Moral Geohazard

Since I’m looking up content for two very different levels of skier, I think my algorithm is getting confused by the dichotomy of “how to stand up on skis” and “drills to send Corbet’s” as two types of searches.

British F1 fandom seems exhausting. I just want good racing.

Since we weren't living together four years ago, my poor wife was not aware that my Canadian ass is perfectly willing to marathon every single curling event at the Winter Olympics.

It's a winter sport that involves physics and rocks. What's not to love?

Fair question: why don't you have opt out on the first layer of the cookie consent banner?

You're also shoving Google Analytics under "strictly necessary" when it cannot be used in that way.

Hey, how are you GDPR compliant with the laundry list of third party tracking ID cookies being set prior to any interaction with your consent banner?

Ferrari getting praised and Audi clowned on for their respective liveries has convinced me that the average F1 fan thinks nostalgia is synonymous with good design.

A random Japanese curry soup chain is straight up one of the best -meals- I’ve ever had and I’m a massive foodie.

Ferrari makes ugly, slow cars now and I think we need to admit at some point that this is a trend from our favourite midfield team rather than an outlier from a solid frontrunner.

Adams always gave off, and sort of owned, the vibe of someone who circumstances -allowed- to be an awful human being instead of making him into one. He was also responsible in part for the radicalization of a lot of boomers.

So it's just benthic academia?

I don't think starting World War III should be considered "a distraction" from other things even if it does distract from other things.

Artist's impression of rocks on a barren ocean floor, devoid of life, tectonism, or volcanic activity. Europa's seafloor is probably a bit like this, but in absolute darkness (which doesn't make for all that compelling a picture).

New paper alert!

tl;dr: the seafloor of Europa is probably tectonically inert, meaning little to no active fracturing that could expose fresh rock to seawater.

Without such water–rock reactions the prospect for there being life within Europa just took a big hit.

A thread:

Makes me think of Portra 800 thrown in a blender with Kodak Gold.

These people vote.

Article screenshot saying “Snook had not prepared a speech, saying her husband commented in the car that she seemed distant.”

It’s still how awards are weighted, regardless of who wins. Movies above TV, length doesn’t matter. The article is still sexist; I can’t imagine a man’s speech would have been reduced to this, especially considering her full speech (youtube.com/shorts/Dwhsj...):

Dang, we made it to 2026 before learning the ocean is only ~41% water.

I won’t for a second disagree that media coverage of these events, and in general, is sexist as hell. That said, “Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television” is absolutely a lesser award than general Best Supporting Actor.

“Vecna said he was working with the Mind Flater directly and this must be accepted as the unvarnished truth of the character and the most accurate possible understanding of the plot. Also yes this character’s whole thing is lying to convince people he’s in control. Not to himself though!”

“Rather preposterously” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Y’all

1. Eleven repeatedly talks about breaking the cycle of violence
2. Will explicitly lays out how Henry is a victim
3. Henry, who constantly lies and always must be in control, rejects the idea he is not in control

The media literate response is not to assume Henry is suddenly 100% accurate.

I mean that is literally the opposite of the subtext and explicitly stated text of the story but sure. I’m happy you enjoyed the ending, in all seriousness.

Eleven was even running around screaming about breaking the cycle. I’m not sure how much less subtle they could have been that’s we’re meant to view Henry Creel as a sympathetic, though not redeemed, villain in the end.

The audience who takes Vecna’s rejection of his own redemption at face value is the audience who can’t handle subtext they were writing for. I don’t mean this as a shot at you personally, but your sympathy for the villain comment was more than a bit on the nose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I love genre fiction. My goods
reads is mostly genre.

Vecna was redeemed by the story, in part. His own rejection of a redemption arc is part of that victimization, regardless of what’s explicitly stated. That’s media literacy. Missing that is why I’m griping about the audience it was written for.

A: the entire ending had a big arc decidated specifically to sympathy for the villain.

B: That doesn’t really excuse it being poorly written

C: I… sort of mean what I said here. This was written for an audience without media literacy. If that lands for you I do think you’re in the majority.

Both El and Henry have wildly varying power levels depending on their need to experience peril, which the writers made clear was never actually peril. It felt like their strength was arbitrarily determined by the scene.

Some of the kids murdered a bunch of soldiers with witnesses still around lol

I think the plot holes were secondary to an abject refusal to trust the audience to read subtext or any theme not explicitly stated for the glued-to-their-phone crowd.

It wasn’t bad in the way the ending of GoT was. It was bad in the way the third Avatar was: if you treat the audience as unable to think through anything serious work requiring nuance the script quality will reflect that. It feels very… slop-ish in a second-screen writing way.

2/2

The ending of Stranger Things was laid bare; no subtext, no nuance, no complicated relationships following five seasons of ostensibly a horror show. The emotional weight of the scenes were clearly written for people half paying attention on their phones and everything was by the numbers 1/2