[-] considine@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago

Propaganda is when you punch someone in the face and then quote them saying "I'll kill you" instead of mentioning the face punch.

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The media coverage of the recent anti-ICE protests in LA provides a counterpoint to coverage of the "pro-democracy" protests in Hong Kong in 2019-20. Inconsistencies in coverage abound. Yet we can contrast the relative restraint of the HK police as compared to the LA police. Is this a case of authoritarianism vs. democracy?

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

Since people are just going to make command line jokes and leave you confused, the spelling is "pseudo".

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago

Article warns that you will be profiled based on interests.

Article then profiles you based on interests. Proceeds to sell you VPN subscriptions.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago

China states that it is to cut off supply for military applications. More likely it was a tit-for-tat response to the CHIPS act. Cut China off from the most advanced chips, they cut the US off from the raw materials to make chips.

If it is actually about military applications that's more worrisome. US generals have predicted war with China in the near future as a foregone conclusion.

Trade war is one thing. Military conflict between the two global superpowers would be disastrous.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago

DDT is an extreme way to get rid of mosquitos. Seal up the gaps in your window screens. Keep the bedroom door closed. It's working for me during mosquito season on the subtropical island where I live.

I realize I'm giving advice to a comic about a banned chemical.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 28 points 10 months ago

So... is no one going to comment that it looks like Mads is going down on Hideo?

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

Jelly beans. The fancy ones with many flavours like butter, apple, and cinnamon.

You'll surely have those bean flavours to talk about, if nothing else.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 67 points 11 months ago

Richard Stanley was hired to direct "The Island of Doctor Moreau" but was replaced by John Frankenheimer after a few days of shooting. However, Stanley considered the film to be his baby (he co-wrote the script) and didn't want to leave. So he disguised himself as one of the mutants and secretly remained on the shoot.

You can watch the documentary about the shooting of this B-movie and it's full of weird details like that. It's called "Lost Soul: the doomed journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Doctor Moreau"

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 24 points 11 months ago

Is that David Frum, speechwriter to the Bush Jr administration? Writer of speeches about the axis of evil? Writer of speeches to whip up frenzy for an invasion of Iraq? An invasion based on lies? That David Frum?

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Someone could build an army of clones of you, launch galactic war, and then you'd be hated all over the galaxy. Assuming you have good genes. Probably they made a bad movie about this.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 80 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately they would quickly be replaced by their heirs who would continue to employ the same business people to manage their empires. We need to change the system at the root, not just chop off the top.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

I will gather all the time crystals and become quantumly immortal! No one can stop me!

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