UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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Unfortunately, its white dudes all the way down

Andor's five-season plan was axed due to "desperation," "Diego's face"

"It just takes too long to make it," showrunner Tony Gilroy concluded, explaining why he condensed Cassian Andor's five-year journey into two seasons.

it’s the valiant choice.

In the same way that shoving your dick into a wood chipper is, sure.

Was Alexi Navalny valiant? Was Prigovian? Was Milosivec? Was Saddam Hussein?

A truly valiant leader probably wouldn’t find themselves in the situation where it was necessary to do that

"No truly valiant person has ever had a warrant out for their arrest" is...

Come on dude.

But then again, the mass general population is fucking dumb

That's a lazy explanation. It neglects that Netflix did have a lot of accumulated goodwill from ease of access and quality content.

But now its in the enshittification era. All the streaming services are behaving like this. There's no alternative that doesn't suck with a comparable library.

Who does he think he is? An American?

*Also the writing generally sucks ass and assumes I’m not paying attention.

I've seen the articles dealing with the phenomenon of "Standard Netflix Show" and how it has become so painfully formulaic that it can only be described as background noise.

Really not a great sign when your premium service is treated like elevator music. But hey, they've got a near-trillion dollar valuation, so clearly I'm dumb and their C-levels have earned every penny.

It might be worth asking why a national leader simply handing oneself over to a militant opposition isn't something that happens more frequently. Is there no such thing as a valiant national leader? Or would martyring yourself for the sake of a foreign coalition's legal code be kinda pointless and dumb?

while it does stop a lot, missles and rockets still get through to Israel.

It stops some rockets initially. But the math of missile defense has always been needing two or more countermeasures for every incoming projectile. Consequently, its only useful against small or infrequent salvos. As soon as you get into a war with a modern industrial war-time economy (say, for instance, Iran) you can't keep up with the number of inbound projectiles.

Once Israeli missile defenses run dry, there's nothing left standing between them and the next strike.

I’m sure US citizens will also be glad to know that they have donated $2,600,000,000 of their tax dollars specifically towards just the Iron Dome project in Israel between 2011 and 2022.

It would be antisemitic not to be glad.

More or less risky and inefficient than the Iron Dome?

Asking for an Israeli guy currently hiding in a bunker.

Netflix getting in on the streamed video games wasn't all that crazy. I flirted with it initially, as they had a few good Steam titles on there that I was effectively getting handed for free.

But the marketing approach of jamming "Play this clickbait garbage game, you stupid idiot!" install button into my face every time I visited the site ultimately lead me to cancel my subscription. Like so much else in modern streaming, the website's admins do not want you to have any control over your front page. The end result is utterly alienating.

When has a world leader ever done this?

Let’s call this what it is: a pattern of harassment wrapped in the pretense of critique. Whether it was Ms. Marvel, The Little Mermaid, The Acolyte, or The Last of Us Season 2, projects centering women — particularly Black women or women of color — have been consistently met with a wave of bad-faith backlash from the very people who claim to love the genre.

Not wrong. But it does seem to miss the general slide in popularity of the rest of the Marvel franchise. Very easy to review bomb a movie that nobody else is interested in watching, because the genre and the franchise is utterly played out.

I suspect the "We don't make art at this company, we make money" bean counters at Disney+ will continue to take the wrong message from all of this. Given their rush to cancel a bunch of prestige hits, like Andor and Extraordinary among others, I suspect we're going to see a new wave of cheap, low-budget, heavily AI-driven slop content in the near future. The lesson we learn will be to double down on boring white dude power fantasies, because their standard for art and writing is so much lower than their peers.

I hope we're all ready for everything to become Rebel Moon!

What is the valiant thing to do in this instance?

So obnoxious to see Americans conclude "The bombings were done incorrectly" after this horrifying bullshit.

Fucker is out there committing naked, wildly unconstitutional straight-up war crimes for clout. And the liberal response is just to pooh-pooh him for failing to demolish a civilian nuclear program.

"If Kamala Harris was in charge, she'd have leveled those mountain-encased centrifuges!" will be the 2026 DNC rallying cry.

Wait till you find out the causi belli for the War of 1812

Wait till you find out about Dunmore's Proclamation

Is that why we bombed them

Arming The Moderate Rebels was, incidentally, how Hamas formed in opposition to the Palestinian Authority two decades ago. Then they became the excuse Israel needed to do genocide at the border.

Cannot be overemphasized that the average age of Palestinians is eighteen. These are children being bombed, caged tortured, displaced, starved, and then armed to turn against one another.

In another ten years, we're going to get another whole fascist line about how Palestinians are feral soulless savages. Textbooks will be written to teach future Israelis how Arabs lack humanity, with the remnants of Palestinian society used as the proof.

the IAEA’s entire purpose is non-proliferation of nuclear weapons

Oh? How many inspections have they made in Israel?

Sorry, I will not feel pity towards the Iranian government.

Of course not. Your brain is poisoned by hate.

I couldn't name anyone I knew who actually went through the shit of Vietnam and wore one of those hats proudly.

They were exclusively for the ranks of the Texas Air National Guard, the straight up draft dodgers who wanted to look cool with their chud friends, and the handful of sociopaths who thought burning down people's homes was cool.

What I’m arguing is that you said this was all to prevent Iran to have nuclear energy, which is untrue since Iran already has that.

They have a single nuclear plant that had been under construction since 1975 and was held up repeatedly by foreign intervention, including the 2009 sabotage effort by the Obama administration's CIA - which, incidentally, gave the rest of the world exposure to the Stuxnet virus as collateral. Then there has been the persistent effort by US and Israeli intelligence services to kidnap and assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists, also going back decades. Not even including the assassination efforts since 2021, we've seen attacks in 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 all linked back to western aligned governments.

"Iran has a single nuclear power plant so what are you complaining about?" is deliberately naive and obtuse, particularly when peer nations like Germany and France have enjoyed the benefits of between six and fifty-six plants going back over 40 years. Hell, the UAE has four active plants and over 5x Iran's total energy capacity for a population 1/10th the size, without provoking the kind of intervention and assault the Iranians have endured.

The latest bombing of uranium enrichment facilities - hell, the fact that they need to bury their refinement facilities at the bottom of a mountain to begin with - illustrate the undo costs and constant threats Iranians need to endure in order to modernize their electric grids.

I do not agree they should be outright attacked over such things, but to pretend like Iran is completely innocent is ridiculous.

Innocent of what? Implementing energy modernization strategies that have been in the works since prior to the revolution?

What are you even accusing them of? Not adhering to an arms control agreement the US pulled out of as an excuse to attack them? It's insane to even talk about the Iranian nuclear program absent the malicious history of foreign intervention.