Jiro
15hr ago
This dovetails with @naraburn's post about the Pokemon Go avatar changes being designed, apparently, to challenge conventional beauty standards- especially the sub-question in that thread regarding a conspiracy to promote ugliness. That conspiracy exists, in its declaration that there is no Noble Physiognomy, and our attractions are just manipulated by White Supremacy.
"Conspiracy to promote ugliness" in that context is mostly about women, so it doesn't apply here.
Jiro
1d ago
People who are not weird Internet guys think action and inaction have different moral valences.
Jiro
1d ago
"Enshittification" doesn't mean "turned to shit". It means "turned to shit because of user, and later business, lock-in".
Jiro
2d ago
Why wouldn't it apply to all home video sales rather than specifically DVDs and only DVDs?
Jiro
2d ago
Explaining that we're on the edge of the map and can't move any further
This is like complaining that on page 83 of your printed book, there's the number 83 written in the corner and you think that nobody in the book has a reason to say "83" in character.
Even if it's a character who speaks the line (I can't access the link), that's a genre convention and has no bearing on writing quality.
Jiro
6d ago
would rather hole himself up in an embassy for the rest of his life rather than go attend a police interview in god damned Sweden of all places.
That's an inaccurate description. It isn't the police interview in Sweden that he didn't want, it's being thrown into a cell in the US that he didn't want.
idpol has an issue with human bodies that it doesn't have with planes.
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