here in the United States it generally means your underpants, but a lot of people in the northern appalachians will call any pants pantaloons

i’m so excited

that’ll happen when you use chatgpt

oh so they adopted the firefox versioning scheme. i hate the future

motherfucker, what? the “war” was over immediately. it’s been all one killing field ever since. any help to israel in that time has only been in service of making the machinery of genocide faster. this is no different than ibm providing equipment to make the nazis faster at genocide

gnome 3 even all these years later isn’t api stable enough for me to want to use. took way too much inspiration from nodejs imo

well that’s some good news at least

wait is that not how everyone does it 😂

my problem with certain programs, chrome included, is they tell the os “no, you can’t have this ram back. i’m using it”

i understand the logic of your argument, but it’s never played out in life

when the time comes for you to invade us, i will be helping you for your glorious square drive fasteners

You know. Like how the Nazis made sure that theirs was the only propaganda that was shown to the people. Nothing is ever new. All of this has happened before. We can break the cycle any time we like, we only just never do because we all have a different understanding of when we have the pressure and the power to overthrow our tyrannical dictators. We all have different perspectives on where the groundswell is. The only way to remedy that is to go outside and talk to the groundswell in person. The revolution will not be televised.

yup, which is legit what rian johnson is saying here. the studios aren’t setting up movies to succeed for their creators because the studios make way more money fror streaming

are you not using a monospace font?

if you don’t want alignment don’t be surprised when your code doesn’t align 🤷

I thought about it, but I didn’t see it so I didn’t feel qualified to list it. In a lot of ways we exist in a golden age of weird and interesting movies because we’re all so exhausted of safe movies meant for the lowest common denominator, but the hard part is finding out about those movies as they come out because movie promotion and distribution is so broken. The most common way for a movie to get promotion is a trailer in front of another movie. But we’re not really going to the movies anymore as a society because we’re tired of safe common denominator movies, but since we’re not going to the movies anymore, the studio system is leaning HARDER into safe movies they know will get some return and aren’t spending money promoting the weird shit because they don’t even know if we’ll watch the weird shit.

I’d love a studio to gamble everything on promoting a weird movie on network TV, the radio, and on billboards (the most effective forms of promotion) to reach people who want to see new interesting things but just don’t know what new interesting things are going on. I really think at this point movie execs fundamentally misunderstand the movie landscape in a post Avengers: Endgame world

It’s that platform juggling that rankles me about this streaming system, and the constant price hikes of the streaming services themselves, as well as the fact that sometimes as part of the juggling something’s just not available on the evening you and your partner want to watch something you liked. It’s the type of shit that has me shopping for a bluray player because WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING AROUND HERE, JUST LET ME OWN AND ENJOY THE MOVIES I LIKE FUCK

Their union fought extremely hard to get distribution shares from box office runs in the 00s and its still part of their collective contract. It’s an extremely meager share, but it’s still where their financial stability comes from. Yeah there’s more jobs available if more shovel movies in production all the time, but that doesn’t get them more stability, it aligns them closer to day laborers. The IATSE Local 44 (who most of hollywood’s studios’ workers of this variety are represented by) are expected to strike in 2027 because they don’t get as much from streaming films as box office films.

There’s so many good films that came out in the last 10 years that are to this day hard to find on streaming because they don’t fit into the Netflix, Hulu, or Disney+ model of “shut your brain off and shut the fuck up about the economy”

• Parasite
• I, Tonya
• Get Out
• BlacKkKlansman
• Sorry to Bother You (in bold because this is one of the most important films of the last 10 years, and no one fucking talks about it)
• David Byrne’s American Utopia (yes, I’m putting two Spike Lee joints on my list, IT’S MY LIST)
• Furiosa (WHY DID EVERYONE SLEEP ON THIS ONE!? IT’S ALL THE MAD MAX THINGS WE ALL LIKE AND IT HAS SOMETHING TO SAY I FEEL LIKE I’M GOING CRAZY)
• The Boy and the Heron
• Godzilla Minus One
• The Fabelmans (This one is incredible. All y’all let Steven Spielberg down. This movie has EVERYTHING that he’s all about and it’s a heartfelt introspection into who he is as a director, what his influences are, and why it’s important to make media about how Nazis suck)
• RRR
• Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse & Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Everything Everywhere All at Once

Some of these are very easy to find because they were too popular to be ignored, but some of these I saw in a cinema, and then that was it. I need to either wait for an independent theater to decide they want to rent a reel for a weekend for 2 screenings, or to save up $25 to buy the movie outright because it’s not streaming anywhere.

Honestly putting together this list made me feel like I’m actually going crazy a little bit. There’s been so many masterpieces in the last 10 years. To the extent that I left an entire Mad Max film off my list, and the one I left off is the one everyone likes.

The problem isn’t that no good movies are coming out. The problem is the studio system and the streaming services don’t promote the creative and innovative movies. They don’t fit into the overall system of propaganda that our media landscape is. Particularly any Boots Riley or Spike Lee film is going to be made to be seen by people who already know they’re generational directors because the studios expressly don’t want you to think about how America exploits Black art. If you did that you might do something about it, and that would disrupt the money streams.

Not random. This is a pretty common standard for most style guides that if you split a ternary operator across lines you align the option colon to the ternary itself. Your alt text formatting is way different from the pic by the way

Not trying to insult. Just saying Rian Johnson saying he would like it if his movie production staff were paid, and you telling him to go fuck himself, and you perceive everyone you interact with as rude might be related and indicative that you are abrasive to interact with. I’m willing to be wrong, but take it into consideration. Because Rian Johnson isn’t talking about you. He’s not telling you he need you to go to the cinema. But you sure took it like that, which is odd