Thrillhouse
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- Comment on How can you make sure the ashes you get after a loved one dies is actually theirs? 1 month ago:
This happens with people too. If you don’t get an urn they’re in an bag inside a box.
- Comment on Canada moves to limit immigration amid strained relations with US 2 months ago:
This is such a low effort trash article.
- Canada isn’t making immigration policy to benefit the US or to stop immigration of our immigrants over the US border.
- Pierre Poilievre is our version of JD Vance - a shithead do nothing lifelong elite.
- Canada needs a certain level of immigration to fund our country as the boomers retire and become more of a burden on our country’s social safety net. They’re fine tuning the volume and types of immigrants they’re willing to accept but make no mistake we need more taxpayers to maintain our quality of life.
- Comment on Nvidia reveals that 150 RTX A6000 GPUs power the Las Vegas Sphere 4 months ago:
The seats are haptic too. It takes forever to render the graphics apparently so maybe that’s why - not playback but rendering. Apparently After Effects will only go up to 12k?
I’m not super technical but I have been to the Sphere. It’s awesome.
- Comment on Florida teens arrested for creating “deepfake” AI nude images of classmates 8 months ago:
No, it’s pretty clearly wrong.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
To be fair the correctional system in its current form in North America is primarily constructed and controlled by capitalist interests.
- Comment on Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending 9 months ago:
My question is: What’s in giving these interviews and making these statements for him? He’s exited the role, he’s made himself clear about the stance he took when he was in the role. Why continue to talk?
When I leave a job and go somewhere new I’m not obsessed with dragging my old workplace.
- Comment on Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending 9 months ago:
- Comment on By letting the capitalistic class write the laws we let them dictate the morality of the country. 11 months ago:
Crime is absolutely an invented concept.
Drinking and driving used to be legal. Now it is a crime. Nothing changed except our society via our elected representatives opted to enact punishments if an individual’s is caught drinking and driving.
It is illegal for me to purchase or possess a firearm in Canada unless I acquire a license to do so. If I don’t meet these requirements and am found in possession of a weapon, I will be prosecuted and face jail time if convicted. However, in American states pretty much anyone can own a gun. The guns are the same; the difference is the values each society places on gun ownership and the contexts under which owning guns is a crime.
Canada has no stand your ground laws / castle doctrine. It is almost impossible to mount a defense here if you severely injure or kill someone trespassing in your home unless your life is at risk and even then it is difficult to prove that. Many US states allow people to use lethal force to protect property and there isn’t even a trial. The act in question here is the same; the difference is how our societies have invented and constructed our laws.
I am technically not allowed to cross the border into Quebec, 15 minutes away from my home, purchase a case of beer where it is cheaper, and then bring that beer back across the border to Ontario. The beer itself is not illegal. Consuming the beer is not illegal. The act of transporting the beer across provincial borders is technically a crime.
My friend has a house in Quebec. I have a house in Ontario. Cannabis is legal in Canada at a federal level. It is a crime for my friend in Quebec to grow their own cannabis for personal consumption on their own property. In Ontario, 15 minutes away, I am permitted to grow 4 plants per adult who lives in my household for personal consumption. The pot plants are the same; the social constructs surrounding the plants are not.
There are so many current examples throughout history and throughout the world of things that used to be legal or illegal in different countries, cultures, and societies that are now the opposite. Slavery, segregation, discrimination, gay marriage? Nothing has changed with these acts - society has changed their definition of what is a crime and what is not. That makes crime something that is invented by humans, the nature of which constantly changes.
If you were one of the last 2 people on earth and the other person killed all of your livestock, has a crime been committed? How can a crime be committed if there is no social contract which dictates what the consequences should be for that act?
- Comment on By letting the capitalistic class write the laws we let them dictate the morality of the country. 11 months ago:
Crime is ABSOLUTELY a social construct. Why was it legal several months ago to have an abortion across the US but now several states are criminalizing the same? Have abortions changed? No - politics did, I would argue spurred on by the desire for capitalists to keep a steady supply of low wage uneducated exploitable desperate workers.
Why is it suddenly criminal in the state of Georgia to give food and water to people lining up at polling stations? Because one class wants to make it uncomfortable and inconvenient for another class, and I would argue race, of people to vote.
For more, from Harper’s Magazine “Legalize It All” (How to Win the War on Drugs):
At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Same as it ever was - criminalizing social classes to disempower them is the name of the game. If you aren’t wise to this you haven’t been paying attention.
- Comment on By letting the capitalistic class write the laws we let them dictate the morality of the country. 11 months ago:
Not familiar with the laws of California but I think the spirit of the post is that the cops will be on your ass immediately and you will be put in jail if you walk with $100.
If your boss steals $100 from you it then becomes a matter for the courts before anyone in the company faces even the slightest threat of jail.
- Comment on Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once? 1 year ago:
To be fair there are lots of movies that don’t deserve Best Picture and win anyway. Years ago, I couldn’t understand Slumdog Millionaire’s win. Love the Coen Bros., but clearly There Will Be Blood was the superior film over No Country, in my opinion.
- Comment on **TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR Discussion Megapost** 2023-10-13 👩🎤🎶 1 year ago:
My guy it is literally pinned.
- Comment on elon musk sounds like the name of a men's cologne 1 year ago:
The best anagram is Sunk Mole
- Comment on **TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR Discussion Megapost** 2023-10-13 👩🎤🎶 1 year ago:
People are allowed to disagree with a film.
- Comment on **TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR Discussion Megapost** 2023-10-13 👩🎤🎶 1 year ago:
We do have joy this whole thing just wears thin.
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
I think gore as well. Things can be nsfw but also not gore.
- Comment on No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific 1 year ago:
I had a hard time in another thread just convincing people that the subject of UAPs is worth any inquiry at all.
I am just chiming in because I feel that people who dismiss the topic in general will see this headline and say see nothing to see here case closed people who investigate this are crazy.
Whereas the phenomena is still very much present and should be investigated - for national security and aviation safety reasons at the very least.
- Comment on No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific 1 year ago:
The thing we aren’t exploring or talking about in mainstream discourse is that UAPs might be terrestrial.
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- Comment on Woman 'joyous' after sister donates womb in UK first 1 year ago:
Exactly. There are so many people and kids already here who need help and support.
And it’s not like we’re in an apocalyptic scenario where no one can have children.
Western countries aren’t having as many children - is this the issue for people/racists?
The cute nuclear family can’t have kids and are sad about it so obviously their feelings are more important than the lives of other people so our resources should definitely be allocated there /s
- Comment on Woman 'joyous' after sister donates womb in UK first 1 year ago:
Given the overpopulation of the world, it’s my personal opinion that there are better uses for our dwindling medical resources and time.
- Comment on **STRAYS Discussion Megapost** 2023-08-18 🐶🐶 1 year ago:
Will Forte plays the owner.
- Comment on **STRAYS Discussion Megapost** 2023-08-18 🐶🐶 1 year ago:
No comment on this movie in particular beyond love Will Forte, hate the talking dogs/mouth moving thing.
I just wanted to say THANK YOU for starting to sticky threads with new movies to facilitate discussion!!! This is one of the things I liked about the movies community in the other place.
- Comment on The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them. 1 year ago:
Thanks for the recommendation! Getting it now!
- Comment on I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit. 1 year ago:
I think maybe as well it always became really heated with the Reddit bots when you would express a differing opinion to theirs. There were many times bots would pick a fight and then argue with you like it was their job (because it was). This feels more chill like the early days of Reddit and I hope it stays that way.