If .ml traffic drops, it’s because a Russian data center was hit.

Factual

Thank you for buying the horse armor.

We know, you’re an .ml user

blocking an entire instance

Don’t worry, I already have lol.

Haven’t seen a single .ml post in months, I no longer need to see posts arguing:

• the Uyghur’s aren’t being genocided

• uncle Kim’s totally communist state do not punish entire families for an individuals crimes

• Hamas are misunderstood freedom fighters.

Can you link to those studies?

Did you buy the expert pack dlc?

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things

Did Claude give you erectile dysfunction?

They can with…

I accidentally posted without doing a proper proof read lol.

Fixed it.

In any case, its metaphorically true that the sickness was caused by ‘bad air’. It’s fascinating that they were so close to understanding it as a function, if not the reality.

Their history is pretty interesting.

The reason why they’re shaped like that is because “plague doctors” used to stuff flowers and herbs into the ‘beak’ so they wouldn’t have to smell dead bodies all the time.

This had an unintended side effect of protecting against what doctors thought was miasma (bad air).

Eventually they realised plague doctors weren’t getting sick. They thought what was getting them sick was the bad smells.

If you can’t face the music, just claim you got food poisoning and spent three hours curled up in the foetal position on the floor of your shower shitting your brains out, sweating and crying in pain.

Anyone with a modicum of social awareness will stop asking questions real fast, and it explains why you’ll be fine to go into public the following day.

Of course they need to prepare their stars against the disgusting threats of your cohort.

I stopped reading here. You won. I’m out. Bye.

You can’t just do the movie-goer equivalent of “I can’t be racist because I have a black friend”.

Fucking watch me lol.

Their choices are only controversial to chuds.

Either they anticipate controversy or not.

You think they hired Rachel Zegler because [thing]?

Don’t strawman me. I told you what I think.

be serious for a moment

Can you retire this?

“You can’t ACTUALLY be serious” is not a compelling argument. I already told you in my last post that I am sincere in what I believe

You claim you don’t believe:

Disney understands that casting non-white actors as white characters (based on prior depictions) is going to be controversial.

Let me enlighten you.

Disney was aware of the backlash for years and kept the casting

So if you’re being sincere here you should reconsider your stance. Unless there’s some other reason you might want to take that side.

You accuse me of being dismissive after you assert that I don’t understand the implications of what I’m saying? The irony lol.

The only other way that you can make sense of what I’m saying is that I’m not arguing in good faith, or that I’m a closet racist, after saying:

• I love Laurence Fishburne’s depiction of a historically white character
• I like diversity and we should have more of it
• I like Moana

I haven’t dismissed anything, and I’m willing to go to the mat with you because I’m convinced I’m right. Let’s keep going.

I’m going to assume you believe the following: Disney understands that casting non-white actors as white characters (based on prior depictions) is going to be controversial.

Therefore, producing a movie with that knowledge in mind is an explicit choice, yes or no?

because it’s free advertising

Yes.

That doesn’t hold up to even a little bit of scrutiny.

1997 Cinderella was a TV movie, it’s in a different league and the whole cast is mostly* black. It’s a black film for black people.

In fact there’s a significant cost to it

It’s free advertising. Cost benefit analysis. Little Mermaid was profitable, and Snow White wasn’t, though there may be other reasons people were annoyed about this one (Gal Gadot, and dwarfs).

if you’re being sincere here you should reconsider your stance

Oh fuck off. I know what I’m saying. Go feed my messages into another LLM and have it spit out a list of facts you can regurgitate.

It doesn’t even have to be a high paying job that’s enjoyable, just having a stable job where youre not abused is a luxury lol

It’s about making movies for little girls. It’s also about representation.

Do you actually think Disney are pushing diversity for the sake of social justice? They don’t give a shit about representation if it doesn’t make them money.

So doing it again in spite of the negative reaction is what it looks like when they care?

Yes, the ensuing culture war puts Disney at the centre of attention.

What do you suppose it would look like if they didn’t care what lonely white men think?

I think they’d cast a pasty white girl as Snow White.

Does that really make sense?

Not at all.

Untraceable gold loses about 10% of its value. But that’s assuming you’re a reputable seller, trading with a reputable buyer.

If you’re a nobody, selling to someone who knows what theyre doing, expect to lose 25% or more for the risk incurred. But honestly, you’re not realistically finding anyone reputable, you’re finding someone else who wants the burden of finding someone else to sell it to, so expect to lose more.

But then throw on top the cost of the crucible, moulds, furnace, and losses incurred from inexperience trying to remove the traceable imperfections… As I said, its a massive pain in the ass…

Do you really think that Disney was focused on what lonely white men think while casting these actresses for princess movies?

Yes Socko, I do think Disney was thinking about it, because they saw the backlash and they kept doing it.

this specific thing just isn’t about you.

What is it about? (Warning, this is bait, I KNOW what it’s “about”)

In advance, let me preface that I think we need more diversity across all media, and I think Moana is awesome.