• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      30·
      22 days ago

      Context for those out of the loop, Geoff Thew runs an anime review channel on YouTube called “Mother’s Basement”.

      And in case anyone asks, back when I followed him he had moved out of his mother’s basement to live with his girlfriend. No idea if that’s still the case

      • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        21 days ago

        His channel drives me nuts because he’ll act like some anime is the lewdest, trashiest piece of smut he’s ever seen then you go to check it out yourself and it’s like, two brief panty shots.

        Look dude, if I’m coming to restaurant called chez garbage, I’m not here for the slightly soggy fries appetizer

        • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          21 days ago

          Sounds like someone I should check out. He’s absolutely right to call shit like that out

          Anime has a pervert problem. Any other media would get raked over the coals for how much and how often the characters are sexualized, especially in stories where it doesn’t fit. But in anime, it’s just brushed off because its become so normalized, but it really shouldn’t be.

          Think about this, what was the last piece of non-anime media you’ve seen that featured a girl’s panties? Not a woman. Not an adult getting dressed. But an underaged girl’s panties. Because that shit is everywhere in anime, and it’s played off as cute or funny. It’s fucking gross.

          • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            21 days ago

            Show me where I said underaged in my comment. We’re talking about legal smut for consenting adults, chill out.

            And yeah dude, that would be fine if the point was to call out trash in anime, but it isn’t, the point of his videos is to celebrate the trash. We aren’t talking about PG-rated anime sneaking in gross pedo shit into their shows for children here (which is unquestionably gross), we’re talking about ecchi shows made explicitly for adult audiences with the primary intent to titillate.

            It’s not like The New Yorker doing an exposé on the porn industry, it’s like the porn industry doing a sensationalized preview for a video called “Extreme Anal Nurses Gangbang 7” then finding out that the movie in question actually only features one nurse and she’s fully dressed the whole time.

            Take your pearl clutching somewhere it’s at least halfway appropriate, please.

  • Lizardom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    22 days ago

    I was waiting to be seated at a restaurant Friday when I overheard the same sentiment but then took a hard right turn…

    “It never used to be like this” ‘i know’ “All the liberals stopped the logging in Canada and now look at them burn and here we are dealing with it.”

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        21 days ago

        The most important thing to them is their pride. They will literally prefer the world to be burnt down then give that up.

      • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        20 days ago

        Its just propaganda. The most effective of which seems to be false explanations and distraction conspiracies. Anything but allow people to see whats going on and who’s doing it.

  • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
    19·
    22 days ago

    Meanwhile he’s paying a literal Nazi monthly for a blue checkmark on his fascist platform…

    • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
      17·
      22 days ago

      A literal Nazi who uses illegal generators to power his “AI” data centre and pollute Michigan.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
    153·
    22 days ago

    A dumbass on dumbass-platform X calls another dumbass “dumbass”. What a dumbass.

  • laranis@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    20 days ago

    Has anyone heard someone blame Canada as if the nation of Canada was personally attacking them?

    Had a relative do that yesterday and it was a reminder in a moment that should have been a low stress, loving moment with family a rage inducing reminder that we’re fucked.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    21 days ago

    Nah, the actual problem is all the wind mills and solar panels. They’re screwing up the weather!!!

    (I seriously had a chud tell me this.)

  • Heikki2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    21 days ago

    I grew up in Northern MI. 1989-2011. I do not recall any summer of wildfires smoke coming across the lake.

    • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      In the 90s and early 2000s, we had lots of “smog days” in southern Ontario. Of course those were mostly from coal plants in Ontario and Michigan, not forest fires. I wonder if its related.

  • multifariace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    20 days ago

    People spent decades preventing wildfires. Fires are a natural part of ecological systems. Overgrowth and a build up of litter cause more intense fires and increase their ability to spread. In northern regions, people were also preventing beavers from doing their thing that helps reduce wildfire spread. At least in Florida we pioneered controlled burns to simulate nature and save lives.