ConstableJelly

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"Under the Silver Lake" explanation

Okay so the explanation for "Under the Silver Lake" was so obvious (I thought) that I was waiting for the reveal, and then it never came, and then I looked up explanations online, and they also didn't arrive at the same explanation. So with significant spoilers in mind, here is my theory:...

ConstableJelly ,

It's been a few years since I watched it and none of this made sense to me. Just read the Wikipedia summary for a refresher and it's one of the most incomprehensible summaries I've ever read. All I can say is that I remember taking the movie at its word more or less. Interesting idea though.

ConstableJelly ,

Decided to check in on things. She got a chuckle out of me from some of the quotes attributed.

Necheles asked her about the number of porn films she's written and directed, and said, “You have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex.”

“Wow. That’s not how I would put it," Daniels replied. "The sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room” with Trump. She added, "If that story was untrue, I would’ve written it to be a lot better.”

Asked if she'd promised people she'd be instrumental in putting Trump in jail, Daniels said, "No." Necheles then asked her about a social media post where someone had called her a human toilet, and Daniels responded, "Exactly! Making me the best person to flush the orange turd down." Necheles asked if that meant she'd be instrumental in getting rid of him. Daniels said it was "hyperbole." "I'm also not a toilet," she said.

@MrVilliam called it saying it would get cringey and gross. The "phony stories about sex" line from Necheles is awful stuff.

ConstableJelly ,

Thank you! I don't know wth happened but that line was the whole reason I took that quote and apparently failed to get her response into my clipboard.

ConstableJelly ,

There is some absolutely hilarious material in here, were it instead fictional.

First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.

"I keep trying to give them lunch breaks but they insist on doing what's in the best interest my pocket lining!"

And my favorite, also from Roger Wilder:

“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”

Could you imagine the delivery of this line, with just the right amount of pause after "give me a break" and the right expression to the camera if this were said on something like Parks and Rec?

ConstableJelly ,

A Republican hoping to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate suffered a setback to his campaign this week after facing allegations that he lives in Florida.

Would that all candidates for public office suffered such setbacks if they were accused of living in Florida.

Surveilling Alone: In the U.S., home security cameras are booming in an era of rising crime and declining trust. But they’re driving neighbors further apart. ( www.thenewatlantis.com )

Today, a different form of efficient design is eliminating “eyes on the street” — by replacing them with technological ones. The proliferation of neighborhood surveillance technologies such as Ring cameras and digital neighborhood-watch platforms and apps such as Nextdoor and Citizen have freed us from the constraints of...

ConstableJelly ,

I'm not convinced that cameras and Nextdoor are having a material impact on the vague idea of "trust between neighbors," but I admit it's hard to gauge because I only have my own experience, which exists on a potentially wide spectrum.

I'm barely on Nextdoor and was surprised to hear there's apparently a pretty common use of it for public shaming. The potential for petty community conflict does seem heightened by some of these technologies.

ConstableJelly ,

The childishness on display is surreal. This is a whole-ass nation acting like an unimaginatively smug 10 year old.

ConstableJelly , (edited )

Buffy the Vampire Slayer spoilers.

The opening scene of The Body. It's not the first time the show intentionally subverts its own identity, but it's certainly the most powerful.

For a show that has by this point in season 5 shown it's fair share of dead bodies, even just the unglamorous, undramatic image of Joyce's body spilled across the couch is off-putting. Then the brief fantasy of Buffy imagining that she saves her mom's life, and the stark transition of fantasy Joyce expressing relief at being saved snapping back to to a shot of her llifeless, expressionless face. The overstaurated color in the cinematography, the unnatural emphasis of atmospheric sound as Buffy's senses short circuit under the mental strain of processing the moment. The childlike fear and uncertainty when she accidentally breaks Joyce's rib administering CPR under the 911 operator's instruction. It's brutal reality manifested in a world that has trained it's viewers to expect (quality) melodrama even at its most sincere.

It's important to note that the episode follows one of the silliest episodes of the entire show (though not without its own gross implications), wherein a lifelike sex robot tears through Sunnydale looking for her creator. The first few seconds of The Body overlap with the last few seconds of the previous episode, intentionally creating a major tonal whiplash.

I think Drew Goddard once described The Body as 45 minutes of the best TV ever filmed and I still think that stands.

Edit: found a short clip on YouTube. Can't believe I forgot about "Mom?...mom?........mommy?"

ConstableJelly ,

Braxton assumed office by default in 2020 when he filed for office and no one else, including the incumbent, did the same.

The defendants, listed as former mayor Haywood “Woody” Stokes III and his town council, held a secret, special election, preventing Braxton from appointing his town council. During their special election, the previous town council re-elected themselves, and ultimately reappointed the previous town mayor.

[Rechecks the year]
...WTF??

ConstableJelly ,

The common thread with any definition of voter suppression is that it reduces voting. Being encouraged to vote and in such a way as to increase its power is as close to the opposite of voter suppression as you can get.

Call it something else if you like, but it ain't voter suppression.

ConstableJelly ,

For too long have Americans been a victim of its political parties putting party loyalty over governance. Together let’s send the message to Washington and say, ‘You will represent or be replaced.’

"I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts wtih 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done. Of all the ways that people kid themselves into doing nothing, that one is the most self-serving."
--Walkaway (by Cory Doctorow)

I think I'll be saying this a lot in the near future, but please don't throw away your vote. As revolutions go, "not voting" is the 0 value on a scale of impotent to effective. If you care about change, do it at the local level. There are candidates in your city and county with radical ideas and plans for your communities. You can make a massive impact all on your own in those elections. You can change things. You have real power there.

And that power grows when it joins with other communities across the country. That's when your voice is loud enough to catch the ear of establishment power.

It's idealistic I know, but no less so than trying to catch the ear of power through abstainment. "Do nothing" does not stoke the fires of discontent to organize collective power. Please do something, and start with voting. Please.

ConstableJelly ,

Just scanned some of the posts and that is a quality community you've got! Subscribed.

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