Pat @Pat@qoto.org

Of course this depends on how you define "affected". A wealthy person is obviously going to lose more money to inflation, but poor people will likely have their daily lives affected much more.

I guess that resolves that!

@khird @2ck

Comments?

#russia #ukraine #oil #fuel #gas #energy #death
#nato #eu #europe #putin #authoritarian #tyrant #dictator #evil #hellbound

#TruthBeTold

The truth is…

The Russians have developed an armored tricycle because they are running out of older soldiers.

#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

(Image CC BY 3.0 by Fastboy, Mediawiki Commons.)

@freemo

The McDonalds employee is helping to keep the heart surgeon employed.

So, is that pic of the person in the article the McD worker or the doc?

@AmpBenzScientist

>"Carpe Diem?"

Carpe Machina.

@AmpBenzScientist

Perhaps you satirically meant that you were affected by the propaganda even though you knew it was satire?

The effects I was referring to were, e.g., desensitization to extremely violent content, getting used to seeing women in combat (which was still very controversial back then), and the film's influence on the genre (as evidenced by Paramount), among others.

@AmpBenzScientist

>"Where do I enlist?"

You can watch for free on tubi:

https://tubitv.com/movies/567053/starship-troopers

@johnabs

No, you were using the term against them. They use the term against journals that threaten their oligopoly. When they use the term against open journals they say those journals are “predatory” against researchers, but what they really mean is that their power is threatened.

Ultimately funding has to come from somewhere, so the wealthy are going to be in control either way, at least for research that requires a lot of resources. Fortunately, publishing is no longer one of those tasks that require a ton of resources. Also, researchers shouldn’t be tainted in any way by their choice of journals to publish in.

>”This is also why I think negative results of well designed experiments also deserve to be published,”

This is absolutely right. We put way too much emphasis on proving the hypothesis correct rather than just resolving the question itself. I think if the Large Hadron Collider had failed to find the Higgs boson and proved that theory incorrect, that those involved should have gotten just as much praise and recognition, including Anderson, Brout, Englert, and Higgs. There should be a Nobel Prize for those who work tirelessly on a creditable theory, yet ultimately prove their own theory incorrect.

@Acer

Correct grammar:

"For some reason..."

or

"Somehow..."

But not both.

@johnabs

Those holding the reins in the academy use the word "predatory" as code for anything that might undermine their privilege, or the privilege of their corporate sponsors.

@johnabs

Agree. Papers need to accessed based on the integrity of the research, not the size of the wallets of those sponsoring that research.

@stux

This is how an N95 respirator works, but in reverse.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #draft #women #film #movie #military #culture #war #putin #ukraine #justice #propaganda #soldier #seals #jarheads

Retro SciFi of the Week…

Starship Troopers (1997)

This is a satire about how governments use wars to control their populations. The satire is probably lost on many viewers and this propaganda film is probably effective even for those who understand that it’s satirical.

Not much different from what’s coming out of the Star Trek franchise lately.

@johnabs

John BS's Science Journal...

I can already smell the prestige.

Let's set up 20 of them and require that researchers cite the other 19 each time they publish. That way our journals will be cited more often.

@2ck

I’m not sure of their motives. It’s probably a mixture of motives and varies based on the specific filmmakers.

Another, more generalized motive is that the wealthy and powerful (who finance movies) want to promote racial tension in society to try to keep the people fighting among themselves rather than allying together to oppose the injustices perpetrated by the wealthy against society. (So that the wealthy can maintain their privileged status.)

@khird

@khird

Yes, Hollywood filmmakers are not only racist, but ageist, too. They are also sexist. My focus is in on racism in media, particularly against black people – and I don’t have enough resources to even began to do the research necessary to cover that limited topic.

I’ve touched on the topic elsewhere here on qoto. Here’s a thread where I had previously commented that 80% of films have bias, and another qoto user challenged me to find racism in ten randomly selected films. The result was that all of them contained racial bias.

https://qoto.org/@Pat/107140410303609143

Years ago racism in film used to be very apparent. First they didn’t include black people at all, (or very rarely). Then after the civil rights movement heated up in the 60’s they started to include black people in film but soon began to depict them as pimps, drug dealers, criminals, ignorant, or in menial occupations. Then when people called out filmmakers on that, they got more subtle about the racism, using techniques that promote racism unconsciously, in a way that people don’t really notice until it’s pointed out to them.

Here’s another example that I haven’t yet mentioned here on qoto:

Look at all of the titles of movies that use incorrect spelling or substandard grammar/pronunciation (e.g., Mo’ Money (1992), Gimme a Break! (1982)). An out-sized proportion of those films are about black characters or are targeted to black audiences.

There are literally scores of these subtle techniques that filmmakers use to promote racism, stereotypes and racial bias.

(You mentioned that Chris Rock actually played a CIA agent as his twin brother, but notice how that character was immediately killed off at the beginning of the movie, limiting the impression of that favorable depiction, and focusing on the unfavorable depiction. This is a very common technique used by filmmakers – kill off the black guy early to limit favorable screen time for black actors.)

@2ck

In case you missed it, the accessibility description I added for the movie poster reads,...

“movie poster showing portraits of Hopkins (a white man) and Rock (a black man) Rock's eyes are asymmetrical and slightly squinted, and his mouth is tilted. Hopkin's are neutral and even.”

#racist #hollywood #film #movie #chrisrock #anthonyhopkins #blm

Bad Company (2002)

The description for this film reads, “...a streetwise punk is recruited by a CIA agent to stop an arms deal from going bad.”

Anyone want to guess which one is the CIA agent and which one is the “streetwise punk”?

#racistHollywood

@lupyuen

CNN: 'The lines cut are "I was in love with you" and "the summer Gellert and I fell in love."'

Ostensibly China’s censorship is to protect the state and the people, but this censorship harms a significant segment of their population, and has nothing to do with criticism of the state.

Hey China, why is love harmful?