We have watched it twice, going again next Saturday with a different set of friends.
Best movie of 2025 thus far.
Music is unbelievable good.
My favorite piece was the one the vampires sang out in the field. It was full of longing and then ecstasy-- excellent juxtapose with the blues with its sorrowful lyrics yet intoxicating rhythms.
Amazing.
I’m always torn when I see comments like this because I agree our country needs all the shaming and rejection in order to drive the average American to act. The shaming DOES help-- it cannot be denied.
But at the same time, being working class American is so fucking brutal, and it’s FAR worse when you are part of a marginalized group.
I am American but I did not grow up in the US, and it’s so obvious they all have been robbed of their sense of community because we are all being constantly bombarded by fear mongering narratives meant to drive up profits.
For example, kids are expected to move out at 18 because parents are weirdly concerned that their children wil turn into lazy and unproductive members of society. In reality, life is much easier when multiple generations live in the same home because even if you get on each other’s nerves, they are all at least in the same team like helping raise the children together.
Instead, they want everyone to be independent from their families because that’s more people paying rent, buying cars, products and services-- same reason why Netflix doesn’t want you sharing your account: so they can sell your friends and family their own to drive those profits up.
What is happening to America is happening to other countries as well. It’s not a moral failing unique to Americans.
It’s just that Americans already had weak public institutions as a younger nation and a very painful history full of racism, genocide, and exploitation that already was causing us great difficulty coming together to make the country a better place for everyone, and billionaires saw that as an opportunity to turn us against each other and profit from our fears.
If you don’t help the good parts of America in our battle against the bad parts of America, we will lose and you will have yet another Russia making the problems in your own country worse and worse until find yourself in the exact same position as we are.
Get involved in local politics in your country now. Don’t wait.
We all need to unite and fight against the worse parts of humanity. We’re all so tired of capitalism and exploitation. We want better. Please help us put an end to it wherever you can.
It is related to the increased calls to encourage the adoption of free and open source software, which are alternatives to corporate products. 🙂
Linux is finally becoming mainstream. I love it.
Do not conflate the people with the corporations.
And let’s not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.
I have struggled with constipation my whole life.
For most people, including me, constipation is caused by dehydration. I’m still working on increasing my water intake, but in the meantime:
Putting your pants back on for this process is optional.
Hemorrhoids.
I was just talking with my sister recently about our life-long strong feelings of rejection.
We both have ADHD and we’re medicated, but we didn’t start treatment until late into our lives (I was 33 when I first got diagnosed).
We speculate that because we struggle with executive dysfunction, we end up trapped in cycles of shame with the people in our lives. It’s really hard to love someone with severe ADHD or depression because any little thing can set back progress.
My sister and I both get easily overwhelmed by choices, options, priorities, tasking-- even just thinking is exhausting.
Because each brain is unique, the way that ADHD impacts you is different from one person to another, but for me it manifests into all of my emotions hitting me all at the same time, no matter what emotion makes the most sense. It’s horrible!
Just being awake exhausted me until I started taking medication and going to cognitive behavioral therapy-- and it ain’t cheap, let me tell you.
Before treatment, my family and friends would try their best but one bad interaction could easily send me into a spiral of rejection and self-neglect. I feel more in control nowadays but it’s always a work in progress.
I just tell myself to try to do a little bit better every day, because you have to have a lot of compassion for yourself and others around you.
It’s hard to ask others to love you when you don’t have a mental disability, it’s even harder when you do have one.
Please try to be compassionate towards any people you know who may be trapped in this cycle.
And if you are trapped in it, please know that healing begins with you loving and taking care of yourself, even if you can only manage a tiny little bit each day.
Facts:
DXC fired ALL of their IT technicians servicing the Redmond Microsoft campus and replaced them with “Phoenix”, an AI chatbot that would guide users into troubleshooting their own IT problems.
The Phoenix chatbot was immediately rejected by users and completely useless at executing its intended purpose.
DXC then scrambled to rehire the technicians they fired with no success, as they quickly moved on to new jobs. New hires struggled to understand the building layouts and room devices because there was no one to pass on that knowledge.
Soon thereafter, DXC lost their multi-million dollar contract and all the new hires who worked really hard to try to were summarily dismissed.