The resistance of the Hobbits is true, but stronger still is the circumstances in which the ring came to your possession. Bilbo stumbled upon it, Frodo inherited it, Sam took it to keep it safe. All three resisted for a very long time. Only Frodo gave into the temptation while the ring was in his possession.
Meanwhile, Déagol found it on accident in the river. Smeagol coveted it as a birthday gift. When Déagol refused to give it, Smeagol killed Déagol for it.
Understood. I wasn’t trying to convey that, but I can definitely see it in what I said. I was trying to say “hey, this isn’t just cause Americans are sick fucks. Any group can get here with the right conditions. Know that, understand it, and work to actively avoid it”
I will one hundred percent own that bringing up China made my comment xenophobic. It honestly completely derailed what I was attempting to convey.
The question now is, how do I point out to a group of people labeling something as evil, which is distancing language, that this is something that all humans are capable of? Not because humans are inherently evil or cruel, I don’t actually believe that, but because we can make systems that are uncaring and grind both victim and perpetrators to dust beneath them. That imagery of horrors should be viewed as a cautionary tale to every person on this planet about what we’re collectively capable of and need to work to stop. Not something to point at and go “that group bad” cause that’s simultaneously unhelpful and completely misses the lesson.
I was born in the 90s and I recognize this image. Though it was the lady who had the daycare doing it, but still
Parent companies shouldn’t be a thing
I think stopping there is best. We don’t need companies buying other companies, full stop.
Yeah, but that doesn’t really clarify, though. Does that mean that a woman could wear a hijab or burqa under your rule?
I’m having difficulty parsing this. Are you saying “we should ban religions from coercive headgear” or “we shouldn’t ban clothing”? Cause those are contradictory positions and I’m not certain what you’re trying to say (which is probably entirely on me)
Well… it’ll make your total a NaN as well.
Nah, that would make it hella dangerous to just be a person existing in that space. Much safer to use trains to get to a city and then travel in the city by personal conveyance, like a bike or something. Imagine how awful life would be if we gave all that space to train tracks just for individual use. It would be an isolated, lonely nightmare. Not to mention super expensive too. Train engines, no matter how small, are not cheap to own or operate.
The billionaires will see how many people they can flip with the $800 billion dollars they’re gonna collectively spend in ads.
Nope, but he was good at naming things. I really wish that the estate started suing these dickheads. I might not agree with IP hoarding, but it could do good here. (LOTR isn’t in the public domain until the 2050s)
He also broke the terminal a bit, making everything just a little bit slower and the results a little less useful. Cause he’s definitely better than that thing.
“I ate a bad version of a dish, so I know I don’t like that dish” is how that sounds
Sure, but my money’s on that the CIA didn’t like that JFK was unhappy with them after the mess they both made in Cuba as the prime motivator.
An example of things that authors missed! I just watched a YouTube video looking at the history of instant communication devices in Sci-fi and Fantasy, and also how the author thought to use them in the narrative; contrasting that with how we’d actually use them through our modern understanding. They go on to argue that usage of instant communication is now so ubiquitous to our collective psyche that current sci-fi and fantasy stories can just invent it in basically every setting nowadays. It’s actually a really easy thing to cook up if your narrative has any kind of magic system, be it science or standard issue. https://youtu.be/2Pw_7vAK9k8
Are video essays, specifically ones about storytelling, my special interest? Yes, but I hardly see how that’s relevant.
We figured out how to install gas lines appropriately. Many “ghosts” were gas inhalation induced hallucinations.
I don’t know shit. It… it’s a real problem, actually.
People who don’t have space to look up are focused on things that directly impact them. More at 11
Yes, American propaganda is fucked. Don’t shit on people for worrying about themselves, get them to also see how the things that impact them impact others more.
AI upscaled meme. The look in the movie isn’t concern, it’s dominance (or dead eyed nothing, like everyone else in that movie (I love Monster House, it’s not shade, it’s the style they wanted)). He just took their snack and this is mid aggressive chewing and staring. The added disappointment is AI grossness, bringing the inferred meaning into the image, like a monster (but not the good kind)
“Yes, you were the smartest baby to ever live and you need to do anything it takes to prove this to the world”
https://youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q