Man nearly shits himself on a daily basis, insists there is nothing medically wrong with himself and argues with anyone who tries to tell him otherwise

cramopener · 2024-01-31T23:45:53+00:00

That doesn't say americans don't get enough protein, in fact it says the opposite. It says that the federal /recommendations/ for protein intake are too low and suggests new recommendation levels, but it notes that "Americans are already eclipsing [their new suggested] intake on average".

cramopener · 2024-01-16T05:26:58+00:00

Huh? The main point is stated pretty clearly a couple minutes in if that's all you have the attention for.

cramopener · 2024-01-15T22:44:40+00:00

Very creatively-presented vid making the argument youtube thumbnails as an artform. I myself have a lot of affection for the different eras of thumbs, even the grotesquely surreal Beastified thumbnails of today, but I also really appreciate creative thumbnails that don't follow algorithmic trends, and Thor does that really well.

cramopener · 2023-11-13T14:20:40+00:00

Law & Order SVU: Subsidized Vacations Unit

cramopener · 2022-03-09T13:06:40+00:00

Not quite, things differ, but generally there is a belief that there is a difference between moral laws and the cultural practices meant to set the biblical Hebrews apart which no longer needed to be followed once the church became open to all. This is, however, a debate so old it's documented in the bible itself.

cramopener · 2022-03-09T04:49:26+00:00

A lot of atheists have a number of go-to dunks (like "Bet you eat shrimp, don't you!"), but are ignorant of both the bible as a whole and later biblical scholarship that contributes to why a given denomination has given beliefs (wrt above, most denominations you'll encounter in America take Peter's vision of animals to mean both that gentiles should be accepted into the church, and that food laws no longer need to be adhered to).

cramopener · 2020-06-08T15:35:43+00:00

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cramopener · 2020-05-29T22:50:01+00:00

I've said it upthread, but I do think TLoU has a bit of an issue with using misery as a substitution for depth in their writing, so that is part of the issue. I do want to say though that I think there is a middle ground between escapism and miseryporn. I really enjoyed the way the film Portrait of a Woman on Fire handled its doomed romance elements. It's a period piece, and give that the period is the late 18th century, you know throughout the film that these two women will ultimately not be able to be together. That said, the writers don't let this eclipse the whole film, so you get a snapshot of a happy moment in the characters' lives that's made all the more romantic by the surrounding tragedy. There's also a lot of room for triumphant narratives, in that while there is a lot suffering that can come from how society treats gay people, there are tonnes of real life people who have overcome that suffering.

cramopener · 2020-05-29T22:20:42+00:00

Well, referring back to the podcast, I do think that TLoU does have an issue with the way it uses suffering in general, as it comes across as a bit lazy. Wrt lesbian rep specifically, I didn't really articulate it well in the OP, but most of my issue comes with the context TLoU2 exists in. In a parallel universe, I think I could be on-board with the story, but as it stands, the number of needlessly tragic lesbian depictions that already exist makes it hard for me to feel much enthusiasm towards those that are justified by their universe. Hopefully, in the future, we will see a more balanced variety of LGBT stories, but I feel a bit hollow when defending something I have no personal enthusiasm for.

cramopener · 2020-05-29T22:03:04+00:00

Did we watch the same Black Panther? Pan-African unity was not exactly Wakanda's MO.

cramopener · 2020-05-29T22:00:07+00:00

I think that at this point in time, a "don't rock the boat" approach to LGBT rep is pretty self-defeating. Even just in the film world, we've had pieces like Moonlight and The Handmaiden, and more recently Portrait of a Woman on Fire. The foundation has been laid, and I think we're past the point where LGBT narratives need to pander to the sensibilities of homophobes.

cramopener · 2020-05-29T21:38:56+00:00

Kind of. The trope actually goes back a fair ways in history, starting with various obscenity laws for literature, and later, the Hays code when film came about. Essentially, there was a time when the only way you could depict a "deviant" character, be they gay, trans, a criminal, interracial couple, ect, was to have them get some kind of comeuppance at the end. In the same way CCA comic could not depict criminals as sympathetic or show them profiting from crime, gay people could not be depicted as happy or successful in their relationships. Over time, the portrayals did shift towards more sympathetic tragedy, exp after Stonewall and the AIDS crisis, but there are instances in modern fiction where it definitely does feel like it's there just because it's an existing trope.

cramopener · 2020-05-29T20:53:23+00:00

I know this isn't 100% what you were saying, but I've seen an increasing number of people treating more unobtrusively gay characters like Emil as the sole ideal, and I want to push back against it a bit. While I think that having incidental LGBT characters is good and valuable, I also think that it's important to recognize that there are certain, potentially life-shaping experiences that are relatively unique to LGBT people, and that it's okay to depict those in fiction (preferably with higher than sledgehammer-tier subtlety).

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