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- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 3 weeks ago:
Apparently, Digg may be coming back.
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
Ah, I see that you too are a man of culture.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 weeks ago:
Use Freetube or Invidious, problem solved.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 3 weeks ago:
Try removing via ADB, maybe?
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
What are you talking about? Stop projecting, friend.
Do tell us about this great replacement theory you brought up.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
It is quite impressive that you think that anyone who disagrees with you is automatically a MAGA supporter. Tell me friend, is a MAGA supporter in the same room where you are at, can other people see them, or just you? Or do you think they just humouring you? Or do they just live rent free in your head 24/7?
Is a Pizza slice with anchovies a Facist pizza just because you may not like anchovies?
LOL
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Source of your link:
“One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details that have not been made public, said the purge could delete as many as 100,000 images or posts in total, when considering social media pages and other websites that are also being culled for DEI content. The official said it’s not clear if the database has been finalized.”
Do you have an actual source and not fear mongering? I think you seem to lack understanding on what “erasure,” actually means. No one is hiding or destroying anything.
Also, what you are saying is that I was correct with Tubman or you are still cannot admit to being wrong or are you going to just move the goal post again, Friend? As hominems just prove my point, as you would not resort to those.
I maen, people can down vote me all they want, but we both know you were wrong. LOL
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Hehehe.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Uh, it’s a free country and neither of us are paying for the server space. Albeit I do not know why you want to be such a white supremacist or focus on that. But c’est la vie. You do you, friend! No judgement.
Maybe add a PIC of Watanabe. But if not, post a bunch more photos of Tom Cruise, his new movie is about to come out! More eyes on the ball, I say. Cheers!
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
See? That is your problem. You and I care about History. The people who are okay with erasing white people based it all on political ideology that is educated on extremely cherry picked and narrow history factoids and examples along with an unhealthy dose of presentism. Sticking with objectivity is not their goal. Most of them are not even aware they are doing that as they are just parroting ideas that others in their echo chambers tell them. I know a bunch of kids at my local Uni who say the same thing and they get it either from the same professors who push the same thing or social media. Primary Sourcing is not something they do as it would prove them wrong.
Erasing the culture is the goal, despite the fact that they blame others of doing what they themselves are doing as a distraction.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Take it easy man, we do not want to over stage Citizen Kane, here.
Mr. Tan Suit would win best supporting actor, AND best costume design, by itself.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
First and foremost, you are side stepping my comment. She ain’t getting “erased.” You could admit to just being wrong there. Instead of moving the goal post.
First link: They are removing DEI stuff from NASA. We do not have to insert DEI into everything if it is not merited. They are not trying to “erase” people from history. DEI is based on political ideology that tends to be performative rather actually useful. Look at all the corporations that claims to support LGBT issues in the USA but say and do nothing in Muslim countries? Why? Because it is all a grift that people in the USA and other countries fall for. Search about the missing money from BLM, Something like half of the 90+ million is just gone. Mostly in houses, salaries to friends, family and crazy lifestyles, ttavelling. Up here in Toronto, the head of BLM embezzled like $100,000 from York University. Then claimed racism when they took her to court, backtracked that claim the day before the court date and said she would try to pay it back as a way to avoid possible jail. Merited credit is good, Tubman is not going anywhere.
Second link: They are returning the stuff to their rightful owners. They could just donate the items, if they wanted to and care so much about the history. As they claim. . If it was part of the collection it would be on display.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
- Who is in the habit of starting to watch a movie and like, walk out half way? Most people watch movies from beginning to end. Like what are you saying? People are not supposed to know every plot beat or point in a movie if they have never watched it or read the script.
Did you know that in the Avengers movie, they do not really or actually avenge anything? You would have to watch it to get that, I guess.
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Uh, so? It was an American production about an American fictitious character, starring one of the biggest, most recognised actors and movie draws of the last 35+ years. Fail to understand the point… Did you know that Japanese movies spotlight Japanese actors/characters on their covers even if the movie is set in the USA or Europe or deals with their culture? Is it incorrect when they do it?
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Why do you hate the fact that most Americans at the time did not know who Watanabe was? That’s nonsensical. It is not anyone’s job to know actors from other countries. Clearly, the biggest draw was Tom Cruise both in the USA and for the international market, he is still a huge draw, even today. I would say that most of the world did not know who Watanabe was, outside of Japan at that point. I would say that most people may not know who he is even today. Unless you point out the Last Samurai or the Godzilla or Batman movies first. Despite he being in tons of other projects, specially in Japan TV.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
In fairness, many Hollywood actors and actresses are really good at being aware that is happening and yet keeping all their mouths sealed shut while the raping is happening, and for decades. And then pretend to be shocked once the shit comes out. Guess, that is called: Acting.
Pretending she didn’t know anything about it may be Oprah’s best acting outing in her career in the businesses.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
I do not get it. I just see 3 pictures of Tubman.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, she died in 1913, if she has not been erased in 112 years, and with people still want to make a movie about her…
Perhaps you may be leaning into conspiracy theories and are fear mongering yourself and others. Stop it.
Here, from Wikipedia:
Parks, monuments, and historical sites
National parks and national monuments related to Tubman in the United States are the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park, both in Maryland,[215] and the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn.[216] The Salem Chapel in St. Catharines, Canada where Tubman worshipped, is a National Historic Site of Canada.[217]
The city of Auburn, New York has several historical sites related to Tubman, including her gravesite.[218][219] Other state and local historical sites about Tubman include the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park[220] and the Harriet Tubman Memorial Garden[221] in Maryland, and the Harriet Tubman Museum is in New Jersey.[222]
Artistic portrayals
Tubman is the subject of many works of art. Musicians including Woody Guthrie, Wynton Marsalis, and Walter Robinson have written songs celebrating her.[223] She is the subject of operas by Thea Musgrave,[224] Nkeiru Okoye,[225] and Hilda Paredes,[226] as well as plays by Carolyn Gage and a collaboration of May Miller and Willis Richardson.[227] Tubman is the focus of novels by Elizabeth Cobbs,[228] Marcy Heidish,[229] Anne Parrish,[230] and Bob the Drag Queen,[231] and is a character in novels by Terry Bisson,[232] Ta-Nehisi Coates,[233] and James McBride.[234]
Since Tubman’s life was first dramatized on television in a 1963 episode of the series The Great Adventure,[235] she has been portrayed in TV productions such as The Good Lord Bird,[236] Timeless,[237] Underground,[236] and A Woman Called Moses.[238] Cynthia Erivo received an Academy Award nomination for portraying Tubman in the 2019 biographical film Harriet.[239]
Dozens of schools,[247] streets and highways,[248] church groups, social organizations, and government agencies have been named after Tubman.[249] In 1944, the United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman, its first Liberty ship named for a black woman.[211]
On November 11, 2024, Tubman was posthumously commissioned as a one-star general in the Maryland National Guard in recognition of her military service during the Civil War.[250]
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Wrong again, friend. And on multiple counts. Albeit some creative liberties were taken, it was not a biopic after all, Cruise plays a character who is an amalgamation of this guy:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Brunet
And this guy:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Collache
Both fought with the Bakufu and Brunet even achieved high status in Japanese society.
I invite you to read their wikis, albeit there are better writing on their adventures.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Except Justin Trudeau, an more than once, too. This is why up here the Liberal party refused to pass a Resolution damning black face. It would make them… Hmm… lose face if his pictures were more widely known.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
True! It’s called acting for a reason.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
The last Samurai is not played by Tom Cruise. He plays a guy who gets to know and grows to respect the last Samurai and Japanese culture.
Ken Watanabe as Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto, he plays the eponymous “Last Samurai.”
Clearly you have not even watched the damn movie. Or what is your point?
But we are all good with a black woman playing the real life British Anne Boleyn?
Man, can’t wait until we find out which white actor will play Barack Obama in his biopic. I mean, diversity is our strength.
- Comment on Europe’s onlyfans performers can’t get justice 3 weeks ago:
Performers? What a weird euphemism.
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 3 weeks ago:
“Then you are banned.” – Redditor Jannie
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 3 weeks ago:
In my network circle, only a few 50+ year olds still use SMS. Either everyone is on my Nextcloud instance, Delta Chat or Signal. Or of they have iphones they use imessages between themselves.
- Comment on Gig Companies Violate Workers’ Rights: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber claim to offer workers flexibility but end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages. 3 weeks ago:
This has been said for over a decade. People were either ignoring this or not paying attention.
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 3 weeks ago:
It is not hard.
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 3 weeks ago:
They never explained why. We all know why. So thankful that I am not a gamer and as such I do not even sign up to Google on my phone via Playstore or even Google Play Services. I can get away with either Aurora or just FOSS apps.
- Comment on Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration 4 weeks ago:
In fairness Palantir has always been an underhanded Corp. Even from before Trump.
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 4 weeks ago:
The AI moralises on the importance that not everyone gets to be old and then forgives the man who killed him. Fuck that garbage.
Since you know it was the wife who pushed for it.
- Comment on AI will replace routine — freeing people for creativity. 4 weeks ago:
So if Bill Gates says it then it must be true and honest? Yeah, the Billionaire who uses Venture Philanthropy to hide his manipulating of the markets he just happens to also invest in, too?
Whatever man. He also gives tons money to Media outlets so no one ever criticises him. Why would they bite the hand that feeds them? Conflict of interest much?
Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets](www.mintpressnews.com/…/278943/)
Awards Directly to Media Outlets:
NPR- $24,663,066
The Guardian (including TheGuardian.org)- $12,951,391
Cascade Public Media – $10,895,016
Public Radio International (PRI.org/TheWorld.org)- $7,719,113
The Conversation- $6,664,271
Univision- $5,924,043
Der Spiegel (Germany)- $5,437,294
Project Syndicate- $5,280,186
Education Week – $4,898,240
WETA- $4,529,400
NBCUniversal Media- $4,373,500
Nation Media Group (Kenya) – $4,073,194
Le Monde (France)- $4,014,512
Bhekisisa (South Africa) – $3,990,182
El País – $3,968,184
BBC- $3,668,657
CNN- $3,600,000
KCET- $3,520,703
Population Communications International (population.org) – $3,500,000
The Daily Telegraph – $3,446,801
Chalkbeat – $2,672,491
The Education Post- $2,639,193
Rockhopper Productions (U.K.) – $2,480,392
Corporation for Public Broadcasting – $2,430,949
UpWorthy – $2,339,023
Financial Times – $2,309,845
The 74 Media- $2,275,344
Texas Tribune- $2,317,163
Punch (Nigeria) – $2,175,675
News Deeply – $1,612,122
The Atlantic- $1,403,453
Minnesota Public Radio- $1,290,898
YR Media- $1,125,000
The New Humanitarian- $1,046,457
Sheger FM (Ethiopia) – $1,004,600
Al-Jazeera- $1,000,000
ProPublica- $1,000,000
Crosscut Public Media – $810,000
Grist Magazine- $750,000
Kurzgesagt – $570,000
Educational Broadcasting Corp – $506,504
Classical 98.1 – $500,000
PBS – $499,997
Gannett – $499,651
Mail and Guardian (South Africa)- $492,974
Inside Higher Ed.- $439,910
BusinessDay (Nigeria) – $416,900
Medium.com – $412,000
Nutopia- $350,000
Independent Television Broadcasting Inc. – $300,000
Independent Television Service, Inc. – $300,000
Caixin Media (China) – $250,000
Pacific News Service – $225,000
National Journal – $220,638
Chronicle of Higher Education – $149,994
Belle and Wissell, Co. $100,000
Media Trust – $100,000
New York Public Radio – $77,290
KUOW – Puget Sound Public Radio – $5,310
Together, these donations total $166,216,526.