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Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

In the entire original Star Wars trilogy, no two named female characters ever spoke to each other.

In fact there, were only four named women across the trilogy, throughout six and a half hours of content spread across multiple worlds, and for most people they can only name Leia.

I'm not bringing it up as a criticism; just an observation. Sometimes guys wonder why their girlfriends/wives don't love their favorite fiction quite as much as they do.

It's not to say a given story *should* have more characters of XYZ demographic, but basically if a guy tunes into a movie and no two guys ever speak to each other in it, and it's ladies everywhere with hardly any men around, you'd basically just get the vibe pretty quickly that this wasn't written with you in mind at all. If you like it, that's great, but it's kind of by accident since you just weren't really considered as part of it being put together. I do like Star Wars, for example.

I love the Breaking Bad show, too. The premise didn't appeal to me on the surface (middle-aged guy with cancer, young drug maker guy, and to the extent that there are women in the show it's mostly the wives of the important characters), but my husband told me it was great so I watched it with him and loved it. Wouldn't change a thing about it.

And then of course, since we can't have nice things, over the past decade the attempts to put more diversity into fantasy or science fiction have been pretty ham-fisted. Rey is a trash character, basically. Almost any attempt with this sort of stuff is lazy. Books have generally done it better because it comes from one author's mind rather than some committee.

I think part of why the TV show Arcane was so well-received (especially the first season) was that it had a ton of different characters in it but it wasn't *about* that diversity. It just happened naturally as a byproduct of good writing and care. A bunch of very different characters dealing with themes that are about technological progress vs safety, economic disparity and sovereignty, extremism to achieve goals, etc. Young and old, male and female, rich and poor, all different colors. Rather than feel forced, it just seems obvious in that setting.

I've put some thought into this when writing fiction. Men and women, and people of various cultures, do have a ton in common in the fiction they like. Probably more than most realize.

-My number one priority is to just write good stuff and tell the story I want to tell. By default there are a broad range of characters in a story like that, at least in my head. Otherwise it would feel boring. Unless I was writing a specific period piece (something like Saving Private Ryan set in WWII battle zones where obviously it would almost all be men), I'd have to go out of my way to write a story where no two men ever speak to each other, or no two women ever speak to each other. That would take effort.

-My second consideration is to of course think about my audience (which a lot of current media trends ironically don't do- they just create a piece to fulfill their own grievances and forget about the main demographic that would actually want to watch/read what they made). How would different people experience it? That's where beta readers are helpful, but also just a basic 101 test of imagining like five different people reading it and getting the vibe of whether it's written with them in mind, or not. The goal in that case is certainly not to write for everyone (eg most stories I think of tend to be quite dark and violent, and with substantial complexity, which is a combo that already excludes a lot of people), but to at least be aware of the types of people I might be writing for. The natural state of things in a sufficiently complex setting is a broad range of character types.

Basically when I exclude types of readers, I want it to be a conscious decision rather than "huh, I hadn't considered that."

I can feel the difference between this character happens to be X "minority" but they are here in service of the story and we wrote this character in to be the representative of X "minority" and the story is in service of their tokenism.

I can't stand the second type of content in any medium. I honestly feel that it is an insult to people of that group to make absolute shit content just to force diversity.

2 great examples. Ghostbusters, but with women is super cringe. If women are just as funny as men why didn't those funny women make original content instead of ripping off something men already did? (I admit I didn't watch it) on the other side Firefly was woke AF by definition but isn't cringey at all. An interracial married couple just was and I can't recall it ever coming up. That is far more inclusive than a billboard of lights flashing "look we did an interracial couple, how special"

That said, if you run around complaining that content is woke, you are a bigot looking for an excuse. The problem is ham-fisted writing and the minority status of the poorly written characters doesn't matter any more than Zoe and Wash's skin color.

Should have done the 😲 emoji like on every thumbnail. More clickbait title too.

"Most extreme brutal fight in MMA history and also check out a picture of the face I make when I orgasm!!!11!!!1oneoneOMGWTFBBQ!!one1!"

This morning was my lifting morning so I was already amped up. Then you had to go and post one of my favorite fights of all time.

We all grow as people. I think it used to be like 6 ribeyes and a 6 pack of light beer.

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

It is a new form of joke. It may take a minute for some to learn to understand them. I also assume I haven't perfected the art, early memes were dumb too.

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The plot of Minions is that they are an entire species who have a strong drive to find, follow, and assist the biggest villain they possibly can.

I'm looking at you statists.

I'm not saying stop them. I'm saying stop bending over backwards to make it work for them and their users if they insist on not implementing common nips themselves.

Primal doesn't want to be nostr. They want to be just another social network that they control. Fuck em. Don't make the cool new stuff work in primal, just let their users go without. They will get the hint or they weren't really nostr people anyway.

You want notifications every time one of us has a public brain fart?

I assure you it is more useful to me than a bitcoin knots guidebook.

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I also have a knots guidebook that doesn't even mention bitcoin.

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Hey cops, this is where all the criminals are.

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Turns out it was an accidental name change.

LΓΌgenpresse was the word Hitler used. It means lying press.

Every fascist wannabe dictator knows if I want to control what you believe I have to first destroy your trust in everyone who says anything I disagree with.

Replying to Avatar Jameson Lopp

The people showing up in this thread to make fun of other people for loving their family are more cringe than having a solo selfie in my opinion.

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You'll never get to the boobs if you don't watch it.

Trump also failed to onshore manufacturing.

IotaWatt is an example. Formerly American made product. Component costs became unpredictable because of constantly changing tariffs. Suppliers were no longer able to tell them a cost at time of order because they did not know what their tariff would be on ship date. It made more economic sense for them to offshore to get predictable supply costs with a single tariff between them and only American customers causing pricing issues.

I never said I had β­• muted. Only that I hadn't listened to the song in that specific video. I creep on β­• threads for a laugh even though I rarely join in.

Yeah, the mind starts to pay tricks on you. "How many calories could there really be in a finger lick" and the most tricky "sure it breaks the fast but it is still ketosis right?"

I had to remind myself I was also benefiting by practicing willpower.

Covid is a fast mutater. The entire cold/flu subgenre of viruses is. Cold so fast they don't even both trying to make a vaccine.

(Breaking my own rule here but I've explained this before on nostr and survived)

The way the covid vaccine is supposed to work is this. The spikes we all saw in the pictures were just the shell. The replicator part of the virus was inside the ball. So, they made spikey balls without the replicator code inside them and inject them into you. Now your immune system learns to recognize the virus shape with a controlled exposure that can't copy itself and overrun your body.

Here is where it all falls down. The "symptoms" of cold and flu are actually your immune system response. The virus would happily just use your cells to copy itself without turning you into a walking snot bubble. Those symptoms make you stay home and spread it less, worse for the viruses evolutionary mandate to maximize copies of itself. All that snot is there to literally physically remove virus cells in sneezes. Too bad if you catch a virus booger in the eye, my body just wants to protect my genes in that moment and you might not even be related. Fever because you are trying to raise your temperature too high for the virus. And so on with various symptoms.

So, strictly speaking the covid virus never killed anyone. The immune system overeacted so hard in some people that their own immune system killed them. This was known relatively early, remember them talking about the cytokine storm? Cytokines are not virus particles they are a part of your immune system. Now that is a distinction without a difference to the dead and had they not been exposed to covid their immune system would not have self destructed like that.

Beyond here we leave the realm of established science and enter the realm of Bill Cyphers personal theories. That was background knowledge. Now you can enter the ultra elite covid conspiracy that as far as I know has 1 believer.

So here is what I can't help but notice. The vaccine harm complaints and long covid complaints are the same symptoms. The alleged vaccine deaths, hard to validate for political reasons, have the same direct causes of death as covid deaths. Put the lists side by side for yourself.

I think where they fucked up was they failed to properly comprehend ahead of time that the immune system was what was killing covid patients if they died. They knew it but they didn't see how it affects the vaccine. Vaccine theory is always controlled volume exposure of a form that cannot replicate so that the immune system can learn to respond quickly and beat that virus before it gets out of hand.

So it wasn't the guts of the ball that was causing people's immune systems to take up self harm like an angsty goth girl. It was the spike ball shape. Oops. Now we have a vaccine that does the exact same harm as the virus.

Maybe they didn't know. Maybe they did and they figured that the smaller dose that can't replicate will cause a less severe immune reaction so they did it anyway.

Now, we get back to lawyers corrupting the system like I talked about before. If they recall that is an admission of guilt that will open them up to lawsuits by everyone who got a covid vaccine. Better to slowly fade out the level of pressure to get it until they can claim lack of demand.