You an I… We are either going to form an unstoppable super team or… You ate going to end up as my nemesis.

No, not at all. In fact I am pretty good at being able to stay awake for rather long periods of time. I can comfortably go 48 hours without sleep.

If I could donate it I would happily do so.

I can fall asleep, near instantly, at will.

I call it my time machine function.

It is. And in the Independent newspaper which has editors that should have spotted a clanger like that.

Now, that would be more interesting and accurate.

Yeah, it is a financial success, but so was the emoji movie… Not sure that qualifies it as “culturally renowned”.

Conflating those ideas that money equals cultural impact is what leads us to an endless cycle of sequels and reboots that most people watch once and then forget.

Classic independent reporting “the movie whose cultural impact is renowned”.

Is it? There’s no proof that the movie is having a renowned cultural impact above any others and the link on their own site for that quote is talking, not about the movie, but Minecraft as a whole.

I’m not sure calling Gorbechev an idiot is right though.

Just because he was a victim of external interests, as you describe. Feels a bit victim-blamey.

“Look what you made the US do to you”.

Yeltsin, maybe though.

Which bit of history does this represent?

At first I thought it might be the break up of the USSR, but that doesn’t really work here. So that leaves me at a loss.

I just can’t see how Gorbachev and Trump, or their actions, are similar.

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I can’t imagine my experience wold have been better online. The third year was almost all lab work and practical.

But aside from that, one of the best things about my offline experience was getting to spend time with people from other disciplines and honestly, some 20-odd years later, that has been almost as valuable as my degree in my career as well as my understanding of the world.

Thanks, that guy.

Nice listicle, but would have been better to write something inciteful as to why all these sequels failed so hard.

It wasn’t just the cash grab, but a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the previous film great.

Kids loved watching the original RoboCop because it was R rated. It was a comic book film with gore and guns. It was illicit.

Then they turned him into a cartoon character for kids.

Police academy became a paradox of itself. You could argue that the public perception of the police had changed significantly between the original and Mission to Moscow too. It was no longer funny to be entertained by the thought of inept police.

Anyway, that’s just off the top of my head.

So you think it should be a binary decision? Either see only things you’ve actively curated or put up with anime tits.

No one is suggesting it is anyone’s fault for posting stuff, just that if there was a tag system people could choose.

You seem defensive, is everything ok?

Unpopular opinion, but in the west particularly, folk have mistaken writing on the internet for action.

Tweeting resistance rather than performing it.

A lapse into inaction framed as radical rest and self care.

Online they are fierce warriors of justice, offline they go to work in Starbucks, use their apple devices to talk to their families and enjoy the treadmill of streaming services.

And this isn’t to blame them. This is the point of consumerist capitalism. To trap you in a gilded cage.

You’re hired.

To be fair, you’re not wrong.

It’s an international treaty that says if things are going to shit we should comment on the french.

Lol, Americans throwing shade at France in 2025.

Good effort pal.

It’s just like here but there’s an awful, hollow, gnawing feeling like you’ve already seen this post before just last week.

Yes, I totally agree and I think you’ve hit on something subtle but really important…

The difference between starting to make a work (of art, if we are lucky) with an intent for it to be about something and telling people a work is about something.

I think the intent is important. Marvel’s latest round of press includes them telling us how the new Captain America is about modern politics but the plot really doesn’t hold that up beyond some fairly blunt motifs. Ultimately, it feels as if it about a struggling studio, if that is a theme.

I guess the context is really important… And it highlights the slippery thing between thematics and meaning. Take a film like Stalker where the plot is arguably slight, but the characterisation and the context give rise to meaning through the themes… It would be a different film if Tarkovsky had tried to market it as being about politics and Chernobyl.