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@henry_island @HansFiene Women attempting to use their wealth for social status is the funniest thing.
“I have all this money!”
“That’s great, so that means we can probably split the mortgage payment, the bills…”
“No no no, I have to spend ALL my money on vanity in order to SHOW people I have money.”
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This is, by the Norm Macdonald standard, the perfect joke.
The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee
Older Woman Gets Botox So She Can Look Like An Older Woman Who Got Botox buff.ly/YhilWsr
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@Austin_G_Wilson Each work exists within the context of when it was written. The context informs the decisions the authors may have made in their translations. Why would a contemporary woman have a different perspective than a victorian man? Why would you assume it's a political act? Cause woman?
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@Avonleebythesea Progressive alchemy really is a thing to behold.
>western civilization is racist, patriarchal, and immoral
>classical literature are also those things
>male translations of classics are also those things
>a feminist must purify the "bias" to find the "true" version
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Silly review, silly translation that reads like a series of text messages, stripped of language, heart, musicality.
One small example of 3 translations:
Fitzgerald: Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
Fagles: Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
Wilson: Tell me about a complicated man.
(If you see Wilson’s translation and feel inclined to hide it behind the others, you’d be doing the world a service)
Archaeo - Histories@archeohistories
When Emily Wilson published her translation of The Odyssey, it quietly but decisively shifted how many readers understood one of the foundations of Western literature. For centuries, English versions of the poem had been shaped by male translators who often filtered Homer’s Greek through Victorian, Edwardian, or mid-20th Century assumptions about gender, class, and morality. Wilson approached the text with a different aim: fidelity not to tradition, but to the language itself. Her translation pays close attention to what the Greek actually says, rather than what earlier translators assumed it meant. Where previous versions softened Odysseus into a noble hero or exaggerated the moral failings of female characters, Wilson strips away editorial judgment. Words that had long been rendered with moralizing or misogynistic overtones—especially when applied to women, servants, or the enslaved—are reexamined and translated with consistency and precision. A term describing women as sexually suspect, for example, is no longer quietly upgraded to “faithful” or “pure” when it suits male sympathy. Equally important is what Wilson avoids. She resists anachronistic language that romanticizes violence, hierarchy, or domination. Her Odysseus is clever and ruthless, not automatically admirable; Penelope is intelligent and strategic, not merely patient and chaste. Enslaved women are named as enslaved, not euphemized into “maids,” forcing modern readers to confront the social realities the poem assumes rather than smoothing them away for comfort. Wilson’s choices don’t modernize Homer—they clarify him. By refusing to insert gendered judgment or inherited bias, her translation reveals how much earlier versions reflected the values of their translators rather than the ancient text. The result is an Odyssey that feels sharper, more unsettling, and more honest: a poem about power, survival, and storytelling itself, finally allowed to speak without centuries of moral varnish. © Reddit #archaeohistories
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@StanleyDav8740 @opinonhaver You provide no basis for any of these statements. 'Most sociologists', who? All these things have been discussed at length in the social sciences. A unifying western narrative?? Unifying who? Who gets included in that 'narrative'?
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@opinonhaver Meanwhile, most sociologists balk at IQ, any genetic basis of group disparities in IQ, the existence of left-wing totalitarianism (until 2017), the empirical necessity of family structure, any unifying Western narrative, etc.
You need some conservatives in sociology departments.
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Again: a core problem with diversifying academia is that many core contemporary right wing beliefs are things that are demonstrably and empirically untrue.
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier
The White House officially adopts and publishes the Big Lie on its website. It can’t be overstated: these people are the most dangerous group on Earth to the health and freedom of our republic. Not immigrants, not foreigners, not foreign nations. Them.
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@JonathanGuito @GothTransFem Personally, everything you've said about Avatar could also be said for Breaking Bad. Avatar is probably the goat for a narrative kids show.
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@GothTransFem Disagree, BB did a fantastic job, but for my money, Avatar: The Last Airbender only got better as it went along, and has maybe the most satisfying conclusion of any series in at least the last 25 years.
GIF
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really is interesting that breaking bad is the only modern cultural phenomenon tv show to be good the whole way through
Cine Vichaar@Cine_vichaar
The lowest rated episode from the most popular tv shows
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@lurkingforev @revenant_MMXX I would say the world in the film is very much unjust, it's just that Andy is able to overcome it. You can call that childish but it's still pretty inspiring when he does do it 🤷♀️
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Almost every movie deemed a "masterpiece" or "must see" by older generations is actually just bad, this was a creative Great Filter for millennials where you either saw Saving Private Ryan and Back to the Future and etc for what they were or you got trapped in a cultural deadzone
Pneuma@Heroine__P_
Didn't watch movies as a kid because even then I knew they sucked
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@SamuelJenkis @J_Onaka You think because they had a character who was a pedo they must actually be pedophiles themselves????
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@J_Onaka This show is not aging well in the current expose pedos meta. WAY too many episodes, characters, and subplots in that territory to just be jokes. devito is very suspect. They even featured stephen collins and diddy. They're snubbed every awards season.
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Glenn Howerton cracking a smile after Uncle Jack asks, “have you touched them yet”?
rachel 🐚@ANDAMOVlE
i love when you’re watching a sitcom and you can tell an actor couldn’t keep it together, so they just had to use the best take possible
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@qhxj28ny94 @n_e_rd @TruthBeTanner92 @jimmy_dore Science has pretty much always said that cigarettes are bad for you, and eggs can kill you from salmonella poisoning.
As for the blm stuff I don't think a single person has any clue what you're talking about
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@n_e_rd @TruthBeTanner92 @jimmy_dore Remember when 'science' said BLM protestors can't get sick? Was that "medical research"?
Medical research said that cigarettes aren't bad for you not long ago, but also said that eggs will kill you.
Observational data is empirical data, but you do you.
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Chicago is asking residents to reduce water use to help prevent flooding & almost everyone in article comments are saying they’re gonna water their lawns/take even longer showers, etc.
I don’t know how we combat this “I’d rather ruin everything than consider others” mentality.
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if there is a Silksong announcement i will give a FREE steam key for Sands of Hope to everyone’s who responds to this tweet
Nintendo of America@NintendoAmerica
Join us for a #NintendoDirect Partner Showcase tomorrow, July 31, at 6am PT! Tune in for roughly 25 minutes of information on upcoming #NintendoSwitch2 and #NintendoSwitch games from our publishing partners. Watch here: ninten.do/6013syFJH
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@SteamboatSun22 @ErisianMatti @EpiEllie That's why if they got rid of the checks altogether it would be terrible, the ones that need strengthening would simply get no regulation whatsoever
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@ErisianMatti @EpiEllie It’s not black and white. Shades of gray. Many are not necessary and overreaching. Some others need strengthening. I simply can’t understand how people see everything in such a binary manner.
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Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.
Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.
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@tgs97 @charlottor If all the bin workers get a different job then there's no one left to collect the rubbish, so in this case we need them not to quit really
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@charlottor Genuine question, why do bin workers need a union? If they’re unhappy with their working conditions they can get a job elsewhere for similar pay, unlike e.g. doctors who largely only have the option of NHS work, and would see their pay decrease if moving to another occupation
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@pgplumsparkle @CBM_Cringe Why do you loathe gunn's Superman it's not even out yet
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Phineas and Ferb already did this, they even got Max Modem and the Mainframes
Deji Osikoya@dejiosikoya
Someone needs to do a one-hit wonder concert. Have like 30 of them come perform their one song and go.
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@Tominka222 @dbz96_rob @RealTruggler Where did you get 4 Suicide Squads, Blue Beetle, and a Superman movie where Superman is a side character to 20 other heroes from?
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@BingleBunges @raisinchoirgirl He's been hated for years because of the things he does and the way that he is
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The Substance (2024)
gare davis@bishonentype
I don’t think the thanksgiving homunculus turned out
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Has anyone else noticed that this guy just repeats stuff constantly within the same tweet? The first sentence is new information, and then the rest of the tweet is just saying the same thing again. On the second repeat doesn't even bother changing the wording wtf
Fabrizio Romano@FabrizioRomano
🚨 Salah on his Liverpool future: “I’m probably more out than in! I didn’t receive any proposal”. “We’re almost in December and I haven’t received any offers yet to stay in the club…”. “I’m probably more out than in”.
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Why would Sharon Osbourne admit this 😭
jo@cowboypraxis
i love when someone is telling a story and you can tell even from their version that they’re the villain
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@sakazukiagenda @MuleBritannia @lesthecroc It is ultimately and undeniably the path of least cruelty, least suicidal rates, least suffering for people. And they claim its crueler than denying someone of their identity and calling them mentally ill over and over again and letting them to rot lol
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