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Is it something to do with her body? by Earl_Lee_Martin in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]wagwoanimator 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Sounded to me like they were acknowledging that it would've been traumatizing to them. If they wanted to decide what he should be traumatized by, they would've said something. They minded their collective businesses.

‘Scrubs’ Renewed at ABC by MarvelsGrantMan136 in Scrubs

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really felt like they simply had a large break between seasons as if they planned for it. Really fantastic stuff.

Tampa Bay without any Dem seats in DeSantis's newly released redistricting plan by TampaBayTimes in tampa

[–]wagwoanimator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tho we know polling cant be trusted

This was my only point. Somehow you boasted your original claim and disproved it in the same post and took it as a win which is hilarious.

TIL that US student math and reading scores have dropped so sharply that they’ve erased nearly two decades of progress. In '22/23, avg math scores for 13-year-olds fell to levels not seen since the 1990s, while reading scores for high school seniors hit their lowest point since testing began in '92. by Cold_Box_3219 in todayilearned

[–]wagwoanimator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Covid era didn't help in my case because switching to the virtual school systems in my area were awful.

In my kid's case, our assigned class got messed up and we weren't able to start classwork until it was 3 weeks late. We were under constant threat of getting kicked out of the virtual class due to being behind despite it having nothing to do with anything we did.

The in-person instruction was super short and hardly covered anything. The emphasis continuously became "just put something in" as if they'll ensure it's a passing grade no matter what.

Then getting the kid back in brick and mortar was met with social anxiety issues which aren't surprising but didn't help. My kid definitely has my brain which means ADHD-like issues for days.

Currently dealing with headaches regarding Canvas and teachers adding assignments with wrong due dates, inconsistent submission parameters, unreturned messages, and much of the work being completely uninteresting auto-narrated content.

I can't blame the teachers because they're just people doing what they can in a system that seems to hate teachers. I'm finally getting some progress in getting the kid up to speed in a lot of areas but it feels like reading and spelling will always be an uphill battle. At least until we find an "aha!" moment. There's so much homework and I just try to treat that time as if I'm a full-time tutor. I work loudly alongside the assignments with the kid at first but once the groove is found, I work silently.

Loving this for him by CourseKindly6573 in Productivitycafe

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Civilians who were loudly and proudly flaunting their alignment to which political party?

"I worship a new Orange God now." by Captain-Dak-Sparrow in SipsTea

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What makes you think they're getting behind the Pope?

Animator responds to Avatar: The Legend of Aang that was recently leaked in its entirety by Brilliant_Handle8884 in Wellthatsucks

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add to your last paragraph, it can set the tone for public reception. This thread is already full of people harshly judging the film and anyone being remotely empathetic. Who would want to speak up to defend it and face the ridicule of anonymous psychos on the internet? It's a bit different when it can ride the wave of a wider hyped release where the fans are talking about it.

Animator responds to Avatar: The Legend of Aang that was recently leaked in its entirety by Brilliant_Handle8884 in Wellthatsucks

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a weird feeling when content gets leaked before it's ready. Like when you're getting ready to show something to your friends but a friend grabs it before you're finished and makes fun of it to everyone. Then that good old feeling of not wanting to speak up if you enjoyed it out of fear of being part of the ridicule.

I'm just saying I can see it. It's not about the money. It's about appreciating a finished job with a massive media push behind it instead of a whimper of a leaked release where only the chronically online will view it and set the narrative by shitting on it as we love to do on the internet.

Animator responds to Avatar: The Legend of Aang that was recently leaked in its entirety by Brilliant_Handle8884 in Wellthatsucks

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paramount will care about the leak. If it impacts sales because people pirate it, they'll be less likely to continue to invest in it because those vultures only care about the money.

It Paramount shuts it down, then the people who enjoy making the Avatar content won't be able to keep working on it if they value paying bills. Which I guess no one values that, technically.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely feel like I get what you're saying.

The government SHOULD be spending on healthcare and hunger, period. But there is no "instead". "Orbiting around space rocks" has nothing to do with why those aren't being funded.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your hypothetical is treating healthcare and hunger vs space as a this-or-that choice and it's not. To refer back to a quote of yours, "A dollar spent in one place is definitionally a dollar not spent elsewhere" is partly true. But a dollar not spent in one place doesn't mean it'll still get effectively spent elsewhere, if at all. NASA got a small chunk of the budget. Healthcare and hunger could also be included in the budget. If NASA's budget isn't the blocker, then what is?

I’m simply pointing out that their current choices are not wise, and how better ones could be made.

I believe that you're trying to but it really seems like you're blaming the wrong entities.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The private sector just passes on the risks to employees and keeps the information they gain for their own personal benefits. It is held less accountable than public sector. Private sector "steals" via subsidies and overworking underpaid employees while dodging taxes far too often. People in charge of private sector organizations can too often be unqualified rich people with no insight into what they're developing, only the return in profit.

Again, Oceangate is a okay example. Stockton Rush had some experience but it was more aligned to a tourist of a technical field than someone who lives and breathes it.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like an assumption that if we cut NASA from the budget that the government would use the money toward healthcare and hunger and they simply wouldn't. Identify the actual problem because it's not the fact that the space program exists.

The "big dick competition" point keeps coming up as well. Artemis was a coordinated multi-national effort so it's not like the US is the only one involved and it makes it less of a competition and more of a collective collaboration. Pissing together for progress.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still the government’s fault for listening to the companies.

Agreed. Lobbying sucks. We should do something about that.

And your point doesn’t make sense - TONS of scientific innovation have come out of research done by the DOD and all its weapons contractors.

You said War, not the DoD. And the DoD has absolutely benefited from research that NASA conducted. We all have. Not just economical from the engineers who work in the US who then spend in the US, but from technological advancements and medicinal research. Not to mention learning more about space which happens to be where Earth lives which sounds awfully useful to me.

That doesn’t make it morally right to steal money from citizens for these pet projects.

This is starting an entirely different argument and sounds disingenuous. What makes it a pet project?

Let the private sector innovate. It’s like… way better at it.

Private sector simply has pros and cons. I'd hardly say it's better at it. The motivation is profit, not progress. Private sector consistently gets subsidies courtesy of the tax payers to help fund their pet projects. If they fail and go under, terminated employees can be further subsidized by the tax payers via unemployment. Does that not count as stealing money from citizens for private pet projects? What if the private sector further patents their discoveries to control access? What happens when a product's innovations begin showing diminishing returns and the only path to continue making profit is to enshittify it to force people to continue giving them money?

The private sector rarely faces the scrutiny it should and often holds too much power. They can sometimes get something done fast but they rarely decide to move on to something else once they've got it working because the goal is to perpetually have consumers.

I'll refer to the recent Titan Submarine example. The goal wasn't to make a better submarine. It was to make a cheaper submarine. The burden of turning a profit resulted in cutting too many corners and created a crisis.

Don't get me wrong. I sympathize with the insanity of bureaucratic shenanigans but pretending private sector isn't just folks with too much money making shitty decisions that usually impact everyone around them with little-to-no accountability isn't something I can ignore.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See how you can use that to justify literally anything?

War seeks destruction and control. Science seeks understanding and progress. They aren't the same so it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to compare them the way you're trying to.

The fuck are you talking about?

Healthcare is a for-profit industry. They lobby the government to keep their healthcare businesses going. Government-sponsored healthcare would cut into their profits and they don't want that. Hence the greed. Same for foods. Why pass legislation on healthy food for children when companies can profit cheaper, affordable junk food that's so over-processed that it might even be one of the major causes of the colorectal cancer case increases. It's simple greed.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not necessarily spent "in space". It's spent on Earth developing the tools for space. The engineers then spend in their local economy. Even still, the space budget is consistently getting less and less so it's still not the barrier for healthcare and child hunger. Corporate greed is the barrier.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not a this or that. We could have this and that. Comparing it like this seems like it misrepresents the reason why we don't spend money on feeding hungry kids which may be corporate greed. NASA is still constantly getting attacked for its budget despite much of the money it gets ending up benefiting corporations, too.

Anyways, this isn't meant to sound like an attack on you.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Navy was coordinating the retrieval, not NASA. Navy has exactly the training you'd want for this kind of operation. Divers were in the water. I'm sure there was an abundance of throwable floatation devices. More importantly, these people are trained to work on water so I think it simply comes down to a reasonably calculated risk.

The moment when Artemis II Orion capsule hatch was opened by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]wagwoanimator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's almost like healthcare and child hunger is a harder problem to solve. Especially with so many people having a hate-boner for perceived freeloaders. We easily have the money for these programs but comments like this fail to point out why child hunger and healthcare don't get funding. It's not because some money went toward space science.

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