RE: talking to conservative parents, I’ve found a good method to de-worming their brains is to not get riled up, just act a little bored and remind them “the news cycle only shows salacious stuff. They want you to be mad and scared because it makes you easier to control. Think about it for a second. Do you REALLY believe everything they have to say?” Or “you can’t believe everything you read or see on the internet. Remember, they earn money every time you click on their video.”
And especially when my dad starts getting huffy about Prices or Artists He Doesn’t Like, I tell him “that’s the beauty of capitalism. they have a product to sell and the freedom of expression if you don’t like it you don’t have to buy it.”
Might not work for everyone but dad’s KRYPTONITE especially is saying “but dad that’s capitalism! You LOVE capitalism!” And he either has to stop complaining or admit capitalism is bad and so far I haven’t lost
Saying they’re canceling A League of Their Own’s already abbreviated second season because of the strikes is 100% a strike tactic on the part of the studios. They absolutely can wait, and they know the fans will 100% wait, no matter how long it takes. Garbage. Hot, hot, garbage.
So did the trailer thingy for Percy Jackson magically solve the writers’ strike or something? What did I miss for everyone seemingly forgetting/deciding to ignore that now?
Appreciate the pro-union solidarity, but watching trailers is definitely not strikebreaking! While SAG-AFTRA (the actors’ union) does have a no-promo rule for its members during the strike, the no-promo rule does NOT apply the same way to fans (or, to make things a tad more confusing, the WGA/writers guild, who are free to talk about their work as long as it’s not at the studios’ request.)
The best way to support the unions right now is to boost their message on social media, correct misinformation, and donate to strike funds such as the Entertainment Community Fund and the Green Envelope Grocery Aid fund. Until such time as the unions actually ask for a boycott, we are not boycotting.
iirc one of the battle royale actors is now a lefty politician and like, assaulted someone in diet or something
good for him
Reiwa Shinsengumi (Yamamoto’s party) also 100% backs every (gay and) trans right measures and champions disability rights. The lawmakers that necessitated adding even more mobility measures in the Japanese Diet Building all came from Reiwa Shinsengumi. Few of the only trans candidates running for elections in the last few years have almost all (if not outright all) campaigned with Reiwa Shinsengumi. It’s an incredible party that has moved JCP towards a more progressive policy for LGBT+ and disability rights.
Also holy shit that’s the dopest name for a political party I’ve ever heard.
No a quasar comes from active galactic nuclei/black holes. The picture shown is a neutron star but more specifically a pulsar, which makes the original joke even funnier bc it implies that op is spinning really fast while theyre sn'farting
In terms of like, Please For The Love Of God Get Hobbies That Aren’t Scrolling Through An App For Six Hours A Day, I understand and experience completely the argument of like. with the stressors of modern work, you don’t have the energy at the end of the day to do anything but mindlessly watch Netflix and scroll through your phone. but like I would like to gently encourage you to simply force yourself for a time to do something instead of pick up your phone, bc the phone is literally designed to light up your brain with no effort from you whatsoever and it does in fact rot your brain. It makes literally anything but scrolling on your phone seem difficult and joyless. But if you stop scrolling on your phone all the time, and start like, reading or embroidering or gardening or going for walks, you will eventually find the joy in them once more
I understand and it is true that it is hard to have a life outside work and scrolling but there is not a near future where that won’t be the case and you should still live a life. And you won’t create a future where that isn’t the case if you don’t have the confidence and experience and drive to fight for it
the trick is to recognize that there’s nothing intrinsically exhausting about reading a book or painting a picture or doing any of the activities that are meaningful to you. What makes these things seem exhausting is the fact that they’re now competing with cheaper stimulation. In a paper published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a group of psychologists suggested that the feeling of effort is a sensation of opportunity costs. When you’re doing something and an alternative activity promises to be easier and more immediately rewarding, the original activity feels effortful.
Therefore, if you want to do the things that matter, you need to make the alternatives less salient. Reading will be hard when Netflix is always an option. Family time will seem boring if your phone is always within arm’s reach. Easier will beat better if it’s always available.
