Interesting Links for 23-03-2022

[andrewducker]

Repetition can make even the most bizarre claims seem more true

(tags:psychology lies belief )

I sometimes think it's a shame that in all the fuss about "We Don't Talk About Bruno" people miss how amazing a song "Surface Pressure" is.

(tags:music video Disney pressure )

Guinea! Pigs! Living! Wild!

(tags:animals video nature cute viaLilysea )

How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics

(tags:racism society usa )

Government "Spooked" By Attempts To Block Medical Equipment From Regions With "Genocide Risk"

(tags:genocide uk nhs )

Facebook approved 8 paid ads inciting violence and genocide against the Rohingya

(tags:Facebook genocide advertising )

UK among most anti-refugee countries in the world thanks to borders bill, says Médecins Sans Frontières

(tags:UK immigration refugee OhForFucksSake conservatives )

How Tumblr is different to other social media

(tags:Tumblr socialmedia )

Dungeons & Dragons: Friend or Foe of Sword-and-Sorcery?

(tags:fantasy dungeonsanddragons )

Guantánamo military court may seek plea deals in 9/11 cases rather than trials

(tags:guantanamo USA law terrorism )

Mercedes Drive Pilot Is The First To Take Legal Responsibility

(tags:automation driving law cars )

Comments

[dewline]

1. People before Goebbels knew this. People after Goebbels know it now, more so now than ever. And yet, the conditioning technique keeps working despite our understanding the principles better in larger numbers than before. And so the new fascist international still stands a chance of upending human civilisation in its multiple current forms.

4. Linking back to item # 1 here, right? "In other words, for a “post-racial” America to exist, white people would need to see people of color ascending to higher political offices and an increasingly multiracial nation as a win for all of America. Instead, many take these things as a personal attack and view it as a loss of their own status at the top of America’s racial hierarchy."

5. *nervous twitching*

6. *more nervous twitching* FB is biased towards watching European-origin languages, so that might partly amplify this aspect of the problem. And then, we have the Cambridge Analytica scandal presenting a blueprint for genocide-advocacy...

7. More criminalisation of refugees. I suspect the new fascist international's various factions are pleased.

[lilysea]

I sometimes think it's a shame that in all the fuss about "We Don't Talk About Bruno" people miss how amazing a song "Surface Pressure" is

Yeah, I actually think Surface Pressure is a much better song...

[rmc28]

I think it stands alone better - 9yo insisted on listening to the soundtrack repeatedly before we ever saw the film and although it is moving the story on, it is also much more self-contained than Bruno

[rmc28]

Surface Pressure is the one 9yo liked first and I think still likes best. I find it amazing in a painfully-seen kind of way.

(I'm the oldest and "give it to your sister, your sister's older, give her all the heavy things we can't shoulder" sliced right between my ribs)

[marymac]

It's absolutely my favourite of the film, and it also has the magical power of riveting both my kids to their seats in rapt attention, which is not at all to be sniffed at.

[mountainkiss]

Surface Pressure is my favourite song of the last decade I think.

[andrewducker]

I am simultaneously glad that you like it and sorry that it speaks to you quite so much.

[mountainkiss]

To be fair I love all the other songs too.

[andrewducker]

It does have a collection of great songs. I think there's been good ones in pretty much all of the recent Disney animated musicals.

[mountainkiss]

I'd probably really enjoy them all.

[andrewducker]

I thought you didn't like movies? Or are musicals more your thing?

I would recommend Moana, which also had Lin-Manuel Miranda writing lots of the songs.

[mountainkiss]

I love musicals and I like movies if they are very very gentle. A good rule of thumb is if weezie would like them then I’ll like them.

[andrewducker]

In that case maybe not Moana, which is delightful, but is also very-much an adventure story, and has a couple of violent scenes in it. You could check with Weezie though :-)

Looking back, Coco is lovely, and has music in it, but isn't actually a musical.

The last one that's a musical, and has only mild peril, is probably Frozen 2. Which I enjoyed more than Frozen.

[mountainkiss]

Maybe I need to come and watch movies with you and Sophia

[andrewducker]

We would both be delighted by that. So long as you don't mind watching movies with people who will talk* through bits of it.

*also sing. And dance.

[fyre]

I was watching the film with my parents at Christmas and Surface Pressure hit and I was sitting there, trying very, very hard not to show *any* expression at all when every single line was like a punch in the ribs. And then along came Isa's song as well and wow, double whammy of Oldest Daughter plus the one expected to be perfect and do everything right 😱

[andrewducker]

My sympathy - both for the difficulty of not showing emotion and for going through that in the first place!

[calimac]

"Surface Pressure" is a great song, I agree; but the number of people testifying that it captures exactly how they feel is for me only a forceful reminder that neither Encanto nor anything else, either artistic or non-fic analytical, that I've ever seen captures the kind of anxiety that totally suffused my childhood and still sometimes attacks today.

It only makes me feel as if I am a totally unique person unlike anybody else in the universe, and indeed that feeling of lonely uniqueness is a large part of that anxiety of which I speak.

[andrewducker]

I'm sorry, that must be deeply uncomfortable.

What kind of anxiety was it?

(As a note, Surface Pressure does not speak personally to me.)

[calimac]

Being held to task for violating rules that I don't understand and that the accusers won't explain to me.

[andrewducker]

Aaaah, yeah. I have been in that kind of situation. Very common with spectrum-ish people - to not pick up on implied rules (or assumed rules) and then have people who have absorbed them assume that we're deliberately violating them rather than not being aware.