Sorry, but in my book, nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies random violence. Your justification of it sickens me and I'm surprised that you got so upvoted. I've been on the breaking point from things that were happening inside my own home as a kid, but I never took it on my little brother, or other kids. Instead, I was taking it against the actual aggressor (my father), even if it resulted in more beatings and hairline broken jaws, and put the knife, or the gun on my head. So, yes, I've been through some shit myself. But I protected my brother and my mother as much as I could. Doing random violence, as you described it, against people who might have their own cross to bear is not justified. EVER.
And yes. They CAN act against Bezos, Musk, and the board of Exxon. They can easily find where these people are, paparazzis certainly can. Every second day we have pictures of Bezos with his darling gf. Get organized so the locals can take it against him when he visits somewhere. But you don't act against your fellow citizen who is also a victim of oppression and climate change, or destroy classic works of art. What kind of BS is that??
It was good for the first 2-3 first episodes, but it was going down for me later on. I didn't actually finish it.
it is, but what's depicted is true. Even Luis Elizondo said "stick with it", that there's something to it.
I will start by saying that I dislike most of what History channel is putting out there (e.g. Ancient Aliens), and I always had a dislike for the nearly laughable claims of the Skinwalker ranch books (e.g. the dino-beaver!).
However, now that the Ranch is under new management, some new things have come forward that make more sense than the outlandish old claims. So one evening I was bored and started watching the Secret of the Skinwalker Ranch on Hulu.
In the 4 seasons (3 on Hulu, and the new 4th one I purchased, since I don't have cable), quite some extraordinary things have been shared: compasses not working, constant equipment failures, UAPs in the sky the moment experiments were done, directed radiation, time dilation, and invisible anomalies hanging in the air (one at ~30 ft, and one at ~10000ft) that they measured their effects on.
For me, the two most interesting things they've found are these:
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A system of tunnels under the ground, that go all the way in the mesa/plateau. When trying to dig to them, the drill goes through the ground like butter, but when arriving at one of the tunnel, it can't penetrate it. When the drill is removed, its teeth are not eaten out, as you would expect from a hard substance. It's as if it's a spongy force field, rather than diamonds...
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At the suspending anomaly, they tried to put telescopes to lock into a star, so when the star would pass behind the anomaly, they would see if light is bend or not (that would indicate something cloaked). Well, when they did that (s3, e4) the telescope would lose its database the moment that it would turn towards the anomaly. These telescopes were not internet connected, so whatever was going on, it was affecting its EPROM chips. When manually turning the telescope away, the software would work again. In more than one occasion the experiments were interfered with, and the phenomena would get more aggressive when new experiments were to be done.
Now, I know what you're thinking. It's a reality show. And these are usually scripted. But I dare say, not in this case. The new owner of the Ranch is hellbent to find otherworld creatures (for his own reasons, some of them religious), and he's serious about it. The rest of the cast there is serious when interviewed outside of the show. When a debunker from NYPost visited them and asked to camp alone on the property, they were genuinely extremely concerned about him, and he had a health waiver signed.
Travis Taylor PhD, their main scientist in the project, who is also part of the Pentagon UAP task force, is adamant that whatever we see on the show, is real. Not only that, but History Channel had to remove some happenings, because they were too disturbing. E.g. Taylor was hit by radiation, got radiation burns and was sick for a week (peeing brown), losing hair, while no one next to him did when it happened (directed beam?). In other occasions he was throwing up and feeling bad right prior to an experiment, but when he entered a Faraday cage, the problems were disappearing. The moment he was coming out of it, he was sick again.
A camera crew member quit over those things.
So I'd like to ask the community here to give a second look at the show, at least seasons 2-4 (first one was a bit boring as a season). I think that there's something going on there for sure. And unfortunately, the show is all we are gonna get, because I don't see them publishing any peer reviewed research papers, since the show seems to have a US intelligence component to it behind the scenes, and its findings will be kept under lock and key (as it happened with Bigelow).
If I had to make my own guess, I'd say that we're looking at 4th dimensional objects being embedded in and out of the mesa there. We can see their effects with instrumentation, but not directly with our eyes. There are many abductee reports that they reported that they were escorted into bases deep on Earth, were tests performed on them. I think that the Ranch is one of these alien bases (and if there's one, it means that there are others too elsewhere).
I don't buy the main theory by Travis Taylor that this is a natural wormhole (in fact, I'd call that theory of his to be disinformation). The phenomenon there has intelligence and it interacts every time there's experiments to be done. That feels like an alien base to me, that has security measures. All the ghosts, skin walkers, and dino-beavers(!) that were reported in the past, they're probably just AI-driven security measures that interact with the consciousness of the surrounding people, to keep them at bay. Up until Bigelow, these things were passing as real things because ppl believed in them, but now under the new regime at the Ranch, where they are more straight and narrow with their science, NONE of the monster things are happening. Instead, we see direct interference with their experimentation, and direct attacks on the principal scientist. The phenomenon itself had to adapt.
I can't find it on either Izzy or f-droid. I can only find infinity for reddit.
There is interoperability between PixelFed and Mastodon for sure. I often get a lot of likes from there, rather than PixelFed itself.
You can follow me if you like book illustration art: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli Another way, is to search for tags. For example, if you like fishing, you search for that tag, and then you find ppl that post interesting fishing stuff.
Thank you!!! Here is my art account: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli
My favorite is PixelFed. I'm an artist, so Instagram was important for me, but for a few years now it's absolutely terrible (no reach at all with their special algorithms). PixelFed fixes all that, it replicates the feeling of IG as it was 8-10 years ago: chronological feed, tag-based, no extraneous features. I'm really enjoying it, as I can finally grow again my followship as an artist: https://pixelfed.org/
Is it on f-droid? I don't have google play store, I run a totally degoogled phone.
I grew up very poor in Greece, and my mom used to give us a slice of bread that had poured white sugar on it, and... olive oil. It was many years later that I realized that these were deconstructed donuts.
I always use the subscription feed, in fact, my custom homepage has a link to specifically that page. However, my husband didn't even notice that there was such an option and only uses the recommended feed (we talked about it recently). I personally can't stand recommendation engines. These have destroyed my art business in social media platforms. I need chronological.
As someone with celiac disease running towards a toilet anywhere from 3 to 14 times a day (my all time record!), I can tell you lads, the other side is not any greener. Unless bile comes out at the end.
I think they gave the project to the wrong filmmaker though. She is more of an indie filmmaker, not a blockbuster one. You know who would do a good blockbuster, even if they only have 1 feature film on their belt, and only a handful of short films? The two brothers who did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(2019_film) They made their film for only $7k, and they made extreme efforts to feel like an Amblin-era Spielberg blockbuster. For $7k. I can't even grasp what they can do with $100 mil!
It's lack of vision, and corporate control. These amazing writers and directors who signed in for this project did it for the bucks. They delivered a cookie cutter product, as the boss asked them to. They didn't approach it with passion, with innovation, with blood-pumping mystery and intrigue. It's just a well-paying job to them, and a resume line. So, it doesn't come out good.
At this point, I dislike ALL marvel TV shows on D+. Loki was the best for me, but they kind of destroyed his character, so that fell flat too.
From the Star Wars side, the first 2 seasons of Mandalorian were good, and also Andor. Neither Boba Fett nor Kenobi were good (they felt as flat as Marvel shows feel). Andor is probably the most well done show in the whole of D+. And the reason for it is simple: Tony Gilroy was left alone to realize his vision, a vision he always wanted to do, but wasn't given the opportunity before. In fact, Disney was completely hands-off. Neither Kennedy nor Disney interfered, because they believed that the show will be kind of underground (and indeed, they didn't market it much). So they kind of ignored it. The ONLY thing they asked Gilroy to change was the F-word in the last episode.
But in the Marvel side, everything goes through Kevin Feige, and everything get homogenized so it appeals to everyone. Hence that final feeling of blah.
For Marvel to survive, they need to give voice to talents to provide us with a unique vision, like we've seen with Andor, or Joker (while at the same time, keeping the timeline intact, of course).
Forest Orchestra with watercolors, and some pencils. The two crows on the bottom-right are inspired by the two old men in the Muppet show who were always criticized the performers...
I have a (federated) pixelfed account where I post my work: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli
I don't like infinite scrolling. It's resource heavy after a while.
That's because the algorithm doesn't favor the users, it favors the algorithm itself, brands, and celebrities. Just like with Instagram's AI recommendations, that is. There is no point dabbling into such apps. It's the equivalent of a tree falling in the forest and no one's there to hear it. I had the same problem with BlueSky btw: Crickets... Long live the chronological, federated media!
their drivers aren't open, so there are always crashes and bugs that they can't be fixed, because nvidia can't test with all the distros, or all wayland implementations, or games under linux. Intel drivers are the most rock solid under linux.
I've had a number of weird things happening in my life: I saw a UFO in the early 1990s, then I had an abduction experience in 2000, and at the age of 40, the lucid dreams started where I had a continuous interaction with these entities until 2018 (that's when we had a fallout!). I wrote about it in more detail in another sublem (link in my history). I'm curious if you have a similar story, or other paranormal story to share?
Eugenia @lemmy.world Ex-programmer, ex-tech journalist, ex-filmmaker, now a painter. My art: http://www.eugenialoli.com