zarathustra0

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I was gonna ask if they asked Trump to decide the headline.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Well, it depends where you want to stick it, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I heard child labour was legal in the US again? Or is this not in Arizona?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You read all of the news?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And I thought satire was dead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Conflickulation

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Joke's on you, my mother was completely unforgiving.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Isn't this about 40 years too late?

[–] [email protected] 196 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Yeah, but propelling them out of the solar system just sounds like the kind of fake-ending that ends up with the super villain coming back stronger in a decade. Have we learnt nothing from science fiction? You have to destroy your foes whilst you can.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Personal censorship has been around for a long time. People have always avoided saying things that others might view as weird or repulsive.

The true change is that everyday conversation is more monitored now than it ever has been before.

We have let insipidly authoritarian technology into our lives in an intimate way.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Stage one: get off the internet.

Stage two: ???

Stage three: Profit

 
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

 

I've recently been reading a little about Nijinsky and am wondering whether there is any online film of Nijinsky dancing available.

He was committed to an asylum in 1919 and was active shortly before this. This is well within the bounds of film and given his contemporaneous popularity I'm surprised I haven't been able to find any clips of him dancing online.

Does anyone know whether any footage exists?

Because I've lured you here with my question I'll give you this clip of Paul Giamatti doing a brilliant reading from Nijinsky's diaries: https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=XYnxo9K9fQo / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYnxo9K9fQo (beware, probably NSFW).

 

A UK Member of Parliament recently suggested that there should be a Government minister for men which would presumably do similar things to the existsing minister for Women.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/reactions-pour-in-as-mp-renews-calls-for-official-minister-for-men-356501/

This has thrown up a series of heated discussions on social media about whether this is part of the 'backlash' against feminsm, or whether there is a legitimate need for wider support of men's issues.

As a man who believes that there are legitimate issues disproportionately affecting men which should be addressed, what I really want help in understanding is the opinion that men don't need any targetted support.

I don't want to start a big argument, but I do want to understand this perspective, because I have struggled to understand it before and I don't like feeling like I'm missing something.

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