[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Hrrrrnnggh Colonel, I’m trying to sneak around No Man’s Land but I’m dummy thicc and the clap from my ass cheeks keeps alerting the Huns

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Tagline material

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Tell me about it, I've just finished taking the crippling social anxiety, to liberating alcohol consumption, to crippling alcoholism slip'n slide

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I still don't understand the hype around F-16s. It's an ancient platform and it's not like Ukraine can maintain any form of air superiority long enough to deploy smart bombs...

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

How's the regulatory capture going USA?

yea

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

India, imo, is a loose collection of peoples with the single uniting factor being anti-colonial solidarity, a sentiment that looks to be fading fast. The faultlines in this artificially concocted polity are plenty, and what they're witnessing now can be interpreted as the Hindutva movement conjuring a national myth that solidifies the Hindu position (specifically the Vedic flavor) as the numerical majority and asserting their sole right to the land.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Every aspect of life feels like a chore boohoo

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

If I can only get my executive function to run normally for two weeks in a row deeper-sadness

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It's already 2 months since Ulysses_T checked out, wtf...

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

On the toilet seat. Constipation cured!

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I like solo play, was wondering if I can spice things up by throwing an LLM in the mix. The way I tried currently becomes messy real soon, so I was wondering if someone who's successfully tried something like this could give me some pointers

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in no particular order:

spoiler

  • There's a scene from Tintin in America that's burnt into my brain of Native Americans being forced off their land by the US Army after oil is found on their land. This movie, however, is a neat reminder that the guns and bayonets were just a few of the tools employed during USA's project of extermination. Every single White institution was complicit in the destruction of the natives even when they seemed to be fair and benign (especially when they seem to be fair and benign).
  • Why the hell haven't I seen more of Lily Gladstone? Just a phenomenal actress. Her portrayal of someone under constant siege with seemingly no way out evoked a sense of claustrophobia reminiscent of Get Out. Its elevated by the cinematography that just drives home the othering experienced by natives on their own land. Some of the shots of settlers glaring at the Indians reminded me of Lovecraft's description of Innsmouth's denizens.
  • I was really afraid that it was gonna turn into a White Savior movie at some point, but it was thankfully undercut by Caprio's character being such a dense sleazebag (seriously, his scummiest character since Monsieur Candy). Nearly all the White characters are scum which is certainly an interesting choice considering the state of media in the USA.
  • There is largely no comeuppance for the crimes committed by the Whites. Indeed, against the scope of their crimes, their punishment was even lesser than a slap on the wrist. While this is in keeping with the history of the incident, it did leave quite the sour taste in my mouth. There is also a larger focus on the moral character of the Hales (who are, weirdly, both Freemasons and "greedy Jews") with the institutional nature of the crimes showing up in just a few scenes and snippets of exposition. Towards the third act, it ends up feeling like a run-of-the-mill Scorsese crime flick, and I was beginning to feel if he really was the right creative mind to tackle such a subject.
  • Somebody get Marty an editor, for the love of god
  • I'm starting to understand why so many American horror films reference Indian burial grounds- seems to me it's just some weird expression of generational guilt

Go watch it folks, it's not a winner on all fronts but definitely a breath of fresh air. As a descendant of a colonized population myself, the film's gruesome depiction of the mistreatment of Native Americans did leave me feeling a little sick, so I think I'm going to re-watch Prey to cleanse my palette a bit.

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The first one is, I believe, related to the Spanish Civil War and goes something like "...on any given day, we were fighting the fascists, the syndicalists, the anarchists [or some such variation of denominations]..."

I feel like I might be hallucinating the second one, but it's about this Czech dude who regrets protesting against the Soviet Union for such things as jeans and Hi-Fi systems not realizing that things such as housing were at stake.

Would be really great if you guys could help me out with sources for the above!

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From the article:

Nor did Mr. Hussein pay much heed to the fact that the archaeological world cried foul -- deriding his project as Disney for a Despot -- because he was violating their sacred principle of preserving rather than recreating.

Also see (from this Guardian article http://archive.today/ODrqa):

I visited the site in November 2004, just as Polish troops were preparing to hand it over to the Iraqi authorities. The late Donny George, then head of the Iraq Museum, had warned me in Baghdad about the terrible damage done to the site by the Polish military. He was aghast at reports of soldiers filling sandbags with earth containing archaeological fragments; of armoured vehicles crushing sixth-century BC bricks on the Processional Way; of looters gouging out pieces of dragons from the Ishtar Gate; of digging, levelling, compacting and gravelling in this ancient city. “It’s mankind’s greatest heritage site,” he said. “You don’t just start digging it up to make more room for your tanks.”

poland-cool

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

When I'm Commissar for Media in the World Union of Soviets, all roles will be played by average looking people...

(Yes, even aliens and monsters)

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Hey y'all, poster of yore here in a shiny new avatar (the old account wasn't anon enough imo). Started lurking here again after deciding to abandon reddit for good after the whole API thing (honestly wanted to de-reddit sooner, this was just a convenient excuse). Nothing remarkable about me, I'm a relatively well-off third-worlder currently exercising my privilege to shut myself off from the general dreadfulness of modern life, but feeling a need for community even if it's just one's and zero's on a screen.

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