Spendrill

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[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

https://archive.is/H6lVf

Site has got a shitty cookie control page that has no means of saving your decisions

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you want to insure yourself against capital flight go for a Land Value Tax. Let 'em shove a hectare of land in their luggage.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 43 points 3 months ago (12 children)

OK so it's time to say the quiet part out loud: the reason that governments have so far held off on taxing billionaires at 1% or 2% is the fear that they might spend 2% or 3% against those governments in revenge.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Well, I agree that everybody is different in certain ways but one of the main lessons of being in group was the revelation that broadly speaking we all want the same things and a lot of the mis-aimed strategies we'd adopted was stopping us from getting that stuff. A lot of people came through that community throughout the course of a year and while some of the stories were absolutely horrific, the problems were much the same, person to person.

Yes, the therapy was less effective for some than others and drugs absolutely should be available as a first-aid but I think that people should be moved on to other therapy as soon as they can use it.

I'm particularly hopeful about the results we are now seeing from psychedelic research into treatment resistant depression as I think that there are people for whom talk therapy won't work but if you look at recent research into SSRIs it seems that some are barely improving on the placebo effect.

So yes I'm in favour of multiple approaches but it seems that SSRIs are outcompeting other treatments because the decisions are being made on the basis of cost and that means that those other treatments simply will not exist in the future.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Worked for me.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago
[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 35 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I'm beginning to think that Homo sapiens sapiens are not the good guys.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 39 points 6 months ago

Plot twist: the dancers aren't really there.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

KeePassXC can do this as well. I had no idea until I saw a post on here where someone mentioned it. Here's the documentation.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

To be fair social awkwardness is a constant feature of his films.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So he rose to fame here in the UK for a couple of tv plays, Abigail's Party and Nuts In May which poked fun at the middle class and were very funny at the time but for modern audiences would probably not land the same because of the specific cultural references.

High Hopes did the same kind of thing on the big screen, once again it's a snapshot of its time.

Life Is Sweet and Naked are my favourite films of his and if anyone feels like dipping into his work these are the two I'd suggest you start with, Life Is Sweet is a gentler comedy than Naked, which is probably his blackest film in terms of the comedy. (Vera Drake, which I haven't seen, is a drama which is reportedly unremittingly bleak.)

Secrets and Lies was one of his most lauded films, the usual trademarks of his films are here: an interest in the specific signifieirs of class and community, some warm humour and a sympathetic look at family relationships that takes in some difficult material, adoption, race relations etc..

Topsy-Turvy was his first foray into period/costume drama and tells the story of the writing of the comic opera The Mikado by Victorian era authors Gilbert & Sullivan.

I don't know how the humour and drama of these films will land for people that are not from England because it is very English.

More recently his work is more overtly political and I haven't kept up with it because, although I suspect that we'd find quite a lot to agree on politically, I go to the pictures to be entertained not to be lectured.

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