His factory is located in the Bay area with some of the highest rents of anywhere on Earth, pays his workers 30% below industry standard, since 2012 Tesla as been cited by OSHA for twice as many safety violations as similar companies, Tesla employees receive fewer benefits than employees as other auto makers, Musk has been openly and aggressively anti-union and says unions would make Tesla less competitive as a company. He’s personally worth $20 billion and was the largest shareholder of PayPal when he left the company in the early 2000s (PayPal has an insanely sordid history of its own).
He’s a shit goblin whose family wealth was built on Apartheid era injustice and exploitation. SpaceX is cool only if you arent aware that the ONLY reason it exists is because of lobbying that has defunded NASA to the point that it must contract out public resources to private companies like SpaceX if it wants to continue doing space missions and research.
Elon is also a Rockabilly so fuck that stone faced moon ghoul on every level
all gestures of inclusivity within the realm of fashion art design media music etc etc by corporations or designers or houses or brands are all liberal chokeholds on our necks squeezing tighter and tighter with every demographic they lazily include and cover. i couldn’t care less about the demographics of fashion week castings or sephora ads at this point and it’s something i rly cared about for a long time but we have to stop letting corporations anchor our politics so much. fashion can choke ! art can choke . world is a fuck . 100,000 dead cops
we’re letting big industries maintain their privilege by seeming to represent the interests of minority groups. It lets us know that accepting the status quo means we are rewarded by the opportunity to have presence. It only works if we passively adhere to this logic
What is funny to me is that even though inclusivity has been trending for a while there is still an emphasis on pandering to the lowest common denominator for higher profit, instead of investment or research into real crisis relating to minority demographics. I’m truly tired of representation being “here is the archetype of someone you might identify with smiling to the camera, they’re happy with our product, and you will be too :)”. Emotional branding for profit really is the devil.
you can’t consume your way out of environmental devastation.
Smh I’m tired of this line of thot why do we make fun of people who are like “you’re anti capitalist with a capitalist phone” but the moment people start being vocal about not wanting to consume meat or make small efforts to limit environmental damage it’s ok be like “lol you’re silly for thinking you can do much”
Like people altering their actual lifestyle and opening up these dialogues through the way they lead their life through their efforts not to eat meat will always earn my respect over people sat on a laptop blogging essays all day.
Neoliberalism has taken this internalized self-blame and turbocharged it. It tells you that you should not merely feel guilt and shame if you can’t secure a good job, are deep in debt, and are too stressed or overworked for time with friends. You are now also responsible for bearing the burden of potential ecological collapse. Of course we need people to consume less and innovate low-carbon alternatives – build sustainable farms, invent battery storages, spread zero-waste methods. But individual choices will most count when the economic system can provide viable, environmental options for everyone—not just an affluent or intrepid few. If affordable mass transit isn’t available, people will commute with cars. If local organic food is too expensive, they won’t opt out of fossil fuel-intensive super-market chains. If cheap mass produced goods flow endlessly, they will buy and buy and buy. This is the con-job of neoliberalism: to persuade us to address climate change through our pocket-books, rather than through power and politics. Eco-consumerism may expiate your guilt. But it’s only mass movements that have the power to alter the trajectory of the climate crisis. This requires of us first a resolute mental break from the spell cast by neoliberalism: to stop thinking like individuals.
Earlier, an unmasked Kylo Ren allows Rey to look into his eyes, and then see his fears when he is attempting to pry information from her mind. Kylo Ren shows a sign of wanting to be seen as a man and not a monster when he rips off his mask after Rey calls him a “creature in a mask” in this same scene.
Shelley Duvall won Best Actress at Cannes in 1977 for her part in Robert Altman’s 3 Women, but her performance as Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, three years later, was criticized so harshly that it would ultimately overshadow everything else she accomplished in her career — even as the film has been used to bolster the claim that Kubrick is one of cinema’s greatest artists. Duvall, playing opposite Jack Nicholson as a woman tormented by her husband’s mounting, murderous rage, was nominated for worst performance at that year’s Razzies; Stephen King, who wrote the original novel, once said, “Shelley Duvall as Wendy is really one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film. She’s basically just there to scream and be stupid and that’s not the woman that I wrote about.”
But as she explained in her own words, Duvall’s acting wasn’t a mistake, but rather a performance precisely engineered by Kubrick, who intentionally created a horrific environment for her:
“Going through day after day of excruciating work was almost unbearable. … I had to cry 12 hours a day, all day long, the last nine months straight, five or six days a week. … After all that work, hardly anyone even criticized my performance in it, even to mention it, it seemed like. The reviews were all about Kubrick, like I wasn’t there.”
Nicholson has corroborated this description, calling Duvall’s task on set “the toughest job [of] any actor that I’ve seen.” There is even visual proof of that torment in the documentary Making “The Shining,” which was directed by Kubrick’s daughter Vivian and shows the director asking others on set not to show Duvall sympathy. Yet, despite this clear evidence of verbal and emotional abuse, Stanley Kubrick’s reputation as an “auteur” has remained mostly untouched.
In fact, the Duvall incident — and the way in which Kubrick controlled his set — has been wrapped into the mythic aura surrounding him and his film, casually inserted into lists like “25 Things You Might Not Know About The Shining,” alongside trivia like its record-breaking number of takes. Director Saul Metzstein once said of Kubrick that “his films are amazing, and there’s something in them which you couldn’t get unless you were being unbelievably particular and methodical. You need some sort of obsessiveness to make that stuff.” Not only is Kubrick considered one of the most influential directors of all time, but The Shining, specifically, was named the 46th best-directed film ever by the Directors Guild of America.
The implication of all this acclaim is that there was a “method” to Kubrick tormenting Duvall, and that even if it hurt her, the ends justified the means. From von Trier, who once said that watching Nicole Kidman wear a dog collar with a bell on it while shooting Dogville gave him “personal pleasure,” to Hitchcock, who sexually harassed Tippi Hedren while making a film about sexual violence, a man directing can rationalize almost any behavior toward women if what emerges as a final product is something beautiful in the eyes of other men.
you are missing something! although those are the boots of the apollo 11 suits, they’re not what was worn on the moon. neil armstrong, not content with wearing just one pair of shoes, demanded nasa make him another, larger and cooler pair of boots just for walking on the moon.
you can see them here, to the right of the suit’s built-in boots.
photos of armstrong on the moon prominently feature the boots!
although i couldn’t find any official nasa photos of the bottoms of the boots, i could find something even more interesting! an x-ray of the boots “taken as a last minute check to see if there were any foreign objects that could compromise the integrity of the spacesuit during the mission, such as broken off tips of needles that were used in the stitching process”
the thick vertical lines are the treads at the bottoms of the boots
on a more pragmatic note: if nasa was faking a moon landing with a $150 billion+ budget, do you really think they’d mess up something as simple as a boot print?
No, this is a variation on a circle parry and a counter circle parry. Both are commonly taught in French and Italian style foil fencing.
A circle parry is when you avoid your opponents blade by moving your blade around theirs in a circle. A counter circle parry is circling around your opponents circle so that they can’t get their blade past to stab you.
When two fencers know each other well, this often happens. It becomes a game of chicken, it only ends when someone is willing to risk leaving an opening so that they can launch a different attack.
The foil version of this happens at least once a practice on my college fencing team. The only difference is that the blades are horizontal rather than diagonal.
Oh my god, I noticed the quotes on the spines of the Star Wars covers of Empire magazine and I was like that’s really cool (and Reylo AF) and then I decided to google them. The Rey’s cover quote is from Lord of The Rings BUT Kylo Ren’s cover quote is from FUCKING The Hangover 2 LMFAO !!!!!
Don’t armchair diagnose mass shooters and other killers. The misconception that all violent people must be mentally ill (and the following conclusion that all mentally ill people must be dangerous) has horrible real life consequences for visibly mentally ill people.
50% of people killed by police are disabled or mentally ill (and the victims are disproportionately black or other people of color) because the unusual behavior of visibly disabled and visibly mentally ill people is read as inherently threathening and dangerous.
Please consider the real life consequences of reinforcing the association between mental illness and violence - people are dying because y'all want to blame all evil in the world on severe mental illness so that you can clearly separate yourself from it. You’re harming an already extremely vulnerable and marginalized group of people and it’s time to stop!
I encourage people who aren’t schizophrenic to reblog this. These stereotypes are literally getting people killed and I’ve seen no awareness around this on this website.
