Batman begins (going to sleep earlier and at a regular time).

Actually very bad things are actually cool and epic

No

This is the dumbest thing I will see today, and it’s not even noon.

When she got that BUSL 🥵🥵🥵

Nah, those are too recent or too political, the resentment feels more cultural. Maybe the CSU fuckery when fielding ministerial positions counts.

There’s this strange resentment the rest of Germany has for Bavaria that I didnt realize was serious until I moved to Hesse.

I forgive you for posting that.

The bible

No, alcaloids are stable under heat, that’s why you should also discard the water when cooking potatoes with skin.

You do you, I’m just going by the recommendation of my local health advisor.

The toxins exist throughout the skin, but in smaller concentration than in the sprouts and green parts. Doesn’t mean that the skin is inherently unsafe to eat, but you probably should peel it if you eat potatoes regulary, or if you’re cooking for children, old people or someone immunocompromised.

Should be worth noting that the skin of potatoes contains toxins.

Nothing more sincere than raking in millions shilling for the auto industry and calling it a critique of consumerism.

Margot Robbie the only true postmodern actor in Hollywood.

“It’s capitalism” is an unsatisfying explanation because one the one hand it’s sort of trivially true, but on the other, good movies have been made under capitalism. Hindsight’s 20/20, but I don’t really buy that the execs didn’t see a massive ROT on Barbie beforehand, given it’s prestige, cast, director etc. I understand that some cruddy network TV show or “Tetris the movie” or whatever have to fall back on advertising to cover their costs, but this one? Seems entirely unnecessary, even more so considering the artistic cost it came along with.

The bleak thing is not advertising per se, which we are used to, but advertising in movies that seem far too big for it. And then of course crass, embarrassing way it was implemented here.

Yeah that’s kind of my point. Even knowing it’s partial propaganda, you’d know when something is “off”. Just like even knowing that Barbie is partially a branding campaign, You know how the car comercial scene is “off”.

This critique irks me for some reason. Consider this: Imagine the latest Top Gun had some scene where Tom Cruise literally high fives Uncle Sam, then slowly whispers “Freedom” and winks into the camera. You’d rightfully find this jarring, a poor aesthetic choice, weird.

But then someone online tells you why you’d expect anything else from a franchise that’s heavily subsidized and supported by the military industrial complex, and demanding a sort of artistic consistency from such a franchise is pointless to begin with.

Tldr: I think you can critique the art even if you’re aware of it’s ideological confines.

(This reply hinges on such a scene not being in the latest Top Gun movie, which I haven’t see yet to be honest)

Not really to the point I was trying to make here.

Yes?

Edit: Even if you want to be reductive and consider the entire movie as just a big brand advertisment, this doesn’t make sense. Does Burger King subsidize their commercials by running Samsung Ads within them?

Edit2: This is probably a bad retort, see my other comments for clarification.