Sometimes that works but typically people spread out and smoke on both ends of the bus stop, or people will be smoking as they walk around.
The wind blows the shit around as well, it doesn’t really take much of it to start the headache going.
Yep, death to people smoking at bus stops once again.
Love to get a huge headache at 6 in the morning because people have a chemical addiction to breathing poison into the air.
Once again wishing that everyone who smokes at a bus stop gets struck by lightning.
You can also find rare legitimately interesting user curated lists with some kind of stated perspective.
Idk a better method than getting lucky with checking what lists your favourite albums are on, but I did find a gem titled something like “The First String” for stuff with interesting focus on guitar, which ranged from American Primitivism, noise improv, to Surf Rock from Egypt.
I don’t really get all the stuff about how you don’t get to know your coworkers if you don’t have a happy hour, because if there’s one thing I know about coworkers at work it’s that people talk all the time about basically anything.
Only times that are categorically quiet is during evening or weekend shifts when you have like 4 people and at least half of them are dead tired just trying to do a competent job.
Like most obnoxious conspiracy guys, it’s very amorphous and depends on what they can say to be superior in the moment.
Often they want it to be the former, but typically only the latter actually has concrete proof of it happening in various circumstances(and rarely if ever as a discrete commercial venture.)
It basically comes off to me as a more antisocial and obnoxious version of the JFK truth circles, which I already think is practically worthless to really engage with in a political sense.
Like that’s too mainstream and accepted for these guys, so they go for something more radical and edgy. The same thing was sort of happening with satanic panic shit for a while too but that tended to edge more right wing IME.
I really hope this isn’t becoming a trend but this is the second time I’ve had twitter show me someone who is acting extremely superior about their ideological position that you’re basically not a real leftist unless you loudly believe that snuff films are real.
Like just you’re basically a dumb fucking hog who might as well be an average lib if you just kind of assume they are an urban legend but don’t actually care.
Fundamentally how do you not get intimidated by an attack on two relatively low level people in the zionist state, if you are a zionist?
Like even if you retaliate, the retaliation is out of being threatened and intimidated.
I definitely get what people are concerned with in regards to backlash and direct retaliation.
But at the same time for how long can the waters just remain basically stagnant on shit like this? Public protest isn’t a viable strategy in the west in regards to reliably extracting victories in the time span people fucking need them to happen.
This does answer my much earlier question about whether or not the British courts recognize take-backs in regards to terror charges.
But also separately, do they fucking anglicize Irish names when they charge someone in court?
Having to start commuting again for work has really revived my hatred for smokers.
Awesome that my only option for not getting a fateful of tobacco right after getting off the train is to literally walk into traffic, and even then its a good 40% chance that across the street there’s someone lighting up while waiting for the bus.
The music mogul thing definitely worries me about the main actual conflict of the first half of the story.
Like with the shoe executive thing you have, if you accept the films terms, an actual dilemma between the immediate human good that saving his chaffeurs kid would do, and the fact that he’s liquidated all his shit to prevent the shoe company from making shoes out of paper so they break in time for the next season, instead trying to provide a theoretically broader social good of providing quality shoes that people can rely on.
But with a music mogul I can’t really conceptualize what transforms the dilemma of “do I spend money on a peasants brat or hoard it like a big dragon?” to something that an audience can buy as a hard decision outside of personal financial trouble. Like is he gonna try and stop the company from making AI playlists?
It’s a shame that the new Spike Lee remake of High and Low finished filming months before the Healthcare CEO shooting.
Feels like doing an interpretation of that and going way more in depth on the subject of the death penalty would be the main interesting take that an American remake could have.
Instead the new trailer just kind of looks like shitty aura and hype moments with little to no substance. Obviously a 1 minute trailer will be limited, but it kind of gives off the same red flags as his Oldboy remake. A more low key thriller reinterpreted as bombastic and flashy.
So far it seems like the only real details out there on the new film is that the main character is a big name music CEO instead of a mid tier shoe company executive.
Not necessarily direct praxis but any kind of hand repair skill seems like just fundamentally good to learn and also a fun hobby, like hand sewing.
If they were already targeted by the state then does this actually matter, does the English courts generally allow take backsies for “supporting terrorism”?
Usually, the commentary isn’t smart. Developers lean into tired tropes such as nefarious corporations and cast cartoon capitalists as stock villains.
The richest man in the world literally bought a social media platform because of naked personal vanity and is specifically targeting people who make fun of him. Jeff Bezos owns a newspaper that prints articles arguing that “the elites should get more say in government”(real headline paraphrased). Nestle is bottling water for profit basically next door to Flint, after openly arguing water shouldnt be above being treated like any limited commodity. Fuck off.
One title that grapples meaningfully with the subject is science-fiction role-playing game The Outer Worlds. Here you play a space colonist who has been awakened from a long period of cryogenic sleep to find a galaxy run by mega-corporations so powerful that they even own the bodies of their employees. From the sharp minds at the company which created Fallout: New Vegas, the game lets you decide whether to fight against the establishment or to become a shill and reap the rewards.
The game constantly places nice and cleaner centrist options inbetween being a deranged caricature of a maoist guerrilla and literally just playing as porky, this is ideological nuance for child brains. Unless you’re going in enforcing ideology onto your character and actions in the game you’re most likely to just go for these centrist options cause why the bother otherwise? Deciding between wether to starve one of two settlements or just like fucking over one moron and arranging reconcilliation, you would go for fucking over the one moron in charge unless you are going to RP as the Maoist guerrilla who purges the PMC townsfolk for refusing to eat the corpse crops.
It makes sense that any place that is convenient to smoke that also permits you to smoke, will also be a place thats convenient for anyone to be at or pass by.
Can’t really solve that unless you can only smoke in inconvenient spots by law.
Which I wouldn’t be opposed to, but my bias is obvious.