If we only taught things that were "useful" then we'd be discarding half the curriculum. Stuff like history, art, and how a fucking analog clock works, is worth teaching, even if it's not something everyone uses every day.

I keep squeezing my eyes shut and trying to will myself into the timeline where Bernie won.

Ranked voting should really be at the top of our priority list. Would allow more than 2 parties to be viable and give progressives a real chance to distinguish themselves from the neolibs.

That's a high quality gif

To be fair the GOP would happily fund it too

It's been satisfying watching my configuration.yaml file shrink over the years as more and more things get handled by the UI.

violence is not the same as sex

You're right, it's way worse. And it's disturbing that we're culturally encouraged to find fun in violence but sex needs to be cordoned off to a containment genre and excised from mainstream art. I'm not saying it needs to be in every action movie - but its been obvious for a while they're going out of their way to avoid it even in places where it would make sense or be fun.

As a fan of Greek mythology - if you don't think sex can drive a plot you need to read more stories.

I just think they really need to justify it more than normally do.

Why? Why can't they just have it for fun like any other type of gratuitous scene in a movie? I agree it's not usually done well, but that doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done.

I'm not saying I want a movie with non-stop sex, that would obviously just be porn. I'm saying the "it doesn't progress the plot" complaint about sex in movies is bullshit when those same people watch other movies that are full of gratuitous shit that doesn't move the plot (violence, action, contrived drama).

Movies have been all but stripped of sexuality other than clumsy attempts at pandering to lgbt people. I think some of it is an overcorrection from Weinstein and Me-Too, some of it is just America's puritan cultural hangups that have always been there, and some of it is the effect of Gen-Z growing up with an abundance of porn and now they can't associate sex/nudity on a screen as art (or even just fun).

I'm fine with asexuals and representation. But currently it feels like 99% of media is catering to either asexuals or homosexuals.

And I bring up violence to point out the double standard. When it comes to nudity people scrutinize if it's relevant to the plot - but don't tend to do that with violence or clunky moral preaching.

The fact that you only equate sex and nudity to porn shows the problem. Sex and nudity can be fun, dramatic, scary, or funny depending on the context. It wouldn't be "competing" with porn.

I can't suspend my disbelief when media pretends sexuality just doesn't exist or isn't relevant.