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At its Mexican premiere on Jan. 15, the French filmmaker responded to the criticism. “The drama of the missing is something that shocks me deeply,” Audiard said. “It’s a tragedy that’s largely invisible outside of Mexico, and my goal was to generate dialogue, not offense.”

I believe that this guy really does believe what he's saying here, but he also said in another interview that he didn't study Mexico or Mexican culture before making the movie because he already knew everything he needed to know and that's just such a typical attitude for a guy like that to have. For starters, the movie's Spanish is apparently really terrible and the accents are all over the place and none of them sound like Mexican accents.

Yes it's terrible in the funniest way. Most of the rest of this musical's soundtrack is terrible in the normal way.

I'm imagining Marx writing a dissertation on the water economy in Caves of Qud

Thirty on thirty

All government buildings go with the worst, blandest color imaginable.

Agreed, I replaced the pads on mine with higher quality ones almost immediately.

(posting this emoji cleared 800 hectares of the Amazon rainforest)

ran into a person on lemm.ee who is doubling down on the idea that "authoritarianism" is only when governments do it and that corporations and private citizens cannot be authoritarian.

The moment that sticks out in my head was, I think JD Vance, saying "we need the federal government to take over California because they just can't run their own state anymore" or something to that effect.

And it's like, this shit is all they would do. Flood already-flooded farmland and accomplish nothing. California's water management has problems but it's not a lack of knowledge about how to manage it, it's the fact that it's all privately owned and operated for the profit of the owners rather than the benefit of everyone.

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Also, calling it now, but if there's a fire in that part of California before the reservoirs refill they will totally blame Californians for it despite the draining being their own awful idea.

If you didn't buy the FF7 NFTs then you are not a real ecoterrorist.

That's like how a manga artist would draw the main character's pet.

True fact I have a pair of MDR-7506s that I use for all headphone-related purposes. No bluetooth ear bud can hope to compete.