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@ eightpix @lemmy.world

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Been a student. Been a clerk. Been a salesperson. Been a manager. Been a teacher. Been an expatriate. Am a husband, father, and chronicle.

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  • Hudson Hawk, widely panned, is fun; just refuses to take itself seriously.

    • iMDB: 5.7/10
    • RT: 30/100
    • Metacritic:17/100

    I don't care. That's what I think of any film rating system. It's a report, but not the experience itself.

    See also: the Southland Tales, The One (2001), Lost Souls (2000). All are, objectively, bad films. And yet... I remember them to be re-watchable.

    This write-up is on a site for and app and ends up shilling for that app, but it makes some useful points, confirmed by my years of poking around:

    Trust Metacritic most for prestige drama, arthouse cinema, and Oscar contenders.

    Trust IMDb most for genre films.

    Use the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer as a quick pass/fail for critical reception.

    Use the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score cautiously.

    Full disclosure: I don't have the app, don't want the app, and don't care about the app. Also, I skimmed the article in 2 minutes while watching my kids bounce on a trampoline.

  • What book would you recommend to a person in their final days?

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  • If it's a book, and it's in 20-70 years from now, maybe Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. By then, those books will probably read as a history and you can marvel at Octavia Butler's prescience.

    Im going to deviate slightly. I'd say the last film I want to see is Synecodoche, NY. I hope that, on reflection, my life's work is as grand as that of PSH's character in the film.

    I just hope that, despite the work, I get out more often.

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  • I got hacked on Facebook (2018), stopped using Instagram (2019), quit Reddit (2023) & Xitter (2025).

    Now I have only books (lots of audiobooks), Google Keep (own thoughts and pics), Lemmy (random thoughts), and Bluesky (microblog).

    My input and output are much healthier, the people I interact with (when actually people) are nicer, and I generally don't feel doomed.

    Well, yes, I realize the world is fucked, fucked up, and fucking crazy. I've reduced by orders of magnitude how toxic it is to my headspace because I'm cutting out the worst of the dreck and engaging with more objectively real information. I'm not in screaming echo chambers populated in the millions. I'm happy if I get 10 responses to a post. Updoots are incidental.

    Its like leaving L.A. to settle down in Schitt's Creek.

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  • Books/Magazines/Podcasts:

    • No Logo by Naomi Klein
    • Adbusters by Kalle Lasn
    • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
    • A New Train of Thought (though somewhat ham-fistedly) by Various Writers
    • Ashes, Ashes by David Torcivia and Daniel Folkner
    • Reset by Roland J. Diebert

    Fitting the description of movie/show:

    • Mr. Robot
    • Utopia (UK version)
    • Killing Them Softly
    • The Big Short, Margin Call
    • Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
    • 3-Iron (Korean film)
    • Parasite (Korean film)

    There are several documentaries and short films

    • The Corporation by Joel Bakan, Harold Crooks, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
    • Who Killed the Electric Car?
    • The End of Suburbia
    • Man by Steve Cutts (3m47s)
    • Nuggets by Andreas Hykade (5m06s)
    • The Power of Nightmares and HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis

    Also, you might search for films about "corporate malfeasance".

    • Michael Clayton (top pick)
    • The Insider (top pick)
    • Erin Brockovich
    • Dark Waters

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  • As an introvert, it's actually easier for me to talk to strangers. Fewer attachments, lower risk thresholds, can bail when I need to. Mostly it's jokes or insights, comisseration and comedy are easy roads in.

  • What are the top habits that lower life expectancy?

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  • Expecting, or pursuing the establishment of, human rights as a subjugate group or "subordinate" class.

  • What are the top habits that lower life expectancy?

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  • Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A “Historic Opportunity”

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  • Um... has this series jumped the shark yet?

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    What is the end game for all the incarcerated immigrants?

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  • If it's America... Again, the following:

    • target practice
    • cheap / unpaid labor
    • scapegoating
    • entertainment
    • political wedge issue
    • cannon fodder
    • general purpose exploitation
    • status symbols
    • enemy images

  • What is something you dont care to understand or "get"?

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  • Greed. Ignorance. Intolerance.

    Your workout, food, or personal hygiene regimen.

    Exploitation, expropriation, or extortion.

    Your subjective experience of opening a box, playing a video game, or viewing media.

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  • It's in because, well, I was surprised that Grey's Anatomy is in its 22nd season.

    Its interesting that interactions here center on the one pop-culture element of my comment and none on the others. Yes, it's a non-sequitur. It stands out.

    Is it because the others are all self-evident? Flogged to death? Too controversial? Not controversial enough? Insurmountable?

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    • Expensive education
    • Cities planned for cars
    • 5-day work weeks
    • Grey's Anatomy
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Racism

    And I agree with the others who've said:

    • Fossil fuels, particularly coal
    • Private health insurance

  • What do you think about the doc Zeitgeist (2007)

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  • Were you there when it happened to me?

    I swear, that one Donald Sutherland scene in JFK had me going for such a long time on the conspiracy bent. I thought it was real.

    Who knew, it was Kevin Bacon we needed to pay attention to all along.

  • What do you think about the doc Zeitgeist (2007)

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  • Worse, it was produced by Alex Jones.

  • What's your favorite band?

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  • The Roots (first four albums especially)

    Godspeed You! Black Emperor / A Sliver Mt. Zion

    Portishead, Massive Attack

    Public Enemy

  • Which of Gossip Goblin's "The 13 Cycles of Humanity" do you think we are trending toward? TW: body horror, AI generated video (think, Terry Gilliam).

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  • Ah. Oops. Did not know I'd transgressed.

    As far as I know, these cycles were written by the post-maker. I just found them compelling, each a visual and visceral view of our inhumanity toward ourselves. The writing is pretty good. The AI is illustrative, though not altogether the compelling element.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • In your head, change the name of a food you wish to avoid. I've done this with McD's.

    In my head, it's been called McDicks since high school. I, personally, don't enjoy eating dicks. So, when I see the sign, and I feel like a Big Mac would go down easy, I say to myself, "I don't eat dicks."

    It works.

    For those who enjoy eating dicks, well, you'll have to choose another association. Also, I didn't think the phrase "feel like a Big Mac would go down easy" would be so overtly sexual.

  • What do you think is the worst human invention?

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  • More people need to know about Bernays. Literally wrote the book, Propaganda in 1928. Went on to found the industry of Public Relations. He is the reason advertisers target your subconscious, make you feel bad, an use their products as a salve for the pain they inflict.

    Adam Curtis covers the effects well in The Century of the Self. Watch out, it clocks in at just under 4 hours.

  • I had emergency surgery and as a result it looks like I will be zonked out on oxys for the next week. Never had these, what are some good movies to watch in this condition?

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  • Do yourself a favour, watch the directors cut.

  • What's one lifestyle or hobby you wish you got in to but never did?

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  • Skateboarding. Wingsuit flying. BASE jumping.

    All seem like SO much fun. But, Im entering middle age with two kids. Broken bones are not fun. Nor are risks not covered by my insurance, apparently. That's what my partner tells me anyway. She gets final say on fun.

    Or, the insurance company does. Whichever. They're on the same side: against injury. And fun.