Not All Who Wonder Are Lost

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Fri, 17 May 2013 18:56:02 -0700

spellingmistakescostlives: good point

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:52:58 -0700

spellingmistakescostlives:

good point

ikenbot: arachnis-deathicus: Gonna quickly throw in an epic...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:54:10 -0700

ikenbot:

arachnis-deathicus:

Gonna quickly throw in an epic quote I found on this article.

KJKJ: Gene Roddenberry, with balls of brass, got up on national tv and said, “hey people, if a geneticist took all the best DNA from planet Earth and put it together to make the best human the world has ever seen - he wouldn’t be a white guy.”

This is why I find the casting of a white actor in this role to be so repugnant. They are not whitewashing an Asian role, they are saying that the best genetic material that the entirety of this world and it’s diversity has to offer….still comes from a white guy.

As much as I love scifi and in that, star trek, I’m going to have to exercise my right as a moviegoer not to see this film and support it with my money for this very reason. This is coming from a J.J. Abrams fanboy who’s been on the ‘Bad Robot’ bandwagon since its inception, since lost, fringe, super 8, and anything scifi related touched by Abrams.

But I feel like if I do go I’d be the biggest fucking hypocrite to call out white washing while watching an evidently white washed film. I can’t deal with seeing Hollywood continuously cast us people of color as background and supporting characters or automatically assign roles to white people where a person of color would be a likelier fit. It makes no real sense to the authenticity of the story you’re trying to tell to use some white guy, you essentially say that was your best pick of all the actors both white and colored available, and that’s bullshit. Even when it would make more sense to make it genuinely diverse, not half-ass it.

I know you’ve seen me promote the film on here but that was before it was officially confirmed who would be playing Kahn, since Abrams was coy enough to keep that under wraps until the movie was released. Such a potentially great film ruined by shitty casting and typical white wash. Maybe this may not mean much to white people since it just further promotes the idea that they’re the best example of a human whether dealing with intelligent and valiant heroes or intelligent, multidimensional and valiant villains. But to me, I’m pretty sick and tired of that bullshit and obviously intentional white washing of the real diversity we’re a part of. It shouldn’t be this disproportiate and we have to speak out on bullshit like this even when our favorite directors are doing it.

So as much as it pains my little scifi driven heart, Star Trek: Into Whiteness, I pass.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 11:43:30 -0700

lnternetporn:

what ur average tragedy looks like after 100 years

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Wed, 15 May 2013 20:28:55 -0700

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:01:56 -0700

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

Every time someone says we’re a lazy and entitled generation I’m going to show them this

They should be happy most of us haven’t moved to the moon yet

That actually sounds like a good idea at this point

(via setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain)

"Why do we have an abortion rate 20% higher than France’s (and more than twice as high as Germany’s),..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:59:16 -0700

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Why do we have an abortion rate 20% higher than France’s (and more than twice as high as Germany’s), especially considering most doctors here won’t perform them? The answer is any country that has universal health care, where contraception is free, where child care is free or inexpensive, where there is less poverty because people don’t become bankrupt over medical bills — those societies are simply going to have fewer unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.

And there the mask gets pulled off the Bart Stupaks and the “Christians.” If the statistics show that countries with government-provided universal health care and nearly-free abortions are, in fact, the countries with the fewest abortions, then why on earth wouldn’t the Right be the first in line to support universal health care?

Because it isn’t about “universal health care.” It’s about controlling women, period. It’s about sticking your nose in other people’s business. It’s about pushing your religious beliefs on everyone else because voices in your head tell you your Jesus is The One — even though your Jesus never said one single solitary word in any of the four gospels of the Bible about abortion or fertilized eggs being human. You’ve just gone and made it up about “life beginning at conception.” Jesus never said that. The little voice in your head said that, the same little voice that wants your grubby paws on women’s uteruses. You need help. Please get some help and leave the rest of us alone, Mr. Stupak and friends.

”

- Michael Moore: My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain (via veruca-assault)

rosalarian: Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:56:42 -0700

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.

ikenbot: laodamaren: Way to go….. that’s how it goes, too...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:58:11 -0700

ikenbot:

laodamaren:

Way to go…..

that’s how it goes, too much dark on that skin tone? nah can’t be a real hero let’s scrutinize him and look at it from a comedic perspective cause that’s all poc are good for.

Where the universe came from

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:36:44 -0700

Where the universe came from

Sophisticated

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:36:03 -0700

Sophisticated

as if they weren’t innately so

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:34:54 -0700

as if they weren’t innately so

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Tue, 14 May 2013 02:43:57 -0700

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Mon, 13 May 2013 03:28:51 -0700

thepeoplesrecord: Real, complete, fire-able 3D printed...

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:54:49 -0700

thepeoplesrecord:

Real, complete, fire-able 3D printed ‘liberator’ gun downloaded tens of thousands of times
May 9, 2013

If gun control advocates hoped to prevent blueprints for the world’s first fully 3D-printable gun from spreading online, that horse has now left the barn about a hundred thousand times.

That’s the number of downloads of the 3D-printable file for the so-called “Liberator” gun that the high-tech gunsmithing group Defense Distributed has seen in just the last two days, a member of the group tells me.

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The gun’s blueprint, of course, may have also already spread far wider than Defense Distributed can measure. It’s also been uploaded to the filesharing site the Pirate Bay, where it’s quickly become one of the most popular files in the site’s 3D-printing category. “This is the first in what will become an avalanche of undetectable, untraceable, easy-to-manufacture weapons that will turn the tables on evil-doers the world over,” writes one user with the name DakotaSmith on the site. “Share and enjoy.”

It’s worth noting that only a fraction of those who download the printable gun file will ever try to actually create one. Defense Distributed used an $8,000 second-hand Stratasys Dimension SST to print their prototype, a 3D printer that the vast majority of its fans won’t have access to.

Nonetheless the “Liberator,” which I first revealed last Friday and then witnessed being test-fired over the weekend, has caused an enormous stir online. Defense Distributed says that it received 540,000 users to its website in the two days since its printable gun was released, and its video revealing the gun has attracted 2.8 million views on YouTube.

Source (Forbes)

in-the-fire: i-am-a-proud-lost-cause: blessedunrest-keepsusmarc...

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:51:30 -0700

in-the-fire:

i-am-a-proud-lost-cause:

blessedunrest-keepsusmarching:

omfg-yousuck:

emailing:

emmacadavra:

I will always reblog this. It’s fascinating and terrifying at the same time.

Holy shit

holy fucking shit

i find this a good enough reason to stay inside for the rest of my life

THIS IS FUCKING TERRIFYING

"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover,..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:50:26 -0700

“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.”

- Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the founding father of Dubai (via maxistentialist)

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Sun, 12 May 2013 23:32:31 -0700

reftastic: swegener: Speaking of different body shapes. These...

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:29:14 -0700

reftastic:

swegener:

Speaking of different body shapes. These are all basically peak human bodies.

How come 99% of them don’t conform to what the entertainment industry tells us is the perfect body?

This is a FABULOUS set of body refs. So glad this came back across my dash so I could reblog it here :D

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Where the universe came from

Sophisticated

as if they weren’t innately so

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"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover,..."

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