Imagine being the one member of Dom's family in The Fast and the Furious franchise who stays dead and doesn't get to return for a bazillion movies.
That #XMen97 finale!!!!!!
Say what you will about woke or whatever, but the finale and the way conflicts were handled and resolved are the main exhibit of why having a diverse writing room matters.
You can't have super hero fatigue when you have writers who understand the source material and are willing to break from the worn path.
Wow.
I don't believe in making a completely neutral society ... there is no way to do that unless you acknowledge there is no such thing as neutrality. Everyone would have to have the exact same opportunities. Everyone would have to have the same freedoms. Everyone would have to have the same access to things. Everyone would have to live equality for there to neutrality (absence of decided views, expression, or strong feeling.) The world is not like that ... there is no balance in the world.
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@SaltyVeruca I hear you. You understand this on a different level. Appreciate the dialogue.
@SaltyVeruca you have to assume they are pulling from public registry yes. You dont know if that's the case for sure though.
I understand I am taking a bit of a paranoid and unpopular position here, but I also know that as everyone becomes more siloed online, the easier it becomes to fake data.
@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @awnaves exactly. And while I hear the groomer thing and I know it's just a weapon in the cultural war I am getting uneasy here.
I think one thing that's making it worse is that when Twitter isn't porn bots or stupidity, it's a bunch of posts that feel like they are meant to desensitize people to death and images of people being killed.
@SaltyVeruca exactly which is great when you go and look it up on a dot gov website.
What happens when you start getting more and more apps that promise to do the record checking for you.
If I say app [insert app name here] has a 30% false rate of identifying people wrong as convicted offenders, do you think people will listen, or will I get shouted down by people saying I am sticking up for the criminals?
If you get listed in an app falsely, do you think you can ever clear your name?
@awnaves well that's why it's so insidious. Like do I really care if something bad happens to someone who caused a lifetime of pain to someone else? Nah.
But I do care that the data validation is right.
I do care that it's a judge and jury exacting judgment instead of Ross from three towns down.
And the worst part is that yes, sex offenders and pedophiles are heinous criminals, but something feels off to me.
I hope I am just being overly paranoid, but what happens when the data sets are replaced with a different group of people after the mob is already primed for violence.
What happens when a data set is "accidentally wrong" and people in the wrong neighborhood are terrorized for no reason?
I'm not the only one getting increasingly worried about the:
-increasing rhetoric about death for sex offenders
-the rise of apps like sneaky links that "show the locations of offenders near you"
-the likelyhood that this is a preclude to coordinated and sustained mob violence
Right? Like I'm not the only one getting really uneasy about all of this?
The last two days of the NFL draft just remind me how fun Twitter *used* to be back in the day.
@richieleyland @White_Rabbit spoken like a true Sabres fan. 😂
Three minutes in and there are already like 19 things I want to meme from this week's episode of #XMen97.
@Wbtphdjd exactly. You can make a case that a process is taking too long but you can't compare the time from first day of shovels in the ground to first car to the time to takes to demo, design, and rebuilt a previously existing structure.
USMC Vet and dad. Sarcastic with a side of sweet and sour sauce.