NaibofTabr

Hmm, the biggest problem I have with socialism is that you end up with government committees deciding who gets access to basic needs like food, water and medical care, when, where and how much. Attempts to plan out fair distribution for an entire country become brittle and inflexible, and result in scarcity and waste because human life is not static. Well-intentioned socialist governments become authoritarian out of the desire to control the behavior of the population in order to stabilize the plan, but the efforts to control inevitably create more instability.

There are marketing people watching this and thinking, “These are great ideas!”

You’re not neutral if you only support one side of a conflict.

The Hundred Years Special Military Operation

this is a real pisstake

It’s worked out great for Ford.

Who needs case fans when you can have fancase?

Is that thing licensed?

The human body is ~70% water.

I think the second and third wishes will be somewhat irrelevant.

I’m not sure what exactly it will feel like when the fluid inside your eyeballs suddenly becomes milk, but it won’t matter for very long as all of the tiny blood vessels in your brain suddenly clog up and fail.

I am certainly tired of it.

Ah, but when did anyone get what they deserved?

That seems horribly wrong.

Phreeli https://www.phreeli.com/

“The goal of this phone company is to be more private than the three biggest phone carriers in the US. That’s the promise we’re going to massively overdeliver on.”

so much winning

KISS principle

This was a wild ride.

robots are friends!

You’re welcome.

On the topic of Ghost in the Shell (assuming you mean the original 1995 animated version, not the 2017 live action) I want to point out that it helped establish the cyberpunk genre, and was an inspiration for many works that came after (such as The Matrix). If the ideas presented in it didn’t feel so compelling to you, it is probably because you were already exposed to them through other media which drew from GitS originally. I think the animation still holds up well today, and the music is masterful.

I think it’s also important to understand that at the end of the movie, Motoko’s origin (human or artificial) is uncertain, and this is intentionally unresolvable. Without the ambiguity, the conflict between Motoko and the Puppet Master doesn’t matter, and the conversations they have don’t make sense. The story hinges around Motoko’s humanity.

Don’t watch the live action version, it completely misunderstands and abuses the source material.

I’ve also noticed how some older movies can feel quite sexist or abusive towards women.

This is certainly true, and I think it’s important to watch those examples in order to understand where we came from, and how we got to where we are today, and to help identify similar behaviors in the present. When you grow up with something it seems normal, but seeing the same thing in a less familiar context can break it loose from that perceived normalcy and make the problem more obvious. When you notice those problems in older media, take them as lessons.

It’s also worth noting that acting as a profession has long been a home for progressive thinking. I think this is because portraying different characters in a believable way requires the examination of human behavior. In order to play a bad, antisocial character on the stage you must observe and study bad, antisocial behavior. Acting becomes reflective of human society.

The point being that some (some, not all) of the examples of sexism or abusiveness that you’re referring to are intentionally so. That behavior was not included in the plot by accident. Writers and actors put them into their stories as a commentary on the social norms of the time when the work was made. Portraying them for an audience made the problem visible, it held a mirror up to society, it made people talk about it, it forced people to address it in some manner rather than continue to ignore it. If it seems less relevant in the present, that is because society became aware of itself, and the behavior changed.

Hmm, at this point it is a period piece. It struck a chord in its day because it captured pieces of teenage life and the culture of its time period that were relateable for many people. There are representative character archetypes that are timeless, and at its core it is a coming-of-age story that is always relevant, but the culture that it is set in is now the past and may not feel as relatable if you’re younger and/or not American.

If you are a movie enthusiast, it is worth watching because it has well-written characters, because it is a highly referenced piece, and because it is representative of its time period.