Coincidentally, today is Valentine’s Day in Brazil. ❤️🇧🇷
This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.
Our current Supreme Court might’ve ruled against the Lovings.
One thing about the WGA Strike is that Onion article was kinda right. Hollywood shot themselves in the foot with their current standard of cancelling every show people like to produce more and more short-term novelty.
It’s not like we have tons of shows ending on cliffhangers waiting for season six anymore. Due to their greed, they’ve personally taken long-term viewer investment outside and shot it and now they can’t count on it for negotiating power. What are viewers going to be mad about missing out on? The Twilight reboot? Another Star Wars spin-off? Several promising pilot seasons on Netflix with great representation that were already produced and cancelled before they aired and would’ve been even if the strike hadn’t happened?
Every show I grew up loving was cancelled before the writers or fans wanted it to be andvl that was when a single “season” was an entire year’s worth of weekly episodes, something that really felt like a big part of people’s lives for a reasonable length of time. Now the standard is a “season” of 12 episodes dumped all on streaming one night when you aren’t looking. Everyone binges it and the enthusiasm lasts about a week or two before there’s nothing left to talk about.
Like a fruit fly. Fruit fly fandoms. The show and hype live for around ten days before they die.
Every time I watch a one true king narrative these days I wonder to myself if the good king has an idiot fail son later that takes over
See in theory a monarchy or dictatorship is very efficient but that only works if the leader is actually good and there’s no accounting for idiot fail sons and evil cabinet ministers. Yeah maybe king whoever is really good at this and maybe his child is also okay but eventually you’re gonna get an idiot and/or evildoer in the line of succession.
Also there’s child emperors but that’s a whole other issue.
Reading up on politics before democracy became popular is so funny sometimes it’s just a never ending line of intermarrying and idiot fail sons with the occasional competent ruler and/or idiot fail daughter
They also usually have free wifi. One of the few places you can use the wifi without being expected to buy something.
They may also have Chromebooks, hotspots, 3D printers and all sorts of technologies. Check your public library, they might have a cool thing you didn’t know you could use for free.
You can also access digital services with your card, even if you live too far away to go to your library (or even just if you don’t want to interact with people). My library uses Hoopla and I can check out audiobooks, ebooks, comics, movies, and magazines on the app.
