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  1. Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2020 on the internet in ~misc

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    Much better than last year, at least. Even if you need to use newreddit now.

    Much better than last year, at least. Even if you need to use newreddit now.

    5 votes

  2. Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2020 on the internet in ~misc

  3. Comment on Why you should not put garlic in your vagina, as a treatment for yeast or anything else in ~health

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    If you're stupid enough to put garlic in your vagina, you almost deserve the consequences.

    If you're stupid enough to put garlic in your vagina, you almost deserve the consequences.

  4. Comment on Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy (2019) in ~tech

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    It's a shame, the article looked pretty interesting.

    It's a shame, the article looked pretty interesting.

  5. Comment on 'Coronavirus denialism' is already a movement, and its leader is Jair Bolsonaro in ~health.coronavirus

  6. Comment on 'Coronavirus denialism' is already a movement, and its leader is Jair Bolsonaro in ~health.coronavirus

  8. Comment on What is something that you learned/were taught wrong? in ~talk

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    Like s+word or like sw+oared?

    I was unable to pronounce "sword" in any way other than by its spelling for a while

    Like s+word or like sw+oared?

  9. Comment on Feature request: Polls in ~tildes

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    Might be too hard to implement when you could just use an external site. Although if it does get implemented I think it would be better as something you can add to text posts, rather than a...

    Might be too hard to implement when you could just use an external site. Although if it does get implemented I think it would be better as something you can add to text posts, rather than a separate topic option.

    6 votes

  10. Comment on Lessons Animation Taught Us | Movies with Mikey in ~arts

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    Well apparently animation taught him nothing. He talks about The Sword in the Stone for a long while but he doesn't actually say much. He almost analyses the movie but he doesn't have a point. And...

    Well apparently animation taught him nothing. He talks about The Sword in the Stone for a long while but he doesn't actually say much. He almost analyses the movie but he doesn't have a point. And the movie seemingly taught him nothing. Then he talks about Spirited Away and says it taught him to look at movies more deeply. Ok, but then he goes on to look at Dumbo in the most surface level way possible. I didn't know it was possible to take Dumbo at so much face value, but he proved me wrong.

    This movie is on fucking drugs

    Of course he'd think that when 2 different narrators, or the idea of dehumanisation is too confusing for him.

    it decides this is sweet for some reason

    Yes? The mother gets to see her baby again, despite all the hardships they've been through. Hope in spite of tragedy. Dumbo is even crying in the scene, how can he miss the point so much?

    it literally cuts to a scene of uproarious laughter after showing us all this inhumanity

    Yes. To show contrast between good elephants and the cruel, heartless clowns. Then he acts like the movie is being unintentionally self-aware, when it's just spelling out the message he's too dense to understand. Also why does he talk in this weird, monotonous, yet irregular way? At 2:14 it sounds especially weird.

    I thought this video was just gonna be another person thinking animation is a genre, but it was so much worse. And there are 60 more of these?

  11. Comment on Soul - Official Trailer (Pixar) in ~movies

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    Looks interesting. I just hope the movie doesn't have too many jokes, because the ones they have shown are not very good.

    Looks interesting. I just hope the movie doesn't have too many jokes, because the ones they have shown are not very good.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Why medieval cats look like… that in ~arts

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    Maybe people just weren't good at drawing cats. I can't draw cats either.

    Maybe people just weren't good at drawing cats. I can't draw cats either.

  13. Comment on Joe Biden, not Bernie Sanders, is the true Scandinavian – Sanders totally misunderstands what's behind Denmark's safety net in ~misc

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    Sounds more like social democracy.

    Democratic socialism is a process of adding socialist concepts to a capitalist market to balance inequality and supply benefit to everyone and not just the people at the top. Having socialist networks setup to provide the basic necessities like education, healthcare and public transit are the foundation to allow entrepreneurs to be successful without as major of risks.

    Sounds more like social democracy.

    20 votes

  14. Comment on The Guardians of the Galaxy will appear in Thor: Love and Thunder in ~movies

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    No, Teen Groot was in Infinity War, the second movie had Baby Groot.

    In the second film, we saw Teen Groot

    No, Teen Groot was in Infinity War, the second movie had Baby Groot.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on The problem with telling sick workers to stay home in ~health.coronavirus

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    This might be a stupid question, but why does the url say "Coronavirus could hit American workers especially hard", while the actual headline says "The Problem With Telling Sick Workers to Stay Home"?

    This might be a stupid question, but why does the url say "Coronavirus could hit American workers especially hard", while the actual headline says "The Problem With Telling Sick Workers to Stay Home"?

  16. Comment on “Be yourself” is terrible advice in ~life

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    Just because you interpret it literally doesn't mean it's terrible advice.

    Just because you interpret it literally doesn't mean it's terrible advice.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on I've received a school project where I need to read a book but I've never really wanted to read a book and don't know many books at all. What book should I read? in ~books

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    1984 may be too long, but Animal Farm is nice and short. Although maybe it's not fitting that most of the characters in it are allegorical...

    1984 may be too long, but Animal Farm is nice and short. Although maybe it's not fitting that most of the characters in it are allegorical...

    14 votes

  18. Comment on What is your favorite opening scene in a movie? in ~movies

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    The opening scene might be the best part of that movie, it reminds me of Pixar's short films.

    The opening scene might be the best part of that movie, it reminds me of Pixar's short films.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on The Prince of Egypt - A Forgotten Masterpiece in ~movies

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    Can people not make videos about movies without calling them "forgotten masterpieces" or "underrated" all the time? Just say the movie is good, you don't need to talk about how it doesn't get the...

    Can people not make videos about movies without calling them "forgotten masterpieces" or "underrated" all the time? Just say the movie is good, you don't need to talk about how it doesn't get the recognition it deserves. It's especially annoying when there are thousands of people talking about how "underrated" the movie is, when it clearly isn't.

    2 votes