People can be blind and deaf from birth and still live fulfilling lives. They need more support, for sure, and not getting that support can be devastating. But I think if you give a disabled person a choice between adequate help or euthanasia, most would pick help.
Warner Herzog made a really interesting documentary about deaf-blind people back in the '70s, called Land of Silence and Darkness. Some of it is heartbreaking, for sure, but most of it is pretty uplifting.
One of my favorite moments in comics comes from the 1970 Green Lantern / Green Arrow run. Green Arrow rescues a kid from getting run over by a train, and rather than celebrate the victory, he laments that the city didn’t have a park where this kid could play safely. He considers running for mayor, and the rest of the Justice League talk him out of it.
As a kid, it was the first time I saw a comic look at the reader and say, “Yeah, these capes really are just fantasy. If you want the world to be better, you can’t leave it to other people.”
When I found out about the 501st Legion, I was absolutely baffled. George Lucas dressed the bad guys to look like Nazis, and now fans were dressing up as the bad guys because they love the movies so much? What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Then Captain America came out and people started dressing as Hydra agents, and I was like, “Oh, they’re just straight-up okay with Nazis. Got it.”
There’s no chance of that happening without some kind of election interference. New Yorkers hate Cuomo. He resigned in disgrace because he’s a sexual predator and because he spent COVID killing everyone’s grandparents and lying about it. By the time he resigned in disgrace, he was a full mask-off villain.
He’s a nepo-baby politician that got to play King of New York for a very short time because of his daddy’s connections. Born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. He’s only doing this at all because, even though he resigned in disgrace, he thinks he’s owed a shot at the White House, and mayor of New York is a first step back into the field.
I genuinely believe Alan Chartok would have a better shot at being mayor at this point.
Hollow Knight was just so much well-curated content for the price. I got it on sale for $7.50, and after I played through it, I had to go buy it again at the full $15 because I felt like I’d ripped Team Cherry off.
Small indie film? Dear Zachary is a documentary produced on a shoestring budget, and it is an absolutely devastating piece of art. Just thinking about the film puts a lump in my throat.
Who keeps greenlighting this guy? He had a couple of good seasons of Doctor Who, maybe one and a half of Sherlock, but it’s otherwise all been pretty insufferable.
tells the true story of a downed airman in occupied France and how he got involved with the French Resistance
My grandfather went through this exact circumstance. The French Resistance helped him get to a secret camp full of British and American soldiers, and they spent most of the war hiding in the countryside and digging little holes so they could play mini-golf with hand-carved clubs.
Yep, same situation for me. “Ambidextrous” roughly means “two right hands,” so I like to joke that I’m ambisinistral - I’ve got two left hands.
Punch Drunk Love is a masterpiece. Simultaneously one of the funniest and most heartbreaking films I’ve ever seen in my life.
This reminds me of a Joey Comeau story I saw published fifteen or twenty years ago. The narrator’s wife had died, so he programed a computer to read her old journal entries aloud in her voice, at random throughout the day.
It was profoundly depressing and meant to be fiction, but I guess every day we’re making manifest the worst parts of our collective imagination.
Kodak has been circling the drain for decades. I’m shocked they’ve lasted this long.
What do we think about Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture for this? There is a plot, there is a story, but you as the player have no active role in it. You don’t even see it play out in real time. You’re just there, after, looking at the holes left behind. Nothing changes from the start of the game until the end.
I absolutely loved it, but typing that out, I suddenly realize why most people thought it was really boring.
As someone working in manufacturing and trying to change companies, I really feel this. This time last year, I was the belle of the ball, with recruiters blowing my phone up to try to poach me. Now, everyone I talk to is in a hiring freeze.
If you can’t put aside your differences to fight a common enemy, you’ll lose.
You’re absolutely correct here. It’s just that Democrats and Republicans have spent the last forty years putting aside their differences to fight leftists.
Ah, the old “people who play golf live longer” when it turns out that people who can afford a country club membership also have the money for better healthcare options.
Many states have closed primary elections prior to the general election. So three or four candidates from the same party are campaigning against each other for the right to be the candidate in the general election, and the only people that can vote in this preliminary election are registered party members.
That 55% figure has been true of New York for decades. The ubiquity of public transit has historically offset the costs: since people aren’t making car payments, the portion of their income that would go to that gets spread across other spending.
I would be more interested to see figures in more car-oriented areas for a better apples-to-apples.
In case Google incorrectly identifies someone as under 18, users can submit a photo of their government ID or a selfie to verify their age.
So Google is going to incorrectly identify damn near everyone as a minor now, right?
Dragon rodeos?