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Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

What are some Movies/TV shows that you initially didn't like (and perhaps even quit watching), but then end up liking it?

  • Probably nothing revolutionary.

    But if you don't believe the propaganda, you'd probably enjoy life more.

    For example: there literally a list of steam games that some far-right nutjob compiled that declares a lot of games to be "Woke" or "DEI". Imagine how much fun they miss out on because they are so far up the kool aid cult and actually refuses to play those games.

    And other times, it can save you from a lot of misery and perhaps save your life. See: Anti-Vax and Anti-Science propaganda. If you are able to see through that bullshit, you wouldn't die from a stupid horse dewormer or other psudoscience crap.

    "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind." -Mahatma Gandhi

    The fight might not be right here, right this moment, but you can pass along the torch, the spirit.

    Teach your children to be skeptical of the authorities, and be vigilent of propaganda. If they are getting involved in a "Hitler Youth" equivalvent, you'd intervene and stop them.

    Treach kindness and empathy, but also decisiveness when the time comes to stand against injustice.

    And also, pick your fights carefully, do not do this alone. Do not become a foolish dead hero, become a successful revolutionary. (Underground Movements)

    Don't let them imprison your mind.

    TLDR: The best you can do is just refuse to regurgitate the same propaganda. This is a passive thing that is, while subtle, an important part of the resistance.

  • The migrant caravan ate the spy balloon then flew past the border checkpoints with the ingested helium. And then transformed into Haitian, of course. Then crash landed in the Suez Canal and blocked it.

    Suez Canal was an Inside Job

    Cargo Ships Cant Melt Steel Beams Block Canals

  • I mean, honestly, I'm questioning if anything my parents told me is even real, or is it just exaggerated to make themselves seem like great parents in order to diminish my view on their toxicity.

    It's hard to distinguish between what's a genuine doubt from a conspiracy theory.

    That's the thing with people.

    Some have zero skepticism, and believe everything they see.

    Others are overly skeptical and distrusts everything, including science.

    It's hard to find the right balance.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    Does the average person have no critical thinking?

  • What is "small"?

    Does placing a banana peel on a certain path that will cause a historical person to trip and injure themselves count as "small"?

    What if I carefully place a banana peel on the path that Stannislav Petrov walks on and he end up having to go to the hospital on September 26, 1983?

    🤔

    🌎💥❓️


    Okay so:

    1. On the eve of May 7, 2012 (putin takes office as president): Place a small piece of paper inside Putin's food saying "Next time it'd be poison" (in Russian, of course). So he'd start speculating if someone is plotting against him and drive him mad. Maybe cause him to shuffle all his security and chefs.
    2. Then after he makes changes to his security, on his birthday, place a dead rat inside his birthday cake (he does have birthday cakes, right?).

    Might not change history at all, but good enough to fuck with a dictator.

    1. Add a few bits of code to the Great Firewall of China that would make it malfuction and start letting all traffic through on February 4, 2022, right before the Winter Olympics begin.

    Butterfly Effect 😉

  • I'm worried about Chinese mobile OSes intentionally designed to make it difficult for VPN apps to work, and companies would just give up trying to design a separate app for the Chinese market, which reinforces a tighter grip on censorship.

    Not to mention, all the other FOSS tools that would no longer work if they make android .apks incompatible, including a lot of encryption apps.

  • I'm Gen Z and I'm curious what is this "friendship" you speak of?

    💀


    I mean, how are you suppose to talk to people when your peers are all looking in their phone all the time throughout k-12 school.

    Especially if your parents didn't also get you a phone, and now you look like some "poor weirdo"

    The only time people would talk to you is "Hey look at this funny meme/gif/short-video/online-post/etc..."

    The only topics of discussions, other than school subjects, is discussing the topics discussed on their group chats. If you didn't get in their group chat, welp, I guess you wont have friends.

    Yay, Gen Z! 🙃

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    "If its on the internet, it's out there forever" is simultaneously true and false...

    Mental Health @lemmy.world

    How exactly are people supposed to "be honest" with their therapist, when they type their notes into a computer system?

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    How are people supposed to have secure/private communications in the digital era? (With Therapists/Psychaistrists, Lawyers, etc)

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Would you rather live the life of an average person in the current era, or live as an absolute monarch 500 years ago? Why?

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work)

    Privacy @lemmy.ml

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