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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Saw it yesterday and I really liked it. I think some people are kind of exaggerating how groundbreaking and subversive the feminism in it is, while it strikes me as fairly standard liberal feminism, but I think it was executed about as well as it could have been and I only cringed one or two times. Besides that it was consistently funny, occasionally moving, the plot was compelling enough, and it was all round a fun time. Also bonus points for having a Charli XCX song over a car chase.

    I guess probably my biggest gripe would just be that the capitalism aspect of things was approached in a really shallow manner (maybe or maybe not Mattel’s influence going on there idk), such that tbh I almost would have preferred it not touched at all, but this didn’t hugely affect my enjoyment of the movie either because I wasn’t expecting it to really go deep into that.










  • raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyitoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy are folks so anti-capitalist?
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    1 year ago

    The reason as to why here relative to elsewhere is probably because people here tend to be more into free software and privacy and things like that, and caring about those things tends to have an anti-corporate aspect, because of the way corporations tend to act, and aligns pretty well with wider anticapitalist beliefs

    Also the devs and pre-Reddit influx population are anticapitalist so that kind of helps influence the trajectory a bit





  • I’m quite into linguistics so as far as potential jobs kinda related to that I don’t think I’d mind working in translation.

    Unfortunately not sure how great the future for that is with the improvements in machine translation, especially since the only languages I speak are pretty widely spoken and so those for which that’s going to be most developed


  • I kinda agree with this, but only to a certain extent and mostly for Mastodon, and not Lemmy. With how difficult it can be to find people to follow on Mastodon, I think my experience has definitely been worsened by not really having at least a few of my favourite twitter posters on there, leaving me basically to fumble around in the dark slowly making my way towards an acceptable feed in spite of the platform. If I didn’t believe in the potential of the platform and the ideas behind it, I don’t think I would ever put that much time using something I don’t really like trying to make it work for me.

    Lemmy is a different story though, I really don’t care who posts what as long as there are posts. Just like on Reddit, I can probably only recognise a very small number of usernames because it just doesn’t matter so much in this format.