great time to get an english degree honestly nobody can read or write you might become scribe to the king in the next 15 years if you know cursive the way things are going
Chuds saying this was Nolan pushing the “anti men agenda” entirely missed the point of this scene. She’s not saying that there shouldn’t be a king. She’s saying it’s made her feel crazy that everyone claims the throne has been empty when she’s the one who has been on it running shit while Odysseus is away. It hasn’t been empty, but the suitors don’t see her as a capable ruler including her own son.She’s saying that she has been the one holding things down while waiting for her king to come back, and she’s willing to continue doing so because she believes he’s still out there.
The throne was never empty. Penelope WANTS Odysseus to come back. She isn’t against there being a king on the throne, she’s against there being anyone other than Odysseus on it.
Australia is planning to implement some of the harshest anti-AI policies in the world.
Under the proposed laws, it will be illegal to train AI on people's work without consent and compensation. They'd also force data centers to produce the same amount of power they use.
Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
The people who promised to 'Make America Healthy Again' have given America:
The worst measles outbreak since 1991
The worst screwworm outbreak in 60 years
The worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in years
In a better world this would be a really great job for the government to provide to people who are unemployed. Fighting invasive species, managing dry brush to reduce wildfire danger, getting trash out of water ways, so much could be done by people eager to work.
unironically this is like a core tenet of my belief of environmental stewardship. we're clearly supposed to be not just maintaining the ecosystem, but making it thrive! instead we let capitalist ghouls ruin everything. it must come to an end
We cannot have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.
This is Benji. He recently learned how to wiggle his toes. Not sure what to do with that yet, but a good skill to have in his back pocket just in case. 12/10
Israel's gov wants you to believe this incredibly sweet avuncular Jewish grandpa is an "antisemitic monster" b/c he refuses to sell ice creams in illegal settlements built on stolen land in violation of international law
235k people moved to Arizona in the past year. The Fed Gov't is about to slash Arizona's Colorado River allotment—Arizona's main water source—bc the river is drying up from Climate Crisis. That's why Lake Mead looks this way. The West, whole Colorado River watershed is in crisis.
worth knowing: deforestation, pollution, pesticide use, habitat & wildlife destruction, and emissions are all still at extreme high and/or record levels as capitalism takes us all into rapid 21st century mass extinction