The law allows any medical provider or insurer to deny care based on “ethical, moral, or religious beliefs.”
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whatever man
The law allows any medical provider or insurer to deny care based on “ethical, moral, or religious beliefs.”
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growing up a girl letting people do things to you for years and years and years means your anger will turn biblical. anger that is incoherent unidentifiable inconsolable
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Also in love with Jesse Armstrong for choosing this season to come out and say. By the way. In case you missed it somehow. Yeah this is a show about capitalism. The product launch is kind of a work of genuis in that respect. We’re taking a dystopian hellscape straight out of Black Mirror where a corporation controls every aspect of your existence and we’re rebranding it as something positive. Not to mention all the talk about being “crime-free”, which, sure, maybe Kendall has not personally thought through the implications of how that’s going to happen, and there are several options, but all are bad. Is it “crime-free” in the commonly used euphemistic sense of being a mostly white community? Is it crime free because any crime is punished with expulsion and possible homelessness? Is it crime free because they’re psychologically screening people going in and eliminating anyone who has a “risky” psychology? All of the above? And that doesn’t even get into the dystopia of the few priviledged people who get to live in this hellscape having first access to medical care which might improve quality and longevity of life, something which is openly included in the pitch, or the fact that you’ll only have access to ATN/Waystar news and entertainment. The dystopia is staggering and the worst part is that it was almost real!!!! This is a real thing Walt Disney tried to do!!!!! This is not as fictional as one would hope!!!!!! Absolutely insanity (affectionate) to incorporate that. And no one seems to clock how fucked up it is, aside from Matsson’s holocaust joke, which is rich coming from the head of the “NASDAQ master race”. He has no real moral objection, it’s just a play. No one realizes how crazy it is, or maybe they don’t care how crazy it is - to them it’s just the natural conclusion of what they’ve been doing. It’s cruises on land. It’s real estate. It’s entertainment. It’s hell on earth and they can’t fucking see it
If you haven’t seen it yet I highly recommend this Defunctland video about Walt Disney’s “City of Tomorrow”, which Living+ feels eerily similar to:
DONT USE THE PIRATE BAY PLEASEEEE I BEG YOU.
Use 1337x.to rarbg or rutracker, highly moderated public torrent trackers, because Pirate Bay has long been shut down, unmoderated, and cloned by some shady actors AND use Mullvad VPN (or any other vpn but mullvad is the best definitely) to protect your ip address while you torrent, bind it to qbittorrent and do not use utorrent anymore either because it is littered with adware.
OR if you don’t want to pay for a VPN, use direct download or streaming sites. Please y’all just take one pass through on the r/piracy or r/freemediaheckyeah mega threads to find whatever you want for free and also not infect your computer with Trojan viruses.
^^^ yes!!! Thank you sm.
If any of those terms made you go ????? and you think pirating must be So Hard, I wrote a verbose but easy to follow guide a while back for total beginners!
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Let this be a living example that knowing the beliefs of any individual who wrote any piece of text- be it literature, articles, or posts- can and should drastically alter your perception on what the text is actually communicating, even if that knowledge has, on its face, changed none of the actual printed words. This is how application of real-world context works, and this is how it applies to any recorded medium.
It reminds me heavily of a quote from video essayist Jacob Geller, regarding the 1938 film Olympia- “It’s different when Nazis do it”.
Olympia is a film that, on its face, simply depicts an artistic documentation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But within the context of its production taking place during the Nazi regime, with its director being a well known Nazi propagandist… The way the movie fixates on the power and elegance of the human form and Ancient Greek statues quickly shifts from being completely innocuous appreciation to the worship of what is perceived as the ideal forms of the “Aryan race”. Suddenly, you understand the movie not to be a pretty inoffensive documentation of a historical event, but a propaganda piece.Understanding the time period in which something was made, as well as the setting it was produced in/for, and whatever ideologies an artist may hold and experiences they’ve had is absolutely critical to getting a full understanding of anyone’s work. There are some things that are near completely anodyne on their face, but the revelation of what the author thinks and feels about other people and the world around them totally redefines every word on the page.
This image is such a prime example of why context matters. This opinion, laid bare, stripped of context, is both inoffensive and nonsensical. No one’s ever thought it to be lame to create your own nickname… But on its own, that’s a harmless kind of wrong.
… But with the addition of them being marked as Anti-Trans (red) on Shinigami Eyes, a browser extension dedicated to crowdsourcing keeping track of Trans Friendly and Transphobic creators… Suddenly, “Nicknames” doesn’t mean “Nicknames” anymore. Suddenly, you realize that “Nicknames” is code for “Chosen Names of Trans People”. Suddenly this isn’t about thinking choosing your own nickname is lame, this is about thinking that trans people shouldn’t have the right to name themselves. Suddenly it’s about invalidating identities, thinking they’re worth mocking. Thinking that people who identify as trans are “just trying to be cool”, and that they’re not actually what they say they are, because you don’t get to choose yourgendernickname, that’s something already decided for you.Suddenly, you realize, it’s not about “being lame”.
It’s about Transphobic Violence.
This is why you cannot ignore when an artist, author, essayist, developer, musician- so on and so forth- is bigoted. This is why you can’t ignore the context behind their upbringing. This is why you can’t ignore the context behind their lived experience, their ideals, their goals, their message. Yes, it may appear innocent on its face. Yes, it may look fine stripped from the context of it being written by an inevitably flawed human being. But what’s really being said here? What do those words mean… To the one who wrote them?
Context redefines Text.
Even if the words didn’t change.
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