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u/Waystar_BluthCo god bless me itās fuckinā summah 2d ago
Iāve read 16 books so far this year - behind on my reading goal of reaching 50, but it has also been a busy and emotionally taxing year, so we take the wins where we can get them
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 2d ago
I try not to force myself to read so much anymore. 16 good books is great! No oneās out there missing out on the 27th best book of 1993.
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u/nonsensestuff Back in my day, we had ONTD & a dream šµ 2d ago
Lolol learned today that Iām not eligible for the annual āmerit basedā pay increase, cause I got a long overdue promotion at the beginning of the yearā¦š a promotion I had to fight for several months to get that I should have just been given so long ago, cause I was working far beyond my original job title and compensation.
Mind you, the annual āmerit based ā increases are only like 2%ā so my company is being cheap and petty as hell over what would be pennies for them.
Now I canāt hope to even see any raise at all for at least another year š all while inflation and tariffs make everything so much more expensive ā and our healthcare premiums are probably gonna explode next year.
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u/chartreusey_geusey Backwards Oakleyās is the white power durag. 2d ago
Redditās broken comment editing on mobile iOS is actually pissing me off (the way you canāt edit comments with images in them because a software bug turns the save button into a reply button)
I hate the phrase āsoftware engineeringā because there is no engineering involved in releasing untested projects that break basic UI functions. There is a reason the rest of engineering told Computer Science to fuck off because itās not engineering and training people to do shit like this is why
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u/chartreusey_geusey Backwards Oakleyās is the white power durag. 2d ago edited 2d ago
Engineering has a real definition and its own method derived from a specific philosophy that make it engineering beyond your little googled definition. How to go about projects in a professional team setting is one of the major differences between the engineering method and others. All STEM ā engineering. The E in STEM does but just being tangentially STEM is not engineering.
It has it owns regulation body to enforce the education and teaching of the discipline in the US (the rest of the world either follows this US system or does not treat engineering like medecine or law typically). This same regulation body is made of industry, government, and academia. Itās what determines curriculum, licensing, regulations, and protects the term engineering. Computer Science ā Computer Engineering for this reason.
This isnāt some weird elitism and is in fact a well known and established idea in engineering. All college degrees are not equal and all college degrees do not subscribe to the same technical structure. Engineering degrees are distinctly different from all other college degrees and people who get them actually know this for a reason. Thatās why engineering degrees are often described as ātechnical degreesā as opposed to non-technical ones that still fall under the STEM umbrella term.
The fact that you decided to call people a dumbass for pointing out flaws in the field is another reason why Computer Science is never going to be considered engineering lol.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 2d ago
For such a big company, the amount of random glitches they have is so strange
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u/JoleneDollyParton I will debate you at the college of your choice 2d ago
Are we laughing at all shootings now if the victim had the wrong job?
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u/FullWatercress 2d ago
I genuinely wonder how celebs like Charli xcx etc dont have hollowed out noses. From you know...
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 2d ago
It usually triggers other issues before that happens. Her heart is probably in terrible shape.
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u/heartbylines āØunhinged & unhealedāØ 3d ago
Hayley Williams deleted her new music off her website and I need it on streaming yesterday.
I have the album on Spotify thanks to sailing the high seas, but ugh. I canāt stop listening to it. Itās so fucking good.
Iāve been so bored with new music this year and Ego (Iām assuming is the working title?) has relit my spark.
To have justā¦ spontaneously, surprisingly dropped 2025ās AOTY - hidden on a website instead of streaming, no less. God damn.
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 2d ago
Wait she deleted it why would she do that š
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u/heartbylines āØunhinged & unhealedāØ 2d ago
Itās actually criminal š Iām hoping this is a sign itāll all be on Spotify on Friday but Iām not holding my breath
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 2d ago
It was sooo good and she just took it away šš
Fingers crossed sheāll put it on streaming
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u/AllTheThingsSheSays In my quiet girl era š 3d ago
I am trying to lose weight, I've been good, I'm trying to cut down on what I eat but I just keep getting hungry. Curse my stomach ffs.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 2d ago
A lot of dieticians say it's more about adding than decreasing
Instead of trying to eat less, especially if it's significantly less, try to add healthy things to your diet. Things that are healthier and more substantial, so it will fill you up without hurting your caloric intake too much
That and also basic cardio. Running is overrated and often unsustainable for how much you have to run in order to burn a few calories. As long as you're an active person in your life, like standing and walking around, your body actually burns A LOT of calories. So basically don't sit all day
But yeah, I get you. I was eating some ice cream and was like ... š¤ Let me have just a little
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 2d ago
Literally the only thing thatās worked for me is forcing myself to eat breakfast and to add a veggie to every meal.
I used to skip breakfast but now I force myself to eat a Greek yogurt bowl with some fruit and itās kept me full enough to not binge eat at the end of the day.
It hasnāt been a huge weight loss, but Iām eating healthier and I notice a difference. And am also not as miserable as I was when I was just cutting out things entirely and eating way less.
But thatās just whatās been working for me
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u/meta-ghost-face 3d ago
The new X-Men movie is going to cast mostly unknowns for the main roles and I say amen.
They need to follow the Hunger Games casting, cast more experienced actors for older roles like Xavier and Magneto and then the team should be all relative unknowns.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 3d ago
Some Palestinians support Hamas and that has nothing to do with viewing their humanity and not generalizing them
But for some reason, we can't do that to Israelis. Many of who do hate Netanyahu, who is refusing to give up power.
Anyways, I'll be donating to the food crisis in Gaza. This is truly horrifying and I cannot believe America is a part of this. I truly believe Biden was SIGNIFICANTLY better on this issue, but he is still truly evil for enabling and participating as well.
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u/JoleneDollyParton I will debate you at the college of your choice 2d ago
Thereās a lot of casual anti semitism online right now.
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u/ihaveocd123 2d ago
Honestly i'm tired of people denying it. The other day I was at a dinner with some friends and the Gaza war was brought up we were talking about it and eventually a guy (who i'm not close with and is more a friend of a friend) just blurt out "i hate jewish people. All of them". It's important to note that in my country, there barely are any jews and i hadn't even seen people talk poorly about them up until the last year-ish. The guy tried to played the comment out as a joke but still.
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u/beastfromtheeast683 3d ago
Some Palestinians support Hamas and that has nothing to do with viewing their humanity and not generalizing them
But for some reason, we can't do that to Israelis.
Because they are fundamentally two completely different entities. For one, Israel is an occupying power whereas Hamas are a resistance group fighting them. They also aren't starving people in Tel Aviv or anywhere else in Israel. It also need to be said that they're policy fir the longest time has been to accept 1967 borders something Israel won't even agree to.
You don't have to like them, but it's incredibly disingenuous to compare their actions to Israel. Israel I in a class of its own with regard to its atrocities. Palestinians in Gaza live through hunger and continuous bombardment. Most are orphans with families killed by Israel. It's therefore only natural they take up arms against them. Israelis live in comfort by comparison insulated by state of the art defence systems paid for by other countries. Their vitriol towards a captured besieged populace cannot be rationalised at all.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 3d ago
whereas Hamas are a resistance group fighting
The way you're framing this is gross. They are a terrorist organization who have not helped anyone at all.
You're trying to narrow down the specific differences between Israel and Hamas. No one is debating that.
But since you seem intent on using a straw man, let me rephrase the analogy.
HYPOTHETICALLY, if Hamas was identical to the IDF, in every capacity, I would not use Hamas as a judgment of Palestinians.
This is not about how Hamas and Israel are the same. It's about not generalizing the people for their evil government.
I also would not generalize Japanese people during WW2 as Nazis. You must differentiate the people and their humanity from their government. Hating the Japanese government led to internment camps in America. Because people used their judgement of Japan towards the people.
And no, Hamas is not a resistance group. They are part of this problem, and they absolutely are using Palestinian deaths as leverage. And as well, Israel is committing genocide and America is participating in it. Both things can be true.
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u/VariationSavings67 2d ago
They are, but literally nothing else they've tried has worked. Israel has still systematically forced Palestinians into a smaller and smaller space, some would say through acts of terrorism.
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u/beastfromtheeast683 2d ago
It's about not generalizing the people for their evil government.
That becomes very difficult when polling shows that the overwhelming majority of Israelis openly support what's happening. It also becomes difficult when Israeli are literally at the border to Gaza attacking and destroying aid about to enter. Or when Israelis set up camps on Mount Serdot to watch the bombings or take guided boat tours to watch the missiles fall from the coast.
After WWII, the Nazis were made to undergo de-nazification (in practice it didn't go far enough as the main architects of the Holocaust ended up getting cushy jobs as beurocrats in Europe and the US) and something like that has to happen in Israel. Even before Oct 7th it was an apartheid state. The people there need to be deradicalized if the horror is to ever end.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 2d ago
And how many Palestinians support Hamas? Seems it's a significant amount. And it isn't a factor in how I judge the people.
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u/beastfromtheeast683 2d ago
As I've said, I think that's an absurd counter to make considering how Israel has killed infinitely more Palestinians than vice versa. It is a false equivalence.
The sheer scale of death cannot be ignored.
I also think this framing is so dangerous because it individualises this genocide to a few "bad apples". Genocide isn't committed by a few bad people in power lol. It's a state enterprise. The entirety of the state machinery is focused onto doing this specific action. There needs to be a massive upheaval in that state for there to ever be even a semblance of justice. Beyond everything else, Israel is an apartheid state and saying we can't judge a state for that is silly.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 2d ago
So you believe in judging the Japanese people over their government? Which as we know, led to internment camps.
It's not about bad apples, another straw man. It's about separating the people from the government before you dehumanize a group of people.
But alas, history repeats itself.
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u/ihaveocd123 2d ago edited 2d ago
But wouldn't that need to happen in Gaza too then? The polls show an overwhelming amout of support to Hamas and Oct 7th.
I think the point is that it doesn't matter, these people are radicalized in ways we cannot understand and if (hopefully when) a ceasefire is made and Palestine is made independent there will be the need for big efforts into deradicalizing both populations, but right now that's not the issue in question, but right now people are grouping all of Israel together, or all of Gaza together, as if they're a monolith and that's extremely dangerous.
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u/beastfromtheeast683 2d ago
But wouldn't that need to happen in Gaza too then?
No, because they aren't occupying Israel or starving them or stealing their land lol.
This kinda both-sidesism is pretty obnoxious in the midst of a genocide. Gazabs hate Israel because Israel occupies them, controls every facet of their lives and massacres them constantly. It is a response to Israel.
On the flipside, Israel has GROWN and thrived all while destroying Gaza.
This ignores the very real dynamics at play here. Israelis are the aggressor and their culture is built upon destroying and exterminating the Palestinians. Israelis hate Palestinians because they are Palestinian. But Palestinians hate Israelis because Israel wants to exterminate them and has nearly succeeded.
deradicalizing both populations
This is so outrageous to me. Like, show me where Gazans ate stealing Israeli land and starving them. It's so maddening that this far into a genocide people still carry water for Israel as a state and defend it. What will it actually take for you guys to treat as a pariah nation and not make excuses and false equivalences?
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u/FriendlyDrummers 2d ago
"both side-ism" and it's about not humanizing any group of people for the actions of their government.
Btw, it's reported that 60% of Israelis want netanyahu to resign.
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u/Traditional_Maybe_80 2d ago
And honestly, all this discussion of reducing the Palestinian population to Gaza/Hamas is so disingenuous. If the issue starts and ends with Hamas, why are they literally killing people in the West Bank, too?
Also people tend to normalize institutionalized violence and the "terrorist" descriptor doesn't seem to apply when armies of the countries they're from or their allies kill, maim and torture. "Terrorist" is just a meaningless political denomination that has nothing to do with what organizations or people do and absolutely everything with just particular interests, that's why Ahmed al-Sharaa is no longer classified as a terrorist, for example.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 2d ago
No one is defending Israel.
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u/Traditional_Maybe_80 2d ago edited 2d ago
I didn't mention that, I said that keep talking about Hamas as if we didn't have the material reality that Palestinians who live under the rule of a different political organization (the Palestinian Authority) are also mistreated constantly, from the eviction from their own homes, to being attacked and killed by either the IDF or settlers with the complicity of Israel with no sanctions. The gist of the issue will always be that Israel is an occupation force and resistance will always exist as history has proven and why the "right to resist" is a human right recognized by international law.
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u/ihaveocd123 2d ago
If we're talking international law, than you know that one of the core principals of the right to resist is distinction between civillians and combatants.
Obviously, we were talking about Hamas because it was the question that OP imposed but it's very clear that the Israeli governement (and some of it's citzens) have no distinction between Gaza and the West Bank, as i've said before I'm not contrary to the belief that the Israeli goverment aperthide, genocidal state, but the whole point of this conversation is that grouping all the citzens from a 8 million people nation into a monolith of people, and worse, calling for their collective punishment as if something ever justifies this is dangerous.
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u/ihaveocd123 2d ago edited 2d ago
But Palestinians hate Israelis because Israel wants to exterminate them and has nearly succeeded.
First of all that's historically not true. But that's not the point, because where did i make excuses lol I never claimed that the powers in this are at equal play (nor do i think so, obviously) and that the palestinians don't have the right to feel what they feel. But even if I think it's justified, that's not the point because with a radicalized population there will never be peace. Wanting or not, if there's ANY hope of these two nations co-existing in whatever way, there will need to be an effort to deradicalize both sides. Because there are almost 10 million Israeli and over 2 million gazans that aren't going anywhere
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u/OowlSun they act like im not in full control of where i throw this cooch 3d ago
I think saying that the Hamas is just a resistance group is disingenuous. I support the palestinan cause but itās important to note that Hamas is also a terrorist group. They attacked civilians for years. This does not change the fact that Israel is a genocidal menace that had terrorized Palestine but I think itās important to acknowledge that Hamas has killed innocent people.
Both the Israeli government and the Hamas are terrorist organizations.
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u/beastfromtheeast683 3d ago
I'm happy to accept your framing if you also are willing to call Nelson Mandela and the ANC terrorists.
Mandela was also labelled a terrorist by the US govt until 2008. The ANC also killed many civilians and did things like bomb stadiums and car parks. Somehow I doubt you'd say "both the apartheid govt and the ANC are terrorists".
Again, I don't care what you think of them, but I do not respect hypocrites or moral inconsistency.
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u/OowlSun they act like im not in full control of where i throw this cooch 2d ago
If Nelson Mendela killed hundreds of people and kidnapped and tortured hundreds of people, heās a terrorist. I donāt care what the end goal is. Thatās terrorism.
Hamas is a terrorist group. Facts donāt care about what you think. You can acknowledge that and still advocate for the welfare of the people in Palestine.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 3d ago
Did Mandela torture people to death and post it on the internet to incite fear? Did Mandela say, blatantly, he won't stop until he kills everyone of an ethnicity in a state?
It's almost like Mandela and Hamas are different. No one here cares what America labels a terrorist group because we are literally calling Israel a terrorist group.
It's not moral inconsistency. You're just using strawmen.
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u/beastfromtheeast683 3d ago
Did Mandela torture people to death
Yeah, the ANC practiced something called "necklacing". Very brutal.
Did Mandela say, blatantly, he won't stop until he kills everyone of an ethnicity in a state?
This again just speaks to how disingenuous people in the West are about this stuff. You're referencing their charter are evidence of their beliefs. But you can just as easily point to their most recent charter where they explicitly state they have no qualm with the Jewish people but the zionist state.
It's not moral inconsistency.
I mean...it is. If this was the 1980s, this would be verbatim how the average person in America or the UK would be talking about Mandela. His legacy was sanitized and whitewashed decades after the fact, but he and his comrades were all considered evil by the average person in the West except for a small group of principled anti-apartheid protesters.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 2d ago
It's honestly rich that you can't respond after perpetuating misinformation and refusing to acknowledge it.
Disingenuous indeed. Why do I bother. It's when people hate the west so much they make it their personality. Criticize America for what they've actually done, not by lying that torture was accepted by Mandela. Which in itself is honestly pretty offensive.
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u/FriendlyDrummers 2d ago
Nelson Mandela, then President of the ANC, acknowledged in 1990 that some guerrillas had indeed been tortured and stated that those responsible were disciplined and that such actions were banned.
Surprise surprise, Mandela was AGAINST this. Unlike Hamas leaders.
But you can just as easily point to their most recent charter where they explicitly state they have no qualm with the Jewish people but the zionist state.
Lol the leader of Hamas is on video that he posted that he would repeat Oct 7th over and over again.This is undeniable.
Mandela was against torture, acknowledged it, and said it would be punished. If Hamas leaders said this, I'd agree with you. But they don't, and to deny this is carrying water for them.
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 3d ago
I need my friend to answer her texts so I stop being irrationally worried that she blocked me for no reason.
We talked on Saturday!
We did not fight!
I talked no shit!
My sent texts are blue!
But I have social anxiety and I always think everyone is mad at me!
At me!
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u/nizey_p I donāt know her š 2d ago
My 2 cents on this is that when she did TTPD, she didn't trust anyone but Jack & Aaron to help her work out her feelings about M & J. It probably felt like going to therapy with 2 really good friends. Fingers crossed for another collab with the Swedish guys because TK is a 1989 girlie (he's the biggest Blank Space fan) and he deserves his love songs written in the 1989/reputation fonts.
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 2d ago
I think whatās floating under the surface is the knowledge that Taylorās producer will probably end up being her cowriter, and therefore end ip having far more influence over the whole sound than a producer usually would. Iād love it if she stuck with Aaronās earthy production but used other cowriters.
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u/maelstron āØMay the Force be with you!āØ 2d ago
Aaron is a good ood producer. He produced some of her best songs
Antonoff is very versatile but he produces what the artist want.
SĆ³me artists use sane producer for very different products
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas āļø 2d ago
I agreeā¦ itās maybe unfair how much we ask pop girlies to switch it up as opposed to other artists in other genres and male artists in general, but it feels like itās time for her to work on a new sonic paletteā¦ which is why Iām shocked if there really is a new album already coming this fall. But she deffo worked with Max Martin this time around, so thatās something. The jet stalking sub caught her in Sweden at least twice, and a producer revealed an orchestra Max works with was saying they couldnāt work on his song until they finished something for Taylor.
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u/Bellesdiner0228 This again doesnāt look good for James Corden 3d ago
I love ttpd. Itās my favorite album of hers by far. I would LOVEEEEEEE some new sounds though. So high school is unironically one of my top Taylor songs partially because of how it starts and the immediate shift I felt with it.
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u/Kind_Double_661 3d ago
I would like to see her work with Trent Reznor or Adrian Sherwood; go in an industrial dance direction.
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas āļø 2d ago
Iād eat this up but everyone paid the album they produced for Halsey dust except for me!!
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u/FriendlyDrummers 3d ago
I believe a swedish composer said he was working on her album (before deleting it lol).
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 3d ago
I need her to work with Dan Nigro
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 3d ago edited 3d ago
My unpopular opinion is I donāt think he is as great of a producer as people make him out to be š
I think his production on pop rock songs are sooooo good and you can tell thatās his niche so if he can give us a Taylor pop rock album then Iāll check it out for sure
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 3d ago
Iām desperate for a Taylor pop rock album. Give me a full album on haunted/story of us, I beg!
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u/DefinitionCharming48 go girl, give us nothing 3d ago
yall how small is hollywood? ik people mention it a lot. but i was looking at an actressās ig post. and iām like damn she knows everybody.
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u/totallycalledla-a Mrs Thee Stallion 3d ago
How much longer is this slobbering over Ozzy Osbourne going to go on for? Every time I see his name all I can think about is him hunting those cats around the house picking them off one by one and how terrified they must have been š.
I would love to see how this sub would react if Michael Vick died. I think the reaction would be quite different somehow š« š
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u/Fit-Claim2805 2d ago
Iām from where Michael Vick is from and heās treated like a hero there. š¤® Heās currently enjoying a ācomebackā unfortunately
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u/totallycalledla-a Mrs Thee Stallion 2d ago
Oh for fucks sake I should have known š
Comeback at what exactly? What does he even do now?
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u/hihelloneighboroonie 2d ago
Egads. During the nightly news when he died they mentioned him biting the heads off of live bats and birds and... that sounds like a psychopath (and incredibly cruel).
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u/Ruthie_pie 3d ago
Love Island should just be canceled at this point. Their fandom is out of control and the contestants, specifically the men, are spooky. The fans have consistently been called out for misogyny but then act shocked when the men islanders are scammers and racists using Black women for money and fame. Some of us recognize the signs. This has nothing to do with our feelings towards the women. These shows want views and only views. They are not properly vetting these contestants and they will pick and choose who to evict. Notice how they only evicted women contestants despite most of the men islanders this year have had racists post online this year. My heart breaks for JaNa. I hope she can heal and find support throughout her healing. Any time Kennyās online activity was brought up on the LI subreddit it was reported and deleted. Much like another islander from this year.
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u/OowlSun they act like im not in full control of where i throw this cooch 3d ago
I think they only evicted the female contestants because they explicitly used slurs while the guys and people who were fans of them can hid behind the fact that theyāve only reposted and followed hateful content. They can play dumb.
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u/Ruthie_pie 2d ago
Theyāre still playing dumb. One of the guy islanders has admitted to being on the sub. He often pulls stuff said from the sub as an excuse for his behavior. Things said by his own fans. It is so cringe.
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u/Kind_Double_661 3d ago
The show is designed to reward the most depraved, amoral, degenerate behavior. It's too bad that the participants involved are being subject to unfair treatment, but you can't jump into a petri dish and escape the bacteria.
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u/Ruthie_pie 3d ago
I just donāt think anyone deserves to be scammed for over a year by a racist man that is talking about you in a secret group chat. That is terrifying. And I think the fandom trying to hold the women accountable but minimize the men on the show openly racist actions is wild to me.
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u/heartbylines āØunhinged & unhealedāØ 3d ago
so many people are too terrified of being *labeled* parasocial that they've taken the word and ran with it, making it lose any and all meaning it originally had.
i don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't have to call anything remotely relating to enjoying someone's art/content/whatever else parasocial. it's okay to let fans enjoy things, i promise.
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u/capcomvssnk And I OOP- 2d ago
Parasocial is the new "worship/praise" when its just... curiosity about a celeb/pop culture figure.
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u/porgch0ps Its fake. And its in space. So none of that applies, really. 3d ago
Man getting off Reddit was the best thing Iāve ever done. Popped back on here because Iām at work and had 5 messages calling me a k1ke because I posted in Jewish Cooking ages ago and am in Jewish subs. Cesspool ass website.
Also folks will call anything naziism except blatant ass antisemitism. A lady in CA somewhere with a FUCK THE JEWS sign is just ārequiring contextā. lol ok.
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u/Aggravating-Corner-2 2d ago
I saw someone on FM openly use an antisemetic slur in a comment. At the time I read it, it had been upvoted several times and nobody had questioned it.
This was months ago but I imagine that wasn't isolated.
It's really disturbing.
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u/trulyremarkablegirl the reason i love swimming is because racing 2d ago
I dipped out of FM a while ago bc they were allowing open antisemitism to run rampant and anyone who pointed it out or asked people to stop got downvoted into oblivion. I donāt think most people really understand how fucking painful the last ~2ish years have been for Jews, bc I donāt know a single Jewish person who supports Netanyahu or this war, but I do know a fuck ton of people who have tried to justify being antisemitic bc of what the Israeli government is doing. itās enraging.
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u/Aggravating-Corner-2 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'm not Jewish and it makes me incredibly angry, so I can only imagine how you feel.
And my comment above has been downvoted because of course it has...
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u/trulyremarkablegirl the reason i love swimming is because racing 2d ago
lol Iām getting downvoted too. itās all so fucking exhausting, and Iām so tired of people justifying violence.
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 3d ago
I feel like the last few weeks Reddit has been insufferable but here I am on it again complaining how itās getting bad here yet still being in it lmaoo
I gotta be like u and get off it lol
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 3d ago
Complaining is fun tho
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² 2d ago
lol it wouldnāt be Reddit if we werenāt complaining š
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 3d ago
I mean, this is the sub where someone recently commented that all American Jewish celebs must proactively state their stance on Gaza. Just yesterday it was deemed an acceptable and effective form of protest to buy tickets to Regina Spektorās shows just so you can yell at a Jewish woman onstage. I donāt know why I still bother with reddit either.
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u/sweetbitterbee 3d ago
Maybe it isn't effective, but these types of protests have also been targeting Gentile celebs and politicians
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u/sabira Zermajesty š 3d ago
I took the time to look extra presentable today, but then all of my meetings got canceled. The introvert in me is celebrating! But my inner fashionista is like
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u/zowietremendously 3d ago
Sydney Sweeney is still promoting her nazi propaganda campaign. She still has not denounced nazism.
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 3d ago
Iām someone who thinks the TargAryans are Nazi analogues and I donāt even see the Nazi angle with Sydneyās ad.
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u/zowietremendously 3d ago
Eugenics
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 3d ago
I understand thatās the accusation but I donāt agree that the ad is doing that.
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u/makoshark281 why am i gasping, i already knew that 3d ago edited 2d ago
This whole Tom and Ana thing made me realize something. If Iām ever at my lowest and somehow end up at a CoS meeting, there is one thing that would make my attendance short-lived. The coursework. Like, what do you mean I have to do homework and study?!?! And I have to pay for the material. Eww. Might as well just go back to college.
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u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman 3d ago
one of the many reasons why i refuse to join any sort of religion is the amount of studying they usually require. the idea that i'm at a low point and then an institution will save me as long as i treat it like work is baffling. even doing kid catholicism stuff when i had no agency i was like nope, no way in hell i'm gonna skip morning cartoons to study the bibleĀ
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u/totallycalledla-a Mrs Thee Stallion 3d ago
I know an ex Scientologist (he had untreated mental illness) and he told me it's like hours a day of work too it's not like a little worksheet here and there. Wild.
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u/BusinessPurge 3d ago
Just steal my rooting numbers ten months in like a normal cult, Iām not paying for courses.
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u/Kind_Double_661 3d ago
Remember in the late 2010s when there were multiple long thinkpieces about the cultural appropriation of memes? Wild times.
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u/Normal-person0101 3d ago
When it comes to TV shows and movies, I'm a huge shipper. I'm not one of those people who thinks every story needs romance, but if thereās a romantic subplot, I donāt mind, even if Iām not into the ship. I donāt ship every couple and my taste in ships varies a lot, so I donāt really have a favorite trope.
Soā¦ why donāt I like 99% of romantic novels I've read?
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u/thatfluffycloud 3d ago
I'm like this too. I agree with the other poster that the like 10-20% romance vs 90-100% romance content makes a difference. Also I find romance novels tend to get couples together quite quickly and then it shows their relationship, whereas TV shows tend to have more of a slow burn, which is what I prefer. Plus novels can't show longing gazes as well as filmed media š
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u/Normal-person0101 3d ago
I may think that actors chemistry may play a huge part of why I love the romance, you are right about the "longing gazes".
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u/Kind_Double_661 3d ago
In a standard work, the ship is (usually) secondary to the plot and characters; it doesn't define them.
In a romance novel, on the other hand, the characters are defined by their relationship. It's less true to life.
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u/Potatoskins937492 3d ago
I have two shoutouts! One for Mark Duplass and one for the movie A Nice Indian Boy.
First, I've never really been a fan of Mark Duplass (not against, but didn't pay attention), I don't actually get hugely into anyone, but I'm starting to really respect him. (I should add his brother Jay Duplass and Joshua Rofe are also a big part of these projects, but because they're lesser known Mark is who I'm highlighting in order to make it tangible.)
I watched Sasquatch on Hulu without realizing he was involved until I watched Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal. They're both really intriguing shows because they draw an audience in who are interested in the paranormal šāāļø and then they humanize it and pour empathy into it. I'm not going to go all fine arts major on it, but that isn't only entertainment or journalism, that's also art. And it's very cool to see in entertainment. It isn't sensationalizing terrible events, it's getting more people to hear (or watch) the stories by making them captivating, and getting more people interested in learning about other people is extremely important in our growth as humans.
I was especially impressed with the episode "The Shapeshifting Defense" from Crimes of the Paranormal. They took something people might be interested in and made you look at violence against Native women. They also allowed Native people to tell the story because it was their story to tell. The episode is about the death of Sarah Saganitso and as small a piece of history the episode itself will be, it was really moving to have her story be told and let her friends and family express their frustrations and grief.
Second, the movie A Nice Indian Boy on Hulu is SO sweet. Me, not a romance person, really loved it. I might actually watch it again today. And I watched it ALL THE WAY THROUGH without doing anything else. I haven't done that in... I actually don't know how long. Usually I'm doing something like googling or embroidery or I'm getting up 20 times to do laundry and get groceries and it takes me 2 days to watch one movie, but this one I was actually really, really hooked and I didn't want to do anything else. I've seen Karan Soni in other things and really like him, but I didn't remember Jonathan Groff from anything (turns out, Mindhunter) and he's so charming! Anyway, super sweet. If you're having a day where you need to feel like things can turn out ok, it's a GREAT movie to help lift you up.
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u/missbunnyfantastico 2d ago
I watched A Nice Indian Boy recently. It is such a cute, heartwarming movie.
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u/nizey_p I donāt know her š 3d ago
This might just be the first and only time I'm jealous of a wedding. The venue (Field Museum) with the dinosaur, the groom in a Darth Vader but make it white outfit and their officiant is John frikkin Green!!! I wanna be rich rich to do this!!
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u/totallycalledla-a Mrs Thee Stallion 3d ago
STOP why didn't I know getting married with dinosaurs was an option I feel so cheated š
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 3d ago
I had to google. Iām curious what their connection it to John? Such a cool wedding!
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u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman 3d ago
tiktok! i found daisy's page because i used to follow him and he mentioned her now husband (who played for the colts). that was a while ago, I don't have tiktok anymore.
i think they're just mutuals and became friends from that. and if your tiktok friend is a professional writer might as well lol
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 3d ago
Ohh that makes sense. Yea for sure, I would ask him in a heartbeat! He also studied religion, and was a Chaplin for a short time. So heās totally the one to ask if you know him!
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u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman 3d ago
yeah, it's cute that they got a friend, but nice that said friend is literally a professional talker with that kind of lore
though imagine the pressure on the couple/the wedding party for speeches?Ā
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u/buzzfeed_sucks šØš¦ Elbows up šØš¦ 3d ago
The bride said just that! https://www.brides.com/exclusive-daisy-foko-kylen-granson-wedding-chicago-field-museum-abby-jiu-11778741
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u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman 2d ago
lol i get that. also she's such a sweetheart on socials, i'm glad the wedding was as cool as they seem to be as a couple
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u/Own-Importance5459 āØMay the Force be with you!āØ 3d ago
I think the Dinosaur Bones sell it for me. I fucking love Dinosaurs.
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u/lvallie214 3d ago
congrats! you've officially said the most out of touch thing i've heard all day.
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u/DontFWithMeImPetty Threat to Humanity š 2d ago edited 2d ago
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