Throwaway05
1d ago
I'm not saying it's wise I'm saying people are down, and they are still down it just becomes riskier for a variety of reasons (including videos on the internet).
Throwaway05
2d ago
receive a text message saying
While sus it's not incompatible with consent and active engagement from the lady, some people in college (especially when high or drunk) just go for that kind of stuff, both as the deliverer and receiver.
Think about girls gone wild and old school campus porn videos. Some people are into this even if it sounds alien.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Do we know anything about them or what happened? I saw something about it being a drone attack but otherwise it's been beaten down hard.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Is that really the case?
What else do we have that's high profile and obviously physically impossible? Even things like exaggerations of self driving cars are "not quite there yet and not clear when we'd get there" not "impossible."*
*With the caveat that Theranos is obviously impossible without other more eye catching and valuable technologies, not impossible with science fiction technology.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Lamb is a damn good character and I think that covers for a lot of sins lol.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Perhaps for the British, but they are nearly a minority in their own country at this point, no?
Throwaway05
2d ago
I think you are correct that it's because of easy targets and all the other usual CW stuff and at the same time the UK has had recent severe organized terrorism performed by Whites, unlike the US (which mostly has psychotic actions and a few small isolated political ones).
Throwaway05
2d ago
I mean isn't the premise of the show using idiots to solve spy problems?
Throwaway05
2d ago
Probably, but I also don't think it is unreasonable for him to be portrayed as an idiot who is skilled, which makes him more dangerous and dysfunctional than most of the idiots who are corrupt or just idiots. Lack of growth goes along with that.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Well, doctors in residency programs and the marines provide benefits.
I'd argue Residency isn't really hazing most of the team - the mistreatment can easily continue before and afterwards (it's base for any job in academia, which all Residencies basically are), the hours are bad but they aren't team building it's free labor.
Throwaway05
3d ago
I mean pledging is great, hazing walks a fine line. When I was in Greek Life a student at another Fraternity died and several more ended up in the hospital. I wasn't at one of Those schools.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Right, I think more perceptive watchers will pick this up quickly but at first you are supposed to think he isn't at fault. Later on it becomes clear he nearly has everything he needs but is justttttt off, not sure what will happen in future seasons/books, he may eventually put it together.
And at the same time - you also start to realize that with like only 3-4 exceptions, everyone else is the same as him or worse (even at the mothership). Cough cough dogs cough.
I'm not sure Lamb is a bastard, and I think perhaps his off-puttingness is part of his coping mechanism for not being one.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Based off what he did with airplanes my guess is that he told her she would be able to rewrite her story and tell it "how it really was" and he'll manipulate her into getting an interesting product that she may or may not realize is dangerous to her and crazy (because of her presumed/likely personality disorder).
Throwaway05
3d ago
Super Eyepatch Wolf did a long one, I feel like someone else did too but I can't remember who it was.
Throwaway05
4d ago
I am not a personal consumer of his content but I've heard in commentary on him that it deliberately makes it unclear what is a joke, what's him being awkward, what is him pretending to be awkward etc.
This means even if you know what he does it is easy to get thrown off since what is and isn't a character is blurred.
Throwaway05
4d ago
Every once in a while I check in with myself and try and make sure I'm not becoming overly sensitive on culture war matters. I think you doing that here.
For one thing, the show is just great.
For another, it's designed to make you think it's about certain themes when it isn't (for instance the question of if River is meant to be in Slough House). The villains are often part of that (and the over arching theme is usually more system-failure and banal corruption than any specific political bugbear).*
Lastly, while the UK obviously has some stupid and exaggerated fear of right wing extremism, it's not as stupid as it seems because they actually have had white people committing acts of terror is recent memory (the troubles).
*Many of the villains are women, and ethnic women, and one of those women is also a hero. It does not deal with morality in a childlike and unipolar way.
Throwaway05
4d ago
Two things:
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Nathan Fielder is involved with this. This immediately makes it questionable how much of this is a documentary vs. a movie and what genre it is, also how much Holmes is involved in the "joke." If you don't know who Nathan is I really recommend looking into it, a few YouTubers have multi hour long videos that make you question reality. The guy is doing some really interesting performance art and/or is a wild person.
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Holmes was always part of the take adjacent delusion complex. The technology was very obviously physically impossible to anyone with a science background, so like many scams you immediately filtered off anybody with any sense, so everyone involved was an idiot or profoundly desperate to find a blond female tech savant.
I mean he's the face of the MeToo movement they were always going to obliterate him hardest, add in the fact that he's objectively a creep, ugly, and victimized some of the most influential women (well sort of, but close enough) he was always going to be drawn and quartered.
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