Ugh I need to watch this show, but there's already so much stuff to watch
Redhotkurt
joined 1 year ago
I'm just here for that sweet Car Talk with Martok drip feed. YeeeeAaahh that's the stuff
It’s just the kids reading her books 20 years ago didn’t recognize all the problematic shit she wrote till they grew up.
Adult here who was an adult when the books came out and recognized all the awful racist and sexist imagery. I have nothing new to add to the conversation, I'm just gonna vent. There were quite a few of us here and there who spoke up when the books were published, but we were significantly outnumbered and immediately drowned out by the "shut up and stop complaining" crowd. Yes, all this talk of "problematic" issues in the Potter books are old observations we've been rehashing for two decades...the goblins who run the banks are a horrifyingly obvious Jewish caricature, Chinese character Cho Chang's first name is actually a Korean last name, the one black guy in the whole fuckin series is named "Shacklebolt" (seriously wtf), the one Irish character goes by "Seamus Finnegan," the main female character Hermione is constantly referred to as "bossy"...just to name a few. JFC, what a shitshow.
Ok, one more example that got a lot of attention years back but sort of faded away from public consciousness: in the first movie there's a bigass six-pointed star on the fuckin floor of Gringotts, of all places. You know, Gringotts. The bank......where the undeniably Jew-like goblins work. No fuckin shit, it's right there, plain as day. That one still boggles my mind. I mean, what the fuck, man. https://i.postimg.cc/Jzx2hr31/happry-potter-1-star-of-david-gringotts.png
EDIT: Hey everyone, it's been abuot an hour now and I just want to apologize for all this negativity. I've given this a lot of thought, and I've come to realize all the anti-this and anti-that complaints are really unfair and show only one side of JK Rowling. So I feel compelled to balance this out and remind everyone that she is also pro-slavery. Especially the kind of slavery that forces its slaves to work completely naked, and no one in the book has a problem with it except for the bossy lib girl that everyone hates.
JFC Stamets you have outdone yourself
again
And that too.
Bandcamp's U.S. employees, who launched a union that went public earlier this year, announced early in October that they had sent a letter to Songtradr outlining a list of demands around the sale of the company
JFC, brutal response.
This is a great list, but the repo has not been maintained since July and it's starting to look outdated. There's a few projects here and there that are now defunct, e.g. Reddit clients :(
They just laid off half their staff
Edit: after they got bought out. Hooray capitalism! https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/half-of-bandcamps-staff-laid-off-after-songtradr-acquisition/ar-AA1ijuTX
Huh, I think this might be one of those unique Kbin things. We have an image upload feature that treats it sorta like an attachment; it doesn't embed the image in the comment, rather it appends the image at the end of the comment.
This is what it looks like over here
Thx for the markup tip!
Declining? It might look like that if you expect nonstop continuous growth, but Lenovo has been stable and has held onto its 25% market share for the past five years.
That site might ask you to login, so here's a screenshot.
I'm posting from Kbin, not sure if the image will embed, so here's a backup in case the embed is borked: https://i.imgur.com/vL23xe4.png
https://i.imgur.com/vwQ1VFC.png
FFS lol, why don't we skip the pedantry and just call it Gary already
Holy shit, good for you, lemmy.world. Was wondering if it would ever happen.
Bruh, they're annexing the West Bank. If that's your idea of sharing, I'n dying to see what you think bullshit looks like.