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Hi all.

Due to the technical issues here on qoto, I've created another account at:
mastodon.social/@PatPat/with_r
and an additional backup at:
mastodon.online/@Pat/with_repl

So you may see me posting from there for now...

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Happy birthday, Earth.

4,540,000,052 years old today.

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In case anyone is confused about the meaning of the word “Woke”.

Woke = not racist, sexist or homophobic

not woke = racist, sexist, and homophobic

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Are these hiccups only on qoto, or is it a problem on all instances?

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Choose:

2 people · Apr 29, 2022, 02:27
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One more thing about that censored clip...

One of the changes imposed on Japan by the US after the war was a liberalization of women's civil rights. You can see some of that gender dynamic playing out in that clip.

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Here's a link to an extensively researched and well-produced video about the film:

youtube.com/watch?v=JRn-UvI6YW

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Here's a link to the American version:

tubitv.com/movies/287497/godzi

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That clip that I posted in the first post (video only) was censored from the American version of the film. A few months before the movie was released, the US performed an H-bomb test near the Bikini Atoll (Castle Bravo test) which contaminated a Japanese fishing boat with radioactive fallout, resulting in death and serious radiation poisoning.

The H-bomb tests that the US was doing in the pacific were kept secret from the American public, but in Japan the incident (known as the Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸, F/V Lucky Dragon 5 incident) was a major story and fueled discontent about the American occupation of Japan (which was just then coming to a conclusion).

At first, when the fishing boat returned home, nobody knew what that fine dust was that covered the crew. But then it was tested and determined to be H-bomb fallout.

The clip is pretty much a direct reference to the incident, which is probably why it was censored in the US.

Ultimately, the shared love of the movie by American and Japanese audiences contributed to a long and fruitful exchange of trade and culture between the two countries, which continues to today.

Here’s a link to the film:

pluto.tv/en/on-demand/movies/g

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Retro SciFi of the Week…

Godzilla (1954)

This is the original Japanese version. Shortly after it’s release, a highly censored American version was released in the US and other countries which totally hacked up the film, replacing character- and plot-developing dialogue with bland exposition voiceover.

The American version replaced one of the protagonists with a white guy, cutting in scenes which were produced with lousy sets, poor cinematography and hasty acting which trampled on the carefully crafted pace of the original film. This gave most people an impression that the film was just a B-movie, instead of the well-produced masterpiece which was the original.

If you’ve never seen the original Japanese version, you haven’t seen Godzilla.

(Note: Of course, as with all earlier films, the cinematic techniques of the time were no match to today’s state of the art, so you need to watch it with a different level of suspension of disbelief.)

Here’s a clip from the film that was cut from the American version. (See the rest of this thread for more discussion.)

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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.

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I guess that resolves that!

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The truth is…

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

= 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.)

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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.

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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.”

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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”?

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1 person · Apr 20, 2022, 03:19
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Who is affected more by inflation?

5 people · Apr 17, 2022, 20:12
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This video was taken on April 6, 2022. Now it turns out that she got COVID-19. What a "surprise, surprise, surprise"

Next time wear your respirator, Nancy.

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.gov

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Here’s Nancy Pelosi speaking on the crowded floor of the House of Representatives without wearing an N95 respirator.

She is in the line of succession to the presidency, yet she carelessly takes an unnecessary risk by exposing herself to COVID-19 without wearing a respirator.

Ironically, she was talking about how the US is falling behind other countries in science. Duh!

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