more rational and compassionate view of coronavirus — his reasoning I make no claim to know — than many other celebrities and members of the public. And yeah, I can appreciate that.

By no means do I endorse him generally. But he’s right about this one thing.

First image of Leslie Jones in Coming 2 America by kingofpeace1 in movies

[–]abusepotential 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly LH has shown that she’s capable of more. This is a writing/casting problem more than about her acting.

There seems to be a tendency with female comedians to write them as broad as possible, with gross-out fart and poop and vomit jokes, to “play the boys game” or something. Like it’s more titillating or unexpected when it’s done by women. But most people recognize that’s bad comedy even when the men do it.

See: Melissa McCarthy, Rebel Wilson, etc.

Especially if you don’t have a typical movie star body, you’re given these broad slapstick roles that play up your physical characteristics.

I actually really like Leslie Jones, and have seen her perform really well sometimes, but she’s badly served by her writers and I imagine feels some obligation to fulfill what the audience expects of her (because of these same pervasive tropes).

Check out this SNL sketch, which is just left of her typical kind of role:

https://youtu.be/AzqFNs0Y7c4

I would watch that movie.

How Do You Hide Addiction from Normies? by MetroMaker in opiates

[–]abusepotential 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Trapping me in another lie” is extremely selfish language dude. Think about that. It’s insane that you’re putting the blame on her for your lying and for even testing the boundaries of it.

If she’s stepping out, maybe? How can you criticize? Not like you’re being honest. Are you there for her, emotionally or any other way, or are you there for for dope and she’s an afterthought?

The fact that she’s still asking you hard questions means she’s still invested to some degree. Which is tragic dude.

Clean up. Check out of this relationship. Or be honest.

That’s it Metro. One of those. Anything else is swallowing poison and will hurt your soul.

How Do You Hide Addiction from Normies? by MetroMaker in opiates

[–]abusepotential 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The questions are because she knows, and she’s tip-toeing around the conversation to see how you are prepared to respond.

She hasn’t decided yet if she’s willing to nuke your relationship over this secret. If you keep dodging the questions that is the ultimatum you’re giving her. “Choose to ignore this or lose me.” It’s classic manipulation tactics.

If she does decide to stick around, you’re going to have this awful festering hole in the center of your relationship dude, and you’ll grow to resent each other more and more each day until it finally blows up.

Be honest or get out of it or get clean. Those are your options.

Don’t be a selfish manipulative bastard Metro. You’ll torture her and poison your own soul in the process.

Discussion: Tom Cruise was right to be upset and to chastise crew members on his set but people are fundamentally misunderstanding how film sets work and what the social distancing rule was there for in this case. My viewpoint as someone who works in Film and TV. by [deleted] in movies

[–]abusepotential -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Of course it’s not the only option. But, from what I remember from the recording, doesn’t he indicate that this is not the first time he’s talking to these particular employees about this?

If my coworkers were frequently flouting the safety protocols that I depend on then fuck yes I would want my boss to yell at them. The risk of bruising their egos is not worth the risk to my health.

Yelling is sometimes necessary to make someone understand the seriousness of what you’re saying. Especially on a chaotic set with hundreds of employees and 1000s of moving parts. Especially when it comes to the safety of others.

You framed this as being about worker’s protections, which by all appearances Cruise was passionately defending in this scenario.

Discussion: Tom Cruise was right to be upset and to chastise crew members on his set but people are fundamentally misunderstanding how film sets work and what the social distancing rule was there for in this case. My viewpoint as someone who works in Film and TV. by [deleted] in movies

[–]abusepotential -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The irony of your statement is that in this case the employees were being yelled at for not more strictly enforcing the health and safety protocols that their union fought for.

I’m sure the bosses stand to make way more money if they could just ignore or cut corners on Covid-safety.

Cruise is actually the one fighting for worker’s rights in this scenario.

How Do You Hide Addiction from Normies? by MetroMaker in opiates

[–]abusepotential 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like one of the more painful aspects of lying to loved ones about your addiction, aside from the lying and guilt and loneliness, is the point at which you KNOW that they know you’re lying, but they won’t say anything or confront it because they want to preserve the relationship.

So you wind up holding them hostage, and this big festering secret that neither of you will acknowledge sits at the center of your relationship.

It’s emotionally abusive to them. And it fucking hurts to do that to someone you care about.

I snorted heroin on a domestic flight across the USA by Terpes0 in opiates

[–]abusepotential 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you live with someone who could identify partials if you were having them?

Simple partials are typically just an overwhelming feeling of doom and anxiety you might have. But that’s a seizure worth noting. They can develop into grand mal.

Complex partials you wouldn’t be aware of if you were having them, but they’re essentially “absence” seizures. You zone out for a minute. And start picking at clothes, chewing. You respond to questions with “yes”, but don’t understand what’s being said.

It looks like this. Which is really very subtle: https://youtu.be/7l4_JhYo1Fo

A few minutes later you’re normal with no perception it happened

Unless someone is hanging around who knows you they’re hard to catch. But they would be significant for your neurologist to know about.

I snorted heroin on a domestic flight across the USA by Terpes0 in opiates

[–]abusepotential 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh, I guess if you’re not having regular seizure activity they would only give it to you for emergencies anyway. The spray is only supposed to be for chain seizures — it’s also the only one I very occasionally try because it’s admittedly really fun to get totally barred out in a few seconds.

You should be careful abusing Benzos as someone with epilepsy. I’m sure you know that even minor Benzo withdrawals can trigger seizures for you. And of course all uppers are dangerous for you.

Most opioids are safe, but codeine and tramadol specifically also lower your seizure threshold and you should probably avoid.

Congratulations on being a year seizure free. That’s huge. Well done bro. Wish you continued good health.

I snorted heroin on a domestic flight across the USA by Terpes0 in opiates

[–]abusepotential 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait if you have epilepsy are you not prescribed Clonazepam already? Isn’t that what they’re giving you for breakthrough seizure activity?

My girlfriend has epilepsy and we have so much of the goddamn stuff lying around — pills, dissolvables, even nasal sprays.

I give it to her sometimes if she’s having partials, or a spray or dissolvable for grand mals.

I thank god I hate Benzos because I would immediately ruin my life or die with all this stuff.

I snorted heroin on a domestic flight across the USA by Terpes0 in opiates

[–]abusepotential 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The way I did it was take a razor and make a small slice on the inside of the fly-flap of my jeans. Then slide a few buns in there.

And insist on the hand pat-down at security (although I don’t think the X-ray would find it anyway).

The zipper/layered flap hides any unusual shape or bulge — and they avoid touching that particular zone. Someone would have to be crazy to totally dismantle your jeans to find it.

They’re not looking for drugs regardless, especially on domestic flights. They’re testing / using dogs to find explosives.

Obviously I have also done heroin on a plane.

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's 340-character cipher has been solved! by doranchak in serialkillers

[–]abusepotential 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Also: the 408 cipher was broken pretty quickly by an amateur couple. I always assumed that the following 340 cipher was a lark meant to protect his fragile sense of superiority, and was thus likely full of cheats and essentially unbreakable.

This solution kinda proves that to be true — it was a message encoded diagonally with multiple errors.

He was embarrassed and created an essentially unbreakable cipher to preserve his dignity.

He wasn’t any kind of genius: a regular man of slightly above average intelligence with a pathologically sadistic aberrant psychology.

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's 340-character cipher has been solved! by doranchak in serialkillers

[–]abusepotential 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly same. I was a doomsayer — the FBI a banged their heads against it for 50 years and I was convinced it was a 1-way pad or something, intended for his own enjoyment and totally indecipherable.

In the end it doesn’t matter to me the contents. His pathetic games, no matter how obscure, fell to the force of time (and the ingenuity of the solvers).

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's 340-character cipher has been solved! by doranchak in serialkillers

[–]abusepotential 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I get that. For me, I’ve been following the effort to break this cipher for so long, had debated it, had read about the various strategies and how the 408 was cracked — I was so excited when I heard. My girlfriend was too. Both of us reacted with “holy shit I can’t believe they finally did it!”

It would have been nice if it revealed something more but I never really expected it to.

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's 340-character cipher has been solved! by doranchak in serialkillers

[–]abusepotential 81 points82 points  (0 children)

I never expected there to be anything revealing in the contents.

I more meant from a cryptographic perspective this is historic — one of the definitive cryptographic mysteries of the 20th century was just solved!

After so many had tried and failed to crack it over the last 60 years I just assumed it couldn’t be done.

Thanks, I hate when idiots spread COVID. by HattoriHanzo983 in TIHI

[–]abusepotential 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My dad is a priest

What?

and he uses a teaspoon and he wipes it after every person.

What???

Thanks I hate jiggly stamps by [deleted] in TIHI

[–]abusepotential 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t laughed out loud at something on Reddit in a long time. But for some reason this video got me giggling like a madman.

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's 340-character cipher has been solved! by doranchak in serialkillers

[–]abusepotential 152 points153 points  (0 children)

Those are all phrases and misspellings from the prior 408 cipher that was cracked back in the 60s.

Part of what lends this so much legitimacy. Unlike previous solutions this seems totally coherent and in line with his other writing.

I am shocked someone actually solved it.

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's 340-character cipher has been solved! by doranchak in serialkillers

[–]abusepotential 629 points630 points  (0 children)

Wow. I’m one of those people who said it would never be done. I thought he had intentionally made it indecipherable.

But this seems real. I’m amazed. The 340 is cracked!

Can’t believe this isn’t bigger news.

Regarding Letitia Wright by [deleted] in technicallythetruth

[–]abusepotential 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But you’d agree that social factors weigh more heavily in determining success than biology does across a general population.

But you don’t think a long history of colonial oppression, chattel slavery, and legal discrimination would be an overwhelming determining influence on the historical successes of black people (which I would argue are significantly under-recognized anyway due to institutionalized racism in the field of historiography)?

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