to smuggle a critique of totalitarianism past the Soviet censors

Film is anti-nazi and anti-capitalist. Westerners: “OMG, bravely fighting the evil Soviet censors to tell us communism bad?!”

Really does seem like the only “use case” for AI is letting racists be more racist.

I can only ever pronounce it “wrrrench” now.

I swear some people think someone having a psychotic episode always has to look like a stereotypical “crazy person” wearing a tin foil hat and rambling nonsense.

Ok, but name coincidence aside, I fucking hate this kind of “quirk chungus” advertising, so fake and forced, clearly written by soulless tech ghouls who haven’t had a genuine conversation with another human being in over a decade.

And one of them can’t be put out and just has to burn itself out.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

I’m self aware enough to know that I do it too sometimes too btw.

Uh-huh. Yep. I’m sure you are.

Absolute scumbags. I know I say this every time, but I fucking hate western journalists. Even more than the brownshirts, at least the footsoldiers of fascism are actually risking their lives to try and make the world a worse place, these fuckers just comfortably sit behind a desk as they try to outdo Goebbels.

POV: You have a pistash

He wants to do what to films?

It just doesn’t sound the same without Charles Martinet. The new guy does a good job, but you can tell it isn’t the same voice actor.

Can they just not be pathetic for a little bit?

It’s not clear, I know. But the subject of the sentence comes last, and descriptors appear before that. So the subject of the sentence is the “tanker” and then the descriptor of it is “Iranian sanctioned” which means “sanctioned by Iran” but English doesn’t construct sentences that way, because it would make too much sense. So instead while it means “Tanker that has been sanctioned by Iran” the sentence is vague enough that it could be misinterpreted as “Iranian, Sanctioned, Tanker”

It’s kind of hard to explain properly because it doesn’t make much sense, but English will prioritise some descriptors over others, so the “condition” of the subject of the sentence comes first, followed by where it comes from. So being sanctioned is a condition of an subject, while Iran is a potential place of origin for it.

This tanker is “sanctioned” so that comes first as it is a condition, but it isn’t Iranian, otherwise it would be labelled as a “Sanctioned Iranian Tanker” Since the place of origin or ownership comes later in a description than the condition of the subject.

So “Iranian Sanctioned” is a full descriptor of the condition of the tanker, rather than being two separate descriptors for “Iranian” and “Sanctioned” because if that were the case, it would be phrased as “Sanctioned Iranian Tanker.”

Makes sense? No? Don’t worry, English has frustrating rules like this that aren’t really taught properly to English learners, since native speakers just kind of pick it up inherently and never really think about it, which can lead to a lot of confusion.

In this case, the subject being first means that it was sanctioned by Iran. “Iranian sanctioned tanker” means the same thing as “sanctioned by Iran.” It would be “sanctioned Iranian tanker” if it were an Iranian tanker that is sanctioned. English has dumb grammar rules.

I know they are covered in cameras, but I really don’t think I’d be able to resist just hitting that thing with a sledgehammer.

Do these dumbasses not imagine more than 2 people sitting in a car ever?

They imagine people needing to pay twice as much for two cabs would be my guess.

Yeah, it just fucking sucks that they take guys who could be decent people and turn them into reprehensible pieces of shit.

But like actually though. The goal isn’t to be better at sex and have women enjoy it more, it’s so they can brag to the other guys about how big their dick is.