I’ve seen people claim this CEO is speaking for the consumer, and I find that depressing and hilarious.

All of these suggestions benefit studios, kneecap theatres, and would likely lead to higher costs for the consumer as theatres struggle to stay afloat.

“Simmons was not a paid actor” according to Simmons, the White House, and Doordash: the three parties who could suffer most if she did turn out to be a paid actor. Snopes is ‘debunking’ theories using press releases from the guilty parties. The language used feels very biased against the allegations.

Are Doordash implying that they shipped this woman from her home state to the White House, asking her to take part in a publicity stunt with the president, and NO-ONE paid her for her time? She was clearly hand picked for her opinions on the NTOT thing.

I get the sentiment that online arguments and identity politics are being pushed by powerful, hateful people as a distraction.

But there are legitimate threats happening in the real world that are putting the rights of trans people at risk. The UK govt is actively working to exclude trans people from society. Hundreds of anti-trans bills have been introduced across US states in the last few years. You can call it a ‘culture war’, but people are legitimately scared for their future. We need to stand up for them.

Does this seem out of character with the actions currently being taken by the US though? Kidnapping world leaders, bombing schools, blockading the strait of Hormuz and threatening to attack anyone who uses it?

Killing negotiators doesn’t feel like a joke or “too far” for these ghouls.

Hmm, I wonder if that kid wearing their tinted ray-bans inside is cheating on their physics final.

Students are already restricted on what pens, bottles, and stationary they can use. I assume jewellery and glasses will become more strictly policed to combat this.

For me, I just don’t see it as the step towards a bright future that it cone was.

So we reinvigorate the world’s interest in space missions, then what? Every iota of evidence from our own planet tells us that businesses are going to own the moon, mars, and beyond. Wayland-Yutani is more likely than The Federation.

I just can’t get excited about another frontier for Musk and Bezos to rub their stanky dicks all over.

This looks like a Netflix-tier rom-com. The male lead is even famous for the Netflix show he starred in. Why do they think that people would pay $25+ to go see it in a theatre, when there are a plethora of alternatives they are already paying for? Not to mention that this one will hit streaming in a few weeks anyway.

People scalp thrift stores to resell on depop or other sites. Some thrift stores have even caught on and now have a ‘gold label’ section that prices higher quality goods at a premium.

I have mixed feelings on this, as more money to the charity that runs to shop is good, but it also means that if you are shopping at a thrift store because of dire financial needs, you are priced out of owning quality products, and are left to sift through the piles of poor-quality fast fashion pieces that are clogging the stores to find something worthwhile. It also means that the scalpers only have to check one rack for the quality items when they walk in.

This restricts my freedoms to kill native wildlife in the way I see fit! Bunnings should be ashamed of caving to the woke ‘what if we didn’t indiscriminately kill wildlife’ mob!

First they came for our guns! Well, they came for someone’s guns (I don’t own a gun), and now they’ve come for my rat poison (which I have never used as I have never seen a wild rat in my life)! What next?

/s

All of these things are achievable without paying YouTube.

I disagree.

Interacting with the new show, even through piracy, leads to more voices talking about it and making Rowling’s cash-cow culturally relevant. It also normalises the shit takes she pushes through her stories at children.

I don’t like Ben Shapiro, and wouldn’t pay a dime for his streaming service. But pirating Chip Chilla to show to my kids still gives him a say in how me and my family view the world.

Why does Rowling get a pass? Because I happened to read her racist, classist tripe when I was a kid?

While I agree that corporate lobbyists are a negative overall, the oil, meat, tobacco, alcohol, and gambling world (just to name a few) have been destroying our world by lobbying politicians for decades. This is an issue that is not going away.

If a company wants to lobby for lgbt rights, HIV research, and access to IVF, they are my least hated lobbying group at the moment.

It has been a long time since “fans” of a franchise: Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, have actually been fans of the media they complain about constantly.

Negative reactions get a bigger share of views online, and there is an industry of people who make money off claiming that the latest popular thing marks the end of one media franchise or another. Couple this with the increasingly open misogyny and homophobia in a lot of critical reactions, and I start to wonder why these media companies even care what the online reaction is anymore.

Clearly the general audience didn’t buy into the “She-Hulk hates men and is just a rip-off of the wholly original male Hulk” shtick. It was a fun show. It had some moments that didn’t work for me, but then the show wasn’t made explicitly for me.

I get it: teens suck, kids these days have it too easy, snowflake PC blah blah blah.

But if a child has felt it important enough to report to their parents that a teacher is calling them names, then that child is not learning in a safe environment. The child has been told directly by their teacher that they are not viewed as intelligent or capable. That is not conducive to positive learning outcomes, or mental health.

I agree that Bozo is a very light term, and if the relationship between the teacher and student were close, it could be seen as a joke between people with a mutual respect, but we don’t know the state of the relationship here. The teacher could be a complete asshole, and this is the fifth time they have singled out the student in this way.

People here are saying “toughen up!” “The real world won’t be so kind!”, but I would argue that that is a failing of adults in the real world. Why are we teaching kids that the world is terrible and the only way to survive is to become just as bad? I’d rather teach students to value each other’s strengths, and to not accept the hatred and sadness of other people.

Wait, did the shooter walk up to the house, politely place the note under the mat, then start blasting?

Or did they light the place up before dropping off the note?

“My neighbours are all rich white millionaires. I practice Christianity by always being nice to rich white millionaires.”

They’re all run by psychotic dictators, but at least Pooh bear isn’t threatening entire countries over twitter…

What a bar Donny has set.

I loved the film as a teen, having not read the comics. I absorbed that fucking movie without an ounce of critical self-reflection. Scott was a loser, but in a cool samurai sword way.

The film made me seek out the comics.

I instantly fell out of love with the movie. The comics recognise that Scott is a dropkick. It treats Ramona like a character. It has arcs for the cast that isn’t just “he learns to say I love you”.

The film is visually entertaining, but man it feels shallow by comparison.

Not sure this is the full story.

V is a flawed character and throughout the story he does some despicable things. But he was definitely shaped by the actions of the dystopian fascist government that he lives under, and his actions are in response to people who have committed violence against himself and the people. He is not a good man, but it doesn’t make him the ‘bad guy’ of the story.

I can recognise that his actions are intense, and the things he does to Evey in the film are horrific, but I can’t in good conscience consider him the villain of the film when he stands against a form of fascism that is becoming all too familiar these days.

The game came out.

It was great.

The devs worked on additional biomes, features, and updates.

They were also great.

The devs decided that it was time to shift focus away from a game that they feel is as complete as it needs to be right now.

‘Fans’ throw a temper tantrum.

The devs have been very open with communication throughout development and after. This feels like fans forming a paradoxical relationship with a development studio and getting butthurt when that relationship isn’t two way.