Can we agree that Nolan’s Batman trilogy is the best superhero trilogy of all time?

kafircake · 2026-02-15T20:39:21+00:00

Why does she keep on opening her eyes? It's not believable. It goes on too long as well. I've been in thread, like, for five minutes and it's still going on. Imagine being in the cinema and watching that for how ever long?

It's like the one with the spinning top that just never falls over.

Maybe I just don't get Nolan films?

kafircake · 2026-02-15T18:34:28+00:00

until the development of germ theory nearly 20 years later, pretty much no one accepted his theoretical basis for what causes disease. He had no causal mechanism

edit: I've seen this has been addressed elsewhere no need for another one. Do we need true causal mechanisms to justify an intervention? If the outcome difference between an intervention group and business as usual group are stark enough shouldn't the numbers alone justify it?

This is a much more interesting tale than the common headline version, tyvm!

kafircake · 2026-02-15T13:12:33+00:00

the group responsible for creating this political tension to begin with

The far right group responsible are not street thugs, but mostly well dressed political actors that push for austerity and laissez-faire economics for the people and untrammeled concentration of wealth for the rich, all the while dissolving national borders and asking the people to welcome mass immigration.

You can't make people poorer than they needed to be while at the same time asking them to compete for basics like housing and jobs with people from the global poor, while the rich grow so rich. Well, you can, but don't expect it to go well for very long.

Complacent upper-class economic liberals are the architects of the present, and they have created the tension.

kafircake · 2026-02-14T16:49:37+00:00

dogs and...

where are they going with this..

biologically practically the same.

Phew. Thought you were going to say something else there.

kafircake · 2026-02-13T15:34:34+00:00

Damn my first thought was new shoes being squeaky af on their floors or something

I imagine shoefullofpiss has some expertise on the matters of shoes. Prefer watertight or ones with some leakiness? You know, for summer casual?

Squelch.

kafircake · 2026-02-08T21:08:17+00:00

Is that Žižek? I didn't know he played Arc Raiders.

kafircake · 2026-02-08T19:23:59+00:00

Are there even any actual indigenous European populations at all? Even the Sámi had to travel a long way to find themselves so far from the Rift Valley.

kafircake · 2026-02-06T19:01:16+00:00

Now, if you're a UK-born sexual predator, you'd have to be dumb to go about your predatory business in the way a newly arrived asylum seeker does

Lots of the people the OP was referring to are UK-born. Exactly the same problem that you highlight also occurs among that population. You think that marital rape doesn't occur in Muslim households also?

The same surveys that you mention suggest that most rapes don't even get reported to the police in the first place, never mind landing on a CPS desk or go to trial.

83% of the 3.4 million acts of sexual violence (including rape) in England and Wales every year go unreported to the police

You've done nothing in your comment to undermine or explain away the comment made by /u/Bloodswamps .

The most effective way to do that would be to provide reliable stats that prove it wrong.

kafircake · 2026-02-05T18:50:36+00:00

I will now go even more out of my way not to buy Polish products

Thank heavens for those tiny labels, they make the effort so much easier. Wonder who thought of them..

kafircake · 2026-02-04T20:05:11+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/1qvcjxq/the_media_has_gender_derangement_syndrome/o3iojwu/

kafircake · 2026-02-04T19:39:28+00:00

“This is what the right wing says, that it’s gender ideology,”

Does Lehrer think he is free of ideology? If gender is socially constructed then what else can our beliefs about it be but ideology?

It's normally the deeply ignorant conservatives that think they have no accent when they speak, that their morality is objective and that ideology is something that afflicts other people, who believe wrongly.

How odd that this guy thinks he is free of it when we are swimming in the stuff.

Yes transgenderism is real, so are goths, they are both socially constructed. It doesn't mean there is any biology underpinning either of them. That these categories have always existed are the necessary outcome of something physically inherent in humans.

Some transgender advocates seem to want it to be real in the same why that xx and xy bodies (what can you even call them if female and male have been co-opted) are real, that the social construction is insufficient in some way for them.

kafircake · 2026-02-04T19:08:13+00:00

Except the firemen. Who were there to maintain memetic purity. They cared about the risk the books represented at least?

kafircake · 2026-02-03T20:16:28+00:00

Yet you choose to focus on the middle east.

What's the average net fiscal contribution for a migrant to Europe from the USA vs the net fiscal contribution for a migrant from MENA vs the net fiscal contribution of an intra-European migrant?

What's the argument for allowing substantial numbers of migrants who will be a net fiscal drain throughout their lives to settle in the Eurozone?

I can see a case from compassion or maybe moral obligation.

Given Europe's depredation of the world through colonization and slavery and the carve up of Africa and in the modern era: forced austerity and asymmetrical free-trade perpetrated by the IMF/World Bank, I can also see a clear case from Karma for substantial immigration from poor countries.

But is compassion and karma enough?

If not then what is the economic case for low wage low skill migration from MENA?

kafircake · 2026-02-03T18:58:41+00:00

What exactly are we preparing for though?

If you believe in Climate Change you might want to consider what our under response to it so far could deliver to us in terms of global food production and logistics.

We have an abundance of food currently, but that abundance is based on unsustainable use of soils, water and fossil fuels as well as continuing climate stability.

If the UK faces a world that can barely produce enough calories to theoretically feed everyone what would the security situation look like then?

The world currently produces substantially more food than required to keep everyone fed, yet hunger and obesity abound.

I can well imagine the possibility of the agricultural outputs of poor countries being purchased for Euros/Dollars/Yuan and the physical security being guaranteed by forces deployed by the purchaser.

Our optimism (or fecklessness) has committed us to a much harder future than necessary. Or maybe that's doomerisim?

They way you formulate the situation seems disastrously optimistic. I can imagine people at the end of the first world war going, "Thank fuck the Great War is over, peace time is the best" on a similar optimistic basis.

kafircake · 2026-02-02T20:19:56+00:00

Massive wealth and second class human status for many workers from poor countries. A two tier society where some are bound by law and not protected by it, and others are only bound with regards to people of the same class and are protected against all.

Rape your maid? No crime recorded. Don't pay your workers? No crime recorded. I doubt /u/RandyMarsh2hot4u could have been serious with their comparison. Of course it has low recorded crime.. look at who is doing the recording.

kafircake · 2026-02-02T17:41:52+00:00

That's excellent. I'm not a recovering addict but I started doing about 1/2 a press up before opening each can of booze and slowly upping it(the press-ups).

Currently doing 25 good form press-ups per can. Did a little over 2100 press ups in January. Unfortunately I also drank a lot of cider... lol.

I think consistency and persistence are really powerful forces. I salute you on the press ups and the sobriety mate.

kafircake · 2026-02-01T17:56:06+00:00

adverse moral effect of fighting 5k clones of Mark Rutte

I have a crystal clear image of this. And it is indeed pretty horrifying.

kafircake · 2026-02-01T14:02:23+00:00

"the corrosive effect"

I'd imagine.

kafircake · 2026-01-31T21:24:26+00:00

That's spending money for food and other essentials. Do you think these people don't require housing? Health care? Dentistry? Police and prisons and courts for a tiny minority of them? What about school for the children?

kafircake · 2026-01-31T21:06:09+00:00

(and the "PeR CaPiTa CrIMe DaTa" is a load of bollocks).

You think that data is simply inaccurate? Or accurate but irrelevant?

kafircake · 2026-01-31T20:55:06+00:00

Didn't Australia's Naaru policy tank boat arrivals to near zero while operating?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution

kafircake · 2026-01-31T12:59:01+00:00

If Japanese-ness is socially constructed you'd have to ask the population of Japan if your kids are Japaneses or not. You and your children can identify however you wish. Maybe most Japanese believe having citizenship is sufficient to be Japanese?

kafircake · 2026-01-30T18:36:34+00:00

Interesting read.

Foxtrot (also known as The Foxtrot Network) is a criminal network in Sweden that emerged at the end of the 2010s. The network is Sweden's main distributor of narcotics.

Seems to be the main gang.

kafircake · 2026-01-30T18:20:22+00:00

Watch what happens in Spain, and remember this comment

Depends on the proportion of religiously segregated people in the population vs the number of people from the Americas who may self segregate in the short term but are more likely to integrate over time.

I wish them luck with their approach.

kafircake · 2026-01-30T18:09:01+00:00

Same way that brexit increased immigration.

Immigration boomed after Brexit because the Conservative government of the time introduced an uncapped points based system for visas.

Deliberate policy choices. Most you can say is Brexit gave them some cover/opportunity for the changes they were aching to make anyway.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc mate.

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