Maybe the dude doesn't like being surrounded by endless strangers for hours at a time who are up to god knows what with no breaks.
Meanwhile being unable to relax, hear the dialogue or being able to pause the thing. Can't turn on subtitles or even take a puff without hiding it.
Cant tell a joke to your friend without wondering if you whispered too loud or not, and whether the drones will descend upon ye, or wondering when the drones will descend on the professional brainrot consumers in the back of the theatre laughing the whole way.
They probably spent the whole time wondering about timing toilet visits and whether they can really afford the snacks or not.
Thats why watching movies at home is so superior. None of those are issues, throw the movie on the monitor and veg out on the couch in private, dont need to be self conscious, wonder if your make up is okay or if you've gotten too sweaty and instead be consumed by the movie, actually immersed, puffing away freely, pausing whenever, and subtitles on the entire way with maybe an audio compressor plugin and the audio level cranked down to be comfortable while keeping dialogue audible.
it's why movie theatres are going the way of the dodo. Shit is just too uncomfortable compared to watching it at home.
Most people don't like being surrounded by endless strangers 24/7, they dont want to live in ze alley with le european al dente bug eating pod style, they want to be as far away from others as they can manage without losing the conveniences of civilization and for all social needs we have the internet which is much less echochamber-y than whatever yokels end up locals.
My sources, ranging from niche leftist opinion pieces to mainstream legacy media real journalism does not inform me of the specifics of the current situation going on in Iraq because i do not live in Iraq, not because there is anything wrong with the media in question, as you seem to imply.
And no, dont be deliberately obtuse, that is what you're implying.
I'm well aware of many other attrocities of the US empire, but not this specific situation. You could just share what you know with some sources.
Imagining everyone around you as some clown that only consumes US state department propaganda must feel great for that big ego of yours, but it doesn't help anyone.
Evidently they're not "basic facts" because almost no one seems to know about them apart from you.
I am aware of all those things, I'm sure most people are so I've no idea why you related it to that, but specifically I was not aware of the occupation of Iraq being a thing in 2026.
I did not have the slightest idea of that yeah, but why would that demonstrate any political leanings whatsoever? Per the upvote count it looks like a lot of people ITT were also not aware of this?
Dafuck? I know what's happening in Iran, why are you implying I'm some kind of rightoid trump supporter? And why so combative?
I'm not a Trump supporter, I'm a communist lol. I've been lightly following the Iran war since the start and yeah obviously it's a quagmire at best. My question was about a different country called Iraq though.
What I didn't know is NATO still had a presence in Iraq? Why? The War on Terror was supposedly done two decades ago now. I know it took them longer to pull out than that but still?
Mold is caused only by one thing: slum housing. There's no other way around it. All excuses about insufficient heating or people not opening windows are nonsensical landlord propaganda or wild cope from brainbroken landleech apologists.
My last place was filled to the brim with it. Every ceiling, every nook and cranny, it even ate one of my vinyl records through the sleeve because I simply leaned it against a wall in a corner, that's how bad it was.
It was one of those gross partitioned victorian mcmansions and I had the basement level flat originally rented for £975pcm, then went up to £1050pcm a year later, above that flat - a houseshare of 5-50 "people". Full fat humidifier running around the clock and nothing at all. It filled up with water, but barely made a scratch at the humidity.
Landleech said nothing could be done about it and just painted over it once. Humidity never dropped below 80%, and it was basically always cold as fuck.
Now I moved across the country up north and live in a new place, £1100pcm, converted office building done circa 2017. Humidity is at 50% year round, it's really nice and no gas or boilers in sight either. I haven't changed a single one of my habits and I've never seen so much as a speck of it here. It's bigger and has nice modern design and costs less to rent, too.
Our housing is ancient, our infrastructure crumbling, our classrooms have ceilings caving in, our hospitals have floors falling through - half this country needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch to modern standards with modern utilitarian design.
We've spent more on HS2 so far with nothing to show for it than what it cost to build the entire city of Milton Keynes (adjusted for inflation).
We need to build taller, stop asking permission from residents, build on so-called "greenbelt" land and nationalize enough to afford to build affordable housing ourselves where the market can't help and tax wealth to prevent landlords from scooping it up and letting it fall into ruin for profit as they always do.
No, but the contrast in the press spin is observable in the west, where we are and where this article is. There's no condemnation, it's framed as more or less understandable.
Imagine if western countries did this for that comedy about North Korea from a decade ago ("The dictator"?) that Kim Jong Un took offense too? There'd be crazy outrage. But when it's about kowtowing to Israel it's all fine.
I obviously think we should help if we can, but there are some very hard economic realities we are facing right now that even if we had a well-intentioned government (we don't) would mean we should help ourselves before helping others, and oh boy do we need help. Decades of privatisation left our govt with the square root of fuck all. Our social service funding hasn't kept up, our pensioner pops have exploded, shit is all fucked up. The country is looking rougher and rougher by the minute, homelessness is rampant, jobs are scarce, and most everything is unaffordable. Everybody is beholden to elderly landlords first in tax, then in rent, then they vote for the ones with the most vile, most racist beliefs.
The crime of theft is depriving another person of a possession they have, the dynamics of piracy are completely different.
First - piracy is taking a copy of something that can be produced ad-infinitum. No actual thing is taken from anyone.
Second - the idea that it's depriving someone of hypothetical income doesn't hold because often times thing X being unavailable via piracy isnt going to mean the pirate is going to pay, they are just gonna pirate thing Y instead or even just get nothing at all.
Think about it - if dominos pizza was free, I'd eat it a lot more. I'd probably get fat, too, because it's literally free so I'd eat more. But as it stands it isn't, and I dont eat it. On the whole I probably eat less total than the amount I would eat if it were free.
The point is - the inherent abundance of digital goods is an inherent behaviour changer and introduces a completely different dynamic than what we're used to IRL. The scarcity in the digital world is absurd and artificial and it's stifling human potential to make the line go up.
And third, and this is adjacent - copyright is just absurd to me, it is deeply absurd to me that one could claim ownership over something immaterial as intellectual property in the first place, ideas are not things, they do not belong to anyone, it's pure category error to suggest otherwise, imo. Not that obviously artists or scientists shouldn't be credited for coming up with ideas or something but that's a job for historians, not the police.
Intellectual property's only benefit is that it really shines a light on how capitalism is not at all some inevitable product of human nature, but in fact requires heavy enforcement and ultimately a threat of violence (prisons) to protect the elite's ownership of the means of production and the economy at large.
Well yes, authoritarian overreach is rarely a means unto itself, it is a method by which some goal is achieved, in this case it's him being able to use power to rewrite reality to suit his projection. That's even more fascistic though.
Syncretic collapse mongerer and socialist solarpunk AI utopian on the net 🌐
Democratic Socialist in bed 🛏️
I used to be something of an anarchist before the brainrot set in in my mid-20s.
Culturally I shill against luddism, degrowth, climate/animal/vegan/preservationist/NIMBYist shit.
I'm pro giant skyscrapers everywhere, mega buildings, mega cities, utilitarianism and brutalism in architecture, pro piracy, pro-gentrification, pro-alienating liminal spaces, pro-grid and anti-car city design, and pro AI democratising the artoid crafts to the masses.
In short: DLSS 5? Yes because it makes the games look objectively better in every way.
DLSS 1-4? No, because it adds smear and visual artifacting that brainwashed console children don't see because they only watch slop shorts in 480p jpegs on they phone and have never played a real video game.
Hopefully we all transcend mortality soon, except the rich, who must be eaten.
I'm also for more vaping, more drugs (except weed and alcohol) and less slave morality amongst the proletariat.
Maybe the dude doesn't like being surrounded by endless strangers for hours at a time who are up to god knows what with no breaks.
Meanwhile being unable to relax, hear the dialogue or being able to pause the thing. Can't turn on subtitles or even take a puff without hiding it.
Cant tell a joke to your friend without wondering if you whispered too loud or not, and whether the drones will descend upon ye, or wondering when the drones will descend on the professional brainrot consumers in the back of the theatre laughing the whole way.
They probably spent the whole time wondering about timing toilet visits and whether they can really afford the snacks or not.
Thats why watching movies at home is so superior. None of those are issues, throw the movie on the monitor and veg out on the couch in private, dont need to be self conscious, wonder if your make up is okay or if you've gotten too sweaty and instead be consumed by the movie, actually immersed, puffing away freely, pausing whenever, and subtitles on the entire way with maybe an audio compressor plugin and the audio level cranked down to be comfortable while keeping dialogue audible.
it's why movie theatres are going the way of the dodo. Shit is just too uncomfortable compared to watching it at home.
Most people don't like being surrounded by endless strangers 24/7, they dont want to live in ze alley with le european al dente bug eating pod style, they want to be as far away from others as they can manage without losing the conveniences of civilization and for all social needs we have the internet which is much less echochamber-y than whatever yokels end up locals.