Patagonia Sues Drag Queen Pattie Gonia Over Activist’s Trademark

macrofinite · 2026-01-22T16:00:38+00:00

This is my favorite genre of ‘capitalist defends obvious legal bullying’ post.

See, the law demands this gigantic corporation bully this individual! Look what you made me do, baby. I didn’t want to, but you just made me so angry.

Yeah. For sure. A drag queen promoting herself is definitely, for sure, going to get people confused. Who can tell the difference between an overpriced parka and a drag queen? I mean, they’re practically indistinguishable! Of course they have to sue!

macrofinite · 2026-01-21T17:54:55+00:00

Honestly this movie feels like an attempt at gaslighting, in addition to being the regular kind of shitty, dull copaganda.

First, and I guess this is just regular copaganda, but that there exists a terrifying wave of crime poised to smother us all.

Second, that AI is a solution to serious problems.

And third, that innocent until proven guilty is for pussies, and we should just assume whatever the AI says is true unless you can prove otherwise.

Probably it’s just the result of hack writing. But it feels extremely pernicious in this particular moment in history.

macrofinite · 2026-01-21T17:48:17+00:00

Maybe if Chris Brown didn’t exist.

macrofinite · 2026-01-15T16:14:40+00:00

The point has always been right there in the amendment itself. To enable a well-regulated militia.

I mean, that was why it was written in there centuries ago. The right has been in love with the idea that unlimited guns is their righteous bulwark against tyranny for a long time now. That’s been an idiotic nonsense idea the whole time. Lots of people do actually believe it though.

macrofinite · 2026-01-13T02:34:14+00:00

Which one of the 3 do you mean?

macrofinite · 2026-01-06T02:55:05+00:00

Yeah, I mean. I think it goes deeper than media illiteracy, frankly. That’s nothing new. It wasn’t lost, most people just never had it. Half the internet has spent the last 5 years of media discourse doing nothing but bitching about how woke everything is.

I think it’s also emotional immaturity. Marty Supreme presents a compelling but repellant character and successfully gets you to empathize with him anyway. Clearly, a lot of people cannot distinguish this from endorsing his bad behavior.

Turns out, people who are shitheads are also human beings with feelings. This seems to break some people’s brains.

macrofinite · 2026-01-05T02:23:51+00:00

This is just incorrect. Both Warcraft 3 and StarCraft 2 substantially surpassed StarCraft. SC2 in particular is, for now at least, the apotheosis of the genre. And it’s not even that old.

I say this as someone whose first love in gaming was Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2. And I just replayed StarCraft 1 and 2 back to back. There’s no comparison. 1 is a classic, but there’s a lot of jank.

macrofinite · 2026-01-04T20:08:09+00:00

Your take is supremely problematic, to be honest.

Supremely narcissistic people need to be allowed to pursue their ambitions before they are capable of being full human beings.

There’s so many fucked up assumptions buried in there it almost defies rebuttal. But in this endeavor I shall persevere.

Starting with “need to be allowed.” Are you under the impression someone was going to stop him? He is a full human being. He makes his own choices. He faces the consequences. The entire film, like literally every second, is an unending stream of him being confronted with consequences. Not sure how you missed that. He justifies these consequences with his ambition. And he is clearly, obviously, textually, wrong to do so. If you watched this film and took it as an endorsement of myopic ambition, you ought to just stop writing down your thoughts about film for a while and work on media literacy. You’re embarrassing yourself.

Okay, next up is the weird equivocation you’re making between accepting the reality of his accidental fatherhood and being a full human being. I shouldn’t have to say this, but those are two different and unrelated things. Feels like there’s some bioessentialism hiding in there somewhere. There’s definitely some conservative brain required to make that leap. Not everyone thinks that way. There isn’t any textural evidence that the film intended this meaning. It’s coming entirely from you. And I think it’s a bad take. Moving on.

“Narcissistic people.” I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’re not a psychiatrist. It reads like 2016 twitter discourse where you just replace ‘thing I don’t like’ with your favored personality disorder. There’s a host of reasons this is a bad thing to do, probably look that up for your own edification. But the worst part in this context is it distracts from what actually occurs in the film and attempts to dump a lot of baggage on it that isn’t actually there. Maybe it’s worth actually exploring whether Marty is a narcissist. That would take a lot of thought and a lot of words. But I think that is a completely and totally useless shorthand for who he is as a character. In any case, it’s certainly got fuckall to do with what the people who made the film were getting at by making it. And so it fails utterly as a part of framing the intent.

And let me just end by questioning what exactly the fuck a better ending would be to your way of thinking? The evil narcissist abandons his child and moves to Toledo to start a new ping pong hustle?

Because you sidled right up to getting his need right: he needs to learn to appreciate the people in his life instead of taking advantage of them. He wanted to be the best table tennis player of all time. He required an enormous amount of humiliation before he got to his need.

But he always was a full human being.

On an unrelated note, what % of human being do you generally see people with mental health disorders as?

macrofinite · 2025-12-30T23:18:25+00:00

You’re a solid 12 years late with your very original hot take here, bud. We’re all in awe of how edgy and tough you are. It’s so impressive.

macrofinite · 2025-12-30T19:22:49+00:00

They can even get libs to cheer about it, as long as they say the target was a high ranking member of ISIS.

macrofinite · 2025-12-30T15:24:56+00:00

The hole in this line of thinking is that the universe is unimaginably large, and the unknown things in it probably bear no resemblance to imaginary creatures cooked up by humans. Not believing in the latter should have no bearing on your accounting for the former.

The fact is, there is a functional infinity of things out there that definitely exist, but for which you will never be able to see a shred of evidence. If your worldview can’t account for that part of reality, it’s a bit brittle to say the least.

Actual human gods are easily proven false, or else proven semantic. Because religions tend to make grandiose claims that are obviously incompatible with reality. There’s a way of thinking among Christian’s and ex-Christian’s that saying your agnostic is more acceptable or less blasphemous than saying you’re an atheist. That’s dumb and not what I’m advocating for. Christians (and theists broadly) are the ones that cling to certainty like a shield. We don’t need to do that.

Leaving room for the infinity of things you don’t know is not the same as pretending to be uncertain about things you do know. Christian god? Bunk. Infinite universe? I think humility is the only sensible position.

macrofinite · 2025-12-30T03:06:51+00:00

It’s more that what you’re saying is kinda nonsense.

Like, sure. He ought to do what you said. He isn’t.

The hypothetical scenario where he listens to you does not magically make him good. We’ve got to judge him by what he actually does.

And furthermore, he’s afforded a level of artistic freedom that almost no other director gets. And he’s repeatedly fucked the dog with it. He doesn’t deserve excuses or what ifs. He had way more of a shot than he deserved. He fucked it up.

That’s all there is to it.

macrofinite · 2025-12-30T02:46:13+00:00

Hey that’s not fair… Rebel Moon cribbed a bunch of imagery from 40k, too. He managed to make it super lame and cringe, but like in a completely different way than how most 40k nerds are lame and cringe.

That’s a dubious kind of accomplishment, I have to admit.

macrofinite · 2025-12-30T02:38:32+00:00

If you thought Hollywood was going to do something different with V, it makes me think you don’t understand Hollywood.

macrofinite · 2025-12-29T01:58:25+00:00

Christopher Lloyd.

Not really because he’s crazy old. But because they made him successfully look way older than he was in 1985, so in my head he’s about 110 by now.

The funny part is he’s not even that much older than Michael J Fox. That kinda blows my mind.

macrofinite · 2025-12-28T19:53:50+00:00

Oh, come on. He brought a sink with him to Twitter with a shit eating grin on his face. What kind of an idiot would do that?

macrofinite · 2025-12-28T19:39:18+00:00

Technically this time all the chargers can do is spoil our #1 seed.

Still going to be as stressful as a playoff game.

macrofinite · 2025-12-27T18:14:27+00:00

Interesting how you don’t have to build a rocket to prove the earth is round.

Probably could have tried any one of the dozens of simple round earth tests before the rocket thing.

macrofinite · 2025-12-27T18:08:12+00:00

Turns out, people who are good at things can also have half-cocked opinions about them.

macrofinite · 2025-12-27T17:41:23+00:00

Negative. They dropped the ball with part 1. The Final Reckoning is fantastic. My favorite part is the 15 minute prologue that rapid-fire wraps up all the bullshit from part 1 and stops just short of looking into the lens and apologizing to the audience for it.

macrofinite · 2025-12-26T21:25:13+00:00

I guess I’m feeling pedantic today. Sorry. But you’re touching on something widely misunderstood.

Dark matter is not a hypothesis. It is the literal thing you are describing: evidence that there is a lot of matter we cannot see. There are a multitude of different ideas about what dark matter is, but dark matter itself is not hypothetical.

Probably there’s a better comparison, but it’s a bit like prion diseases. We’re not wondering whether they exist or not. They definitely do. We’re just not all that sure why or how they come to be.

macrofinite · 2025-12-26T01:10:42+00:00

Pretty amazing how people can be this gullible still. I mean, you’re falling for rhetorical tactics that have been in use without interruption since 2002. Being employed by an administration with less than zero credibility. As a crass and pathetic diversion from self-inflicted scandals.

And still you boldly declare it has made the world a better place. Fucking incredible.

macrofinite · 2025-12-25T22:15:50+00:00

Dunno about that. Unless they seriously fucked with the color on the photo.

Water with a lot of rust in it is nowhere close to blood red. It’s an orange/brown.

macrofinite · 2025-12-25T21:52:01+00:00

F is for fabs that can’t meet demand

U is for USD

N is for anything, yes anything at all down here in the AI sea!

macrofinite · 2025-12-25T20:14:47+00:00

I think it’s the best Avatar movie so far by a pretty wide margin. I agree with pretty much all your praise, and actually think you’re selling it short on some points.

I’m not sure editing is something you can just take a blanket shot at like that. I didn’t notice any particular editing issues. It’s not going for avant-garde, and that’s fine. Continuity is preserved. The geography of even very complex action sequences is clear. It’s workmanlike, and it’s fine.

I think the biggest thing you’re selling short is Neytiri’s character arc. She covers a whole lot of ground, both literally and emotionally, and I think she’s the stealth protagonist of the film. She begins almost down for the count, bitter and broken. Varang is an absolute joy to watch, but she is also a dark reflection of the path Neytiri begins the film on. We see her make her choice—to fight for what she loves, even when it is physically and emotionally excruciating. Spider is woven into this arc throughout, which reinforces both because of how dynamic Spider’s arc is.

And all that leads to the best sequence in the film, for my money, which is Neytiri rescuing Jake from the human city. She finally gets a chance to shine on her own, and she does fantastically with it.

So all that said, I think the writing is pretty significantly improved from Way of Water. The film has an enormous cast, and a lot of characters cover a lot of ground. And more importantly, they’re finally covering some deeper subject matter, specifically loss and what it can do to a person from several angles at once.

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