It’s the weed
StarManta
joined 2 years ago
The real victims here
Like that old Invader Zim line.
“You made the fires worse!”
“Worse? Or better?”
I always feel like I’m in the minority when it comes to action sequences. They are 80% of the time the most boring part of a movie. Plot and character development don’t happen during them, and usually (especially for the big climactic fight scene) the outcome is certain.
For me, the only exceptions are generally:
Fights that the heroes might actually lose. (So usually, the fights earlier in the show)
Fights where there are good character moments or development during it. (The Princess Bride sword fight scene is a classic for this)
Fights with lots of good strategy/tactics in them. (Game of Thrones had a lot of this, at least prior to the last season)
There are a very few fight scenes I’ll actually enjoy outside of these ones, and it feels like many action movies don’t bother with any of this.
Manipulating emotion is literally the point of all music you silly goose
Independent of other factors, running the AC definitely does.
Threads v Twitter IS the cage fight
Clever way to get people to upvote your comment…
Is the Pixel one of those phones that recognizes you’re taking a picture of the moon and then photoshops in a higher quality picture of the moon to make it seem like the camera is better than it is?
Ooh, thanks! That does look nice
In most cases, “life-threatening side effects” would be a dealbreaker for me. But if I have a mentally degenerating illness when I reach that age, I’d absolutely be in the “let’s fix it or let me die” camp. Either would be preferable to going through the motions of life while forgetting everything and everyone.
This should be two different questions. Since I know little about the Swiss government just answering generally:
Unambiguously, objectively yes. Twitter’s reputation as a “public square” is gone, and it cannot now be relied upon to disseminate information. If I’ve already used my limited API calls a day scrolling through my feed for like an hour, I now can’t see official government informational postings? Not to mention the absurdly common outages now, the ridiculous content policies, the fake blue check system, and all the other stupidity that Musk has shoved into the system.
Really we shouldn’t ever have been using any privately held system for this (because such mishandling of the service was always a possibility), but Elon’s change have made it objectively unworkable for that purpose even on its best day.
This is a harder question to answer easily, but I still think yes. The argument against it is that a relatively tiny fraction of people use Mastadon still, and public entities do need to be where the public can see it. The counter argument for that is that people who don’t use Mastadon now can still click a link and open a website to view a Mastadon feed, and no one needs any more knowledge about what Mastadon is to view that feed. And then people who DO know Mastadon can follow those accounts, toot replies, etc.